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Comment Re:Well.. (Score 1) 500

Might I make a suggestion here. I would go for them to be either to be drawn and quartered, or crucified. I would settle for just having them executed and their head placed on a pike as a warning to future generations though. Although we do seem to have a suitable pike already in DC so that would seem to be a lower cost option.

Comment Re:Is this a win? I can't tell... (Score 1) 500

Well it gives us 2 day to contact our Senators and have them not listen to us. If you want to know who supported it you can find it here. I guess my 2 senators Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar really don't want people to keep their freedoms and want various agencies to take clearly unconstitutional actions like issuing general warrants. Maybe they need some public shaming so it will be clear that they want to take your freedoms away.

Comment Re:other people's money (Score 1) 413

Well I was referring to the ones who in 8th grade were the little druggies so I doubt it was a lack of jobs at that point. They continued to be druggies throughout high school and if they can currently hold down a job it is a minimum wage one, like working the drive through window or working as an oil change monkey at Valvoline Instant Oil change. A number of them ended up in jail as well, and a few even ended up dying in car crashes when they were strung out. The point being that their destructive behavior started long before they entered the job market.

Comment Re:Or we could stop being afraid of death. (Score 1) 692

Then if you still want to die, at least you don't get a crappy decades-long decline.

I would be all for this. If I could tromp around in the woods hunting, camping and doing all the things I enjoy until 80 or 90 (what ever my life expectancy is) while being perfectly fine and then one night go to sleep and not wake up I would be find with that.

Comment Re:The rich and powerful (Score 1) 692

While that would be nice it really shouldn't matter. I would love to not have lost my grandfather, he taught me things that my mother wouldn't let my father teach me like how to play poker well, how to count cards and beat the house at blackjack. He was not a professional gambler but had a PhD in Mathematics and loved to play card games of all sorts. Later on he even enjoyed MtG as it offered a more complex game than most others he had played. His mind was sharp and he was in good physical condition until he ended up going to the hospital when he had a wound get infected. In the hospital he laid in bed for a few weeks, then was sent home had a stroke ended up back in the hospital for a few more weeks, muscles atrophied and after that he basically went to hell mentally and physically.

Comment Re:DO it (Score 1) 413

That is only if he goes to the dealer which basically translates to grab the ankles and hope they use some lube. Outside of that it may cost slightly more than a domestic vehicle oil change of similar quality (synthetic, synthetic blend, or regular oil take your pick) only because the sumps have a larger capacity. My 325i has a 7 quart oil capacity while my Jeep with the inline 6 has only a 5 quart capacity, the filters cost about the same (the jeep on is slightly cheaper because it is dirt common) but it is the extra 2 quarts of oil that add the most cost.

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