jivardo_nucci

Surely you could provide a reference not behind a paywall?

> "So if you inherit a $10M business, the only way to pay > your tax bill is to liquidate the business..."

False.

Any business in good financial condition can obtain loans easily, especially in the current economy.

And why would the need to "liquidate the business" be bad? The seller still gets the value of the business plus the flexibility of investing that value forward.

"User interface woes" is my guess.

I found USENET and associated newsgroups to be better than the WWW, especially for discussions of software. I once even promoted the use of internal newsgroups w/in a corporate environment, where a history of topics (discussions, problems, and decisions) would have IMO proven extremely useful.

But the idea never got traction: people were unwilling to participate because newsreaders were too different from the browser and they'd had enough trouble learning to navigate the WWW. Once blogs and browser-based "newsgroups" and forums began showing up, the handwriting was on the wall. In the end, the WWW browser's low bar to entry ate USENET.

I still value the treasure trove of information stored in the archives. And some people still actively participate in USENET and other newsgroups, just as some still participate in IRC (Internet Relay Chat, which also is fading). I think these are valuable tools with a lot of greybeard expertise held in reserve.

There's a sort of Gresham's law of the Internet: "The browser drives out every other interface."

We're talking about _root_ _canals_, not dental fillings! Other than the anaesthetic, the materials used in root canals are are entirely different from those used in a dental filling.

Furthermore, root canals require different training and are (usually) done by endodontists. Dentists usually handle the more mundane and more tested procedure of dental fillings.

My point is, root canals are much more invasive and have their own problems(not associated with dental fillings).

You're right, my bad! I should have said "Aristotelian mechanics" instead of "Galilean mechanics". Galileo saw his physical intuitions but, being the scientist he was, corrected them.

They miss the most obvious aspect of being gorgeous for women - men will pursue them relentlessly for sex. Probably few young girls are adequately prepared for the onslaught.

I've had women friends who fit into the gorgeous category. In time I found that they were introduced to sex at an early age by adult men. They all had ongoing sexual affairs with multiple older wealthy men, and all were damaged goods mentally. The relationships often started as professional, e.g., doctor, optometrist, psychologist, etc. and became sexual later.

Is it necessarily the anaesthesia or a hemorrhage? Have they considered removing the root canal? Sometimes removing the materials from a root canal has improved a patient's health significantly.

Certainly one could understand why the dental industry would avoid the meme "root canal = bad!", but in this case the patient has little to lose, his future being lost already.

Wrong on two levels:

Our physical intuitions are Galilean, not classical, mechanics (that is, they are non-Newtonian). For example, our intuitions tell us that an object set in motion eventually slows down and stops. That's Galilean (also termed "folk physics" or "naive physics", usually by cognitive scientists).

Most of us had to study formal physics to advance to Newtonian classical mechanics.

Quantum mechanics (QM) is completely non-intuitive, at least as far as intuition about either folk physics or Newtonian classical physics is concerned. IIRC Feynmann says as much in his book "QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter", Chapter 28 beginning:

"I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics. —Richard Feynman

The quantum theory is not explicable in commonsense terms..."

Of course Feynman used his real-world physical intuition all the way through to his most abstract work. In one case he characterised the internal structure of the proton as being like "marbles inside a tin can." Try and write those equations!

Very easy recipe (takes about an hour, mostly waiting for milk to cool):

- Buy a container of your favorite _plain_ yogurt and a gallon of milk,

- Boil the milk in a pan,

- Cool milk until it is warm (usual baby formula test - you can drop it on your forearm w/o hurt),

- Add the plain yogurt and stir well,

- Cover pan and put in a warm place, e.g., inside your unlit gas oven (pilot light should be running) and forget about it for 8-12 hours,

It will become thick tasty yogurt. Save some for the next batch.

... and adopt and raise children, pass their SS to their spouse when they "die" (go bankrupt?), marry human "persons", marry horse, dogs, the subway train et al?

They have no SS? Absurd, why not?

In the midst of reading this I was struck by the question "If corporations are persons, can corporations marry?"