2/4 Whoa, this is the first time I've heard anyone dying from H2O
intoxication: http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/02/04/fraternity.death.ap
\_ Wooooo, Chico! Home sweet home! -jrleek
\_ The folks I did get out the vote beat-walking with in Reno were
all Chico students. I liked them. -- ulysses
\_ You shut yer mouth boy. You don't live here no more. -emarkp
\_ now i see where jrleek & emarkp's conservatism come from.
\_ Nah. I moved here in 2000 after marrying his sister in
1996. -emarkp
\_ Chico was the liberal big city where I went to
high school, Red Bluff. -ausman
\_ Yeah, actually Chico has a big liberal element
to it. It is very Berkeley esqe in some ways.
Maybe it's Red Bluff meets Berkeley. (I
actually just went to Jr High and High school
there.) -jrleek
\_ I was at the library the week before the election
and saw a group of Kerry supporters meeting to
discuss strategies on election day--including how
to stop Repub. voting fraud. I wanted to go in
and ask how well their foil-hats fit. -emarkp
\_ you're so cool. -tom
\_ Sounds like they might be a little too
tight.
\_ So I am curious. Do you believe that
Republicans never ever engage in voter fraud?
\_ Was wondering if that question would come
up. Of course not. But the topic was on
the blackboard, etc. Butte county votes
very conservative usually and so I'd see
little reason for vote fraud. Especially in
a presidential election in which everyone
knew the Dem was going to win. Aside from
that, it appears that when Dems pursue vote
fraud, it's by excessive votes. Repubs seem
to favor disqualifying votes. -emarkp
\_ Would you be willing to agree that,
regardless of any intentional wrongdoing
by either side, that voting is a pretty
broken system right now, which needs
both legal and technical fixes? I would
like to see a system where we could hold
a mock election with hackers of various
types intentionally trying to break the
voting, but failing. Of course, we'll
never have a perfect system, but I think
the present system is a disgrace to this
country. I've done some research on this
since 2000, and I'm convinced that most
overcounted or undercounted votes are
caused by idiocy, not malice. However
most politically active people seem to
be more interested in malice than simply
fixing the idiocy.
\_ Best things to do in Chico:
Get Drunk, lie on train tracks.
Get Drunk, swim in dangerous river
Get Drunk, drive into walnut tree. (Friends cut down tree in
revenge.)
Drink self to death. (alchohol)
Drink self to death. (water)
\_ I read about one of those now and then. Not too long ago there was
someone on ecstacy who drank too much water because she was worried
about dehydration. There was another woman who had some strange
phobia about dehydration and always drank tons of water until one
day she overdid it.
\_ It is actually more common than people think. Hits folks who
hike in hot/dry areas and don't understand the dangers of too
much water.
\_ It's common (especially in hospitalized people), but unless
there's a specific reason it rarely makes it into the news.
\_ When one drinks that much water doesn't one just urinate
it back out? How much and how fast would one have to drink to
be in danger?
\_ It's not that hard to drink more than you can pee out;
it's not easy, but also not impossible. try it and see
(don't, obviously).
\_ The cause of death isn't explosion. The cause of death is
all that water flowing through your system leaches out
stuff from your system via osmosis. Peeing the water out
won't change that.
\_ More to the point it causes your body's sodium and
potassium to become too diluted, and that interferes with
nerve and muscle function.
\_ not exactly. osmosis causes the water you drink to
move INTO your cells. but the cause of death is cells
swelling up in your head, causing convulsions and other
nasty conditions like that. it also pushes your brain
through the one hole in your skull.
\_ maybe Michael Moore should have a documentary on how he prevented
suicidal people from drinking too much water.
\_ Mmm, dumbass, and you nuked two people's posts |
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