There are already drugs on the street. And your kids will face that offer some day. Stop pretending you can hide them from it. I remember seeing it when I was in high school and middle school. To a kid, the fact that it is taboo will only increase the desire. That is one of the primary problems with alcohol consumption among young people today. Countries without underage bans on alcohol do not have rampant drunken children stumbling around the streets. Back to drugs, though. A lot of these illegal drugs came into use originally in medicine. Your outcry about meth, for instance, ignores the fact that it was distributed by both the Allies and the Axis in World War II. It has horrible side effects and is intensely addictive. Teach people that. It still has medical use, but is avoided due to the drug trade. Tobacco usage is going down. You think it's because tobacco is illegal now? Drugs are here. They always have been. If your child chooses drugs after you have educated them on how many such substances would tear their lives apart, then they would have chosen drugs when that guy at school offered them. The only difference in the two worlds is that one market was supplied from Mexico and cost our government a fortune in an impotent attempt to stop, the other was regulated and taxed.
In other news, did you know that, as impact speed increases from 5 mph to 25 mph, the energy that needs to be managed increases by 2400 percent!? That is just stunning! I think that we must start considering the children here, and lower all speed limits to 5 mph immediately. And ban driving in parking lots. With all of the obstructed views, it is just too dangerous, and I am not going to be held responsible for teaching my children about running into streets blindly.
I wasn't aware that the only thing less than too much was zero. Reductio ad absurdum does not work with a false dichotomy. That said, constraint on the power of government should belong to the people, and technically does, but you never actually see citizens voting intelligently. I honestly don't know how to fix the system, as I feel the problem is inherent in the nature of people today.
I say "pssh" to that concept. The idea that copyright should cover bad luck makes it sound more like a form of life insurance. Copyright exists to promote invention. Why should artists have so much protected beyond life?
What if, instead of the holy pedestal of [career that produces art], you were a coal miner? They get payed pretty well and have great retirements benefits. If you keep working, you will provide for your family quite well. Two years later, you are hit by a bus. It's horrible, but there is no reason for someone from the mine company to step in and continue paying your family. Everyone wants to protect their family. Designing arbitrary laws to do so at a loss to the public is foolish. The world has become too compassionate.
The human body survives off of calories. The most calorie dense foods, in a calorie per dollar sense, are junk foods. A $3 bag of chips packs about 1700 calories. $3 worth of sweet onions packs about 300 calories. Around here, yes, it is more expensive to eat healthy. Although a big bag of carrots looks like a lot, it isn't as easy to subsist on.
You're right, I'm tired of having humans in charge of the government. The world focuses on money too much now. It's the primary goal. A pity primary goals aren't something nobler, like achievement.
I have always hated this statement, as it's a logical fallacy. If it were true, the greatest nation in the world would not only let all of it's most deplorable citizens do anything they want, it would give them candy in the process. Statements like this garner admiration because they sound neat. They also serve as a tool for people looking to have evidence to support their opinions on any nation, since basically any nation will prosecute their worst criminals.
Umm, that's not quite true. For Serbian Cyrillic, transliteration is not accomplished by what the letter appears to look like, it's done by sound. The actual transliteration is.....Nikola Tesla. That "H" you see is actually pronounced like an N and the "backwards N" is basically an i. The rest follows as well.
But you do have tons of free time...
Almost all of the amazingly strenuous activities you listed are recreational, the others - a regular thing for most teenagers. Tell me how difficult it is to find free time when you are older. I am only a few years older, but even I know not to make an assumption of that magnitude. 7 hours of sleep per night? Lucky. Some people waste their time when they're younger. You obviously don't. However, it isn't comparable to the lack of time that accompanies responsibility. Try going to work all day and then coming home to take care of a child. Try pursuing a real degree in college. A large percent of people would look at your schedule and welcome it as a break. Being young is not an excuse to be presumptuous. Don't forget that, at some point, old people were young.
Hear, hear! It always annoys me when my choice of candidate doesn't get the bias he deserves. I am a registered [pointless political affiliation], and I will of course be voting for [same recycled trash seen every four years]. I mindlessly eat whatever my comrades feed me and stand on that as my own principles. Without divisiveness, what else could we devote our time to in this great country? Science, education? Why? The TV contains all knowledge! Thank [Object/deity I worship] that they put the little letter beside the name. Otherwise, I would collapse in the voting booth from actually applying my brain.
How big is your piece of sheet metal? Think about how small both the object you are trying to capture, and the tool you are using to do it with, compares to the amount of space you have to trawl through. Good luck on getting much of anything.
All of the other comments on climate instability aside, if you RTFA, it actually states that it is still the 10th warmest year on record since 1850 - not exactly equating to the ice age. And they go on to speculate that the 0.1 degree Celsius shift is due to La Nina. A global trend upward does not demand that every measured value be a new record high.
I, for one, will never have such blind faith in the justice system. Primarily because it relies on the opinions of people, who fail to use logic on a common basis.
Mod parent up. It's a serious lack of foresight to just sit on our hands when we could push for so much more. A serious problem with people today is the inability to look beyond the weekend. The question is always "how much money can we make from it tomorrow", completely overlooking more logical arguments for or against.
If this is true, it's just disgusting. "Collecting money on your behalf"? Yeah, that sounds completely legitimate. Basically what you are saying is that the only way someone, as an indie artist, can ensure their music is free is to make sure that it doesn't get played. That's the full circle on that line of logic. And that's what the these "good people" bigwigs want, correct?
Just because you don't want or need a car that has any power at all, doesn't mean that all cars should have a 75hp engine. Also, your link to the Berkeley page was an article that was largely speculation, and had nothing to do with the horsepower of a vehicle. Some of us buy cars that we actually like to drive. I don't just use my car as transport, but I am also smart enough not to endanger other drivers on the road. If you want to blame anything for vehicle accidents: stupid driving. There is your problem. Not fast cars. Stupid drivers.
And expensive gas has the largest effect on lower income families - most of whom drive smaller vehicles anyway.
Basements make very little sense in places that practically never get tornadoes...to people who think basements only serve as protection from tornadoes.
The temperature and moisture levels in a basement are pretty constant, and we used ours to store certain foods. It is also one of the cheapest ways to expand living space in your home.
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There are already drugs on the street. And your kids will face that offer some day. Stop pretending you can hide them from it. I remember seeing it when I was in high school and middle school. To a kid, the fact that it is taboo will only increase the desire. That is one of the primary problems with alcohol consumption among young people today. Countries without underage bans on alcohol do not have rampant drunken children stumbling around the streets. Back to drugs, though. A lot of these illegal drugs came into use originally in medicine. Your outcry about meth, for instance, ignores the fact that it was distributed by both the Allies and the Axis in World War II. It has horrible side effects and is intensely addictive. Teach people that. It still has medical use, but is avoided due to the drug trade. Tobacco usage is going down. You think it's because tobacco is illegal now? Drugs are here. They always have been. If your child chooses drugs after you have educated them on how many such substances would tear their lives apart, then they would have chosen drugs when that guy at school offered them. The only difference in the two worlds is that one market was supplied from Mexico and cost our government a fortune in an impotent attempt to stop, the other was regulated and taxed.
Yay, math!
In other news, did you know that, as impact speed increases from 5 mph to 25 mph, the energy that needs to be managed increases by 2400 percent!? That is just stunning! I think that we must start considering the children here, and lower all speed limits to 5 mph immediately. And ban driving in parking lots. With all of the obstructed views, it is just too dangerous, and I am not going to be held responsible for teaching my children about running into streets blindly.
I wasn't aware that the only thing less than too much was zero. Reductio ad absurdum does not work with a false dichotomy. That said, constraint on the power of government should belong to the people, and technically does, but you never actually see citizens voting intelligently. I honestly don't know how to fix the system, as I feel the problem is inherent in the nature of people today.
I say "pssh" to that concept. The idea that copyright should cover bad luck makes it sound more like a form of life insurance. Copyright exists to promote invention. Why should artists have so much protected beyond life?
What if, instead of the holy pedestal of [career that produces art], you were a coal miner? They get payed pretty well and have great retirements benefits. If you keep working, you will provide for your family quite well. Two years later, you are hit by a bus. It's horrible, but there is no reason for someone from the mine company to step in and continue paying your family. Everyone wants to protect their family. Designing arbitrary laws to do so at a loss to the public is foolish. The world has become too compassionate.
