For the most successful NFL players that would be true. There are many football (and other sports) players who never do get rich though. I mostly answered to counter the GP statement that breeding is all that is involved in passing on your genes.
Baby Orcas have a way better survival rate when they have living grandparents. Seems that growing old and helping your children raise your grandchildren enhances the chances of survival of your genes.
Two centuries ago, it was known that some animals went much faster then 35 mph, a century ago people had been flying for over a hundred years and it was obvious that birds and such flew even though they were heavier then air. 50 years ago people were writing stories with compact computers in robots. The only new physics needed for all the above was quantum theory and the transistor. Perhaps there is physics that allow removing inertia but we have no hints of it unlike quantum theory where hints (electricity, radiation) were available for quite a while. With our current understanding of the universe, it just takes too much energy to travel interstellar distances in anything approaching reasonable times.
The Sun is getting hotter and was 25% cooler in the distant past. Quite possibly Venus was earth like at that time. Once the Sun heated up enough to boil Venus's oceans it was game over whether there was life or not. Another billion or so years the same will happen to the Earth unless we move it. Life as we know it won't survive.
The Sun gets more dense due to converting hydrogen to helium which causes it to put out more heat. In perhaps a billion years the oceans boil, water vapour makes the greenhouse effect higher, limestone and similar C sinks break down, CO2 content goes up, water disassociates into hydrogen and oxygen, hydrogen is lost, oxygen combines with carbon and Earth ends up much like Venus.
One thing is when the government figures out the way you're likely to vote and if they don't like it they throw a screw into your voting right. This also goes for the opposition party as well who also has access to buying data that private companies have collected. Here in Canada, the last election may have been thrown just by phoning up supporters of the opposition and redirecting them to the wrong polling place.
According to wiki, they are more tolerant close to the border. This is probably the big thing, a large portion of Americans live a long ways from Canada so interactions, including money, would be rare. Meanwhile most Canadians live close to the border. It's only recent history that saw American currency worth more then Canadian whereas through most of history the Canadian dollar has been worth slightly more, America used worn Spanish dollars to set the weight of the American dollar whereas Canada used the minted weight. Up till the mid-60's the common coins (excepting the nickel) had basically the same weight and percent of silver as well. I do remember American coins from before the C$ lost value.
Once the change was complete, they minted way fewer coins then they used to print bills. And when coins are actually worth money, those jars get emptied regularly and spent.
It does not ignore it. They said when they took that into account, it was a wash. I like the story because it taught me something I hadn't thought of: that people don't like to spend coins.
They do when the coin is actually worth something, much like people put up with having a big wad of singles in their pocket, yet wouldn't put up with 10 cent notes
Here in Canada, all reports are the switch saved quite a bit of money. When a handful of change is worth $10+ you're more likely to spend it and even if you put it in a jar, you take it out again as that jar could be worth hundreds.
The parent is full of shit. The first year they minted 1.6 coins for every bill and every year afterwards they minted closer to.25 coins for how many bills would have been printed. Besides, while I won't bother picking up a penny, I will pick up a loonie so even if people lose them, others will find them.
Don't be daft, you spend the coins. The most I ever have in my pocket is about $10, which is perhaps 3 toonies, 3 loonies, and assorted small change. What I used to really hate was having a 20 or 50 ones in my wallet. Not only did it make my wallet unfoldable but it would turn out I only had $20 instead of hundreds.
Lots of people on this page think they're entitled to a paper dollar though I agree that doing something about those 0.1%ers who think they're entitled to a 20% raise every year no matter how badly they did would be a good start.
But it would just be weird having a loaf of bread going up and down on a day to day basis. Plus when I think how I lost out on the gold I bought in the late '70's thinking it was a safe bet. Much better to use something with actual worth such as chickens. A chicken is always worth a chicken dinner, gives eggs as interest, needs to be looked after to keep it's value and the supply can naturally be increased to reflect the price of wheat.
Read up on what happened to the Spanish Empire. Also to a lesser extent, the American economy in the latter part of the 19th century. In Americas case it was as much silver as gold.
Do the banks really reject Canadian currency? That seems so weird as American coins have always been treated as currency here. Most all stores also except American notes though they'll ding you a couple of percent on top of the going exchange so the American $5 in my wallet is probably actually $4.75 or so.
The people also wanted a balanced budget, this was a step in that direction. Often in democracies there is conflict as the people want conflicting things and in this case it was decided balancing the budget was more important. We ended up with a balanced budget without the people having to suffer much, at least until the right wingers got in. Now it's both people suffering and deficit spending with a promise that since they're conservative, they're better at balancing the budget and in just 5 years they'll do it.
The people also wanted a balanced budget and this was one step in that direction. We did end up with a balanced budget, at least until the right wingers came to power with their philosophy of cutting taxes, services and increasing spending on spying on citizens, locking people up and war. Nothing like no bid military contracts to create a deficit.
They're not one colour, just predominately one colour with various anti-counterfeiting features such as a metallic holographic area. The new ones are actually partially transparent with translucent parts. Also plastic. Here's what we've been using until this year, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Canadian_bills2.jpg and their replacements so far, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier_Series. For completeness, our $1 and $2 coins, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Canadian_1_and_2_dollar_coins.png note that the coins also changed this year into thinner lighter versions (and the vending machine companies did adjust) and the penny is no longer being minted.
Actually neuroscience has been getting closer and closer to explaining those 3 and probably would have except most of the needed experiments are very unethical.
Do not the children have rights? I have the right to swing my fist where ever I like and yet I'm limited by your right not to be punched in the face. Rights are not absolute and limited by others rights.
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For the most successful NFL players that would be true. There are many football (and other sports) players who never do get rich though.
I mostly answered to counter the GP statement that breeding is all that is involved in passing on your genes.
Baby Orcas have a way better survival rate when they have living grandparents. Seems that growing old and helping your children raise your grandchildren enhances the chances of survival of your genes.
Two centuries ago, it was known that some animals went much faster then 35 mph, a century ago people had been flying for over a hundred years and it was obvious that birds and such flew even though they were heavier then air. 50 years ago people were writing stories with compact computers in robots.
The only new physics needed for all the above was quantum theory and the transistor. Perhaps there is physics that allow removing inertia but we have no hints of it unlike quantum theory where hints (electricity, radiation) were available for quite a while.
With our current understanding of the universe, it just takes too much energy to travel interstellar distances in anything approaching reasonable times.
Eventually it'll be located further north but it takes time for muskeg to turn into good soil.
The Sun is getting hotter and was 25% cooler in the distant past. Quite possibly Venus was earth like at that time. Once the Sun heated up enough to boil Venus's oceans it was game over whether there was life or not.
Another billion or so years the same will happen to the Earth unless we move it. Life as we know it won't survive.
The Sun gets more dense due to converting hydrogen to helium which causes it to put out more heat. In perhaps a billion years the oceans boil, water vapour makes the greenhouse effect higher, limestone and similar C sinks break down, CO2 content goes up, water disassociates into hydrogen and oxygen, hydrogen is lost, oxygen combines with carbon and Earth ends up much like Venus.
Dolphins aren't intelligent?
One thing is when the government figures out the way you're likely to vote and if they don't like it they throw a screw into your voting right. This also goes for the opposition party as well who also has access to buying data that private companies have collected.
Here in Canada, the last election may have been thrown just by phoning up supporters of the opposition and redirecting them to the wrong polling place.
According to wiki, they are more tolerant close to the border. This is probably the big thing, a large portion of Americans live a long ways from Canada so interactions, including money, would be rare. Meanwhile most Canadians live close to the border.
It's only recent history that saw American currency worth more then Canadian whereas through most of history the Canadian dollar has been worth slightly more, America used worn Spanish dollars to set the weight of the American dollar whereas Canada used the minted weight. Up till the mid-60's the common coins (excepting the nickel) had basically the same weight and percent of silver as well. I do remember American coins from before the C$ lost value.
I was thinking more of the inflation problems brought on by the massive amounts of gold that was taken from the Americas.
Once the change was complete, they minted way fewer coins then they used to print bills. And when coins are actually worth money, those jars get emptied regularly and spent.
It does not ignore it. They said when they took that into account, it was a wash. I like the story because it taught me something I hadn't thought of: that people don't like to spend coins.
They do when the coin is actually worth something, much like people put up with having a big wad of singles in their pocket, yet wouldn't put up with 10 cent notes
Here in Canada, all reports are the switch saved quite a bit of money. When a handful of change is worth $10+ you're more likely to spend it and even if you put it in a jar, you take it out again as that jar could be worth hundreds.
The parent is full of shit. The first year they minted 1.6 coins for every bill and every year afterwards they minted closer to .25 coins for how many bills would have been printed. Besides, while I won't bother picking up a penny, I will pick up a loonie so even if people lose them, others will find them.
Don't be daft, you spend the coins. The most I ever have in my pocket is about $10, which is perhaps 3 toonies, 3 loonies, and assorted small change. What I used to really hate was having a 20 or 50 ones in my wallet. Not only did it make my wallet unfoldable but it would turn out I only had $20 instead of hundreds.
Lots of people on this page think they're entitled to a paper dollar though I agree that doing something about those 0.1%ers who think they're entitled to a 20% raise every year no matter how badly they did would be a good start.
That's strange as 80% of stuff in Canada is things like 3.78 l, 454 g, 473 ml and so on.
But it would just be weird having a loaf of bread going up and down on a day to day basis. Plus when I think how I lost out on the gold I bought in the late '70's thinking it was a safe bet. Much better to use something with actual worth such as chickens. A chicken is always worth a chicken dinner, gives eggs as interest, needs to be looked after to keep it's value and the supply can naturally be increased to reflect the price of wheat.
Read up on what happened to the Spanish Empire. Also to a lesser extent, the American economy in the latter part of the 19th century. In Americas case it was as much silver as gold.
Do the banks really reject Canadian currency? That seems so weird as American coins have always been treated as currency here. Most all stores also except American notes though they'll ding you a couple of percent on top of the going exchange so the American $5 in my wallet is probably actually $4.75 or so.
The people also wanted a balanced budget, this was a step in that direction. Often in democracies there is conflict as the people want conflicting things and in this case it was decided balancing the budget was more important. We ended up with a balanced budget without the people having to suffer much, at least until the right wingers got in. Now it's both people suffering and deficit spending with a promise that since they're conservative, they're better at balancing the budget and in just 5 years they'll do it.
The people also wanted a balanced budget and this was one step in that direction. We did end up with a balanced budget, at least until the right wingers came to power with their philosophy of cutting taxes, services and increasing spending on spying on citizens, locking people up and war. Nothing like no bid military contracts to create a deficit.
They're not one colour, just predominately one colour with various anti-counterfeiting features such as a metallic holographic area. The new ones are actually partially transparent with translucent parts. Also plastic.
Here's what we've been using until this year, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Canadian_bills2.jpg and their replacements so far, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier_Series. For completeness, our $1 and $2 coins, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Canadian_1_and_2_dollar_coins.png note that the coins also changed this year into thinner lighter versions (and the vending machine companies did adjust) and the penny is no longer being minted.
Actually neuroscience has been getting closer and closer to explaining those 3 and probably would have except most of the needed experiments are very unethical.
Do not the children have rights? I have the right to swing my fist where ever I like and yet I'm limited by your right not to be punched in the face. Rights are not absolute and limited by others rights.