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   Don wrote:   
   > "Warm Worm"  wrote in message   
   > news:fpfbf1$qqi$1@aioe.org...   
   >> Don wrote:   
   >>> "Warm Worm"  wrote in message   
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   >>>> Don wrote:   
   >>>>> "Jack May"> wrote   
   >>>>>> Just because some people can't afford a car IN NO WAY implies that   
   >>>>>> public transit is the solution.  There are other options that are far   
   >>>>>> cheaper like transportation subsidies for the poor.   
   >>>>> OK, I just let the dogs loose.  =D   
   >>>>> I think you hit it right there Jack, and I've said so myself in the   
   >>>>> past.   
   >>>>> The people that bitch the loudest about cars are not car owners   
   >>>>> themselves, for whatever reason, most likely economics.   
   >>>>> This is based in envy, an emotion, with no logic at its root.   
   >>>> This seems to be like hearing someone boasting about how envious others   
   >>>> are of his pile of shit.   
   >>> Actually, its like someone exclaiming his jealousy of someone elses pile   
   >>> of shit.   
   >>> Like watching a train wreck, in slow motion.   
   >> I would be reluctant to put too much stock on some people's ill-conceived   
   >> jealousies, such as if they somehow represented everyone's, or as if the   
   >> piles of shit weren't nevertheless still piles of shit.   
   >>   
   >>>> Whether it's affordable or not, it's still a pile of shit.   
   >>>> You'd have to pay me to buy it-- but even then...   
   >>> Indeed, a pile of shit is what it is, the amazing part is that some are   
   >>> jealous of it.   
   >>> Go figure.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>>> If, as Pat said, all the cities burned down these folks would starve or   
   >>>>> be killed because they wouldn't be able to go *where the food is* or   
   >>>>> escape danger.   
   >>>> Hoho... If that happened, I'd grab a chair, a cold one, and from a safe   
   >>>> vantage point, watch what happens to your new 100-acre land-grab.   
   >>> I doubt anyone would want the land itself for in the immediate picture it   
   >>> would be worthless.   
   >>> They might however be interested in the, yet unbuilt, greehouse jammed to   
   >>> the ceiling with succulent vegetables and fruits.   
   >>> They can have it, and if they can maneuver the trip wires they might eat   
   >>> well for a few weeks.   
   >> Trip wires, or guns for that matter, are going to be relatively   
   >> ineffective at controlling a famished city explosion, and may even   
   >> precipitate the consideration of roasting you.   
   >> If you're sharp enough to gauge the situation as its unfolding, and   
   >> accommodating enough, however, (all very theoretical of course), you may   
   >> be able to leverage the situation in everyone's favor-- especially your   
   >> own-- and help forge a new town and way of life.   
   >>   
   >>> In the meantime, I'll be sitting on the front porch with a cooler of cold   
   >>> ones and a Remington Model 7 with a Leupold 6x9 variable picking them off   
   >>> like flys with 240 grain FMJ's.   
   >> Oh dear...   
   >> Meanwhile, some will chance upon my vantage point, wondering where all   
   >> those shots are coming from, pump me for info and rip my nigh-vision   
   >> binoculars from my hands and... Well you can guess who's eventually gonna   
   >> be roasted from beard-to-tail on "his own" 100-acre land.   
   >   
   > But YOU will survive all of it, right?   
   > Meanwhile, I'll just get in one of my vehicles and go off into the sunset.   
   > LOL   
      
   Assuming you're still alive.   
   With old trucks making very easy targets along roads full of wandering   
   city-folk in Hummers and Beemers, etc., we'll see how far you go.   
   And about that guy shooting everyone on "his" 10-acre, well, let's just   
   say that news travels fast...   
      
   "Hey! Look! There he is in his truck right now!"   
      
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