I've read - don't know if it's true - that the most financially successful aren't the brightest, but merely above average. They feel disrespected for not getting top honors, and strive much harder for financial success. The really brilliant, however, have fun playing with their own minds, and aren't so driven for riches.
There's a pretty good correlation between people with leftist views and people believing that rich is evil and poor is honorable, in fact it's almost a definition. Leftists also tend to believe that people cannot break out of the class they're born into. In contrast, rightists tend to believe that morality only weakly agrees with the rich/poor axis, but that honorable people tend to earn riches. Rightists believe that economic classes are fluid (a view reinforced in the US by statistical studies.)
...does being smart lead to a more stressful life?
If you use your smarts to be economically successful enough that you aren't perpetually worrying about making the next payment on your car (or similar things) then intelligence lowers stress. If your intelligence make it possible to dodge widespread catastrophes, stress is lowered.. If the world doesn't seem a chaotic whirlwind devoid of purpose, it's less stressful.
On the other hand, if your intelligence allows you to see that much of the world is controlled by malicious politicians against whom no defense is possible, stress worsens.
The advantages of intelligence are substantial, in my view.
Disk space isn't necessarily the problem. If there's a change in a fundamental library, everything may have to be replaced, resulting in a substantial internet burden.
I have a friend who bought the compact edition late in the print run. He said the plates had been badly worn, resulting in much of the text being barely readable.
My favorite reference, which I see occasionally in serious books, is "Personal communication". Usually it references a letter from some named individual, but it could just as well mean "some guy I met in a bar."
It's more the improved materials and production experience than electronics that make cars more reliable today. Early electronics applications for engine control and dashboards in cars were disastrous from a reliability and maintenance standpoint. From a reliability standpoint, simplicity is good; complexity is required for improved functionality, performance, safety features, etc..
If good seatbelts are properly used there's no need for airbags, which are not cheap.
ABS systems fail and aren't cheap.
Steel belted radial tires. Are you kidding? Do you think that's the only good technology (particularly the steel part) for all tires?
Bluetooth hands free calling. This is beyond absurd. Drive your car and keep your mouth shut.
Damned statist.
Driving is a conditional right, the condition being that you prove yourself able to drive adequately and do not subsequently demonstrate yourself to be unlikely to drive adequately. Saying that it is a privilege invites demagogs to abuse your right for any fanciful notion they can invent.
Voting is a right, but 3-year-olds (and in many states felons) can't legally vote. It's not a privilege, it's a right.
Your pseudonym says it all, "erroneus". Human production is not a zero sum game; both history and theory show that in free countries those who earn riches do so by making possible better lives for others. Producing televisions does not make the lives of others worse.
Can you imagine what it would do to the planet if suddenly everyone lived, for example, 25% longer?
Please think through what you're posting. If "suddenly everyone lived 25% longer" that would mean that everyone who died recently would come back to life.
An extra 10 years gives you time to use the other anti-aging techniques that are discovered in that period. Are you going to turn down 10 years because it's not enough for you?
OK, we have three different cases here. The rapper making threats to personally aggress against others who have not attacked him. Christians saying the devil should punish gays. The celebrities saying they would shoot someone obviously about to steal from them.
Of the three, only the rapper threatens to personally initiate violence.
Pandas aren't bears either, they're more closely related to racoons. However, because they're endangered, they should be armed so that they can protect themselves.
When in US history has the government been taken over by rogue elements?
1860 in the south, 2009.
In these cases did an Armed Citizenry actually stop said rogue elements?
No and not yet, respectively.
In the numerous cases where the government has actually oppressed it's people (slavery, segregation, etc.), can you name a single instance of the armed citizenry stopping them?
Although the Whiskey Rebellion was quashed by a show of force, the events it set in motion contributed to Jefferson's election and changing the laws that brought about the rebellion.
Similar comments are applicable to the earlier Shay's Rebellion.
Rights get into the Constitution with the Bill of Rights (the first ten Amendments). Through this point, there is no mention of race, nor of sex, for that matter. There is, obviously, mention of slavery, though not in the context of rights or race.
Given the full context of the time, the issues were dealt with about as well as they could have been on a country-wide level, which is to say, hardly at all.
The bee colonies under discussion are created and maintained by human beings; they would not exist without human beings. Humans made these hives for their own advantage, i.e. greed. So you're complaining about greed damaging greed.
Go away. Come back when you're mature enough to add value to a discussion of difficult human problems.
Draining swamps is very effective to control mosquitoes along with...
In the US it's now illegal to drain swamps, because they're "wetlands" that must be preserved. Another victory for environmentalists over human beings.
This is a side issue, but calling everything that shoots BBs a BB gun is misleading. Most people will think of a spring-powered "Daisy" when they hear "BB gun", and it would be very difficult to kill a person with one of those. The gun mentioned in the article is probably a pump type "air gun" capable of shooting BBs or pellets at a much higher velocity than a spring-powered gun.
In any case, this is a case of a severe and tragic failure of parental responsibility. A parent who gives a BB gun of any type to a child should spend several hours training the child in proper gun use, emphasizing SAFETY. Things like: Use the safety but don't rely on it. Don't aim the gun at people. Don't shoot at anything where, if you miss, you don't know where the bullet goes. Don't have the gun cocked except when you're about to shoot it. Keep your finger outside the guard except when you're about to shoot. And much more.
