People who shoot (at least from the people ive spoke with) tend to not like them because they can alter a bullets path in unpredictable ways and the reality is they don't really serve and purpose aside from assassinating human beings without being known. Its not something you'd bring hunting as it does not silence enough to not startle anything and practice/professional shooters never use them becuase of how they can alter bullet paths.... sooooo.....

Not to mention owning one of these demonstrates a degree of intent and i dont see many "self defense" arguments being acceptable. "Judge, i feared for my life at that second, if i didnt shoot him, he would have shot me.... So i took out my 45 cocked and locked it, then took out my 9 inch suppressor from the glove box, took the 9 seconds to screw it in, released the lock and then fired"..... Im sure this would fly in Florida but the rest of the nation tends to be a bit more sane on these issues.

Found change? I just ran by a convenience store selling a single pack of Marlboro cigarettes for 7 dollars. Sorry, but 7 dollars is not found change, especially if someone is buying more than 1 pack a week. Also, if someone thinks they are going to starve, so they might as well plunk down 7 dollars in change on cigarettes, they are an idiot, and I do not see why you would defend the stupid behavior of stupid people. 7 dollars could buy you thousands of calories worth of Mcdonalds Chicken Mcnuggets, for example.

The biggest problem with modular homes is that they are harder to sell. If you plan on living at your location for a long time, that might not be a big issue, but if you plan on selling in just a few years, it might not be worth the headache. Living in California, one concern I would have is if the way they are pieced together might make them more vulnerable to earthquake damage. I'm not saying it does, but I think I would call a structural engineering firm and get their opinion (there are tons of them, call around until you can get free advice) before buying.

@mrbojangles25 Yeah, the green party grew quite a bit this election, not surprising considering how horrid they Republican and Democratic nominees were. I just hope they can maintain this momentum for the midterms. And the various statewide elections.

Get rid of the Winner takes all approach would be a good start. Less elections may actually help too, to help reduce voter fatigue.

You've never really been poor or even low-income, have you?

Those cigarettes cost like five bucks a pack, and lets just say they're an average smoker so they go through maybe five packs a week (they smoke a lot when they work but take it easy on their days off). That's 30 dollars after taxes or whatever.

30 days of uninsured meds is probably going to costs upwards of hundreds depending on what it is. Food for an entire family cost a lot more than 30 dollars a week. Usually the smokes are bought with leftover change, found change, or because they're simply too poor to buy what they need so "**** it I might as well buy some smokes if I'm going to starve".

It's really easy to sit there with a calculator and spread sheet and go "Herp derp, if you just quit smoking and this and that you could save X + Y + Z per year!" but the fact is the day to day shit and nonsense happens, and we are only human.

And the sheer amount of joy that a cigarette brings to a stressed out person. Oh man, it's glorious. Just sitting there on the curb, enjoying all those smug bastards looking at you like "Ew a smoker" and you are just like "Haha yep, **** you too" and you're just enjoying life for a few minutes because nothing really matters. It's worth every penny and every minute it takes off your life. Anyone that asks how people can smoke obviously has never smoked; it's freaking nice. Yeah, I'd take a Twinkee out of kids lunch so I could have my cigarette.

And whatever, they're not buying ten-dollar vegan fair-trade weasel shit coffees and getting haircuts for their dogs....

Hah, that was cool. I love tinkerers and what people do when they're bored.

i thought princeton grads were supposed to be smart..