Heh. Also being a geek, fairly normal looking, and in decent shape, I was offered dates by 6 or 7 different females on several occasions in high school but turned them all down because I had LAN parties (back in the 90s, but we still had fun with some early games) to attend, electronics or computers to build, etc. Besides, all the date would have consisted of was the dishing out of money for some drama queen that wouldn't put out. If you missed dating in high school, you didn't miss anything, just catch up later on in life.
Here's one a colleague of mine received. Now, the spelling, grammar, and punctuation aren't terrible - and some of their message does come across (if you know the context of the message). But, half of it sounds like complete gibberish.
If you hear any whispers about changing how mechanisms are operated, parameters, etc., please chase them down and make sure the mech specialist(s) on a particular mechanism is in the loop. (Request from _____ and ____)
These types of changes are supposed to be explicitly brought to your attention early enough for you to assess the situation with the mech specialist(s) BEFORE these changes are made. (Agreed to by _____ and ____). Please make sure _____ and ____ are aware if this does not happen.
The first paragraph is a best effort, swiss cheese, back up, just in case some of the cats escape while being herded (by _____, ____, ___, ___, ____, etc.)
You are to be on call by cell Monday through Friday. TDL's are not supposed to use this fact to ask you to do a standard report on the downlinks on Tues and Thurs. However, you should support any other inquiries.
Names have been censored, don't want to get into trouble here:)
I have seen this statement before and I'm not too particularly fond of it. Is it supposed to be an elitist statement? Sure sounds like it. Is it supposed to be demeaning, as if your problems don't matter? Could be intepreted that way. If someone keeps seeing this in their math education, how are they supposed to be motivated to do well if people think their problems are worthless? Or, how are they supposed to be motivated to continue if they are always being ensured that they will keep encountering more and more crap?
No, don't do that! You're gonna get some random chinese librarian killed because you've attempted to access a blocked site through the proxy they have responsibility over. Oh, the horrors!
Yeh, just imagine their response when I tell them I'm using OpenBSD for an operating system. They go: wah? And then I tell them it's kind of like Linux (hoping that since they ARE tech support, they might have some tech inclination) but then they go: uhhh. Then I tell them it's kind of like Unix (hoping that they've at least seen it in some sort of training class) and they go: err, ummm. Then I just tell them I traced the route and that they are dropping packets here... go fix it.
Good point, computers aren't bad, but what you do with them isn't always good. This is why you can have 2 or 3 computers in your house (wife + 2 kids + server) but the key is you don't allow the kids to have any computers in their rooms. The same goes for gaming consoles, TVs, phones, etc. There's an easy check to see if someone has done a poor job of parenting (in 75% of the cases): see if one of their kids has a TV, phone, gaming console, or computer in their own room (extra points if they have more than one). These devices should be out in the open where the parents are mulling about so that their usage can be monitored. Perhaps in a den with the TV or in a side office by the kitchen, etc. And it should stay this way until they are 16 to 18 (depending on how responsible and mature they are) or even later if they're complete hooligans and still living at home. Sure, they can still use the public computer in the den, they just don't get the _privelege_ of a private computer. As well, I believe the first time you should have a TV in your own room is after you move out of your parent's house. (And no, I don't live in my parent's basement, heh).
Now, having said that, I did have a computer and phone in my room before I turned 18. However, the phone was there because I helped with the family business on a daily basis (I made personal calls maybe once a month off of it). And, I was into computers before I was 10... messing with our old Ataris and Apples (although I did play games quite often... wasting valuable time... but I graduated high school in the top 10 out of a graduating class of over 350).
In the end, all kids need is good parenting; not regulation by the government, not censorship by special interest groups, just good parenting.
Add to the fact that if you are a small-scale tradesman (like the poster had indicated by saying he could farm himself out) then working 40 hours a week doesn't mean you are in the field 40 hours a week on a job. It means that if you want to actually be in the field on a job for 40 hours a week, then you probably have to spend another 30 hours a week answering phones to schedule repairs and driving to and from all of the jobs. As well, lots of the work is seasonal. I worked in HVAC for a while and even though we may only work 10 hours in some random week in April, we'll have to work 80 hours during a heat-wave in the middle of July.
