Posts by bmk
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The irony is (according to twitter) everyone who drove had no problems are just suggesting that people just drive in future. How they expect tourists who don't have cars to do this - I don't know.
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Field Theory: Four Years Ago, in reply to BenWilson,
That kind of bet is usually an insurance policy. You’ve upped your risk profile if you’re also banking on the schadenfreude.
Of course I am actually taking it out as an insurance policy. But I try to tell myself that I don’t want them to win in the perverse and futile hope that this will change the result (funny how easily an otherwise logical person can quickly become superstitious when sports are involved and believe their own actions can somehow influence the result).
Love the idea of a word for “sorrow one feels at missing out on schadenfreude” – that word should exist because it’s a very real phenomenon – many people watch something hoping for schadenfreude only to be disappointed when it doesn’t occur.
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I am just happy that I got $2.15 on any team but the All Blacks to win. This is a statistically sound bet as I rate the probability of the All Blacks winning would have to be under 50%.
Place it will make the schadenfreude of their inevitable defeat even sweeter:)
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Hard News: Those were different times ..., in reply to st ephen,
especially Huey Lewis and the News
I loved Patrick Bateman's raving spiel on Huey Lewis and the News.
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OnPoint: Sock-Puppeting Big Tobacco to…, in reply to BenWilson,
Banning would just set up another war on drugs, for a substance which already has a colossal number of addicts. You’re going to make criminals out of a billion people. I think that’s crazy.
I completely agree. The world is finally waking up to the futility of marijuana being illegal and yet people talking about making tobacco illegal - it is (as you say) just crazy.
On a deeper note, the very idea of an illegal plant just seems a bit funny. I always find this interesting with Christians who think God created this world complete with plants that shouldn't be allowed to be grown.
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
Genesis 1:29
So when Christians say that cannabis (or tobacco or opium poppies for that matter) should not be grown are they saying God made a mistake?
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OnPoint: Sock-Puppeting Big Tobacco to…, in reply to Simon Grigg,
I am guessing this is because it is as you say semi-legal. If it were fully legal then the companies could mass-produce it and market/distribute it. I mean if I were a cannabis smoker I would prefer to be able to buy a package of pre-rolled joint of consistent quantity and quality from a dairy than having to go to some tinny house or dealer.
People could (and would) still grow their own. But some people would prefer just to be able to buy it with their milk. I mean home-brewing beer isn't particularly difficult either but most people still prefer to buy it.
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Tobacco companies don’t need to change their business plans. Because if tobacco were ever made illegal or people were simply to stop smoking (both of which I think are highly unlikely) by that time Marijuana should be legal and they will be ready and in place to produce, market and distribute that product.
And they get so much hate that they should get some thanks, too. I sometimes enjoy a smoke. Without these ‘evil’ companies I wouldn’t have this pleasure. I don’t want to grow a tobacco plant just so I can have the occasional social smoke whilst drinking.
It’s funny people are allowed to praise the product of an alchohol company but there seems to be some prohibition on saying ‘thank you Philip Morris for producing such a wonderful smoke’.
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Hard News: Those were different times ..., in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
Another overwhelmingly common one is forte , in fact this one is so common that I deliberately mispronounce it as otherwise people will think I am the one making the mistake.
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Related to this is how when one large business decides to start paying their monthly accounts one week later this has a huge flow on effect to the average invoice date-payment date cycle. As businesses are all dependant on being paid in order to make their own payments.
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Hard News: Is that it?, in reply to BenWilson,
Yeah I get the point and that the prostitute was already owed the money. But all the money being traded was for goods and services rendered. But yeah I get what the example is trying to show.