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Thousands of Blackbirds Fall From Sky Dead
Dan East writes "In a fashion worthy of a King or Hitchcock novel, blackbirds began to fall from the sky dead in Arkansas yesterday. Somewhere between 4,000 and 5,000 birds rained down on the small town of Beeb, Arkansas, with no visible trauma. Officials are making wild guesses as to what happened — lightning strike, high-altitude hail, or perhaps trauma from the sound of New Year's fireworks killed them."
FlashForward predicted this!
That is all.
Dog is my co-pilot.
More likely they died of shock when they flew over a CAFO.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentrated_Animal_Feeding_Operations
Evil people are out to get you.
Hail, lightning, fireworks would have caused said unfound trauma.
Theory: caught in a hellacious wild updraft. Lifted into highest levels of the atmosphere where they suffered insufficient oxygen and/or insufficient pressure -- vessels and or lungs burst.
"Stratigraphically the origin of agriculture and thermonuclear destruction will appear essentially simultaneous" -- Lee
on CNN
Are the events from the show Flashforward coming true?!
Ooh! Ooh! I read that one! It's Stephen King's Under the Dome .
(Quick summary: Some kind of force field is dropped over the town of Chester's Mill, Maine. Lord of the Flies-type microcosm ensues. Good book, I recommend it.)
Damn man.. Flash-forward coming true..
I say we quarantine all the residents of Arkansas, just to be safe. And ready the nukes also.
People, did anyone think to look up in the sky? Contrails, people? Contrails?
It's only after the fact that folks recall strange looking jets and black helicopters.
New World Order, folks, the TSA is just the start.
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
Wow... the crazies are out tonight.
through being trapped in storm-associated updrafts. These can rapidly reach high altitudes and cold temperatures (http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/594363/thunderstorm/49573/Updrafts-and-downdrafts).
did you forget your tinfoil hat this morning?
Build a man a fire and you warm him for a day. Set a man on fire and you warm him for the rest of his life.
Yeah, so.. does this make sense? I'm not a tornado kind of guy..
"Given the reports of tornadoes and lack of physical evidence of trauma, the most likely scenario is that the birds were asphyxiated inside the low pressure area within a very small tight tornado vortex. Because of the high energy (and thus oxygen consumption) during flight, a flying bird can aspyhixiate in a much shorter time and at much higher pressures than would be required to kill a resting human being."
Maybe the birds realized they were in Arkansas and figured suicide was really the only way out.
Monstar L
Call me Captain Pedantic, but I'd say it pays to punctuate. But then again, I've never had to write headlines under a deadline (I presume), so perhaps I can never know the pressures under which such compromises are made.
It sounds like the whole town was covered with birds and it seems to be mostly one species. It's doubtful that a lightning strike could affect birds over that wide an area. Curious what the final finding is on the deaths. Definitely possible that it was still atmospheric. Odd that no one reported seeing them because they seem to fall from the sky and appear to have done so quickly but birds as a rule don't fly at night especially red wing black birds. Still possible they got poisoned.
Maybe it's caused by the same thing that killed all the crows in FlashForward!
Maybe they all died of separate, but natural causes. I know its unlikely, but why not?
or perhaps trauma from the sound of New Year's fireworks killed them.
Oh don't say something like that without proof. Just the fact that such a wild guess was even thrown about is more than enough reason for the animal welfare dickheads to want to ban fireworks outright.
Chicken Little has been vindicated at last!
religious folks gonna love this one. :|
One of the coolest sites, ever: zombo.com
They're pining for the fjords!
Given the fanciful explanations being put forward, I thought I'd add these possibilities which are just as likely:
- Blackbird mob war (explains the trauma too!) ....Variation: A new super race of pigeon decided to whack the competition
- Suicide protest over the abandonment of puppies and kittens over Christmas
- Someone below was constipated for a week after eating some curry and after going off to die on his own in the wilderness managed to pass wind just in time to prevent death from toxic shock. Unfortunately the birds copped the brunt of it.
