In other words, driving unsafely because of desire to get somewhere in a hurry demonstrates failure to act in one's own self interest. It is not a rational activity, but an emotional one.
Most people drive stupid, on autopilot. I'll drive at a speed that keeps me fromstopping at red lights, which is usually about 5mph under the speed limit, depending on the street. The light turns red a quarter mile ahead and I take my foot off the gas, and everyone races each other to see who can get to the red light first so they can sit there burning expensive gasoline at zero mpg. It turns green and I coast right past them, only to have them zoom past me to wait at the next light.
People are not rational. I'll have passengers who say "aren't you going a little slow?" and I'll anser "You're in a hurry to get to that red light?"
I've been to MySpace more in the last week than G+. Actually it's been a while since I went to G+, although I may use it for video conferencing with my daughter in Ohio if she ever gets her smartphone to work with it.
Why have I been to MySpace? I've been re-ripping CDs, and quite a few are from local indie bands that aren't on wikipedia or Amazon, and the only place I can find cover art for the rips is MySpace.
Why is that so depressing? Apple is design and marketing, not engineering or research. And they do a damned good job of it, too -- they do usually have the best designs if not the best engineering (e.g., iPhone antenna).
There is nothing about the state of being wealthy that induces immoral behavior.
True, but is a whole lot harder to become rich without being evil than it is to do so by being a nice guy. If I had no morals and cared about money, I'd be rich. But I do have morals and having a roof over my head, food, beer, and transportation are enough for me. I'm comfortable on my salary. Someone who desired riches would never be satisfied no matter how rich they became.
The trouble I've been having with google lately is it's been ignoring search parameters. I put a phrase in quotes and it returns single words within the qotes. I only want sites with that particular phrase or I wouldn't bother with the quotes. Worse, I add -sony and it still includes results with the word "Sony" in it.
I should have added the story of Lazarus. Not the one that was brought back from the dead, the poor beggar who was turned away by the rich man who planned on building more stoorehouses for all the food he had, the day before before he died and went to hell ofr his stinginess.
The point is salvation is by faith, and the rich (aka most of the western world) don't normally need much faith when their needs are met by material wealth.
Poor fool, that wasn't the meaning at all. "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: 21For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. "
Salvation is NOT by faith, nowhere in the bible does it say that. Salvation comes from accepting Jesus as your savior, as he paid the price in blood for your evil doings.
You don't worship so you can have a good life. You worship so you can have a good afterlife.
And the "faith" is simply being faithful to God and the teachings of Christ, and being faithful to his teachings is NOT easy.
God/Jesus is not anti money (see parable of the talents)
You misinterpret that parable as well. Money was just an illustration for the real message, which was about charity. Store your treasures on earth and ignore the needs of others and you're the servant who buried his one talent. Spreading good produces more good.
I don't know what preacher you've been listening to, but you listen at the peril of your soul. Beware of wolves in sheep's clothing.
It's nice to save the environment, but we humans are part of that environment too.
Which is exactly why environmentalists are environmentalists. I grew up in the '50s and '60s in Cahokia, IL just south of Sauget, which you had to drive through to get to St Louis, right past the Monsanto plant.
The air was so bad that driving past Monsanto in Sauget before Nixon signed the Clean Air Act, despite the fact that cars didn't have AC then, you had to roll the windows up driving past, even in 100 degree heat, because if they were down you LITERALLY could not breathe -- the air burned your lungs, painfully. Vegetation in the entire area was visibly sick, more brown than green.
Now? You might catch a whiff of bleach but that's it. The area's vegetation has come back. It took a full twenty years to recover.
Ron Paul worshipers (I can give you kids a break but he's old enough to know better) say "oh but the courts will take care of it." Nope, if the courts could have taken care of it there would be no EPA, as it would not have been necessary.
Ron Paul is not a libertarian. Libertarians believe that your right to swing your fist ends before the start of my nose. You have NO RIGHT whatever to ruin my air or water just so you can earn a few more million of billion dollars.
Advocate something radical? The EPA was pretty damned radical in 1970, and your Lord and Savior Ron Paul wants to abolish it. You know what's radical? Nitwits who want to abolish the EPA.
