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2016-04-23 Science & Technology

The High-Tech World Is Making Us Weak and Weird

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Posted by Besoeker 2016-04-23 08:22|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 But we've traded these dangers for the perils of inactivity: heart disease, type II diabetes, some forms of cancer, back pain, joint pain, and possibly a smorgasbord of mental health issues.

If you don't survive beyond 45 most of that will not pop up and bother you. So what the man has identified as a problem is the extended life expectancy that has been achieved in the last hundred years. Give up all those advances in medicine and health care that got you past 45 and the problems disappear. [Why do I get a sense this is the rationalization for where the failed Obamacare program is headed?]

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-04-23 08:39|| 2016-04-23 08:39|| Front Page Top

[Why do I get a sense this is the rationalization for where the failed Obamacare program is headed?] Posted by Procopius2k

Tax technology, not .22 ammo. The old ways are best. Innovation and creativity are to blame. Those who embrace it must pay. The 'Off-Grid' community demands it.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-04-23 09:18|| 2016-04-23 09:18|| Front Page Top

#3 Tax technology, not .22 ammo.

Now now, the progressives are perfectly capable of taxing both...

Posted by Steve White 2016-04-23 14:42|| 2016-04-23 14:42|| Front Page Top

#4 I have often thought that smart phones are the most beautiful shackles ever created.

Reminds me of Norman Rockwell's 'Lift Up Thine Eyes.'

Posted by swksvolFF 2016-04-23 21:59|| 2016-04-23 21:59|| Front Page Top

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