The reason why doping is forbidden is because it is dangerous for the athletes involved. It gives those athletes an advantage that their competitors can’t match without also ingesting chemicals with dangerous side effects.

I don’t think the cycling electric assistance is an appropriate comparison. In the running/shoe example the human body is providing all the power necessary to propel the person at a particular speed. The shoe construction and material minimize the amount of power that is lost. In the bicycle example the motor is…

Running a marathon distance is sort of the definition of running a marathon. 

Yes, really. The point of choosing this course, of getting together a team to give him favorable conditions that are all but categorically impossible in an open race, intentionally creating better-than-ideal conditions is to see if, even under those constraints, a marathon under 2 hours was at all possible. When you…

one who’d like to preserve the perception of themselves as brave truth-tellers, but would prefer not actually having to engage in any of that risky truth-telling business.

I disagree with a lot of what you are saying here. I do wish that Kerr said more, but you can’t just jump from “he didn’t say what I wanted him to say about this issue” to “stick to sportzzzz!”

Guaranteed that cologne and that beer are the same product in different packages.

Honestly, I do bike it.

4 miles? what about a bicycle ?

What if I told you that on most flights, the only difference between the bathrooms in first-class and the bathrooms in coach is the location? Unless you’re flying internationally on a jumbo jet or something, first class bathrooms are exactly the same as coach bathrooms.  I just figured someone should tell you before…

I wonder if you’d tell this to a kid on a flight who’s desperate and in need of a bathroom. “You don’t have money. Go shit where you can afford to sit.”

So a 10yr old on a Scooter is a douchebag? And all 16 year olds are expected to have their own vehicles as a mode of transportation.

Exactly, it’s possible they’ve been underpaying for a year, used that money elsewhere, and now they have a giant bill they are begging everyone else to cover. Sure it sucks they got a giant bill, but if you’ve been happily underpaying for year, don’t come crying when the utility realizes their mistake!

Caps lock.

It’s nice to see that you’ve evolved from yelling at “Leftist Retards” and “Trannie Retards” to bicylclists and children on scooters.

People who type in all caps.

When you shoot your gun, do you miss as badly as you are missing the point right now?

With this method, if you want one thing, you pay for one thing. With the previous method, if you want one thing, you pay for N + 1, where N is the number of times the box didn’t contain the thing you want. If there are 2000 things, you could potentially pay for 2000 things.

My rule of thumb is this: did I get a business card from the person I interviewed with? If I did, then I send the e-mail. In my experiences the primary gatekeepers in the interview process is the HR rep. Once I get past them (the initial phone interview) then the people I’m meeting with are from the department I’m…