Except that hardly any of the sets people have bought from 2000 to 2004 are even true HD. Look, for a little under $4k you can get a Sony that can only display 720 lines. Now, it can take an input of 1080p, but it downscales that signal because the native resolution is only 1386 x 788. I've looked at HDTVs every couple months over the last couple years and balked at TVs last year that only displayed 480 lines but still cost $3k to $4k. This is what everyone has in their living room. Hardly anyone actually has a true HD 1920x1080 TV if they paid less than $5000 for it before June 2004. Only recently have sets of that quality even begun to enter that price range. Even in July 2004 I couldn't find a 1920x1080 TV for much less than $10k.
Actually, half the reason the license system exists is so you can keep track of the people who did the work. How exactly do you sue someone if you don't know their real name or where they are located? Contractors with a license are required to keep their contact information up to date with the state. I have done contracting work in the past and am on the "very competent" end of the spectrum. And I for one am glad that the system exists, even after doing plenty of "follow-up" work behind licensed morons who fixed a problem half-assed or couldn't even figure out how to fix a problem in the first place.
I'm guessing you've never had improperly located/insulated water pipes freeze, burst, and destroy parts of your house or property.
I'd agree that plumbing work is less dangerous than electrical work and errors in the plumbing system are less likely to kill someone than errors in the electrical system. But, there are proper and improper ways of doing plumbing work so that the system works correctly. And, if every half-assed moron out there with a wrench thought they could do plumbing work, people would have a much harder time getting their systems built or fixed. The point of a license is to raise the level of standards for a repair person. If you know that someone is licensed, you can somewhat be assured that the person isn't going to burn your house down in the process of cleaning your drain. Now, having said that, there are still plenty of morons out there with all sorts of licenses (plumbing, electrical, mechanical, etc)... but, with a license system maybe 30% of them are morons and 70% are competent. Without a license system it would probably be the other way around: 70% morons and 30% competent.
This is an extremely astute observation. I've been looking at this whole situation as a videophile and assuming everyone else was looking at it in the same way. But if you show the average consumer a 480i DVD then show them a 1080p HD-DVD how many would actually notice enough of a difference to warrant a new purchase? The jump from VHS to DVD was _HUGE_ and everyone was able to notice it (except for blind people I suppose); not specifically for resolution, but for the color, the contrast, and the overall quality of the picture. From the few bits of 1080 material I've seen versus the 480 material I've seen, the chances of average consumers adopting HD-DVD like they did DVD are slim.
I just played HL1 single player so that I would have some background when I get HL2 (eventually, I haven't yet) and you hit the nail on the head. Although the single player of HL1 isn't bad, it isn't the greatest thing in the world. What made HL1 so popular was the mod community. I started with HL1 playing mods and never stopped for quite a while. There are tons of awesome mods to play that you could pick up a new one every couple of months and cycle through 10 or 15 of them for several years (5, 6, 7?). DM, TFC, CS (back in the beta days:P), DOD, FA, Natural Selection, The Specialists, TFC Adventure Maps, Science and Industry, Action Half-Life, are all awesome multiplayer mods; then you have everyone else's favorite mulitplayer mods; and then you also have all of the single player mods!
HL1 did innovate in some areas of the single player genre, but that isn't the reason why 10s of 1000s of people have played the game every day since it came out.
But you are at school to learn, to get an education. You are not at school to mess around with your friends, to skip class and do whatever you want. If you want to mess around, do it after school. Remember, minors do not have the same set of rights that adults do. The only priveleges that minors have are those that their parents choose to give them. I am sure 99% of the parents out there would have no problem with the school administrators tracking the location of every kid in the school. And that is the only voice that matters; the student's voice doesn't matter; non-parents' voices do not matter. Outside of the school is something else, and I don't agree with that; but in school students have a job to do, and parents and administrators should be able to ensure that the job gets done.
