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[Truean]

So there are these seminars for small business owners etc. They have speaker spots to give presentation.

Seems a large law firm has paid tens of thousands of dollars (my inside source says upwards of $30,000) for "exclusive" presentation rights....

This means I'm hosed and like all the other presenters have been asked not to come back (cause the large firm bought out the place essentially).

The best part, about 20 or 30 people there have complained to the seminar place saying they couldn't possibly afford the large law firm's rates! They charge $400/hour and up. I charge $150 and I don't round up to the quarter hour or any of that BS. So what are the smaller audience members supposed to do when they can't afford to spend $5000 on a legal service that last year was presented for about $1500? This is stupid.

So apparently you can basically buy an entire market of customers.... WTF?

[ChairmanPoo]

Sadly I'm fairly sure not taking care of yourself makes you go to hell a few months sooner than it shortens your life. So while you don't want to live to be a 98 year old mess, you'll live to be a mess from 70-80 instead of from 90-98. I know some 85 year olds that can run faster and farther than I can at 20. I'm out of shape of course, but it's still impressive.

I can vouch for this. At the moment you can see lots of people living well into their eighties and nineties. The big difference between those who took reasonable care of themselves (and I'm not talking about crazy scheudles, just non-smoking, holding a reasonable weight, and so on) and those who didn't lies mainly in how much more likely to be a mess the latter are.  So the moral of the story: living healthier equals living longer AND better.

[Levi]

Sadly I'm fairly sure not taking care of yourself makes you go to hell a few months sooner than it shortens your life. So while you don't want to live to be a 98 year old mess, you'll live to be a mess from 70-80 instead of from 90-98. I know some 85 year olds that can run faster and farther than I can at 20. I'm out of shape of course, but it's still impressive.

I can vouch for this. At the moment you can see lots of people living well into their eighties and nineties. The big difference between those who took reasonable care of themselves (and I'm not talking about crazy scheudles, just non-smoking, holding a reasonable weight, and so on) and those who didn't lies mainly in how much more likely to be a mess the latter are.  So the moral of the story: living healthier equals living longer AND better.

Like this guy:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/24/fauja-singh-guinness-marathon-record_n_1028529.html

94years old and still running marathons.  I'll be happy enough if I can still walk at that age(or even make it to that age)

[Tellemurius]

Sadly I'm fairly sure not taking care of yourself makes you go to hell a few months sooner than it shortens your life. So while you don't want to live to be a 98 year old mess, you'll live to be a mess from 70-80 instead of from 90-98. I know some 85 year olds that can run faster and farther than I can at 20. I'm out of shape of course, but it's still impressive.

I can vouch for this. At the moment you can see lots of people living well into their eighties and nineties. The big difference between those who took reasonable care of themselves (and I'm not talking about crazy scheudles, just non-smoking, holding a reasonable weight, and so on) and those who didn't lies mainly in how much more likely to be a mess the latter are.  So the moral of the story: living healthier equals living longer AND better.

Like this guy:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/24/fauja-singh-guinness-marathon-record_n_1028529.html

94years old and still running marathons.  I'll be happy enough if I can still walk at that age(or even make it to that age)

unfortunately my history teacher has given me a story about him running in a marathon and a really old man in front had something trailing down his legs

[Pnx]

yup, truean.

big corporations are arseholes.

At least they're not forcing markets to let them sell opium to addicts.

[penguinofhonor]

unfortunately my history teacher has given me a story about him running in a marathon and a really old man in front had something trailing down his legs

The moral of the story is that you can't keep your digestive tract muscles quite as healthy as the rest of you.

[Truean]

yup, truean.

big corporations are arseholes.

At least they're not forcing markets to let them sell opium to addicts.

Shhh. Don't give them ideas.

[Pnx]

Mexican drug cartels kind of have dibs on that market already. Of course the US sells it's guns to them in return, or more accurately, they sell them to Americans that sell them to Mexican drug cartels, but I'm pretty sure all the corporations that lobby for the loose gun laws that allow this so easily know where those guns are going.

In a way, it's actually all a kind of crazy reverse opium wars scenario.

[Euld]

Wait wait wait, gun companies of the US are practically arming the drug war in Mexico? o___o?

[kaijyuu]

The firearm black market has a lot of suppliers, iirc. US of course being a large one.

[Hanslanda]

Wait wait wait, gun companies of the US are practically arming the drug war in Mexico? o___o?

Indeed. American business practices are... Well. Blindingly retarded, in many cases.

[RedKing]

Wait wait wait, gun companies of the US are practically arming the drug war in Mexico? o___o?

Not directly, not. They sell to gun shops (legally) who sell to purchasers (mostly legally).

The issue is with:
A. Purchasers who turn around and resell their firearms to buyers for the cartels.
B. Gun shops who sell to cartel buyers, knowingly or otherwise.
C. "Straw purchasers" who come in and claim they're buying it for themselves or as a gift for a family member but are actually purchasing them for reasons of A or B.

When you get a little old lady in Arizona buying 16 AR-15s in a year, you've probably got a straw purchaser. Or a crazy nut-gun grandma. In Arizona, that's probably a 50/50 split.

[Sirus]

I actually have a novel that introduced me to the concept of straw purchasers. It was told from the gunrunner's perspective

[Loud Whispers]

See, I don't drink coffee and I work nights. Waking up before 9 or ten o'clock makes me really hateful. REALLY hateful.

Yesterday I went to sleep with a cup of tea in my hands, and 1 O'clock in the morning I woke up with a cup of tea on my face.

[Tellemurius]

I actually have a novel that introduced me to the concept of straw purchasers. It was told from the gunrunner's perspective

I Didn't Get Caught: a gunrunner's tale to make more money
By: Emannuel Blothis