I'm down the guest regarding most herbal cures, not all, but most. The worst case scenario with garlic is that you'll have bad breath and no friends, but with some other purported remedies, I say heed caution. Personally, I have good luck with garlic in conjunction with, not in lieu of cold medicines.
Considering the industry is not regulated,merely self regulated, you are generally taking a big chance that there is even the herbal supplement you've purchased is in your tablet. But, then, of course, you are taking a big chance if you put a bib on your baby these days.
PS. Consider Quackwatch your Snopes for medical bs.
I did some research on how much money corporate america is gaining from unsed cards. I couldn't find the info for Sears Holdings but I compare the profits to the dividends companies pay. I'd be interested to see what you think. I've included a link to the blog below.
Wrong, dude. Just...wrong. I like Andrea's take on it. Picture a spoiled 10-year-old child of rich parents (not that that's you, just an example) who doesn't make his bed, never washes his dishes, and won't wash & iron his own clothes. Sure, his parents have a housekeeper, but she *could* be doing other, more important, cleaning jobs or making a special dinner. Instead, she's running from room to room to pick up after the lazy kid who won't take responsibility for his messes.
I'm fairly sure that there's plenty for employees to do without extra littering, and sometimes, overworked employees can't always get to everything, meaning that things like popcorn bags get left on seats for the next customers to find. Lovely. Also, leaving a popcorn bag can result in grease stains on the seat, which means that the theater ages more quickly, even (if) they hire someone to clean the seats on a regular basis. This equals a decline in customer satisfaction, and potentially an eventual loss of revenue.
Kudos to whoever brought up the broken window fallacy.
When people say "that's not MY job" it tends to result in a sad state of things. Take responsibility for yourselves, lend a hand.
I need H E L P!! I moved into my 2 bdrm apt at the end of May. My apt has flooded for the 4th time as of this morning. I called Emergency Maint. at 9:30 it is now 11:15 and no one has responded, My ktchen is steadily flooding now coming into the dining room and living room. I called again and all the answering service could tell me is they still have not got a hold of ANYONE!!! I am very upset, not to mention M I S E R A B L E. I just want out of this place. I have tried to talk to the Manager very diplomatically and he is just not a nice person. I have pictures from when I first moved in and the apt had flooded, it took them almost three weeks to pull the pad and try and locate the problem 3 WEEKS living on wet soaked carpet, Then the mild started to grow..have pictures of that to...Some on please help me on how to break my lease and just get out of here...I am in Texas by the way, I think Laws are different in eavh state
I mean, come on. Guest is right. How dare you push your garlic-loving ways on us. You are clearly part of the whole garlic establishment trying to sell us this expensive and dangerous "wonder drug" for an obscene profit.
Just because the quacks at WebMD make dubious claims like
My issue is not so much with criticism and disagreement as it is with manners and basic human courtesy . . . something "guests" are usually assumed to have. I agree there is a time and a place to be agressive about something you feel passionate about. But jumping in to attack hard working people when a polite "point of information request" will do . . . I'm sorry. I have a real problem with this.
And it isn't because I can't take the heat. Trust me, I've taken my share of heat in my time. I've just learned that this behavior does nothing but give away your personal power, and in my opinion is only a sign of someone insecure with themselves anyway.
That being said, I think it's time to get off my soap box and finish my coffee. Have a great day, everybody.
I have to say, I'm in agreement about the nastiness possibly coming from the fact that people's own choices were being challenged. When someone is trying a particular lifestyle choice and succeeding at it, and someone else would like to achieve the same thing but is not willing to make sacrifices in the same area . . . often times the first reaction is to criticize. I'm not sure why that is.
We've had a few experiences with this as well. There are investment strategies we try that other people are not willing to risk. We also make sacrifices in areas some people would never contemplate (cable TV). On a recent visit to the home of one of my husband's childhood friends, we were surprised at how critical he was of what we were doing.
