This is not a book about Mars or the moon. My contention is that most of the interesting immediate economic activity is happening in low Earth orbit, the spot closest to us. And we're moving from a world where we had about 2,500 satellites above us for, really,
And I believe it was 39% of respondents said they were absolutely sure that Obama was born outside the United States. My contention is that in the kind of divided, partisan country that we live in today, convincing all people of any one thing is almost impossible, no matter how simple.
In any case, the point is, to make the right thing lucrative and the wrong thing not lucrative and I think this fourth estate principle that has deep roots in democracy is kind of how My contention is that they, so they were the 80th most valuable brand in the world, according to Interbrand, before that happened and they had just spent millions and millions of dollars
uh anti-semitic. The the the term the utilization of the term pig dog is what is in Yes. uh in contention , right? Yeah. I didn't realize that that I don't even think anyone else realized that this was actually an anti-semitic statement. I've only heard about it being referred to as like capitalist big dog and red alert as a common thing that uh socialists have
So this one is PodPockets, and it's essentially a case for your AirPods. And my own contention is the value to most-- to a larger consumer set would be a dollar.
to have any reliance on anything trusted. And the contention that I'm making here and that I make in the book is-- with all due respect to Satoshi-- that's wrong. That's not actually what Bitcoin did.
It forces you to say, this is the most important thing, I know that nothing else matters. And my contention is you can get to that place of saying this is the most important thing, nothing else matters, without a deadline. And what you need to do to get to there is much clearer thinking in terms of what's on my plate so that you're really much clearer about your priorities.
It's quite old, and I think it's from 2014-- by Robert Kegan and his colleagues at Harvard Business School. And the contention of this paper is that if an organization actually encourages people to be open about their vulnerabilities and their weaknesses and their obstacles that sit in front of them, then it will actually be able to dramatically not only change
And that is in early Islam, we also had this. Now my contention is that all great ideas, in history or in the modern world, also have an ugly side to it. There's an excess. So patriotism and loving your own country is, in and of itself, a good thing.
Not many of them left, as I say, but we're all somewhere on that continuum. And my whole contention , the whole River Cottage argument, if you like, from the very beginning has been it's really good to get a little bit further down towards some kind of self-sufficiency, some closer connection to the origins of your food.
of satisfaction and enjoyment from your labor. And our contention is that as the title says, that these investments really outperform the FACD plan type investments. And actually, it's not that high of a bar to beat, especially over the last 15 years.
And those kind of returns are very, very hard to achieve on the stock market, especially without just taking insane amounts of risk on. Whereas by our contention , it's fairly predictable, the kinds of things that you can invest in, in yourself, to supercharge your already existing technical skills to make them more valuable to a team, to make them more likely to lead to promotions and higher earning
that I've had or that we've had, or very interesting topics or whatever just won't go away, whatever we found interesting, whatever source of contention in our lives becomes an episode. So then how much of what you are saying in the show, what you feel, and then what's happening around you, like conversations you've actually had?
So the companies can be harshly meritocratic. And our contention is-- I use the example of Lenovo.
And it's not a ridiculous theory. And my contention is that if beekeepers really wanted to keep the feed out of the honey, really wanted to keep that sugar syrup,
researching the subject of mesmerism I had to change my plot I mean it was just it's terribly exciting now there are two points of contention about historical historical novels that I think we should just briefly touch on one is between some historians and some historical novelists
And my contention is that there are not just two, but five styles.
And one of the contentions of the book is, there's never been engineering without culture right next to it.
which we have no particular contention that for me to say something critical about the government's policy back home
Or are they ever kind of in contention ?
It was always a bone of contention with my sister and me.
This was the point of contention in the famous Bohr-Einstein debates in the '20s and '30s.
It wasn't a point of contention in the film.
There's a lot of contention as to what the materials of the instrument are made of, and what coating it has, and how that affects the resonance
That is the book's central contention , that the internet is a massive and collaborative work of realist art.
And that's the main contention of the talk, which is that it's actually from the past that we manufacture the future.
So that's always a point of contention .
It is a bone of occasional contention between us at this point that the song that I actually show up in as
Steve: One of the major point of contention in the whole science and religion debate is about consciousness, specifically, the relationship between brain and mind. And the big question
and again and the key contention Point uh within TV companies and Publishers record labels and
have been not the end of contention but the beginning elections have hardened sarian differences some time and we don't know
Now without going into a huge amount of detail, because all of that appears in the book, is that the Khawarij took up arms against the majority of Muslims. And their contention was that most Muslims who accepted arbitration of men, human beings, were not pious believers. So they took up arms and wanted to kill the fourth Caliph, Imam Ali.
or when the term could be used without question or contention .
that what they were experiencing with their-- in their contention with the regime of Bashar al-Assad was indeed a civil war.
That's been sort of a point of contention .
And I hope you'll believe me and my contention that social media doesn't just join us to each other today.
extreme but there clearly are some points of contention over what some people perceive as the
And so, the contentions in some of these articles and books that regular shoes cause injuries is not supported by the experience nor the prevailing research on that subject.
And even though in our relationship it wasn't a point of contention , I felt like it wasn't yet something that I could say out loud in public
Corporate psychopaths. This was Hare's contention , that psychopathic behavior will both propel you to the top of the tree, because of the kind of person it turns you into, and also, the system
of power, we have fierce contention , we have liberty, but political outcomes are simply not what India needs and that's what ought to be changed.
purposes this is exactly the issue with iran the plant that is under contention with
keep thinking about what decisions needed to be made to crawl ourselves back into a position where we were still in contention
Economic forces, political considerations, contention in the industrial space.
to everyone's satisfaction, or when it could be used without question or contention .
different way wielding wielding the the solidwood body as a as a demolition tool so my contention is that you can play
been I guess kind of a number of independent discoveries like within the Cuban Community there is there's a small degree of contention about this in the
I said, well, my contention is that as people become more and more comfortable with embryo screening and recognize what embryo screening can
So it became neutralized, and it was no longer a big issue of contention , because their own experts
So If i see big bars there, I know there's some contention , and I want to take a look.