Open Thread - Friday, October 6, 2017 - High Times Edition
Submitted by NCTim on Fri, 10/06/2017 - 3:20amEditor's note: Photos from the Internet
Editor's note: Photos from the Internet
We take it for granted that as technology advances, year after year, we all benefit. Better computers!
Imagine for a moment you were a country isolated, and denied access to technology.
What would you do? You couldn't begin to reinvent technology. That's taken decades of the world's economy funding it to happen. Anything you could do for years would be childlike.
Earlier this week a U.S. serviceman died in Iraq via an IED for the first time in several years.
Then this morning I saw this.
There’s the report now of an unarmed security guard who was the first to encounter Paddock and survived a hail of 200 bullets, then led the police to the shooter’s site.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/security-guard-las-vegas-gunman-unarmed/story?i...
The guard who found the shooter and helped bring the massacre to an end said, “I was just doing my job.”
When you think of Alabama, progressive politics isn't normally what comes to mind.
Morning, complicated week the headlines are are steadily informing us of natural and human disasters that keep growing in scope and complexity. It is difficult not to get overwhelmed. So back to basics, to help re-balance and move forward.
Water is life. It provides life, sustains life and destroys life. Our relationship with water makes civilization possible. A healthy one we thrive and a poor one we can be destroyed.
I didn't know, and I pay attention to stuff like this.
Did you ever have a nightmare and struggled to wake up to end it? Have you ever had a nightmare that didn't go away after you woke up? Whether or not you want to hear this, and you probably don't, things about the LVM (Las Vegas massacre) are just not adding up. I will present evidence to bolster what this essay is about in a second essay. The procedure is the reverse of usual investigations.