I think as most men age this happens naturally anyway as they realize just how empty shallow relationships and one night stands are, and how lonely it is when all their friends are now married and no longer good for the occasional fuck.
Seriously?
Wow...no...not at all. Most of my married friends say they live vicariously through me. They wish they had the freedom I had to come and go...spend my disposable income, and not be tied down to just any one woman with fear of penalty of losing half my shit I own.
Long term relationships with women are highly overrated. Sure some find it, and that's cool, but you can generally never trust someone that ultimately, people are people and deep down we're all genetrically programmed to look out for #1 (self) in the end.
"Shallow" relationships and one night stands are quite nice....and it is always nice to have the option of her her leave and go home from time to time.
I'm curious whether this difference is caused by by genetics.
Of course it does...it comes with having a dick and wanting to get laid.
This part of the article:
The observations suggest that male brains are structured to facilitate connectivity between perception and coordinated action...
Leads me to think this.....the male perception of wanting to get laid and seeing good looking females, that brain structure leads him to coordinated action on what he must do, how to act or what to tell the potential sex partner in order to get them to have consensual copulation with them.
Chicks wired for multi-tasking, that's good for the resulting offspring...keeping an eye on them while doing the housekeeping duties, etc.
One of the great myths of our time is that "equality" is the same as "identicality."
Trouble is...in this day in age of political correctness, it is verboten to think that you might not treat someone equally despite the two not having identical levels of talent in an area/field due to how their brains might be differently wired by nature.
Right up until you do one time lose control and crash into someone and take an innocent life.
Again...I only kick up the speed, etc...when the situation warrants that it can be done safely. Usually that means when almost no traffic around, or where plenty of room open to do things.
Not everywhere in the country has roads crowded like L.A. during rush hour.
I thought about buying one when I was car shopping last because my wife told me it was ok if I got a 2 door car since we don't have to deal with baby carriers anymore but it still needed to have a back seat. When I showed he what I wanted (mostly joking since I knew what the answer was) I got a no.
Wife told you?
Seriously?
Unless she makes most of the money in the family, why would she be telling you what car you can or cannot buy? I assume she already has her car...so, if you can afford a car YOU want for YOU primarily, then why would she be able to say no?
Grow a pair man...
:)
Remember the golden rule....he who makes the gold, gets to make the rules.
I hate the damned ABS system...I'd rather have full control of my brakes, more of a manual system of old. If I wanna lock them up, I wanna lock them up.
If it is just to have fun, and public roads are not a fun park,
I've never owned anything in my life but 2 seater sports cars (with the exception of a Porsche Turbo Carrera, which technically is a 4 seat car, but you can't truly use the rear seats for people).....and when I'm out and about and no traffic is around me, or conditions are safe enough for it, I cut loose and hit the gas, take hard corners, etc.
I have cars that are performance cars and they can handle this easily. I've driven them all my life, I know HOW to handle them too.
Unless you ban cars like this, or plan to regulate every car to have the same specs (God forbid)...people that buy higher performance cars are going to kick their heels up from time to time, that is pretty much entirely the purpose of buying such a vehicle.
have you ever heard of a little thing called a 'lawnmower'? how would you like to mow your lawn only to find poop grenades being launched all over the place, breathe in the particulates... mmmmmmm
I dunnoâ¦I pay people to mow my lawn, my time is too valuable to me to waste doing yard work...
I've always wondered why this didn't happen ages ago. On the bad side of town the only people with money have guns and rottweilers. Why on earth would they try and rob people there when they can just commute to where people actually have things to steal. As an added bonus they're all off at work during the day, so it's win win.
Couldn't afford cars to travel to the good side of town to try to commit crimes as much in the good old days.
Actually, no, VAT is collected at multiple points, by the producer/importer, the wholesaler, and the retailer. To avoid VAT avoidance.
We're talking about the US here, no such thing as a VAT.
