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I probably wouldn't go quite as far as doctors, but yes, the arts really are an integral part of humanity. Remove self-expression, and we become little more than robots made of meat. According to the "professionals", however, your field of expertise is of no use unless it contributes to the corporate greed that makes the world go round. Kind of disheartening to know that I may not live long enough to see a world where music and other artistic departments aren't universally the first victims of school budget cuts...
I stand by my original statement. It takes years of education, but just about anybody can be a doctor. They're a dime a dozen. Talented musicians are far rarer, and that's why they're more valuable to society. When a doctor dies or retires, it affects maybe a few hundred people. When Michael Jackson, Kurt Cobain, and Whitney Houston died, their deaths affected millions of people. As for the rest of it, I agree completely. It's sad that making money is considered a higher calling than creating beauty.
Making money is considered more important that survival at this point. Atleast in oklahoma, we have this thing called fracking where oil companies pump millions of gallons of water into the ground to get to the oil, or something. This is bad because it causes both earthquakes, and the water they use is waste run off, which gets in the ground water. Do corporate execs have any forethought? Outside of things related to money?
I keep having dreams about failing high school when I graduated over 6 years ago. :/ Seriously, what the hell? On another note, I wonder how much a massage at a spa would cost. My fat disgusting body needs some serious loosening up.
It could be worse. At least they're not fracking near the Yellowstone caldera, the eruption of which would cause millions of deaths and possibly be the start of an extinction event. Oh, wait... they are. - - Auto Merge - - http://spas.about.com/od/swedishmassage/a/How-Much-Does-A-Swedish-Massage-Cost.htm
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I just watched his cover of Bohemian Rhapsody, and I didn't turn it off before it ended and slam my laptop closed in disgust. He's no Freddy Mercury, but his range is pretty impressive.
Just thought I'd mention: you have the right idea about fracking, except that they're using the water to get natural gas, not oil.
The eruption itself wouldn't destroy the Earth, but the ash cloud from an eruption that massive would cover most of the planet, and depending on how long it took it to dissipate, cause plants and eventually animals to die. There's also the issue of lakes, streams, and rivers being polluted by ash. Besides, even if an eruption of the Yellowstone caldera were to only affect North America, I still would consider that a problem. I'm kind of living there at the moment.
It would seem that in Georgia, work hours don't determine what makes a worker part time or full time. It's up to the business to decide which is which. That would certainly explain how Walmart can have its part-timers (like me) 40 hours a week without full-time pay and benefits.
If the NPS ain't mistaken, "There is no evidence that a catastrophic eruption at Yellowstone National Park (YNP) is imminent. Current geologic activity at Yellowstone has remained relatively constant since earth scientists first started monitoring some 30 years ago. Though another caldera-forming eruption is theoretically possible, it is very unlikely to occur in the next thousand or even 10,000 years." It's unlikely your children's children's children (provided you ever have children) are ever gonna see a catastrophic eruption, so you probably shouldn't get too worried about it. If it does erupt, it's likely to just effect the surrounding area in the United States. As much as I love discussing the end of the world and how we're all gonna be killed, we're talking about rumours and clickbait articles here. But I guess if most the planet gunn die, we'll find out fairly soon.
Again, all of that is based on the assumption that idiots won't be causing earthquakes near an active supervolcano..
Guys, I think you're kind of missing the point that [MENTION=5399]Ridley Wolf[/MENTION] is trying to make. Yes, Yellowstone is stable and safe, but many things which are stable and safe are better off not tampered with to the point where they become unstable and unsafe. I think he's just saying the people working there should be careful, as should the people who call the shots; it wouldn't do to unnecessarily mess with a perfectly good system. As for our thirty years of monitoring, imagine how little thirty years actually is on a geological time scale. Heck, plenty of geologists aren't even ready to say that we're out of the Ice Age yet. My geology professor covered this in class; if I recall correctly, he said that fracking is a very volatile practice that could lead to issues in places like Yellowstone if we weren't careful, to which I can only respond that I certainly hope we are. There certainly do seem to be a number of other health hazards associated with fracking.
