If the jobs that people work are static, then this would be the case. It is better to think in terms of "what could society do with the added labor force, if it didn't have to spend so much of it on police and lawyers?" Historically in the United States, there doesn't appear to be any correlation between crime rates and unemployment rates. And thank goodness for that. Could you imagine how unfortunate it would be if, in order to maintain good employment rates, we had to accept a certain level of crime, as a society?

Material design calls for a colorful experience, has very clearly defined buttons, and an "elevation"-based shadow system to communicate depth in the apps. I don't know which apps use light color text on a white background... I can't imagine that's something that material design calls for. The reality is, given any design language, you can make apps look bad. But material design makes it pretty easy to make an app look decent. What's more important, though, is that these days most all of the apps on my Android phone all navigate in predictable ways. I don't have to guess if something's a button or not, I don't have to guess what will happen if I click something because the system is all pretty consistent now. Of course there's always room for improvement and there are a lot of bad apps, some of which are Google's, but material design is an effort to combat the problems you speak of. (Unfortunately, the triangle/square/circle soft keys on Android are what they are... and are not part of material design, for better or worse. I do wish they'd pick something more meaningful. I preferred the icons they used for those buttons in KitKat.)

Citation needed. It's true that female athletes are effected this way, but I am unaware and cannot find anything indicating the same is true for men, OTHER than the study mentioned earlier which talked about BMI, which is a poor measure of anything. I feel like we're going in circles here, as it seems that you keep referencing the study that studied the effects of BMI, yet now we're talking about body fat. Or I'm missing something, which is entirely possible.

BMI of 15 is certainly too low. But I don't see where that was ever mentioned. The OP said 15% body fat.

Definitely. Many factors at play, for sure. And yes, body fat is a better indicator, I would assume. But because the study used BMI, we don't really know at what body fat percentage it's a problem, unless I'm missing something, which is entirely possible. Either way, 15% body fat is solidly in the range of healthy and is normal for a fit man.

15% body fat isn't particularly skinny. Your reference talks about men with a BMI less than 20. I hover at around 10-11% body fat and have > 20 BMI. Honestly, BMI is such a poor measure of anything at all that I doubt that study is very useful. Also relevant: having less body fat than the OP, I apparently have a very high sperm count (or something) as my wife and I have barely been able to stop having children. It may be that being very skinny has an effect on fertility, but it's one of many factors and my guess is neither me nor the OP are skinny enough to matter.

Couldn't agree more. Although my wife and I (technically millennials) are bucking that trend, having thrown a number of cocktail parties as of late. The success of the whole event basically boils down to how many people bail.

A thick book is pretty good at stopping handgun rounds. There are plenty of videos on YouTube demonstrating this. Not sure if anyone has tested it with a .50AE round though... At least not without a person behind the book.

I suppose people play music for different reasons, but I would venture that most people don't play music because it's challenging, but because they like music and like making it. For me, music has become more fun each time I reach a new level of mastery, as it means that my ability to express myself expands.

Postgres has always supported transactions, as far as I'm aware. And in fact, what you can do with transactions is pretty incredible and beyond what most databases offer. For instance, you can actually put most database migrations in a transaction. Something not go as expected? Roll back and your schema's all as it was. I'm wondering if perhaps you are thinking of MySQL?

Sure, but that doesn't necessarily conflict with what I said, which was that laws are often quite ineffective. Clearly they are effective sometimes. But really my greater point was that sometimes laws change behavior for the worse. I know where I live, the likelihood of getting pulled over and ticketed for mobile device usage is very slim and when perception is "that won't happen to me" people don't take it seriously. Instead they change their behavior (for the worse) but trying to conceal what they're doing, to help ensure it won't happen to them. One might argue that the penalty isn't severe enough: that perhaps it should be in line with drunk driving, and that would solve the "not taking it seriously" bit. And that may reduce the instances of mobile device usage, but we still need to ask yourselves if the punishment is fitting of the crime and of that, I have my doubts.

Oh yeah, I misunderstood. You can definitely use your bluetooth system.

Yes. I just double checked: https://www.oregonlaws.org/ors...

We also need to consider what happens when those laws are passed. In my state, it's illegal to use your phone while driving. Calls are permitted with a headset only. So do people stop using their phones? Not at all. They just keep their phone out of sight to try to avoid a ticket, which is even worse. Now, rather than bringing the phone up where one can see the phone and the road at the same time, people are looking down in their laps, taking their eyes off the road.

People will, for the most part, do what they want to do. Changing behavior is very difficult and laws are often quite ineffective at affecting the change desired. I'm not saying we should just accept that people will always use phones or that it's OK to do so, but a lot of times the "solutions" are worse than the problems they intend to solve. Also I'd love to see safety data regarding cell phones in regions that have strict laws vs. those that don't. Everything I've outlined has just been from personal observations and anecdotes.

And how does the tribunal determine wages? It is arbitrary at that point because a crucial price has been divorced from the market. I don't mean to say that the market is perfect or anything like that, but without *any* relation to it, you're flying blind.