And even if you specify chicken eggs, it's *still* the egg. By the process of evolution, the first chicken would have been a mutation from parents that were almost, but not quite, chickens. The almost-but-not-quite-chicken mother would have laid an egg, out of which hatched the first chicken. So the egg came first.
Except that the egg you refer to was a "not quite chicken" egg. The first chicken egg was laid by the genetic aberration that hatched from it, aka the first chicken. Perhaps the mutation that created it was caused by environmental factors late in development, or in it's early life.
I guess my point is: this is a ridiculous argument that has no answer. Please move along, nothing to see here.
I've been 98% cashless since the early 90s and never have more than a few dollars on me at any given time.. I put everything on a credit card and write one check a month to pay for everything. And now I don't even have to write a check, I just go online and make a payment straight out of my bank account to the credit card company. And, because I pay everything off every month it costs me nothing, and, since I'm using a 'cash back' credit card, I get a check for $50 every few months. It's not much but it's free money that I didn't have before. I'm sure the credit card company hates people like me, but fuck'em.
Yes, you clearly a genius gaming the system. It's not like your credit card company is charging the merchants a percentage of the transaction, driving up the actual price you pay (next time you buy gas, ask the attendant if there is a different price if you pay cash). They also aren't tracking, logging, and selling to the highest bigger all of your purchases, purchase locations, etc. So keep cashing those $50 checks while smugly contemplating how much smarter you are than everyone else.
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And even if you specify chicken eggs, it's *still* the egg. By the process of evolution, the first chicken would have been a mutation from parents that were almost, but not quite, chickens. The almost-but-not-quite-chicken mother would have laid an egg, out of which hatched the first chicken. So the egg came first.
Except that the egg you refer to was a "not quite chicken" egg. The first chicken egg was laid by the genetic aberration that hatched from it, aka the first chicken. Perhaps the mutation that created it was caused by environmental factors late in development, or in it's early life.
I guess my point is: this is a ridiculous argument that has no answer. Please move along, nothing to see here.
I've been 98% cashless since the early 90s and never have more than a few dollars on me at any given time.. I put everything on a credit card and write one check a month to pay for everything. And now I don't even have to write a check, I just go online and make a payment straight out of my bank account to the credit card company. And, because I pay everything off every month it costs me nothing, and, since I'm using a 'cash back' credit card, I get a check for $50 every few months. It's not much but it's free money that I didn't have before. I'm sure the credit card company hates people like me, but fuck'em.
Yes, you clearly a genius gaming the system. It's not like your credit card company is charging the merchants a percentage of the transaction, driving up the actual price you pay (next time you buy gas, ask the attendant if there is a different price if you pay cash). They also aren't tracking, logging, and selling to the highest bigger all of your purchases, purchase locations, etc. So keep cashing those $50 checks while smugly contemplating how much smarter you are than everyone else.