We found it interesting that he was so negative, when we were getting ready to take off and travel for six months, were debt free and had the ability to only select projects we found valuable. This person was still struggling financially with an overpriced lifestyle and was clearly not willing to make any changes, no matter how obvious it was to us that he had the freedom available to him much more quickly than we had been able to achieve it.
He was really interested in our lifestyle and wanted it for himself, but when he asked how we did it and we told him, he couldn't help telling us why our strategies wouldn't work. He somehow missed the obvious . . . that it was working.
The same seems to relate to the gentleman you interviewed. Just because a lifestyle choice is not for everyone doesn't mean the person it is working for is wrong in trying it out. Good post.
Pursing your dream because you believe and feel it must be pursued is honouring a deep truth that lies within you. It is realising your sacred quest, it is your greatest destiny. It goes way beyond the external accumulations of life to the very Source of creation.
So many peoples dreams have been burried, postponed until its too late or worst case killed altogether because we are affected by what “other people” think - they don’t believe in us or our dreams, they don’t think we’re good enough. Of course the truth is that fear is preventing them from pursuing their own dreams. They have become conditioned to think that “life is a struggle with short lived experiences of joy every now and again”
So whats the answer? The answer is to … Keep Going! Keep pursuing your dream. Keep moving forward. You see as you pursue your dreams and your own truth you are honouring yourself. In honouring yourself you will know true Love, Peace, Joy, Fulfillment and Happiness. In being YourSelf you may then inspire others who were afraid and yet again you may not. We have all been given free will. Of course it is one thing not to follow your dream but it surely must be a far greater crime to try and stop someone else pursuing theirs!
This piece of music in its melody and intention says it all for me. Listen, watch and In-Joy.
There are many cases where less service is better (such as in the case where you just check on your bank's website to see if a check has cleared, without having to call a bank employee to look it up for you).
There are many other cases where getting some decent customer support would be great. I bought a DVD player that came with a busted remote. I called the support number and spent nearly thirty minutes trying to tell a telephone robot that the DVD player was fine but the remote was bad, finally reached the point where I got "transfered" to an actual person, only to get a dial tone. I ended up taking the remote back to the store where they opened a box with another player and swapped remotes. I assume they then sent the whole box--with a perfectly good DVD player--back as defective. It would have saved everyone time and money if there'd been a person I could have talked to at the manufacturer's support line. (Plus, it would have employed that person.)
The other day I went to Home Depot to buy a tank of propane. Outside the store they had a kiosk and a set of "gym lockers" containing full tanks. I swiped my card through the reader, placed my empty tank in the empty locker indicated and then took a full tank from the locker whose door swung open. Two minutes tops. No hassle, no waiting in line. Available 24 hours a day.
Also no direct interaction with another person. Is that a bad thing?
To many people, "service" means something that is suggested by the related word "servant". I don't like treating people like servants, and I don't like having people behave subserviently toward me. I think this is what bothers me about leaving messes for someone else to clean up: it's such an arrogant thing to do. The excuse that I'm providing them with a job feels like a very thin rationalization.
Someone still had to fill that propane tank, truck it to the Home Depot, and load it into the locker. So I was still employing someone via my purchase. But I'd eliminated the "servants" as much as possible. I think that's a good thing.
I wish I were a wealthy aristocrat, with a huge family fortune I could use to employ a large staff of retainers. How pleasant it would be to know that I was providing a "living" to so many people!
But even the wealthy have only finite funds, and can't employ everyone. In real life, as opposed to fantasy, my own funds are even more limited. I must spend them wisely. I'm sorry, but I really can't afford a chauffeur right now.
Have you ever been to India? I have. The poverty there is staggering. I think you could pour in all the money in the world and it would hardly make a difference...
I don't think we can spend or consume our way out of this.
I think some of the things we learned as children are still true: don't make a mess for someone else to clean up, and don't take more than your share. Those are lessons about the vices of selfishness and the virtues of courtesy.
If you are comparing gas prices in Seattle to those in Portland, you need to consider the differences -- if any -- in the taxes imposed by the state. Since I live in the Seattle area, I do know that our local governments add a hefty tax on each gallon sold. That might more than offset any savings we might get from pumping our own gas.