- Terrorist Blackbird not caught at the Blackbird airport in time because those pesky Blackbirds loved their freedom too much and refused to be irradiated and groped before they travel
- Y2K11 didn't just hit iPads and iPhones. Those poor Blackbirds shouldn't have bought their pacemakers from Apple and believed the "It just works" hype
- An alien witch temporarily transformed them from Blackbirds into Lemmings. When they hit the ground they changed back
These posts express my own personal views, not those of my employer
It was a decent King book, good characters, some interesting mishaps (Suspension of disbelief, but it's a king book). But then the ending was a WTF moment. It was like King had no idea where to end it so he pulled something like BSG did to end their series. Had no idea where it was going so just wrapped it up quick. He made this big deal throughout the book about the dome hitting exactly on the border of the town, a border that is a manmade construct on a map, but then well... he never went anywhere with THAT or why it happened to hit there.
The simpsons movie was better, the simpsons episode where they mock the King book and their own movie was funny too.
Pie anyone?
Nevermore.
The Oprah Winfrey Network went on the air. Nothing could survive flying through those waves.
Blackbirds? Didn't the military retire those years ago?
Deluded right wing nutcases like yourself only believe in conspiracies while you ignore the real outrages that happen every day. The retarded website you linked to dismisses idea that companies recklessly pollute and claims that global warming is itself a conspiracy by the government against business. Chemtrails on the other hand are a weird government conspiracy in the eyes of these right wing idiots.
The website you linked to is against the Environmental Protection Agency!?!
You retards have it all figured out...
Anybody in the vicinity drop unconscious for a while?
again.
Somebody get Joseph Fiennes on this!
Anyone else catch that?
It's obvious what happened: The birds realized they were in Arkansas.
The Internet has given stupid people the resources of intelligent people.
.. She ate beans and farted..
Sorry.
To Terminate, or not to Terminate, that's the question - SCSIROB
In Australia, a few trucks with loose lead dust made birds fall out of the sky.
I'll go for heavy metal pollution.
Perhaps someone was insulted, and when responding they misunderstood what "giving someone the bird" meant.
It was a spaceship that used the Improbability Drive as it left our planet! The Improbability Drive transformed the blackbirds into the fish, and the fish into blackbirds. The fish fell out of the sky to their death, and the birds drowned. When the spaceship was far enough, they were all transformed back!
How do we know the fall didn't kill them.
Perhaps they all fell from the sky alive, but it was impact with the earth that got them? You people too quick to jump to conclusions - all of you!
. .
maybe they weren'r Y2K+10 complient
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
Wildfire anyone?
The birds were hit by emanations from the Arkansas school system, and promptly forgot how to fly.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
Clearly it's The Pattern.
Someone recreated it from this podcast
if it was fireworks, the birds would be dying in other locations around the US and at other times, such as 4th of July.
This incident took place in a one square mile near the city.
"For two minutes and seventeen seconds...." (flash to [blackbird]-strewn fields)....
Repent, the end is nigh, Elton John and his husband had a child on Christmas day and women dress without modesty in Liechtenstein, therefore we are all DOOOOOOOMED. Especially the fish and the birds in Arkansas, who were all gay and very keen on felching.
Im sure should be pigs in platforms not far from there. Don't drink and play Angry Birds..
what about resonance frequency.
Did the center of the earth stop spinning?
Like why are there 4,000-5,000 SR-71 Blackbirds in operation over Arkansas? What do they know that we don't?
Sucked the birds up into the cold/anoxic region of the atmosphere - they die then fall to earth.
Nothing complex, just some extreme weather.
This has happened many times before
Maybe the birds had become angry at some nearby pigs and began launching themselves from catapults.
Maybe it's the rapture, and all the blackbirds ascended to heaven leaving their mortal bodies behind. We should probably find out what god they were worshiping and switch ASAP. Obviously the fish were worshiping the same god too.
Check out the story here
Perhaps they got too angry and had strokes.
125 miles away, 100,000 fish died and washed up on the Arkansas River. o.O
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/dead-fish-in-arkansas-near-where-100000-blackbirds-dropped-from-sky/story-e6frf7k6-1225981011908?from=public_rss
Truth, Just Us, And Hatred For All Mankind!
Turns out local blackbirds and drum fish are ensnarled in some vicious gang warfare.
Just awful.
Alfred Hitchcock did not write novels.
You are welcome on my lawn.
The fall killed them.
HAARP
What you basically said was: “these animals will die unless we slaughter them for meat.” How incredibly stupid. As people gradually stop eating meat, I can solve this animal population problem with three words. Stop breeding more.
It's the beginning of the Zombie Apocolypse! Look out Alaska, here I come.
