Actually there are real problems with legalizing prostitution. One of them being that Johns are actually more wiling to seek out illegal prostitutes as they get used to the idea of prostitution being "okay".
Right, that makes sense. Lets try a Slashdot car analogy. "There are real problems with legalizing taxis. One of them being that riders will actually be more willing to seek out illegal gypsy cabs as they get used to the idea of taxi riding being 'OK'"
It's sad to see those bibendums trying to move rapidly or climb several stories via staircases.
This ban is in New York City. Assuming they're using the subway (and aside from the 1%ers down on Wall Street, who doesn't), they're almost certainly climbing several stories via staircases each day.
Oh, one thing comes to my mind: They could allow for large servings under the condition that the glass/cup will have multiple mandatory photos of repulsively obese people on it.
"Yeah, I'll have two Fat Albert's, an Alfred Hitchcock, and a William Howard Taft to go."
I know you are being sarcastic, but those aren't the intended effects. The intended effect is increased scholastic performance, and nothing more.
The personality changes are desired; the child is expected to become less of a problem. The repetitive behavior is desired; that's what schoolwork is. I might be pushing it with loss of creativity, but I suspect that helps with the schoolwork as well. And the "abnormal development of normal executive function skills" are intended as well -- although the abnormality in this case is increased, not decreased, executive function.
Except the stimulants they give kids are bad for them, personality changes, repetitive behavior, loss of creativity, abnormal development of normal executive function skills.
Not sure what you're complaining about -- all the things you list are the intended effects.
If you believe the story (and I find it eminently credible, if biased), there simply was no problem with the kid. His test scores were high, but the teachers were put off by the fact that he "didn't seem to do any work". He had teachers who "were ready to retire, a little jaded and bitter". The principal was "a woman concerned primarily with the condition of her hair and nails". One teacher "notoriously disliked boys", another "could neither teach history nor control the class". Turning to drugs to cope is just the sort of thing that an adult might do in a similar situation.
Microsoft itself has created an operating system and application platform which allows the same applications to run on a $200 throw away netbook and a $2000 workstation or a $20,000 multiprocessor array drive server. Nothing like that existed a few decades ago.
Only because the netbook didn't exist and the other two cost more.
Which is worse -- taking stimulants (e.g. Adderall) to improve academic performance, or dealing with the pressure from stereotypical Tiger Moms to improve academic performance? Maybe better living through chemistry is a viable answer.
He'd be a lot more credible if he didn't bring up the old "Y2K wasn't a problem" saw. Yeah, Y2K wasn't a disaster. That's because not only did we see it coming in time, but a lot of effort was spent fixing the problems before it was too late. I realize that it is so rare that a problem is actually anticipated and fixed before disaster happens that this seems unbelievable, but it's true.
The physical-world equivalent is claiming that there was no problem with the Citicorp Center because it's stood up to every windstorm which has hit it since it was fixed.
fMRI scanners at entrances. Even if this can be done accurately enough - these scanners require magnetic fields on the order of a Tesla or so. Standing in front of it would rip your keys out of your pocket, at best.
Metal keys are dangerous and have been banned, citizen.
Zero human contact. Your hero never speaks to another human face to face throughout his entire day. People don't want to live like this.
After the 2020 "airborne Ebola" outbreak and the 2026 "airborne AIDS" pandemic, nobody wants to be face to face with anyone else.
Commuting to the office. What is the point if you don't see anybody face to face?
Bosses are still bosses. Your cubicle may have a filtered air system the same as your home, but they think if you aren't sitting there, you're not working.
Apparently completely unfree computing. Each system the person interacts with is a walled garden. Its possible, but I would hope that the tech savvy wouldn't voluntarily submit to this.
That's what the re-education camps are for.
Water quota. Fine, this could easily happen - but only whilst there was a shortage of energy for desalination.
The rationing is for its own sake, not for any good underlying reason.
Has no Like, +1, or Want button. It does have "-1", "Dislike" and "Do Not Want". If you were to post something, it would delete your post and insult you. However, it doesn't matter because it doesn't accept registrations (either gives server down errors or captchas with symbols not in unicode), so it's all academic anyway.
You do realize that under a functional democratic government, the will of the state is approximately the same as the will of a majority of its people, right?
If so, there's rarely been a functional democratic government.
The great victory of democracy is that the state is us, not them.
That is a lie they tell you to legitimize their power.
Your post provides a good number of reasons dense living sucks. Mustn't play noisy games because it disturbs the downstairs neighbors. Mustn't use the BBQ because it deserves the upstairs neighbor. Mustn't run the laundry because it bothers everyone. How about I want a place where I can do normal things without having to worry about bothering the neighbors? A place where I can relax and not feel like I'm living in a library -- and by the same token, not have to deal with other people's noise.
