I don't see the price of competent writing, directing, acting, sets, and the like plummeting.
Robert Rodriguez, Shane Carruth and hundreds of others would like to have a word with you.
The same Robert Rodriguez who had sumbit to medical research studies to come up with funding for his first film?
We should obviously BAN illegal assault shovels! No citizen needs a shovel that's painted black and has rubber grip with finger grooves! (http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1v/R-202562616/h_d2/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053) Or one with a adjustable handle! (http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1v/R-202819477/h_d2/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053) Just like a telescoping stock, these adjustable shovels only have one use: to build hi-tech drug tunnels!!
I say we force landscapers, contractors and other manual laborers to be fingerprinted, obtain a shovel license and be limited to buying one shovel a month. Who the hell needs more than one shovel a month! Plus, you must specify the make, length and blade material on your shovel application. And specify exactly show good cause for needing a shovel. Though, the licensing officials will never objectively define what "good cause" is.
Because faces, eye color, hair all matter when women wear an outfit. For example, certain color or pattern dresses look better with blond hair. Certain cuts of a shoulder or neck line can look better with different shaped faces. Short hair vs long hair for certain styles. It all matters when putting it together.
It's the same with makeup. You use certain shades and strokes of color to help balance a woman's face or accentuate certain aspects, e.g., cheekbones.
If you want growth, go elsewhere.
Should I get cancer?
I would say we need these guys a lot more than we need thugs assaulting each other or random people in the streets.
If I got jumped by a bunch of guys, I would rather have someone in body armor show up with mace than no-one at all.
Then I would say you and these self anointed "super heroes"are supremely ignorant of the laws governing the use of force, deadly force and self-defense. There is centuries of well established law (dating back to medieval England) governing when it is appropriate for civilians to use force and deadly force against assailants.
Anybody who likes to consider them a well informed citizen should read Massad Ayoob's "In the Gravest Extreme: The Role of the Firearm in Personal Protection". Read this even if you have no intention of ever owning a gun. Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Gravest-Extreme-Firearm-Personal-Protection/dp/0936279001
If I got jumped by a bunch of guys, I would rather have someone in body armor show up with mace than no-one at all
But how do these Super Yahoos know who is who in a situation like that? In the aforementioned 3 against 1 scenario, were the 3 the instigators or did the 1 try to rob the three and then had the tables turned on him?
Is that husky male who appears to be beating a woman a rapist? Or is he a vice cop who is trying to arrest a combative prostitute (who are known to yell "Rape!" when being handcuffed as to create a distraction)?
See the problem? You don't think do-gooders like these Yahoos have ended up in prison for getting involved in something they knew nothing about? You think just because he "only" carries mace that some individual might not end up dead from a head injury because of their actions and end up being charged with murder or manslaughter?
Use your Google Foo and look up Massad Ayoob's Ayoob Files. He's been writing about this stuff for years in an effort to educate the public about the use of force and deadly force. Ayoob is my "Super Hero": all research, writing. educating and no glory.
One thing (of many) I am doing that most public officials, the media and emergency management officials always fail to talk about: cleaning and inspecting my firearms.
Okay, the vinyl records, CRTs, incandescent light bulbs, and even the typewriter I can understand. But what could you possibly still be using that has vacuum tubes in it?
My Quicksilver Audio Silver 88 Mono amplifiers? Link: http://www.quicksilveraudio.com/products/Silver%2088.html
Hand wired, point-to-point soldered, made in the USA, and sold at an incredible value. Used KT-88 tubes, which were designed for audio use so they'll be around for quite some time. Most of Mike Sander's amps from the early eighties are still in operation today. With tube amps, the overall circuit design is very simple, i.e., easily repaired and modified for different tubes.
A 900 pound amateur corrupt gorilla is much more dangerous for everybody than an extremely corrupt gazelle.
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Should I say something about gorillas freezing in the winter?
What about the problem of cholera epidemics? We've conquered that disease in the west, but it still ravages entire countries in Africa. Simply pouring cholera-infested feces onto crops (let alone handling it all) doesn't seem like a very sound idea.
That's the purpose of *composting* human or animal waste to begin with. The thermophilic reaction kills all harmful bacteria. In addition, you let your "pile" rest for 1 year before its used. What you then put on your crop is not feces but earthy smelling compost that you can safely handle with your bare hands.
Dumping un-composted "feces", aka nigh soil, straight onto crops can make people sick: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_soil
These people do not have saw dust or a kitchen in some cases. Many parts of the world that have these problems are deforested already as that was the only fuel they had to cook with.
Any other bright ideas?
You don't have to use sawdust specifically. Any fine source of carbon works fine: rice hulls, leaf mold, coffee grounds. etc. The idea is to have your cover material produce small air pockets so an aerobic thermophilic reaction takes place instead of an anaerobic one.
How about teaching people how to use a 5 gallon plastic bucket, some sawdust and their kitchen scraps to compost their poop.
Link: http://humanurehandbook.com/
No water needed. Your poop and kitchen scraps already contain all the water needed for a thermophilic reaction. Furthermore, you get nice compost that these people can use to fertilize their land. If not for growing things they can keep their land from turning into desert.
Also, *everything* organic goes into the compost pile: fats, oils, bone, meats, fish, urine, etc., etc.