This of course is a really late post, but I'm traveling to Canada tomorrow and still don't have my ICP card (here's hoping the overnight guy shows up before I leave for work tonight!).
What's an ICP card? Well, it's the Canadian version of our insurance cards, and according to my insurance company, is now required for any US citizen who is driving their personal car into the country. And to make it worse, an email or a faxed copy is no longer accepted. My insurance company has gone above and beyond to try and get a hardcopy to me by tomorrow morning, but take warning! You must request one at least one week in advance from your company before traveling.
I have a hunch, but no proof, that the book will be printed on bamboo paper or something. It's not snarky to question that - perhaps an ebook option will happen, but I odn't think the details are worked out yet. Or if they are, no one is sharing them just yet.
I think we will see a 50 cut between now and Sept 18th and then 2 more 25 basis points lopped off before the end of the year. A normal Fed reaction - tighten too quickly, wait too long, then loosen too quickly.
I know I'm here on the bottom at 3am and nobody will probably even get this far but I LMAO reading all the ridiculous remedies for scratch repair.
Peanut butter only works because of the oil.
I used a powdered cleaner Bon Ami and finished off with an application of olive oil. It worked on only a few of my pile of eight CD's. It left too many fine scratches that would need a decent polish to work right. It did however level the deep scratches. So I would say it's a good step 1 for heavy or deep scratches.
This was a dumb idea, but I was too lazy to go into the garage for the Plastic polish I bought for my clouded headlights (didn't work and the foam applicator I paid $10 bucks for ripped to shreds).
I'll try that tomorrow and see if the polish makes them work.
One guy does them with fine WET sandpaper, I think 400 then up to 2000 grit and then polishes them with a BARE buffing pad on a grinder holding the disc half on and off and turning it now and then until the disc has rotated in his hand 360 degrees and it's supposed to be better than new.
Hmmm, no grinder, I do have an orbital buffer...but the pad probably has so much dirt it will make new scratches,...and that's $10 for a new pad.
One remedy was to take oil from your nose (referred to as "grease")and rub it on the disc!
ROTFL
Or rub the disc on your forehead!
Any vegetable oil will work but only a couple drops or it will spatter itself inside your computer or player.
Will try and find that Brasso I bought that doesn't do anything to fake brass door knobs...Didn't think it was good for anything since who has anything made from solid brass anymore...and if it was you'd get owned on Antiques Roadshow for ruining the "Patina" of that vintage duck doorstop. Thought about polishing the statue of liberty once.
I think I'm going to buy the automated machine they sell for $5K that uses wet sand paper and do 2 discs for a dollar on eBay!$$$$$$$$
Thank you Andrea. My point is that saying that the reason that someone got better because they took garlic is not useful unless there is a control. There could be a dozen reasons someone got better. Just because they used garlic at the time is not a good test because the other possible explanations were not ruled out. Her husband could be genetically pre-disposed to be more resistant. Others taking garlic may be experiencing the effects of another food! How do you know it's the garlic, in particular, unless you've done a controlled test?
Correlation is not causation.
This is the reason for the invention of the double-blind test. And yes, it does matter if your garlic has evidence or not. If this could benefit 1000's of people, why wouldn't you want to submit this to a test? Don't you want this made well known and tested so that people will use it and doctors will prescribe it? That attitude has the hallmark of pseudoscience. Read all about the earmarks of pseudoscience here: http://quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/pseudo.html
Science doesn't claim jurisdiction on hugging etc., and that charicature of science and scientists is a bogus deflection from the matter at hand. As for 'prayer', allow me to point out that you and millions can pray all they want for the sick, but no amount of prayer could get 'god' to heal an amputee. Why is that I wonder?
