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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Oct 15, 2020 18:52:58 GMT
Mag2024 ... Canada, Australia, US, EU, Britain, ... doh Okay, Montreal has a population of roughly 1.95M, and approximately 4,000 police officers.
San Antonio [Texas] meaning the city proper not the larger metro area has a population around 1.5M and 2352 sworn police officers [not counting county, state, or federal law enforcement].
Texas has a population of roughly 29M, over 73,000 law enforcement officers [about 1 for every 330 people, not counting federal officers], while Canada has a population of roughly 37.6M and about 53,619 police officers [which I think works out to one officer per 701 people].
The US has around 800,000 police officers spread across 50 States, or one cop for every 410 people.
What one considers a police state is relative.
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Post by tasmanianartist on Oct 16, 2020 2:50:26 GMT
:-)
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Post by Admin on Oct 16, 2020 11:20:52 GMT
Our forum is also slowly becoming a police state: Up to now, posts by new users have been sent to quarantine, where they could be unlocked by experienced and trusted users. Unfortunately, this could be circumvented by publishing from a mobile phone as a guest. Therefore only registered users can publish from now on. The restriction for new users remains in place. The administrator had gone to the mountains with a clear conscience after it had been very quiet here in September. First snowed in up there and then enchanted by the gold of the larches, he believed in the good in people while you fought the battle against the Viet Cong - with assistance, which had been requested by our girl scout tasmanianartist on twisted paths. That should not happen again. A powerful force of forum members, including from Texas, Canada, England and other countries, can now assist the administrator in a future invasion.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Oct 16, 2020 14:23:56 GMT
Ah, I remember canyon country in winter, and don't miss the -26C.
Believing in people acting toward a common good is never a problem as it can inspire others to aspire to being better people, though it pays to remember there will always be those who see things from very different perspectives.
Beautiful scenery you have there.
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Post by benziger on Oct 16, 2020 15:30:37 GMT
Ah, I remember canyon country in winter, and don't miss the -26C. Believing in people acting toward a common good is never a problem as it can inspire others to aspire to being better people, though it pays to remember there will always be those who see things from very different perspectives. Beautiful scenery you have there. Well, now in autumn, it was only -4°C in the early morning...
While in the Alps most of the valleys are oriented east-west, the Engadine is north-south and the southern end is an almost flat pass, which then falls like a staircase into the depths. This leads to special southern (Italian, Mediterranean) light in the mountains...
The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche wrote: “I feel better here than anywhere else on earth.” He staid there for seven summers in a simple room, went for long walks and filled one notebook after another with his ideas. Many other writers, poets and philosophers came to the Engadine in search of tranquillity and inspiration. The guest book of only one of the many hotels, the Waldhaus, include names as Hermann Hesse, Thomas Mann and Friedrich Dürrenmatt.
(No, I was not in the Waldhaus, and no, I didn't write a book. If you are with the family, there are other priorities: Just walking and playing on the playgrounds - also on the one of the Waldhaus.)
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Oct 16, 2020 15:52:50 GMT
Aye, being with family tends to be a different exercise than being alone or one half of a couple when in areas like that. In the coming Spring should things settle a bit we'll be taking our brood out hiking again. Once the kids are older we can possible take them to where it gets cold and one can walk mostly frozen streams.
For now I'll stick to areas where it rarely gets below -5C.
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Post by benziger on Oct 16, 2020 19:16:57 GMT
Once the kids are older we can possible take them to where it gets cold and one can walk mostly frozen streams. I do not know, how old your children are. We go there for years. Our boy was one and a half when he found the pleasure of walking on narrow mountain paths; holding both arms in the air and shaking hands with the father who walked behind him.
A year later we had a "horse-plate" with us, a kind of halter that we could strap around his chest. If he misstepped, we held the reins and he floated in the air instead of falling. Left on the ground again, we went straight on. For example the old Roman road down the Maloja Pass. That's 350 metres in altitude in one hour. Today he is six and a half and it is rather his mother who is the first to get tired.
If it is a pleasure and safety is guaranteed, I am the last one to hold children back; especially outdoors in nature.
But I have to admit that we can always go back to a small cottage. Two rooms only, but heated and equipped with a kitchen, electricity and running water. So you can dare a little more during the day...
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Oct 16, 2020 19:51:48 GMT
The oldest girl, turns 7 as Samhain wanes, the middle girl is 4, and the youngest will be 3 in January when I'm retired early on paper though not in fact due to responsibilities.
Summer of 2019 [at roughly 1.5 years] he was hiking the so-called rough trails [what I term difficult only for a novice], though next year I hope to have a short spear for any rattlesnakes we might encounter and can't avoid [no hunting season on snakes among other creatures]. The boy isn't afraid of anything yet, though he is learning to respect cacti.
When they're older the spouse and I will introduce the trio to trails where you don't want to slip [where I avoid the edges], though I prefer hiking or climbing in warm weather to cold, due to arthritis.
For now I hold the young ones back until they can learn to read terrain, because out here nature is unforgiving of those who don't pay attention. Next year I get to start being busy taking care of some things, the access road and parking area comes to mind.
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Post by tasmanianartist on Oct 17, 2020 4:28:52 GMT
Our forum is also slowly becoming a police state: Up to now, posts by new users have been sent to quarantine, where they could be unlocked by experienced and trusted users. Unfortunately, this could be circumvented by publishing from a mobile phone as a guest. Therefore only registered users can publish from now on. The restriction for new users remains in place. The administrator had gone to the mountains with a clear conscience after it had been very quiet here in September. First snowed in up there and then enchanted by the gold of the larches, he believed in the good in people while you fought the battle against the Viet Cong - with assistance, which had been requested by our girl scout tasmanianartist on twisted paths. That should not happen again. A powerful force of forum members, including from Texas, Canada, England and other countries, can now assist the administrator in a future invasion. View Attachment View Attachment View AttachmentMay the Force be with you, and you live long and prosper! Glad to read that we now have a powerful force of forum members. I've found the ProBoard tech help by sheer desperation - other than that, I haven't the foggiest about the internal workings of the ProBoard - I assume that the members are members on this forum, and that the powerful force will now guard us from the background ... yes? Phew ... I really didn't want the responsibility of having to battle the Viet Cong.
Glad that your mountain holiday was a wonderful interlude for you, benziger.
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So glad that admin has taken bizzley's advice and appointed some moderators who are well informed and will be helpful at keeping those pesky Vietnamese scammers at bay. Good job well done.
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