That reminds of going to live in Montreal, aged 12. On of the kids at school started to tell a joke and the others told him not to waste his time because I would not understand French jokes told in English. The kid replied that "fucking is fucking in any language". I thought that was funnier than the actual joke. Some of the kids even thought that the English did not know words like fuck.

Un-hackable is not possible. If someone can create a system where remote control can happen from anywhere on the planet someone will find a way to take over control soon enough.
I think the authorities realized this and decided not to install them.

What's to prove, just take a bite of some pancakes or a cheesecake! — Posty McPostface

Yes, good. Maybe even great. Who would want to miss out on a big slice of chocolate cake with fudge filling? I can't imagine anyone turning it down.

Well I agree to disagree with you — Posty McPostface

I can agree to that.

I insist that cakes and particularly pancakes are inherently good. — Posty McPostface

OK, so prove it.

While the journey to the top floor of the building is hard, you have a better view than from the basement.

But pancakes are inherently good and safer on the wasteline and teeth no? — Posty McPostface

No and NO.

Essentially what you said was that the ingredients of cake can be bad, but not cake itself. And you need to brush your teeth. :joke: — Waya

No, the cake is definitely good, that is why it is a bad idea to ration it. But it is not inherently good, just good.
Eerrrrr, why would anyone want to brush their teeth? :gasp:

How can anyone hate cake??? — Posty McPostface

No one hates cakes. But loving them does not make them inherently good.

Now leave the bloody things alone and let us get on this rotting our teeth and growing our waistlines and butts

My logic is flawless. — Posty McPostface

Cake is fattening, tooth rotting and made from flour that is contaminate with all sorts of waste, therefore it is not inherently good. Thus it should not be rationed.

Cake must be rationed. — Posty McPostface

Bollocks. You have no authority to do that. :rage:

What was the guy holding the chair going to do with it-- Yell "Get back in your cage!"? — Bitter Crank

:lol: No idea. Maybe his first instinct was to make sure he did not get hit as well.

I noticed that nobody rushed to the aid and comfort of the allegedly abused woman. Did she have it coming?perhaps that is why none of the women rushed over to commiserate with her. — Bitter Crank

I noticed that as well, but I have no idea how people treat each other in the street in Paris. You see videos all the time of people being beaten up, but no one goes to their aid. Might be that they are too busy filming, or that they do not want to get involved with someone they do not know.
If you look at the beginning of the clip, it appears that they crossed paths randomly, each coming from the opposite direction. They did not appear to know each other and she did not make any attempt to avoid walking past him which she would have done if she had known him and did not want to speak to him.

We didn't hear what the guy told the citoyens concernés de Paris. Perhaps Monsieur's explanation was éminemment satisfaisant, — Bitter Crank

Where I live the conversation would go something like this.
Nice guy "Hey, you can't go around slapping women like that"

Not nice guy "Shut the fuck up or I'm gonna do the same to you"

Nice guy "You can't say that to me, I'm calling the cops!"

Not nice guy "Go ahead and I'll come back for you later"

End of discussion.

But I don't live in Paris.

July 31 2018
Crazies in the street.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/shocking-paris-video-harasser-slaps-033055885.html

After you have finished with the post above, check out this one. Do you still think the same?

July 31 2018
A woman that you do not want to mess around with.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/concealed-carry-mom-training-her-083134826.html

Let's not talk about gun control, I want to know who thinks her reasoning is reasonable.

And before any brings it up yes I know it is not exactly current affairs for most of you, but safety for some is always current. And yes I also know that she is trying to sell stuff.

Let's start with something light from everyone's favorite news source.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6901945/fat-cat-put-on-diet/

States -or politicians- are not, and never were, necessary for military or wars. If tomorrow all militaries and states ceased to be, there would be a bloodshed on a global scale (a bloodshed bigger than the one that is taking place right now). — Πετροκότσυφας

People would band together and become mini states for their own protection. Once this happened others would band together to try to steal what they have, then there would be 2 mini states. The bad guys and the good guys would need leaders to guide them so there would be ranks, therefore military. They would need people to negotiate and manage the internal affairs, therefore there would be politicians.

To what extent is it valid to say: They are simply different forms of marble. — rachMiel

It is not valid to say that, you could say however that they are marble in different forms.

My missus went back to school when my daughter went to college and got her degree in school management. She did so because she wanted to "Do Something" but then they offered her a job as an assistant principle so she is quite happy about the way things turned out.

Go for it girl, the world awaits you.

Understandable, but I still believe that young people should have some sort of starting point as a guide to getting to know what one's taste buds might like.
I spent years loving guzzling Robisons' Bitter until I went to a city pub and found out there where other things to drink. Just joking, i drank it because i liked it.