How is this an invasion of privacy? The kids are in a public building using public funds to get a free public education. The administrators have every reason to want to know where every kid in the school is located. Kids should have no expectation of privacy in a public school (except for MAYBE their backpack, but even that is debatable).
Back when I was in highschool we had 6 or 7 minutes to get from one class to the next and attendance from the first bell to the last bell was mandatory. Attendance was taken in every class, and if a kid was in class during periods 1, 2, and 3; missing during period 4; and then showed back up (or maybe not) for periods 5 and 6, administrators wanted to know what was up. School policy stated that you could only be in the halls during passing time, and anything else required a hall pass. In hindsight the system seemed to work well, although I griped about it while I was there. We only had a few fake bomb threats by some moron who wanted the day off of school and left a note in the bathroom.
Sure, why should Hawking get special treatment? Everyone is governed under the same evolution rules. Just because he happens to be a bit more intelligent doesn't mean he gets to cut line.
Right, and those treaties were the only treaties ever broken during that era.
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My point was that shit hit the fan all the time back then. The world was being explored, civilizations were being conquered, and territories were being claimed. Just because the Indians were steam rolled doesn't mean we should feel sorry for them or that they are entitled to rewards they didn't earn. If they want their land back, they can buy it from me at market rate... and they can be subject to the same laws of the USA that I am.
Do you see descendants of the original colonies whining about the various British massacres?
Um, ok, so you missed the point, let me draw it out for you:
1) Riches.
2) Freedom.
The elections are just tools for obtaining 1) and 2). If everyone in the USA could be independently wealthy and have every freedom they wanted without voting, do you think they would care about the elections? No. Our voter turnout would drop to less than 5% - only people who cared about politics for the sake of politics would vote. You are downright scary in your ignorance.
But then aren't we just ensuring our own demise? If because of societal/cultural evolution we allow the recessive genes to thrive and propagate, what is to prevent these recessive genes from gaining ground with each passing generation? And instead of existing in 1% of the population, these recessive genes may exist in 10% of the population after maybe 5 generations. Then, the likelyhood of giving birth to a child with defects is much higher. How is society better off at that point? Maybe medical science can fix these problems, but we won't necessarily be able to fix them all.
Unintentionally breaking an arm is governed under a different set of rules. Evolution of our genes are actually mutations that are successes and failures. Some of the mutations add capabilities to the human system (perhaps after one mutation our liver is now able to clean a new toxin out of our blood stream). But in the process of trying to evolve to add capabilities, we fail several times and detract capabilties from the human system or even damage the human system. It is like blindly throwing darts. If you throw 1, the chance that you will hit a bull's eye (a successful mutation) is pretty small. If you throw 100, the chance that you will hit a bull's eye is larger. However, any dart that does not hit the bull's eye is an unsuccessful mutation that does not add capabilities to the human system (or worse, detracts capabilties - as is the case with many degenerative diseases that we know of today). The way this evolution succeeds is that any positive mutation will inherently allow the human to live a longer, better life that will ultimately result in more reproduction. And any negative mutation will inherently keep the human living a shorter, worse life that will ultimately result in less (or no) reproduction. Thereby, the positive mutations are allowed to continue and propagate while the negative mutations are weeded from the gene pool.
Breaking an arm is entirely based on your physical environment and not your genes (unless some gene mutation results in weaker, more brittle bones). If a rock simply happens to fall off a hill side and snap your arm in half, that is not evolution. The only type of "natural selection" (if you want to call these coincidences so) that would occur here is that humans would stop living in dangerous areas. However, if you break your arm because you jumped off a cliff (as a direct result of being ignorant of the effects of such an action), then you might be able to call that evolution since you are weeding out the "dumb" people.
Wow, that's pretty neat actually. As long as the roof is intact (or maybe 50% of it is) and the water runs, then you could buy your own house! I'm sure the inside is a disgusting disaster, but if you plunk another $1000 or so, you could probably fix up the bathroom and a bedroom so they are comfortable.