Oregon required filling stations to pump patron's gas the last time I was there, six or eight years ago. From one of the comments I gather this is still true. You might suppose that Oregon gas prices ought to be higher than elsewhere since they have to pay the attendants. As just a natural history observation, I checked Portland gas prices at http://www.portlandgasprices.com and Seattle gas prices at http://www.seattlegasprices.com. As of the past 48 hours, the price range for a gallon of regular in Seattle (WA) was $2.59-$3.00. The price range for a gallon in Portland (OR) was $2.49-$2.99.
Doubtless, lots of factors enter into the price of gasoline, but this at least suggests that being able to dispense with station attendants doesn't necessarily lead to lower prices at the pump. Perhaps the price charged tends to be whatever the market will bear at a given time.
Like you, I don't see boycotts working. It comes down to the individual decisions of individual customers preferring to do business with businesses that pay people to provide good service. I don't see a solution except a shift in customer preferences. Which is why I write stuff like this.
I'm not sure what kind of movement could effectively combat the practice of hiring fewer and fewer people, but if anyone had an idea it might be worth a shot. When I worked at Barne & Noble the store was very short-staffed, the pay and benefits were terrible and every day off meant a phone-call asking if one could come-on-in-anyways, also, most days were full of cranky customers because the one person that could be spared to stay at the register had a line of people waiting at "Information." Thats what I see at my grocery store now too. Four cashiers, four self-checkout stands, and endless lines of people at both (because there are always problems at the self-checkout stand). What can be done other than feeble boycotts?
not sure why i'm being snarky, because i actually think what this family is doing is pretty cool, and the bit about his improved relationship with his daughter is particularly sweet and heartening.
but, regarding his own book, why no ebook option? it's great to look for sustainable ways of publishing it, but it's still printed on paper. why not at least do both a paper and an electronic release -- so people who wanted the paperless option had it? it might save as least as much paper as going without tp for a year would!
I'm down the guest regarding most herbal cures, not all, but most. The worst case scenario with garlic is that you'll have bad breath and no friends, but with some other purported remedies, I say heed caution. Personally, I have good luck with garlic in conjunction with, not in lieu of cold medicines.
Considering the industry is not regulated,merely self regulated, you are generally taking a big chance that there is even the herbal supplement you've purchased is in your tablet. But, then, of course, you are taking a big chance if you put a bib on your baby these days.
PS. Consider Quackwatch your Snopes for medical bs.
I did some research on how much money corporate america is gaining from unsed cards. I couldn't find the info for Sears Holdings but I compare the profits to the dividends companies pay. I'd be interested to see what you think. I've included a link to the blog below.
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Wrong, dude. Just...wrong.
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Wrong, dude. Just...wrong. I like Andrea's take on it. Picture a spoiled 10-year-old child of rich parents (not that that's you, just an example) who doesn't make his bed, never washes his dishes, and won't wash & iron his own clothes. Sure, his parents have a housekeeper, but she *could* be doing other, more important, cleaning jobs or making a special dinner. Instead, she's running from room to room to pick up after the lazy kid who won't take responsibility for his messes.
I'm fairly sure that there's plenty for employees to do without extra littering, and sometimes, overworked employees can't always get to everything, meaning that things like popcorn bags get left on seats for the next customers to find. Lovely. Also, leaving a popcorn bag can result in grease stains on the seat, which means that the theater ages more quickly, even (if) they hire someone to clean the seats on a regular basis. This equals a decline in customer satisfaction, and potentially an eventual loss of revenue.
Kudos to whoever brought up the broken window fallacy.
When people say "that's not MY job" it tends to result in a sad state of things. Take responsibility for yourselves, lend a hand.
I bought Oil stocks and that is my hedge against the rise in fuel costs. So far it has provided nice returns over the last 5 years.