Here's a radical idea -- don't fucking drive an F-150 ir similar unless you have a construction company, and then only drive it when it's needed. Don't do your goddamned shopping in one of those damned behemoths. And Hummers? Those monstrosities should all be scrapped. Nobody but the Army has any real use for them. Ruining the environment so you'll look like you don't have a little dick is just wrong.
If you can afford the gas for one of these hogs you can afford to pay for your pollution.
Asimov, a biochemist, whote a short SF story about this very thing: Playboy and the Slime Gods. The wiki article is incomplete, Asimov explained his motivations is reprints in various of his books.
You have way too much faith in your lack of a god. You're the guy who's never been to Australia or a zoo who insists that duckbill platypuses are impossible, when people who have actualy witnessed that animal have seen it, yet you continue to argue with them, despite their 1st person account vs your complete and utter lack of evidence.
Fool. I have seen the oliphant. Disbelieve if you wish.
Indeed. It's said by others "the winner is the one who dies with the most toys," I say the loser is the one who dies with the most toys. To quote Will Mony (Eastwood) from Unforgiven, "hell of a thing to kill a man. You take away everything he's got, and everything he'd ever have."
I don't see how anyone could have reviewed the video, as they claimed they did, and not know that it contained no infringing material.
And no explanation has been given. Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest. They're going to have to have a damned good explanation, as I have little doubt to give them the benefit of.
Which when you think about it is really silly because when one dies, they don't tend to take their wealth with them to heaven
Matthew 6:19-21
19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: 21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
That was well modded. I have a cousin who became rich by disposing of railroad ties for the railroads. I won't say how he disposed of them, lets's just say it was neither legal, ethical, nor moral.
OTOH his and my uncle became rich, but I saw no evidence whatever that Dan was anything but a good man, kind and generous. His wealth came from eye-hand coordination, creativity, and imagination -- and a shipload of luck.
Not all rich men are evil, but it stands to reason that there are probably more evil rich than evil poor. And between rich and poor, which is more evil, defrauding investors in a billion dollar multi-decade ponzi scheme that impoverishes middle class people, or the hungry guy that steals a sandwich from the grocery store?
As to your first quoted scripture, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God, continue with 25 and 26: "25 When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved? 26 But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible."
Odd how the usually misquoted "the love of money is the root of all evil" (most leave out the "love of" part) is actually in the bible but people think it isn't, while people think "God helps those who help themselves" is there when it's not.
I get modded down every time I say this (but who cares, my karma has always been excellent) but anybody who's read the first four books of the New Testament knows that conservativism (at least fiscal conservatism) is most assuredly NOT Christian. I refuse to trust a preacher who wears a suit and tie; that's the mark of wealth and power, against everything Jesus taught.
So we'd never hear of Orwell or 1984, either, which pretty much cautioned against revisionist history. The American Democratic political party would probably like people to forget about the Chicago Seven; and the Republicans, who whine that only half of Americans pay Federal tax, would probably like you to forget that in the 1920s only the rich paid Federal taxes.
Wait, I think they got their way. I only know about it because my grandparents were young adults then.
The truth is the truth. The past should only be forgotten when it's inconsequential.
It is quite miraculous how they keep coming into the house.
The same way empty clothes hangers seemingly spontaneously come into being in the closet -- it's the missing socks. Socks are the larvae of coathangers and stuffed animals.
Must be, I didn't see many stories posted yet this morning. But what I thought was more interesting was something I saw on TV news a few days ago. It seems that some grade school kids took on the studios for their lack of environmentalism in the movie's web site, and THE KIDS BEAT HOLLYWOOD!
If they weren't corrupt they wouldn't be swayed by campaign bribes. Unfortunately the system itself is corupted to the point that only the corrupt can get elected.
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In other words, driving unsafely because of desire to get somewhere in a hurry demonstrates failure to act in one's own self interest. It is not a rational activity, but an emotional one.
Most people drive stupid, on autopilot. I'll drive at a speed that keeps me fromstopping at red lights, which is usually about 5mph under the speed limit, depending on the street. The light turns red a quarter mile ahead and I take my foot off the gas, and everyone races each other to see who can get to the red light first so they can sit there burning expensive gasoline at zero mpg. It turns green and I coast right past them, only to have them zoom past me to wait at the next light.
