Yeah, introduce a bounty so that people can start breeding them for profit...
Set a bounty low enough it's not worth breeding snakes to collect it.
But it's enough to cover your ammo / lunch / beer costs for a day in the swamp shooting.
I'm assuming that you get your water from the tap, more or less. Why would that suddenly cease in case of a snowstorm?
If your water supply is from a house well, then if your electricity goes out (ice on lines or sliding vehicle takes out pole), you will have no running water. There's still folks with wells rather than city water - especially the folks who may need a few days with chainsaws to clear their driveway after a storm.
I smoke a ton of weed and wouldn't care if they made baby food out of it, but it can trigger psychotic episodes in mentally ill people.
Everyday life can trigger psychotic episodes in mentally ill people.
So can odd noises, squirrels, religion and the voices that only they hear.
Ask someone who's worked in a USA machine-shop: it's called a thousandth (the "of an inch" part is implied).
Machinists are not programmers, so beyond about 1/64" they switch to thousandths.
Below that, tenths (ten-thousandths of an inch).
Below that, millionths.
Taxes are fully voluntary, we do not force anyone to stay in the US. Nor does any other major free nation.
You have a bizarre notion of "voluntary"
Did he reveal privileged information? They use satellites to transmit data? Perhaps some people think Navy Destroyers tow a really, really long fiber optic cable, or use a very, very big speaker to transmit through the ocean?
The volume-control for those very, very big speakers goes to 11.
I'm an engineer and been atheist my whole life, so I don't believe in horoscopes/crystals/palm reading/etc... However, I've found that I immensely enjoy occasional tarot sessions. I don't believe any of that outside those sessions but every once in a while, it's nice to meet someone more spiritual than I am, light a few candles, smoke a bit of tobacco from a bong, engage in the whole tarot ritual (sliding fingers on the deck, etc.), have her read the cards for me and then reflect on how to interpret that all based on my history and expectations for the future.
It's almost therapeutic to completely suspend your disbelief every once in a while and get in touch with the spiritual side (I think that there is a certain mental state that every human - no matter how skeptic, etc. - can achieve if they want to... and it's pretty pleasant, really). As long as you keep it at that and don't ever start to think that you could actually make important decisions based on all that, it's pretty much the most harmless source of enjoyment that there is.
Sounds like you use tarot readings as a more-fun therapy session: reflecting on what's going on in your life, where you'd like to head, and what to do about it. As long as you treat it more like a campy discussion & less like mystical powers, you're in good shape.
If you don't intend to commit the first strike, there's no reason to build missile defenses. No one is going to attack us, because we can destroy them easily if they did. The only possible application of missile defense is to enable us to make the first strike, and defend against retaliation.
Exactly - that's why there have never been any suicide bombers, and why no one has ever shot at armed police or troops.
People desperate to take or keep power sometimes do desperate things.
MAD relies on everyone potentially in charge of nuclear missiles to be rational.
These 2 things are slightly incompatible. MAD has held up surprisingly well, but as the landscape changes from US-vs-USSR to multiple players, it gets messier.
Just a suggestion, but this time try having lifeboat space for every passenger, not every other passenger?
As history teaches us, the reason the Titanic sinking was a disaster, and not just a misfortune was that it had enough lifeboats for the government regulations of the day, which is to say, one person-space in a lifeboat for every two passengers.
Just build Titanic III at the same time, and have it cruise alongside empty.
If Titanic II starts sinking, leave the buffet, grab your luggage, stroll across the walkway to Titanic III, find your cabin (you'll keep the same cabin number) and Bob's your uncle.
With a title of "How Much Stuff Can Timothy Jam Into His New Hoodie's Pockets? (Video)" you'd think most people would not expect a serious review...
I love the complaint about the video just being Timothy stuffing things in his pockets for 40 seconds. That's pretty much what I expected based on the title alone!
I dont' understand why we still have 40 hour weeks. Surely with all the technical improvements over the past few decades we can still be wealthy enough without as much work.
Nobody's stopping you!
You can go ahead and start working a 32-hour week; most likely, you'll make roughly 80% of a 40-hour week's pay. Might be hard to arrange, as most jobs include benefits, hard to break those down to 80% but some minor negotiation should get you there. Most people would rather get 5-days pay per week than 4-days. Many folks work overtime, more hours for more compensation. But not everyone; there are "part-time" jobs out there, and self-employed folks can set their own weekly max-hours.
Look for scratches on the bottom side, brush with toothpaste (the plain one, no additional abrasive ingredients), rinse, read.
Or as happened repeatedly with a former boss:
Rush out a data CD for him to test, he tests it during lunch & it's unreadable...
Look for scratches on the bottom side, take it ito the men's room to wash off the peanut butter & jelly he'd gotten on it while eating, gently wipe dry & have him try it again. Deliver a stern lecture on the proper handling of CDs containing the master copy of the company's chemistry databases.
"Ninety percent of baseball is half mental." -- Yogi Berra
