Legal liquor stores might not sell to minors much, but illegal liquor is a huge market. Moonshine is still (no pun intended) a problem worthy of ATF concern.
Me: "Different people like different goofy shit. You like to shop and not always buy just to see what it might look like on you. I like MyGoofyShit because I like MyGoofyShit."
I've spent about half my life studying judo. Try telling a Japanese judoka it's good enough just to try really hard.
"It's OK Yoko, that Korean/American/Russian was just better than you."
There can be only one winner in a division and trying hard ain't good enough.
While in horrible not-yet-fully-socialized-medicine America, you can get an MRI quite cheaply, sometimes located in shopping centers.
http://www.mricenters.com/
I worked at a pacemaker company for a while as a consultant. No way in hell are they going to let you dink with the software.
Letting me see it as a programmer would be interesting perhaps, but modifiable? Again, no way in hell.
Everyone who gets an implantable cardiac device is by definition trying to die, and likely will from the problem that indicated an implant in the first place.
The potential company liabilities are profound to say the least. Particularly with the sorry state of tort liability in the US.
I worked for the worlds largest manufacturer for a few years. Insurance of course distorts markets, but another reason is the high return rate, around 25 percent. Many people with hearing loss put one in and just don't like the world sounds.
There are a lot of reasons for hearing loss and amplification, even with sophisticated processing, doesn't always sound "right" enough to the patient.
I know a number of white people who voted for Obama because he's black. That's racist as well. Didn't vote for him because of his Senate voting record, etc. Voted for him because he's black.
... is fly this thing around, meaning above, a dog kennel. Every dog who has terrorized a cat will panic big time. The rest will go nuts trying to leap up high enough to get the damn flying kittie.
The real problem is large corporations supported by/supporting government. Without access to the government use of violent coercion, corporations are far less dangerous to the rest of us.
True corporate tyranny is really only possible because of state tyranny.
These are not binary option paths:
-I had unprotected sex, I should go get a clothes hanger stuck in me in some back alley, and die of an infection if it doesn't work
How about raising the child even if it's "inconvienient". How about all the wealthy pro choice people donate some money to pay for someone else's careless sex?
-I had kids I can't support, they should be forced to live a life of squalor and misery for my mistake
Perhaps, or like zillions of people before you, work harder, do better, put up for adoption unwanted spawn.
-I'm an addict, I should continue to spiral downwards until I die in the streets
I got off drugs without state funded treatment, perhaps you can too. Life is hard sometime. Grow up.
-I made shitty choices and now I'm poor, I should be forced to turn to crime to avoid starvation
Most poor people don't turn to crime, why should you?
-I have a $25,000/year job but can't afford my mortgage, the government should watch the entire economy go down in flames rather than help me out
Perhaps the entire world won't collapse if you have to deal with your mistake? Most people haven’t lost their homes. When the avg price of a home goes down, my house is worth less, but now maybe my children will be able to buy a house. Things tend to balance out.
-I'm a bank and I've made a catastrophic series of worthless investment, the government should stand aside while others suffer horribly for my actions. Meanwhile I'll retire in luxury, since I've already collected millions in bonuses.
Who suffers? Money going to fat cat administration donors don’t stop foreclosures.
The government's job is to promote the common good. That sometimes means helping people who've made mistakes. You seem to be more interested in making people suffer for them. I wonder if your tune would change if you or someone you cared about ever slipped up. But no, that would never happen. You don't make mistakes. You're a god.
Why is the government’s job to help people who make mistakes? People often need help, but vast bureaucracies are the worst way to help individuals. Common laws, yes. Redistributing “wealth” to individuals, no!!
What perversion has taken hold that the state is the sole supplier of benefice?
Perhaps you can recall for us all the times really expensive, risky explorations were done for pure altruism? Even the old polar and mountain expeditions were done for glory of person/country. Columbus, et al, were certainly "for profit".
It ain't sad or even completely true. SpaceX is doing something cool and I hope they do make a fortune.
