I have been sporadically following Pantone and GEET for a decade. Pantone is a nutcase, but mostly harmless. Properly developed, GEET could be a real technology, but Pantone will forever find amusing ways to dissuade the investment community.
Easy credit is not the answer. People who use loan sharks (legal of not) will max out any credit they are given. I was married to a woman who thought her credit limit was her credit goal. She could arrange her life to pay off loans, but not figure out how to save to prevent needing them.
While his lifestyle is unsustainable and impossible to replicate on this planet with 6B people, it can server a purpose. Read Walden by Thoreau http://thoreau.eserver.org/walden00.html.
How can anyone claim that the Gatling gun "went bad"? It performed exactly as it was intended. As for the nerve gases and concentration camps, I think they also perform their originally intended functions.
Back in the Sixties, my mother lamented that he days of individuals discovering scientific truths in basement labs were over, Indeed, both my mother and father only worked on big projects with big budgets for big institutions.
Things have swung back, however. I have been able to do quite a bit of work in and around my house on a moderate budget. There is also a growing, home-based biotech movement.
There is no question that, all other factors being equal, lean and hungry mammals outlive their fat and satiated rivals.
How to apply that to individual humans is the issue. My suggestion is that if you want to live as long as possible (a goal to which I do not aspire), you exercise every morning until you breathe hard and sweat (but no longer), force yourself to skip one meal every two days even though you are hungry, never take alcohol, tobacco or other recreational drugs, engage in vigorous and frequent sex (getting sweaty and out of breath is allowed), get eight hours of sleep every night and brush your teeth after every meal.
I don't believe for a moment that a fork, of all things, could accidentally get lodged in a dog's skull like that. This is a clear case of animal abuse.
As for the "Air Hanky" (soon to be branded by Nike), would you prefer he use his shirt?
Things have swung back, however. I have been able to do quite a bit of work in and around my house on a moderate budget. There is also a growing, home-based biotech movement.
How to apply that to individual humans is the issue. My suggestion is that if you want to live as long as possible (a goal to which I do not aspire), you exercise every morning until you breathe hard and sweat (but no longer), force yourself to skip one meal every two days even though you are hungry, never take alcohol, tobacco or other recreational drugs, engage in vigorous and frequent sex (getting sweaty and out of breath is allowed), get eight hours of sleep every night and brush your teeth after every meal.