Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Nope, I love Old School Epcot and feel like with the exception of Soarin', they have been raping it since the mid 90's. I also love the edutainment at DL. I think people like Jim in Merced and I are quite alone. Thanks for the well wishes X, see you all in cyber space in 3 weeks.
Originally Posted By Mr X **Nope, I love Old School Epcot and feel like with the exception of Soarin', they have been raping it since the mid 90's. I also love the edutainment at DL. I think people like Jim in Merced and I are quite alone.** Well, I know this is off-topic and all, but I just don't see boring theme park rides as being a symptom of a dumbed down culture (there are plenty of REAL symptoms to be found, I guess is my point). I agree they've been killing Epcot, and again this is way off topic, but honestly the stuff you mentioned really WAS the most boring stuff, and in fact it still remains pretty much (energy was made slightly less boring, but not much). Whatever. Anyway, back to topic, this is a horrible situation and wouldn't have happened if stricter gun controls had been implemented. This sort of thing does put me more and more in favor of gun control, and the STRICT evaluation and monitoring of folks who wish to own them. Sorry, but I'm against the IRA in this regard.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Back on topic, I am with you Mr X, only problem is, a lot of the bad guys already have guns! But strict control should be in place.
Originally Posted By Mr X The fact that these college aged nutjobs can get their hands on them is scary...I guess that's my basic point.
Originally Posted By jonvn "You not only have the change in the tests to account for, but also the fact that a greater percentage of students are taking the test than ever did before. " I think you missed the part where in 1995 they readjusted the SAT scores because people, since the 40s, have continually gotten lower and lower scores.
Originally Posted By jonvn "I think people like Jim in Merced and I are quite alone" Of course you are not alone. And don't worry about your trip to the US. Remember, the nearest ER trauma room is only a quick ambulance ride away. About Epcot: Between Spaceship Earth, Horizons, and World of Motion, a LOT of the same ground was covered. It was a bit repetitive. It's not such a terrible thing that World of Motion is gone and replaced with Test Track. It's just not quite the full experience WOrld of Motion was. Horizons, well, that's a loss, and its replacement is out of place, but fun. The problem is not so much that they took out these old things, but that they replaced them with something much weaker. And dumber.
Originally Posted By Mr X **The problem is not so much that they took out these old things, but that they replaced them with something much weaker. And dumber.** Amen.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<Finally, I think it's worth reiterating that most of these problems have always existed. People point to certain statistics as evidence without really analyzing the information.>> Exactly. You hear the hand wringers talking about how there are more people currently in poverty in the United States than at any other time in our history. Well duh... there are more people in the United States than at any other time in our history. As our population increases, the absolute numbers of those in poverty will also increase. But if you look at the true measure, the PERCENTAGE of people in poverty in the United States, we are close to all time lows. Although the rate has gone up slightly since King George took office, it is still lower than it has been at any point in our history except for the years 1999 - 2002. Source: <a href="http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/poverty06/pov06fig03.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.census.gov/hhes/www /poverty/poverty06/pov06fig03.pdf</a>
Originally Posted By Dabob2 (vbdad55): <If someone purchases 4 guns from one shop in a short period of time on a new gun registration card - should this not trigger something?> Absolutely. And I'm totally with dvcdad on this: <I agree totally and I'm a big 2nd amendment guy. I don't buy into the concept that registration is the first step to losing the 2nd amendment rights. It should be more difficult to purchase weapons.> Even my southern uncles and cousins (big time hunters and NRA members) and coming around to this. And davewasbaloo, remember what I told you before: you MUST see the Remember fireworks show. It will remind you why you love DL.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo I am getting quite excited. we leave in 13 hours. And we will certainly try to grab Remember - Santa Anna's willing.
