If you did a whippet, it would be cooler, man.

Look. Be careful with the helium balloons.

It's only funny if you have a sense of humor.

I never knew Alvin and the Chipmunks covered this Foreigner tune. Check it out:

Have a tax structure where you think about how much needs to go to fire/police, reading and education, and a really nice garden, you know? Let all that lottery ticket money be gone, or at least be applied in our own community.

So then, what instead?
Fair question.
NO LOTTERIES!
No one should have to wish for a chance at a good life.
No.
NO ONE!
Remove this hidden tax and encourage people to invest in the businesses of their neighbors!
How is that weird?
There are lots of ways to do this. Keep your money to build your own community.

Lighten up.

As Ralph Wiggum once said, "My cat's breath smells like catfood."
LOL

Mathematically speaking, the area under the curve has to stay the same, but the distribution does not.

This is a microcosmic economy. Take from the poor and give to the rich. [Sorry. I oppose this sort of economic, system, my friend.]

I am using the lottery as an example of a probability. Most things statistically follow a bell-curve (a Gaussian), with lots of small winners in the big middle and a few millionaires on the tiny tail ends, right? What I think is interesting that our lottery systems do is actually shift wealth. How do they pay the…

Also, I went to my local market today and couldn't get checked out because the clerk has to cover lottery sales as well as grocery purchases. There were eight old people waiting to buy lottery tickets and more coming in at a furious rate as I left. NONE OF THEM HAVE ANY CHANCE TO WIN!
It's a rip-off!!!
And there's…

In terms of "job expectations", I guess I don't mean anything. I was just philosophically offended by the idea that taking a job outside the middle of the Gaussian or quitting one within it is intrinsically crazy. It isn't.

I was responding to the following remark:
"It's a great idea to be alert and look for them, but to mindlessly quit your job and see what happens more often than not ends up badly."
I understand that "more often than not" is a statement about probability under a given set of circumstances. My point is that the Nassim…

Indeed!

Oh, speaking of Pink Floyd, if your kid can't play the chords for "Interstellar Overdrive," he's retarded. I need no other P.S.A.'s about retardation. This is the test.

For no apparent reason.

That's very Pink Floyd until it suddenly turns into Spinal Tap jazz-fusion.