A. Putting a parachute on takes enough time that if you aren't wearing it, it's not going to help you in anything but the most unlikely circumstances.
Bullshit, its a backpack, possibly with a waiststrap
B. I'm sure you've noticed those little masks that drop from the ceiling in "the event of sudden air pressure loss". Those are needed because most commercial flights operate high enough that there so little oxygen (or air pressure) outside you'd be unconscious in a matter of seconds without supplimental oxygen.
but if its falling from the sky, surely it will reach a height where the pressure is ok and you can jump - say 20K-10K feet?
C. Unlike exploding cars, those action movies where the hero opens the hatch on a plane and everything suddenly gets sucked out aren't that far off from the truth. Overpressure in the cabin means even at low altitude, opening that hatch is likely to get a lot of people hurt.
Yeh and that crashing into the ground and turning into a massive fireball hurts a lot of people too
D. Actually, parachutes require a lot of training to use properly. Even if you got one on, and the plane was low enough to jump, and you didn't get screwed over when the door opened and suddenly everyone is in a pile in the aisle, you still have a really low chance of actually surviving the fall.
see above
I understand all of these argument, but I still think that people who hold these views would think differently if they were in a plane that was falling from the sky with no hope of recovery...
I dont know - if we are plunging to an almost certain death from a good enough height, I will take my chances with the queue and a parachute. I have a parachute in my hang glider harness and it would fit in an average size handbag and that enough to stop, me, the harness and the hang glider and costs about US $600. Surely we could fit these under the seats.
If we had the option of 'life vest' seats and 'parachute' seats I know which one I would be taking.
Raising children still generally falls on the woman's shoulders
A lot depends on how you want to define raising children. This model seems to overlook the substanial responsibility of the man to pay for the food, shelter and security of said mother and children. Also take into account the need to do this for at least 20 years. The opportunity cost for the man to have to be responsible finacnially all this time is also hefty.
I would prefer cooking meals and changing diapers over 20 years of financial responsibility for 3 plus people for at least 20 years...
I honestly thought you were completely taking the piss and the humour was in a fake wiki article... but no! Genuine article about why we feed cattle magnets so that metal bits don't go through their guts! My interesting tidbit for the day, plus its the 2nd time in a month I had a valid reason to read about a bezoar. Thanks!
No I am a pretty avid cyclist myself and you tend to watch out for idiots that dont look when they cross onto the road. I find that riding my bike I just expect that everyone is going to do the 'idiot' move and its pretty safe. Blindly crossing the road isn't something I do as a matter of course, but I have caught myself once or twice. I imagine that if we get more and more silent cars on the road that the transition period could be a little dangerous.
I can understand the issue about an expensive battery, but a propane tank? We have them in Australia and I still can't convince my mum to 'swap-n-go' (as its called here). You are getting a tank that is at least as good as your old one - and look at it this way - it doesn't age, in 10 years time you will still be getting replacements that are new bottles. By hoarding your 'own' and waiting for refilling each time your bottle ages and becomes worthless.
In AU the bottles are taken away by a separate company who is in charge of the supply of quality filled bottles that you pick up. The same can be done for batteries - if they gaurantee that the battery you pick up is at least X% (e.g. 60) good, what does it matter? If you get one that is 61%, you will be swapping it next week for one that could be 99%.
Who cares what sound it makes when I'm already going 60 a mere three to four seconds later?
The person who bounces off the roof of your car because they couldn't hear it coming? In all seriouslness though I sometimes find that I have crossed (usually not so busy) at least onto roads using my hearing instead of my sight.
The same way we move through our world and look at plants as a pretty dumb life form that doesn't exist on our level... these AI's that feed on electricity and information will look at us closeted humans with our little 'brains' (I'm sure a quaint thought for them) that exist in a particular atmosphere and think 'oh isnt that nice, we sorta came from there a long time ago...'
I was talking to someone last weekend who writes the manuals for the massive industrial machines they use to create chips and I found it interesting that pringles are made up out of the crumbs that fall from the other chips when they are being made...
