Serial killers got caught real easely nowadays. Like on CSI.

FBI estimation says that there are at least about 40 serial killers active in the US. According to the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit 85% of the world's serial killers are located in America. I read once that the FBI estimates the US has 100 active serial killers at any given point in time. Russia is the next biggest place for serial killers. Some countries have none at all. No one knows why America and Russia are so over run with them.

Serial killers usually have a 'type', and most usually go after prostitutes because they're the easiest target to prey on, seeing how most don't have families or friends asking about them, so when they vanish there wouldn't be a surge of missing persons reports. That's only one kind of serial killer. There are organized types who plan their crimes and go after specific kinds of victims, and there is the disorganized type that kills seemingly at random and without significant planning. Places like south America and Asia still maintain small closed communities that are very much involved with each others lives. If anything, they're a lot safer than the urbanized populations like New York or LA where city life as forced people into a sort of alienated existence divorced from the greater community. We have a serial killer in the NYC area. They keep finding groups of bodies in the Long Island area every now and then.

That's why we need to regulate prostitution; too many girls are going missing without anybody knowing about it.

Public transportation (maybe) is Socialism.

If something is approved by the Congress by definition the people agreed to it. Public Transportation isn't just subways under New York City, commuter trains to and through suburbia, streetcars/ lightrail on the roads in the urban area, regional trains connecting rural regions and big towns/ small cities, and so on.. Yes we need a rail system just like how we needed Amtrak (which now puts us billions in deeper debt every year because no one uses it enough).

Amtrak doesn't own the railways it runs services on, they're owned by the state railways and private freight operators. They give it a lower priority to their own services, often have old infrastructure, operating restrictions, etc - Amtrak is greatly hampered in its operations. It takes 3 and a half hours for the Acela to cover the 231 miles from Boston to NYC, it takes an hour and 57 minutes for a TGV to do cover the 254 miles from Paris to Lyons. The reason for this is that the TGV uses dedicated purpose-built High-Speed Railways. While the Acela has to use pre-existing railways, bridges and overhead from the 1930s, go through level crossings, ride railways in Connecticut that are too close together preventing the use of the Pendalino tilting mechanism system, and so on. It was decided by the automotive industry and government working to enrich them shut down public transportation, build suburbanization, and the freeways to support it. What choice do people then have when that is done?

Eventually, oil prices will reach high enough that it will necessitate some people taking more public alternatives. In the mean time, I don't want to ride next to some smelly fuck who hasn't bathed in weeks. But that's my decision. If I can afford to live my life that way, then I will. People like their privacy and autonomy. I know I do. I wouldn't expect anyone to understand as much. Why would I want to wait another 15 minutes to an hour on transportation? That's wasted time in my day. The fastest route would still be my car. Why would I want to ride a bus or train that has to stop every five minutes when I can take a car and get there in a third of the time. As of right now, I would have to walk two miles to get to the nearest bus stop. Then I couldn't listen to my music as loud as I wanted or have the AC going to my optimal comfort zone. Cars are way superior.

Americans have been conditioned to want to get places as slowly as possible so they consume as much resources as possible. If someone inherits wealth, it already means his family has done massive amount of good for the society, face it, people getting filthy rich is a wonderful thing, everybody benefits from it.

The question isn't whether or not its more efficient. The question is whether or not people will like it. Obviously, America has chosen the route it wants to take; that's what a free society does. The free market will eventually fix this. Give it time.

Experience from Census Bureau

I have a friend who recently works for the US Census Bureau. He is assigned to interview residents in an area with a large Spanish-speaking population.

Mexicans and Central Americans were surprisingly easy to work with, though hesitant at first to talk to. They also retain some semblance of courtesy like the men offering their seats to mothers with children and elderly on the bus. The Mexicans could relate to someone who looks vaguely similar to them (my friend is Filipinos), plus they're a bit fearful of "gringos" and wouldn't talk with those Census employees for fear of being ratted out to authorities.

At least Mexicans, Guatemalans, and the like in NYC are humble industrious workers who are trying to support families back home (unlike cholo gangsters in L.A.). The Puerto Ricans & Dominicans- particularly the blacks & mulattoes- are a different story (complete with rough ghettoized Spanish lingo, and hip-hop flavored music).

Korean and Japanese people probably, clean, polite, intelligent, traditional, hard working although they seem to be a bit wierd. He doesn't like other asian people like the Chinese, they have no respect for animals or the environment.

Relatively traditional, as compared to the rabidly anti-traditional and rebelious modern western cultures. The asian countries seem to have at least some vestige of concepts like politeness, honor and controlled personal conduct. The west seems to be missing these almost entirely.

Indians are his favourite, they brought the wonders of curry and are great computer scientists. Iranians are actually pretty cool and the women are beautiful.

10 ciri orang yang paling mengganggu

10 ciri orang yang paling mengganggu versi Ohjal

1. Attention whore
2. Kebanyakan berdandan
3. Sok modis
4. Egois & suka seenaknya sendiri
5. Suka ngatur orang lain, merasa bisa menyuruh orang
6. Gila hormat
7. Pengen tau urusan orang, tapi gak bisa jaga rahasia
8. Pelit informasi, pura2 enggak tau kalau ditanya
9. Prejudice yang berlebihan
10. Enggak bisa beradaptasi dengan orang yang berbeda status sosialnya

Tambahan satu lagi deh: Aku paling benci sama orang yang kalau minta tolong suka marah-marah, dan memaksa tapi giliran dimintain tolong selalu menghindar/ enggak mau/ malah nyuruh orang lain.

Selama tinggal di kota NY ini aku sudah ketemu 3 orang yang punya semua 10 ciri menyebalkan yang aku sebut. 1 udah aku kenal dari lama tapi baru akrab, yang 2 lainnya baru kenalan 3-4 tahun yang lalu. Entah hanya aku sendiri yang merasa begini, orang lain banyak yang suka dengan mereka dan mau aja diperintah oleh mereka. Ke 3 orang itu dari satu kelompok yang suka kerja bareng sama aku. Mau enggak mau selama aku tinggal di kota ini aku mesti berbaik2 dengan 3 orang ini, soalnya kalau kenapa2 malah aku sendiri yang dikucilin dari komunitas Indonesia.

Semoga aku bisa ingat dan menghindari sifat2 yang seperti itu

Contentedness

Being content is not the same as being complete. If a solved scenery puzzle is a complete state of mind, to be content is to be able to share each piece if puzzle for people I care without forgetting the scene.

I will see you again when I see you, Ling :)