One of my pet peeves.

"could do it for 1000X less money."

If something costs $100, what would its cost be if it was 1x less? At 1x less, that would be 0, right? "1000x less" is nonsense.

Even without my pet peeve, 1000x less is deranged. He's saying he could do it for $20 billion? Clearly, he's smoking much better shit than I can get.

Have you ever read the 2nd Amendment? I have. It's about who can defend the nation, not whether you can own an AK-47.

There's that bit about a "well regulated militia" and "the security of a Free State". How does your ownership of your Glock relate to a well-regulated militia or the security of a free state?

Oh, and "bear arms" doesn't mean what you think it means. Have you read the citizenship oath? You know, where the oath taker agrees "that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law".

If only the members of the Supreme Court and ammosexuals understood simple English.

I can't help but note the irony in legislators and judges wanting to allow everybody, including sociopaths and children, to possess guns. Except where these legislators and judges work. If they're serious about this shit, let me carry a flamethrower into the courtroom.

These gun nuts saying it's "mental illness" that causes all these gun deaths are right: the mental illness is the desire to own guns.

I'm guessing you didn't bother to read even the first sentence of the article.

"in a series of robberies"

And you're out of your mind if you think US pumps can only dispense 10 gal/hr. My car's tank is 10 gallons. It's never taken me more than a few minutes to fill the tank.

So, we've established that you don't read and have never bought gasoline.

Obvious example: Hobby Lobby. According to this SC decision, corporations can have "deeply held religious beliefs". Recall that a corporation is a legal construct designed to limit liability. How any legal construct can have any beliefs at all is beyond me. Noted Republicans have been spouting the idea that "corporations are people, my friend" for quite some time. Corporations aren't people. People own corporations, just like I own my car. But my car is not "people". A corporation can no more have a deeply held religious belief than can my car.

If you remain silent, you may be the only one to recognize that you're an idiot. By speaking, you make it clear to all.

Are you suggesting the hotel that burned to the ground was constructed just like a house? Perhaps you're trying to solve the wrong problem....

The suburbs this fire ripped through aren't exactly a "fire prone area".

You know nothing about this fire.

It began near the intersection of Hwy 93 and Marshall Road. It's miles from the nearest subdivision. The problem was the 115mph winds and extreme drought. The fire managed to travel miles before hitting a subdivision: it doesn't matter how close together the houses were.

Fires from lightning are natural.

There was no lightning that day.

This wasn't a forest fire, it started in grasslands. Initial reports were that the fire was caused by a downed power line, but that's looking unlikely now.

Your comment has nothing to do with this fire, its causes, or possible remedies.

Record latest first snowfall of the season. And that was 0.3". The first significant snowfall in the area was the day after this fire: 4-6", depending on location.

Your German soldier from WWII is lying to you. Hitler advertised his plans to eliminate the Jews starting in 1920 and including a very popular book he wrote that made him a very rich man. In 1939, just before he invaded Poland, he made a very famous speech that confirmed all this. The German people fully supported it. You may have heard of Kristallnacht? Jews were rounded up and sent away and their neighbors basically divided up their goods and took their houses, apartments, furnishings, businesses, and, well, EVERYTHING. Does it make sense to you that these vultures didn't know what was happening?

The Germans were willing executioners.

Yeah, the Germans of the 20s, 30s, and 40s aren't any different than, say, Americans (or Rwandans or Cambodians or anybody else) are today. If we believe the lies we are fed, we can do anything.

Have you ever read the 2nd Amendment? If you have, it seems you haven't given it any thought at all.

The 2nd Amendment is about who can serve in the defense of the nation. Conservatives hate this idea, though. See the Heller decision, which essentially erased the first 13 words of the 27 word Amendment. You can't just ignore half the words in the Amendment because you don't like them, even if you're a Supreme Court justice.

Aside from the whole "well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State" bit, another clue can be found in the citizenship oath. Native-born Americans don't give a shit about this oath because they've never even read it, not being required to swear to it. But the clever observer will note that it says "that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law". For the clueless, "bear arms" means to defend the country.

>A few people drive these cars, there are still a few roads where you can get them going pretty quickly but mostly if you want to open them up you need to take them to a track regardless.

It's super fun when you get on the track with a bunch of people who own these cars but never drive them. I've done a couple of "Customer Appreciation Days" where the local Ferrari dealer gives a free track day. They're also the local Lotus dealer. So I take my 190hp car out and pass Ferraris left and right. I have no doubt they all think they're going really, really fast. They just have no clue. (It takes a fair amount of time and practice to go from clueless to reasonably fast.)

I've done quite a few track days where lots of exotics participated. That mostly means Ferraris, a few McLarens, and the odd Ford GT or Audi R8 or BMW i8. I've never seen a Lambo on the track. At the track, but never on it.

So, essentially, people buy these to impress friends/strangers, as works of art, or as investments. They seldom get driven and never get driven anywhere near the limits of the car's capabilities.

Imagine this: An author is at a party. A party guest chats with the author and says, "Hey, I have a great story idea," which he elaborates in a single sentence. The author, many years later, writes a story that sounds similar. Should party the guest get compensated?

Here's another one: A boxer is at a party. A party guest chats with the boxer and says, "I have a great idea of someone you should fight." If this fight happens, should the party guest get compensated?

In both cases, it seems like the author and the boxer did all the work. Sounds to me like Ralph Reilly fits the role of "party guest".

"doing billions in damage"

I think someone has no idea what a billion is.