nicboobees

Maybe you're right... maybe it's my own bias since the only times I've interacted with police have been positive.

Maybe if you're stopped regularly, then it's hard to keep your temper. It'd be interesting to know how many times she'd been stopped in the past.

Never put down to malice something that can be attributed to stupidity or bugs.

Far more likely the recording software is crappy and sometimes skips back a second or two.

The problem is whatever they released, people would start picking apart and launching conspiracy theories about.

He asked her nicely if she could put out her cigarette for his benefit. She in return started ranting about how it was her car etc.

I don't care if she has the right to remain smoking in her car or not. Someone asked kindly for her to put it out, and she went full rant in return.

I'm sure statistically speaking, if someone is a complete asshole and "resists" any attempt to be nice to the police, they're likely to be breaking other laws - carrying drugs, no car insurance, etc etc.

If you get pulled over by the police, starting an argument and forcing them to escalate things isn't the best idea.

Would it be so hard for her to just do what he asked instead of blowing things up...

I really don't understand the absolute lack of respect some people have for the law and other humans. Is it that hard to be civil?

It certainly is me who benefits.

In 2 previous jobs, I found out what others at the company were making. OK, they were managers, but still, it just made me pissed off. It didn't make me happy by any means.

As others note, people tend to generally think they're above average. Can you not see that exploding their delusion might not be such a great idea? Some of them have to be below average. A team who doesn't share salary info, can all be happy that they're all above average. If they start sharing salary, half will be below average and probably pretty pissed off.

The people who benefit, are people who are generally happy as they are. Would you like to know how much money your neighbours have? Why should it matter?

Maybe it's different here. In the UK it's considered vulgar to discuss money or how much you earn.

Nothing good comes from knowing other peoples salary. Only jealousy, resentment, unhappiness, and greed.

"the cost of lost discoveries"?

Things will get discovered eventually, by people who are passionate about them.

As a fellow reply states, using "Space travel" as a means for general R&D is pretty damn inefficient.

You would have a similar result if you poured money into alchemy research - lots of side products etc.

I completely agree. But it's a pursuit individuals should pursue. If you want to go explore mars, go ahead! I'm sure it'd be great fun. But it should absolutely not be anything to do with public money, taxes, grants etc.

Leave it completely to rich people and companies to waste their money on.

If you're going to force people to pay money, through taxes, grants etc, to explore space, then it should have some material benefit.

Stadiums benefit millions of people. Jet fighters save lives. Finding out that there's water on mars, or some single cell organisms on pluto, does nothing apart from fill a few future text books.

So we find out there's some creatures on Pluto that are roughly the same as frogs. How does that impact anyones life? It'd be an interesting fact, and maybe fun if we could move some over here as pets, but beyond that, it's a colossal waste of energy and money.

Well, agree to disagree. The average person doesn't really care if there is or isn't water on mars, or if someone spent millions of their dollars taking a photo of pluto.

Year after year the news reports another big experiement which cost millions to setup, and which claims to "give us answers as to how the universe was created". I just couldn't be less interested. It's rich people (Or taxpayer funded people) playing with their toys.

It must be great fun if space exploration is your hobby, like explorers of days gone by, but for most people it won't have any impact at all on their lives (Apart from wasting their taxes).