nathaniel

Form a group of friends called the Wolverines to camp out in the woods and mount attacks against the invading forces. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

Lungs do a reasonably good job for many pollutants. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

I bet he wasn't planning on getting zapped. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

Seems like the officers confronted the perp in a way that agitated him...should have cut off the mic first, approached him from the front and gestured for him to sit down, etc... basically allow him to decide whether he wants to escalate into an arrest or not. Instead it seems like they startled him and triggered a fight / flight reaction. Once he was unruly and fighting it seemed like zapping him was probably justified, but seems like shoddy police work is what got them there. The kid's reaction seems like panic rather than reasoned resistance or malfeasance. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

Someone needs to introduce this guy to Jet Man. Add some turbines and open up on the autobahn :) Just watch for potholes / gravel. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

In other news, the going rate for plumbing service skyrockets in response to shortage of plumbers. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

What strikes me about the article is this part: There doesn't seem to be any justification for stronger weapons for the police anywhere in the article...esp after they say that assault rifles increase the risk of hitting bystanders...and the police did just fine killing this guy with the guns they already had. Seems like they can't decide whether they're for or against assault rifles. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

I wonder what proportion of GB's energy demand is due to plasma TVs... If energy waste is what they're concerned about, why can't they just tax energy? It's not like there aren't meters in everybody's household. Make a progressive energy tax. Go above two standard deviations (or your favorite threshold) and let the rates skyrocket. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

If you hate immigrants so much, or even if you didn't, why are you upset about identifying them? Should make it easier to track and toss them once they have an established identity, no? My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

Stores can refuse any cash payment at their discretion. The store can refuse if you insist upon paying in all pennies, or in hundreds, or in any denomination as they see fit (or unfit, I guess). A cash transaction is not a debt. For instance there's a deli in Chicago, iirc, that refuses coins and prices all its sandwiches in round dollars (after tax). Per the US Treasury My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

Why myths persist ... My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

This kind of stuff is so deeply in-built to our mindset that it's easy to overlook. It's the same reason that indigenous tribesmen worldwide are not building skyscrapers, researching vaccines, or invading continents-- their ideology does not allow them to anticipate the benefits of doing so. They live in the present much the way their ancestors did, and that is good enough for them. Western culture was among the earliest to realize that it is possible to improve on our ancestors and to capitalize on the idea, especially to devote huge resources toward the future. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

I'm reading a book about it these days. It credits the Catholic church for (not entirely purposefully but neither inadvertently) creating the circumstances that led to the emergence of contemporary Western philosophy & values. Amazon With respect to the original post, it's that the West's ideas and values and religion were largely the reason both that it won the world and gained superiority in violence. Plenty of other cultures have held significant technological advantages and warmaking advantages over the West at one time or another, but none of them took off and saturated the globe quite the way the West did. For one reason or another failed to use and build upon their advantages. Either lacked the collective inspiration to do so -- often literally trapped inside of narrow philosophies -- or wiped out before they could insulate themselves from natural and man-made disasters. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

Would you just write off the 30% or so of people that are already obese? They've still got a few dozen years to gum up our system. Also it still sounds like you're suffering from the immortality trap: Prevention, when it works, may prevent an instance of illness but only puts off your death--preventive treatment does not prevent death or make it cheaper. I mean it's not like we're including $0.25 rides in the suicide booth with the weight management program. If you don't die of diabetes, you'll get Alzheimer's or cancer or high blood pressure etc. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

Hogwash. Relative measures and all, but the US has huge subsidies all over the place. Agriculture, insurance (not just health), retirement, transportation, scientific research, finance, etc and the US vigorously defends them in spite of looming penalties from free trade institutions such as the WHO. We have many market distorting elements in our economy. We are not the best at being free but rather the best at throwing our weight around. Helps that our economy has the most weight to throw around... My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

Here's a rebuttal. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

I read it in terms of dollars instead of justice. If the NFL won't take him back, they're probably afraid they'll lose money on the deal between disinterested fans, opportunity costs of lost advertising tie-ins, etc. Vick has every right to re-enter society and get a job after he is sentenced and serves his time, perhaps apart from management roles at public companies which a felony record prevents. The NFL or any other employer has every right to consider strictly their own interests in rehiring him. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

It turns out the Chairman's GAO's testimony to the SBC is online, so in case you're still doubting it, My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

Then you are ignoring the parts you disagree with. He says there's no option but to each of 1- increasing taxes 2- cutting costs 3- cutting benefits Nobody is saying that costs aren't too high, because they plainly are. Reducing costs in a vacuum, if that were possible (it isn't, reducing costs inexorably mean reducing benefits), the effect of reducing costs isn't enough. The benefits have to come down. Since you missed it in the first reading, the same point is made again by the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, which was briefed by the Comptroller. (edit with clarification on the quote) My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

Examples of other governmental insolvencies Zimbabwe, 2007 Chile, 1973 GAO Comptroller General indicates continuing current benefits leads to insolvency: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/01/60minutes/main2528226.shtml specifically on page 3, My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

I'd sooner die a couple years early than force the whole economy through 1000% inflation. And I'd wish the same on anyone. I'm starting to suspect there's a numeracy issue here... My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

There is no other option. There is a point where it costs too much to extend life; people have to die at some point in any health care system. Some dollars go further than others. It is unavoidable that some day in your life that each additional dollar won't go as far as the last one. Where is the threshold of bang for buck that you would give up? Given that our budget is finite, we have to make compromises between who gets care and who doesn't -- since the cost of infinite life is infinite your goal of never denying treatment is impossible. It's naive. The numbers from the GAO show we are already beyond that point (notwithstanding even whether it's worth it or not to spend all that money, the economy unconditionally won't output enough to support it beyond the next 30 years or so). We have to pull back from benefits in order to remain solvent in the long run. Do you know what it means for a government to run out of money? Think of Chile in the early 70s, or Zimbabwe today. You may as well insist on the right to be treated on the moon. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

I need a car to get to work sometimes when I'm not working from home. Once I get into a government subsidy program I think I'll upgrade to a Lambo, even tho a $4k used civic would do -- once the money isn't coming straight out of my pocket it makes it easy to upgrade. After all, rich people can afford Lambos because they were born into wealth. I deserve equal treatment. I want a red one. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

Payday loan. Or, work through the legal system for a writ / waiver / whatever--I gather the judicial system doesn't intend to make you pay more than you have. Payday loan would probably be cheaper and more reliable. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

People are mortal, we do not have the ability to extend life indefinitely with all of the resources in the world combined. By spending more efficiently, we live better and fuller lives overall. We ruin only the living by overspending on the nearly dead. Ever heard of quality adjusted life years? Imagine the choice of going bankrupt spending $200,000 to add a year onto a terminal cancer patient's life or spending the same money on 100 prenatal checkups, and not spending the rest and not going bankrupt. The cancer patient has no right to his treatment, even though he will surely die without it. He can have it if he can spring for it himself. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?