[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]Grneyes wrote:
Wait, they’d rather get in a 62 mile traffic jam than take detours? That’s just dumb. [/quote]
…all to save money on the commute. They aren’t even Jewish![/quote]
Thats a stereotype. Some of them could very well be Jewish.
You forget we run a shadowy international network.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
http://dvice.com/archives/2010/08/image-of-the-da-17.php
Image of the Day: 62-mile-long traffic jam
[quote]traffic lasting for nine days, with drivers living off food they’ve bought from road-side stalls that have quadrupled their prices as cars wait in a procession that spans 62 miles. Yeah, it’s happening in China right now.
The congestion apparently started to build up on August 14th, when several trucks carrying heavy cargo to the nation’s capital began to slow things down. Slow it down enough, apparently, that road construction five days later on the Beijing-Tibet expressway ground things to a halt.
Drivers have been encouraged to use detours rather than enter the crawl, but some folks see that as increasing the cost of travel by having them go out of their way. They’d much rather just pull up to the pile and wait.[/quote]
There is no way in hell I am camping out in my car for days because of traffic.[/quote]
I’m pretty sure I’d just tell my boss a month later that I’m still about 15 miles away from the office and he should just direct deposit my check for the passed 4 weeks of work.
[quote]DJHT wrote:
[quote]MaximusB wrote:
We deal with this all the time, my hope is that a run-away Prius just happens to be in the vicinity. Hope Cal-Trans brings a spatula to clean up…
So people in Cali fuck up traffic because of a state law in Arizona, HaHaHaHa, that is fucking funny. I bet you people in Arizona would laugh there ass off at this. [/quote]
I am, Hell, I’m against the immigration control, and I think these people are idiots. That’s funny though, we barely even talk about the immigration thing here in Arizona and specially not dumb shit like this.
[quote]WombRaider wrote:
I am more pissed off at the 45 billion pairs of chopsticks they use a year…which is still a lower number than the amount of billionaires in the country. Yeah I just read that…in a book.[/quote]
Are you sure you meant ‘book’ and not ‘crack pipe’? I only ask because I’m fairly sure china does not have 8 times more billionaires than there are people alive on the entire planet.
Well, apparently they solved it:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100825/od_afp/chinaroadtrafficoffbeat
People are talking about population control when the fact it’s not as easy as that. China’s population is actually graying (there is an increase in old people). The fact is that there are too many old people in China in comparison to young people to properly enforce a shrinking of the population. This is due to an increase in living standards which means people are living longer, which considering how China is developing economically is only going to get worse.
It’s a catch-22 that Europe is already facing and USA will probably have to deal with in the near future. If people stop having kids that means the population pyramid will quickly become inverted, and that means either 1) old people will be thrown on the streets/euthanased/left to die, or 2) taxes on the working population will be utterly ridiculous in order to raise enough funding to take care of the retired.
I live in Taiwan and people here , most likely as in China, have very few problems with waiting in line.
We had a donut shop called Mr. Donut open here about 4 years ago and the line for the first week or so was 3 to 4 hours long. They even had signs up saying in Chinese ‘If you’re here, you may wait 4h 15m’ for fuck’s sake.
At Costco people will line up up to 25 people long for one of the little free toothpicks with ham on it.
Here’s a video I made of a line for the elevators at an 8 storey department store! The sign says the average wait is 15 minutes! The craziest part is do you really think all of those people even want to go to the eighth floor?!!?! I doubt it! Some probably get off at the 3rd or 4th. Fuck!
[quote]Grneyes wrote:
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
[quote]RSGZ wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]Grneyes wrote:
Wait, they’d rather get in a 62 mile traffic jam than take detours? That’s just dumb. [/quote]
…all to save money on the commute. They aren’t even Jewish![/quote]
Surely they’d figure out the money saved would go to buying food off the side of the road, lol!
They really need to start enforcing real population control. No one (in the world) needs to have more than 2-3 kids - especially if they can’t afford it.[/quote]
I know you may or may not be hip to American TV, but have you ever heard of the Duggers?
My wife watches this show, that makes me want to shoot myself, 19 And Counting. This couple have 19 kids, all with J names. [/quote]
And they’re open to have more!!! all of them need to be shot.
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fixed
[quote]destroyedquads wrote:
People are talking about population control when the fact it’s not as easy as that. China’s population is actually graying (there is an increase in old people). The fact is that there are too many old people in China in comparison to young people to properly enforce a shrinking of the population. This is due to an increase in living standards which means people are living longer, which considering how China is developing economically is only going to get worse.
It’s a catch-22 that Europe is already facing and USA will probably have to deal with in the near future. If people stop having kids that means the population pyramid will quickly become inverted, and that means either 1) old people will be thrown on the streets/euthanased/left to die, or 2) taxes on the working population will be utterly ridiculous in order to raise enough funding to take care of the retired.[/quote]
With as much obesity as we have now, we (USA) probably don’t have many people living to old age anyway. Or at least that’s how it seems to me.
IMHO, I think that China is screwed. They have so many problems, it’s only a matter of time before it comes crashing down.
[quote]xjusticex2013x wrote:
[quote]destroyedquads wrote:
People are talking about population control when the fact it’s not as easy as that. China’s population is actually graying (there is an increase in old people). The fact is that there are too many old people in China in comparison to young people to properly enforce a shrinking of the population. This is due to an increase in living standards which means people are living longer, which considering how China is developing economically is only going to get worse.
