The only time I ever ran into anything, I was eighteen, quite sober, and left a note under the Guy's wiper blade. (S.o.b. took all the pent-up rage out, on me, that he had for the past three other guys that didn't stop, funny story there.) Oh, and that other, sober, incident on the well-known black ice at that corner on highway 66, where old Mister Provost busted me later pounding in a couple new fence posts. Since then, (30+ years) I've been quite active sipping beverages and toking doobies whilst driving. OTOH I know plenty of folks who should not attempt driving after (or before) some, or any, intoxicants.
I've also worked with guns and chainsaws while intoxicated; (I just refilled my Tito's Gimlet before firing up the browser.) Let me spell it out for you, dumb-ass:
If one follows protocol, more lives will be saved than by an infinite measure of sobriety.
I think you and I have an issue with people who confuse statutory violations with crime. I have two questions that I believe define whether I can speak rationally with someone: 1) Is it more significant if one innocent man is executed, or ninety-nine killers are freed? 2) If I can't trust you with a machine-gun, then how in the fuck are you still at large?
Farmers don't have lobbyists, unless you're counting Willie and the FarmAid crew. Only Persons like the world's most admired food production company use lobbyists. Make your luck, spend a buck.
Those living on the edge could fire model rocket engines w/o the rocket. It's better to just be a public nuisance than public enemy.
Ah yes, the olde Estes-Congreve. You want a C6-0, a little strip of bamboo and an m-80 for best results. Back before I had a friend with Mexican cousins, that was the best we could do. They didn't sell D engines until I got out of the game.
I pulled a.44 slug out of a trim board once, embedded about 1 centimeter. Lining it up with the hole in the siding, it arrived at around thirty degrees, my guess is it was from one or two miles south in Oakland. Two times I've pulled.22 slugs out of roofing shakes, embedded half a centimeter, falling mostly vertically. Ballistically, a longer-than-wide rifle bullet is more likely lethal at extreme range, but that.44 would have ruined your night. (Guess where the bed was going!) I've been hit by birdshot falling from the air, a tee-shirt is adequate protection if you don't get those in the eye. One year I got a tad wild and emptied my Browning Auto-5 into the sky, no remorse.
In many cases the slaughter house/airport/racetrack/nudie bar/homeless shelter was there first. People buy cheap houses, knowing the issue. Then start complaining and hiring shysters.
Reminds me of what happened to all the loud nightclubs and light industry in San Francisco after they invented Live/Work condos to circumvent the zoning and deindustrialize the town.
Developers who wanted to build a subdivision near a slaughter house in south Sacramento county had to pay for a catalytic odor control system before they were allowed to start construction.
Any ethical developer would do no less, IMO, if he wanted to site customers next to a shitpile. The fact that it was apparently the threat of lawsuits that motivated them just shows the state of ethics in the Real Estate Development game. I suppose they built it below one of those levees. (Haw-haw.)
That doesn't change the fact that your factory shouldn't shit in the creek.
I'd like to have "Implied Consent" laws passed so that certain types of operations are subject to full access and inspections by qualified and interested agents at least, and possibly the general public, in the cases of liquid discharge onto soil or into water. Your right to privacy is over before you infect my planet with your toxic waste.
*Anecdote Warning* The Farmer John plant in Los Angeles does not appear to share any noxious smells with their neighbors. I've only been walking around there a few dozen times and lived several miles away so I might have just missed out on Toxic Discharge Tuesday. I've been in butcher shops where I could smell blood, and don't buy meat from them. I used to deliver parts to a place in San Leandro called Weber Quality Meats, and the place was distinctly clean with no blood odor. I attributed it to the boss's attitude, a sweet old German Guy, who I suspected had an iron fist holding onto quality. All it takes is a little self-respect and pride in one's work. Their product is universally lauded by customers, too.
Reports on Madoff were disregarded by the SEC for nearly a decade, similar to this story. Do your other examples illustrate my point as well? I frankly don't have time to do the research. Good Night.
I think the point of the summary is valid. The neighbors have been complaining about the stench, the relevant public servants did nothing. The internet buzzed with the truth, embarrassing said public servants into performing their duties. All of this is very familiar to me, except for the publicity and the public servants doing their jobs part, I've only heard about that. Put on the tinfoil once in a while, and don't believe everything you think.
