I guess that this must just be a personal thing. When I was a kid, I spent a few years hanging out with the local punks, going to shows, and getting smashed on 40's down by the river. I guess that when I see someone with torn cloths, holding a bottle of alcohol, I'm more likely to respect them because I used to look the same way, rather than recoil in fear.
Source on the earthquake info? It seems that while we're *affected* by quite a few fault lines, they aren't located in the state itself.
I thought about including Yellowstone, but decided against it. If that thing ever does blow, the entire world is fucked. Including it -although reasonable- would pretty much destroy the nice little discussion about safe places, since nowhere is safe.
Except there are lots of people who *have* built in those stupid locations.
So? I'm not gonna tell someone that they can't build inside a volcano, but it's their own fault if they do.
Which doesn't entirely help...
Have you ever seen firefighters fight wildfires? Only having to fly a minute to refill a water bucket is pretty damn nice. (I'm looking at you, California)
Tornadoes as wide as towns? Maybe if your "town" has a population of 3. My extended family lives in St. Peter, and they got nailed by that bad tornado a decade or so back, since then? Nothing.
My point wasn't that we're invincible, but rather that, in comparison to most places, we're pretty fracking safe. Yeah, we get straightline winds once a year or so, but when New Orleans is getting reamed by hurricanes several times a year, lutefisk starts to look pretty good.
Minnesota? We're not near any fault lines, volcanoes, etc... and unless someone builds in a *really* stupid location, they're pretty much immune from floods too. As for massive wildfires, well, we have so many rivers and lakes here that we're never really more than a few miles from a source of water.
Yeah, looks like our government did a great job of protecting Iraqis from my friend in high school, who joined up specifically to kill the towelheads. Oh, wait. They gave him a.50 and sent him across the pond.
> he Minnesota, Wisconsin, and the Dakotas are chock full of people with mainly Norwegian and Swedish ancestry. I'm aware of that, seeing as how I live in Minnesota. This guy was like 80, so I imagine that his grandfather was quite a bit older than that.
The story seems to suggest something, at the very least, that that Lakota dude likes to tell stories, and at the greatest, that the Vikings kicked a whole bunch of ass.
When I went hitchhiking through western Minnesota a few years back, I met a Dakota man living on the reservation in Sisseton. He claimed that his grandfather told him the story of how he helped bury one of the "white giants", blond and fair skinned men "as tall as you could reach". I took it with a grain of salt, but it's still one hell of a story - the ladies love it when I tell it around a campfire at night.
I'd be disinclined to trust TOR on its own. I've heard speculation that the NSA is in control of enough nodes that they can identify the origin of a message.
Well, I trust the army to want to work to the best of their ability to keep control of nuclear weapons. Unfortunately, I have no faith that the government will always act in the best interests of the public if it is counter to the desires of those in power.
I'm a skinhead. I am, however, not a Nazi, white-supremacist, anti-semite, or otherwise hateful or biased towards any race, religion, or sexual orientation. Many of my friends, however, are avowed white-supremacists, Neo-Nazis, and national socialists. Despite our conflicting views, I would never apologize to anyone for our friendship, because that's not the way friendship works. I protect and value my friends, and expect the same from them. Even if I might one day find myself on the opposite side of a battlefield from those men, I would never speak ill of them or our friendship. I've been in the position of being associated with friends who have unpopular political views myself, and the way that Obama has reacted is something that I can respect.
Shit, who modded this funny? Sounds like a good idea for me, but that's because I'm just a bottom-level factory worker. We'll see how I feel once I've been promoted once or twice.
Yeah, if only infants were like toys that you can turn on and off...
Do you know why children cry? It's 'cause they're farking kids. I'll be damned if people with children get punished because you've got an illogical problem with kids.
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I guess that this must just be a personal thing.
When I was a kid, I spent a few years hanging out with the local punks, going to shows, and getting smashed on 40's down by the river. I guess that when I see someone with torn cloths, holding a bottle of alcohol, I'm more likely to respect them because I used to look the same way, rather than recoil in fear.
No, our moose protect us.