Some cultures know to be polite with the understanding that someone is always within earshot -- we just don't have that sensitivity in the US yet.
Never have and never will. And shouldn't have to, when we're at home.
If you've got less work than time you're required to do it, and the company penalizes efficiency, there's a few age-old solutions.
For beginners: Hack it together in 10 minutes, screw around for 50, bill for an hour, lather, rinse, repeat, and you're a solid employee.
Advanced: The "Engineer Scott" method. Hack it together in 10 minutes, but don't tell anyone. Warn that there's almost no chance it can be done on time, or indeed that it can be done at all. Screw around for 50 minutes appearing (to the PHB) to be working. Pull it out of your ass -- you're a miracle worker.
Expert: Same as the "Engineer Scott" method, except you screw around for the first 50 minutes and hack it together in the last 10.
I didn't realise that smoking was illegal in Canada, the UK, and Sweden.
They lack the US puritan streak. It's not inevitable that a single payer would result in the Health Nazis, but it is inevitable in the US. A single payer would make it more difficult for a single busybody employer to exclude smokers on account of (or using the excuse of) health insurance costs, but it would make it much easier for those busybodies to get those restrictions made on the national level.
What's worrying is that this seems to be a mixture of busybodies AND robber barons. That is, it seems to have been done both for the "benevolence towards our employees' health" and to squeeze costs on employee health insurance at the cost of personal freedom.
I think Lewis was just a bit optimistic about the robber barons. It's pretty rare that you find a robber baron whose cupidity ever is actually satiated, and while they may not have the active approval of their conscience (assuming they have one), they aren't losing any sleep either.
When Delaware wanted to rebuilt I-95 and I-495, they didn't do the interminable orange cone thing. They closed roadways down in their entirety, rebuilt them, and reopened them. Of course, to do this, you need sufficient alternate route capacity... and to get that means building roads. Once you're near 100% utilization, repair becomes impossible without causing a disaster.
Only when cities are near each other on each side of a state border do interstate highways actually get used for interstate travel aside from long-haul freight that's more likely to go through most states than to them. We would better be served by an interstate rail network. Travelers could rent a vehicle at the other end, or they could drive small, light vehicles designed to be loaded onto trains.
The mode switch costs make these ideas non-starters. You know how when you go to the airport, you have to switch from your car to a bus from the parking lot, then wait at the ticket line, then wait at security, then wait for your flight? Then on the other end you have to debark the plane, get on a train or bus to the rental car place, then rent a car? It's a pain in the ass for a flight that's going 1000+ miles. For a shorter trip, those costs are a much higher percentage of the total.
Time is the most deadly thing in the world, and nobody protests its inexorable forward march.
Dylan Thomas did. ("Do not go gentle into that good night. / Rage, rage against the dying of the light.") He died anyway, though not of old age. Apparently he should have raged against pneumonia instead.
The problem is that health insurance is tied to the workplace. A single payer health plan would have avoided that problem.
Right, in a single payer plan, the single payer would have the direct authority to tell you that you couldn't engage in risky activities, and to punish you for doing so. And "the people" would be all for it on the grounds that it would reduce their health care tax.
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Right. They should be kept in a barrel until they're 21, protecting them from the world and the world from them.
...and I keep a client list, I will be sure to seed the client list with the names of prominent persons, such as judges, mayors, and Senators.
Right, that makes sense. Lets try a Slashdot car analogy. "There are real problems with legalizing taxis. One of them being that riders will actually be more willing to seek out illegal gypsy cabs as they get used to the idea of taxi riding being 'OK'"
This ban is in New York City. Assuming they're using the subway (and aside from the 1%ers down on Wall Street, who doesn't), they're almost certainly climbing several stories via staircases each day.
"Yeah, I'll have two Fat Albert's, an Alfred Hitchcock, and a William Howard Taft to go."
The personality changes are desired; the child is expected to become less of a problem. The repetitive behavior is desired; that's what schoolwork is. I might be pushing it with loss of creativity, but I suspect that helps with the schoolwork as well. And the "abnormal development of normal executive function skills" are intended as well -- although the abnormality in this case is increased, not decreased, executive function.
Not sure what you're complaining about -- all the things you list are the intended effects.
If you believe the story (and I find it eminently credible, if biased), there simply was no problem with the kid. His test scores were high, but the teachers were put off by the fact that he "didn't seem to do any work". He had teachers who "were ready to retire, a little jaded and bitter". The principal was "a woman concerned primarily with the condition of her hair and nails". One teacher "notoriously disliked boys", another "could neither teach history nor control the class". Turning to drugs to cope is just the sort of thing that an adult might do in a similar situation.
