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Billions of dollars are spent every year on soft drink advertising in the United States. With this large expenditure, you would think a national consensus would arise on the term we use to offer someone a soft drink. Nope. The map below above shows a county by county breakdown across our whole country of what term people use to offer someone a soft drink.
The world’s free market economy still depends on spending to make the wheels turn. The New York Times had an interesting story and interactive graph recently that shows a visual comparison of spending by the world’s major (economic) countries. It makes you realize how large the U.S. economy ranks in five major categories:
• Clothing and footwear
• Electronics
• Alcohol and tobacco
• Household goods
• Recreation
Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take Hofstadter’s Law into account.
Murphy’s Law: If anything can go wrong, it will.
Finagle’s Law (a refinement of Murphy’s Law): Anything that can go wrong, will—at the worst possible moment.
Hanlon’s Razor (a corollary to Finagle’s Law): Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Callahan’s Principle (a corollary to Hanlon’s Razor): You can’t argue with stupid. [But just think how much time people waste trying.]