I need H E L P!! I moved into my 2 bdrm apt at the end of May. My apt has flooded for the 4th time as of this morning. I called Emergency Maint. at 9:30 it is now 11:15 and no one has responded, My ktchen is steadily flooding now coming into the dining room and living room. I called again and all the answering service could tell me is they still have not got a hold of ANYONE!!! I am very upset, not to mention M I S E R A B L E. I just want out of this place. I have tried to talk to the Manager very diplomatically and he is just not a nice person. I have pictures from when I first moved in and the apt had flooded, it took them almost three weeks to pull the pad and try and locate the problem 3 WEEKS living on wet soaked carpet, Then the mild started to grow..have pictures of that to...Some on please help me on how to break my lease and just get out of here...I am in Texas by the way, I think Laws are different in eavh state
I mean, come on. Guest is right. How dare you push your garlic-loving ways on us. You are clearly part of the whole garlic establishment trying to sell us this expensive and dangerous "wonder drug" for an obscene profit.
Just because the quacks at WebMD make dubious claims like
doesn't mean we have to stoop to their level of incompetence.
Will
My issue is not so much with criticism and disagreement as it is with manners and basic human courtesy . . . something "guests" are usually assumed to have. I agree there is a time and a place to be agressive about something you feel passionate about. But jumping in to attack hard working people when a polite "point of information request" will do . . . I'm sorry. I have a real problem with this.
And it isn't because I can't take the heat. Trust me, I've taken my share of heat in my time. I've just learned that this behavior does nothing but give away your personal power, and in my opinion is only a sign of someone insecure with themselves anyway.
That being said, I think it's time to get off my soap box and finish my coffee. Have a great day, everybody.
I have to say, I'm in agreement about the nastiness possibly coming from the fact that people's own choices were being challenged. When someone is trying a particular lifestyle choice and succeeding at it, and someone else would like to achieve the same thing but is not willing to make sacrifices in the same area . . . often times the first reaction is to criticize. I'm not sure why that is.
We've had a few experiences with this as well. There are investment strategies we try that other people are not willing to risk. We also make sacrifices in areas some people would never contemplate (cable TV). On a recent visit to the home of one of my husband's childhood friends, we were surprised at how critical he was of what we were doing.
We found it interesting that he was so negative, when we were getting ready to take off and travel for six months, were debt free and had the ability to only select projects we found valuable. This person was still struggling financially with an overpriced lifestyle and was clearly not willing to make any changes, no matter how obvious it was to us that he had the freedom available to him much more quickly than we had been able to achieve it.
He was really interested in our lifestyle and wanted it for himself, but when he asked how we did it and we told him, he couldn't help telling us why our strategies wouldn't work. He somehow missed the obvious . . . that it was working.
The same seems to relate to the gentleman you interviewed. Just because a lifestyle choice is not for everyone doesn't mean the person it is working for is wrong in trying it out. Good post.
The people hating on this guy are the same type of folks who stoned the first man who invented fire. Keep fighting the good fight No Impact Man!
Dare to Dream
Pursing your dream because you believe and feel it must be pursued is honouring a deep truth that lies within you. It is realising your sacred quest, it is your greatest destiny. It goes way beyond the external accumulations of life to the very Source of creation.
So many peoples dreams have been burried, postponed until its too late or worst case killed altogether because we are affected by what “other people” think - they don’t believe in us or our dreams, they don’t think we’re good enough. Of course the truth is that fear is preventing them from pursuing their own dreams. They have become conditioned to think that “life is a struggle with short lived experiences of joy every now and again”
So whats the answer? The answer is to … Keep Going! Keep pursuing your dream. Keep moving forward. You see as you pursue your dreams and your own truth you are honouring yourself. In honouring yourself you will know true Love, Peace, Joy, Fulfillment and Happiness. In being YourSelf you may then inspire others who were afraid and yet again you may not. We have all been given free will. Of course it is one thing not to follow your dream but it surely must be a far greater crime to try and stop someone else pursuing theirs!
This piece of music in its melody and intention says it all for me. Listen, watch and In-Joy.
May Your Most Fulfilling Dreams come true …
Seán M
www.seanmkelly.com
There are many cases where less service is better (such as in the case where you just check on your bank's website to see if a check has cleared, without having to call a bank employee to look it up for you).
