2009-10-13

iPod In Cars; Dollar Impact On Economy

I notice a lot of people have taken to driving with ear phones - I assume to listen to their iPods.

This is not good. In fact, it's every bit as offensive as driving while talking on the phone. I guess people don't believe listening is an important part of prudent driving.

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Heard on the radio a news anchorman say about the rising Canadian dollar that it was "good and bad news" as if to say sometimes it's one or the other.
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A rise or decline of the dollar will always be a double edge sword bringing both good and bad news for importers and exporters. A rise in the dollar is good, simplistically stated, for importers and bad for exporters. What goes up, yin and yang (whoever they were), what God giveth...
Posted by T.C.

3 comments:

  1. Man of Roma10/14/2009

    Here too people are driving with earphones, which are moreover used *everywhere* (buses, while walking etc.). I wonder if there's any connection with the general increase of autism.

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  2. T.C.10/14/2009

    Interesting point about autism. We (or at lest the younger generation) do seem less engaged now.

    But all these headphones will lead to hearing loss.

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  3. Man of Roma10/14/2009

    We (or at lest the younger generation) do seem less engaged now.

    You make me think about my recent reply to Lichanos (tomorrow I will reply to your *great* comment, thank you).

    We are becoming childish, immature, we lack control in our food and sexual habits, we only think about entertaining ourselves [and we also endanger our hearing, yes]: in short, we are getting into auto-domestication. What? Yes, we are, since these are exactly the traits of domesticated animals compared to wild ones:

    " * Des problèmes alimentaires et un manque de contrôle des mécanismes de l’appétit pouvant entraîner l’obésité.
    * Des problèmes de régulation de la sexualité et une hypersexualisation.
    * Une régression infantile des individus, les adultes se comportant comme des individus immatures (dépendance parentale et activité ludique)."

    "Selon Lorenz, l’homme civilisé, n’étant plus contraint par l’environnement sauvage, a été forgé par la sélection artificielle produite par la civilisation elle-même. Ainsi, l’espèce humaine s’est auto-domestiquée."

    [from the French wiki on Lorenz]

    Then here we are [or the new generations are]:

    "obèses hypersexualisés, immatures et passant leur temps à se divertir.”

    I think John Wayne and Reagan would agree.

    :-)

    PS
    This thinks were inserted into the Mafia debate

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