There is zero reason whatsoever to create new coal burning plants. Use that same money to offer then nuclear power plants. It would cost less lives and create technical jobs as opposed to creating mining jobs.
Doesn't Iran keep telling us that's what they want to do and we keep threatening to bomb them?
You are correct regarding standard hurricanes. You expect to pack up and leave, spend 3 nights in a hotel, then come home. Or spend three nights reading books by candle light and boiling your water if you elected to ride the storm out.
Katrina, however, resulted in a large city being mostly abandoned for several months and a large portion of the population that for whatever reason (there are many that we will not debate) decided not to leave happened to also coincide with the large criminal portion of the New Orleans population.
Looters set one of the malls on fire and then shot at the firefighters who responded to put the fire out. They shot at the rescue helicopters... I do not know why these people decided shooting at the national guard was an appropriate response, but they did. The looting really was just as bad as they reported on TV.
These people decided that since the city was mostly abandoned they were justified in setting random parts of the city on fire and stealing things. There were also normal, sane people who stayed behind and enforced law and order in various places. The easiest way to do this was to post a sign that said 'we shoot looters' and then make good on that promise because the only person making sure some asshat didn't come and burn your house down for fun was you.
Normal society works because the sane people vastly out number the nut jobs who like to hurt other people and set things on fire. Sane people also happen to be the type of people who see a cat 5 hurricane heading towards a city below sea level and get the fuck out of town before it hits. When most of the sane people leave, that leaves only the nut jobs who think it's ok to set other people's things on fire and no one to stop them.
Police stop crime because someone is there to report the crime. When no one can report the crime, criminals don't worry about the police.
My parents live in NOLA and did not flood. Total damage to their property from the entire ordeal was one refrigerator and a couple shingles.
The fact that their house was habitable was irrelevant to the fact that the city had no power, no sewage, no running water, and no order during the 3 months they spent living in Texas waiting for the national guard to OK returning while they pumped 10+ feet of water over the levees. It turns out that in addition to a house, you also need things like a grocery store, a gas station, etc.
There was no looting in their neighborhood cause an ex-marine lived next door with his guns, ammo, generator, and enough supplies to last... Everyone makes fun of the crazy gun nut next door until Katrina hits and then you deputize him and throw him a party.
I was there the Christmas after Katrina and it was creepy. Almost 6 months later, half the city was still dark and there were still trees laying in the streets. The day the Pop-Eyes opened up they had a line for the drive-threw that was 3 blocks long...
The argument that people should not live in New Orleans because it floods is shallow and short sighted. The same argument could be applied to California, Oklahoma, the north-east, etc. There are very few places free from risk of natural disaster and saying 'you knew the risks, you deserved it' ignores the real complexities and benefits associated with any one location.
The problem is when the firing squad chooses to miss because they don't want to kill him, not because they are bad shots. There were cases where the people doing the shooting choose to not shoot to kill.
Actually there were numerous incidents where it did miss or didn't cut all the way through and they had to crank it up again and redrop it or wait for the guy to bleed to death. It wasn't really all as merciful as it was supposed to be...
While driving to work one day, I was at a stop light, in the left turn lane at the front of the line. The green arrow came on and I began to turn and a cyclist came up from behind me on the right and turned left in front of me...
When cyclists start obeying the rules we will stop treating them like pests. They are either a vehicle and can use the road and obey the rules, or they aren't. This 'I'm a bike so pbbbt' crap has to stop if they want people to start taking them seriously.
It's not as easy as 'he tweeted something bad about the company... fire him.' We have laws about protected speech. It looks like as long as all your coworkers on on board, you can't be fired for bitching.
Because if he can blow a plane up on the tarmac he can't just set the timer to go off when the plan is mid-flight instead of when he gets out of the blast radius?
There was a while down in New Orleans where the police (actual police, not fake police) would pull women over at night, kidnap them, and then rape and murder them... These things happen in America.
So if a strange man car-jacks me, I shouldn't shoot him because he probably only wants a ride to the airport and definitely doesn't want to murder me and dump me on a back country road, so I should just cooperate?
We have taught our children to submit quietly to criminals for too long. It is time we start teaching them to defend themselves.
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No, they don't have to give them away. People already pay Microsoft for this...
There is zero reason whatsoever to create new coal burning plants. Use that same money to offer then nuclear power plants. It would cost less lives and create technical jobs as opposed to creating mining jobs.
Doesn't Iran keep telling us that's what they want to do and we keep threatening to bomb them?
I got my permit at 15 and my license at 16. Some states will even give a license to a 14 year old.
You don't trust the engineer, but you trust the 16 year old girl trying to apply makeup and text her boyfriend while driving on the highway?
You are correct regarding standard hurricanes. You expect to pack up and leave, spend 3 nights in a hotel, then come home. Or spend three nights reading books by candle light and boiling your water if you elected to ride the storm out.
