You make an incredibly stupid assumption here by bringing in "natural selection". Natural selection assumes that people die because of THEIR OWN weaknesses.
A successful person currently between jobs (thus no insurance) getting hit by a car driven by a stupid person and being unable to pay the bill to save his life is NOT NATURAL SELECTION.
"If you want to make health care more affordable to have to do things to reduce the cost directly." The only way of doing that is cutting corners and reducing standards for medicine and medical equipment. That's a bad idea no matter how you put it.
Roundabouts help immensely with congestion and crashes. There were far too few before all these roundabouts were built. The accident investigators were getting quite bored.
You do NOT want people RUNNING DOWNHILL in any emergency situation. That leads to lots and lots of trampling. Someone running quickly hits someone running not so quickly and you have two bodies on the ground. People trip over the downed people and all of a sudden you have a very bad situation.
We do not fill available space. Go look at any evacuation of any building. Put a door at one side, after 10 seconds will there be anyone at the wall opposite of the door? NO!
Once the building is half empty, will anyone be moving to the side opposite of the door? NO! When there is one person left in the building, will they randomly move about the space or will they move towards the door?
Your assertion that we're exactly like gasses is completely absurd. Remember also that you made no mention of the fact that we can move under our own power as gasses cannot.
If there's a fire in a building I don't give a shit how wide the door is. I'm not going to walk across the building to use the "emergency" exit, I'm going to use the nearest "normal" exit.
One could make the argument that people who don't know any basic science ARE inferior. Yeah, sure, no one needs to know about electron orbitals and wave particle duality in their daily life. But people that believe that perpetual motion is completely legitimate and is being covered up by big oil companies and governments as some big conspiracy are fucking worthless. That isn't advanced science, that's standard high school junior year science. The people that pay absolutely no attention to that class have no idea why we should develop renewable energy because "we just need perpetual motion". Forget funding research into this area, let's waste time "overthrowing" corporations to get this magical source of limitless energy.
A child asking "Where do babies come from" isn't "Daddy, explain to me what biological processes occur when a man ejaculates in a woman's vagina while she's ovulating." It's the physical "where do babies come from?" i.e. Are they brought by a stork? Are they bought at a store? Is there biology involved anywhere in the process regarding baby making? etc.
So no, "where do babies come from" is NOT a science question when asked by a child.
The question that the child would ask if he wanted to know the biology would be something like "how do babies grow in mommy's tummy?"
No, it doesn't make sense to check the employee's credit. Rather, you should be asking: why the hell are confidential reports being stored in an unsupervised, unsecured location?
You're completely ignoring the fact that the U.S. government is handling confidential, sensitive, classified data. Yes, it makes sense to do an amazingly thorough background check when you're deciding whether this man should have access to nuclear missile schematics. However, it is complete bullshit when deciding whether this man should manage your email server.
The reason credit reports are done for access to sensitive information is because someone is actually likely to bribe you for those nuclear missile schematics. No one is going to bribe you to interrupt email service for a few hours.
Generally because there aren't any engineers that jump in after high school. I have yet to meet a high school graduate (with no college education) that has a university-level understanding of physics, calculus, thermodynamics, statics, materials, fluid dynamics, and others. All of these are necessary for mechanical engineering, other engineering degrees have different but equally challenging requirements.
What in the hell is an F MINUS? I didn't think that universities actually gave those. Where did you go that they felt a need to differentiate between those that failed and those that failed MORE?
Furthermore, your scale is amazingly lenient. I've never seen 80% being an A.
I don't know exact numbers, but when talking about high schools, an A is "you did an alright job" whereas a C is "This paper is blank and 2 weeks late".
In terms of universities, it really depends on the university. A "C" can be anything from "This is horrible" to "this is average". An "A" can be anything from "This is pretty good" to "Holy shit you obviously spent 50 hours on this 10 hour assignment and did 3 times as much research as everyone else".
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We don't have a middle class anymore? What the hell are you smoking and where can I get some?
You make an incredibly stupid assumption here by bringing in "natural selection". Natural selection assumes that people die because of THEIR OWN weaknesses.
A successful person currently between jobs (thus no insurance) getting hit by a car driven by a stupid person and being unable to pay the bill to save his life is NOT NATURAL SELECTION.
"If you want to make health care more affordable to have to do things to reduce the cost directly." The only way of doing that is cutting corners and reducing standards for medicine and medical equipment. That's a bad idea no matter how you put it.
