Nothing paired with the name "Canada" could ever be frightening. Try it in your head. The images it conjures up tend to mix John Candy movies with Southpark.
I don't care how engrossed in something you are. Be it a video game, movie, or even a lesson plan. If a phone starts incessantly ringing it's gonna distract you, break your concentration and focus.
I'm not trying to equate firemen to police officers. I'm just taking the whole "it's a democracy and thus its their choice to make government services optional" a step further to see if that theory can apply emergency services.
The other reply to my comment obviously does believe that police can be made optional. You on the other hand do not. You'll need to find a third friend to break the tie.
Take your pick:
Opaque, opaque, opaque, either way, his question is valid and the wikipedia entry on the subject matches not only all online and offline dictionary definitions but also textbook ones. And the answer that human hands are translucent is also valid. So give'm a break?
Not sure why they couldn't go old school and use a bucket and a spigot if they didn't want to use their fancy equipment. I mean this was a mobile home, and the fire took 2 hours to just make it up the lawn to the house...as a matter of fact, I don't see why neighbors or the residents didn't do this, futile maybe but they could've at least tried...it's just sad.
Huh? Yes, of course city/town residents won't vote yes for county fire services if they already have them provided by the city/town. That's what I said. Not sure why you think it's nonsense, because it sounds like you're agreeing with me.
As for not getting a vote? Why not? Just because you live in a city doesn't mean you don't get to vote in county elections and referendums as well. You are both a resident of the city and the county.
Actually the owner here has insurance. What he doesn't have is emergency services.
Imagine not paying a $75 rescue fee. So that when you got into the car accident emergency workers showed up to cut the other guy out of his wreck and put him in an ambulance then towing away his wreck. Then a few stick around and watch you try to drag yourself out of the car.
Actually, it's more likely that the 0% fire coverage for the county was due to the votes of the more populous people (in the cities and towns with their own FD) than in the sparsely populated rural areas.
I think it's far more likely that the more numerous residents in the cities/towns voted against county coverage because they already receive it from their town/city.
Usually rural communities consider fire coverage to be pretty important (because they tend to burn trash because there's no garbage pick-up) but rural communities also don't have the votes to pass things.
Not saying this is the specific case for Obion county, but it's as plausible an explanation as your own.
It's far more likely that the more numerous residents in the cities/towns voted against county coverage because they already receive it from their town/city.
Usually rural communities consider fire coverage to be pretty important (because they tend to burn trash because there's no garbage pick-up) but rural communities also don't have the votes to pass things.
Not saying this is the specific case for Obion county, but it's as plausible an explanation as your own.
So do you also think police coverage should be optional as well? That if you don't pay your fee they shouldn't investigate when you've been robbed or murdered?
Here's an old article on an experiment that suggests that the speed of light may not be constant. Now as a disclaimer, I haven't followed up on this research, and don't know if they were ever able to repeat their results.
That is a very unusual selection. I'm surprised you like Warner Bros. but not H-B, considering they did a lot of trading of talent, both writers and artists, as well as with MGM.
I urge you not to discount all Hanna-Barbera, they've got a pretty deep stable of characters and classic bits, some of which you may not currently attribute to the production company. Personally, I really like Droopy Dog (originally MGM then turned into a H-B property), though I was never a Tom and Jerry fan.
I'm shocked that you dislike Rankin-Bass so deeply though. I think the Last Unicorn and Flight of Dragons are notable animated movies, as well as the original Hobbit although you may dislike the added songs and music. I've never really seen them do a poor job with a feature length film.
Though I have to admit that their TV series weren't really that good...Thundercats and Silverhawks were obviously not the same quality as their feature lengths.
This of course is not even mentioning their stop-motion animation, which many people hate due to its saccharine nature and relationship to the Christian holidays.
You know...now that you mention it, you're right, the Silmarillion would make great material for a series of shorter films. Personally I think it would be great to have them animated and directed by a whole bunch of different talents like they did with the Animatrix and Halo:Legends.
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Nothing paired with the name "Canada" could ever be frightening. Try it in your head. The images it conjures up tend to mix John Candy movies with Southpark.
Used to be the Dominion of Canada, until they dropped it in 1982. Why? Probably something to do with Hockey or Lumberjacks.
As should parents who use refuse to spank their kids and instead use mental torture and emotional manipulation.
But if we both got our way there wouldn't be anyone left.
I don't care how engrossed in something you are. Be it a video game, movie, or even a lesson plan. If a phone starts incessantly ringing it's gonna distract you, break your concentration and focus.
I'm not trying to equate firemen to police officers. I'm just taking the whole "it's a democracy and thus its their choice to make government services optional" a step further to see if that theory can apply emergency services.
