No, you call the cops, you don't destroy other peoples property and operate machinery in a haphazard and unsafe way. Show me ONE foreman who would want this guy on his shift. Someone who flies off the handle and commandeers company property to break the law. Imagine of someone else was in the car still.

Upvoting if only for the reasons that this is my home town and my uncle was a foreman plumber on the refit of that sub. =^)

There is actually an argument that our brains are three due to the way the frontal cortex works. (not the "triune brain" which is a different idea)

The frontal part can exercise control over the two hemispheres and is about as close as we have gotten to identifying where free will comes from. Certainly, in people who have had frontal brain damage there appears to be a direct link to lack of impulse control.
Almost every serial killer in history appears to have had some manner of frontal brain trauma at some stage in their lives and the link to delinquency is fairly well documented by this stage.

The latest research suggests consciousness itself is a fractal programme running co-operatively across the brain, but it remains pretty obscure none the less. The frontal cortex is split between left and right hemispheres, but it certain appears to behave as one in healthy brains.

The best way I could describe it is that the left and right represent the animistic unconsidered side of our behaviour and desires as we see in most animals (interacting via the corpus callosum that connects them). With the frontal cortex seeming to represent the higher functions that allow us to harness the rest of our brain in more considered and abstract ways (presumably also split into left and right).

I think of it like the foreman directing the other divisions of the factory but staying largely hands off when considered decisions don't need to be made.

All of the above is a gross oversimplification though. We can guess at the basis for free will, but it remains elusive.

Totally anecdotal and I don't have a strong opinion on the general topic...but...

My first job out of high school was carpentry, along with a few of my friends. I left that career but my friends stayed in it. When we went on a job site we worked with maybe a dozen highly skilled, well payed career construction workers. Eventually my friends were pushed out of the industry. The jobs went away. Instead of a crew of skilled carpenters, roofers and so forth, what they were replaced with was a crew of low payed, unskilled, illegal immigrants lead by a single foreman who split his time between several job sites.

Now those jobs will be listed as "low paying jobs Americans don't want", with no accounting for the high payed, skilled jobs that were lost.

@GeeSussFreeK that's a brilliant idea.

I'm gonna make millions! It's like a George foreman grill, with copper sheets on springs (for contact but not pressure) with little fans top and bottom adding gentle convection of temperature controlled air.

Watch out Infomercials here i come!

Cypher: You know, I know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss.
Agent Smith: Then we have a deal?
Cypher: I don't want to remember nothing. Nothing. You understand? And I want to be rich. You know, someone important, like an actor.
Agent Smith: Whatever you want, Mr. Reagan.
Cypher: Okay. I get my body back into a power plant, you insert me into the Matrix, I'll get you what you want.


Ahhhh the beauty of plugging back into the matrix!

*Pantoliano was born (September 12, 1951) in Hoboken, New Jersey, to first-generation Italian American parents Mary (née Centrella), a bookie and seamstress, and Dominic "Monk" Pantoliano, a hearse driver and factory foreman-

*wiki

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

Blinded by the light, wrapped up like a...


... loofah by the foreman of the Sprite!

If the citizens hate the law against front yard gardens (yardens?) so much they should change it. Until then, if the law is proven to define no front yardens, then that's the law.

It's all a matter of degree, isn't it liberals? You're upset about THIS when your eco-fascism is now fully one-third of fedguv's laws...LOOK at the arbitrary power you've given your masters!

All of a sudden you're FOR private property rights? Out-RAGEOUS!



Here's some of the voices of reason of your heroes:

"We already have too much economic growth in the United States. Economic growth in rich countries like ours is the disease, not the cure."

--Paul Elrich, Stanford University biologist and Advisor to Albert Gore

"I think if we don't overthrow capitalism, we don't have a chance of saving the world ecologically. I think it is possible to have an ecological society under socialism. I don't think it's possible under capitalism."

--Judi Barri of Earth First!

"Capitalism is a cancer in the biosphere."

--Dave Foreman, Founder, Earth First!