I hate to say this - but thats only modern (developed country) warfare where it would be cheaper, and need no training. I'm sure through many a war in our inglorious past we have sent many, many men to die very cheaply with very little training...
Priest: I'm sick of this. I don't give a damn who it is but I'm gonna marry somebody today. (to Barf) Who are you?
Barf: I'm the best man.
Priest: What's your name?
Barf: Barf.
Priest: Your full name.
Barf: Barfolomew.
We have a DVD player at home that we cant use because of no remote... the play button doesnt function as a menu button so the DVD just stalls at the menu... sigh... interface people, interface!
I still, still, _still_ don't understand why cordless phones have had beepers so that you can find them, but appliances such as TVs and DVD players do not! You should be able to go to your TV, press a button and the remote beeps... I just cant fathom why this ISNT standard...
2nd peeve was my old samsung phones predictive text, if you didnt reselect the word straight after you typed it you couldn't reselect it later... I'm never, ever getting another samsung... to many painful memories of a very poor interface...
I am not an American, and am actually quite happy with the reduced number of guns on the streets due to Australian gun control laws (yes of course the real baddies can still get them but i'm quite sure a number of the try hard wannabies cant get them so easily because of the laws). Anyways... what I don't get is when Americans always bring this 'national failsafe' arguement for gun control. You have a meglomaniac president who, it could be proven STOLE the election and has gone on to killing thousands of Americans and non Americans, for blatant lies and deceit and yet you do nothing?? Just what sort of thing is required for this failsafe to be put to the test?
I can't imagine what more reason you would need to put this to the test, which if you did, would do nothing... the American public could never have a 'revolution', so therfore the argument that you needs guns 'just in case' doesn't stand up...
Hey I can dig that cows might and possibly do ponder they greater meaning of this ride on the big green ball. But in defense of my propensity towards a nice steak a few points:
A) If we didn't herd and protect cattle, wouldn't they be quite an easy prey in the wild and quite easily extinct?
and
B) I can't say I've seen every single dairy and cattle farm in Australia, but at the ones I have seen, the cows seem pretty happy to me. I think there are still some inhumane execution methods out there, but as far as lifestyle goes, all of the cattle I've seen in Australia seem to have a big paddock to run around in and shade from trees and protection from predators...
This little boy goes up to his dad and he says "Dad?, What's the difference between Potentially and Realistically?"
To which the father replies "Well son, go ask your mother if she would sleep with Robert Redford for a million dollars. Then you ask your sister if she would sleep with Brad Pitt for a million dollars. Then you ask your brother if he would sleep with Tom Cruise for a million dollars."
So the boy goes up to his mom and asks her if she would sleep with Robert Redford for a million dollars and the mother replies "Oh my god, of course I would, he is so good looking!" So the boy moves on and asks his sister if she would sleep with Brad Pitt for a million dollars, and she replies "He is so fucking fine, of course I would!" Then last but no least he goes up to his brother and asks him if he would sleep with Tom Cruise for a million dollars, his brother says "Of course I would, who wouldn't for a million bucks?"
So he goes up to his dad and says "I think I learned the difference between potentially and realistically" "Well what's the difference?" says the father. "Well, potentially we're sitting on 3 million dollars, realistically we're living with 2 sluts and a fag!"
01) Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.
02) Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.
03) Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.
04) Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn't changed at all; women are still property, blacks still can't marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.
05) Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of Britany Spears' 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.
06) Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn't be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren't full yet, and the world needs more children.
07) Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.
08) Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That's why we have only one religion in America.
09) Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That's why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.
10) Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven't adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans.
Re-post this if you believe love makes a marriage.
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A. Putting a parachute on takes enough time that if you aren't wearing it, it's not going to help you in anything but the most unlikely circumstances.
