On Mon, 18 Jul 2016 09:22:54 -0700 (PDT), "Wise TibetanMonkey, Most
Humble Philosopher" <
thetibet...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Monday, July 18, 2016 at 5:31:18 AM UTC-4, John B. wrote:
>> On Sun, 17 Jul 2016 19:12:13 -0700 (PDT), "Wise TibetanMonkey, Most
>> Humble Philosopher" <
thetibet...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >An SUV doesn't need to explode to cause catastrophic damage. I read they can cause *16 times* more damage to other cars. Their higher bumpers and the sheer mass of a jungle vehicle is out of place in a city environment.
>>
>> I see... 16 times more damage. So a SUV traveling, say 50 mph hits you
>> it causes 16 times the damage that a small pocket sized car that hits
>> you at the same speed? Why would you care as the tiny little car will
>> kill you. Can you be killed 16 times more dead?
>
>I think you are playing dumb. If a Mini hits another Mini head on, the drivers would have equal chance of survival, right? If a Hummer hits a Mini, the damage to the Mini would be catastrophic and the driver would be dead fish.
You really should have paid attention when you were going to school.
What you write isn't correct at all. In fact even Mythbusters did a
show about that, which demonstrated that physics is correct not
popular assumptions, like your's.
<more snipped >
>> >*I am life* giving life to the planet, not destroying life in a reckless way. I may kill a pedestrian someday but that's not my choice. It's the fear of the road that makes me go on the sidewalk.
>>
>> You are a life? Giving life to the planet? I assume that you are
>> either confusing yourself with God, or your girlfriend is pregnant.
>
>Affluent communities are devoid of life. Not a soul out there. I give it life with my supreme self and bicycle.
If, as you say, "Affluent communities are devoid of life" then why do
these communities exist. and if you "giver it life" as you say than
obviously you have a "God Complex"
A god complex is an unshakable belief characterized by consistently
inflated feelings of personal ability, privilege, or infallibility.
A person with a god complex may refuse to admit the possibility of
their error or failure, even in the face of irrefutable evidence,
intractable problems or difficult or impossible tasks. The person is
also highly dogmatic in their views, meaning the person speaks of
their personal opinions as though they are unquestionably correct.
Someone with a god complex may exhibit no regard for the conventions
and demands of society, and may request special consideration or
privileges
Note that this condition was first described term god-complex was
Ernest Jones (1913-51). His description, at least in the contents page
of Essays in Applied Psycho-Analysis, describes the god complex as
belief that one is a god.
In short, you are not a philosopher.... you are just a common,
ordinary, everyday, nitwit.
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>> >> >
http://www.zazzle.com/mightier_then_the_bomb_t_shirt-235797547492014769?rf=238111090634717809
>> >> >
>> >> >
http://www.zazzle.com/mightier_then_the_bomb_t_shirt-235797547492014769?rf=238111090634717809
>> >>
>> >> Usenet is usually thought to be a non commercial network and here you
>> >> are advertising your tee shirts for sale. For $22.50.... for a shirt
>> >> that I can easily have reproduced for less than US$5.00, in lots of
>> >> 100 or more.
>> >>
>> >> It appears that your "save the World" operation is netting you about
>> >> $15.00 on every sale. Is this really a "save the world" exercise or
>> >> (as seems likely) a "make me rich" scheme?
>> >
>> >Actually I have set my commission at 20%, so I don't make more than a few bucks. The company and its contractors make the lion's share of it. That's OK, they make everything. I just put my creative genius to it.
>> >
>>
>> Well, that is, of course your story, but it sounds very strange that a
>> group that is flogging tee shirts for 4 times what I can buy them for
>> isn't making a whole lot of money. If what you are telling us is the
>> truth than I can only offer condolences as you are certainly not wise
>> enough to come in out of the rain.
>>
>> After all a plain white tee shirt costs less than one dollar. Sea
>> shipping is perhaps another dollar, inland freight, say another dollar
>> and the tee shirts are in hand for three dollars or less, say $2.50.
>> Silk Screening is cheap, maybe 5 cents a shirt. Sold for $22.00 each
>> it seems as though someone is making quite a lot of money.
>
>No way I can have that stock of products. I'd need "hated investors" to do everything in different sizes and customization. They customize the product for you. How much do you pay for a stupid Polo shirt? That logo has been getting bigger and bigger like an SUV. I've gotten my own t-shirts on sale for 10 bucks. And you really stand out in a good way. ?
Investors? For a hundred dollars worth of tee shirts? You are really
just a penny-ante person aren't you.
As for what I pay for a "polo shirt"? Well a polo shirt is a short
sleeved, pull-over shirt with a collar, quite different than the cheep
"tee shirts" that you show in your references. Well I pay US$ 5.667 in
a popular chain-store here. And that is with a pocket.
>>
>>
>> >The hope is that as I become a successful entrepreneur I can be absorbed by the system and channel that money to a charity or another. I'd send bicycles to Africa. They need it. We have too many bicycles that see no use.
>>
>> If you are making 20% on a 22.50 shirt that cost, perhaps $3.00 to
>> produce I doubt that you are an Entrepreneur. A fool perhaps?
>
>I sell other t-shirts for 5 bucks, one size, take it or leave it.
>>
>> >There's great hope for Africa. America less so. Too many SUVs are flashed in your face when watching some TV. What if we flashed bicycles instead of SUVs?
>>
>>
>> Are you talking about Sub-Saharan Africa where the indigenous people
>> turned perhaps the richest countries in Africa into the poorest? Where
>> the indigenous people kill each other simply because they talk
>> differently? Where corruption is perhaps the greatest in the world?
>>
>> The greatest help you could give those people is let the Europeans
>> come back.
>
>The Europeans and Americans still control the game but avoid the responsibility. It's called NEOCOLONIALISM. ?
And how do they do that? In Zimbabwe the Locals kicked out the
Europeans and gave the land to the local population with the results
that they now have 95% unemployment. In 1998 gold production was
27,114 Kg of gold while in 2007 it was 7,017.
At independence the Zimbabwe currency was US$1.00 = Z$0.657.
Zimbabwe's GDP grew on average by about 4.5% between 1980 and 1990.
Between 2000 and December 2007, the national economy contracted by as
much as 40%; inflation vaulted to over 66,000%, and there were
persistent shortages of hard currency, fuel, medicine, and food. GDP
per capita dropped by 40%, agricultural output dropped by 51% and
industrial production dropped by 47%. The currency was devalued by the
central bank twice, first to 9,000 to the US$, and then to 17,500 to
the US$ on 20 July 2005. In 2009 the Zimbabwe currency was suspended
and U.S. $ were used.
Disregarding agriculture Zimbabwe has natural resources, Gold, Nickel,
Coal, Asbestos, Copper, Chromium, silver, iron and Diamonds. All
readily saleable on the International market.
In short, under local government the country is a disaster. They have
fostered dissension between the two largest segments of the
population, they have turned Rhodesia, a very wealthy African country,
into Zimbabwe, perhaps the poorest country in sub-Saharan Africa.
Now, please tell us, in sufficient detail to demonstrate your own
knowledge, exactly how this is anyone's fault except their own.
(I suspect that you will rapidly change the subject)
--
cheers,
John B.