Bullshit, a pole or bar can be vertical or horizontal. I've seen horizontally mounted poles and vertically mounted bars.
Roundabouts help immensely with congestion and crashes. There were far too few before all these roundabouts were built. The accident investigators were getting quite bored.
You do NOT want people RUNNING DOWNHILL in any emergency situation. That leads to lots and lots of trampling. Someone running quickly hits someone running not so quickly and you have two bodies on the ground. People trip over the downed people and all of a sudden you have a very bad situation.
Actually, the asshole in the escalade will try to get in front of everyone else. Then the asshole in the lexus will follow that.
We do not fill available space. Go look at any evacuation of any building. Put a door at one side, after 10 seconds will there be anyone at the wall opposite of the door? NO!
Once the building is half empty, will anyone be moving to the side opposite of the door? NO!
When there is one person left in the building, will they randomly move about the space or will they move towards the door?
Your assertion that we're exactly like gasses is completely absurd. Remember also that you made no mention of the fact that we can move under our own power as gasses cannot.
If there's a fire in a building I don't give a shit how wide the door is. I'm not going to walk across the building to use the "emergency" exit, I'm going to use the nearest "normal" exit.
Or you're sitting at a slot machine. Some of those dipshits don't even leave their machines while they're being burned alive.
I believe the wall is already a big enough static object.
As soon as these ads become popular, people will stop looking at you funny for smashing your magazine.
No, SOMEONE is always fired when their action causes embarrassment to the nation/their boss/etc.
It most sure as hell IS NOT the person that should be fired.
One could make the argument that people who don't know any basic science ARE inferior. Yeah, sure, no one needs to know about electron orbitals and wave particle duality in their daily life. But people that believe that perpetual motion is completely legitimate and is being covered up by big oil companies and governments as some big conspiracy are fucking worthless. That isn't advanced science, that's standard high school junior year science. The people that pay absolutely no attention to that class have no idea why we should develop renewable energy because "we just need perpetual motion". Forget funding research into this area, let's waste time "overthrowing" corporations to get this magical source of limitless energy.
A child asking "Where do babies come from" isn't "Daddy, explain to me what biological processes occur when a man ejaculates in a woman's vagina while she's ovulating." It's the physical "where do babies come from?" i.e. Are they brought by a stork? Are they bought at a store? Is there biology involved anywhere in the process regarding baby making? etc.
So no, "where do babies come from" is NOT a science question when asked by a child.
The question that the child would ask if he wanted to know the biology would be something like "how do babies grow in mommy's tummy?"
No, it doesn't make sense to check the employee's credit. Rather, you should be asking: why the hell are confidential reports being stored in an unsupervised, unsecured location?
You're completely ignoring the fact that the U.S. government is handling confidential, sensitive, classified data. Yes, it makes sense to do an amazingly thorough background check when you're deciding whether this man should have access to nuclear missile schematics. However, it is complete bullshit when deciding whether this man should manage your email server.
The reason credit reports are done for access to sensitive information is because someone is actually likely to bribe you for those nuclear missile schematics. No one is going to bribe you to interrupt email service for a few hours.
They'll blame that on piracy, of course.
How on earth would vandalism be "a stretch"??? Scaling a building and DEFACING IT WITH GRAFFITI is the very definition of vandalism.
"It looks like you're pounding on the keyboard in frustration Can I help you with that?"
Generally because there aren't any engineers that jump in after high school. I have yet to meet a high school graduate (with no college education) that has a university-level understanding of physics, calculus, thermodynamics, statics, materials, fluid dynamics, and others. All of these are necessary for mechanical engineering, other engineering degrees have different but equally challenging requirements.
What in the hell is an F MINUS? I didn't think that universities actually gave those. Where did you go that they felt a need to differentiate between those that failed and those that failed MORE?
Furthermore, your scale is amazingly lenient. I've never seen 80% being an A.
I don't know exact numbers, but when talking about high schools, an A is "you did an alright job" whereas a C is "This paper is blank and 2 weeks late".
In terms of universities, it really depends on the university. A "C" can be anything from "This is horrible" to "this is average". An "A" can be anything from "This is pretty good" to "Holy shit you obviously spent 50 hours on this 10 hour assignment and did 3 times as much research as everyone else".
If you need to take "personal finance" in college, it's way too late and you're probably already broke without a place to live.
Personal finance should be taught in highschool. It's a shame that it's been eliminated many years ago.