Bullshit, its a backpack, possibly with a waiststrap
B. I'm sure you've noticed those little masks that drop from the ceiling in "the event of sudden air pressure loss". Those are needed because most commercial flights operate high enough that there so little oxygen (or air pressure) outside you'd be unconscious in a matter of seconds without supplimental oxygen.
but if its falling from the sky, surely it will reach a height where the pressure is ok and you can jump - say 20K-10K feet?
C. Unlike exploding cars, those action movies where the hero opens the hatch on a plane and everything suddenly gets sucked out aren't that far off from the truth. Overpressure in the cabin means even at low altitude, opening that hatch is likely to get a lot of people hurt.
Yeh and that crashing into the ground and turning into a massive fireball hurts a lot of people too
D. Actually, parachutes require a lot of training to use properly. Even if you got one on, and the plane was low enough to jump, and you didn't get screwed over when the door opened and suddenly everyone is in a pile in the aisle, you still have a really low chance of actually surviving the fall.
see above
I understand all of these argument, but I still think that people who hold these views would think differently if they were in a plane that was falling from the sky with no hope of recovery...
I dont know - if we are plunging to an almost certain death from a good enough height, I will take my chances with the queue and a parachute. I have a parachute in my hang glider harness and it would fit in an average size handbag and that enough to stop, me, the harness and the hang glider and costs about US $600. Surely we could fit these under the seats. If we had the option of 'life vest' seats and 'parachute' seats I know which one I would be taking.
Raising children still generally falls on the woman's shoulders
A lot depends on how you want to define raising children. This model seems to overlook the substanial responsibility of the man to pay for the food, shelter and security of said mother and children. Also take into account the need to do this for at least 20 years. The opportunity cost for the man to have to be responsible finacnially all this time is also hefty. I would prefer cooking meals and changing diapers over 20 years of financial responsibility for 3 plus people for at least 20 years...
Yeh but (at least in Australia) even if they walk you on the day, you still get paid for the amount of time that you were meant to have to given.
burma shave
Is it really that cheap in the US? Here in AU its still around $4K per eye I believe...
Bit of a coincidence that this comes about just after he started and funded http://www.bailoutsleuth.com/ even though it was four years ago...
I honestly thought you were completely taking the piss and the humour was in a fake wiki article... but no! Genuine article about why we feed cattle magnets so that metal bits don't go through their guts! My interesting tidbit for the day, plus its the 2nd time in a month I had a valid reason to read about a bezoar. Thanks!
No I am a pretty avid cyclist myself and you tend to watch out for idiots that dont look when they cross onto the road. I find that riding my bike I just expect that everyone is going to do the 'idiot' move and its pretty safe. Blindly crossing the road isn't something I do as a matter of course, but I have caught myself once or twice. I imagine that if we get more and more silent cars on the road that the transition period could be a little dangerous.
I can understand the issue about an expensive battery, but a propane tank? We have them in Australia and I still can't convince my mum to 'swap-n-go' (as its called here). You are getting a tank that is at least as good as your old one - and look at it this way - it doesn't age, in 10 years time you will still be getting replacements that are new bottles. By hoarding your 'own' and waiting for refilling each time your bottle ages and becomes worthless.
In AU the bottles are taken away by a separate company who is in charge of the supply of quality filled bottles that you pick up. The same can be done for batteries - if they gaurantee that the battery you pick up is at least X% (e.g. 60) good, what does it matter? If you get one that is 61%, you will be swapping it next week for one that could be 99%.
Who cares what sound it makes when I'm already going 60 a mere three to four seconds later?
The person who bounces off the roof of your car because they couldn't hear it coming? In all seriouslness though I sometimes find that I have crossed (usually not so busy) at least onto roads using my hearing instead of my sight.
makes me wonder why they dont 'ship' it that way by default...
The same way we move through our world and look at plants as a pretty dumb life form that doesn't exist on our level... these AI's that feed on electricity and information will look at us closeted humans with our little 'brains' (I'm sure a quaint thought for them) that exist in a particular atmosphere and think 'oh isnt that nice, we sorta came from there a long time ago...'