"The northern spotted owl is the wildlife species of choice to act as a surrogate for old-growth forest protection," explained Andy Stahl, staff forester for the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, at a 1988 law clinic for other environmentalists. "Thank goodness the spotted owl evolved in the Pacific Northwest," he joked, "for if it hadn't, we'd have to genetically engineer it."

--Andy Stahl at a 1988 law clinic for environmentalists, staff forester, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund

"Now, in a widening sphere of decisions, the costs of error are so exorbitant that we need to act on theory alone, which is to say on prediction alone. It follows that the reputation of scientific prediction needs to be enhanced. But that can happen, paradoxically, only if scientists disavow the certainty and precision that they normally insist on. Above all, we need to learn to act decisively to forestall predicted perils, even while knowing that they may never materialize. We must take action, in a manner of speaking, to preserve our ignorance. There are perils that we can be certain of avoiding only at the cost of never knowing with certainty that they were real."

--Jonathan Shell, author of Our Fragile Earth

"A global climate treaty must be implemented even if there is no scientific evidence to back the greenhouse effect."

--Richard Benedict, an employee for the State Department working on assignment for the Conservation Foundation

"[W]e have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we may have. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest."

--Stephen Schneider, Stanford University Professor and author Quoted by Dixey Lee Ray in Trashing the Planet (1990)


"More science and more technology are not going to get us out of the present ecological crises until we find a new religion, or rethink our old one."

--Lynn White, Jr. "The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis," Science, (Mar. 10 1967), p 1206

"Childbearing [should be] a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license.... All potential parents [should be] required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing."

--David Brower, Friends of the Earth

"The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state."

--Keith Boulding, originator of the "Spaceship Earth" concept

"If radical environmentalists were to invent a disease to bring human populations back to sanity, it would probably be something like AIDS. It [AIDS] has the potential to end industrialism, which is the main force behind the environmental crises."

--Earth First! newsletter

"Are you sure that's safe, boss?"
"Yes, very safe, I swear.. You'll be fine."

With the amount of people and equipment around I could easily imagine there's a foreman in charge.

I've served on two juries, and in both cases, I came to the part of the questionnaire where I promise to not exercise the principle of jury nullification. Of course it doesn't SAY "jury nullification." If it said that, someone would wait until voir dire to ask, and the shit would really hit the fan. In Cook County, IL, people have been held in contempt of court for mentioning those two words in front of the jury pool. In both cases, I clicked, "Yes", that I would not exercise the principle, then promptly vowed to do so if the case called for it. Dishonest? Perhaps, but not as dishonest as the court saying that I did not have the right in the first place. As it happens, I sorta exercised it in one case, when I was named foreman (I stepped into the washroom while we first entered the jury room, and emerged foreman). The case involved an accident along a stretch of road that I knew well, and the plaintiff did a terrible job of describing the trickiness of merging there. I introduced evidence not presented by either side (essentially a detailed diagram of the roadway). The result was that we asked more insightful questions to each other and were able to determine relative culpability far more easily. I hadn't made up my mind prior to entering the jury room, and used my 'extra knowledge' to clarify, not influence. It's been almost nine years, and I have not been called since. If I do, I won't check that box.

Reminds me of George Foreman naming all of his eleven kids George.

"The mountain done came off."

And that's why he's the foreman!

My mother told me a story, when she was about 20, circa 1960, her and her sister would have to walk home from work past a building site and all the lads would whistle and cat call etc. So they mentioned this at home and my grandmother had a word with the foreman.

Next day, as they walked past the site, 40 or 50 guys were all positioned on the scaffolding waiting to sing "I'll tell my ma, when I go home....". My mam said they had a hard time keeping a straight face until they were out of sight!

I always think of that story when I hear that song

Haha, that's a great story. You should put it in the video's comments.

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Hey Kp! That turned out to be great timing, I arrived in time to be vote number 10!

My mother told me a story, when she was about 20, circa 1960, her and her sister would have to walk home from work past a building site and all the lads would whistle and cat call etc. So they mentioned this at home and my grandmother had a word with the foreman.

Next day, as they walked past the site, 40 or 50 guys were all positioned on the scaffolding waiting to sing "I'll tell my ma, when I go home....". My mam said they had a hard time keeping a straight face until they were out of sight!

I always think of that story when I hear that song