It’s a catch-22 that Europe is already facing and USA will probably have to deal with in the near future. If people stop having kids that means the population pyramid will quickly become inverted, and that means either 1) old people will be thrown on the streets/euthanased/left to die, or 2) taxes on the working population will be utterly ridiculous in order to raise enough funding to take care of the retired.[/quote]
With as much obesity as we have now, we (USA) probably don’t have many people living to old age anyway. Or at least that’s how it seems to me.[/quote]
You would be wrong. The same medical conveniences that allow kids to walk around weighing over 200lbs at only 12 years old are the same that allow people who would have died 50 years ago to now last until they are 80 years old.
Most of my patients over the age of 50 are on at least 5 different medications and the majority are obese. The usuals are medications for diabetes, high blood pressure, anxiety, high cholesterol, and stroke.
The reality is, the world will likely resemble the movie Wall-E in 200 years only without the space travel (because we put no focus into NASA like we used to and no one still believes there are little green men on Mars).
[quote]Professor X wrote:
The reality is, the world will likely resemble the movie Wall-E in 200 years only without the space travel (because we put no focus into NASA like we used to and no one still believes there are little green men on Mars).[/quote]
Good point. I wonder why they’ve pulled their budgets, there is so much still to be discovered out there… so much.
Wall-E was a good movie though!!
[quote]RSGZ wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
The reality is, the world will likely resemble the movie Wall-E in 200 years only without the space travel (because we put no focus into NASA like we used to and no one still believes there are little green men on Mars).[/quote]
Good point. I wonder why they’ve pulled their budgets, there is so much still to be discovered out there… so much.[/quote]
Maybe if terrorists put giant lasers on the moon we’d be more inclined to put money into the space travel?
Hm…interesting. So as these individuals age, science and medicine will allow them to live longer and the only way the US will be able to take care of our elderly is by upping medicaid deductions for the working public as well as State payouts to the medicaid program, which will essentially mean less spending money for you and I and less state dollars for the other things like education. Meanwhile, insurance and pharma companies don’t have to pay a dime…
The Duggars are fucking weirdos! Its almost commendable.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]xjusticex2013x wrote:
[quote]destroyedquads wrote:
People are talking about population control when the fact it’s not as easy as that. China’s population is actually graying (there is an increase in old people). The fact is that there are too many old people in China in comparison to young people to properly enforce a shrinking of the population. This is due to an increase in living standards which means people are living longer, which considering how China is developing economically is only going to get worse.
It’s a catch-22 that Europe is already facing and USA will probably have to deal with in the near future. If people stop having kids that means the population pyramid will quickly become inverted, and that means either 1) old people will be thrown on the streets/euthanased/left to die, or 2) taxes on the working population will be utterly ridiculous in order to raise enough funding to take care of the retired.[/quote]
With as much obesity as we have now, we (USA) probably don’t have many people living to old age anyway. Or at least that’s how it seems to me.[/quote]
You would be wrong. The same medical conveniences that allow kids to walk around weighing over 200lbs at only 12 years old are the same that allow people who would have died 50 years ago to now last until they are 80 years old.
Most of my patients over the age of 50 are on at least 5 different medications and the majority are obese. The usuals are medications for diabetes, high blood pressure, anxiety, high cholesterol, and stroke.
The reality is, the world will likely resemble the movie Wall-E in 200 years only without the space travel (because we put no focus into NASA like we used to and no one still believes there are little green men on Mars).[/quote]
Funny that I never made that logical jump to meds. I see a 300 lbs sixty year old and I say to myself “How are you still alive?”
[quote]Rational Gaze wrote:
I feel this is appropriate.[/quote]
this shit is too funny
[quote]RSGZ wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
The reality is, the world will likely resemble the movie Wall-E in 200 years only without the space travel (because we put no focus into NASA like we used to and no one still believes there are little green men on Mars).[/quote]
Good point. I wonder why they’ve pulled their budgets, there is so much still to be discovered out there… so much.[/quote]
short story: the Prez has bigger fish to fry, and sinking billions into a program with no return investment while the country spirals into debt is…not very good business.
[quote]WormwoodTheory wrote:
[quote]RSGZ wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
The reality is, the world will likely resemble the movie Wall-E in 200 years only without the space travel (because we put no focus into NASA like we used to and no one still believes there are little green men on Mars).[/quote]
Good point. I wonder why they’ve pulled their budgets, there is so much still to be discovered out there… so much.[/quote]
short story: the Prez has bigger fish to fry, and sinking billions into a program with no return investment while the country spirals into debt is…not very good business.[/quote]
But it’s fucking cool
[quote]WormwoodTheory wrote:
[quote]RSGZ wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
The reality is, the world will likely resemble the movie Wall-E in 200 years only without the space travel (because we put no focus into NASA like we used to and no one still believes there are little green men on Mars).[/quote]
Good point. I wonder why they’ve pulled their budgets, there is so much still to be discovered out there… so much.[/quote]
short story: the Prez has bigger fish to fry, and sinking billions into a program with no return investment while the country spirals into debt is…not very good business.[/quote]
Ya that would be a terrible idea to waste money in the country’s budget, I’m glad POTUS doesn’t do THAT. Wait what?
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
[quote]WormwoodTheory wrote:
[quote]RSGZ wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
The reality is, the world will likely resemble the movie Wall-E in 200 years only without the space travel (because we put no focus into NASA like we used to and no one still believes there are little green men on Mars).[/quote]
Good point. I wonder why they’ve pulled their budgets, there is so much still to be discovered out there… so much.[/quote]
short story: the Prez has bigger fish to fry, and sinking billions into a program with no return investment while the country spirals into debt is…not very good business.[/quote]
Ya that would be a terrible idea to waste money in the country’s budget, I’m glad POTUS doesn’t do THAT. Wait what?[/quote]
well then cutting back on shooting expensive cameras into space should put some extra money back in the Squandering Fund.