out of the coffee Farmer's pocket so he said to the coffee farmer this is terrible these monkeys are plundering your crop should we get a gun and shoot the monkeys and the Indian farmer looked atHans and said Hans if you start shooting monkeys you'll spend the rest of your
So Spain quickly pushed into the West Indies, Mexico, and South America. They plundered , they extracted precious metals at a ferocious rate. Portugal pioneered the largest and richest market on Earth at the time, which was of course China.
I'm a physicist, not a cartoonist. Do they want to plunder our resources?
So human beings are considered this uniquely anti-planet creature who just basically we pollute it, the planet, and we plunder it. And if that's your view, if you really believe that mother nature is our mother and that the planet is perfect the way it is,
they have altered the atmosphere. That together with the plundering of the rainforests-- and we see it now in the Amazon and the problems there, how serious it is, and with cement manufacture. And generally, they're the sources of CO2, carbon dioxide.
Well, as I was saying, my FT article tomorrow is about this year is the 40th anniversary of the tasting that turned And a lot of French Bordeaux were plundering the collections of British fine wine traders.
but not act on it. Among the motives for violence are raw exploitation -- the elimination of a person that happens to be an obstacle toward something that you want, resulting in violence such as rape, plunder , conquest and the elimination of rivals. The quest for dominance either by individuals, to climb the pecking order and become alpha male, or among groups, the struggle for the supremacy of one's ethnic group, race, nation, or religion. There's a large category of moralistic violence. Violence that's considered to be justified or even
today. So juniper berries-- which I mentioned. We tend to think of them as predators and plunderers, which I guess they were.
interests in mind you have to be politically active yeah you know one of the things that uh that I think the uh the the I've we call them plunderers you know the plunderers who are plundering Earth alike is the fact that a lot of bloggers are really loud and they ran online but they don't stop traffic they don't stop Commerce and I
W-wait. "Human males are descended from prehistoric tribal warriors-- who had to defend the women and children in their tribe from vis-viscious, savage enemy tribes who could attack at any time without warning to rape and pillage and plunder . So these early males had to be constantly vigilant. They had to pee standing up with their heads on a swivel. They could not afford to waste precious seconds aiming the pee-stream or putting down the toilet seat.
In the beginning of the journey, that first stage in dream, what they need is a moment of inspiration. He said, "He convicted me as a plunderer of the earth," which is a horrible thing to hear, especially for a founder.
In the beginning of the journey, that first stage in dream, what they need is a moment of inspiration. He said, I built this company that is plundering the earth.
A second pacifying force is the concept of gentle commerce. The idea that plunder is a zero sum game. The plunderer's gain is the vanquished's loss whereas trade is a positive sum game one in which everyone can win. And that as, over the centuries, technology improves to allow the trade of goods and ideas over longer distances, among larger groups of people,
But, you know, we'll talk a little bit more about their religion, but they- they do not view the Christian God in particularly flattering terms. I mean, to them, he's a weak God who won't protect his adherence, and they can just come in and plunder as they... I mean, they'll... One Viking famously says, "On land, I'm a Christian. When I'm on the sea, I worship Thor." It was very much the kind of pragmatic take that the Vikings had.
I'm a physicist, not a cartoonist. So, I think that there's really no reason for them to plunder the earth, because there's plenty of uninhabited planets out there to plunder .
was creatively moribund, dead, or undead. Cinematically, the US film industry appeared content to allow younger directors to plunder its back catalog of horror films in what seems like an endless recycle of sequels, remakes, and reboots, a corporate production line, a wasteland.
archaeological sites were being devastated by the looting. There was a huge demand for these objects and it had created a huge problem with plunder . And so this kind of culminated in a treaty in 1970 that we refer to as the UNESCO Accord.
There were financial instruments such as money and contracts that could be recognized within the borders of the newly consolidated states and there were advances in the technology of trade -- better roads and carts and instruments of time keeping -- which shifted the incentive structure from zero sum plunder to positive sum trade, a point that I will return to. The third historical decline of violence can be illustrated by considering some of the ways in which the early kingdoms enforced law and order within their boundaries, punishments
you feel nervous you can't call 9-1-1. And so, dealers in contraband operating in these economic zones of anarchy have to defend their interests with the credible threat of violence. A second pacifying force is the concept of gentle commerce. The idea that plunder is a zero sum game. The plunderer's gain is the vanquished's loss whereas trade is a positive
You don't kill your customers you don't kill your debtors. And if it's cheaper to buy stuff then to steal it, you have less of an incentive to plunder . Also to international institutions, particularly the United Nations, which has enforced a outlawing war.
I'm a physicist, not a cartoonist. There are lots of dead planets out there, like Mars, that they can plunder at will.
"Is that also why men refuse to ask directions?" Dave: "If Man A asks Man B for directions, Man B, realizing Man A is a weak direction-asking type of male who probably also reads owner's manuals, could decide to attack Man A's village and plunder his women. "Man A is not about to run that kind of risk. But there's more to it than that. Men are explorers; they do not follow the herd. If everyone says the best way to get to a certain
You know, everything looks like that now. And so it's easier to plunder , you know.
- Yeah. Yeah, that... I could not agree more. There are some problems with, the Vikings did on Paris or the Seine, you know, and then he eventually ends up plundering
on a swivel. They could not afford to waste precious seconds aiming the pee-stream or putting down the toilet seat. Because the enemy might choose just that moment of distraction to strike and perform acts of vicious, savage plundering on the women and children. That was a risk these brave and courageous and manly warriors of long ago were simply unwilling to take. This same protective instinct is still deeply ingrained in men today, not
On the other hand, if they were cultivated, and pointed in those other directions, they might not interest you know us plunderers, you know in the same way.