Something tells me that this union, between two people who hold their highest shared ideal to be a love of a line of consumer electronics brand, might not succeed in the long run. I really like the quote from Steve Jobs, though.
Yeah, that was mindblowingly good. I was going to nitpick the history (for instance, caesar came before jesus), but how stupid would that be? This totally kicked ass, bravo, bravo!
@BM: No, you're just eating diseased cows that sometimes have to be dragged to the slaughterhouse because they're too sick to walk.
Seriously, considering the massive public health disaster that is crippling America (17% of GDP spent on "health" care - are you serious? There are several reasons for this, but awful nutrition is one) we should really view this mindset as the profoundly self-destructive one that it is.
I know it drop nannyist beliefs in the garbage sometimes, but we should really view this sort of mindset and board very similar to a bunch of junkies having a heroin shooting contest.
I dunno. I teach public school too. The kids "vandalize" there desks all the time. I don't really mind, because it wipes off easily, and half the time they clean it themselves.
Doesn't mean they go around tagging the walls though. In fact, I've never once seen that.
The main problem with our whole schooling philosophy is that it treats children as if they have no intelligence.
The other problem is it's basically conditioning them to go to prison.
I don't exaggerate when I say that the Public Schools are arguably the most evil institution our society has produced.
I wish we could open up the medical debate in this country. In one hand you've got the utterly corrupt Republicans, who speak stridently in support of the current highly regulated system that drives prices through the roof and provides and artificial monopoly (cartel) that allows the doctors and pharma companies, key Republican donors, to keep their rates high.
I mean, when was the last time you heard ANY talking head making the connection between how fiendishly difficult it is to sell medical services and the high prices? Without those restrictions, quality might fall for some, but rates would plummet for all.
On the other hand, we have the generally incompetent and also corrupt Democrats who basically want to socialize the whole system, basically keeping the artifically high prices and probably driving them even higher, but putting it on the public credit card because everybody knows that the bill will never come due, right?
I played Mafia Wars for awhile, until I realized it was a recipe for life failure and I had better things to do.
What really turned me off was reading stuff written by level 500 or so players, who had spent who knows how long doing basically the same as a level one, clicking the screen.
I read the only way to delete your account is to not play for two months. So, at about level 130, that's just what I did.
This raises an interesting question I have only considered recently: What if the AGW hypothesis is generally correct, might it be beneficial to the environment?
Certainly, most pollution is awful..but is CO2 really bad?
CO2 is plant's number one food. More CO2, more plants. In greenhouses, they artificially pump CO2 to increase yields.
Yes, Gorf, it is an absolutely good thing - anything that will cause less people who do not harm others to be arrested is a good thing.
Arrest for non-violent crimes like drug possession or sale is violence. No matter what your take on drugs, less violence in the world is a good thing.
Undoubtedly, there is a risk for abuse in any drug - as in any activity (such as computer games, I know several people who have wrecked their lives with WoW and the ilk). The risk for abuse with drugs like cocaine, heroin is relatively high. I feel there is a real risk of abuse with Cannabis, too-although of course lower.
But the risk of abuse with psychedelics is low, and they offer a real possibility of personal growth and self knowledge. This is a wise decision.
I tried this as a kid. And did it again a few years ago, to see if I still could. Both times it was quite easy and painless, I was able to get a big damned nail pretty much the whole way in..
Of course, I've had chronic congestion for as long as I can remember. Wonder if there's a connection?
Here's the danger when you grant a government monopoly to do a service. Some group will have a vested interest in that monopoly, and will go to greath lengths to protect it. Even preventing the spirit of civic duty which is the core of a well functioning community. The end result is that no one works together, people stay in their houses all day, and everyone pays a high tax rate to a bunch of people who do a job that should often be paid for by the sweat of the inhabitants.
Even worse is the cases where the union strikes a deal with a government body to grant the union an artificial monopoly. We might find this idea abhorrent, at yet we can find it practiced all over the U.S., such as the electric unions in NYC mentioned in #6 above, or more abstractly the artificial monopoly over health care services granted to an exclusive cartel, that is one of the fundamental causes of our spiraling health care costs.
I find something really irksome about the implication that the union members have a right to a job. No one has a right to a job. What we have a right to is freedom. With that freedom, if we don't have a job, we can produce our own food, start a small business, or sell our services for anything we're good at freelance. That is the "safety net" of natural law. That's why not man people starved during the depression, because they still knew how to hunt and farm, because people still had a great deal of freedom to do small enterprise. Failing that, they still had communities.
