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http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/AheadoftheCurve/woman-loses-insurance-benefits-facebook-pics/story?id=9154741
The comments just...I don't know what to say.
The general populace's attitude at the moment seems to be "If I'm not
the one getting the money, the person is a freeloader deadbeat who's
milking the system and taking the money I worked my behind off to earn,
bawww" and it's kind of weird.
It's like, for each individual, they are the only person actually trying
to make a decent living, and everyone else on the planet gets a free
ride from whatever.
--
Tim Cook
http://empyrean.freesitespace.net
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Tim Cook wrote:
> The comments just...I don't know what to say.
Welcome to the internet. It's not just that sort of thing. There's flame
wars all over. And everyone who reads an article like that and *comments*
on it believes it at face value and then runs it thru their own perceptional
filters.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Is God willing to prevent naglams, but unable?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing, to prevent naglams?
Then he is malevolent.
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On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:33:12 -0800, Darren New wrote:
> Tim Cook wrote:
>> The comments just...I don't know what to say.
>
> Welcome to the internet. It's not just that sort of thing. There's flame
> wars all over. And everyone who reads an article like that and
> *comments* on it believes it at face value and then runs it thru their
> own perceptional filters.
Yep. I'm actually having an argument with someone on another forum about
whether or not looking out the window can tell you what the weather's
going to do "in a few minutes"; he claims no because he can't tell when
it's going to rain where he lives. So clearly nobody in the world could
possibly tell what the weather was going to do in the next 5-10 minutes
because he can't.
Jim
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Tim Cook <z99### [at] gmail com> wrote:
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http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/AheadoftheCurve/woman-loses-insurance-benefits-facebook-pics/story?id=9154741
>
> The comments just...I don't know what to say.
Mankind is doomed if it's to depend on a generation of uneducated crackheads.
We don't even have Wall-e-level AI to be in charge of babysitting the retard
overweight humans in perpetual vacation. Or at least T-1000-level. :)
Luckily, 2012 is just around the corner. ;)
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Jim Henderson wrote:
> Yep. I'm actually having an argument with someone on another forum about
> whether or not looking out the window can tell you what the weather's
> going to do "in a few minutes"; he claims no because he can't tell when
> it's going to rain where he lives. So clearly nobody in the world could
> possibly tell what the weather was going to do in the next 5-10 minutes
> because he can't.
Well, you can look at that argument from two equally valid sides: the
mathematical, and the practical. For the former, if there is any case
where you can't, saying "you can tell what the weather's going to be
like in a few minutes by looking out the window" is untrue. For the
latter, it's assumed to read "m (at least one, probably more) people, in
n (at least one, probably more) cases" etc.
;)
--
Tim Cook
http://empyrean.freesitespace.net
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"Tim Cook" <z99### [at] gmailcom> wrote in message
news:4b0af852@news.povray.org...
>
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/AheadoftheCurve/woman-loses-insurance-benefits-facebook-pics/story?id=9154741
> The comments just...I don't know what to say.
>
> The general populace's attitude at the moment seems to be "If I'm not
> the one getting the money, the person is a freeloader deadbeat who's
> milking the system and taking the money I worked my behind off to earn,
> bawww" and it's kind of weird.
>
> It's like, for each individual, they are the only person actually trying
> to make a decent living, and everyone else on the planet gets a free
> ride from whatever.
That too. But where there's any kind of insurance, be it health,
unemployement or auto, there will be people milking it. In fact, I don't
know of a single personal experience where I haven't seen this secondhand
whenever there was opportunity, from a good friend having free massages for
years after a fender bender, to friends and even relatives taking nice
vacations on EI when they were supposed to be looking for work. I've taken
sick days myself just because I didn't feel like working, not because I
would seriously be unable to work if I didn't have sick days to burn. It's
human nature to milk the system, consciously or unconsciously, so long as
the checks are not there.
Doctors are enablers too, for they stand to benefit from each visit, from
each prescription, from each test or referral. The way a new disorder or
cause for stress is "discovered" each day, you'd think we are the most
overworked generation ever. Sure, twittering for hours, or posting our every
minor daily grievance about the p.h.b. to p.o.t. is backbreaking work.
Having come across more than my fair share of constant whiners at workplace,
I no longer give the benefit of doubt to those who do the whining.
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On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:48:22 -0500, Tim Cook wrote:
> Well, you can look at that argument from two equally valid sides: the
> mathematical, and the practical. For the former, if there is any case
> where you can't, saying "you can tell what the weather's going to be
> like in a few minutes by looking out the window" is untrue. For the
> latter, it's assumed to read "m (at least one, probably more) people, in
> n (at least one, probably more) cases" etc.
>
> ;)
But that would be being overly pedantic, too. ;)
Jim
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On 11/23/09 21:37, Jim Henderson wrote:
> But that would be being overly pedantic, too. ;)
Not on the Inter-nets.
--
"Graphic Artist seeks Boss with vision impairment."
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Tim Cook wrote:
> It's like, for each individual, they are the only person actually trying
> to make a decent living, and everyone else on the planet gets a free
> ride from whatever.
I think this might be a kind of projection.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection
How many times have you heard this conversation?
"Can you stop shouting at me please."
"I AM NOT SHOUTING!!!"
"Yes you are."
"NO I AM NOT! *YOU* ARE SHOUTING AT *ME*!"
Rational? Not especially. But how many selfish people have you met who
complain bitterly about how the whole world is so selfish? How many
loafers who complain that nobody does any work? How many people have sat
at traffic lights impatiently revving the engine of their expensive
sports car complaining that everybody's too impatient these days?
Interesting, eh?
I suspect the people who complain about everybody being money-grabbing
parasites are exactly the sort of people who'd do the same thing, given
half a chance.
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somebody wrote:
> That too. But where there's any kind of insurance, be it health,
> unemployement or auto, there will be people milking it.
Yeah, pretty much.
> In fact, I don't
> know of a single personal experience where I haven't seen this secondhand
> whenever there was opportunity, from a good friend having free massages for
> years after a fender bender, to friends and even relatives taking nice
> vacations on EI when they were supposed to be looking for work.
You obviously don't know *me* then. ;-)
> I've taken
> sick days myself just because I didn't feel like working, not because I
> would seriously be unable to work if I didn't have sick days to burn.
I'm the sort of person who tends to turn up for work even when I really
ought to be at home. (Then again, I don't *do* a lot at work I guess...)
I've always been a good little boy. Something to do with having very
strict parents or something.
> It's
> human nature to milk the system, consciously or unconsciously, so long as
> the checks are not there.
Yeah, there's always [at least] one.
This morning I shuffled along in a queue of traffic because one of the
lanes had been coned off. With tedious inevitability, some guy in his
shiny BWM SUV drives straight up the empty lane to where the cones start
and then expects to cut in infront of everybody else. I mean, it *is*
his personal road, after all...
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