If not, the stuff in the $50k to $60k range probably aren't bad.:)
Um, how is this modded insightful while I was modded a troll?
Either way, if you were a sovereign nation, go right ahead. But you aren't, and we have rules inside of our own sovereign nation to govern how people interact. I'm sorry if you if you can't see the difference, but it is a very simple concept. A nation != a person.
Maybe you live on the north side of Detroit. Bloomfield Hills is extremely expensive. Try the west and south sides (well, suburbs) of Detroit - they are fairly inexpensive (although climbing fast) and there is still plenty of country-style land (a few acres here and there with 100 yards between your front door and the next guy's). And the commute is probably 35 minutes to downtown Detroit. The only problem with southeast Michigan is it is expanding like a freight train out of hell. So land is being gobbled up all over the place, new people are moving in all the time, and pollution and local government corruption is on the rise.
Or you could just move downtown and buy a whole city block for $1.
How is it not free? We conquered them, so it's ours now. Just because they used it before doesn't entitle them to the land. Whoever can protect the land and claim rights to it at the same time owns the land. We conquered the land and took control of it and then willfully on our own accord decided to give them portions of our land for their own personal use without asking for anything in return. That is free.
Well, the bombs are primarly for destroying their military framework: weapons caches, factories, tanks, etc. It's their fault that they purposely hide weapons inside of hospitals, schools, mosques, etc. I don't think anyone today would argue that we drop bombs solely for the sake of killing people. We drop bombs because we are trying to neutralize the military threat in the area... whether that be a tank or some guy carrying an AK 47.
As for the bullets laced with plutonium: please explain. I've never heard of this. Although, I find it hard to believe that a bullet laced with plutonium is any worse than a bullet that has just pierced your lung or heart. So why go to the effort of lacing them with plutonium?
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Heh. Also being a geek, fairly normal looking, and in decent shape, I was offered dates by 6 or 7 different females on several occasions in high school but turned them all down because I had LAN parties (back in the 90s, but we still had fun with some early games) to attend, electronics or computers to build, etc. Besides, all the date would have consisted of was the dishing out of money for some drama queen that wouldn't put out. If you missed dating in high school, you didn't miss anything, just catch up later on in life.
Here's one a colleague of mine received. Now, the spelling, grammar, and punctuation aren't terrible - and some of their message does come across (if you know the context of the message). But, half of it sounds like complete gibberish.
If you hear any whispers about changing how mechanisms are operated, parameters, etc., please chase them down and make sure the mech specialist(s) on a particular mechanism is in the loop. (Request from _____ and ____)
These types of changes are supposed to be explicitly brought to your attention early enough for you to assess the situation with the mech specialist(s) BEFORE these changes are made. (Agreed to by _____ and ____). Please make sure _____ and ____ are aware if this does not happen.
The first paragraph is a best effort, swiss cheese, back up, just in case some of the cats escape while being herded (by _____, ____, ___, ___, ____, etc.)
You are to be on call by cell Monday through Friday. TDL's are not supposed to use this fact to ask you to do a standard report on the downlinks on Tues and Thurs. However, you should support any other inquiries.
Names have been censored, don't want to get into trouble here
I have seen this statement before and I'm not too particularly fond of it. Is it supposed to be an elitist statement? Sure sounds like it. Is it supposed to be demeaning, as if your problems don't matter? Could be intepreted that way. If someone keeps seeing this in their math education, how are they supposed to be motivated to do well if people think their problems are worthless? Or, how are they supposed to be motivated to continue if they are always being ensured that they will keep encountering more and more crap?
No, don't do that! You're gonna get some random chinese librarian killed because you've attempted to access a blocked site through the proxy they have responsibility over. Oh, the horrors!
