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[Ameablable]

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my cats don't go out. when i got them i still lived in the city on the busyest street so i didnt want them to get run over.
now i live in the country and m cats still stay inside for 2 reasons,

1. they are super scared of all the noises outside without me there. (this includes wind in the trees)

2. we have lots of predatory birds (ie. owls, hawks, eagles ect.) that like to hang around and eat rabbits and my cats are about the same size and being the el wimpo's they are they wouldnt know how to defend themselves.

Strap lasers to their foreheads.

ive tried that with my sharks. unfortunately Austin Powers still got away.

[RedWarrior0]

So I plugged this into Wolfram Alpha for my math homework (It's the answer, and I just wanted to simplify it while being too lazy to simplify by hand): 2 Sqrt[2/15] + 5 Sqrt[5/6] + 1/Sqrt[30]

I get, under "Alternate forms": Sqrt[30]

DO YOU SEE THIS, PEOPLE? THIS IS WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE WORLD.

[penguinofhonor]

UKIP doesn't come off as overtly racist to me. I don't even live in the same hemisphere as their constituency so I can't comment on the value of their policies but they seem to match up mostly with libertarian lines. Dislike of large centralized government, entitlement programs, open immigration, and political correctness. Promotion of bluntness, common language laws, and localized government.

"Like libertarians" isn't the best defense against an accusation of racism.

I mean, how do you justify being a libertarian against open immigration if not with racism? That's the government denying people their freedom to choose where to live. They put a lot of focus on that right because, along with localized government, it allows you to easily move elsewhere if your local government is failing you.

[Dutchling]

So I plugged this into Wolfram Alpha for my math homework (It's the answer, and I just wanted to simplify it while being too lazy to simplify by hand): 2 Sqrt[2/15] + 5 Sqrt[5/6] + 1/Sqrt[30]

I get, under "Alternate forms": Sqrt[30]

DO YOU SEE THIS, PEOPLE? THIS IS WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE WORLD.

Nope. Not seeing it.

[Reelya]

I, too, am wondering what basic mathematics proves is wrong with the world? Redwarrior, your post is more of a WTF? for me than the equation.

[RedWarrior0]

Looking back on it, it probably isn't too much and my reaction is certainly exaggerated.

And I guess part of it, that I forgot to put in my post, was that a quick calculation had my answer as Sqrt[30] but I wasn't certain and did the problem out and then got that mess and was like "Huh." and then put it in and was like "MIRACLES".

[Hanslanda]

Monday was another Drug Court session.

So, I've been doing (mostly) what they wanted me to do, so I wasn't exactly worried per se. I HAD made a misstep and missed the first day of a community service thing, but my PO said to just go to the second day.

Anyways, I'm sitting there, and I realized something odd. "Wow." I said to myself, "They're only calling people that are phasing up (getting restrictions loosened) or going to prison." Finally, the (as I soon found out) second to last person is called, and terminated (sent to prison.) He asks if he can give his wallet to his wife, and they allow him this. As he's walking over to give his wallet to his wife, I noticed something. "Huh," I says. "It's almost like the judge is looking at." I look again. "Weird, the judge is STARING right at me."
...
"Oh shit, the judge is fucking staring RIGHT AT ME."

Then, the judge waves up my PO (Two PO's in court at the time, so this wasn't unusual) and they have a brief but... Obviously intense conversation. Then, the judge calls... Me to the stand. I go up, shake his hand, and he looks at me, completely unreadable.
"Jacob... You..." OH GOD I'M GOING TO PRISON. "Are doing good." Then he talked to me some about what I can do better, then lets me go sit back down.

What happened there was, and I am 100% sure of this, is that they had previously decided to send me to prison. While I was sitting there, the judge thought of a couple things he'd been told when he first started this Drug Court (I know he did because he said it yesterday at the Graduation Ceremony for some other people.)

The first is: "When you're picking people for drug court, don't pick the people that are just in a bit of trouble, and can easily sail through the requirements. When you pick them, go find the most troublesome, most stressful individuals you can. The ones that make you go, "He's fucking hopeless, let's just send him upstate." THOSE are the ones you need in drug court."

And two: "The thing about drug addicts is that, under all these preconceived notions we have... "Drug addicts are violent. Drug addicts commit crimes. Drug addicts are bad people." There is a universal truth. "Drug addicts... Are PEOPLE." No one type of person is BAD, is IRREDEEEMABLE. Everyone makes mistakes and screws up, and it's far too easy to just send them to prison for it. Sometimes you have to forgive."

Oh, and at the Graduation, the CEO of the National Association for Drug Court Professionals (West Huddleston) is... A 25 years clean drug addict who was on Drug Court once. Mind = blown, for most of us drug court-ers.

[Levi]

Then, the judge waves up my PO (Two PO's in court at the time, so this wasn't unusual) and they have a brief but... Obviously intense conversation. Then, the judge calls... Me to the stand. I go up, shake his hand, and he looks at me, completely unreadable.
"Jacob... You..." OH GOD I'M GOING TO PRISON. "Are doing good." Then he talked to me some about what I can do better, then lets me go sit back down.

That must have been terrifying.  Glad it went your way. 

[MrSparky]

UKIP doesn't come off as overtly racist to me. I don't even live in the same hemisphere as their constituency so I can't comment on the value of their policies but they seem to match up mostly with libertarian lines. Dislike of large centralized government, entitlement programs, open immigration, and political correctness. Promotion of bluntness, common language laws, and localized government.

"Like libertarians" isn't the best defense against an accusation of racism.

I mean, how do you justify being a libertarian against open immigration if not with racism? That's the government denying people their freedom to choose where to live. They put a lot of focus on that right because, along with localized government, it allows you to easily move elsewhere if your local government is failing you.

The immigration thing is the main part of party line that throws me off. Both because it doesn't mesh with the minimizing government interference and because it doesn't really make sense to me for pretty much the reason you stated.

[pisskop]

Unchecked immigration is dangerous.  We don't know who is coming from where with what issues and concerns or even with what germs.

I certainly have a problem with allowing illegal immigration to continue, and feel that at the very least we should be striving to document them.

[Graknorke]

I certainly have a problem with allowing illegal immigration to continue

So does the law. That's why it's illegal immigration.

[pisskop]

Fun fact, AP removed the term 'illegal immigrant' from their vocabulary about a month or so ago.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/04/02/ap-drops-illegal-immigrant-from-stylebook/

[Graknorke]

But not "illegal immigration".

[Slayerhero90]

I'm seein' so many Bay12ers on the HS forums. So far, Putnam and Soadreqm. That's many. I still have yet to post due to having yet to figure out how to get this avatar on there.

[The Darkling Wolf]

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