You forgot the Bartenders Bible. Not everyone likes straight whisky, bloody fools that they are.

Substitute goat for f'loom and you have it almost correct, just ask Banno.

Everything is basically made up of atoms and they are in turn made of smaller particles. It is just the arrangement of those particles that make them different.

I might be wrong, but I don't remember seeing anywhere that an electron in one element is any different from those in other elements.

Just remember, some people are sons of bitches and just don't play nice with others. — Bitter Crank

Can we just shot them too and be done with it?

Military is wrong on so any levels I cannot imagine how any one could want to join. By the way, not everyone wants to join. Some are signed up and some use it as a way to get away. A lot of the ones that d join willingly are people with a death wish or just want to do other people harm and get away with it.

For one, military power is sometimes needed to quell internal dissent. — Bitter Crank

This is happening here where I live and it is not a nice experience. They do dress them up as military police though before they tell them to shoot civilians.

For two, the military is an on-call personnel pool in times of emergency. — Bitter Crank

Less money would probably be spent by having properly trained personnel for the job than maintaining thousands of soldiers and all of their equipment.

For three, many individual countries could find themselves with dysfunctional states on next door. In order to defend themselves from disorder, if not military attack, a functioning military is required. — Bitter Crank

That does not seem to be working anywhere around the world. The armies are not stopping the hordes of refugees from reaching the places they want to go to. Again, better trained border guards would probably be more functional.

Yes but... they got guns too -- big ones, and they practice. — Bitter Crank

So? Should we just get bigger ones or tell the politicians to cut off their money before we shoot them?

Except the military. You would then have a military state. Good luck with that. — Bitter Crank

Hell no we gotta shoot dem too.

From my own reading of Descartes I fail to see how anything more than the assertion at 3, a thingless experience of thought has been effectively reasoned by Descartes. — Marcus de Brun

Is it possible for nothing to have an experience? Is it possible for nothing to have an a thought?

Something must have experienced the thought otherwise you cannot use the word experienced. Events don't happen to nothings.

It has been a very long time since I last read Descartes in anything like a serious fashion but I do not understand how you reached your conclusion.

Nietzsche observed that every country claim to have a military in order to prevent invasion by another country's military. — darthbarracuda

The saddest part of this truth is that so many of the countries that spend great quantities of money on military build ups instead of education and health have nothing that anyone would want to invade them for, and no neighbors capable of invasion.

The major powers now have so much invested in war preparation that it would be a financial disaster to have to close all of the research, and production centers.

With today's technology it is possible to detect any kind of force planning an invasion of any of the major countries in the world, so a surprise "Red Dawn" invasion is extremely doubtful. Knowing this and knowing that the people of the good old US of A are armed to the teeth, who the hell would risk sending troops in?

Until someone finds a way of decimating whole armies with blood big death rays from space there are going to be people that insist on spending money for soldiers to do their bidding and die doing it. And maybe even then the race will continue to find ways of make bigger ray guns that can eliminate the other guys.

If you want to stop wars I say that we should just shoot all of the politicians so that there will be no one to start them.

Start with a good dictionary and then any and every book you can find.

None of this will help you to live your life though. The simple fact that no one is living your life means that no one can help you to live it.

If you want to live the good life you will first have to define what it will be like. Only then then can you start looking for information to help you reach your goals.

And if you are really looking for advice, don't waste your money on books about how to live the good life. That will only help the person that wrote it live a good one.

Err? :chin: Got to think about that for a while.

No. You only have to go backwards until the place you departed from your plan and then continue forward along the original route.

I think so anyway, not really sure. :smile:

Instead of turning around, I think I would just go into reverse.

To the left or right? Or maybe all the way around? :chin:

https://www.uexpress.com/go-comics?amu=/nonsequitur/2018/07/07

OK, that is one problem solved.

You can still down shift, but it is not as effective.

A guy I know almost killed himself in Mexico towing a boat, he did not know that you can lock an automatic truck in first gear to go downhill. Actually shit himself and had to stop to reline the brakes he burned out.

That happened to me in a jeep a few years ago.

Quick down shift and then into the low speed gears got the speed down enough for the hand brake to stop. That is why I would never own an automatic vehicle.

I have no idea what my last word will b............

Just save some for later. :confused: — Posty McPostface

How do you know there will be a later?

Of course you can, there is nothing better than cake with creamy ice cream on top.

Give up, I am going to have the last word. At least today.

Cheesy cheesecake!!!!!!!!!!!!

With strawberry jam on top.

:love: :love:

Cake!

The Thread can't DIE! — Waya

These threads never die, they continue into eternal Nirvana. :cool: