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risk
Risk is the potential of gaining or losing something of value. Values (such as physical health, social status, emotional well-being, or financial wealth) can be gained or lost when taking risk resulting from a given action or inaction, foreseen or unforeseen (planned or not planned). Risk can also be defined as the intentional interaction with uncertainty. Uncertainty is a potential, unpredictable, and uncontrollable outcome; risk is a consequence of action taken in spite of uncertainty.
Risk perception is the subjective judgment people make about the severity and probability of a risk, and may vary person to person. Any human endeavour carries some risk, but some are much riskier than others.
Across the U.S., insurance companies are using aerial images of homes as a tool to ditch properties seen as higher risk.
Nearly every building in the country is being photographed, often without the owner's knowledge. Companies are deploying drones, manned airplanes and high-altitude balloons...
Worth a read into this. The videos at the end, may make one think a bit more in-depth of an outcome. Hurricane Katrina (for one) comes to mind.
This may have already gotten posted?
Ive never been a small game hunter but my friend who owns a ranch wants me to come out an eradicate a rabbit problem. These are all wild rabbits, western Oregon. He killed one recently and mentioned it was clean of ticks and fleas and in great condition. The only thing Ive ever heard to do was...
I am a huge fan of the .41 Magnum, and I do have a few. This one is my particular favourite.
I bought this one new sometime in the mid-80's (?) after seeing the ad in the old Shotgun News before it became a glossy magazine.
It's a Limited Edition of 500 from the Lew Horton LE series.... an...
from the article:
So far, in Seattle, 18 extreme risk protection orders have been petitioned by police, and 37 weapons have been recovered. Of those incidents, about 60 percent were to prevent suicides, and about 40 percent were to prevent violence against others.
Seattle Mayor outlines plan...