You have essentially made the “might makes right” argument. If you want to argue: we should kill because we can kill, then I hope you are prepared to defend yourself against those who would want for your life and property. Lucky for you, modern civilization protects both.
Yes, predators and prey are natural. Tell me what, exactly, is natural about how we farm animals for food? Prey do not spend their entire lives in miserable conditions, drugged-up on antibiotics, before they are killed by their predators. In the process, we are rapidly consuming natural resources for minimal gain, fostering more dangerous pathogens, destroying our environment, and causing untold anguish for sentient creatures with surprising intelligence.
Lastly, humans, like other primates, are herbivores. Only complete dolts suggest we need meat three times daily, or even once weekly (let alone milk, which is intended for infants). Where are our claws? Fangs? You have no built-in mechanisms with which to hunt, kill, render, or even digest the animals you intend to eat without modern tools (which came very late in our evolution). For anecdotal evidence to this point, look around at the disgustingly obese people all around you. Notice the strong correlation between heart disease, atherosclerosis, cancer, and diabetes with meat consumption. Notice, also, that the countries with the highest osteoporosis rates consume the most dairy products.
In summary, killing animals is ethically unsustainable, our means are completely unnatural, and eating their products is bad for us.
alarm didn't go off, birds couldn't afford to get written up again, suicide was the only choice.
Not that I really expect any sort of editorial checking from Slashdot anymore, but the name of the town is Beebee. I should know, I grew up just south of there, and I was in the area over Christmas visiting my family. We left the day before this happened. There were strong thunderstorms the day we left, so that might have been the cause.
Colony collapse disorder has just jumped the species barrier!
Do daemons dream of electric sleep()?
The earthquake cause: (Score:-1)
by Anonymous Coward on 01-03-11 5:23 (#34742840)
HAARP
Are you being paid to discredit HAARP conspiracy theorists, or is it just a hobby?
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Actually, Shakers thought THEY shouldn't have sex; they were a celibate order, like Catholic nuns. They realized most folks should procreate.
They got done in when the state started orphans homes, and they no longer had orphans to raise and recruit from.
- "History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of men" -- Blue Oyster Cult, 'Godzilla'
Radiation from high powered military radar has been known to drop birds like that.
There's a goddamned good reason this kind of thing doesn't happen very day (no, I don't know what that reason is; I'm trying to make a point here :p). Anybody here ever read Earth by David Brin? No, I'm not suggesting that beams of coherent/concentrated gravitational energy were what took out these birds (and the nearby fish). What I am suggesting is that we be willing to explore various possible explanations, regardless of how far fetched and outlandish they may seem to the properly-indoctrinated, unimaginative philistines that compromise the loudest voices on Slashdot.
Anyone heard of HAARP? Anybody bother to look overhead at any point over the past decade? If so, you might have noticed these so-called "contrails" that remain in the sky for dozens of miles (if not hundreds!) and form into clouds (nevermind that the conditions under which actual contrails form, and the behavior they exhibit, has been observed and well-understood for decades).
Perhaps, if we're going to get at a likely explanation, we need to open up our minds a bit... just a suggestion.
People following a vegetarian diet must eat protein foods that have complementary proteins so that the essential amino acids missing from one protein food can be supplied by another.
What are some examples of complementary proteins?
# Beans and tortillas
# Peanut butter sandwich
# Macaroni and cheese
# Tofu with rice
# Hummus with pita bread
# Chickpeas and rice
Do people following a vegetarian diet need to eat complementary proteins at every meal?
It was once believed that complementary proteins had to be consumed at every meal. We now know that intentional combining at each meal isn't necessary.
Source: http://altmedicine.about.com/cs/dietarytherapy/a/Vegetarian.htm
From my own experience as lacto-ovo veggie for 10 years, lentils provide just as much or more proteins as meat, and eating varied provides you enough of everything. It's not that hard, unless you're the fiery / hunter type who craves food and meat especially. Medically, lacto-ovo vegetarian diet is superior and easy, as long as you don't restrict yourself to pasta, rice or just a few foods, but eat a varied diet.
If you're eating meat, you should question how your bowels look and smell, how much meat is stuck inside there undigested and foul. This is why, when people go veggie, they often smell worse for a good while, until their bodies are cleaned out. You can do bowel cleansing, which every person should do every other year anyways.
