And on the flip side, the same can be said for people taking things
to far. like Sissorelle. people like him are screwing up the
legal system in the U.S. just as much as the criminals.
Maybe even more so.

tsk I'd love to sig that if people wouldn't think he meant it seriously...

Actually, the ones pass through the holes in the zeroes. In fact, the zeroes are charged and act like a mass-driver that accellerates the ones through at breakneck-speed.

Anyway, here's a tip, if you want to increase the number of zeroes in your data, WRITE IN ALL-CAPS!

Hey, it's what I do

AE.

I clogged my internet pipe last night with a big data dump. Had to get the plunger out.

Because when people run to Government agencies over issues that they should be handling themselves, freedoms are lost. An example. A few years ago there
was some flu going around carried by mosquito's. I think that two or three cases were reported in Cleveland. And immediately people started reporting there neighbors who had standing water on there property to local government. They wouldn’t even bother to ask the neighbor to dispose of the water themselves. Something as small as a coffee cup left sitting on a picnic table could get you reported. Anyway last summer i changed two tires on my truck, and
i left the old ones leaning against my barn. Two days had passed
when i came home from work to find a city official waiting to
threaten me with fines and penalties for creating a breeding
environment for mosquito's. It hadn't even rained in those two
days and the tires were completely dry. My point is, is that once
you give the government an excuse to put a new law in there
books, they will continue to enforce it even when that no longer
makes any sense. And i don't think that the standing water thing
is even a law. But the neighbors still report it and the city still
makes threats over it, even though i have herd nothing of that
flu for years now. Sissorelle got the forum shut down, so why get the
government involved.

Why should the neighbors waste their time telling you to dispose of the sitting water when you don't have to listen to them anyway? Besides that, sometimes you don't like your neighbors and some people don't like dealing with people in general. Many people would just ignore a neighbor telling them what to do and days would go by before that neighbor would be satisfied that they didn't listen and justify calling authorities (or you might just give them "a little more time" which is plenty of time for a mosquito population to cause problems).

I don't think it takes long for mosquitoes to breed. That's perfectly justified warning you and it's an honest mistake so nothing to worry about. Sounds like you didn't get fined so it was really just nice that they would send people to inform you rather then let it go until somebody gets infected in your neighborhood (or until they do slap you with a big fine). The fact is that you were careless leaving the tires there (or didn't know there was a mosquito problem) and they came by to warn you.

I really don't see what your problem is with the government... They investigate suspicious activity. They threaten fines or prison when you break the law. Why are people bitching that they're overreacting!? If you wanna see overreacting try disobeying the law in certain Asian countries...

Agreed.

You shouldn't help the mosquitoes recreate, they're doing just fine on their own. You can be sure that if you leave standing water somewhere, a mosquito will come along a lay eggs in it, and since there was an epidemic spreaded by mosquitos the new ones are likely to spread it as well. That said, there's no reason you should go straight to the govt and not talk to the neighbour about it. If he is reluctant to do anything about, then it's time for the govt to make a move.

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If you stop being a n00b. sure.

No. You've never contributed anything useful and never asked anything meaningful. You've got some work ahead of you if you want any respect from this community.

Why did I think this thread was dead? (wishful thinking?)

You were gone? Oh yeah, I forgot about this comment.

Diana, you are incredible.:o How did you know this was another Death Guage?

Get a sweet avatar, use the spell checker, help people out with what you know and ask questions about what you don't (just be polite about it when you get good answers... some people seem to be incapable of that, for some reason)...

In general, just be humble.

Oh, and a little humor doesn't hurt.