Yeh, just imagine their response when I tell them I'm using OpenBSD for an operating system. They go: wah? And then I tell them it's kind of like Linux (hoping that since they ARE tech support, they might have some tech inclination) but then they go: uhhh. Then I tell them it's kind of like Unix (hoping that they've at least seen it in some sort of training class) and they go: err, ummm. Then I just tell them I traced the route and that they are dropping packets here ... go fix it.
Good point, computers aren't bad, but what you do with them isn't always good. This is why you can have 2 or 3 computers in your house (wife + 2 kids + server) but the key is you don't allow the kids to have any computers in their rooms. The same goes for gaming consoles, TVs, phones, etc. There's an easy check to see if someone has done a poor job of parenting (in 75% of the cases): see if one of their kids has a TV, phone, gaming console, or computer in their own room (extra points if they have more than one). These devices should be out in the open where the parents are mulling about so that their usage can be monitored. Perhaps in a den with the TV or in a side office by the kitchen, etc. And it should stay this way until they are 16 to 18 (depending on how responsible and mature they are) or even later if they're complete hooligans and still living at home. Sure, they can still use the public computer in the den, they just don't get the _privelege_ of a private computer. As well, I believe the first time you should have a TV in your own room is after you move out of your parent's house. (And no, I don't live in my parent's basement, heh).
... messing with our old Ataris and Apples (although I did play games quite often ... wasting valuable time ... but I graduated high school in the top 10 out of a graduating class of over 350).
Now, having said that, I did have a computer and phone in my room before I turned 18. However, the phone was there because I helped with the family business on a daily basis (I made personal calls maybe once a month off of it). And, I was into computers before I was 10
In the end, all kids need is good parenting; not regulation by the government, not censorship by special interest groups, just good parenting.
Add to the fact that if you are a small-scale tradesman (like the poster had indicated by saying he could farm himself out) then working 40 hours a week doesn't mean you are in the field 40 hours a week on a job. It means that if you want to actually be in the field on a job for 40 hours a week, then you probably have to spend another 30 hours a week answering phones to schedule repairs and driving to and from all of the jobs. As well, lots of the work is seasonal. I worked in HVAC for a while and even though we may only work 10 hours in some random week in April, we'll have to work 80 hours during a heat-wave in the middle of July.
Except that hardly any of the sets people have bought from 2000 to 2004 are even true HD. Look, for a little under $4k you can get a Sony that can only display 720 lines. Now, it can take an input of 1080p, but it downscales that signal because the native resolution is only 1386 x 788. I've looked at HDTVs every couple months over the last couple years and balked at TVs last year that only displayed 480 lines but still cost $3k to $4k. This is what everyone has in their living room. Hardly anyone actually has a true HD 1920x1080 TV if they paid less than $5000 for it before June 2004. Only recently have sets of that quality even begun to enter that price range. Even in July 2004 I couldn't find a 1920x1080 TV for much less than $10k.
Actually, half the reason the license system exists is so you can keep track of the people who did the work. How exactly do you sue someone if you don't know their real name or where they are located? Contractors with a license are required to keep their contact information up to date with the state. I have done contracting work in the past and am on the "very competent" end of the spectrum. And I for one am glad that the system exists, even after doing plenty of "follow-up" work behind licensed morons who fixed a problem half-assed or couldn't even figure out how to fix a problem in the first place.
I'm guessing you've never had improperly located/insulated water pipes freeze, burst, and destroy parts of your house or property.
... but, with a license system maybe 30% of them are morons and 70% are competent. Without a license system it would probably be the other way around: 70% morons and 30% competent.
