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"i really doubt that someone could eat themselves to 1235 lbs."

He's not a tree. Apart from the 7-10 lbs he was born with, all the mass in his body went in through his mouth at some point.
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The difference between a place like Brixton and Detroit is simple: as shitty as Brixton was for a while, it was still a short commute to one of the most desirable pieces of real estate in the world, central London. Detroit is a dying city with lots of redundant housing stock built during the good times when there were plenty of jobs. Now the jobs have gone forever, and the population has crashed. The bulk of Detroit's population is made up of people who can't afford to move somewhere else. Not a recipe for a revival.

A lot of these places aren't coming back, ever. Within a couple decades they will revert to forest land after the stripped, abandoned houses fall down or are torched. The reason you can't give these properties away (literally) is because they are a liability rather than an asset, and there is no sign that is likely to change.

As for renegotiating the mortgage: this is an asset that is literally worth nothing. A mortgage on it is therefore essentially an unsecured loan, most likely made to someone with terrible credit. And with a low interest rate and other terms that are much more favorable to the debtor than you would normally get with an unsecured loan. It's dead weight on the balance sheet. Better to take the pain now and cut it loose.
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"Yeah, I’ve worked in a call center for almost six years and I love my job."

Ah, there we go. If that's the line of work you're in, you either need to roll with the abuse, or do something else. It's part of the job, and part of what you are being compensated for. Begging people to treat you with respect elicits no sympathy from me. Yeah, yeah, you're a human being, blah blah blah. So are panhandlers, spammers, payday lenders, etc. You're all in the same class of people: aggressive beggars looking for an inequitable economic exchange by preying on the weak and elderly.
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"I somewhat think that messing with telemarketers is a sociopathic trait, it’s not something people would do if the person was in front of them but because of the anonymity of the telephone many dare to act out."

And you wouldn't call this guy a sociopath outside the anonymity of the internets. And I wouldn't call you an uptight wanker.
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Von Braun retired in 1972, so a fair bit. The Peenemünde scientists and engineers gave us a huge boost, but it's disingenuous to imply that the American space program was all theirs.
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Reading internet comments on this story is such a perfect piece of evidence of what happens when the public school system stops teaching science and starts teaching self esteem.

"I don't know anything, but those scientists are dumbasses!"

After the current batch of American engineers and scientists retire or die, we won't be doing any more exploration, because we'll be completely populated by idiots. Leave it to the Chinese and Indians.
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Memo

Attention scientists: effective immediately, science is officially canceled. Your services are no longer required. Your 2009 budget will be given to starving people. Please drop off all your equipment at Goodwill on your way home. Thank you.

The Man
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Yeah, I realize it's not linear, but the point remains. The Chinese economy has been growing at ~10%+ for over a decade. On the supply side, the Iraqi invasion took a huge chunk of oil production offline for a couple years. Neither of those events made any real difference in the price of a barrel. There is more than simple market economics at work here.
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In the last year or so, the price of a barrel of oil has doubled. Global demand has not come anywhere near doubling in that time, and global production has certainly not dropped by half. That should tell you that the price of oil is being influenced by something other than the basic supply and demand rules of the market.

The current price is a result of excess investment money controlled by entities like hedge funds and sovereign wealth funds looking for somewhere to go. The global economy is awash in capital, far more than it knows what to do with. Those funds have left the American and European mortgage markets, and entered the commodities markets. That is why gold, food, and oil have exploded in price despite supply and demand of all those things being fairly stable. The bubble will eventually burst, and the money will leave the commodities markets and find somewhere else to go. Then the price of food and oil will return to their levels of a couple years ago. Mark my words.
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He's just pissed off because his cheap ass company still makes him stare at a CRT monitor all day. I'd go mental too. Maybe it's a viral ad for Viewsonic.

No way this is real. In real life, if someone goes batshit crazy and starts looking like he's going to kill people, the sensible ones head for the exit and take the rest of the day off. Restrain him? I've had a cubicle job, and I certainly wouldn't have risked my life for it. Call the cops if you want the crazy man to stop breaking shit. But first let him mess up my papers and break my PC so I get a few days to surf the web in peace get my work organized.
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