I thought about including Yellowstone, but decided against it. If that thing ever does blow, the entire world is fucked. Including it -although reasonable- would pretty much destroy the nice little discussion about safe places, since nowhere is safe.
So? I'm not gonna tell someone that they can't build inside a volcano, but it's their own fault if they do.
Have you ever seen firefighters fight wildfires? Only having to fly a minute to refill a water bucket is pretty damn nice. (I'm looking at you, California)
Tornadoes as wide as towns? Maybe if your "town" has a population of 3. My extended family lives in St. Peter, and they got nailed by that bad tornado a decade or so back, since then? Nothing.
My point wasn't that we're invincible, but rather that, in comparison to most places, we're pretty fracking safe. Yeah, we get straightline winds once a year or so, but when New Orleans is getting reamed by hurricanes several times a year, lutefisk starts to look pretty good.
Minnesota?
We're not near any fault lines, volcanoes, etc... and unless someone builds in a *really* stupid location, they're pretty much immune from floods too. As for massive wildfires, well, we have so many rivers and lakes here that we're never really more than a few miles from a source of water.
Probably the same place where he learned that /. will eat html tags that it doesn't understand.
I know you!
You're that Anonymous dude that I always see posting on 4chan!
Sorry, I modded you redundant instead of insightful.
I work M-F 8-4:30, you insensitive clod!
Yeah, looks like our government did a great job of protecting Iraqis from my friend in high school, who joined up specifically to kill the towelheads. .50 and sent him across the pond.
Oh, wait. They gave him a
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No, that's stupid. The cartels are fscking Mexico pretty hard.
Yeah, god forbid that the man do good work and make money.
he Minnesota, Wisconsin, and the Dakotas are chock full of people with mainly Norwegian and Swedish ancestry. I'm aware of that, seeing as how I live in Minnesota. This guy was like 80, so I imagine that his grandfather was quite a bit older than that.
I wouldn't mind that she abused you, except that all that time she could have been teaching you grammar.
The story seems to suggest something, at the very least, that that Lakota dude likes to tell stories, and at the greatest, that the Vikings kicked a whole bunch of ass.
When I went hitchhiking through western Minnesota a few years back, I met a Dakota man living on the reservation in Sisseton. He claimed that his grandfather told him the story of how he helped bury one of the "white giants", blond and fair skinned men "as tall as you could reach".
I took it with a grain of salt, but it's still one hell of a story - the ladies love it when I tell it around a campfire at night.
I'd be disinclined to trust TOR on its own. I've heard speculation that the NSA is in control of enough nodes that they can identify the origin of a message.
...and the same in GNOME.
Seems to me that dying in a car accident or of alcohol poisoning would have a pretty serious impact on taxpayer-funded research.
So then we should probably just make it illegal for them to drink, smoke cigarettes, or use motor vehicles too. All of those can harm them as well.
Well, I trust the army to want to work to the best of their ability to keep control of nuclear weapons. Unfortunately, I have no faith that the government will always act in the best interests of the public if it is counter to the desires of those in power.
I don't know about you, but it'll be a cold day in hell before I want my individual vote traveling over an unsecured network.
I'm a skinhead. I am, however, not a Nazi, white-supremacist, anti-semite, or otherwise hateful or biased towards any race, religion, or sexual orientation. Many of my friends, however, are avowed white-supremacists, Neo-Nazis, and national socialists. Despite our conflicting views, I would never apologize to anyone for our friendship, because that's not the way friendship works. I protect and value my friends, and expect the same from them. Even if I might one day find myself on the opposite side of a battlefield from those men, I would never speak ill of them or our friendship.
I've been in the position of being associated with friends who have unpopular political views myself, and the way that Obama has reacted is something that I can respect.
Shit, who modded this funny? Sounds like a good idea for me, but that's because I'm just a bottom-level factory worker. We'll see how I feel once I've been promoted once or twice.
Yeah, if only infants were like toys that you can turn on and off... Do you know why children cry? It's 'cause they're farking kids. I'll be damned if people with children get punished because you've got an illogical problem with kids.