Warning About Dealers And Their Pricing

[kenmac]

It sounds like being able to edit out mistakes was where the need for word processing began which is where the personal computer became the solution to it.

what size tractor you looking to purchase ? There are a couple dealers near me that may have one. You may have already called on them though

 

[Cahaba Valley Farm]

what size tractor you looking to purchase ? There are a couple dealers near me that may have one. You may have already called on them though

I'm needing about a 40hp tractor in the medium frame size. If you have any suggestions I'm all ears.

 

[IrishLoader]

I'm needing about a 40hp tractor in the medium frame size. If you have any suggestions I'm all ears.

I know where a 60 hour or so 5045E w/loader could be had. I figured the hobby farmer found out there is a MUD season in Kentucky and wanted a 4x4.

 

[paulfun9]

I see what you mean and respect what you are saying, but what was the alternative during the periods of “selfishness”? At the time it was being done, it was probably not thought of as selfish, but as making your property conform to the expected standards of the day?

Maybe the definition of “selfish“ has evolved?

For example, most of us look at smoking as being very selfish today and people of yesteryear smoked at alarming percentages. They killed themselves (at great cost to society in insurance, forest fires, etc.) and harmed people around them. Decades of education and millions of people dying from smoking related illnesses later has the effect of reducing smoking. Now smoking is viewed as more selfish than back 50 years ago.

Has owning and maintaining a lawn become like smoking? Is having that beautiful lawn at the cost of adding harsh chemicals to the soil and pollution to the air from mowing become like smoking? Have education on the harmful effects of lawn chemicals and lawn mower air pollution begun to bring a change in what the societal norm for a “lawn” will be? Or is it the demise of the lawn altogether?

Is having someone telling us we cant have a sprawling beautiful lawn taking away ones freedom of using their land the way they want, or is taking that freedom away a method of creating a better society?

Actually people dying sooner due to illness has been argued as having saved money for society by some, compared with your theory. I have seen and heard arguments from both sides but think most arguments were biased and didn’t include all the facts.
I however don’t consider smokers selfish but do consider those who constantly push against them selfish dictators as I can always find just as many things they do as “ costing society money” but they expect no one calls them on that. They will say things like everyone does that, you can’t avoid that but the reality is if even one person does not do it then the majority is wrong and should be punished by paying extra tax on anything that could be considered even remotely harmful as a punishment for thier being shellfish.

Now with that said, other than living in a cave, eating only wild fruits and vegetables that you can gather and wearing clothes made from leaves tell me what can’t be considered bad for someone else?

 

[Hay Dude]

Yeah everything can be considered as having a harmful effect. Even going for a walk kills some ants and compacts the soil.….if you are prone to pointing those little things out.
I just considered smoking to be so unnecessary and harmful at the same time so polluting.
Smell is one of our sensory perceptions, too-right?
But the thing with your argument-take 2 nearly identical lifestyle people-one smokes, one doesn’t.
Which one is costing society more?
I knew someone who smoked and I constantly heard him say “well look at those people eating mcDonalds food…arent they costing society with cardiovascular disease”
Sure they are, but what about the people who dont smoke or eat fatty foods?

 

[2manyrocks]

A friend of mine loved McDonalds. In fact, that's the last place I saw him. His obituary last year mentioned making donations in his memory to the American Heart Association.

 

[arrow]

There is nothing a person eats that will extend life so in that regard, there is nothing "good for you". (well maybe alpha lipoic acid with L-carntine)
There is plenty a person can eat that will shorten life. In that regard, there are things considered "bad for you".
Genes and telomeres are the main keys.
Had an uncle who ate bacon and eggs every morning since he was a kid growing up on a farm. He lived till 92.

 

[ovrszd]

There is nothing a person eats that will extend life so in that regard, there is nothing "good for you". (well maybe alpha lipoic acid with L-carntine)
There is plenty a person can eat that will shorten life. In that regard, there are things considered "bad for you".
Genes and telomeres are the main keys.
Had an uncle who ate bacon and eggs every morning since he was a kid growing up on a farm. He lived till 92.

I'll take luck over skill every time. I.e., genes.

 

[2manyrocks]

I'd bet he didn't live a sedentary lifestyle and was tough as nails.

 

[arrow]

I'd bet he didn't live a sedentary lifestyle and was tough as nails.

He was. Once beat up a 28 yr old punk who sauntered into the local coffee shop and brandished a knife to the local clientele. He was 73 at the time.
Then there's George Burns who smoked 13 cigars per day. Lived to a hundred. Comedian Milton Burl who also smoked and lived to 94. Jack Linnane the fitness fanatic who at 70 yrs of age, swam a hundred yards with a boat attached to his neck. Died at 96.
I once heard we are anatomically designed to live to 120.
Boy, we can sure screw that up.