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There is a new website (found at unlistedvideos.com) that lets people: Submit an unlisted YouTube video URL (and info, keyword tags etc) Search for the submitted unlisted YouTube videos and watch those videos (or if embedding isn't permitted, then a link to the video is provided). Unlisted...

Does this mean the bad guys playing a major part in USA's military industrial complex, are going to be the ones to save the world?

From an anthropomorphic stance, the extinction of a species would mean the elimination of a resource(with the possibility of yet to be discovered uses). At the veryleast, it would mean future generations don't get to see thatspecies.

Whether the issue is approached from an ecological or anthropomorphic angle, the extinction of a species is a terrible occurrence. Biodiversity helps make ecosystems more resilient to shocks. Take for example, a simple predator-prey model. The herbivorous prey numbers are kept in check by a...

Here is a better idea: make employers pay their workers properly. The good workers would still most likely receive less than if they were paid full wages. Plus, working for tips is a morale drainer. With tips, the pay is both crap and volatile (as opposed to low wages which are just crap)...

Of course endangered animals are worth saving, whether you look at it from an ecological or an anthropomorphic view. Even if a species isn't vital for an ecosystem, the greater biodiversity helps make that ecosystem more stable. The extinction of a species, is the elimination of a potential...

Another right wing myth is that minimum wage is 'unfair' and 'unnatural' because people aren’t paid the market rate they are 'worth'. In the most capitalistic economies, those who work the hardest and create the most wealth, get paid the least, while an asset owning robber class usurp the...

A common right wing myth about the minimum wage, is that any increase would result in an increase in unemployment. Most minimum wage jobs are fixed and necessary for the firm (or other workplace organisation) to function. For example, a fast food outlet would need a fixed number of staff...

Some problems with having a dual minimum wage: 1. There wouldn't be equal pay for equal work. 2. Employers might become more inclined to hire teenagers, instead of people who need the jobs a lot more. Some countries have separate minimum wages for youths and adults. It isn't a difficult...

Moral principles can be broken down into a set of axioms. Peoples have different values with respect to each axiom and scenarios based on those axioms. Ethical dilemmas can occur where an action may favour one axiom but oppose another. When there are ethical dilemmas, morality becomes...

Those who are attacked for being academically superior, athletically inferior, for their race/sex/sexuality/creed/religion/hair colour, stating their opinion, or for simply for being different, aren't 'bringing it on themselves'. They didn't ask for it. They don't deserve it. They are...

Did your teacher cite some peer reviewed studies, performed a meta-analysis on those studies (to check for publication bias), and elaborate on the methodologies, estimates and standard errors (to ensure scientific based belief rather than faith based belief)? Or was your teacher just talking...

Most developed countries have heavily state funded university education (not necessarily free, but over half of it subsidised). USA is an outlier amongst developed countries.

I am uncertain what counts as art, but I am certain that dictating to others what and what doesn't count as art, counts as authoritarianism.