Phi for All

The same desire for approval that fuels the clothing industry is also what makes you strive for better grades and improve yourself as a person. Some is good, too much is not so good. It's like pride, you can take it too far. Caring what others think is actually a cornerstone for our society's model. Communication and cooperation coupled with high intelligence and opposable thumbs are what gives us mastery of the planet currently. We would all be in huge trouble if no one cared what others thought. Perhaps the key is to consider what others think but don't let that be the only thing you base decisions on.

For what purpose? Many people smoke just to get that taste. If you're a smoker who doesn't like the taste of tobacco, why smoke at all? Is this just for yourself or are you trying to mass-produce it to sell?

Why would they copy your theory? What benefit does knowing this number bring? The highest number for what? Anything? We actually have more atoms in our body than that. Isn't 7,987,987,778,981,078,910,149 a little higher than 7,987,987,778,981,078,910,148? Wouldn't your theory be falsified if there was even one number higher than yours? You mentioned that your number had no numbers 1-6, yet there are 1s and a 4, which you read as "ten" and "fourteen". What's the significance of that?

The rust was still there after you rinsed off the wax? Can't you just scrape off the part of the wax that has rust on it? I don't think you'll ingest much just putting the wax on your braces. Even if you'd put the snake on top of your yogurt I don't think there'd be enough iron oxide to hurt you. If you do get lockjaw though, you'll have plenty of time to hear my lecture about cleaning your tools and putting caps back on air-sensitive supplies. And I have another lecture about sentence structure.

Are you trying to remove the taste from tobacco entirely, or are you trying to change the taste of the leaves to something else, like menthol?

If they'll let you change the shower head, you should be able to get one that doesn't trickle and doesn't cost more to use. There needs to be some force to the water to rinse you off, but you don't need volume. It's probably a good idea to change your shower head every once in a while. You get used to things like that quickly. A new spray for your daily showers could be refreshing. You should try it and let us know. Better yet, upload some video.

Oh yes. They have a very basic one that the local water company gives away free. It doesn't change settings, but it's set to deliver a really powerful, thin spray that uses a lot less water. When you force the water through a finer hole, you get less water coming out but it's under higher pressure. The one I have now has a detachable head with a bunch of settings. I bought it for the massaging jets but since then we've gone through a few droughts and I can't justify the waste for the half-assed massage you get from the jets. Sure, a little sensation is better than nothing, I guess, but it's tough to enjoy wasting water after you've showered over a bucket so you could use the run-off to flush your toilet. Great idea. I can't even think of a reason why the local utilities wouldn't like it too. It probably wouldn't save any money, since your diverter mechanism would need to be powered/pressured to put the water back in the system, but it would definitely save a LOT of water. Wow, it sounds like this might be a way to have steam without all the negative effects on the plumbing. If it's atomized as it comes out, it wouldn't have to have the heat and pressure that destroys most steam bath systems. I would love to test something like this. Meaning, make one up and send it to me, I'd like to have a nice steam and try it out.

I always wanted a shower nozzle that would switch back and forth just from normal spray to a fine mist, so you could stay wet and warm but save water with the mist whilst shaving or soaping up, then rinse with the normal spray. I keep thinking this such a simple product that someone must be making them. All the changeable shower heads seem to want to give you at least five settings you never use. They seem to be the same five settings you never use on the sprayer attachment for your garden hose.

You mean like too long under hot sprays of water degrades the collagen in the skin and causes wrinkles? I've always heard that warm water was better to wash your face than hot water because heat along with the water leads to collagen degradation which can lead to wrinkling. This is anecdotal though; I'll see if there have been any studies on excessive immersion and wrinkling.

This doesn't make sense to me. Infinity is not a specific number to be added to or subtracted from, it's a concept. And I don't see how the omnipotence argument could be used in that situation. But if God is omnipotent, can He make a rock so big He can't lift it? This is a pretty plain test of omnipotence. If you can do anything, you should be able to make any size rock AND lift any weight.