I'd agree that plumbing work is less dangerous than electrical work and errors in the plumbing system are less likely to kill someone than errors in the electrical system. But, there are proper and improper ways of doing plumbing work so that the system works correctly. And, if every half-assed moron out there with a wrench thought they could do plumbing work, people would have a much harder time getting their systems built or fixed. The point of a license is to raise the level of standards for a repair person. If you know that someone is licensed, you can somewhat be assured that the person isn't going to burn your house down in the process of cleaning your drain. Now, having said that, there are still plenty of morons out there with all sorts of licenses (plumbing, electrical, mechanical, etc)
This is an extremely astute observation. I've been looking at this whole situation as a videophile and assuming everyone else was looking at it in the same way. But if you show the average consumer a 480i DVD then show them a 1080p HD-DVD how many would actually notice enough of a difference to warrant a new purchase? The jump from VHS to DVD was _HUGE_ and everyone was able to notice it (except for blind people I suppose); not specifically for resolution, but for the color, the contrast, and the overall quality of the picture. From the few bits of 1080 material I've seen versus the 480 material I've seen, the chances of average consumers adopting HD-DVD like they did DVD are slim.
I just played HL1 single player so that I would have some background when I get HL2 (eventually, I haven't yet) and you hit the nail on the head. Although the single player of HL1 isn't bad, it isn't the greatest thing in the world. What made HL1 so popular was the mod community. I started with HL1 playing mods and never stopped for quite a while. There are tons of awesome mods to play that you could pick up a new one every couple of months and cycle through 10 or 15 of them for several years (5, 6, 7?). DM, TFC, CS (back in the beta days :P), DOD, FA, Natural Selection, The Specialists, TFC Adventure Maps, Science and Industry, Action Half-Life, are all awesome multiplayer mods; then you have everyone else's favorite mulitplayer mods; and then you also have all of the single player mods!
HL1 did innovate in some areas of the single player genre, but that isn't the reason why 10s of 1000s of people have played the game every day since it came out.
But you are at school to learn, to get an education. You are not at school to mess around with your friends, to skip class and do whatever you want. If you want to mess around, do it after school. Remember, minors do not have the same set of rights that adults do. The only priveleges that minors have are those that their parents choose to give them. I am sure 99% of the parents out there would have no problem with the school administrators tracking the location of every kid in the school. And that is the only voice that matters; the student's voice doesn't matter; non-parents' voices do not matter. Outside of the school is something else, and I don't agree with that; but in school students have a job to do, and parents and administrators should be able to ensure that the job gets done.
How is this an invasion of privacy? The kids are in a public building using public funds to get a free public education. The administrators have every reason to want to know where every kid in the school is located. Kids should have no expectation of privacy in a public school (except for MAYBE their backpack, but even that is debatable).
Back when I was in highschool we had 6 or 7 minutes to get from one class to the next and attendance from the first bell to the last bell was mandatory. Attendance was taken in every class, and if a kid was in class during periods 1, 2, and 3; missing during period 4; and then showed back up (or maybe not) for periods 5 and 6, administrators wanted to know what was up. School policy stated that you could only be in the halls during passing time, and anything else required a hall pass. In hindsight the system seemed to work well, although I griped about it while I was there. We only had a few fake bomb threats by some moron who wanted the day off of school and left a note in the bathroom.
Well, if you're going to nitpick, the ET doesn't burn up on reentry. It breaks up and the pieces fall into the Indian ocean.
Sure, why should Hawking get special treatment? Everyone is governed under the same evolution rules. Just because he happens to be a bit more intelligent doesn't mean he gets to cut line.
Right, and those treaties were the only treaties ever broken during that era.
... and they can be subject to the same laws of the USA that I am.
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My point was that shit hit the fan all the time back then. The world was being explored, civilizations were being conquered, and territories were being claimed. Just because the Indians were steam rolled doesn't mean we should feel sorry for them or that they are entitled to rewards they didn't earn. If they want their land back, they can buy it from me at market rate
Do you see descendants of the original colonies whining about the various British massacres?
Um, ok, so you missed the point, let me draw it out for you:
1) Riches.
2) Freedom.
The elections are just tools for obtaining 1) and 2). If everyone in the USA could be independently wealthy and have every freedom they wanted without voting, do you think they would care about the elections? No. Our voter turnout would drop to less than 5% - only people who cared about politics for the sake of politics would vote. You are downright scary in your ignorance.
