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Hi. Louisianaian here. Some areas of it did, actually. Large areas that had strong cultural traditions did, in fact, disintergrate.

Your extreme ignorance is showing quite strongly. The fact that you were actually able to type that shows how very, very little you know. You speak of things you do not know at all, kid. Grow up, and speak only when you have knowledge.

Actually violent crime shot the hell up. There were no riots, true, but the working poor were no longer working, they were moved to cities where they had nowhere to stay, no jobs, little money (You try and keep a family of 4 alive on $2000 of FEMA money for 6 months) and humanatarian aid was stretched thin, even with the massive efforts put forth by some very good people.

So yeah, roving bands of broke and broken people became common sighs all through the SE USA and muggings, burgalry, shoplifting and the like shot up.

These were not bad people, mind you. They were desprate and afraid, and do not think for even a moment that if you were in the same situation you woulde do much different.

I actually didn't notice any more ads, and usually this doesn't actually make my searches any faster.

I have Antiques Roadshow episodes on my brand-new EVO, the first smartphone I've ever gotten.

You could not be more wrong, actually. That's like saying 'I heard that Google project those guys were working on was a flop'

Ever been to CivFanatics?

http://forums.civfanatics.com/index.php

Anyway, there are a few people out there who liked Civ3 more, but

I could never figure out what the hell I was supposed to do with it. I played with it for hours, got a few people to join, but it was basically just a weird hybrid IM/Forum thing with some document handling. Thing is I didn't need any of that crap, so we all just stopped using it.

Possible death because you accepted an MLS patient's heart transplant > Very definite death because you didn't.

In other words, don't look a gift organ in the ventricle.

Actually, it's because the USA heavily, heavily subsidizes gasoline, whereas other countries do not, to the tune of (Conservatively) $9.1 billion dollars a year.

Same. I debated on how to answer. Then I closed my eyes and picked the last option.

No shit. The only thing they want is to keep people in jail longer, without having to prove as much. Proving premeditation is hard, and just because you looked up someone's address doesn't automatically make it premeditation. This makes them 'hard on crime' that the conservatives down here get such hard dicks for. I hate my state sometimes.

Sources? Like what? Every major news agency?
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1990767,00.html?xid=rss-topstories

Go away, Conserva-Troll

To trademark the term geek. Everyone else has to stop using it. I mean it! STOP IT YOU GUYS!

People with functioning brains?

The real issue is that it literally costs the Telecos nothing at all to provide texting services. There's some extra space in the overhead with the cell phones communications with the towers. That's where they put the text messages (And thus the reason for the limit of the text messages length)

So yeah, they could provide it for free. Easily. And eyah, they could charge for it. And do so.

Issue is that if you don't have a plan, it can cost you, the consumer, up to $.50 a text message, and outrageously more for texting between countries.

Why has the price gone from $0.00 up to these rates? Because no one can stop them. All the telecos raise their rates to match each other.

This is why the tea partiers/free market fanatics are so very much misguided.

In their ideal world, a service costing companies nothing at all and providing a good service to their customers would be free. Lambs would jump though meadows and butterflies would fly and the laughter of children could be heard.

However, such utopias can never exist. In the real world, what happens is all the telecos raise their rates together, and screw the consumers. Do they get together and plan it out? No. They don't have to. There needs to be no communication. They observe each other, get the idea, and cooperate to fuck over the working man. People are basically cattle, and don't resist.

The free market they envision would simply lead to tyranny by corporations. Oh, sure, some say 'Well there would be some government reglation to stop that sort of thing'. But in the flowery pictures of their little utopias they present, the government would be too small, too weak, and too dependent on these companies to actually have any meaningful authority over them.

The massive overcharging for texting is simply an example of this.

No, I simply do not have the same persecution complex you do. In the only specific case you mentioned, it was regarding using federal lands for promotion of religion. Which is specifically prohibited in the constitution. The same way restriction of free speech is specifically prohibited. My reading comprehension is fine. Your comprehension of life in general is poor.