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What Are Fun Things To Do In Bellevue, Wa?
Spend money shopping.Eat at exceptionally good restaurants that are equal to NY or SF.Drive to hiking. Walk to hiking. Ride bicycles. Drive to Skiing.Raise kids.That’s it. No joke.That’s it. https://www.quora.com/What-are-fun-things-to-do-in-Bellevue-WA
What Is It Like To Live In Bellevue, Wa?
Bellevue is one of the top three or four cities to live in, in America if you’re in the upper middle class. Which is a decidedly unambiguous ‘if’. The first thing to get out of the way is the weather. First, if you watch movies filmed in Seattle or Vancouver Canada, notice how little yellow…
What Restaurants In Bellevue, Wa Are Good For Large Groups?
I’ve hosted something or other at most of the restaurants with space. Starting from downtown and working outward: If you have a very large group, Maggianos has the best facilities and parking, service and food. I don’t think anyone else is nearly as good for scale. For the next step down in size, but up…
Has There Been A Decline In Civility In America?
YES. See “Coming Apart”, and the surveys on trust, and the measurements of civic participation of all forms. As diversity increases, government increases, and civility, and civil participation decrease. It has to. Signals require that does. https://www.quora.com/Has-there-been-a-decline-in-civility-in-America
How Many Of You Are Libertarian?
You will be surprised by this, but, roughly speaking, a quarter of the population expresses surveyed preferences that are libertarian, a quarter conservative, a quarter liberal, and a quarter anti-libertarian. Power could be maintained in the USA with fiscally conservative, and slowly enacted socially liberal policies (which is what happens anyway, after a lot of…
Despite The Obvious Differences In Cultural Work Ethic Between American And Chinese Workers, Why Has America Remained The Most Productive Nation Per Worker In The World?
The chinese will lose their Work Ethic just like American Ethnicity and People and Japanese, when enough of them are in the Middle Class (social class) and urbanized that they no longer fear going back to the farm – where real hard work must be done.🙂 https://www.quora.com/Despite-the-obvious-differences-in-cultural-work-ethic-between-American-and-Chinese-workers-why-has-America-remained-the-most-productive-nation-per-worker-in-the-world
How Does A Police Officer Determine If A Woman Is Lying?
It’s actually pretty simple. They try to figure out who tells the first lie, or provides the least believable explanation. It is VERY easy to tell when people are lying. If you spend time at it, it’s patently obvious. The problem is, most of the time, everyone is lying. Which is why you shouldn’t bother…
Why Should I Provide My Knowledge To Quora For Free?
Because you don’t know it’s knowledge until it’s tested. And the only way to test knowledge (arguments) is to make them. Just like the only way to test experiments is to run them. https://www.quora.com/Why-should-I-provide-my-knowledge-to-Quora-for-free
Has Anyone Benefited Tangibly From Answering On Quora, And If So By What Terms Were These Benefits?
I think this is an interesting question. 1) Entertainment of yourself and others.2) Promotion of yourself, others, or certain ideas.3) Assistance of others (which is theoretically the purpose)4) Experimentation and refinement of your arguments. (1) is obvious but isn’t very valuable to anyone.(2) is probably a misuse (free riding) and tedious.(3) is the target idea…
In A Hundred Years Time, What Do You Think People Will Consider To Be The Great Moral Failure Of Our Era? For The Purposes Of This Question, Let Us Define ‘our Era’ As 2000-2013.
I WILL TRY TO GIVE YOU A BETTER ANSWER 1) Hayek argued that the 20th centuries and its wars would be remembered as an era of mysticism ushered in by Marx and Freud, culminating in the reliigon of Postmodernism (liberalism) – the most recent incarnation of Zoroastrianism – saying false things repeatedly in order to…
Is Having A Job A Right?
SOME OK ANSWERS BY OTHERS, BUT I WILL GIVE A BETTER ONE A right is something provided by a contract. We can in theory create a contract that states that every person has a right be as attractive as a victoria’s secret model. The problem is, that the provision isn’t enforceable because (a) we don’t…
Has The Canadian Government Ever Acknowledged The Country Formation Was A Crime?
A crime is a violation of a contract, where laws are properties of a contract for norms within a society fo people with similar goals, manners, ethics, morals, language and reproductive strategies. Even if the contract is nautural law, and even if natural law only applies to people within a government, not across governments. Human…
What Reservations Do You Have About Liberal Principles?
Liberalism is the political wing of a religion. That religion is Postmodernism. Postmodernism was created as a linguistic attack on reason, in order to find a solution to seizing political power, given the failure of socialism in theory and in practice. Irrational contradiction is a necessary and pervasive tactic in the postmodern religion. Instead of…
The Religion of Postmodernism as a Reformation of Christianity
[T]HE PURPOSE OF RELIGION IS TO CONCENTRATE POLITICAL POWER Either as a resistance, or as a military force. That is the purpose of a religion. EIther to take power, or to resist power. Religions concentrate human efforts. POSTMODERNISM IS A REFORMATION OF CHRISTIANITY Postmodernism is just the most recent religion in a long history of…
Rights, Punishment and Human Rights
[W]hen someone violates NATURAL RIGHTS (life, liberty, property, by fraud, theft or violence) we punish them by removing their NATURAL RIGHTS, by imprisoning them. Natural rights are NECESSARY RIGHTS to engage in cooperation via exchanges within society: life, liberty, and property. We pay for our natural rights by forgoing our opportunity for fraud, theft and…
What Are Rights? The “Final Word” on Rights
1) RIGHTS: A “right” is a claim against other members of a contract, wherein each party grants the other party something (a right) in exchange for somthing else (an obligation). Each person then has ‘rights’ as agreed upon in the contract, as well as obligations. This is the meaning of the term ‘right’. A right…
Do Convicted Criminals Deserve Human Rights Since They Willingly Deprived Someone Else Of Theirs?
When someone violates NATURAL RIGHTS (life, liberty, property, by fraud, theft or violence) we punish them by removing their NATURAL RIGHTS, by imprisoning them. Natural rights are NECESSARY RIGHTS to engage in cooperation via exchanges within society: life, liberty, and property. We pay for our natural rights by forgoing our opportunity for fraud, theft and…
If We Ever Cloned Hominids, Would They Have Human Rights?
Rights are the product of an exchange where terms are specified in a contract. For rights to exist a contract must exist – stated or written, or assumed. If we cloned hominids, and cloned them sufficiently well that they could negotiate agreements with us, it is very likely that we would have to grant them…
What Is The Best Way To Learn Monetary Policy?
I will give you a little help. There is nothing much to it. It is cursory in textbooks for a reason. It’s just no more complicated than maintaing a supply of money that’s high enough that interests rates are low enough, the people spend to consume and spend to invest. And not too high that…
What Is A “right”?
1) RIGHTS: A “right” is a claim against other members of a contract, wherein each party grants the other party something (a right) in exchange for somthing else (an obligation). Each person then has ‘rights’ as agreed upon in the contract, as well as obligations. This is the meaning of the term ‘right’. A right…