People are not rational. I'll have passengers who say "aren't you going a little slow?" and I'll anser "You're in a hurry to get to that red light?"
I've been to MySpace more in the last week than G+. Actually it's been a while since I went to G+, although I may use it for video conferencing with my daughter in Ohio if she ever gets her smartphone to work with it.
Why have I been to MySpace? I've been re-ripping CDs, and quite a few are from local indie bands that aren't on wikipedia or Amazon, and the only place I can find cover art for the rips is MySpace.
Why is that so depressing? Apple is design and marketing, not engineering or research. And they do a damned good job of it, too -- they do usually have the best designs if not the best engineering (e.g., iPhone antenna).
There is nothing about the state of being wealthy that induces immoral behavior.
True, but is a whole lot harder to become rich without being evil than it is to do so by being a nice guy. If I had no morals and cared about money, I'd be rich. But I do have morals and having a roof over my head, food, beer, and transportation are enough for me. I'm comfortable on my salary. Someone who desired riches would never be satisfied no matter how rich they became.
The trouble I've been having with google lately is it's been ignoring search parameters. I put a phrase in quotes and it returns single words within the qotes. I only want sites with that particular phrase or I wouldn't bother with the quotes. Worse, I add -sony and it still includes results with the word "Sony" in it.
It didn't use to act like that.
All people are from Africa.
I'm not, and neither are my black and Asian friends. We're from the US. Our distant anscestors are from Africa, not us.
Pedantry right back at ya.
I should have added the story of Lazarus. Not the one that was brought back from the dead, the poor beggar who was turned away by the rich man who planned on building more stoorehouses for all the food he had, the day before before he died and went to hell ofr his stinginess.
The point is salvation is by faith, and the rich (aka most of the western world) don't normally need much faith when their needs are met by material wealth.
Poor fool, that wasn't the meaning at all. "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: 21For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. "
Salvation is NOT by faith, nowhere in the bible does it say that. Salvation comes from accepting Jesus as your savior, as he paid the price in blood for your evil doings.
You don't worship so you can have a good life. You worship so you can have a good afterlife.
And the "faith" is simply being faithful to God and the teachings of Christ, and being faithful to his teachings is NOT easy.
God/Jesus is not anti money (see parable of the talents)
You misinterpret that parable as well. Money was just an illustration for the real message, which was about charity. Store your treasures on earth and ignore the needs of others and you're the servant who buried his one talent. Spreading good produces more good.
I don't know what preacher you've been listening to, but you listen at the peril of your soul. Beware of wolves in sheep's clothing.
It's nice to save the environment, but we humans are part of that environment too.
Which is exactly why environmentalists are environmentalists. I grew up in the '50s and '60s in Cahokia, IL just south of Sauget, which you had to drive through to get to St Louis, right past the Monsanto plant.
The air was so bad that driving past Monsanto in Sauget before Nixon signed the Clean Air Act, despite the fact that cars didn't have AC then, you had to roll the windows up driving past, even in 100 degree heat, because if they were down you LITERALLY could not breathe -- the air burned your lungs, painfully. Vegetation in the entire area was visibly sick, more brown than green.
Now? You might catch a whiff of bleach but that's it. The area's vegetation has come back. It took a full twenty years to recover.
Ron Paul worshipers (I can give you kids a break but he's old enough to know better) say "oh but the courts will take care of it." Nope, if the courts could have taken care of it there would be no EPA, as it would not have been necessary.
Ron Paul is not a libertarian. Libertarians believe that your right to swing your fist ends before the start of my nose. You have NO RIGHT whatever to ruin my air or water just so you can earn a few more million of billion dollars.
Advocate something radical? The EPA was pretty damned radical in 1970, and your Lord and Savior Ron Paul wants to abolish it. You know what's radical? Nitwits who want to abolish the EPA.
Here's a radical idea -- don't fucking drive an F-150 ir similar unless you have a construction company, and then only drive it when it's needed. Don't do your goddamned shopping in one of those damned behemoths. And Hummers? Those monstrosities should all be scrapped. Nobody but the Army has any real use for them. Ruining the environment so you'll look like you don't have a little dick is just wrong.