Maybe if he spent all that energy and resources on bettering himself, or helping the community, the world just might be a little better.
What exactly makes you think that that energy will be applied in a positive direction? I think if you listed the top twenty catastrophes that have occurred to MY PLANET in the last hundred years, you'll find the perpetrators were all sober and ambitious. More Human Beings and fewer Human Doings will be the key if Human Civilization is to continue.
I once had a cop spazz so hard over finding a tiny roach in the back of my car that he broke one of my fingers subduing me. I was sitting calmly on the ground as ordered when he lost control and had to practice his sloppy version of a Felony Take-down. (He wasn't quite freaked out enough to call his accomplice back from looting my car, in case I tried to defend myself from the unprovoked assault.) I'm fairly certain there was a causative relation, maybe from his apparent steroid abuse? Has Officer S.D. (Short Dong) Wong of the EBRPD gone to rehab yet? Danger lurks in the Oakland Hills.
happy solstice + 3. I wish you a suitably bacchanalian event
My innate cynicism is fading about Christmas as I come to realize it is standing in* for the one truly important holiday for those of us living in temperate climate areas.
The job of Director is pretty intense. Anyone merely competent is usually hailed as a genius. What 3-D often wants is more subtlety. Good luck on that.
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This is why its a good thing that it should require less than a Google search to find Al Jazeera.
Some folks just need the extra help.
The only time I ever ran into anything, I was eighteen, quite sober, and left a note under the Guy's wiper blade. (S.o.b. took all the pent-up rage out, on me, that he had for the past three other guys that didn't stop, funny story there.)
Oh, and that other, sober, incident on the well-known black ice at that corner on highway 66, where old Mister Provost busted me later pounding in a couple new fence posts. Since then, (30+ years) I've been quite active sipping beverages and toking doobies whilst driving. OTOH I know plenty of folks who should not attempt driving after (or before) some, or any, intoxicants.
I've also worked with guns and chainsaws while intoxicated; (I just refilled my Tito's Gimlet before firing up the browser.) Let me spell it out for you, dumb-ass:
If one follows protocol, more lives will be saved than by an infinite measure of sobriety.
I think you and I have an issue with people who confuse statutory violations with crime.
I have two questions that I believe define whether I can speak rationally with someone:
1) Is it more significant if one innocent man is executed, or ninety-nine killers are freed?
2) If I can't trust you with a machine-gun, then how in the fuck are you still at large?
Yes it is *possible* to drive while intoxicated and not hurt anyone or anything, but it's hardly the probable outcome.
It is *possible* you're more ignorant than troll,
but its hardly probable.
You really need to quit believing everything you think, as you are apparently not qualified for that.
Arbitrary and capricious response to any issue which causes cerebral activity.
You could drive 50 cars and 10,000 bikes past and do less damage than a single truck.
More like 10,000 cars and an infinite number of bicycles.
higher prices for everything on the shelves at the grocery store, at the mall, or pretty much anywhere else.
God forbid that the tax burden should fall exclusively on the beneficiaries.
Farmers don't have lobbyists, unless you're counting Willie and the FarmAid crew. Only Persons like the world's most admired food production company use lobbyists.
Make your luck, spend a buck.
The author offered $1000 at 10:1 to the FUDsters that put this nonsense out in the first place.
Yeah, I had to look.
When someone does die, they have enough lawyers to prevent the family that just lost someone from suing them.
They'll get sued, the lawyers are to ensure that the settlement will be inadequate, e.g., the company will remain in business.
Those living on the edge could fire model rocket engines w/o the rocket. It's better to just be a public nuisance than public enemy.
Ah yes, the olde Estes-Congreve. You want a C6-0, a little strip of bamboo and an m-80 for best results. Back before I had a friend with Mexican cousins, that was the best we could do. They didn't sell D engines until I got out of the game.
I pulled a .44 slug out of a trim board once, embedded about 1 centimeter. Lining it up with the hole in the siding, it arrived at around thirty degrees, my guess is it was from one or two miles south in Oakland. Two times I've pulled .22 slugs out of roofing shakes, embedded half a centimeter, falling mostly vertically. Ballistically, a longer-than-wide rifle bullet is more likely lethal at extreme range, but that .44 would have ruined your night. (Guess where the bed was going!)