There's thousands of folks already doing this in the US. We need to stop using purified drinking water to whisk away our poop.
Humanure videos: http://humanurehandbook.com/videos.html
It definitely is and assuming that this is a somewhat accurate description of what happened, the police officers involved could easily find themselves behind bars for witness tampering, destruction of evidence amongst other things. And police officers do get sent to prison from time to time for this sort of behavior.
Every once in a great while when there is a massive public outcry and there are no other politically viable alternatives, yes, they do. This is far, far less often than it should happen. Of the instances of police overstepping their bounds I have heard of exactly one police officer being fired, and that was for a clear case of murder that was committed on camera and the victim was a homeless person who was well known and liked. The officer's excuse was that the man (who was known as 'the woodcarver' by locals) had a knife, and he did not put it down in the 2.5 seconds between the time the officer told him to and the time he fired. The man made no threatening gesture with the knife.
I have never heard of a police officer going to jail.
You're either making stuff up or you clearly have no idea what the hell you're talking about.
First, some simple facts. Ian Birk, the police officer who shot the "wood carver", resigned after he learned that there would *no* criminal charges filed against him. [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41632205/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/t/seattle-cop-who-fatally-shot-woodcarver-quits-force/]
Second, wood carver John T. Williams, the person who was shot bu Birk, had 2 knives on him when he was shot, one which was open a and visible to Birk when Williams walked past his police cruiser. Williams also has an extensive criminal record, a substance abuser and alcoholic. This article doesn't make him seem as dangerous and violent as these people can really be: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2012784234_copshooting02m.html I say this as a 14 year full-time paramedic who has worked (and still does) the street of the South Bronx, Alphabet City, Harlem and Spanics Harlem.
Third, the actual shooting was not recorded by video camera, only audio of the officer telling the suspect to put the knife down and then the gunshots. So, you didn't see what happened and *you* sure as hell were not there see it.
Lastly, the officer had a bit more than an excuse of not putting down a 3" blade in "2.5 seconds between the time the officer told him to and the time he fired." Here: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2013905500_inquest12m.html
Now, if I told you that just about any person can close a distance of 21 feet in approximately 1.5 seconds would you be surprised? Would you be more surprised to learn that the typical police officer needs approximately 1.5 seconds to draw his pistol from his holster and bring the front sight to eye level? Now remember, most if not all cops have retention holsters, i.e., holsters that must me manipulated in a certain way to release the firearm. And, brining the front sight to eye even doesn't mean you have actually had time to put that sight to the center mass of the person you are about to shoot.
What I just described above was the result of a officer named Dennis Tueller. He came up with what is now famously (among cops and people with pistol permits who take training) know as the Tueller drill: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tueller_Drill You can read the article he wrote called "How Close Is Too Close: http://www.theppsc.org/Staff_Views/Tueller/How.Close.htm Videos on YouTube demonstrating this: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tueller+drill&aq=0&oq=tueller I should also note that people don't need to be "average" to close this distance (7 yards) in that time (1.5 sec). Massad Ayoob (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massad_Ayoob) runs this drill with all the civilians he has taught during his LFI classes. He's witnessed the elderly, the morbidly obese and even an obese person who was still recovering from a lower extremity fracture close this distance in a approximately the same time.
Also, read the rest of Birk's testimony: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2013905500_inquest12m.html
"Birk told jurors that he believed Williams was impaired when he initially saw him carrying a knife on a Seattle street. "The way he was carrying himself and his posture indicated he was in some sort of altered state," Birk testified during the second day of the fact-finding hearing.
Williams' appearance "along with the knife in his hand made me concerned he might make someone uncomfortable or be a threat," the officer, 27, said of his decision to get out of his car and confront Williams."
"Seattle Police Detective Jeffery Mudd also testified that he would have dropped a knife if ordered to do so at gunpoint by a police officer.
Mudd told jurors that Seattle police officers are trained to treat as an immediate threat anyone standing a short distance away with an edged weapon."
So now I ask you. Do you feel a little differently about a lone police officer encountering a violent drunk with a 3" blade from a distance of 9 to 10 feet away and doesn't put it down when told? Wanna try a little Tueller drill with me holding a knife at that distance and I'll give you any holstered gun you want?
I agree.
I have had a Nokia 1208 (http://www.nokiausa.com/find-products/phones/nokia-1208) for a couple of years and I love the damn thing. 7 hours of talk time. 7 hours! Text, voice, address book, simple calc, calendar, and alarm clock. Also, a simple LED flashlight at the top that comes in very handy at times.
Paid $16, unlocked, on eBay, brand new in the box. This series was developed for the developing Indian market.
As a ham/Linux/electronics geek, 'tis all I want or need.
What is next a cop fee and if you don't pay the cops will just stand there as you get raped as you did not pay the fee?
Well, yeah. You think the cops have any legal obligation to protect you?
Think again: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia
If all hell breaks in your town ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_riots ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina) whose responsibility is it to protect your own skin?
Yours.
P.S. Many a person were incensed after the L.A. Police Chief pulled all of his uniformed officers out of the L.A. riots and left citizens to fend for themselves, and there were even more pissed off when gun stores were telling them that there was a mandatory 10 day waiting period regardless of the raging riots.
You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred. -- Superchicken
