Well I "simply" don't eat the stuff or over eat. O.k so maybe I am some anomaly but I don't think so. Sure some people take a little more incentive and that is why I propose to provide them with some incentive - which would be that if they knew, or saw, that their health care costs are no longer covered if they cause their health issues then a large amount of people would start changing their ways. People need to be made responsible for their decisions; this means they must pay for their actions - if they are not held accountable then they, in general, will not act in a responsible way. Making people responsible will turn the social tide.
That is why there needs to be some visible and lasting penalties...as in if you have a disease like diabetes that you can prevent or fix by simply eating better and not eating so much - then you are responsible for any and all medical costs associated with it. We don't allow insurance claims if you purposefully wreck your car or burn your house down; why do we allow this when it comes to your health?
Yes..they do a great deal; outside activities that get you sun (Vitamin D) and the high fat (good fats not lard) give your body the raw material to make T. Exercise boosts it as well as anything involving moderate levels of fear/stress. Along with sleep.
You could say that about a lot of things, telephones, radio, cars, trains, etc. These, with the plane, have been used for great things for sure. But these tools have also been used for terrible destruction. So much so that Churchill lamented the existence of the airplane.
On the Egyptians...only Manetho claims this; he lines up all the dynasties in sequential order to make it appear Egypt went that far back. When everybody knew at the time, and even more so today, that many dynasties ruled concurrently. So...there is that.
You can escape poverty by working harder; it is just that working harder will not always work. It needs to be coupled with other virtues; of course the solution is not just simply to work harder, but to suggest that working harder is not a great deal part of the solution is false by every measure. Lets say this, you are born into a poor family - you still get to go to school that likely has a great library - the school and the library represent a deposit of great wealth that has been bestowed on you by society and you can take advantage of that - or not; most don't and mostly it is due to laziness. Most children would rather watch TV all day. Say you live in a "bad" neighborhood. You can pick up trash around your house or leave it there, or throw more trash on the ground. My observation is that the poor just throw more trash on the ground, they don't make their beds, they live in filthy or cluttered houses...with all that time on their poverty stricken hands they could at least organize their place. I have seen such stark differences...here in the states, in the middle east, and in Africa. I have seen impoverished people that wallow in their mire, and I have seen those that work hard to improve their situation, and though they may still be financially impoverished - they at least make the things around them a little nicer, educate their minds with what books they have and therefore live a more fulfilled life.
The solution is to have zero tax on property of primary residence. This way when one does buy land and pays it off there is no need to have a substantial income to pay property tax and you can at least live rent free not paying "rent" to the tax authorities every year) and/or make the land work for you. Also remove the inheritance tax so wealth can be built over generations and not evaporate away. Getting rid of inflation as well would help as one could simply save money in a bank account and not worry about it losing value every year.
The Bible, the Old Testament and what the Jews consider Holy Text is the Torah. The Talmud is a body of works of various rabbis; the Talmud mostly the two books of Gemarah and the Mishnah and should not carry the same weight as the Torah. So if one were to consider the Bible (Torah) only, the legal age of an adult appears to be 20. What the Jews did or made up on their own afterwards would be of their own tradition and in some cases in contradiction to the Bible.
The Bible - and Jewish tradition many times do not line up. Even in New Testament times there were issues with this - as Jesus had a beef with the Pharisees because they had all these other laws and rules one had to obey that were not part of the Torah.
Just because there is cheap labor here does not mean they live in poverty; in fact they do not. The cost and standard of living is much lower so the wage is not as bad as you think. Sure they don't drive BMWs and don't get their coffee at Starbucks or have a $1000 iphone but they are far from living in "poverty"; since the definition of "poverty" is poorly constructed. In any case lets say we accept they live in poverty - the agricultural sales of this product and other such products are all they have to hope for. The main problem is with the years if government/military corruption and strife. If that was rid of the country would be wealthy. By not buying their products you help to worsen the poverty; if you do buy, there is hope that the money will eventually improve things. But if they have no money - things will not be improved and this market will shift elsewhere eventually.
...and you may not be able to do a handstand. But if you learn the technique you can easily within a few weeks or less. Memory is no different. Learn the techniques recall and you will be able to remember more.
Facebook wanted to do this so everything did work as expected, they have been doing it for a long time and built it precisely to be used just as Cambridge Analytica used it. The only problem came when it was used to help Trump. When it was used to help the Obama campaign nobody batted an eye. Facebook is a political agenda and getting more people involved and helping their favored campaigns is something they were very interested in doing; that is why they allowed this - not realizing it would bite them back.
Although true, it really is a matter of perspective. If you were June bug, or any bug, running into a chicken would be a frightful and terrifying prospect.
The principles of security have not changed in thousands of years(Least Privilege, fix vulnerabilities/gaps, understand methods of attack...) as those principles apply to the world of IT they have not changed since IT happened. Specific events and vulnerabilities may have come and gone but the principles of design, and all such like things, have not changed at all. What has changed about trying to maintain Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability, Accountability, etc.?
See the top comment and see how this DID not happen. In any case, if it DID happen this would not have been "evolution" it would have been adaption; in other words selection for genes that are already there. It would not have been the result of new genes.
Well...the classics include logic and reasoning, or should. It is part of the Trivium (Classical Liberal Arts). The problem is that people only associate old books with a Classical Education when in reality Math and Science is indeed a great part of it. How can one be well rounded without math, science and logic - you can't be.
And then you will be able to base future decisions on fact instead of fear...of course this only works so far. There are obviously some things you really SHOULD be afraid of.
While this is true, they were still able to build pretty significant things without such accuracy. Sure, if you keep rounding you can lose essence but rounding pi to 3 doesn't lose enough of the essence for practical usefulness. 3 works fine rough circles..it might not work fine for building a rocket or a some finer piece of machinery but for may things it works fine.
Besides, although I said what I did to make a valid point, I mostly said it to be humorous. Sorry I did not put in the humor tags.
The UN and it's declaration have had nothing to do with the peace we have seen since 1945 - it has been becasue of Pax Americana...and with that on the way out we will see another major war in short order.