Only because the netbook didn't exist and the other two cost more.
Which is worse -- taking stimulants (e.g. Adderall) to improve academic performance, or dealing with the pressure from stereotypical Tiger Moms to improve academic performance? Maybe better living through chemistry is a viable answer.
He'd be a lot more credible if he didn't bring up the old "Y2K wasn't a problem" saw. Yeah, Y2K wasn't a disaster. That's because not only did we see it coming in time, but a lot of effort was spent fixing the problems before it was too late. I realize that it is so rare that a problem is actually anticipated and fixed before disaster happens that this seems unbelievable, but it's true.
The physical-world equivalent is claiming that there was no problem with the Citicorp Center because it's stood up to every windstorm which has hit it since it was fixed.
Metal keys are dangerous and have been banned, citizen.
After the 2020 "airborne Ebola" outbreak and the 2026 "airborne AIDS" pandemic, nobody wants to be face to face with anyone else.
Bosses are still bosses. Your cubicle may have a filtered air system the same as your home, but they think if you aren't sitting there, you're not working.
That's what the re-education camps are for.
The rationing is for its own sake, not for any good underlying reason.
That's not going to work so well for the business end of a radar system.
Has no Like, +1, or Want button. It does have "-1", "Dislike" and "Do Not Want". If you were to post something, it would delete your post and insult you. However, it doesn't matter because it doesn't accept registrations (either gives server down errors or captchas with symbols not in unicode), so it's all academic anyway.
If so, there's rarely been a functional democratic government.
That is a lie they tell you to legitimize their power.
Your post provides a good number of reasons dense living sucks. Mustn't play noisy games because it disturbs the downstairs neighbors. Mustn't use the BBQ because it deserves the upstairs neighbor. Mustn't run the laundry because it bothers everyone. How about I want a place where I can do normal things without having to worry about bothering the neighbors? A place where I can relax and not feel like I'm living in a library -- and by the same token, not have to deal with other people's noise.
Never have and never will. And shouldn't have to, when we're at home.
If you've got less work than time you're required to do it, and the company penalizes efficiency, there's a few age-old solutions.
For beginners: Hack it together in 10 minutes, screw around for 50, bill for an hour, lather, rinse, repeat, and you're a solid employee.
Advanced: The "Engineer Scott" method. Hack it together in 10 minutes, but don't tell anyone. Warn that there's almost no chance it can be done on time, or indeed that it can be done at all. Screw around for 50 minutes appearing (to the PHB) to be working. Pull it out of your ass -- you're a miracle worker.
Expert: Same as the "Engineer Scott" method, except you screw around for the first 50 minutes and hack it together in the last 10.
They lack the US puritan streak. It's not inevitable that a single payer would result in the Health Nazis, but it is inevitable in the US. A single payer would make it more difficult for a single busybody employer to exclude smokers on account of (or using the excuse of) health insurance costs, but it would make it much easier for those busybodies to get those restrictions made on the national level.
I think Lewis was just a bit optimistic about the robber barons. It's pretty rare that you find a robber baron whose cupidity ever is actually satiated, and while they may not have the active approval of their conscience (assuming they have one), they aren't losing any sleep either.
When Delaware wanted to rebuilt I-95 and I-495, they didn't do the interminable orange cone thing. They closed roadways down in their entirety, rebuilt them, and reopened them. Of course, to do this, you need sufficient alternate route capacity... and to get that means building roads. Once you're near 100% utilization, repair becomes impossible without causing a disaster.
The mode switch costs make these ideas non-starters. You know how when you go to the airport, you have to switch from your car to a bus from the parking lot, then wait at the ticket line, then wait at security, then wait for your flight? Then on the other end you have to debark the plane, get on a train or bus to the rental car place, then rent a car? It's a pain in the ass for a flight that's going 1000+ miles. For a shorter trip, those costs are a much higher percentage of the total.
Ha, my employer will never come for the trolls; the place would be ghost town from top to bottom.
Dylan Thomas did. ("Do not go gentle into that good night. / Rage, rage against the dying of the light.") He died anyway, though not of old age. Apparently he should have raged against pneumonia instead.
Right, in a single payer plan, the single payer would have the direct authority to tell you that you couldn't engage in risky activities, and to punish you for doing so. And "the people" would be all for it on the grounds that it would reduce their health care tax.
Hard to believe it takes so long to learn Facebook's code. I work at Google, and I learned every bit of Google's code in one day.
I don't think I'm giving away the store when I tell you the bits were '0' and '1'.