Vegan diet (no animal byproducts too) on the other hand. Well, those who follow it seem gray and sickly to me. I don't think it is optimal.
So we may not have to slaughter all those cows after all. Indeed, cows are reveered as holy in India for their usefulness, and many groups of people in that country have been vegetarian for thousands of years.
http://www.debunkingskeptics.com/
I live in southeast Arkansas. As a kid we sometimes saw birds do that. Didn't seem to be news then though. We have also had a large fish kill happen up north in the last couple of days. Probably a disease but I do fell like brains for lunch
Or, alternately, to paraphrase an "In Soviet Russia..." joke:
In Arkansas, dropping birds on you!
My friend descended from a Siberian tribe. His grandmother died in Siberia because she happened to go out wearing just two or three layers less than you "should". See, it's cold enough over there in my friend's ancestral village that the windows are plastic. Glass would shatter. And despite this, sometimes you want convenience. Like if you're American and you want to get milk, you're tempted to use the SUV to drive two blocks away and save five minutes of walking. Well, she saved five minutes changing out of two or three layers of clothing and suffered from it, due to a tragic weather event. OVer there, the Siberians get these tiny tornadoes that only last a few seconds. They're invisible. But inside of them, the temperature isn't just eighteen below zero, it's like thirty-eight below zero. And the wind is reintroducing that temperature of air at a rate of sometimes around a hundred miles an hour, but confined in a very tight vortex of only three or four feet across due to the nature of convecting currents and their abilities to maintain micro systems, something not very well understood. Being in that tiny cold whirlwind for even a few seconds can cause really horrible physical traumas. She was struck dead by hypothermia by an invisible weather phenomenon, struck dead by a tornado as big around as her sucking down temperatures from the upper atmosphere that were cold enough to lower her core temperature down below dead in only seconds. This sort of thing is a reality, and we can assume that there is plenty under the sun that science doesn't quite comprehend. If this doesn't turn out to be a low-pressure or mega-updraft incident of some kind, then I think we can all safely assume it is a pathogenic or local effect. A bacteria or virus. A radioactive or electromagnetic pulse. At any rate it's anomalous and anybody studying it with interest is probably more intelligent than the average scientists who, based largely on risk assessed values of research grant award futures versus college loan payment rates, side squarely with what is pre-established and therefore never learn anything new and fail to ever address the slightest anomaly whether it challenges their worldview or not.
read some meteorology, the energy contained in say (not correct numbers) 1x1x1 meter of air at sea level is actialy a bit lower then say 100x100x100 cube of air so high up that it corrospondes to the same amount of air, bring that air down to ground level and it will be compressed, so smaller, so energy will condense, with a higher temperature as a result, so if you suuuuck down air from altitude like that or in that movie perfect winter or whatever, it gets warmer, not colder.
This is intellectual masturbation.
"Fact."
You probably share more genes with alot of Indians and Africans than with your unrelated neighbour.
All facts and statistics are always abused to suit our own prejudices and preconceptions, even when not intended to, especially then.
If you can't eat vegetarian, you have probably not had the correct vegetarian meal. Many who "go veggie" have absolutely no clue what kinds of food you must eat.
Also, you must take the time for the body to clean itself out. You may feel sick for days, weeks or even months, and then you'll be fine. Drinking alot of water between meals etc helps.
Educate yourself instead. If you personally can't stand it after having tried the real thing, that's fine. Personally, I would have had a hard time if not for friends who went veggie with me over a period of a few years. With friends however, it was fun and empowering. I know not everyone is so lucky.
It seems to me a bit intellectualish to try it yourself for a short time, with no friends and no support. Like learning martial arts from a book. It's not the real thing. If you want an informed opinion about it, you should of course interview a trusted practitioner instead of building your own houses of cards.
http://www.debunkingskeptics.com/
Anything that makes humans behave more like humans and not animals, is good in my book. Our society would've been completely different if not for Christianity (in conjunction with of course Greek and French philosophers).
High ideals can lift us up, or pervert our thinking. The same is true for low ideals. Only mature people are able to see this.
Both believers and sceptics are the worst when they assume a "holier than thou" attitude and think they've all the answers, when often they are stuck on only one side of the coin.
http://www.debunkingskeptics.com/
http://www.bleeding-obvious.co.uk/archive1/butterfly/index.php
I was going to say Blackbirds falling from the sky is a regular sight in EVE Online.