I've been hit by birdshot falling from the air, a tee-shirt is adequate protection if you don't get those in the eye. One year I got a tad wild and emptied my Browning Auto-5 into the sky, no remorse.
Kinda how I loved the History channel which then turned into the UFO/Bigfoot/X-Files channel.
Who'd have thought they could get worse?
In many cases the slaughter house/airport/racetrack/nudie bar/homeless shelter was there first. People buy cheap houses, knowing the issue. Then start complaining and hiring shysters.
Reminds me of what happened to all the loud nightclubs and light industry in San Francisco after they invented Live/Work condos to circumvent the zoning and deindustrialize the town.
Developers who wanted to build a subdivision near a slaughter house in south Sacramento county had to pay for a catalytic odor control system before they were allowed to start construction.
Any ethical developer would do no less, IMO, if he wanted to site customers next to a shitpile. The fact that it was apparently the threat of lawsuits that motivated them just shows the state of ethics in the Real Estate Development game. I suppose they built it below one of those levees. (Haw-haw.)
That doesn't change the fact that your factory shouldn't shit in the creek.
I'd like to have "Implied Consent" laws passed so that certain types of operations are subject to full access and inspections by qualified and interested agents at least, and possibly the general public, in the cases of liquid discharge onto soil or into water. Your right to privacy is over before you infect my planet with your toxic waste.
*Anecdote Warning*
The Farmer John plant in Los Angeles does not appear to share any noxious smells with their neighbors. I've only been walking around there a few dozen times and lived several miles away so I might have just missed out on Toxic Discharge Tuesday. I've been in butcher shops where I could smell blood, and don't buy meat from them. I used to deliver parts to a place in San Leandro called Weber Quality Meats, and the place was distinctly clean with no blood odor.
I attributed it to the boss's attitude, a sweet old German Guy, who I suspected had an iron fist holding onto quality. All it takes is a little self-respect and pride in one's work. Their product is universally lauded by customers, too.
Yay google! Way to fight those criminals by becoming criminals yourself. If you can't beat 'em join 'em, I guess.
Are rhino poachers constitutionally protected in Africa? Slashdot is so informative.
Way to Cherry Pick.
Reports on Madoff were disregarded by the SEC for nearly a decade, similar to this story.
Do your other examples illustrate my point as well? I frankly don't have time to do the research.
Good Night.
I think the point of the summary is valid. The neighbors have been complaining about the stench, the relevant public servants did nothing. The internet buzzed with the truth, embarrassing said public servants into performing their duties.
All of this is very familiar to me, except for the publicity and the public servants doing their jobs part, I've only heard about that.
Put on the tinfoil once in a while, and don't believe everything you think.
Maybe if he spent all that energy and resources on bettering himself, or helping the community, the world just might be a little better.
What exactly makes you think that that energy will be applied in a positive direction? I think if you listed the top twenty catastrophes that have occurred to MY PLANET in the last hundred years, you'll find the perpetrators were all sober and ambitious.
More Human Beings and fewer Human Doings will be the key if Human Civilization is to continue.
I once had a cop spazz so hard over finding a tiny roach in the back of my car that he broke one of my fingers subduing me. I was sitting calmly on the ground as ordered when he lost control and had to practice his sloppy version of a Felony Take-down. (He wasn't quite freaked out enough to call his accomplice back from looting my car, in case I tried to defend myself from the unprovoked assault.)
I'm fairly certain there was a causative relation, maybe from his apparent steroid abuse?
Has Officer S.D. (Short Dong) Wong of the EBRPD gone to rehab yet? Danger lurks in the Oakland Hills.
I'm curious to see if the fascistic editorial stance of the Times changes now that True Father has returned to the fold.
happy solstice + 3. I wish you a suitably bacchanalian event
My innate cynicism is fading about Christmas as I come to realize it is standing in* for the one truly important holiday for those of us living in temperate climate areas.
*A pallid and Bowdlerized version.
The job of Director is pretty intense. Anyone merely competent is usually hailed as a genius.
What 3-D often wants is more subtlety. Good luck on that.
Not every single issue merits going through a public referendum.
Atta boy, Adolph!