There comes a point, and its exact location may differ from individual to individual, where more money is just not worth the aggravation. Selling your health and/or your relationships for money???
We have 10,000 unemployed people in Utrecht, but if they all have to do something in return for welfare we just don't have the people to see to that.
So let me get this straight.... On the one hand, you have people that are not employed (and thus not earning an income). On the other hand, you do not have enough employees to manage the handing out of dole. Need, let me introduce you to Opportunity. Have you ever heard about the adage of "killing two birds with one stone"?
It could of course be that said unemployed people are not suitable even to become civil servants... in which case I expect useless dole-seekers soon outnumbering tax payers in your city. Wait, I already expect that.
... and you touch on the larger subject of tourism. While almost all tourists will probably have a credit card on hand, often these attract a non-trivial flat rate per-transaction fee. Depending on a few factors, some visitors may not wish to part with that fee for each and every transaction, even something small like an entrance ticket or a snack. The solution often proposed by travel agents/sites/guidebooks is to use the card to draw some cash at an ATM, and use this for a couple of days. This is the way I worked a couple of years ago when I stayed in Switzerland (another quite expensive country) for a couple of weeks.
But hey, I guess Sweden does not derive much of its GDP from tourism.
Speaking of standardisation. Has CH moved away yet from their own, Swiss-only, 3-prong standard to the ever-so-slightly-different format used just about everywhere else in Europe? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mains_electricity_by_country)
On the positive side, they use the same 2-prong plug ("Type C") as many European and other countries, which fits into the same socket as the above-mentioned 3-prong (lacking the earth pin), so this is just some slight snarkiness that does not have much bearing in reality on phone chargers.
I don't think I'm worse for believing in an scarlet clad elf who sacrifices himself to provide pleasure to little children when I was young. Around the age of seven or so I realized that it was all hokey, but by then I was able to comprehend the spirit behind the season.
Some of humanities rules are very simple:
1) Number one is the Golden Rule, treat others as you have would others treat you!
2) It is better to give than receive.
3) Question everything.
And another rule is: Correlation does not equate causation. The fact that someone does not "observe" something (as stated) does not imply that he "believes/does not believe" something. You might want to refer back to the subject line "What happened to political correctness??".
I, as a lily-white non-muslim EU citizen, registered on the ESTA program still have to agree that even if they accept my application and authorize me for travel to the US, I still may be denied entry without reasons given. And even if I'm allowed, I'm still subjected to the normal security screenings (oh, I even had one of those chemical analyzers swiped over my hands at San Antonio - not that it's inconvenient or intrusive, but it seemed that the agent decided to "randomly sample" me while I was asking for information).
So in summary, don't bother trying to change your happiness level by psychological means. If the techniques worked then it would have an effect on one's longevity. Since it doesn't, the conclusion is that the techniques don't work.
I guess happiness is a worthy goal to strive towards quite regardless of whether it lengthens lifespan or not. A shorter but happy life seems preferable to a long and miserable one.
Of course, you could always have the ultimate short life by overdosing on happy pills. But that's just sad....
It will cost a fortune, need to recharge every hour or two, and despite its advanced navigation system, not be able to detect that an obstacle is too low to pass through underneath without getting stuck?
Oh wait, I'm thinking of that robotic vacuum thingy....
The precise reasons that people see profundity in vague buzzwords or syntactic but completely random sentences are unknown.
I think a large reason for the phenomenon (accepting the premise of around a quarter uncritical test subjects uncritically for the sake of the argument) is for the same reason that a whole city, save one child, all said how nice the emperor's new clothes are (despite all seeing his imperial nakedness): not wanting to look foolish/out-of-fashion/contrary to society in the eyes of their peers.
In other words: I read a random phrase that is touted as being (at least mildly, score 1) profound. It contains some multi-syllable words. I don't really understand it, but I guess it must be somewhat profound - philosophy have for ages given new meanings to existing words and fixed combinations thereof (heck, the media does so every day these days), so maybe this is another example where those words mean something that I haven't encountered yet in my academically undistinguished career - so just to be safe and not the laughing stock of all those ivory tower dwellers, I give it a score of 3 or 4.
You will notice that the third word in my post was "muslims", not "Achmed". In other words, the (specific) clock incident is only a small part of a (general) larger trend.
No, neither do western kids routinely carry around suitcases to school with countdown displays in pencil cases suggestive of hollywood bomb counters.
... He guessed that the problem might take him a few weeks. Instead, it took him five years.
I've underestimated ever-so-slightly like that. Now I don't feel so bad about being dumb!
It's on-spec (he delivered the proof all right) and on-budget (not sure about academia, but he still has a paid job, doesn't he?), so it was bound to be the schedule that had to budge.... That's the problem with giving jobs like this to IT people:-)
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Al Jazeera America was a great, unbiased source of news. I will definitely miss it.
That "woosh" I heard probably was that gazguzzler SUV that you didn't buy that might have shored up the oil prices that might have kept this alive.
I read the 3d word in the summary as a 4-letter word that did not include the letter f. By the end of the summary it seems I was not that far off...
There comes a point, and its exact location may differ from individual to individual, where more money is just not worth the aggravation. Selling your health and/or your relationships for money???
Nice spin Dice.
I particularly liked the smart Glock conversion shown in Law Abiding Citizen. (Which is saying: I'll pass, thanks.)
And here I thought this is some awful marketing gimmick for some vastly speed-improved version of the Tomcat servlet container.....
Turns out Wikipedia's disambiguation page could use some updating.