–adjective
1. characterized by tenderness, compassion, and sympathy for people and animals, esp. for the suffering or distressed: humane treatment of horses.
2. of or pertaining to humanistic studies.
Origin: orig. stress var. of human, restricted to above senses from 18th century; cf. germane, german
—Related forms
humanely, adverb
humaneness, noun
overhumane, adjective
unhumane, adjective
unhumanely, adverb
unhumaneness, noun
—Can be confused: human, humane (see synonym and pronunciation notes at human).
—Synonyms
1. merciful, kind, kindly, kindhearted, tender, compassionate, gentle, sympathetic; benevolent, benignant, charitable. See human.
—Antonyms
1. brutal.
taken from...dictionary.com (Random House Dictionary). Looking up "human" yields acting out of human nature as a potential synonym... which would mean that they have a surprisingly positive outlook on human nature, but again, this is a point of potential confusion as noted in the dictionary entry on "humane" (note the origin is from a sound alike word ("germane") and likely results from 19th century attitudes centered in humanism (not that these were always kind or merciful but liked to be seen as such at least some of the time apparently).
No doubt they'll need to do some kind of necropsy to find out what is really going on here. But I have to say that I found the "they died of fright from fireworks" to be almost laughably unconvincing. I hunt a lot, and almost exclusively for ducks and geese. Most recently, over the week between Christmas and New Years, I participated in a couple large group hunts, in which up to seven of us were in a field for geese. As you might expect, this activity involved quite a lot of banging away with large and very loud shotguns. And while a number of geese did drop dead, in every case it was due to actually getting shot. I've also hunted with blackbirds around, and they didn't drop dead from fright when I shot either - they just flew away.
Again, no doubt tests are going to have to be done to find out what happened. But the idea that blackbirds are such delicate flowers that hearing loud noises is enough to kill them? I don't think so.
Not sure where you live, but it does seem to be the case that blackbirds behave differently depending on where they live:
More at Wikipedia.
For what it's worth, I've seen these things in huge flocks in winter. The rest of the year they're fairly solitary.
It's starting to happen.
We were having horrible storms around the same time. We had a very mild day where the temperature hit 70F. This warm of a day coming right after a very cold day always brings us very strong thunderstorms and usually tornadoes.
Along with these birds, six people also died in tornadoes and several more were injured. There was a massive amount of destruction from these storms and tornadoes.
I would assume the birds died from weather related reasons.
Erm, apparently there was physical trauma (see here and here). They're still guessing, but leaning towards stress from fireworks, although lightening or hail haven't been ruled out.
This is far from the first time anything like this has been recorded.
Saying Android is a family of phones is akin to saying Linux is a family of PCs.
Blackbirds falling out of the sky! I thought only a few blackbirds were lost. But then I realised that they weren't talking about this kind of blackbird.
Especially in the 1st URL below:
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(ROTFLMAO!)
I seriously wouldn't listen to "pwufessuh haiwypheet" guys, he's only an ITT Tech student.
What's this I heard about you using two or more registered user accounts here on slashdot, clone? clone53421 (1310749) and this one clone52431 (1805862)??
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1927208&cid=34689212
It also appears that your big trolling mouth and skimming got you into a jam again in that URL above, and you ran away. How embarassing for you clone!
What's this I heard about you using two or more registered user accounts here on slashdot, clone? clone53421 (1310749) and this one clone52431 (1805862)??
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1927208&cid=34689212
It also appears that your big trolling mouth and skimming got you into a jam again in that URL above, and you ran away.
How embarassing for you clone...
What's this I heard about you using two or more registered user accounts here on slashdot, clone? clone53421 (1310749) and this one clone52431 (1805862)??
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1927208&cid=34689212
It also appears that your big trolling mouth and skimming got you into a jam again in that URL above, and you ran away.
How utterly embarassing for you clone!
What's this I heard about you using two or more registered user accounts here on slashdot, clone? clone53421 (1310749) and this one clone52431 (1805862)??
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1927208&cid=34689212
It also appears that your big trolling mouth and skimming got you into a jam again in that URL above, and you ran away.
How utterly embarassing for you clone...!
What's this I heard about you using two or more registered user accounts here on slashdot, clone? clone53421 (1310749) and this one clone52431 (1805862)??
