Your argument reminds me of the joke about the economist in the plane.
An economist is in a plane high above the pacific when the engines explode and it begins to plummet into the ocean. Everyone starts screaming and running around the aircraft in a panic. But not the economist, he just sits there calmly, watching the water grow bigger in his window.
After a few seconds one of the stewardesses notices and asks him.
"Aren't you afraid?"
"Of course not," he replies. "I'll survive."
"Really," the young woman says. "How?"
"Well," the old sage answers. "The demand for parachutes has just jumped. All I have to do is wait for some entrepreneur to open up a parachute shop and we'll all be saved."
Too late. Lex corp are already building the condos and retirement homes.
On another note I never understood that movie. Lex's business plan seemed to be to kill all the people who would be interested in buying beach front property.
So you're planning on living in a bubble? No? Living in your casino's hotel room with Kleenex boxes on your feet? No? then just how do you plan on avoiding the flu?
In an ideal world your advice would work, but we don't live in an ideal world. People forget to wash their hands, or don't do it properly. They pick their noses cause it's fun. They'll paw your keyboard and mice because they just want to check their facebook and don't feel like tromping five feet to their own machine.
Stop pair programming? Huh, yeah sure you're PHB isn't going to tell you to man up and get on with it, is he now? Some magazine told him that it would increase productivity. If it's the choice between your sniffles and productivity, well you're gonna be sneezing a lot.
Keep sick people at home. That's a fantastic idea. You absolutely have my 150% unqualified support. Unfortunately sick people are still going to show up for work. It could be because they don't get sick leave. Or they don't think their flu is that bad. Or they've blown all their sick leave on guild raids. Or they're suffering under some messed up Calvinist work ethic that would drag their corpse into work if they could figure out some way of getting their dead limbs to work.
As for the rest of your anti-vac rant; where's your f@$#ing evidence? I'm sick of anti-vac propaganda that pulls suspicions and hysteria from its' arse and expects me to swallow it without thinking.
I'll be sticking to my annual flu shots thank you very much. And you can keep your vunerable immune system in your damn biohazard suit.
The real tragedy is that most of these fossils probably came from private digs. Like archeology, paleontology relies on context. The location where it was found, it's position in the geological strata, other fossils found with it. All these factors can enrich our understanding of these species.
All that information has been lost forever now. Just so some sad sack can own a little piece of eternity.
I would also point out that a person can still die if they're shot in the leg/arm/hand. All you need to do is hit a major artery/vein and they'll bleed out before the amublance arrives.
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Fucking philosophy majors.
But it can also take you anywhere in the universe. Personally I think they're getting their value for money.
Your argument reminds me of the joke about the economist in the plane.
An economist is in a plane high above the pacific when the engines explode and it begins to plummet into the ocean. Everyone starts screaming and running around the aircraft in a panic. But not the economist, he just sits there calmly, watching the water grow bigger in his window.
After a few seconds one of the stewardesses notices and asks him.
"Aren't you afraid?"
"Of course not," he replies. "I'll survive."
"Really," the young woman says. "How?"
"Well," the old sage answers. "The demand for parachutes has just jumped. All I have to do is wait for some entrepreneur to open up a parachute shop and we'll all be saved."
Given the millennial sentiments in the States, you'd think they'd welcome Obama as the first step towards the rapture.
That's why I'm investing in gold pressed latinum
damn I wish I had mod points
Too late. Lex corp are already building the condos and retirement homes.
On another note I never understood that movie. Lex's business plan seemed to be to kill all the people who would be interested in buying beach front property.
Why the fuck is this marked insightful? Don't you kids read comics anymore?
And another thing get the hell off my lawn.
Bah the chances of that happening are a million to one. Or so he said.
The last thing I want to see why I'm playing a FPS is buffering.... 32%
Ex-TeR-MiN-AtE! Ex-TeR-MiN-AtE!
So you're planning on living in a bubble? No? Living in your casino's hotel room with Kleenex boxes on your feet? No? then just how do you plan on avoiding the flu?
In an ideal world your advice would work, but we don't live in an ideal world. People forget to wash their hands, or don't do it properly. They pick their noses cause it's fun. They'll paw your keyboard and mice because they just want to check their facebook and don't feel like tromping five feet to their own machine.
Stop pair programming? Huh, yeah sure you're PHB isn't going to tell you to man up and get on with it, is he now? Some magazine told him that it would increase productivity. If it's the choice between your sniffles and productivity, well you're gonna be sneezing a lot.
Keep sick people at home. That's a fantastic idea. You absolutely have my 150% unqualified support. Unfortunately sick people are still going to show up for work. It could be because they don't get sick leave. Or they don't think their flu is that bad. Or they've blown all their sick leave on guild raids. Or they're suffering under some messed up Calvinist work ethic that would drag their corpse into work if they could figure out some way of getting their dead limbs to work.
As for the rest of your anti-vac rant; where's your f@$#ing evidence? I'm sick of anti-vac propaganda that pulls suspicions and hysteria from its' arse and expects me to swallow it without thinking.
I'll be sticking to my annual flu shots thank you very much. And you can keep your vunerable immune system in your damn biohazard suit.
Now with 50% more irony.
The real tragedy is that most of these fossils probably came from private digs. Like archeology, paleontology relies on context. The location where it was found, it's position in the geological strata, other fossils found with it. All these factors can enrich our understanding of these species.
All that information has been lost forever now. Just so some sad sack can own a little piece of eternity.
I would also point out that a person can still die if they're shot in the leg/arm/hand. All you need to do is hit a major artery/vein and they'll bleed out before the amublance arrives.
Keep away from her you bitch!
Nice planet you've got here.....
Be a shame if something happened to it.
The other downside being all the fighter jets that keep crashing into the wind turbines they built on the flight deck.
Not the civilization per se. Just the infant son of the leading scientist who tried to warn them of the impact.
My calculation predict that he'll land somewhere in Kansas.
Forget the shovel I want a cricket bat
Also it's just a pogo stick with wheels.
You appear to be trying to exterminate the human race. Would you like to:
Launch all missile at Russia, starting a nuclear war
Build the ultimate killing machine with a speech impediment.
like long walks on the beach
For the vast majority on dating sites this would only be true if there was sand between their couch and the fridge.
The flaw in arranged marriages is that your life partner is someone whom your parents think will be good for you.
Maybe it wasn't radiation that killed off all those critters. Maybe the stars were just right.