Further turns out the thing's proper name is C/2013 US10
On first scanning the headline, I read "... Google Could End Privacy". And I thought, meh what's new. C'mon, I can be the only one?
We have 10,000 unemployed people in Utrecht, but if they all have to do something in return for welfare we just don't have the people to see to that.
So let me get this straight.... On the one hand, you have people that are not employed (and thus not earning an income). On the other hand, you do not have enough employees to manage the handing out of dole. Need, let me introduce you to Opportunity. Have you ever heard about the adage of "killing two birds with one stone"?
It could of course be that said unemployed people are not suitable even to become civil servants... in which case I expect useless dole-seekers soon outnumbering tax payers in your city. Wait, I already expect that.
... and you touch on the larger subject of tourism. While almost all tourists will probably have a credit card on hand, often these attract a non-trivial flat rate per-transaction fee. Depending on a few factors, some visitors may not wish to part with that fee for each and every transaction, even something small like an entrance ticket or a snack. The solution often proposed by travel agents/sites/guidebooks is to use the card to draw some cash at an ATM, and use this for a couple of days. This is the way I worked a couple of years ago when I stayed in Switzerland (another quite expensive country) for a couple of weeks.
But hey, I guess Sweden does not derive much of its GDP from tourism.
Speaking of standardisation. Has CH moved away yet from their own, Swiss-only, 3-prong standard to the ever-so-slightly-different format used just about everywhere else in Europe? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mains_electricity_by_country)
On the positive side, they use the same 2-prong plug ("Type C") as many European and other countries, which fits into the same socket as the above-mentioned 3-prong (lacking the earth pin), so this is just some slight snarkiness that does not have much bearing in reality on phone chargers.
...it's impossible to get anything done ...
That to me sounds like the perfect reason to implement such a continuous voting system.
I don't think I'm worse for believing in an scarlet clad elf who sacrifices himself to provide pleasure to little children when I was young. Around the age of seven or so I realized that it was all hokey, but by then I was able to comprehend the spirit behind the season.
Some of humanities rules are very simple:
1) Number one is the Golden Rule, treat others as you have would others treat you!
2) It is better to give than receive.
3) Question everything.
And another rule is: Correlation does not equate causation. The fact that someone does not "observe" something (as stated) does not imply that he "believes/does not believe" something. You might want to refer back to the subject line "What happened to political correctness??".
4) Realize rules 1 through 3 are actually for chumps, throw them out and start a large social network.
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PROFIT!!
I don't observe christmas, you insensitive clod.
Neither divali nor ramadan nor hanukkah.
I, as a lily-white non-muslim EU citizen, registered on the ESTA program still have to agree that even if they accept my application and authorize me for travel to the US, I still may be denied entry without reasons given. And even if I'm allowed, I'm still subjected to the normal security screenings (oh, I even had one of those chemical analyzers swiped over my hands at San Antonio - not that it's inconvenient or intrusive, but it seemed that the agent decided to "randomly sample" me while I was asking for information).
No, but it must be because they are muslims!
The past isn't what it used to be....
So in summary, don't bother trying to change your happiness level by psychological means. If the techniques worked then it would have an effect on one's longevity. Since it doesn't, the conclusion is that the techniques don't work.
I guess happiness is a worthy goal to strive towards quite regardless of whether it lengthens lifespan or not. A shorter but happy life seems preferable to a long and miserable one.
Of course, you could always have the ultimate short life by overdosing on happy pills. But that's just sad....
It will cost a fortune, need to recharge every hour or two, and despite its advanced navigation system, not be able to detect that an obstacle is too low to pass through underneath without getting stuck?
Oh wait, I'm thinking of that robotic vacuum thingy....
And also, my bandwidth not yours. Which is not uncapped or particularly cheap where I am at.
Actual measurements show the islands are growing not shrinking. It's all just an attempt to extort money based on lies.
So, just more run-of-the-mill politics then?
From The not-very-proFound Article:
The precise reasons that people see profundity in vague buzzwords or syntactic but completely random sentences are unknown.
I think a large reason for the phenomenon (accepting the premise of around a quarter uncritical test subjects uncritically for the sake of the argument) is for the same reason that a whole city, save one child, all said how nice the emperor's new clothes are (despite all seeing his imperial nakedness): not wanting to look foolish/out-of-fashion/contrary to society in the eyes of their peers.
In other words: I read a random phrase that is touted as being (at least mildly, score 1) profound. It contains some multi-syllable words. I don't really understand it, but I guess it must be somewhat profound - philosophy have for ages given new meanings to existing words and fixed combinations thereof (heck, the media does so every day these days), so maybe this is another example where those words mean something that I haven't encountered yet in my academically undistinguished career - so just to be safe and not the laughing stock of all those ivory tower dwellers, I give it a score of 3 or 4.
And voilà!
Thank you, excellent question!
You will notice that the third word in my post was "muslims", not "Achmed". In other words, the (specific) clock incident is only a small part of a (general) larger trend.
No, neither do western kids routinely carry around suitcases to school with countdown displays in pencil cases suggestive of hollywood bomb counters.
Can you maybe give car analogies for those?
... He guessed that the problem might take him a few weeks. Instead, it took him five years.
I've underestimated ever-so-slightly like that. Now I don't feel so bad about being dumb!
It's on-spec (he delivered the proof all right) and on-budget (not sure about academia, but he still has a paid job, doesn't he?), so it was bound to be the schedule that had to budge.... That's the problem with giving jobs like this to IT people :-)
Those people are now coming to your temperate arboreous regions.