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FeepingCreatures Nicole: you're absolutely correct that the key is to remove humans from the equation. Once you do this, a whole load of practical and engineering challenges magically evaporate - and with them,...
FeepingCreatures Mary: my understanding is that the 'ghost cities' in China were driven mainly by cheap capital loaned to favoured building companies, who took the "build it and they will come" approach. To...
Mary Jander @Feeping: I hear you, but in China, individuals were responsible for the rise of sales of empty cities. In Africa, that syndrome could be repeated, no?
FeepingCreatures It seems to me the only sensible option is to bypass the government and start selling low-cost cities (read: affordable to build and maintain) direct to individuals. I believe this is possible,...
Venks @ Anum: Women are genetically born like that. There have been many papers, blogs, articles, debates over such a well discussed topic. Womens brain can process data that is fed into her system much...
richheap Sounds interesting, but I'm not sure how you reconcile them promoting messages about healthy living on one hand and selling alcohol on the other. I suspect young people have accepted that stepping...
Toby @Rich: It almost seems like it would make sense for the owners of pubs to support and promote programs to cut smoking in younger people and so generate more liklihood of people visiting pubs when...
Mary Jander I think it goes deeper than taking responsibility, HenryW. In my view, a character that's intact is less likely to fall prey to addictive compulsions. So the answer is developmental. When temptation...
HenryWalbesser @Toby and @Mary: It seems that the requirement is for individuals to take responsibility for their actions and that the rest of us not enable those who make bad choices by allowing them to blame...
Mary Jander Well, I believe that unless a person is equipped to understand the basic concepts of self regard and regard for others, the temptation to use hard drugs will be tougher to resist. Like other environmental...
Toby @Mary: Regarding this: "in the larger context of humanitarian training of children and ongoing spiritual/moral guidance. I'm not talking about religion here, but to educating folk in compassion for...
Mary Jander IMO, there is no answer to come from municipal policy -- or any other form of public policy. If there were, we would not have a heroin epidemic among upper-middle-class youth.
richheap Yes, and I don't believe banning alcohol consumption is the answer. I also don't believe in pushing up alcohol prices for everyone, as that punishes responsible drinkers. But I don't know what the...
Mary Jander I think that smoking bans have worked where drinking bans won't. I attribute this to the fact that when one smokes, one has to expose everyone around them to the residue. It's tougher to ban something...
richheap My last comment was badly phrased. I'm just trying to make the point that there is an issue in the UK with lots of people drinking irresponsibly, this puts a lot of pressure on public services,...
Mary Jander Dunno, Rich. I have trouble blaming restaurants and pubs, mainly because we know that Prohibition didn't work. Drug awareness programs haven't worked. I believe the problem has to be addressed from...
Nicole Ferraro Actually, there have been tech advancements in the cemetery space, but not along the lines of what you're thinking of, Rich. Check out the unintentionally hilarious video below! (Credit for my...
richheap I blame pubs for making me fat... or, at least, helping! But it'll take more than arguments about people's personal health to make them change their alcohol consumption. We don't get long in the...
richheap I blame pubs for making me fat... or, at least, helping! But it'll take more than arguments about people's personal health to make them change their alcohol consumption. We don't get long in the...
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FeepingCreatures Nicole: you're absolutely correct that the key is to remove humans from the equation. Once you do this, a whole load of practical and engineering challenges magically evaporate - and with them,...
FeepingCreatures Mary: my understanding is that the 'ghost cities' in China were driven mainly by cheap capital loaned to favoured building companies, who took the "build it and they will come" approach. To...
Mary Jander @Feeping: I hear you, but in China, individuals were responsible for the rise of sales of empty cities. In Africa, that syndrome could be repeated, no?
FeepingCreatures It seems to me the only sensible option is to bypass the government and start selling low-cost cities (read: affordable to build and maintain) direct to individuals. I believe this is possible,...
Venks @ Anum: Women are genetically born like that. There have been many papers, blogs, articles, debates over such a well discussed topic. Womens brain can process data that is fed into her system much...
richheap Sounds interesting, but I'm not sure how you reconcile them promoting messages about healthy living on one hand and selling alcohol on the other. I suspect young people have accepted that stepping...
Toby @Rich: It almost seems like it would make sense for the owners of pubs to support and promote programs to cut smoking in younger people and so generate more liklihood of people visiting pubs when...
Mary Jander I think it goes deeper than taking responsibility, HenryW. In my view, a character that's intact is less likely to fall prey to addictive compulsions. So the answer is developmental. When temptation...
HenryWalbesser @Toby and @Mary: It seems that the requirement is for individuals to take responsibility for their actions and that the rest of us not enable those who make bad choices by allowing them to blame...
Mary Jander Well, I believe that unless a person is equipped to understand the basic concepts of self regard and regard for others, the temptation to use hard drugs will be tougher to resist. Like other environmental...
Toby @Mary: Regarding this: "in the larger context of humanitarian training of children and ongoing spiritual/moral guidance. I'm not talking about religion here, but to educating folk in compassion for...
Mary Jander IMO, there is no answer to come from municipal policy -- or any other form of public policy. If there were, we would not have a heroin epidemic among upper-middle-class youth.
richheap Yes, and I don't believe banning alcohol consumption is the answer. I also don't believe in pushing up alcohol prices for everyone, as that punishes responsible drinkers. But I don't know what the...
Mary Jander I think that smoking bans have worked where drinking bans won't. I attribute this to the fact that when one smokes, one has to expose everyone around them to the residue. It's tougher to ban something...
richheap My last comment was badly phrased. I'm just trying to make the point that there is an issue in the UK with lots of people drinking irresponsibly, this puts a lot of pressure on public services,...
Mary Jander Dunno, Rich. I have trouble blaming restaurants and pubs, mainly because we know that Prohibition didn't work. Drug awareness programs haven't worked. I believe the problem has to be addressed from...
Nicole Ferraro Actually, there have been tech advancements in the cemetery space, but not along the lines of what you're thinking of, Rich. Check out the unintentionally hilarious video below! (Credit for my...
richheap I blame pubs for making me fat... or, at least, helping! But it'll take more than arguments about people's personal health to make them change their alcohol consumption. We don't get long in the...
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