This reminds me of a description in the book The Millionaire Next Door. These researchers had found that the majority of US millionaires are extremely down-to-earth, low-key, thrifty people who shop for their clothes at Sears and own a reliable ten-year-old car and clip coupons and happen to have several million dollars in liquid assets. These people minimize their monthly costs, pay cash for discounts and no interest, pay off credit cards every month, and generally have a lifestyle that's a couple of notches lower than what most people with their income normally choose. They don't live a millionaire's lifestyle; they live like you and me and just rarely have to worry about having enough money.

I love to take a steam and sit in it for a good half hour, then have a quick shower. The heat feels better to me than the water of a shower. I can spend some quality time wrapped in a steam bath. I'd have a steam shower in my home if it weren't for the horrible maintenance bills. Steam is very hard on a system. A lot of the time I go to the gym the steam room is being repaired.

FTW!

I didn't say you were attacking the church. You questioned why you wouldn't be allowed into heaven even though you've led a good life. Perhaps just living a good life is not enough to get into heaven, not the right "dues" to pay for this particular country club. Maybe they want something you're not willing to give, like faith and worship. If that's what's required for entrance, why are you surprised they won't let you in?

If you're not paying your dues for the country club membership, why do you think your good behavior entitles you to golf there?

To me, omnipotence is more than just being able to do something beyond our understanding. God might be able to do many things that we couldn't explain but still were within the bounds of the physical world. But being ALL-powerful means God could ignore physics entirely, make a boot travel faster than light or stop time itself. He could cause objects to fall at different rates of acceleration without using any other force. And I think that would make much of what we observe completely useless. And yet we know it's not, since we don't find glaring violations of physics all the time.

Is this the Abrahamic god? I think you need to follow whatever the rules of the faith require. Christians would say you didn't accept Christ as your savior so you gonna burn. Jews and Muslims would probably say that you don't believe in God, so it wouldn't matter that you did everything else right, your afterlife is set on "broil". Leading a "perfect" life doesn't necessarily include doing the things required to get into heaven.

You can bet that there are many benefits for Big Pharma by doing this. They may get government funding, they may get good will as time goes by, they may even be simply getting rid of some medicine that is obsolete or no longer in use. There are many times when something is mandated for a company to do but they spin it so it seems voluntary, perhaps even their idea. This may be something like that.

Isn't this more of a case of us hearing about the wealthy ones more than the poor ones? I would like to see evidence that says there were a disproportionate amount of European Jews who were wealthy prior to WWII. This seems similar to assuming that most Arabs are terrorists because when we hear about them it's in connection with terrorism. Are we just shining a spotlight on a particular group and then wondering why so many seem similar?

Is the story about the study of history through fossil records, specifically Mars archaeology? I like the idea of an archaeologist on Mars digging up fossils, but the term archaeology has some specific meanings that might not really attract anyone by the title. Studying alien fossils would be xenoarchaeology. That might be a more appropriate, exotic and interesting choice for a title.

So are you saying that if they'd talk less and stick to business you'd be more likely to have sex with them?

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Ten minutes tops, and that includes shaving in the shower. I can't imagine staying in a shower for an hour or more. Even when I get dirty I just don't get that dirty. I don't think showering longer is any healthier for you, but it obviously depends on what you're doing in there. If you're just letting the hot water wash over you instead of actively cleaning yourself, how can that be more beneficial? If you're actively cleaning yourself on a regular basis, why would it take so long each day (or even every other day)? Relaxing in the shower after working out is a bit different, since your muscles love the heat and you're quite a bit sweatier. But if you shower in the morning and just got out of bed, why would you need to relax your muscles in the shower?

The controversy was manufactured. Creationists/Intelligent Design adherents kept coming up with refutations of evolution or other scientific theories, which were, in turn, thoroughly debunked. The Creationists/Intelligent Design adherents, whose arguments are poor but have a certain sound byte quality to them ("If we evolved from monkeys, how come we still have monkeys?"), ignored the debunking of their work and simply kept repeating it, causing scientists to go into lengthy explanations about why the Creationists/Intelligent Design adherents were wrong. Explanations like this aren't what the public wants, so many don't hear the rebuttals. So every time the Creationists/Intelligent Design adherents drag out their lame, demonstrably wrong arguments, science responds heatedly (for the bajillionth time) and WHAMMO! The Creationists/Intelligent Design adherents suddenly call it a controversy and demand we hear both sides. It's actually the cleverest part of their manufacturing process.