But now, much of this basic freedom has been legislated away, in the name of "consumer protection" and whatnot, so we need to create these false "safety nets" and phony government jobs, which have all sorts of unintended consequences and moral hazards.
And seriously, are there really people on this thread who worry about the "safety" of him clearing a path? Who worry that he didn't follow the "various codes?" I could see some people wanting to maintain the grass without a path. But worrying about "codes" and "safety???"
What have we, as a country (except that this pedantry is true of most of western civilization), come to?
I don't care how cool it is, it can't overcome the epic suck that is Lou Gehrig's disease. What a shit way to die.
Incidentally, the two people I know who died of the disease were both around paint quite a bit, one being a painting contractor and the other a residential landlord.
Seriously, considering the massive public health disaster that is crippling America (17% of GDP spent on "health" care - are you serious? There are several reasons for this, but awful nutrition is one) we should really view this mindset as the profoundly self-destructive one that it is.
I know it drop nannyist beliefs in the garbage sometimes, but we should really view this sort of mindset and board very similar to a bunch of junkies having a heroin shooting contest.
Doesn't mean they go around tagging the walls though. In fact, I've never once seen that.
The main problem with our whole schooling philosophy is that it treats children as if they have no intelligence.
The other problem is it's basically conditioning them to go to prison.
I don't exaggerate when I say that the Public Schools are arguably the most evil institution our society has produced.
I mean, when was the last time you heard ANY talking head making the connection between how fiendishly difficult it is to sell medical services and the high prices? Without those restrictions, quality might fall for some, but rates would plummet for all.
On the other hand, we have the generally incompetent and also corrupt Democrats who basically want to socialize the whole system, basically keeping the artifically high prices and probably driving them even higher, but putting it on the public credit card because everybody knows that the bill will never come due, right?
It's a sad situation.
What really turned me off was reading stuff written by level 500 or so players, who had spent who knows how long doing basically the same as a level one, clicking the screen.
I read the only way to delete your account is to not play for two months. So, at about level 130, that's just what I did.
Right next it, a jar of squid roasted peanuts. Hmmm....
Certainly, most pollution is awful..but is CO2 really bad?
CO2 is plant's number one food. More CO2, more plants. In greenhouses, they artificially pump CO2 to increase yields.
More plants = more good, in my book.
Arrest for non-violent crimes like drug possession or sale is violence. No matter what your take on drugs, less violence in the world is a good thing.
Undoubtedly, there is a risk for abuse in any drug - as in any activity (such as computer games, I know several people who have wrecked their lives with WoW and the ilk). The risk for abuse with drugs like cocaine, heroin is relatively high. I feel there is a real risk of abuse with Cannabis, too-although of course lower.
But the risk of abuse with psychedelics is low, and they offer a real possibility of personal growth and self knowledge. This is a wise decision.
But, I don't think it's such a bad thing, because I think that it's not necessarily bad to run red lights.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQoNW7lOnT4
It's with the nobel prize winning co-discoverer of AIDS..
Of course, I've had chronic congestion for as long as I can remember. Wonder if there's a connection?
Even worse is the cases where the union strikes a deal with a government body to grant the union an artificial monopoly. We might find this idea abhorrent, at yet we can find it practiced all over the U.S., such as the electric unions in NYC mentioned in #6 above, or more abstractly the artificial monopoly over health care services granted to an exclusive cartel, that is one of the fundamental causes of our spiraling health care costs.
I find something really irksome about the implication that the union members have a right to a job. No one has a right to a job. What we have a right to is freedom. With that freedom, if we don't have a job, we can produce our own food, start a small business, or sell our services for anything we're good at freelance. That is the "safety net" of natural law. That's why not man people starved during the depression, because they still knew how to hunt and farm, because people still had a great deal of freedom to do small enterprise. Failing that, they still had communities.
But now, much of this basic freedom has been legislated away, in the name of "consumer protection" and whatnot, so we need to create these false "safety nets" and phony government jobs, which have all sorts of unintended consequences and moral hazards.
And seriously, are there really people on this thread who worry about the "safety" of him clearing a path? Who worry that he didn't follow the "various codes?" I could see some people wanting to maintain the grass without a path. But worrying about "codes" and "safety???"
What have we, as a country (except that this pedantry is true of most of western civilization), come to?
Incidentally, the two people I know who died of the disease were both around paint quite a bit, one being a painting contractor and the other a residential landlord.
:'(