There are many other cases where getting some decent customer support would be great. I bought a DVD player that came with a busted remote. I called the support number and spent nearly thirty minutes trying to tell a telephone robot that the DVD player was fine but the remote was bad, finally reached the point where I got "transfered" to an actual person, only to get a dial tone. I ended up taking the remote back to the store where they opened a box with another player and swapped remotes. I assume they then sent the whole box--with a perfectly good DVD player--back as defective. It would have saved everyone time and money if there'd been a person I could have talked to at the manufacturer's support line. (Plus, it would have employed that person.)
The other day I went to Home Depot to buy a tank of propane. Outside the store they had a kiosk and a set of "gym lockers" containing full tanks. I swiped my card through the reader, placed my empty tank in the empty locker indicated and then took a full tank from the locker whose door swung open. Two minutes tops. No hassle, no waiting in line. Available 24 hours a day.
Also no direct interaction with another person. Is that a bad thing?
To many people, "service" means something that is suggested by the related word "servant". I don't like treating people like servants, and I don't like having people behave subserviently toward me. I think this is what bothers me about leaving messes for someone else to clean up: it's such an arrogant thing to do. The excuse that I'm providing them with a job feels like a very thin rationalization.
Someone still had to fill that propane tank, truck it to the Home Depot, and load it into the locker. So I was still employing someone via my purchase. But I'd eliminated the "servants" as much as possible. I think that's a good thing.
I wish I were a wealthy aristocrat, with a huge family fortune I could use to employ a large staff of retainers. How pleasant it would be to know that I was providing a "living" to so many people!
But even the wealthy have only finite funds, and can't employ everyone. In real life, as opposed to fantasy, my own funds are even more limited. I must spend them wisely. I'm sorry, but I really can't afford a chauffeur right now.
Have you ever been to India? I have. The poverty there is staggering. I think you could pour in all the money in the world and it would hardly make a difference...
I don't think we can spend or consume our way out of this.
I think some of the things we learned as children are still true: don't make a mess for someone else to clean up, and don't take more than your share. Those are lessons about the vices of selfishness and the virtues of courtesy.
If you are comparing gas prices in Seattle to those in Portland, you need to consider the differences -- if any -- in the taxes imposed by the state. Since I live in the Seattle area, I do know that our local governments add a hefty tax on each gallon sold. That might more than offset any savings we might get from pumping our own gas.
This of course is a really late post, but I'm traveling to Canada tomorrow and still don't have my ICP card (here's hoping the overnight guy shows up before I leave for work tonight!).
What's an ICP card? Well, it's the Canadian version of our insurance cards, and according to my insurance company, is now required for any US citizen who is driving their personal car into the country. And to make it worse, an email or a faxed copy is no longer accepted. My insurance company has gone above and beyond to try and get a hardcopy to me by tomorrow morning, but take warning! You must request one at least one week in advance from your company before traveling.
I have a hunch, but no proof, that the book will be printed on bamboo paper or something. It's not snarky to question that - perhaps an ebook option will happen, but I odn't think the details are worked out yet. Or if they are, no one is sharing them just yet.
I think we will see a 50 cut between now and Sept 18th and then 2 more 25 basis points lopped off before the end of the year. A normal Fed reaction - tighten too quickly, wait too long, then loosen too quickly.
You have another chance on Thursday, August 30 or you can go ahead and email now for a response on that day.
I know I'm here on the bottom at 3am and nobody will probably even get this far but I LMAO reading all the ridiculous remedies for scratch repair.
Peanut butter only works because of the oil.
I used a powdered cleaner Bon Ami and finished off with an application of olive oil. It worked on only a few of my pile of eight CD's. It left too many fine scratches that would need a decent polish to work right. It did however level the deep scratches. So I would say it's a good step 1 for heavy or deep scratches.
This was a dumb idea, but I was too lazy to go into the garage for the Plastic polish I bought for my clouded headlights (didn't work and the foam applicator I paid $10 bucks for ripped to shreds).
I'll try that tomorrow and see if the polish makes them work.
