That's not really an accurate way to describe it. As people get older, they become less able to adapt to change. Becoming more conservative is a natural part of the brain aging process.

Conservatives always say this, but that doesn't make it true. There are plenty of very wealthy people who earn real money and still pay lots of money in taxes. To them it is about responsibility — from those to whom much is given, much is expected. And while being wealthy does make some people more fiscally conservative, the wealthy also tend to be more socially liberal, i.e. their politics are not aligned with the U.S. right wing at all.

People become more socially conservative with age only because they become less able to adapt to change, not because of wealth or because they're "becoming wiser".

>In particular, the Subaru will sometimes slam on the brakes when I try
>to drive through the garage doorway.

open the garage door first . . . .

[ducks]

When Arizona reversed course and banned red light cameras, it wasn't the "speeding community" (?) that drove it, but the sheriff's.

The damned things *increased* accidents, largely from the rear end collisions with the suddenly stopping cars!

Sure, both drivers were behaving in ways that they shouldn't, but we need to deal with *actual* human behavior, not what we want it to be.

Here in las vegas, when a light turns yellow, I have to pause and check my rear view mirror before even considering slowing--to make sure that I don't have something *accelerating* behind me!

A relative has a luxury car with drowsiness detection. One trip I told my wife I thought it was time to change drivers, and just as I was parking, the car dinged and displayed a coffee cup icon.

There's sleepiness, and also alcohol is not the only drug out there which interferes with driving.

>Because insurance companies will keep their rates high to pad their bottom line.

those that tried that would be fairly quickly out of business.

There are many "mutual insurance" companies out there. These are owned by the policy holders, who receive an annual check of what would have been "profits".

In the past when I was using Amica, there was an estimated 20% future payment back for "participating members, who paid about 10% more than non-participating members. (but there is *no* guarantee of that dividend; in a bad year, it might be reduced, or not come at all, while in a good year it could be more.)

They were less expensive than the other options I considered at the time. But if a company tried keeping rates up when costs plummeted, they would be "somewhat" more expensive than mutual insurance, but "drastically" more.

And Plato in turn was Socrates pupil.

A scroll of Socrates' last minutes might reveal his last words to have been, "Say, just what kind of tea did you say this was?" :)

hawk

I've certainly noticed my tolerance for thrill rides drop by the decade, from dashing from the exit back to the entrance as a teen, to being queasy over one ride at a fair with my kid at 40, to . . .

anyway, could anything that a 75 year old could handle seriously be called a "dogfight"?

SF is no different than any other city other than having a climate that makes it easier for the homeless to not die of exposure. Cities are dirty, cramped places. I don't understand why people willingly choose to live in them, but they do. They vote liberal because they lean young, and young people lean liberal.

Their politics have almost zero to do with cities being s**tholes. Republicans manage to turn beautiful places into s**tholes just as quickly. They just ruin things in different ways — Democrats by not mandating psychological treatment for people who are wandering the streets because of severe mental health problems and by allowing them to ignore the rules of society without consequence, Republicans by cutting funding for the mental health services that they need to keep them off the streets and by throwing people into jails where they don't get adequate mental health treatment and end up coming out even more screwed up than they were when they went in.

Both parties absolutely suck, and people who claim otherwise are kidding themselves.

Since communism is, by definition, classless, you cannot both be classist and communist.

Racism is, again by definition, incompatible with abstraction.

My conclusion is that you're pretty shaky on definitions.

Has anyone read the actual article? A couple of paragraphs:

The text also reveals that Plato was sold into slavery on the island of Aegina, possibly as early as 404BC when the Spartans conquered the island, or alternatively in 399BC, shortly after Socrates’ passing.

“Until now it was believed that Plato was sold into slavery in 387BC during his sojourn in Sicily at the court of Dionysius I of Syracuse,”

He died "around 348BC", I have no idea when he ceased being a slave but at appears that being one was not as dramatic as we'd think from more recent examples such as S of the Mason-Dixon line.

My old car worked on that basis, but luckily its warnings were just advisory and did not actually cause the thing to brake.
What regularly caused it to panic was a left curve on a tree-lined road a few hundred yards from where I live, it was convinced I wanted to go off-road and smack into a tree at around 25-30 mph (I am more interested in looking at the road and other cars than looking at the speedo). Irritating as f*** and a reason I no longer drive that model. There are traffic lights immediately after the curve so there is no reason to hang around, and I have still not rammed those trees or another vehicle after 35 years of taking that corner around once a day.

a traffic amplification of 36704:1. [Not counting the image.]

So this is a self-triggered DOS attack, impressive, and they do need to fix this smartish.