Here each state can have its own taxes on different things...and within each state, often the city has tax laws too. They aren't uniform in one state much less the different states, so this is the problem for having an out of state entity try to figure out and collect sales tax for the multitude of tax laws across the US, it isn't really fair to put that burden on a company and would hinder them selling across state lines.
We're quite happy (so far) not to have a national sales tax, here you are a resident of your state first, THEN a resident of the US second.
Although, if they were to constitutionally ban/repeal federal income tax in trade for a federal VAT that might fly...but that wouldn't address the numerous state tax laws and needs so, it would be added onto what I'd described above.
We're set up here (originally) for most decisions and power to reside with the states, and even with the Federal govt growing in power, they still wield a good bit of independent power. The Feds for the most part on most things cannot order the States to do things directly.
People don't pick Amazon or Overstock to save on sales tax... they do it because the prices are cheaper.
Well, that statement does NOT make sense.
Total prices = Cost of Item + Shipping + Sales Tax
So, yes, not paying sales tax quite often makes the large decision in where to purchase, when total sales tax buying locally is close to 10%, that is a significant cost.
I find that the actual prices at Amazon vs most B&M places local are pretty close, but the lack of sales tax and free shipping make the choice pretty easy for me.
I don't think it will help them much. Brick and mortar still has to pay property tax, utilities, etc. They still have to finance high-value real estate. They still have to have a clean, wide-open space which is aesthetically pleasing but economically wasteful. Anyway, I'm not aware of states with 10% sales tax - usually it is about half of that, and the highest seems to be 7.5% in CA. To get to 10%, I have to scroll down the list and find the highest state taxes and combine them with the highest local taxes.
In the New Orlean area, with city, state, etc...tax is 9.x%....
Too high for my liking, hence I order everything I can online.
Except that big players like Amazon actually want online sales tax. The infrastructure to collect state and local taxes for all 50 states is beyond small retailers, thus either driving them out of business or forcing small retailers to sign up as an Amazon affiliate so they can have someone else deal with the minefield of state and local laws.
While your point is valid, I don't think that will be what helps Amazon.
I'm guessing myself, like many people put up with the 2x day delay in getting something (delayed gratification) due to not having to pay sales tax on orders from Amazon.
I save my large $$ purchase for online, if I buy something about $2K, I'd rather wait a few days for shipping and not have to pay 9% of that in taxes.
If I had to pay sales tax, I'd just as soon buy it locally for immediate gain, and all things being local (if all was taxed) I'd just as soon keep things local.
Where I live (fairly urban townhome), I have never had a package dropped off at my doorstop survive more than five minutes. If a package is delivered, because of the high traffic of people walking past, said package will be "picked up", likely on its way to a pawn shop as its next destination. It is so bad that any mailbox made out of metal will get stolen for its scrap value, so one ends up using a door slot or a plastic holder.
Sounds like you need to move to a nicer area of town, or out of town a bit...?
Yeah, I had them leave two new Nexus phones sticking out of the box by the front door. They actually do it all the time, and even left a $1500 laptop sitting there. They, UPS, and others do it all the time. The good part is that I don't know anyone who's ever had something go missing. Yay Canada. I was reading something from someone from eastern Europe who came here about the things he found the most different about this country. Where he was from this was apparently unheard of , as anything left at your door would go missing. I'm guess that in some areas here it would be the same though.
Depends on the neighborhood you live in....
However, unfortunately, even that's changing now, as that what were once safe neighborhoods...the thugs have started figuring out where they are and are now starting to case places in the good areas, at least in some cities.
The days of a "good side of town" and a "bad side of town" are changing in many areas, and not for the best.
Geez, are people really that uptight about a little dog crap on their yards????
I mean, I can understand if it is a yard where kids play football,etc...and generally everyone in the neighborhood knows which lawns those are, but for the most part, no one goes out and walks on or does things in their yards where they'd step on some dog crap.
Its just a little extra fertilizer, get over it...
First they make McDonalds quit serving the sandwiches like the Quarter Pounder in styrofoam packages (and they've never quite been the same since)...now they're bitching about plastic grocery bags?!!??
