Yeah, except when they are too lazy to do the work. I had an expensive car stereo stolen. Police wouldn't come and I was instructed to fill out the report online... much easier to ignore that way. My old neighborhood had a rash of breakins (9 cars over 2 weeks) and the police never came. 2 months later, they set up a speed trap down the hill from us. Why? Because they make money on tickets and theft is a pain in the ass to investigate.

Any and all tools, my ass.

You're all arguing about whether a finite number of worlds exist in infinite space... but you buried the lead. According to the logic, we ourselves don't exist. There is a 0 percent chance that we are present in the universe, that we ever existed or, in fact, that we ever will exist.

Kind of depressing, really.

and also... for the children.

The Bill of Rights WAS meant to protect someone from being prosecuted for treason unless the government acts within the bounds of the Bill of Rights. Namely, right to an attorney, right to a trial, right to warrants, right of free speech, right to cross examine, right to review evidence, right for refuse to board soldiers in your home, right to refuse to submit to a state religion, right to publish articles in the press that do not favor the government.

Any person could make an argument that X is treason or terrorism or any other thing you want to call it. Congress can pass any law they want defining that X is unlawful. They can argue until they are blue in the face that the public needs to be protected from X and in order to protect the public from X that certain rights need to be ignored and bypassed... but guess what... rights are SUPPOSED to trump that. If I am a traitor, prove it without violating my rights. Then and only then can you punish me.

If you sacrifice liberty for security, you deserve neither. && Government should stop legislating morality. && Anytime someone says "There should be a law..." there probably shouldn't.

Laws are supposed to exist to prevent your exercise of rights from affecting my rights. If a person doesn't interfere with the rights of another, there is no need to legislate or prosecute.

let's not forget that a young goat is called a "kid", you kiddie-diddler

Come to think of it, I haven't seen Chuck Norris in a while...

first post, forced pissed, whatever.

so... getting drunk and laid in the military. That's what I did too and I am not Israeli

I reported the locations as not dangerous at all... then again, I am 12,000 miles away on a good day. One time I got lost and wound up 36,000 miles away. Maybe the takeaway here is that I shouldn't report a location as safe just because I am far, far away from there.

um... it is true is every way.

You decide what job you want and then use your education and experience to support that. If you want to be an aviation engineer, it should be a no-brainer. I don't think you can use time in the cockpit to help justify medical device engineering...