Perhaps you don't mean it this way, but it reminds me of the abhorrent use of the word austerity these days, i.e., all good and beneficence come from the state. If the state cuts back on stuff it give us, we are experiencing "austerity". True austerity can be caused by the state TAKING too much stuff from us! Notice I said too much not some anarchist fantasy of no state at all.
My family was driving through Florida in the 60s and we stopped at some wretched “jungle zoo” by the side of the road. I ran ahead of the rest looking at the really sad caged animals and saw the chimp cage. It had ragged poly sheets hanging in front with big holes and tears in them with a chimp sitting quietly. As soon as I got close enough, the chimp sprayed me with a most foul mouthful of something bad and jumped down to a bucketful of nasty and sucked up another huge mouthful.
I wasn’t the brightest bulb on the tree but even I knew to run like hell. This happened in full view of my family who promptly collapsed in hysterical laughter. The chimp knew exactly what it was doing and planned accordingly.
Quite possibly. I have a number of doctor friends and they'll say straight out that there is LOT of medical information they simply parrot because it's "common knowledge". They are honest enough to say that when they are asked about something outside their specialties. Being a doctor even in a large orginazation doesn't make then right.
I've broken a windshield without really trying. I was making an emphatic point one time (as a passenger) and the windshield cracked big time. It didn't shatter and blow out all over the road, but had to be replaced right away.
I have no doubt at all that most guys could easily smash through a windshield to get out of a car in an emergency.
Wrong. A quick look at this guy’s advice is spot on with the established science. A friend of mine is a respected food scientist, lectures around the world, and researcher at a large university. He told me years ago that the "nutritionists" pay no attention whatsoever to the actual science. They "know" what's right, they don't need no steenken research!
I started eating a high fat, low starchy carb diet two years ago and I’m MUCH healthier by all measurements. Lost 50 lbs, went from lipid panels that indicated imminent heart attack, high blood sugar, low sex drive to a complete reversal. Super good lipid panels, vastly improved athletic performance (I’m a judo instructor with many year of consistent experience for comparison), testosterone levels back in the normal range for my age (58), way improved A1C tests.
The ADA and “conventional wisdom” are wrong,wrong, worng about diet and health.
Ultimately everything can be framed as a health issue. Diet, vax, exercise, air quality and that ignores mental health. Violent games? Not enough prayer? Reading the wrong books? "Bad" music?
A country where people can and will sometimes do stupid things to themselves and others has its problems but is preferable to me to a totalitarian state.
Considering the size of the American diet industry, (and the size of Americans) one would have to conclude one or more of the following:
Diets promote weight gain - So true!
Nobody who needs to go on a diet actually does - Disagree. Zillions of people are desperately trying to lose weight all the time. Many, many miserable people out there.
The diet industry is run by a bunch of con artists - Or at least ignorant people
The diet industry is in cahoots with the food industry to produce an ever hungry, yet ever overweight cash cow - Maybe
Nobody in the industry understands what a diet really is - The sad part is that they probably do understand or at least have access to the science and they ignore it. It ain't a secret.
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http://gardenandgun.com/article/moonshine/page/0/1
The concern is taxes. If there is money to be made circumventing the IRS, there will be an illegal drug trade. Period.
Anything else is mere justification.
I've spent about half my life studying judo. Try telling a Japanese judoka it's good enough just to try really hard. "It's OK Yoko, that Korean/American/Russian was just better than you." There can be only one winner in a division and trying hard ain't good enough.
While in horrible not-yet-fully-socialized-medicine America, you can get an MRI quite cheaply, sometimes located in shopping centers. http://www.mricenters.com/
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x110608
each following administration will keep and the build on it to further the totalitarian state they both want.
Letting me see it as a programmer would be interesting perhaps, but modifiable? Again, no way in hell.
Everyone who gets an implantable cardiac device is by definition trying to die, and likely will from the problem that indicated an implant in the first place.
The potential company liabilities are profound to say the least. Particularly with the sorry state of tort liability in the US.