The human body survives off of calories. The most calorie dense foods, in a calorie per dollar sense, are junk foods. A $3 bag of chips packs about 1700 calories. $3 worth of sweet onions packs about 300 calories. Around here, yes, it is more expensive to eat healthy. Although a big bag of carrots looks like a lot, it isn't as easy to subsist on.
You're right, I'm tired of having humans in charge of the government. The world focuses on money too much now. It's the primary goal. A pity primary goals aren't something nobler, like achievement.
I have always hated this statement, as it's a logical fallacy. If it were true, the greatest nation in the world would not only let all of it's most deplorable citizens do anything they want, it would give them candy in the process. Statements like this garner admiration because they sound neat. They also serve as a tool for people looking to have evidence to support their opinions on any nation, since basically any nation will prosecute their worst criminals.
Umm, that's not quite true. For Serbian Cyrillic, transliteration is not accomplished by what the letter appears to look like, it's done by sound. The actual transliteration is.....Nikola Tesla. That "H" you see is actually pronounced like an N and the "backwards N" is basically an i. The rest follows as well.
But you do have tons of free time... Almost all of the amazingly strenuous activities you listed are recreational, the others - a regular thing for most teenagers. Tell me how difficult it is to find free time when you are older. I am only a few years older, but even I know not to make an assumption of that magnitude. 7 hours of sleep per night? Lucky. Some people waste their time when they're younger. You obviously don't. However, it isn't comparable to the lack of time that accompanies responsibility. Try going to work all day and then coming home to take care of a child. Try pursuing a real degree in college. A large percent of people would look at your schedule and welcome it as a break. Being young is not an excuse to be presumptuous. Don't forget that, at some point, old people were young.
Hear, hear! It always annoys me when my choice of candidate doesn't get the bias he deserves. I am a registered [pointless political affiliation], and I will of course be voting for [same recycled trash seen every four years]. I mindlessly eat whatever my comrades feed me and stand on that as my own principles. Without divisiveness, what else could we devote our time to in this great country? Science, education? Why? The TV contains all knowledge! Thank [Object/deity I worship] that they put the little letter beside the name. Otherwise, I would collapse in the voting booth from actually applying my brain.
Well, there goes about 99% of all the scientific "research" I have done in my life...
How big is your piece of sheet metal? Think about how small both the object you are trying to capture, and the tool you are using to do it with, compares to the amount of space you have to trawl through. Good luck on getting much of anything.
All of the other comments on climate instability aside, if you RTFA, it actually states that it is still the 10th warmest year on record since 1850 - not exactly equating to the ice age. And they go on to speculate that the 0.1 degree Celsius shift is due to La Nina. A global trend upward does not demand that every measured value be a new record high.
I, for one, will never have such blind faith in the justice system. Primarily because it relies on the opinions of people, who fail to use logic on a common basis.
Obviously, because when a celebrity is acquitted of a crime, then clearly they were innocent.
Mod parent up. It's a serious lack of foresight to just sit on our hands when we could push for so much more. A serious problem with people today is the inability to look beyond the weekend. The question is always "how much money can we make from it tomorrow", completely overlooking more logical arguments for or against.
If this is true, it's just disgusting. "Collecting money on your behalf"? Yeah, that sounds completely legitimate. Basically what you are saying is that the only way someone, as an indie artist, can ensure their music is free is to make sure that it doesn't get played. That's the full circle on that line of logic. And that's what the these "good people" bigwigs want, correct?
Umm, we don't even know if a magnetic monopole exists. Currently, theory is the only place you can find one.
Just because you don't want or need a car that has any power at all, doesn't mean that all cars should have a 75hp engine. Also, your link to the Berkeley page was an article that was largely speculation, and had nothing to do with the horsepower of a vehicle. Some of us buy cars that we actually like to drive. I don't just use my car as transport, but I am also smart enough not to endanger other drivers on the road. If you want to blame anything for vehicle accidents: stupid driving. There is your problem. Not fast cars. Stupid drivers. And expensive gas has the largest effect on lower income families - most of whom drive smaller vehicles anyway.
Basements make very little sense in places that practically never get tornadoes...to people who think basements only serve as protection from tornadoes. The temperature and moisture levels in a basement are pretty constant, and we used ours to store certain foods. It is also one of the cheapest ways to expand living space in your home.