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  1. Reading that book now, along with this one: http://www.amazon.com/The-Way-Knife-Secret-Earth/dp/1594204802 cavete terrae.
  2. Then Americans must be mighty stupid, cause even with all those guns, you guys keep shooting eachother. Nobody gets shot in Canada? Sounds like the perfect place. The title of this is: "Grief and few solutions in wake of mass Toronto shooting" http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/grief-and-few-solutions-in-wake-of-mass-toronto-shooting/article4424591/ although some people do like to pretend that no one gets shot in canada, 3 people died last week in a shooting (or several) in Tamworth Ontario. And a crazy guy out west went in to work in body armour with knife and killed two fellow employees in warehouse. Meanwhile, in a typical week in the USA some 220 people are shot dead. However, anecdote != data Firearm homicide rate Canada: 0.5 per 100,000 population Firearm homicide rate U.S.A. : 3.6 per 100,000 population I know Canada would still be better in this respect, but I wonder what the US data would look like if you removed Detroit, New Orleans, and the DC-Baltimore metro area. cavete terrae.
  3. Maybe she should do porn? edit: Now that I look, yes. Yes she should do porn cavete terrae.
  4. Frankly, I think a name and shame is precisely what we need when the USPA does this sort of thing cavete terrae.
  5. Not exactly cutting edge terrorism cavete terrae.
  6. grue

    The Oscars

    The fact that Bad Grandpa didn't win for makeup is a travesty and shows how much of a farce this shit is. Even if they didn't like the movie, that makeup had to fool strangers IN PERSON, not after postproduction. Pfft. cavete terrae.
  7. Background: I used to read on my iPhone, then I got a Kindle, then a Kindle 2, then a Paperwhite. I also occasionally read on my Google Nexus tablet, if for some reason I don't have my Kindle with me. The Paperwhite is BY FAR the best way to read. Unfortunately my first-gen Paperwhite died unexpectedly recently (just out of warranty), but I'll be buying another. I can't say good enough things outside of that! cavete terrae.
  8. 10 years in July and I'm on a 190 If I come up with some cash to spare I'll get a 170 though. cavete terrae.
  9. 78! Oh, but if I answer honestly it's a 35. That'll go down once I stop packing so much and start jumping more cavete terrae.
  10. Hopefully his shortness of breath becomes absence of it. I am very much looking forward to that shitlord's death. cavete terrae.
  11. http://rt.com/news/uk-soldiers-kill-boys-340/ apparently these fellas missed that memo. cavete terrae.
  12. Yup, that sums it up… and thanks cavete terrae.
  13. One An impartial judge signed that warrant. No-knock warrants are granted for very limted reasons, like armed person(s) inside (which proved to be the case), or maybe destruction of evidence. Since a grow farm is hard to flush, I suspect the former, was the reason. Two- A 'military assault on a citizen's home'. I suppose the cops could call ahead and politely ask the folks inside to stop cooking meth, making bombs or selling human beings. In my experience such persons are not easily swayed by 'advice'. Three- "Anybody could...?" Most places you can not shoot someone on your porch until you have identified them as being armed, and a threat, and not a police officer advising you the house is on fire or a neighbor asking for a jumpstart. Four- See number two. Sometimes a night entry is safer for all converned for obvious reasons. I take from your comment that you have no experience with dynamic entries nor the reasons they might be warranted. They are very scary, and dangerous, both personally and professionally. And they are not "games" as one poster put it. And in case you are wondering, 104 and counting. Last- In response to- "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Playing Navy SEAL CQB expert when you're trying to bust someone for something that shouldn't even be against the law definitely falls under "stupid games". Fact is what you think "should" be legal is irrelevant until it is. It isn't a game. If you think the Deputy's family won a "stupid prize", please share that directly with them and let us know how that goes, will you? If police didn't have a long history of breaking down the wrong doors, frequently on bad information and killing Joe Public and his dog (the latter being almost a sport for the largest gang in America), I'd potentially have some sympathy. Now if the police want to start leading by example and showing themselves to be a cut above the thugs they're trying to make examples of, they can maybe start climbing the long path back to respectability. But since they're still out there breaking down doors, beating people who aren't resisting, killing people whose homes they've broken into wrongly, and so forth. The war on drugs is a huge failure that has cost untold amounts of lives. The sooner we cut this shit out, the sooner we can demilitarize the police and maybe turn them back into members of the community instead of a bunch of jackbooted psychopaths. cavete terrae.
  14. I'm talking about high school I cannot believe how poor of a grasp on English, math and science someone can have and still have a high school diploma. cavete terrae.
  15. So does Australia and from what I can tell the UK. English speaking countries apparently just turn out idiots from their schools. cavete terrae.
  16. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Playing Navy SEAL CQB expert when you're trying to bust someone for something that shouldn't even be against the law definitely falls under "stupid games". cavete terrae.
  17. While I disagree with your view I can at least understand it. What I don't understand are the people who think everyone needs a university education. cavete terrae.
  18. Do you know how many tries it's taking for me to set this situation up in real life?? It's fucking harder than it looks! Ya better get it right PRETTY SOON...we're about out of old ladies! I am NOT telling anyone my address. What the fuck am I supposed to do with this baby, then? Take it back? I'll take it! Quickly, before it shits, pisses or cries! Too late, it did all those and puked, too! Sausage grinder + hungry cat = solution to baby cavete terrae.
  19. Do you know how many tries it's taking for me to set this situation up in real life?? It's fucking harder than it looks! Ya better get it right PRETTY SOON...we're about out of old ladies! I am NOT telling anyone my address. What the fuck am I supposed to do with this baby, then? Take it back? I'll take it! Quickly, before it shits, pisses or cries! cavete terrae.
  20. Do you know how many tries it's taking for me to set this situation up in real life?? It's fucking harder than it looks! Ya better get it right PRETTY SOON...we're about out of old ladies! I am NOT telling anyone my address. What the fuck am I supposed to do with this baby, then? Take it back? cavete terrae.
  21. You actually think that time and money drive policy to benefit people who don't have time or money? ROFLMAO Of course not, and that's not how I intended for it to be taken. I bet changes like those would change the type of people who'd seek the offices, though. Frankly the issue lies with the idea that being a politician should be a career choice. We shouldn't be putting people who have never had a real job into office, we should be working to get people who've lived in the real world to help improve the world they came from. Not a bunch of shitlords with law degrees feeding on the country. cavete terrae.
  22. Term limits and pegging their salary to the national average would be a good start, as well as some system to make sure they're not pocketing bribes from lobbyists and interest groups. cavete terrae.