One guy does them with fine WET sandpaper, I think 400 then up to 2000 grit and then polishes them with a BARE buffing pad on a grinder holding the disc half on and off and turning it now and then until the disc has rotated in his hand 360 degrees and it's supposed to be better than new.
Hmmm, no grinder, I do have an orbital buffer...but the pad probably has so much dirt it will make new scratches,...and that's $10 for a new pad.
One remedy was to take oil from your nose (referred to as "grease")and rub it on the disc!
ROTFL
Or rub the disc on your forehead!
Any vegetable oil will work but only a couple drops or it will spatter itself inside your computer or player.
Will try and find that Brasso I bought that doesn't do anything to fake brass door knobs...Didn't think it was good for anything since who has anything made from solid brass anymore...and if it was you'd get owned on Antiques Roadshow for ruining the "Patina" of that vintage duck doorstop. Thought about polishing the statue of liberty once.
I think I'm going to buy the automated machine they sell for $5K that uses wet sand paper and do 2 discs for a dollar on eBay!$$$$$$$$
Thank you Andrea. My point is that saying that the reason that someone got better because they took garlic is not useful unless there is a control. There could be a dozen reasons someone got better. Just because they used garlic at the time is not a good test because the other possible explanations were not ruled out. Her husband could be genetically pre-disposed to be more resistant. Others taking garlic may be experiencing the effects of another food! How do you know it's the garlic, in particular, unless you've done a controlled test?
Correlation is not causation.
This is the reason for the invention of the double-blind test. And yes, it does matter if your garlic has evidence or not. If this could benefit 1000's of people, why wouldn't you want to submit this to a test? Don't you want this made well known and tested so that people will use it and doctors will prescribe it? That attitude has the hallmark of pseudoscience. Read all about the earmarks of pseudoscience here: http://quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/pseudo.html
Science doesn't claim jurisdiction on hugging etc., and that charicature of science and scientists is a bogus deflection from the matter at hand. As for 'prayer', allow me to point out that you and millions can pray all they want for the sick, but no amount of prayer could get 'god' to heal an amputee. Why is that I wonder?
I missed my free consultation!
Oregon required filling stations to pump patron's gas the last time I was there, six or eight years ago. From one of the comments I gather this is still true. You might suppose that Oregon gas prices ought to be higher than elsewhere since they have to pay the attendants. As just a natural history observation, I checked Portland gas prices at http://www.portlandgasprices.com and Seattle gas prices at http://www.seattlegasprices.com. As of the past 48 hours, the price range for a gallon of regular in Seattle (WA) was $2.59-$3.00. The price range for a gallon in Portland (OR) was $2.49-$2.99.
Doubtless, lots of factors enter into the price of gasoline, but this at least suggests that being able to dispense with station attendants doesn't necessarily lead to lower prices at the pump. Perhaps the price charged tends to be whatever the market will bear at a given time.
Like you, I don't see boycotts working. It comes down to the individual decisions of individual customers preferring to do business with businesses that pay people to provide good service. I don't see a solution except a shift in customer preferences. Which is why I write stuff like this.
I'm not sure what kind of movement could effectively combat the practice of hiring fewer and fewer people, but if anyone had an idea it might be worth a shot. When I worked at Barne & Noble the store was very short-staffed, the pay and benefits were terrible and every day off meant a phone-call asking if one could come-on-in-anyways, also, most days were full of cranky customers because the one person that could be spared to stay at the register had a line of people waiting at "Information." Thats what I see at my grocery store now too. Four cashiers, four self-checkout stands, and endless lines of people at both (because there are always problems at the self-checkout stand). What can be done other than feeble boycotts?
not sure why i'm being snarky, because i actually think what this family is doing is pretty cool, and the bit about his improved relationship with his daughter is particularly sweet and heartening.
but, regarding his own book, why no ebook option? it's great to look for sustainable ways of publishing it, but it's still printed on paper. why not at least do both a paper and an electronic release -- so people who wanted the paperless option had it? it might save as least as much paper as going without tp for a year would!
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