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I used to have an original copy of the anarchist cookbook. I havent seen it in decades, wonder where it went.

 

My science teacher confiscated mine back in secondary school. He was rather impressed with the breakdown of what common household stuff provided ingredients and chemicals.

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My science teacher confiscated mine back in secondary school. He was rather impressed with the breakdown of what common household stuff provided ingredients and chemicals.

 

I loved that book. Iirc, it even showed where to place charges if you wanted to take down a suspension bridge. :lol: I think the current commercially available edition has been heavily edited.

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https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/11/survival-of-the-richest-the-wealthy-are-plotting-to-leave-us-behind.html

 

Oh sure. And they call me a crazy prepper because I have a garden, and a food stockpile, and a generator, and solar panels, and manual water pumps, and firearms and (lots) of ammunition , and..... wait, where was I going with this? 

 

Anyway, the article is worth a chuckle on the problems confronting the other half.

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"While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before"

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Somewhat related. A good friend of mine used to sell Tesla solar shingles and powerwalls and he said that the vast majority of his customers were well off doomsday preppers and not the off the grid and environmentalist types he thought would be the biggest share.

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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others: http://reason.com/blog/2018/07/13/arizona-lawmaker-speeding-immunity

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“Political philosophers have often pointed out that in wartime, the citizen, the male citizen at least, loses one of his most basic rights, his right to life; and this has been true ever since the French Revolution and the invention of conscription, now an almost universally accepted principle. But these same philosophers have rarely noted that the citizen in question simultaneously loses another right, one just as basic and perhaps even more vital for his conception of himself as a civilized human being: the right not to kill.”
 
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"The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody. When it is naked, yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the Eyes of God it has no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete."

-Rod Serling

 

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I am surprised cops got suspended for anything :p

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Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

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It turns out the US Marines drink more than any other US armed service. A LOT more. Well... I didn't need to read the article to know that's true. We drank a lot. I mean a LOT. https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2018/07/16/survey-military-binge-drinking-drops-but-this-service-stood-out-in-a-bad-way/

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Not a bad idea for them to make their house distinct for their son. That meme doesn't fit the situation though, given the episode

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Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

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Or they could have simply taught the kid "123 ABC Street". The kid is just a convenient excuse.

 

Well, I'll defer to them knowing their kid best and do they really need an excuse ? Seems like some one along the way should have just asked if this really is something to waste time on.  Then again, it is Florida.

Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

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Do they need an excuse for painting the house like a bunch of clowns? In most communities, yes, there are stipulations to such things as it impacts the neighboring houses in both value and happiness. In this case it looks like they reeled out some stupid excuse to play on peoples sympathies. :shrugz: I am willing to concede that their son may only be capable of uttering the words "van Gogh house" and nothing else (winkyface) but it would suck to live across the street from these people.

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I despise this whole notion that you cannot do as you please with the property you own. That's MY name on the Warranty Deed. MY name on the check that pays the taxes and the mortgage. MY lawn mower that cuts the grass and MY sweat that maintains it. Who the HELL does anyone else think they are to dictate how I paint it, what plants I grow next to it, dogs or pets that live in it, etc? Here in the "land of the free" even your home isn't really yours anymore. It's only yours at the sufferance of whatever government entity decides to f--k with you that day and the nosy neighbors who decided your business is theirs.  

 

That's why I live as far from other humans as I could get and put up signs promising to shoot any I catch there uninvited. I prefer the company of animals.

"While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before"

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Would be curious at the actual damage to the surrounding properties' values.  As for happiness, find it hard to believe someone would be made unhappy by a paint scheme of a house of all things, unless they spend a lot of time staring at the house for some reason :p

Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

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@GD: What wild wild west are you living in? :p

 

@Malc: Eye of the beholder. Sure Starry Night today, but 10 Houses Painted in Protest jackassery tomorrow. Also, most suburban and urban housing in the US are within direct sightline of several other properties. So just having functioning eyeballs will cause a person to notice the house.

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