By most historic definitions, capitalism came after feudalism
By *Marxist* definitions, capitalism came after feudalism...
FITY
I worked for the worlds largest manufacturer for a few years. Insurance of course distorts markets, but another reason is the high return rate, around 25 percent. Many people with hearing loss put one in and just don't like the world sounds. There are a lot of reasons for hearing loss and amplification, even with sophisticated processing, doesn't always sound "right" enough to the patient.
I know a number of white people who voted for Obama because he's black. That's racist as well. Didn't vote for him because of his Senate voting record, etc. Voted for him because he's black.
http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2011/06/bastards-want-to-track-our-gold.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102
By the way, all you "tax the internet vendors for fairness" people are all wrong.
For fairness, get rid of local sales taxes to help the brick and mortar guys and the rest of us. Quit looking for ways to jack up taxes.
Lordy! WTF South Korea?
... is fly this thing around, meaning above, a dog kennel. Every dog who has terrorized a cat will panic big time. The rest will go nuts trying to leap up high enough to get the damn flying kittie.
True corporate tyranny is really only possible because of state tyranny.
Who suffers? Money going to fat cat administration donors don’t stop foreclosures.
The government's job is to promote the common good. That sometimes means helping people who've made mistakes. You seem to be more interested in making people suffer for them. I wonder if your tune would change if you or someone you cared about ever slipped up. But no, that would never happen. You don't make mistakes. You're a god.
Why is the government’s job to help people who make mistakes? People often need help, but vast bureaucracies are the worst way to help individuals. Common laws, yes. Redistributing “wealth” to individuals, no!! What perversion has taken hold that the state is the sole supplier of benefice?
The rock and roll generation are *ruining* the country now.
Check out the deficit some time.
It ain't sad or even completely true. SpaceX is doing something cool and I hope they do make a fortune.
Perhaps you don't mean it this way, but it reminds me of the abhorrent use of the word austerity these days, i.e., all good and beneficence come from the state. If the state cuts back on stuff it give us, we are experiencing "austerity". True austerity can be caused by the state TAKING too much stuff from us! Notice I said too much not some anarchist fantasy of no state at all.
My family was driving through Florida in the 60s and we stopped at some wretched “jungle zoo” by the side of the road. I ran ahead of the rest looking at the really sad caged animals and saw the chimp cage. It had ragged poly sheets hanging in front with big holes and tears in them with a chimp sitting quietly. As soon as I got close enough, the chimp sprayed me with a most foul mouthful of something bad and jumped down to a bucketful of nasty and sucked up another huge mouthful.
I wasn’t the brightest bulb on the tree but even I knew to run like hell. This happened in full view of my family who promptly collapsed in hysterical laughter. The chimp knew exactly what it was doing and planned accordingly.
Quite possibly. I have a number of doctor friends and they'll say straight out that there is LOT of medical information they simply parrot because it's "common knowledge". They are honest enough to say that when they are asked about something outside their specialties. Being a doctor even in a large orginazation doesn't make then right.
http://wou.edu/las/physci/taylor/g407/kondolf_97.pdf
"Oh, but that was during a war".
Hint -We are in an unending war on (the behalf) of terror.
I have no doubt at all that most guys could easily smash through a windshield to get out of a car in an emergency.
I started eating a high fat, low starchy carb diet two years ago and I’m MUCH healthier by all measurements. Lost 50 lbs, went from lipid panels that indicated imminent heart attack, high blood sugar, low sex drive to a complete reversal. Super good lipid panels, vastly improved athletic performance (I’m a judo instructor with many year of consistent experience for comparison), testosterone levels back in the normal range for my age (58), way improved A1C tests.
The ADA and “conventional wisdom” are wrong,wrong, worng about diet and health.
A country where people can and will sometimes do stupid things to themselves and others has its problems but is preferable to me to a totalitarian state.
Considering the size of the American diet industry, (and the size of Americans) one would have to conclude one or more of the following: