Re:a better alternative to being a packrat
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Discovering recycling has solved my physical packratting problem - it feels amazingly cathartic to put piles of boxes and papers and documents into the bins and see them disappear - but it isn't quite as fun with computers. Every time I purge useless data, I have less space than I did the time before, and I just feel sad...:) It's pretty crazy when a household of two has 350 gigabytes of data storage (not counting optical drives, or the 120 gigabyte drive in my PVR cable box).
Immigrants don't have the same rights as citizens. That's true in every country on Earth. While they deserve certain rights, until they gain citizenship and share in the responsibilities and obligations of citizenship, they don't have the right to gain all the benefits and rights of living in that society. I don't think that Western countries have skewed the balance too far.
This sounds like a good idea. Identity fraud is a serious problem. I work at an insurance office in Saskatchewan (Canada) that does license issuing among other things. We get all sorts of efforts to acquire fake ID, it's rather pathetic. Almost all of the efforts involve trying to drink under age, but these days the reality is that people will try to get fake identities for less savoury purposes. It's hard to criticize this move by Minnesota.
Settlers of Catan is a great game. I'm surprised that more people haven't heard of it. It can be played well the first time you play it, but has a lot of complexity and strategy to it. It's definitely worth checking out. You will hate your friends after playing it, though, unless you win.:) But isn't that the point of gaming?
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Discovering recycling has solved my physical packratting problem - it feels amazingly cathartic to put piles of boxes and papers and documents into the bins and see them disappear - but it isn't quite as fun with computers. Every time I purge useless data, I have less space than I did the time before, and I just feel sad... :) It's pretty crazy when a household of two has 350 gigabytes of data storage (not counting optical drives, or the 120 gigabyte drive in my PVR cable box).
Immigrants don't have the same rights as citizens. That's true in every country on Earth. While they deserve certain rights, until they gain citizenship and share in the responsibilities and obligations of citizenship, they don't have the right to gain all the benefits and rights of living in that society. I don't think that Western countries have skewed the balance too far.
This sounds like a good idea. Identity fraud is a serious problem. I work at an insurance office in Saskatchewan (Canada) that does license issuing among other things. We get all sorts of efforts to acquire fake ID, it's rather pathetic. Almost all of the efforts involve trying to drink under age, but these days the reality is that people will try to get fake identities for less savoury purposes. It's hard to criticize this move by Minnesota.
Settlers of Catan is a great game. I'm surprised that more people haven't heard of it. It can be played well the first time you play it, but has a lot of complexity and strategy to it. It's definitely worth checking out. You will hate your friends after playing it, though, unless you win. :) But isn't that the point of gaming?