I was talking to someone last weekend who writes the manuals for the massive industrial machines they use to create chips and I found it interesting that pringles are made up out of the crumbs that fall from the other chips when they are being made...
http://www.businesspundit.com/sub-prime/
I hate to say this - but thats only modern (developed country) warfare where it would be cheaper, and need no training. I'm sure through many a war in our inglorious past we have sent many, many men to die very cheaply with very little training...
Priest: I'm sick of this. I don't give a damn who it is but I'm gonna marry somebody today. (to Barf) Who are you?
Barf: I'm the best man.
Priest: What's your name?
Barf: Barf.
Priest: Your full name.
Barf: Barfolomew.
We have a DVD player at home that we cant use because of no remote... the play button doesnt function as a menu button so the DVD just stalls at the menu... sigh... interface people, interface!
I still, still, _still_ don't understand why cordless phones have had beepers so that you can find them, but appliances such as TVs and DVD players do not! You should be able to go to your TV, press a button and the remote beeps... I just cant fathom why this ISNT standard... 2nd peeve was my old samsung phones predictive text, if you didnt reselect the word straight after you typed it you couldn't reselect it later... I'm never, ever getting another samsung... to many painful memories of a very poor interface...
I am not an American, and am actually quite happy with the reduced number of guns on the streets due to Australian gun control laws (yes of course the real baddies can still get them but i'm quite sure a number of the try hard wannabies cant get them so easily because of the laws). Anyways... what I don't get is when Americans always bring this 'national failsafe' arguement for gun control. You have a meglomaniac president who, it could be proven STOLE the election and has gone on to killing thousands of Americans and non Americans, for blatant lies and deceit and yet you do nothing?? Just what sort of thing is required for this failsafe to be put to the test?
I can't imagine what more reason you would need to put this to the test, which if you did, would do nothing... the American public could never have a 'revolution', so therfore the argument that you needs guns 'just in case' doesn't stand up...
You've convinced me... If I were one of your friends I would take out insurance too! ;)
Hey I can dig that cows might and possibly do ponder they greater meaning of this ride on the big green ball. But in defense of my propensity towards a nice steak a few points: A) If we didn't herd and protect cattle, wouldn't they be quite an easy prey in the wild and quite easily extinct? and B) I can't say I've seen every single dairy and cattle farm in Australia, but at the ones I have seen, the cows seem pretty happy to me. I think there are still some inhumane execution methods out there, but as far as lifestyle goes, all of the cattle I've seen in Australia seem to have a big paddock to run around in and shade from trees and protection from predators...
This little boy goes up to his dad and he says "Dad?, What's the difference between Potentially and Realistically?" To which the father replies "Well son, go ask your mother if she would sleep with Robert Redford for a million dollars. Then you ask your sister if she would sleep with Brad Pitt for a million dollars. Then you ask your brother if he would sleep with Tom Cruise for a million dollars." So the boy goes up to his mom and asks her if she would sleep with Robert Redford for a million dollars and the mother replies "Oh my god, of course I would, he is so good looking!" So the boy moves on and asks his sister if she would sleep with Brad Pitt for a million dollars, and she replies "He is so fucking fine, of course I would!" Then last but no least he goes up to his brother and asks him if he would sleep with Tom Cruise for a million dollars, his brother says "Of course I would, who wouldn't for a million bucks?" So he goes up to his dad and says "I think I learned the difference between potentially and realistically" "Well what's the difference?" says the father. "Well, potentially we're sitting on 3 million dollars, realistically we're living with 2 sluts and a fag!"
Our team at work is called the EFTPOS team: Every Fucking Thing Plus Other Shit
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10 Reasons Why Gay Marriage is Wrong
01) Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.
02) Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.
03) Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.
04) Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn't changed at all; women are still property, blacks still can't marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.
05) Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of Britany Spears' 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.
06) Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn't be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren't full yet, and the world needs more children.
07) Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.
08) Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That's why we have only one religion in America.
09) Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That's why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.
10) Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven't adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans.
Re-post this if you believe love makes a marriage.