Telling quote from Carson Palmer

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(07-30-2015, 07:36 PM)GreenCornBengal Wrote: This^

future can dictate the present.

I buy snow tires before December comes.

But then again, using the future to determine the plan of action in the present is highly based on patterns and correlations from the past O_o

It's really the past.  Your prior experience tells you it will most likely snow come December.  Therefore, you buy tires in anticipation of that.  It very well could be a mild winter and snow tires might not even be necessary.