The other reply to my comment obviously does believe that police can be made optional. You on the other hand do not. You'll need to find a third friend to break the tie.
Take your pick: Opaque, opaque, opaque, either way, his question is valid and the wikipedia entry on the subject matches not only all online and offline dictionary definitions but also textbook ones. And the answer that human hands are translucent is also valid. So give'm a break?
Not sure why they couldn't go old school and use a bucket and a spigot if they didn't want to use their fancy equipment. I mean this was a mobile home, and the fire took 2 hours to just make it up the lawn to the house...as a matter of fact, I don't see why neighbors or the residents didn't do this, futile maybe but they could've at least tried...it's just sad.
Huh? Yes, of course city/town residents won't vote yes for county fire services if they already have them provided by the city/town. That's what I said. Not sure why you think it's nonsense, because it sounds like you're agreeing with me.
As for not getting a vote? Why not? Just because you live in a city doesn't mean you don't get to vote in county elections and referendums as well. You are both a resident of the city and the county.
Sorry, completely missed that...*rubs eyes* after awhile all the posts on this thread tend to blend into one pulsating mass.
I asked myself the same thing. Plus it was a Mobile home...there really aren't many rooms to deal with when finding the cat.
I beg to differ with your base assumption. Apparently firefighters do run into burning buildings to save pets. And it seems that this has been done more than once.
Actually the owner here has insurance. What he doesn't have is emergency services.
Imagine not paying a $75 rescue fee. So that when you got into the car accident emergency workers showed up to cut the other guy out of his wreck and put him in an ambulance then towing away his wreck. Then a few stick around and watch you try to drag yourself out of the car.
Kitty Genovese would have to disagree with you on that one. But your point is taken. It is more likely that if the police department is pay for service, they'd just not investigate the murders of people who don't pay the fee. It's really a common trope in science fiction writing.
Why are "pay as you go" fire departments a good idea, but not "pay as you go" police departments?
In the real world, everything is free, if you're strong enough to take it and hold onto it.
Of course that's a big if.
Actually, it's more likely that the 0% fire coverage for the county was due to the votes of the more populous people (in the cities and towns with their own FD) than in the sparsely populated rural areas.
I suspect most people become fire fighters to save lives, not to turn a profit.
I think it's far more likely that the more numerous residents in the cities/towns voted against county coverage because they already receive it from their town/city.
Usually rural communities consider fire coverage to be pretty important (because they tend to burn trash because there's no garbage pick-up) but rural communities also don't have the votes to pass things.
Not saying this is the specific case for Obion county, but it's as plausible an explanation as your own.
It's far more likely that the more numerous residents in the cities/towns voted against county coverage because they already receive it from their town/city.
Usually rural communities consider fire coverage to be pretty important (because they tend to burn trash because there's no garbage pick-up) but rural communities also don't have the votes to pass things.
Not saying this is the specific case for Obion county, but it's as plausible an explanation as your own.
So do you also think police coverage should be optional as well? That if you don't pay your fee they shouldn't investigate when you've been robbed or murdered?
Here's an old article on an experiment that suggests that the speed of light may not be constant. Now as a disclaimer, I haven't followed up on this research, and don't know if they were ever able to repeat their results.
That is a very unusual selection. I'm surprised you like Warner Bros. but not H-B, considering they did a lot of trading of talent, both writers and artists, as well as with MGM.
I urge you not to discount all Hanna-Barbera, they've got a pretty deep stable of characters and classic bits, some of which you may not currently attribute to the production company. Personally, I really like Droopy Dog (originally MGM then turned into a H-B property), though I was never a Tom and Jerry fan.
I'm shocked that you dislike Rankin-Bass so deeply though. I think the Last Unicorn and Flight of Dragons are notable animated movies, as well as the original Hobbit although you may dislike the added songs and music. I've never really seen them do a poor job with a feature length film.
Though I have to admit that their TV series weren't really that good...Thundercats and Silverhawks were obviously not the same quality as their feature lengths.
This of course is not even mentioning their stop-motion animation, which many people hate due to its saccharine nature and relationship to the Christian holidays.
But both stop motion and cell animation don't use rendering, that's typically a computer animation term.
But I get it, your sense of humor and theirs didn't mesh. Cool. So maybe you're a Tex Avery devotee? Or a massive Disney fan?
You know...now that you mention it, you're right, the Silmarillion would make great material for a series of shorter films. Personally I think it would be great to have them animated and directed by a whole bunch of different talents like they did with the Animatrix and Halo:Legends.
A good article explaining why doesn't Frodo just ride an eagle to mount doom.