The Freedom To Be Fat..Does Government Have The Right To "Outlaw" Unhealthy Foods?
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Rob Roy
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You're free? Open a business tomorrow and don't get a "permit" . Travel in your car and don't stop when a border patrol dick flags you down. You're not free. Not even close. You pay to forge the chains for others too. Freedom isn't obeying, it is DOING what you want while not inhibiting others from the same. I thought your name was DOER, not Obeyer.
Red1966
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"The power of the Federal Government to tax is unlimited", SCOTUS on the Constitutionality of ACA
Rob Roy
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They have the guns and the fools to embrace their use....for "freedom".
Doer
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I am free to do what I want. Don't you get it? I am free to get a permit. I am a supporter of the Tribe USA. I gladly pay for permits to protect us all from the likes of you.
And I pay to chain you down WHENEVER possible.
Rob Roy
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Are you free not to get a permit ? If you own your body, can you ingest whatever you like, Mr. Free Person?
I thought we weren't going to tell anybody about the chains!?
Doer
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Well, you brought that up. And WE do like it.
I am free to not get a permit. The 3rd world needs no permits, is why it is 3rd. Deadly to tribe members for the un-care of the Peaceful Man.
I can and do ingest anything and everything I want to, always have. I said that already. Can't buy beer? We stole it. Pharmacy? Well, don't ask don't tell.
You ask, you ask, you ask and ask and ask. I answer it all over and over. It is the regard I hold for you as a very durable thinker.
burgertime2010
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My feeling is that survival of the fittest has restructured itself out of straight physicality.
Dr Kynes
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Darwinism has no place in discussions of public policy or government.
in B4 "inapt description"
burgertime2010
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well, the good thing is I was talking about human extinction.
Dr Kynes
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animals adapt through mutation or go extinct, humanity adapts through technology and endures.
it is a test of will.
will you remove your hand from the box and die as an animal, or suffer through the test and prove yourself to be a Human Being?
burgertime2010
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Actually, the cranial capacity increases through mutation which by and large is the adaptation that enables science and technology
Dr Kynes
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by that reasoning elephants should dominate the earth, having the largest craniums of any land animal.
burgertime2010
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cranial capacity versus body mass the ratio in humans is the largest of any animal. Elephants are close however.
burgertime2010
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I was misled by a textbook and a professor I guess. Perhaps it is only true in mammals or hominids.
burgertime2010
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Elephants or Whales have bigger I would guess.
burgertime2010
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Cranial capacity is a measure of the volume of the interior of the cranium (also called the braincase or brainpan or skull) of those vertebrates who have both a cranium and a brain. The most commonly used unit of measure is the cubic centimetre or cc. The volume of the cranium is used as a rough indicator of the size of the brain, and this in turn is used as a rough indicator of the potential intelligence of the organism. However, larger cranial capacity is not always indicative of a more intelligent organism, since larger capacities are required for controlling a larger body, or in many cases are an adaptive feature for life in a colder environment. For instance, among modern Homo Sapiens, Northern populations have a 20% larger visual cortex than those in the southern latitude populations potentially explaining the population differences in Brain size(and roughly cranial capacity).[SUP][1][/SUP][SUP][2][/SUP] Neurological functions are determined more by the organization of the brain rather than the volume. Individual variability is also important when considering cranial capacity, for example the average Neanderthal cranial capacity for females is 1300 cc and 1600 for males (Stanford, 2009, 301). In an attempt to use cranial capacity as an objective indicator of brain size, the encephalization quotient (EQ) was developed in 1973 by Harry Jerison. It compares the size of the brain of the specimen to the expected brain size of animals with roughly the same weight (Campbell et al., 2006, 346). This way a more objective judgement can be made on the cranial capacity of an individual animal.
Red1966
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An elephant has a brain the size of a walnut, a whale only a little bigger. Dolphins have a bigger brain than humans.