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1927208&cid=34689212
It also appears that your big trolling mouth and skimming got you into a jam again in that URL above, and you ran away.
How totally embarassing for you clone!
What's this I heard about you using two or more registered user accounts here on slashdot, clone? clone53421 (1310749) and this one clone52431 (1805862)??
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1927208&cid=34689212
It also appears that your big trolling mouth and skimming got you into a jam again in that URL above, and you ran away.
How completely, utterly embarassing for you clone!
What's this I hear about Alexander Peter Kowalski the malware author?
http://www.google.com/search?q=apkapp2backgrounddaemonprocessengine.exe
From my +5 Upward Modded post on Computer Associates, above (CA's the source of that libel of myself):
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CA's disreputable - See their "ethics" in accounting practices which they got busted for:
PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:
"Customers know Computer Associates - and, these days, for all the wrong reasons. Just as the company was beginning to shed its reputation as a home for legacy software products that carried an inflated price tag, it was rocked by a series of accounting scandals. An on-going FBI fraud inquiry and investigations by the US Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission have left it reeling, with a power vacuum at the top as over a dozen senior executives have left or been sacked. The allegations centre on internal accounting and sales activities in the years around the turn of the century, and involve the movement of revenues between quarters and product areas, and consequently, the mis-statement of financial results."
FROM -> http://www.information-age.com/articles/290656/the-information-age-interview.thtml
APK
P.S.=> CA also listed a freeware of mine as a "malware", falsely, which was written to help out a fellow forums person I knew at NTCompatible years ago, because he had an OLD version of Apache server on Windows which would not run as a tooltray icon while minimized & it was not implemented as a service he told me (that was so it was not visible onscreen and ran "in the background transparently" which most webservers now, do).
So, in good faith/being a "good neighbor", I wrote it up for he (it's NOT commandline argv/argc parameterizeable either, so it's NOT scriptable) in GUI form (only 2-3 lines of code & works via C/C++ type invisible "spawn" type parameterizations).
Next thing I know? It's out online being classed as a "malware" (1 of around 40 freeware apps I've done over time that did VERY well & were featured in respected publications in good reviews in reputable & respected publications like "Windows IT Pro" Magazine (it was Windows NT Mag back then in the 1990's - early 21st century) & others of like ilk).
Apps that can be used "both ways" get 'victimized' this way (which is like PING via "ping of death")...
OR
Tools from NIRSOFT (good stuff) who also gets a "bad rap" from the likes of CA!
OR
SysInternals even too (yes, even Dr. Mark Russinovich has had this happen to he (e.g. pstools) as it has myself & Nir Sofer of NIRSOFT) have tools that can be used "for the good" or "the bad", depending on WHO is using them & what they're up to (like a gun, guns don't murder people - other people do)).
So, then I took CA's 21 point removal test & passed EVERY SINGLE QUESTION without fail no less, & they would not remove it (but, they had to put it down to "Zero Threat Levels")...
I did that on the advice of an attorney (John Lowe of Hiscock & Barclay).
Afterwards when I told the attorney these results, he told me "Yes, you have a WINNING CASE for libel/defamation of character" etc. "and it's worth approx. $150,000 U.S. Dollars"!
So, to that, I said:
"Well, let's do it then on a 33.3% of the take for you as payment" (keeps attorneys 'motivated' doing it that way, plus, it's no init. money down for retainers etc./et al).
Then, he replied "I can't do this case!" I was like "WHY?!?" & he said "Because larger companies have fleets of attorneys that will 'drag it out' for over a decade and by the time you collect, which you would? The overall COST of doing this would exceed your reward!"...
This is how the REAL world works, if you're not a "Financial Goliath" in other words - there is NO "justice", only money (and if you've got enough to take on the likes of these companies, then, & ONLY THEN, do you get real justice)... makes me ill, because the likes of CA know this, & abuse it! ap
Arkansas is no different than any other place in the U.S. You can find rednecks, hicks, and hillbillies, as well as intelligent, educated, even wealthy people in every state in the Union. It's just silly to make "Arkansaw" jokes; not even funny. Urban Arkansas is like urban anywhere, and rural Arkansas is like rural anywhere.
At least try to be creative.
"Those who consume the bulk of goods are those who make them. We must never forget this secret of our prosperity."
