Sounds like removing trucks in the logistics chain as much as possible is the better option then? The trucks' parts and/or fuel (or crude) is also getting shipped using bunker oil fuel.
But generally the tips and taxes is something you know about if you are a US resident. And you might not be unconscious at the time of payment :) And restaurant staff getting paid a decent wage without relying on tips is also something that should get fixed sooner than later.
That sounds like a strawman argument. If you don't wear a helment while doing activity A, why wear it while doing activity B.
To answer your question, perhaps because the common factor in all of these activities is that I am moving relatively slowly and my surroundings are basically stationary. These factors are void if I am riding a bike (or a motorcycle), where I might be moving at a few mph and there could be vehicles around me that might be moving even faster.
I am curious if you have tried to learn a musical instrument or learn to sing? Learning to play a musical instrument (or sing) at a level were someone would want to pay you, is probably equally hard, if not harder.
You don't have to actually play an instrument to mix things together.
But I take your point. With that analogy one can probably find an "app maker" that similarly is just drag & drop for some basic CRUD app. Just not sure that anyone actually makes those and tries to publish them to commercial repositories whereas I did get a lot of mp3s sent via MSN because half my friends were making music, and honestly many of those tracks were hard to distinguish from what I'd expect from a professional. Nowadays there wouldn't be much stopping them from signing up for a random music site account and uploading the songs there.
And yes I did learn to play an actual instrument, I know it's shit^W painfully slow (that's why I stopped taking lessons).
I think there is something about my brain that just wasn't meant for music. I found it really easy to teach myself programming but after years of trying to understand music I was never able to progress past learning other peoples songs.
There is tons of info online about music theory and such but if you follow it literally you end up with something quite uninteresting.
I recently took up drawing after quitting music and found it somewhat easier. I guess it makes more sense to my brain when the target is "Replicate what you see with your eyes but with a pencil" instead of trying to understand the complexities of why music sounds good.
This is the standard strawman argument that antisocial smokers who don't care about others right to peacefully enjoy relatively clean air make.
Fact is, cars have a lot of other utility, and if it was possible to make a car that doesn't make smoke cheaply and without any other negatives, the whole car industry would go that way, legislation would happen and no more smoky cars would be made.
Smoking however has no other utility beyond, "screw you, I smoke wherever I want regardless of others comfort/health, and if you don't like it then you have go somewhere else".
While I am not an antisocial smoker myself, I disagree with complete ban on public smoking as the parent comment suggested. Designated areas for smoking, sure!
There are ways to make cars that don't make smoke cheaply (Nissan Leaf, Chevy Bolt etc) and the argument about "without any other negatives" is really debatable when compared with manufacturing process of any other car.
Designated areas would be awesome, as long as it was actually enforced when they smoked outside those areas.
Personally I'm a fan of the idea of those hilarious little smoking boxes that they have in some airports.
Getting off-topic, but... I'd like to get an electric car, but there's no infrastructure anywhere near my area. My coal-addicted government (Australia) is definitely not making it a priority.
Electric cars are unsuitable for lots of people currently and do have significant negatives. If the infrastructure was there, then great. But it isn't.
I wasn't actually talking about electric cars though. If suddenly a discovery was made that a catalytic converter could be made cheaply that cleans the smoke from a car completely and doesn't affect power, etc, don't you think that every single car company would adopt it immediately?
On top of what the article says, even if we had pristine dinosaur DNA, the way we clone things is through a living host - so whatever we'd clone would be half-dinosaur, half-cow, or half-whatever animal volunteered a womb/egg.
Not necessarily half. There'd definitely be some sharing but when we clone things we replace the genome in the egg that's used. That said it'll share mitochondrial and other things during development
