You can afford yourself the the logical fallacy of circling back to the social cost argument in most cases of personal irresponsibility.
People dismiss emergency evacuation notices every hurricane, and some wind up on their rooftops awaiting rescue at our expense. The folks in this tribe are primarily looters, without the resources to leave(poor and friendless), or bad risk assessment analysts. We still send helicopters for them.
It is unlikely on the order of direct that a consumer denied sugar in his beverage will be unable to cover his sugar ration in some other readily available fashion.
As well-intentioned as the prohibition on large, unhealthy soft drinks may sound, we are generally better for less government intrusion into our everyday lives.
Remember, every intrusion will sound good to some segment of the population.
but how long would you want to hang around the scene of the crime?
It seems like most folks, who happen across a revenue stream from which a pinstriped suit is one possible future, would be best served by a quick-in/quick-out strategy.
There's a sucker born every minute. And. There's a worldwide market for maybe five computers.
Many projects funded by crowd-sourcing will fail due to corruption, incompetence, and plain old bad luck. Folks contributing to a poor bet are probably not sacrificing their rent money.
Oh, and every once in a blue moon, a genius is ridiculed by smart people.
Mmmmm...perhaps. The instinctive fear that is our fight or flight response is ingrained in humanity's DNA on some primal level, plausibly because it contributes to an individual's survival to breeding age.
Like a kitten who's never seen a dog, we seem to have a predisposed aversion to certain dangerous animals: shark, grizzly, bee, snake. Is instinctive fear irrational? It is often not well considered or based on any documented evidence. Conquering your animal fear is a noble goal, but the same could be said for other destructive frames of mind like anger, hatred, and frustration.
I'll leave you with the words of a Bene Gesserit Litany:
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration.
...more likely to die of bee stings than from a shark
Sure. We'll even go with the bee metaphor even though the humble mosquito kills more humans than even humans do.
Here's the thing. People do panic and behave irrationally around bees... especially if they're predisposed to an allergic reaction.
An irrational fear of a dangerous animal is a survival tool. On the one hand, it makes it much easier to kill since there is no room for empathy in the fear-paralyzed mind. On the other hand, there's The Grizzly Man.
Finding things to be grateful for reflects a much rarer optimism in basic human goodness than does an eternal penchant in identifying things to be hateful for.
You're posting wisely on Slashdot... take the high, hard road. It's not over til we say it's over.
2014 **To be fair, there is almost a 3800 dollar TCO advantage for camry hybrid vs camry base model... but 760 dollars a year isn't exactly going to drop a lot of panties.
The solution for X number of panties in the previous equation is greater in inverse proportion to your fancy for the smaller panties.
Up until the Caddy SUV is six years old, the average length of the note required to pay off a 70k vehicle, a used model can retain nearly 50% of its original value if kept in decent shape.
Holding your fashion statement of a vehicle an additional 2-3 years dramatically reduces your resale value, and must be accounted for in any perceived savings equation.
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Not that continued attention and oversight are ever unnecessary for a voting populace, but hey, there are still checks and balances.
But for real, how much help were the King's horses expected to be?
Get your facts first, then distort them as you please.__Samuel Clemens
People dismiss emergency evacuation notices every hurricane, and some wind up on their rooftops awaiting rescue at our expense. The folks in this tribe are primarily looters, without the resources to leave(poor and friendless), or bad risk assessment analysts. We still send helicopters for them.
It is unlikely on the order of direct that a consumer denied sugar in his beverage will be unable to cover his sugar ration in some other readily available fashion.
and Tango.
Remember, every intrusion will sound good to some segment of the population.
how will you find time to do it twice?
but how long would you want to hang around the scene of the crime?
It seems like most folks, who happen across a revenue stream from which a pinstriped suit is one possible future, would be best served by a quick-in/quick-out strategy.
Many projects funded by crowd-sourcing will fail due to corruption, incompetence, and plain old bad luck. Folks contributing to a poor bet are probably not sacrificing their rent money.
Oh, and every once in a blue moon, a genius is ridiculed by smart people.
Like a kitten who's never seen a dog, we seem to have a predisposed aversion to certain dangerous animals: shark, grizzly, bee, snake. Is instinctive fear irrational? It is often not well considered or based on any documented evidence. Conquering your animal fear is a noble goal, but the same could be said for other destructive frames of mind like anger, hatred, and frustration.
I'll leave you with the words of a Bene Gesserit Litany:
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration.
...more likely to die of bee stings than from a shark
Sure. We'll even go with the bee metaphor even though the humble mosquito kills more humans than even humans do.
Here's the thing. People do panic and behave irrationally around bees... especially if they're predisposed to an allergic reaction.
An irrational fear of a dangerous animal is a survival tool. On the one hand, it makes it much easier to kill since there is no room for empathy in the fear-paralyzed mind. On the other hand, there's The Grizzly Man.
Finding things to be grateful for reflects a much rarer optimism in basic human goodness than does an eternal penchant in identifying things to be hateful for.
You're posting wisely on Slashdot... take the high, hard road. It's not over til we say it's over.
What is sound heat...
and how do you measure it?
Heavy breathing in your ear by a quality mating applicant.
Vicariously.
Right. You'll just need to accurately predict the new shoreline, and you, too, can sell overpriced lots in hurricane alley.
Unfortunate sometimes, but like Democracy, the fairest system presently at our disposal.
IIRC, researchers were looking for a medication to regrow lost hair in middle aged men.
They got something to grow again, all right.
At the very least the representatives still have to pay me some lip service. Hell, some of them may have retained the ability to care.
Either way, it's a small victory for the Republic.
yeah, that's right, the Do you think I'm stupid? look.
is it not feasible quality candidates are unavailable in every spectrum?
Everyone's special snowflake isn't qualified for every job in the market.
with an order of magnitude more to follow.
Nonetheless, Musk is a stock, and I'm buying.
Or perhaps in the spirit of Alfred Nobel, he's merely seeking a better mention in history.
Unlike those squealing-ass pigs.
Too impatient to await evolution's protective advances, they settled for armor and shields as insurance for their future procreation opportunities.
1)Dig pit. 2)Tease bull. 3)Outthink, outplay, outlast, and for heaven's sake, outrun.
2014 **To be fair, there is almost a 3800 dollar TCO advantage for camry hybrid vs camry base model... but 760 dollars a year isn't exactly going to drop a lot of panties.
The solution for X number of panties in the previous equation is greater in inverse proportion to your fancy for the smaller panties.
Up until the Caddy SUV is six years old, the average length of the note required to pay off a 70k vehicle, a used model can retain nearly 50% of its original value if kept in decent shape.
Holding your fashion statement of a vehicle an additional 2-3 years dramatically reduces your resale value, and must be accounted for in any perceived savings equation.