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[quote=paramount]Mrs. Lanza was preparing for some fantasy doomsday collapse, but the doom was in her own house.[/quote]

that sounds about right.

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[quote=flu]I think folks, you’re missing the point. Doesn’t matter what type of gun was used. The point is, the wrong person had access to it….And there’s no amount of legislation that’s going to prevent that from happening.

What the mother was thinking is beyond me…

http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/16/us/connecticut-nancy-lanza-profile/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Warning signs that the kid was in the process of being a social misfit already shown. I don’t know, but seems like the mother was either in denial that her son had a problem or that she so out of touch with keeping a bunch of guns in the house with a home-schooled pseudo-sociopath would pose a danger to society….On top of that, she ok’ed her son’s gun hobby????

Um, sorry I hate people who say “society failed this person” or some crap like that. Society didn’t fail… That mother failed…first as a responsible parent and second as a responsible citizen and third as general common-sense human being. And now 26 people are dead because of her.She might as well pulled the trigger herself, because she sure as hell enabled her psuedo-psycho son to do it. And surprising, some people will probably try to argue that it’s not her mother’s fault at all….She fvcked up..Bigtime.

I guess we’ll just have to put up with it…Because no amount of legislation/laws/rules will regulate stupidity, unless we’re talking about a full complete ban (which I’m not particular fond of myself)….[/quote]

jeepers…the article says she was getting 250k a year in alimony….couldnt she just get a topnotch alarm system for personal protection?

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Am I happier with a new accord than an 89 civic? No. Definitely not. It was amusing to have a new car, the ac was nice the first few times but I’ve accommodated and don’t get pleasure from it anymore. It’s ok. Basically it’s the same, happiness wise.

I think we all habituated to most everything we get such that things just don’t give you a charge after a bit.

Maybe people won’t be able to vacation in Europe. Will they be less happy. Naaaah. It’ll just be what it is

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Quality goods and serice are nice. However, there’s so much crap!

Think about gyms as an example. If you ditched all the machines and just had a room full of barbells and a few jump ropes, would life suck?

No. We’d actually get stronger. All those machines are crap. Crap!!!!!a distraction at best… In that case, one would be better off with less.

The land will stay the same. There’s still going to be nice and not so nice laces to live. There are still going to be hot and not hot girls. Life will probably be similar.

On the other hand maybe it is a giant ponzi scheme poised to cataclysmic ally collapse and leave us with nothing.

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Ok. We will be unhappier in the future.

I can see that possibility too.

In fact I feel less optimistic than I did this morning

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My 17 year old is extremely optimistic … We spent Sunday at Joshua tree climbing.

Lots of dirty camping climber hobos w shitty cars.

Saw a bumper sticker I want…

Big Dalai lama smiling with the caption….Be Stoked

Yeah dude

Be stoked….

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I used to pay 20 cents for a comic book. Now it’s 4.00. But my kid reads them free at Barnes and noble. I don’t know. In the future, comi books will be 12 energy units but you will be able to read all the old ones for 1 energy unit on the computer in your brain.

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My wife says no one knows the future.

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I’m not going to make it. I’m too nervous.

I think I can do 30 more if I hit it right.

Starting today, no more worrying.

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Things can bring tension.

You get a BMW, it needs more maintenance, you gotta insure it, etc etc.

My wife says this speculation is stupid and I should focus on making her happy now.

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I’m not sure what makes one nations people happier than another.

Expectations?

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A man will be far happier with a loaf of bread, some cheese he brought home to loving children by bicycle than steaks served by a bitter wife and eaten with ungrateful welps he picked up in a Ferrari.

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[quote=SD Realtor]I love the logic. So let me get this straight. When our kids grow up they will have less opportunity to get quality jobs. They will live in a country that is riddled with debt and could have by then defaulted. They will live in a society that does not enjoy the same benefits as the society that their parents lived in at both the state and federal levels. They will have a currency that is worth less then it was when they were kids. They will have to compete much harder for jobs. They may have advance degrees but may have to settle for jobs that do not require them.

However your argument is that they will be happier? That logic is based on what? That they will be happier because they did not know what it was like to live in a better society?

So if you never got to live through better times, you will be happier living in crappier times.

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Money doesn’t buy happiness.

We have a currency worth a lot less than when we were kids.

And things are better.

I don’t have any particular argument why they will be happier. Just a feeling. A hunch.

Could just be dumb optimism.

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my kids are at least three time better adjusted than I was…yup the trendline is up

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but they may be happier. in fact, I suspect there will be more happiness in the future.

and i am the most negative, pessimistic person in a 500 foot radius.

i am willing to bet that the average person will be happier 40 years from now in america than the average person was in 1994.

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