Bob_Church

In the 70s the Saturday Night Special was a big problem. You could buy a cheap gun, maybe under $25, use it once and toss it. Those were banned. But then with drug dealing, and imo especially crack, suddenly paying $400 or more for a gun wasn't such a problem. There are a lot more drugs besides crack but it seems like the surge in big money and with it the ability to buy small arsenals kicked in about the same time that crack hit the streets.

At the School of Art a popular form of cartoon was of someone like Van Gogh getting meds then not needing to paint, or having a very short lived career of painting happy clowns.

Yeh, but if it calms people down and settles that knee jerk "we have to do something, anything" urge without arming even more people it's a bargain. I was looking at it more as a "Palestinians vs. Guns" proposition. Bringing rocks to a gun fight isn't a good long-term plan (ask the numerous Palestinian children that have been shot with that plan). Maybe, but I was thinking it might be more of about "ok, can we get back to the lesson plans now?

Yeh, but if it calms people down and settles that knee jerk "we have to do something, anything" urge without arming even more people it's a bargain.

You left out "missing airliners". When I worked on the phone company line crew they all called CNN the "Commie News Network" and condemned it for it's left wing bunch hippies bias. When I went to work at the School of Art I got used to it being referred to as a tool of the Right Wing Fascists. Personally, I just found that it had way too many commercials to wade through.

What really bugs me are the people who instantly respond with "well, if you didn't get your news from Fox" anytime you disagree with them. I've accumulated maybe an hour of Fox while stuck in waiting rooms, but say something they don't like and that's the instant assumption. The other one that I hate is people who think that since i'm past 60 I must like country music.

I'm definitely looking forward to Isle of Dogs. I was reading an article about it and it mentioned Fantastic Mr Fox, which I somehow had missed. Mr Fox a great movie and the animation is almost up there with the series version of Wind in the Willows. Now I'm really looking forward to "I Love Dogs."

He said he wanted to use the money to move his family. I suspect they'll be moving all right, but not giving him the new address.

And some of those weapons are really damn cool! And the girls aren't bad either.

It looks like some companies are looking to the future: http://www.king5.com/article/tech/microsoft-makes-largest-corporate-solar-deal-in-us-history-buying-315-megawatts/281-531035886 'Microsoft makes largest corporate solar deal in U.S. history, buying 315 megawatts' Jerry Baumchen And yet, people deliberately waste electricity to create bitcoins. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jan/17/bitcoin-electricity-usage-huge-climate-cryptocurrency "Bitcoin’s electricity usage is enormous. In November, the power consumed by the entire bitcoin network was estimated to be higher than that of the Republic of Ireland. Since then, its demands have only grown. It’s now on pace to use just over 42TWh of electricity in a year, placing it ahead of New Zealand and Hungary and just behind Peru, according to estimates from Digiconomist. That’s commensurate with CO2 emissions of 20 megatonnes – or roughly 1m transatlantic flights." and "Burning huge amounts of electricity isn’t incidental to bitcoin: instead, it’s embedded into the innermost core of the currency, as the operation known as “mining”. In simplified terms, bitcoin mining is a competition to waste the most electricity possible by doing pointless arithmetic quintillions of times a second."

^^^^ This. We usually call it 'survival of the fittest.' Evolve or be gone, Jerry Baumchen PS) The first emergency parachute I packed was in the Spring of 1965; a gut pack with a round canopy, no pilot chute, no diaper, etc. Look at what it takes today to pack ( virtually ) the same parachute; a square canopy, multiple flaps that must be in just the right order, an RSL ( they vary in design ), possibly a MARD ( numerous types ), etc. The world continues to change. When you have serious laws that apply to one set of businesses but not the other based on a line on a map it's a very different thing altogether.

