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Yes, 'in the moment' the addict has some control whereas someone with Tourrette's does not (I have a niece with Tourrette's). My point is that the addict must act on the craving eventually; it is not something that can be readily controlled. Therefore to hate the smoker for smoking, is to hate them for something they have very little control over. The addiction is not the same as the tics and outbursts, but it is much closer to having an uncontrolled tic than it is to blowing a horn while they are talking to you. It seems fair to me to be annoyed at the smoker who smokes next to you while you are eating instead of stepping away and smoking, but it does not seem fair to me to be annoyed at them for bending to the addiction.

You seem to be implying that choosing not to light up is as voluntary as choosing to not pick up a magazine. While the person with Tourrette's probably cannot choose not to swear, the person who lights up is not doing so simply by muscle memory. It is an addiction.

His company does not produce it at all. It is made by a company in the Netherlands. No one in the US makes it.

My brother works for a company that ships in diagnostic radio-pharmaceuticals from Europe to the US. When a volcano in Iceland erupted in 2010 it disrupted air service which meant that the jets required a longer route to the US. During this period of disruption, his company had to stop shipments as the half life of the radio-pharmaceuticals was so short that the delay rendered them ineffective.

Thanks for the link! I'll submerge clean plates tonight and try to separate them both in and out of water to be sure of my method.

Due to my dishwasher being broken, I found myself doing dishes by hand for a few days. We have some Correlle dishes that stack very tightly together, and I noticed that when they were stacked while submerged in water, it was quite difficult to pry them apart. A couple of times I even stuck a knife between them to pry them apart. Similarly I was making split pea soup tonight and after rinsing off the dried peas which all have one very smooth flat surface, I found that they dropped out of the colander in one stuck-together clump. I assume the combination of water with smooth flat surfaces is the reason they are sticking together, but I don't understand what is occurring. Can someone please explain to me the physics of this phenomenon?

Putang ina! At least I'm in good company!

Given that smoking is an addiction, I'd say it is similar to the principle of attacking the argument, not the person. If I'm talking to you and and you keep calling me a son of a bitch due to your Tourette's, should I still love you and hate the outburst? Or should I blame you because it is your behavior?

It looks to me as if he really exists, then he is ignoring us completely. Do you really believe that your lot in life is the result of a bully God, rather than as a result of nature?

Is that accurate? I'd agree that the possibility of us ever finding evidence approaches zero, but I'm not sure our lack of evidence of a supernatural being means the likelihood of its existence approaches zero. If we knew how to look for evidence of a god the possibility might approach zero, as we could begin to eliminate places he could be hiding. But we may simply be looking in the wrong place or at the wrong time. I'm not sure we can say anything at all about the possibility of a god. On the other hand, I think we can say that the existence of a god who provides us with testable attributes (e.g. praying to him will increase the likelihood of winning a football game) can approach zero over time.

No. If you make your choice based on tossing a coin, then you are not using any information about the teams on which to base your decision. Therefore you are just as likely to choose the team that is likely to win as the team that is likely to lose. Even if the game is over and thus the odds for the winning team are now 100%, if you didn't know which team won and had to choose one based on a coin toss, you would still have a 50% chance of picking the winning (or losing) team. If you DO know which team won, then you would have a 100% chance of choosing the winning team. What matters is what YOU know, not what someone else knows. (Cross-posted essentially the same answer as Strange)

I'm not sure I understand your question. Can you please rephrase it?

You are conflating two different situations. Odds given by Vegas of who the winner of a football game is likely to be is based on having information about the contestants. The odds of one team beating another are rarely 50/50. The other situation is when no one has any information about the two contestants. In this case, the odds of picking the winner will be 50/50. If there is a football game and you have to pick the winner by pulling their name out of a hat, then the odds of you choosing the winner are 50/50. If in that same game you have information about the contestants and are allowed to choose who you think will win based on that information, your odds will not be 50/50. Whether or not the probability of your friend choosing correctly was 50/50, is dependent on whether or not your friend used any information to help make his selection.

Absolutely LOVE her voice.

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Can you please make your question a little bit more specific?

Damn that was funny! :-0

I rode for a few years and there were many potential accidents that I experienced while on a motorcycle that I wouldn't have experienced in a car. I slid on some gravel that accumulated in the road, hit a large pothole that almost tossed me off the bike, and of course being much less visible I was cut off more often. I was also a much safer rider than most people in cars because as you said, you know how vulnerable you are.

Maybe you should try some nicotine StringJunky!

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/are-motorcycles-more-dangerous-than-cars.htm

When my sister gave up smoking she had to also give up visiting pubs. She said smoking and pubs just went together, and she couldn't handle the strong impulse to smoke when in that environment.

When I would be craving food while dieting, my wife would often say "You are an adult, and it is not up to your stomach what you do and don't eat". So in that vein, tell your cravings that YOU decide what you put in your body, and that they can go screw themselves. Get angry at your cravings for being such a dick to you and making your evening difficult.

I've never been a smoker (not cigarettes, anyway ) so I don't have any 'real life' experience, but my suggestion is to make having a cigarette at night as difficult as possible. No cigarettes around the house, no cash around at night to buy cigarettes, leave your shoes with your neighbor so you can only get them in the morning, tell anyone close by that they should not give you a smoke upon threat of death, have someone lock you in your room if necessary. We'll also expect updates every morning on how you did. You don't want to have to tell us you had a setback, do you?

I don't know. Are we making them sneak over the border to leave? I would have assumed that if an illegal alien wanted to leave that we'd open the gate wide and give them party favors as they left.