"If you pay, then you have to assign worth to shows, and then people will resent that".
Assigning worth to lives and ecosystems is tricky business, obviously, for a species that can't seem to share well with others even to save our own hides.
Assigning worth to a human using a numerical scale has a futuristic twinge to it... and not in a good way.
For these reasons we have not assigned net worth figures to the presidents.
ROME The Italian Ministry of Education, Universities, and Research plans to investigate claims that some of its officials have systematically assigned funding worth hundreds of millions of euros, part of it for research and innovation, in exchange for bribes.
Here, a British lieutenant, Neville Chamberlain, added coloured balls to the original game and assigned their worth, playing with first year cadets who were nicknamed Snookers.
A16 SCIENCE/HEALTH Assigning Worth to Genes Genetic testing is becoming more common, and, for almost every gene, some medical institution or some company owns a patent on its use.
Virgin-shaming isn't as upfront and in-your-face as slut-shaming, but it's the other side of the same misogynist coin: they're both ways of assigning worth (or the lack thereof), based purely on someone's very personal sexual experience.
But surely America has learned the hard way not to assign human worth by appearances.
So executives, economists and policy makers are eager to find ways to assign realistic worth to such property.
Then again, in the Thunder's three games against the Spurs this season, Oklahoma City actually grabbed fewer offensive rebounds with Collison on the floor -– probably because Tim Duncan, even at 36, is a top-three defensive rebounder, and one who has the benefit of perimeter players who far exceed the rebounding worth assigned to their respective positions.