I think it could. I think it has to. In the 60s and 70s we passed environmental laws in the US to protect the environment. If you want to manufacture something you have to do it in an at least partly responsible way. But we didn't pass anything saying that you couldn't import and sell things made this way. In one move we increased pollution and killed the US' middle class. That just doesn't even make sense.

"Now that you-tube is banning gun video's. Where are you going to learn about shooting, guns, etc.?" I was flicking through channels the other day and an ad for an upcoming series was showing. Every single scene had sexy young people shooting at each other, often with nice closeups of the gun as some beautiful woman squeezes the trigger.

Easy for you to say.

Spam from someone selling shoes, Sure looks like it, but why this specific thread? IDK, but in the spirit of the thread: Turtle's going to have to wear sexier shoes than that to get any business. The nerve of it. RW boots in this forum!

Let this be a public service message to all who know they are guilty of a heinous crime. Do us all a favor, just kill yourself and save us taxpayers the money spent on trials and prison care. Fuck you. What really pisses me off is these losers that kill a bunch of people then commit suicide. Why can't they do it in the right order?

I'm sure you mean that you don't know if the story is for real or not. As for the dildo some of the especially playful lesbians that were graduate photo students brought much bigger ones into the studios and created "Art" with them. I think it all comes down to lubricant. As for me "yeh, I know, I work here, these are my studios, but I am NOT cleaning that up."

We've had people die because self serve gas stations, often the only ones you can find, don't check things like air in the tires and most drivers wouldn't know how or bother with it if they did. This could get pretty bad.

When you thing about the relatively low cost of food, then going to something like Aramark where now you also pay their employees and they make a profit means serious cuts in amount and quality served. For some real horror stories look up reports about Aramark. Here's a company that' so bad that the Florida prison system threw them out. But they've got lots of other customers, like the West Virginia DOC. For that matter, why can't they go with something like the Angola system? They were feeding their inmates grade A steaks that they grew, it didn't cost them a thing. Then someone in the La government found out, now they have to ship the beef they produce out and use the money to buy lower quality stuff.But still, they're eating better than most, and not just most inmate, but most, and I believe they'e turning a profit. Inmates learn to work. It's farm work and might not translate skills wise to what they'd do after they get out but that's not the important thing. They learn to work, which many of them never did and didn't know how to start.

But we're paying for it and need to have say in the matter. Yes, but in general the average American simply cares about punishing prisoners and making sure that prison is as hard as possible. This mindset aligns nicely with keeping recidivism high and business booming. Bloodlust and the need and desire for "revenge" overpower any desire for cost savings. Those should be attained by feeding cheaper and housing more. This allows to keep cost per prisoner low, but overall costs high do to the staggering amount of prisoners. We have to get the message across that the best way to cut prison costs is to cut down on the number of prisoners. We're paying for it so we should have some say in it. But most people either don't pay attention or go the "screw 'em" route so it not simple.

But we're paying for it and need to have say in the matter. Yes, but in general the average American simply cares about punishing prisoners and making sure that prison is as hard as possible. This mindset aligns nicely with keeping recidivism high and business booming. Bloodlust and the need and desire for "revenge" overpower any desire for cost savings. Those should be attained by feeding cheaper and housing more. This allows to keep cost per prisoner low, but overall costs high do to the staggering amount of prisoners. In West Virginia Aramark already has them on starvation rations. A common meal, they have this a lot, is meatloaf. Take a slice of white bread. Slice it in half. That half is the size of the portion for these grown men. To get enough to eat they take the money they earn or friends send to them and spend it on grossly overpriced food from the prison store. So the prison saves money by not feeding them enough then make money selling them food at huge markups.

And Honey, the floors look Great!

But we're paying for it and need to have say in the matter.

Well, that worked out about as well as it could have. The Austin bomber was about to be arrested and blew himself up. But from what I've heard so far he didn't kill anyone else in the process.

The problem is that the prisons are too crowded for anything but warehousing. In some prisons they've filled the gymnasiums with bunk beds, some as high as three beds.