The only point of the patent system "is to encourage inventors to publicly document how their invention works so other people can use it (with licensing), instead of keeping it secret and possibly having the knowledge lost over time."
If propert rights included poor people's properties nobody would have to pay 24% interest.This happened 100-300 years ago in Europe and America.According to Hernando de Soto this is what it takes to make capitalism work.If you leave out the majority of people you tend to leave out, if not the majority,a large fraction of the capital.
Maybe it has something to do with the fact that(due to its largely african(mores) population) some southern dialects are as much arabic as portugese dialects?
I think the misreading was you misreading gtufano.He disputed the unsupported statement that income differences within a nation are mainly because of intelligence differences
The main reason for the difficulties of Pakistanis to integrate into english society is that it is obvious for others that they are frpm Pakistan(or India) even if they have changed culturally.
A person from the countryside of northern Sweden may be as culturally different as the Pakistani on arrival but after he has adjusted his culture and accent it's impossible to tell that he is not british.
One risk is in reduction of biodiversity.
Indian cottonfarmers are left with no option but buying modified seed.
To grow modified plants farmers must use more pesticides.Plants are genetically modified to resist the toxic "Roundup" .
1.Marian Woronin of poland ran 9.992
2.According to The Economist several groups of immigrants to America(italians, swedish, german etc) showed an iq of about 90 before integrating to society and about 100 after.Black americans seem to be stuck around 90.One possible explanation would be that they have a harder time integrating(if a swedish immigrant learn english good enough he can hide the fact that he is "a squarehead", what does it take for a black person?)
Let's assume you are a male.
To be popular you have to be attractive to females.
To be attractive to females you have to be (strong or rich or ruthless) and (not stupid)=A and B.
Definition of nerd:"Person that unconciously is labelled as stupid by the average person even though they conciously realize that he is the opposite".
Since the judgment(by the females) mentioned above is unconciously made it follows that nerds are unpopular.
i think humans are experts in spotting "the to stupid to mate with".
if you are clever enough chances are the average person will think you are odd enough to be labelled stupid.
a couple of years ago i saw an academic ranking of british universities.sheffield was the best with oxford and cambridge around 20th place.
so maybe you're right that oxford is different from yale
it seems that one important benefit of beeing rich is that, if you are a male,it attracts females(the opposite doesn't seem to be true, maybe this could account for lower female salaries?).so, if you are a rich man, of course you will want to make it show.if you are the king everyone knows you are the king, if not you have to do what you have to do...
a better analogy would be:
your car may be locked but other people have keys that unlocks your car.then someone proves it by unlocking the car with his key
you should always eat protein after workout.if you need to eat before as well depends on the amount of training.if you just do a couple of 30 sec series of pushups eating after should be sufficient.if you fail to eat after you will fail to gain strength
i am fully aware of what it means, which i think is obvious from what i wrote.what i was trying to communicate was that it was a step backwards for most people in most ways which makes it misleading to speak of fitness.of course you can argue that societies takes the place of organisms in this case but i think the term would be misleading even then, since it happened quite circumstantial
survival of the fittest?
hunter/gatherers were replaced by settlers largely because of lack of resistance for deceases spread from animals to settlers.
pretty painful way of becoming fitter and quite odd way of defining the word.