:)
But on a serious note, I tend to keep them to use to bring my lunch to work, and I use them to line my juicer to catch the pulp, and make the cleanup easier.
The only store I know of around here that even has the option for paper bags anymore, is Whole Foods. I get them, but generally end up throwing them away when I get home, and that they're bulky and take up my already limited room in the kitchen, whereas the plastic bags can easily be wadded up on a drawer.
However if the atheists are so bad please explain why you have NEVER seen the following headline:
"3 were killed and 4 were wounded when agnostics bombed the agnostics"
Because the muslims are so busy bombing everyone, that they tend to take up the majority of all the headlines. With the agnostic bombings only being about.00000000001% of the total bombings, they kinda get lost in the frey of all the muslim action out there.
Entitled? Sure, but you don't address whether they want to. Thanksgiving is generally celebrated with family centered feasting. How much of a celebration is it if you have no family to be with?
Hey...a day off is a DAY OFF!!
What do folks do on regular, non-holidays off? Even with no friends or family, you can still take the off time, maybe travel (do a long weekend like most do), or be at home with no one to bother you as you catch up on projects, or maybe play games...whatever you do for fun and relaxation.
Who would rather work than have time off for personal activities and likes???
Time off doesn't necessarily force you to celebrate or participate in a holiday, rent some movies and buy a bottle of scotch if nothing else....
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Able to cross the Rio Grande in a single stroke!!
To the broader public...they're synonyms.
Ok, who ordered refried beaners?
Still, better than rap...
Seriously?
Wow...no...not at all. Most of my married friends say they live vicariously through me. They wish they had the freedom I had to come and go...spend my disposable income, and not be tied down to just any one woman with fear of penalty of losing half my shit I own.
Long term relationships with women are highly overrated. Sure some find it, and that's cool, but you can generally never trust someone that ultimately, people are people and deep down we're all genetrically programmed to look out for #1 (self) in the end.
"Shallow" relationships and one night stands are quite nice....and it is always nice to have the option of her her leave and go home from time to time.
Of course it does...it comes with having a dick and wanting to get laid.
This part of the article:
Leads me to think this.....the male perception of wanting to get laid and seeing good looking females, that brain structure leads him to coordinated action on what he must do, how to act or what to tell the potential sex partner in order to get them to have consensual copulation with them.
Chicks wired for multi-tasking, that's good for the resulting offspring...keeping an eye on them while doing the housekeeping duties, etc.
Makes sense to me.
Trouble is...in this day in age of political correctness, it is verboten to think that you might not treat someone equally despite the two not having identical levels of talent in an area/field due to how their brains might be differently wired by nature.
Any ideas how to best do this?
Again...I only kick up the speed, etc...when the situation warrants that it can be done safely. Usually that means when almost no traffic around, or where plenty of room open to do things.
Not everywhere in the country has roads crowded like L.A. during rush hour.
Wife told you?
Seriously?
Unless she makes most of the money in the family, why would she be telling you what car you can or cannot buy? I assume she already has her car...so, if you can afford a car YOU want for YOU primarily, then why would she be able to say no?
Grow a pair man...
Remember the golden rule....he who makes the gold, gets to make the rules.
I hate the damned ABS system...I'd rather have full control of my brakes, more of a manual system of old. If I wanna lock them up, I wanna lock them up.
I've never owned anything in my life but 2 seater sports cars (with the exception of a Porsche Turbo Carrera, which technically is a 4 seat car, but you can't truly use the rear seats for people).....and when I'm out and about and no traffic is around me, or conditions are safe enough for it, I cut loose and hit the gas, take hard corners, etc.
I have cars that are performance cars and they can handle this easily. I've driven them all my life, I know HOW to handle them too.
Unless you ban cars like this, or plan to regulate every car to have the same specs (God forbid)...people that buy higher performance cars are going to kick their heels up from time to time, that is pretty much entirely the purpose of buying such a vehicle.
It is also what radar detectors are for....