If you can afford the gas for one of these hogs you can afford to pay for your pollution.
I paid $500 for an '88 Chevy in 2004. Drove it for about three years before the rack and pinion went out on it. So yeah, more expensive than a car.
Asimov, a biochemist, whote a short SF story about this very thing: Playboy and the Slime Gods. The wiki article is incomplete, Asimov explained his motivations is reprints in various of his books.
You have way too much faith in your lack of a god. You're the guy who's never been to Australia or a zoo who insists that duckbill platypuses are impossible, when people who have actualy witnessed that animal have seen it, yet you continue to argue with them, despite their 1st person account vs your complete and utter lack of evidence.
Fool. I have seen the oliphant. Disbelieve if you wish.
"What has 18 legs, and isn't going anywhere?"
The Chicago Cubs?
Someone who dies rich has failed
Indeed. It's said by others "the winner is the one who dies with the most toys," I say the loser is the one who dies with the most toys. To quote Will Mony (Eastwood) from Unforgiven, "hell of a thing to kill a man. You take away everything he's got, and everything he'd ever have."
I don't see how anyone could have reviewed the video, as they claimed they did, and not know that it contained no infringing material.
And no explanation has been given. Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest. They're going to have to have a damned good explanation, as I have little doubt to give them the benefit of.
I always liked "If I Ran the Zoo," even though I have no clue who "Gerold" is.
Which when you think about it is really silly because when one dies, they don't tend to take their wealth with them to heaven
Matthew 6:19-21
That was well modded. I have a cousin who became rich by disposing of railroad ties for the railroads. I won't say how he disposed of them, lets's just say it was neither legal, ethical, nor moral.
OTOH his and my uncle became rich, but I saw no evidence whatever that Dan was anything but a good man, kind and generous. His wealth came from eye-hand coordination, creativity, and imagination -- and a shipload of luck.
Not all rich men are evil, but it stands to reason that there are probably more evil rich than evil poor. And between rich and poor, which is more evil, defrauding investors in a billion dollar multi-decade ponzi scheme that impoverishes middle class people, or the hungry guy that steals a sandwich from the grocery store?
As to your first quoted scripture, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God, continue with 25 and 26: "25 When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved? 26 But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible."
Odd how the usually misquoted "the love of money is the root of all evil" (most leave out the "love of" part) is actually in the bible but people think it isn't, while people think "God helps those who help themselves" is there when it's not.
I get modded down every time I say this (but who cares, my karma has always been excellent) but anybody who's read the first four books of the New Testament knows that conservativism (at least fiscal conservatism) is most assuredly NOT Christian. I refuse to trust a preacher who wears a suit and tie; that's the mark of wealth and power, against everything Jesus taught.
Show us your sugar cube sized z-series mainframe! :0)
The Raspberry Pi isn't much bigger than a large sugar cube, and it's more powerful than any mainframe from 1960.
Well, we're talking about two different cultures here, American and Australian.
So we'd never hear of Orwell or 1984, either, which pretty much cautioned against revisionist history. The American Democratic political party would probably like people to forget about the Chicago Seven; and the Republicans, who whine that only half of Americans pay Federal tax, would probably like you to forget that in the 1920s only the rich paid Federal taxes.
Wait, I think they got their way. I only know about it because my grandparents were young adults then.
The truth is the truth. The past should only be forgotten when it's inconsequential.
It is quite miraculous how they keep coming into the house.
The same way empty clothes hangers seemingly spontaneously come into being in the closet -- it's the missing socks. Socks are the larvae of coathangers and stuffed animals.
Come on... slow news day?
Must be, I didn't see many stories posted yet this morning. But what I thought was more interesting was something I saw on TV news a few days ago. It seems that some grade school kids took on the studios for their lack of environmentalism in the movie's web site, and THE KIDS BEAT HOLLYWOOD!
I wish I had a link, but it was TV.
If Adolphus Busch had brought his recipe from Germany to the Cayman Islands, would it be Cayman beer?
If they weren't corrupt they wouldn't be swayed by campaign bribes. Unfortunately the system itself is corupted to the point that only the corrupt can get elected.