Some Guy Goes Postal In Colorado, Always in CO it seems. |
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Some Guy Goes Postal In Colorado, Always in CO it seems. |
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Jul 24 2012, 12:01 PM |
... Who knows, I might buy myself a farmhouse out near a forest and stream someday and survive off the land. That is kind of a dream of mine. I could even be self - sustaining and get some solar panels in order to sell energy back to the electric company. Sound's a little like Thoreau . For what it's worth we did some of this when we moved to Spain some years back albeit that we're not close to 100% self-sufficient. We looked in to photovoltaic solar but it was a non-starter for us as the purchase cost was very steep and at the time there were no grants. (It was something like 60k Euros.) The recent economic crisis in Spain has lead a lot of people in Andalucia to go back to their small holdings/huertas because many haven't been paid in months. -------------------- Get your music professionally mastered by anl AES registered Mastering Engineer. Contact me for Audio Mastering Services and Advice and visit our website www.miromastering.com
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Jul 24 2012, 01:08 PM |
I have been seeing a lot of that in the news. I actually thought about you today as well when I was watching Al Jazeera(I promise it is less creepy than it sounds). How are you and your family doing? I hope you are all doing well. We're ok thanks . Was it the news about Valencia and Murcia (two of the main Spanish autonimous regions) who have declared bankruptcy this week? We worry that Andalucia may not be far behind - we have a friend in the fire brigade and he hasn't been paid at all for 4 months. Jerez de la Frontera, one of our big main cities, is officially bankrupt and cannot pay any of its employees and it looks like several other big cities are on the brink. We're lucky to be quite insulated from much of the economic crisis directly as we have no mortgage. So we are lucky enough to at least have a roof over our heads whatever happens but we have friends who have lost their homes and jobs. It's horrid to see people you know lose pretty much everything they have worked years for. In Andalucia we also talk about the 'lost generation' meaning the 50% of kids round here who are unemployed and may never ever be able to get a job. A lot of them have kind of given up and perhaps because of it the regional suicide rate has quadrupled. I just hope things have improved before my daughter needs to go out to work... -------------------- Get your music professionally mastered by anl AES registered Mastering Engineer. Contact me for Audio Mastering Services and Advice and visit our website www.miromastering.com
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Jul 24 2012, 02:29 PM |
... So a month ago, 100 engineers from Spain came to Germany (Villingen-Schwenningen to be precise, 20 km south of Rottweil) and met with companies to get a job here. ... I'm curious to see how many of them will actually take a job in Germany and stay for a longer period of time (winter in Germany is not very pleasant for most spanish folks, to say the least...) Christian I was talking with a neighbour recently who's about 78 yrs old. When he was in his 20s he went to work in one of the car plants in Germany and his cousin did the same but for Fiat in Italy because there was no work here. He was comparing things now with then. He thinks things are a bit better in Spain now because people aren't being killed by the government... The job situation here though is bad. A friend's daughter has just moved back home from Madrid. The daughter is 29 years old, has an MSc in Finance and is fluent in Spanish, Italian and English. For the last couple of years she was a 'trainee' accountant and she was paid 650 Euros a month - her rent was 500 euros a month so her parents gave her money to live on. This month the company 'let her go' with no warning citing just cause under the recent labour reform bill. Yesterday I met my accountant and she suggested again that I 'let go' my assistant for the same reason. I told her that I'd get a new accountant first. -------------------- Get your music professionally mastered by anl AES registered Mastering Engineer. Contact me for Audio Mastering Services and Advice and visit our website www.miromastering.com
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Jul 24 2012, 09:57 PM |
I just know that would feel so good.. no modern crap and unimportant stress to worry about ! I hear ya! Move to the mountains. Play loud, no neighbors to complain! Awesome |
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Jul 26 2012, 05:17 AM |
I didn't read through the entire thread, so forgive me if someone posted this already. I was browsing the news this morning and read that gun sales in the US have increased dramatically since the movie theatre shooting. *sigh*
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/07...s-colorado.html This post has been edited by spacebran: Jul 26 2012, 05:17 AM |
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Jul 26 2012, 05:23 AM |
I didn't read through the entire thread, so forgive me if someone posted this already. I was browsing the news this morning and read that gun sales in the US have increased dramatically since the movie theatre shooting. *sigh* http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/07...s-colorado.html Indeed they have. It isn't necessarily a bad thing, though. This happened recently. http://www.abc4.com/content/about_4/bios/s...sRhrWCM9dQ.cspx Not to mention: People killed in mass shootings in America 2002-2012- 117 ([1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rampage_killers) American firearms homicides last year- 11,493 ([2] http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm) Defensive gun uses in America per year- 2,000,000+ ([3] http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcdguse.html) % of gun uses that "almost certainly" saved a life- 15.7% ([4] http://www.guncite.com/gcdgklec.html) Lives saved assuming 9/10 of the 15.7% did not save a life- 25,000 Any weapon can be dangerous in the hands of a crazed individual, but there are a lot of people that use them responsibly. This post has been edited by Nihilist1: Jul 26 2012, 05:27 AM -------------------- All the elders have fallen down...
Heal her now... All the elders have fallen down... Heal her now... Grandfather elk Turned to me And spoke: Light the fire deep inside. Light the fires! |
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Jul 26 2012, 05:32 AM |
Indeed they have. It isn't necessarily a bad thing, though. This happened recently. http://www.abc4.com/content/about_4/bios/s...sRhrWCM9dQ.cspx Not to mention: People killed in mass shootings in America 2002-2012- 117 ([1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rampage_killers) American firearms homicides last year- 11,493 ([2] http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm) Defensive gun uses in America per year- 2,000,000+ ([3] http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcdguse.html) % of gun uses that "almost certainly" saved a life- 15.7% ([4] http://www.guncite.com/gcdgklec.html) Lives saved assuming 9/10 of the 15.7% did not save a life- 25,000 Any weapon can be dangerous in the hands of a crazed individual, but there are a lot of people that use them responsibly. Interesting, indeed! |
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