Katrina, however, resulted in a large city being mostly abandoned for several months and a large portion of the population that for whatever reason (there are many that we will not debate) decided not to leave happened to also coincide with the large criminal portion of the New Orleans population.
Looters set one of the malls on fire and then shot at the firefighters who responded to put the fire out. They shot at the rescue helicopters... I do not know why these people decided shooting at the national guard was an appropriate response, but they did. The looting really was just as bad as they reported on TV.
These people decided that since the city was mostly abandoned they were justified in setting random parts of the city on fire and stealing things. There were also normal, sane people who stayed behind and enforced law and order in various places. The easiest way to do this was to post a sign that said 'we shoot looters' and then make good on that promise because the only person making sure some asshat didn't come and burn your house down for fun was you.
Normal society works because the sane people vastly out number the nut jobs who like to hurt other people and set things on fire. Sane people also happen to be the type of people who see a cat 5 hurricane heading towards a city below sea level and get the fuck out of town before it hits. When most of the sane people leave, that leaves only the nut jobs who think it's ok to set other people's things on fire and no one to stop them.
Police stop crime because someone is there to report the crime. When no one can report the crime, criminals don't worry about the police.
My parents live in NOLA and did not flood. Total damage to their property from the entire ordeal was one refrigerator and a couple shingles.
The fact that their house was habitable was irrelevant to the fact that the city had no power, no sewage, no running water, and no order during the 3 months they spent living in Texas waiting for the national guard to OK returning while they pumped 10+ feet of water over the levees. It turns out that in addition to a house, you also need things like a grocery store, a gas station, etc.
There was no looting in their neighborhood cause an ex-marine lived next door with his guns, ammo, generator, and enough supplies to last... Everyone makes fun of the crazy gun nut next door until Katrina hits and then you deputize him and throw him a party.
I was there the Christmas after Katrina and it was creepy. Almost 6 months later, half the city was still dark and there were still trees laying in the streets. The day the Pop-Eyes opened up they had a line for the drive-threw that was 3 blocks long...
The argument that people should not live in New Orleans because it floods is shallow and short sighted. The same argument could be applied to California, Oklahoma, the north-east, etc. There are very few places free from risk of natural disaster and saying 'you knew the risks, you deserved it' ignores the real complexities and benefits associated with any one location.
You must not have been in New Orleans after Katrina...
No, they actually agreed not to hire each others employees. So Apple would reject a Google resume and vice versa.
Or you pump their room with the gas while they are asleep and don't tell them about it...
The problem is when the firing squad chooses to miss because they don't want to kill him, not because they are bad shots. There were cases where the people doing the shooting choose to not shoot to kill.
Actually there were numerous incidents where it did miss or didn't cut all the way through and they had to crank it up again and redrop it or wait for the guy to bleed to death. It wasn't really all as merciful as it was supposed to be...
I think the problem with firing squads was occasionally they would miss and just horribly wound the guy...
But having the jury do it is an interesting proposal.
While driving to work one day, I was at a stop light, in the left turn lane at the front of the line. The green arrow came on and I began to turn and a cyclist came up from behind me on the right and turned left in front of me...
When cyclists start obeying the rules we will stop treating them like pests. They are either a vehicle and can use the road and obey the rules, or they aren't. This 'I'm a bike so pbbbt' crap has to stop if they want people to start taking them seriously.
Actually its not that simple...
It's not as easy as 'he tweeted something bad about the company... fire him.' We have laws about protected speech. It looks like as long as all your coworkers on on board, you can't be fired for bitching.
Don't they also buy more gas then and thus pay more gas tax?
Because if he can blow a plane up on the tarmac he can't just set the timer to go off when the plan is mid-flight instead of when he gets out of the blast radius?
We require you to have American citizenship to get a clearance so we know none of our cleared people are Russian or Chinese!
The system totally works.
Don't worry. The Russians and Chinese don't have the internet so won't be able to read what the journalists publish.
Normal employees quit and find a new job when their employers stop paying them...
I'm sure there are plenty of massacres in Africa and North Korea that don't make the news.
I'm also sure there are plenty of American tragedies that don't make the news in Russia.
There was a while down in New Orleans where the police (actual police, not fake police) would pull women over at night, kidnap them, and then rape and murder them... These things happen in America.
So if a strange man car-jacks me, I shouldn't shoot him because he probably only wants a ride to the airport and definitely doesn't want to murder me and dump me on a back country road, so I should just cooperate?
We have taught our children to submit quietly to criminals for too long. It is time we start teaching them to defend themselves.
And the deadliest school massacre to date did not involve firearms...
Nor was it in Texas.
Not only that, vote against anyone with a R or D by their name
Because clearly it is the letterboxes fault that the postman tried to fit a 20 inch package into a 10 inch box...