Iraq: suicide bombers, IEDs, AK47s and RPGs
DC: handguns...
That does not look like a fair comparison, especially with bombs that can fly in a window from miles away, killer drones flying day and night and taxpayers tolerating thousands of casualties and billion dollar budgets for occupation.
I find it stressful making changes but I love it, too. It can make me feel young which is getting harder each year. Meeting new people, places and systems is always overwhelming but it eventually gets done and I do my thing which is making the world a better place wherever I go.
I built a server in January. I paid $100 CDN for 512 MB RAM. Today, I can get it for $50 CDN. Motherboards, hard drives and CDs are also cheaper. The 64 bit CPUs from AMD are coming down, too. Debian Sarge is down to 100 critical bugs, and I find it useable now.
IF I HAD A MINE SHAFT, I don't think I would just abandon it. There's got to be a better way. -- Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988.