Yes we do. How else could we type Mötörhead.

If your knees are hosed do something that doesn't aggravate them. Swim, ride a bike, paddle a canoe, do whatever it is that you can do. Otherwise, yes, you are just making excuses.

The medieval Christians had their list of the 7 Deadly Sins (Sins that may lead you to eternal damnation). Fat people are the living embodiment of 3 of them - Sloth, Greed and Gluttony. We look down on fat people because they offend our sensibilities at some deep, almost unconscious level, that we have as a bone deep part of our culture. (Not saying it's right, just saying why.)

Tell Him - No Foam please.

If transport trucks had to pay for their true share of the cost of road maintenance (based on your weight^4 calculation) you would see a massive shift of freight off the roads and onto rail. Trucks have been getting a free ride for far too long.

"sheer force of capital" - nice, I will have to steal that and use it sometime.

1. the guy selling the bike got his money 59 seconds sooner, is this not a benefit? 2. Anybody who wants can buy the premium service. That means there may be multiple people competing for the $100 spread between the buyer and seller. In your scenario, they have all posted adds selling a bike for $599, but only one can buy the bike for $500, and the rest have to buy the next highest priced bike if someone accepts their ad. Some of them may not make any money or may lose money on the transaction. Therefore, in order to prevent this, the next time they will offer a bit more than $500 to the seller, to make it more likely that their buy offer is accepted.The trade still happens more quickly, the seller gets more money, and the HFT guy gets a smaller profit. Over many trades, the competition reduces the HFT traders profit, while still speeding up the rate that bikes are bought and sold.

Maybe I fail at reading, but how do you get a negative expected value. If I guess the answer to a question I have a .25 chance of scoring 1 point and a .75 chance of scoring -.25 points. Add it up and I get an expected outcome of 0.25x1 +0.75x(-.25)= 0.0625 points per question.

A fed bear is a dead bear!

If memory serves, back in the day Radio Shack used to sell a $20 "Video Image Stabilizer" that was marketed as a way to clean up "home videos", but was understood by everyone to be a quick easy macrovision filter.

In high school a very smart student can get honours marks with minimal effort. In high school an average student can get honours marks by working very hard.

In engineering school a very smart student needs to also work very hard just to get by. If you are diligent about doing all the problem assignments, hand in all the labs, study efficiently (in a small group really worked for me), be very strategic about obtaining all possible marks, you can do reasonably well. In engineering school an average student can't get by on hard work, because the workload is too high, and will likely fail.

A missionary, by definition, is someone trying to sell you their religion. Not only that, but he wants you to give up your religion. This is based on his unshakeable belief that his religion is the correct one, and that all other religions are therefore wrong. Most missionary efforts also include some sort of charitable works, such as building schools or digging wells or whatever, but the proselytizing is always part of it.

No missionary ever has considered that maybe, just maybe, his religion is not the "true" one, and that by converting people of other religions to his, he is maybe, just maybe, taking them away from the "true" faith, and thereby doing harm to their immortal souls.

Heiro's Journey, (and the sequel) Unforsaken Hiero by Stirling E. Lanier. Post apocalypse North America, Hiero is a telepathic assassin priest, who is sent on a vital and dangerous quest. He rides his trusty war-moose Klootz. Evil mutant rat men, mad sorcerer scientists, and armies of bears and beavers. The stories and setting are a lot of fun and the author's enthusiasm is contagious.

Klootz? (Obscure SF reference - worth tracking down the book if you've never read it.)

Gerrymander? I think I know what that word means. Redraw electoral district boundaries to gain unfair political advantage. I'm truly having trouble understanding how that word applies in this context.