Why not use fun? It is just as valid a reason for buying a car like this with and without features you wish to have.
I mean, it isn't like anyone is buying this Porsche model for their family daily driver, family truckster, pedestrian utility vehicle.
You buy this car for ONE reason....fun.
I dunnoâ¦I pay people to mow my lawn, my time is too valuable to me to waste doing yard work...
Couldn't afford cars to travel to the good side of town to try to commit crimes as much in the good old days.
We're talking about the US here, no such thing as a VAT.
Here each state can have its own taxes on different things...and within each state, often the city has tax laws too. They aren't uniform in one state much less the different states, so this is the problem for having an out of state entity try to figure out and collect sales tax for the multitude of tax laws across the US, it isn't really fair to put that burden on a company and would hinder them selling across state lines.
We're quite happy (so far) not to have a national sales tax, here you are a resident of your state first, THEN a resident of the US second.
Although, if they were to constitutionally ban/repeal federal income tax in trade for a federal VAT that might fly...but that wouldn't address the numerous state tax laws and needs so, it would be added onto what I'd described above.
We're set up here (originally) for most decisions and power to reside with the states, and even with the Federal govt growing in power, they still wield a good bit of independent power. The Feds for the most part on most things cannot order the States to do things directly.
Well, that statement does NOT make sense.
Total prices = Cost of Item + Shipping + Sales Tax
So, yes, not paying sales tax quite often makes the large decision in where to purchase, when total sales tax buying locally is close to 10%, that is a significant cost.
I find that the actual prices at Amazon vs most B&M places local are pretty close, but the lack of sales tax and free shipping make the choice pretty easy for me.
In the New Orlean area, with city, state, etc...tax is 9.x%....
Too high for my liking, hence I order everything I can online.
While your point is valid, I don't think that will be what helps Amazon.
I'm guessing myself, like many people put up with the 2x day delay in getting something (delayed gratification) due to not having to pay sales tax on orders from Amazon.
I save my large $$ purchase for online, if I buy something about $2K, I'd rather wait a few days for shipping and not have to pay 9% of that in taxes.
If I had to pay sales tax, I'd just as soon buy it locally for immediate gain, and all things being local (if all was taxed) I'd just as soon keep things local.
Sounds like you need to move to a nicer area of town, or out of town a bit...?
Depends on the neighborhood you live in....
However, unfortunately, even that's changing now, as that what were once safe neighborhoods...the thugs have started figuring out where they are and are now starting to case places in the good areas, at least in some cities.
The days of a "good side of town" and a "bad side of town" are changing in many areas, and not for the best.
I mean, I can understand if it is a yard where kids play football,etc...and generally everyone in the neighborhood knows which lawns those are, but for the most part, no one goes out and walks on or does things in their yards where they'd step on some dog crap.
Its just a little extra fertilizer, get over it...
First they make McDonalds quit serving the sandwiches like the Quarter Pounder in styrofoam packages (and they've never quite been the same since)...now they're bitching about plastic grocery bags?!!??
But on a serious note, I tend to keep them to use to bring my lunch to work, and I use them to line my juicer to catch the pulp, and make the cleanup easier.
The only store I know of around here that even has the option for paper bags anymore, is Whole Foods. I get them, but generally end up throwing them away when I get home, and that they're bulky and take up my already limited room in the kitchen, whereas the plastic bags can easily be wadded up on a drawer.
Because the muslims are so busy bombing everyone, that they tend to take up the majority of all the headlines. With the agnostic bombings only being about .00000000001% of the total bombings, they kinda get lost in the frey of all the muslim action out there.
Hey...a day off is a DAY OFF!!
What do folks do on regular, non-holidays off? Even with no friends or family, you can still take the off time, maybe travel (do a long weekend like most do), or be at home with no one to bother you as you catch up on projects, or maybe play games...whatever you do for fun and relaxation.
Who would rather work than have time off for personal activities and likes???
Time off doesn't necessarily force you to celebrate or participate in a holiday, rent some movies and buy a bottle of scotch if nothing else....