rachel on 27/2/2009 at 10:48
Quote Posted by Old and Cunning
You CAN taste em all. You can travel all over mexico and eat yourself silly ... as long as you don't mind risking death by bomb, mortar, or gun. 9,000 killings last year alone, many of them tourists.
I agree, I barely made it out of there alive myself. If it weren't for MrDuck's AK47 and the help of his network of friends in the resistance, I could never have found my way through the maze of ruins and explosions. Chaos everywhere. And the screams...
Oh wait, no. I actually had a good time and just took a cab to the airport. Shockingly, it took me where I asked, just like in a US city. I was so disappointed. :(
Aja on 27/2/2009 at 11:22
Quote Posted by DDL
Also: Aja, are you sure? That seems very odd. How do they explain how societies got from hunter-gatherer to...well, agriculture or whatever, without it being some form of social evolution?
Contemporary anthro is all about the idea that you can't try and study a modern hunter-gatherer society with the intention of learning about your own culture in a more "primitive" state, because to do so ignores the fact that those hunter/gatherers have actually been living all along, and have their own history, not at all frozen in time. It's more terminology than anything, but its reasoning is sound (if entirely simplified in this post).
Vivian on 27/2/2009 at 11:28
I thought people treated it in the same way as biologists treat things like amphibians as being 'basal' to other land animals - very well adapted in their own right, but if you look at it in the right way, still informative about where certain traits developed from. Or rather, as these people are still exploiting the same kind of niche we all were at some stage, it should be informative to study the general ways in which they do this and the general affects to their social organisation (emphasis on general). Is that wrong? Don't want to sound aggressive, but I don't really see how it can be. I'd love to hear some good reasons, though. Been a long time since my archaeology degree.
Jason Moyer on 27/2/2009 at 12:01
Quote Posted by Old and Cunning
LOL, you have so pegged it, fett.
And don't worry about the housemate's pitbull. I have had three guard dogs poisoned by smugglers and and four stabbed. The dog is nowhere near the threat that the owner with the gun would be.
Yeah well, I guess it must suck spending your life in fear of something that will likely never happen. Me, I'm content not worrying about it and thinking about other things.
Matthew on 27/2/2009 at 12:30
You people are making the southern US sound like Belfast in the Troubles, FFS. :erg:
Ladron De La Noche on 27/2/2009 at 17:32
Quote Posted by Old and Cunning
... as long as you don't mind risking death by bomb, mortar, or gun. 9,000 killings last year alone,
many of them tourists.
This is absolute bullshit. :laff: 90% or more of the murders are those associated with the various cartels, the rest are civilians, police etc, etc. Which is why they must be brought down and under control. Tourists have not been targeted directly. It is the northern states where all these problems are occuring and only in certain cities.
Mortars? :laff:
Swiss Mercenary on 27/2/2009 at 18:59
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Do you think that disarming law-abiding Americans will somehow change the number of weapons that outlaws will obtain or the number of people they will kill?
Do you think that preventing gangs from paying those "law-abiding Americans" to legally buy thousands and thousands of guns, and shipping them south of the border wouldn't reduce the number of guns the gangs will obtain?
Did YOU read the article..?
Old and Cunning on 28/2/2009 at 01:29
Quote Posted by Jason Moyer
Yeah well, I guess it must suck spending your life in fear of something that will likely never happen. Me, I'm content not worrying about it and thinking about other things.
Actually, Jason. We don't live our lives in anything like fear. Most rural residents are armed and familiar with whatever threats they face locally. But you go on ahead and try to keep telling yourself that these things that have already happened, and continue to happen regularly, "will likely never happen." This is pure denial of reality.
Old and Cunning on 28/2/2009 at 01:33
Quote Posted by Swiss Mercenary
Do you think that preventing gangs from paying those "law-abiding Americans" to legally buy thousands and thousands of guns, and shipping them south of the border wouldn't reduce the number of guns the gangs will obtain?
Not one iota.
Do you thing the United states is the only country in the world that produces gune?
Do you think guns are the only way cartels have to kill people?
If you believe either of these things, you need to get up to speed on the real world.
jay pettitt on 28/2/2009 at 02:16
I'd just like to say that I don't have a gun, yet have somehow managed not to be burgled.