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I've read - don't know if it's true - that the most financially successful aren't the brightest, but merely above average. They feel disrespected for not getting top honors, and strive much harder for financial success. The really brilliant, however, have fun playing with their own minds, and aren't so driven for riches.
There's a pretty good correlation between people with leftist views and people believing that rich is evil and poor is honorable, in fact it's almost a definition. Leftists also tend to believe that people cannot break out of the class they're born into. In contrast, rightists tend to believe that morality only weakly agrees with the rich/poor axis, but that honorable people tend to earn riches. Rightists believe that economic classes are fluid (a view reinforced in the US by statistical studies.)
If you use your smarts to be economically successful enough that you aren't perpetually worrying about making the next payment on your car (or similar things) then intelligence lowers stress. If your intelligence make it possible to dodge widespread catastrophes, stress is lowered.. If the world doesn't seem a chaotic whirlwind devoid of purpose, it's less stressful.
On the other hand, if your intelligence allows you to see that much of the world is controlled by malicious politicians against whom no defense is possible, stress worsens.
The advantages of intelligence are substantial, in my view.
Disk space isn't necessarily the problem. If there's a change in a fundamental library, everything may have to be replaced, resulting in a substantial internet burden.
And of course you never have two programs that require different versions of a library, which the package manager doesn't allow to coexist.
I have a friend who bought the compact edition late in the print run. He said the plates had been badly worn, resulting in much of the text being barely readable.
My favorite reference, which I see occasionally in serious books, is "Personal communication". Usually it references a letter from some named individual, but it could just as well mean "some guy I met in a bar."
Disk drives are inherently fragile. EECs should have no moving parts and can easily be made not fragile.
It's more the improved materials and production experience than electronics that make cars more reliable today. Early electronics applications for engine control and dashboards in cars were disastrous from a reliability and maintenance standpoint. From a reliability standpoint, simplicity is good; complexity is required for improved functionality, performance, safety features, etc..
Apparently the technology you are asking for, hydraulic lifters, has been abandoned in recent years.
If good seatbelts are properly used there's no need for airbags, which are not cheap.
ABS systems fail and aren't cheap.
Steel belted radial tires. Are you kidding? Do you think that's the only good technology (particularly the steel part) for all tires?
Bluetooth hands free calling. This is beyond absurd. Drive your car and keep your mouth shut.
Damned statist.
Driving is a conditional right, the condition being that you prove yourself able to drive adequately and do not subsequently demonstrate yourself to be unlikely to drive adequately. Saying that it is a privilege invites demagogs to abuse your right for any fanciful notion they can invent.
Voting is a right, but 3-year-olds (and in many states felons) can't legally vote. It's not a privilege, it's a right.
Pontiac started using HUD in 1988. Few people cared.
Your pseudonym says it all, "erroneus". Human production is not a zero sum game; both history and theory show that in free countries those who earn riches do so by making possible better lives for others. Producing televisions does not make the lives of others worse.
Please think through what you're posting. If "suddenly everyone lived 25% longer" that would mean that everyone who died recently would come back to life.
An extra 10 years gives you time to use the other anti-aging techniques that are discovered in that period. Are you going to turn down 10 years because it's not enough for you?
OK, we have three different cases here. The rapper making threats to personally aggress against others who have not attacked him. Christians saying the devil should punish gays. The celebrities saying they would shoot someone obviously about to steal from them.
Of the three, only the rapper threatens to personally initiate violence.
Most, but alas not all. 4 years ago I spoke to a gay man who had been beaten and left for dead in the gutter in Texas.
Pandas aren't bears either, they're more closely related to racoons. However, because they're endangered, they should be armed so that they can protect themselves.
1860 in the south, 2009.
No and not yet, respectively.
Although the Whiskey Rebellion was quashed by a show of force, the events it set in motion contributed to Jefferson's election and changing the laws that brought about the rebellion.
Similar comments are applicable to the earlier Shay's Rebellion.
Rights get into the Constitution with the Bill of Rights (the first ten Amendments). Through this point, there is no mention of race, nor of sex, for that matter. There is, obviously, mention of slavery, though not in the context of rights or race.
Given the full context of the time, the issues were dealt with about as well as they could have been on a country-wide level, which is to say, hardly at all.
The bee colonies under discussion are created and maintained by human beings; they would not exist without human beings. Humans made these hives for their own advantage, i.e. greed. So you're complaining about greed damaging greed.
Go away. Come back when you're mature enough to add value to a discussion of difficult human problems.
In the US it's now illegal to drain swamps, because they're "wetlands" that must be preserved. Another victory for environmentalists over human beings.
This is a side issue, but calling everything that shoots BBs a BB gun is misleading. Most people will think of a spring-powered "Daisy" when they hear "BB gun", and it would be very difficult to kill a person with one of those. The gun mentioned in the article is probably a pump type "air gun" capable of shooting BBs or pellets at a much higher velocity than a spring-powered gun.
In any case, this is a case of a severe and tragic failure of parental responsibility. A parent who gives a BB gun of any type to a child should spend several hours training the child in proper gun use, emphasizing SAFETY. Things like: Use the safety but don't rely on it. Don't aim the gun at people. Don't shoot at anything where, if you miss, you don't know where the bullet goes. Don't have the gun cocked except when you're about to shoot it. Keep your finger outside the guard except when you're about to shoot. And much more.
Prove it, in detail, or STFU.