But then aren't we just ensuring our own demise? If because of societal/cultural evolution we allow the recessive genes to thrive and propagate, what is to prevent these recessive genes from gaining ground with each passing generation? And instead of existing in 1% of the population, these recessive genes may exist in 10% of the population after maybe 5 generations. Then, the likelyhood of giving birth to a child with defects is much higher. How is society better off at that point? Maybe medical science can fix these problems, but we won't necessarily be able to fix them all.
Unintentionally breaking an arm is governed under a different set of rules. Evolution of our genes are actually mutations that are successes and failures. Some of the mutations add capabilities to the human system (perhaps after one mutation our liver is now able to clean a new toxin out of our blood stream). But in the process of trying to evolve to add capabilities, we fail several times and detract capabilties from the human system or even damage the human system. It is like blindly throwing darts. If you throw 1, the chance that you will hit a bull's eye (a successful mutation) is pretty small. If you throw 100, the chance that you will hit a bull's eye is larger. However, any dart that does not hit the bull's eye is an unsuccessful mutation that does not add capabilities to the human system (or worse, detracts capabilties - as is the case with many degenerative diseases that we know of today). The way this evolution succeeds is that any positive mutation will inherently allow the human to live a longer, better life that will ultimately result in more reproduction. And any negative mutation will inherently keep the human living a shorter, worse life that will ultimately result in less (or no) reproduction. Thereby, the positive mutations are allowed to continue and propagate while the negative mutations are weeded from the gene pool.
Breaking an arm is entirely based on your physical environment and not your genes (unless some gene mutation results in weaker, more brittle bones). If a rock simply happens to fall off a hill side and snap your arm in half, that is not evolution. The only type of "natural selection" (if you want to call these coincidences so) that would occur here is that humans would stop living in dangerous areas. However, if you break your arm because you jumped off a cliff (as a direct result of being ignorant of the effects of such an action), then you might be able to call that evolution since you are weeding out the "dumb" people.
Wow, that's pretty neat actually. As long as the roof is intact (or maybe 50% of it is) and the water runs, then you could buy your own house! I'm sure the inside is a disgusting disaster, but if you plunk another $1000 or so, you could probably fix up the bathroom and a bedroom so they are comfortable.
:)
If not, the stuff in the $50k to $60k range probably aren't bad.
Um, how is this modded insightful while I was modded a troll?
Either way, if you were a sovereign nation, go right ahead. But you aren't, and we have rules inside of our own sovereign nation to govern how people interact. I'm sorry if you if you can't see the difference, but it is a very simple concept. A nation != a person.
Maybe you live on the north side of Detroit. Bloomfield Hills is extremely expensive. Try the west and south sides (well, suburbs) of Detroit - they are fairly inexpensive (although climbing fast) and there is still plenty of country-style land (a few acres here and there with 100 yards between your front door and the next guy's). And the commute is probably 35 minutes to downtown Detroit. The only problem with southeast Michigan is it is expanding like a freight train out of hell. So land is being gobbled up all over the place, new people are moving in all the time, and pollution and local government corruption is on the rise.
Or you could just move downtown and buy a whole city block for $1.
I don't wonder why, I know why: they want what we have.
How is it not free? We conquered them, so it's ours now. Just because they used it before doesn't entitle them to the land. Whoever can protect the land and claim rights to it at the same time owns the land. We conquered the land and took control of it and then willfully on our own accord decided to give them portions of our land for their own personal use without asking for anything in return. That is free.
Well, the bombs are primarly for destroying their military framework: weapons caches, factories, tanks, etc. It's their fault that they purposely hide weapons inside of hospitals, schools, mosques, etc. I don't think anyone today would argue that we drop bombs solely for the sake of killing people. We drop bombs because we are trying to neutralize the military threat in the area ... whether that be a tank or some guy carrying an AK 47.
As for the bullets laced with plutonium: please explain. I've never heard of this. Although, I find it hard to believe that a bullet laced with plutonium is any worse than a bullet that has just pierced your lung or heart. So why go to the effort of lacing them with plutonium?