See how clone used his 53421 clone account to try to 'defend' the 53421 alternate registered one here, below next:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1928730&cid=34702996:
HERE IS A DIRECT QUOTE:
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"Mmm, yeah, niggard me harder, you filthy nigger you!" - by clone53421 (1310749) on Wednesday December 29, @03:40PM (#34702996) Journal
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(You have some "StRaNgE PhAnTaSiEs" to say the least, clone - seek professional help!)
APK
P.S.=> LMAO, busted... badly & on ALL accounts noted above... too easy! apk
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1932290&cid=34749168 See you there, backup your bullshit - , troll.
APK
P.S.=> What am I saying? He won't show & prove his statements, trollish though they are + without any substance... he'll run, like every troll does, when confronted... apk
The culprit proved to be train shipments of lead carbonate that were uncovered combined with windy weather that made the lead airborne. Might be worth checking the dead birds for lead poisoning. "The Report concluded that the deaths of the 9500 native birds in December 2006 and March 2007 resulted from lead poisoning from Magellan Metals lead carbonate concentrate which had been handled by the Esperance Port Authority from April 2005 until March 2007. A quarter of the children under 5 years of age that were tested showed a blood lead level over 5 g/dL. Whilst this is not as high as other communities affected by lead pollution, it certainly shows an impact from lead contamination."
Maybe they're still asleep and will wake up on Jan 3 when their iPhone alarms start working again.
OR I wonder if maybe mother Earth was just playing a massive game of Angry Birds.
with this awesome Canadian study proving that seeing meat calms you down.
A little girl walks into the Ladies room in a seafood restaurant.
When someone farts, she says "Mama is that you."
The up lifting winds in a tornado may have caused this. It's just like thunderstorms with rain falling which ascend and descend many times. Depending what latitude either rain or snow will fall to ground.
Marshall County Kentucky also reported dead birds. From the reporting on the local television station WPSD, it happened just shortly before Arkansas. Normal west to east weather patterns and timing considered, we should look into other explanations.
What I want to do is figure out how to make this happen to the flocks of blackbirds around here.
Since there was more than one species, and as well other birds not in the exact same proximity to the fireworks, etc. I would guess that what killed them was toxic clouds, either from industrial chimneys or other noxius gases. The birds could not fly above or below and therefore expired from gas poisoning.
Leslie Satenstein Montreal Quebec Canada
"Follow me all you like (in the virtual world) but I'm not going to be your "best pal" you sick fuck ;-p" - by damaged_goods (1690438) on Wednesday January 05, @09:06AM (#34764410)
You sure "talk a big game", but when it came RIGHT DOWN TO IT? You couldn't show a single instance where someone here (or elsewhere) has "gotten the better of me", on topic & technically speaking, here on these forums... despite your BIG MOUTH stating this:
"Your claims have been been shown as worthless dozens of times by people whose opinions I find worthy of respect." - by damaged_sectors (1690438) on Monday January 03, @06:23PM (#34748892)
FROM - http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1932290&cid=34749168
YOU? YOU ARE A LOT OF TALK, & NO ACTION...
APK
P.S.=> In other words, you're known as a bullshitter/liar - a dishonorable little SCUMBAG... apk
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1929880&cid=34773824 where I see you have committed felonious acts against others here clone (or should I say, Stephen Alongi?)
Remember the Bats in the Northeast, dropping dead from white nosed virus? It was a fungus that grew under thier noses. What is killing these birds today? It's not any fireworks! It's something else. PHD's need to study this quick, in case it speads to other birds and knock off the eco. system. I think it's important. Birds do more for us than most people think!
APK, I'm considering going to the police. Those allegations are libelous and I suggest you back off.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1929880&cid=34773824
"i have on multiple occasions formally accused you of federal felony copyright violations and conspiracy to commit murder. you're an ignorant hypocrite. you stole my photographs and redistributed them unaltered with a call for my murder attached.
you are most certainly a felon. JUSTICE IS COMING. your ".40" that you claim you'll be waiting with will not be as effective as it is in your psychotic dreams.
cower some more, feeb.
you're completely pathetic." by MichaelKristopeit347 (1968128)
on Thursday January 06, @01:16AM (#34773824)
That doesn't look good for you clone. Cracking under the pressure it looks like. The poster there is not APK. It's another person MichaelKristopeit347 (1968128).
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