Firearms are only as dangerous as the individual owning/using them. They don't magically load themselves and fire randomly at people. The situations you describe are pure negligence. Firearms aren't toys and kids shouldn't be playing with them. If you have firearms in a house with kids and don't keep them locked up they will find them and are naturally curious. As far as mishandling or misusing a firearm that is again negligence. Why people feel the need to waive them around, show them off, point them at things they don't intend to shoot, etc is beyond me
In general I don't believe in accidental gun injuries/deaths. Most of the time it is negligence. Far too many people seem to think of a gun as a toy or as an extension of their cock and treat them as such. A couple of times a year I see a story in the paper about someone who shot themselves in the foot, leg, gut, chest, their spouse, etc while cleaning their gun which I never understand how it happens. Toss in the idiots that keep a loaded gun in the night stand that their kids find and you probably have most cases of "accidental" shootings. In all of these cases it was negligent storage or handling of the firearm which caused that accident. Accidental shootings also don't seem to happen at gun ranges either as they strictly enforce the rules for proper handling firearms and kick out those who are reckless, careless, or negligent in their handling or use of a firearm.
The real answer is the egg. Given how evolution works the first what we would call a modern chicken would have come from an egg. Previous to that egg was not modern chickens. Of course this supposes evolution is real, if you believe in creationism then the chicken came first as the bible clearly states that god created the animals.
If most people sleep in on Sundays then why is it if I go to the grocery store during church hours (9 a.m. to about noon) on a Sunday they are basically empty but on any other day there are always substantially more people.
So long as I can carry a sign and yell back at them I will take their speech over the ability to shut it down. Personally I like being able to criticize religion especially ones as marginal and defective as the WBC, Scientology, the Railains, etc.
I can play that game to with a much less offensive example. Lets say I create a site that advocates that white people (or pick your favorite ethnic group) are superior to all others and as such should be the only ones allowed to run things. More common instances of restricted speech in Europe are the various Holocaust deniers. While their ideas are patently false should only truthful information be allowed on the internet?
While in principal I agree with you I am not sure what group, country or organization I would trust to not screw it up more. I would trust myself, but then why would anyone else trust me to be internet dictator.
As I don't know the laws in those countries but am aware of some of the laws in some of the EU countries would I be able to to create the following site:
One the proclaims that Adolph Hitler was right and drums up support for white power groups
One the advocates kill whitey
One that insists that homosexuals need to punished and removed from society because of their deviant ways
One that insists that everyone either convert to Islam of be the victim of jihad
One that seeks to ban minaret
One that promotes Anders Breivik's actions and ideals
One that hosts renderings of the Prophet Mohammad
One that states that the King of Myanmar likes to screw pigs while sodomizing himself with a candelabra
Like it or not these are currently allowable but I would bet a number of other countries, even in the EU, that would seek to ban one or more of these not to mention what other countries would like to ban from the above list.
Personally I wouldn't want Germany in control of it either, as well as a host of other countries with various "hate speech" laws. Now these countries are less scary than China, Russia, Iran, and Saudi Arabia and may actually not bar speech you agree with but the result would be much the same. Given some of the laws that various US states and the US Federal Government are currently passing they may very well be a better choice but at the moment speech seems to be better protected by the US government.
I have used similar techniques to evade the auto filters as it is much easier to explain in an interview to people who understand technology than to get a HR drone to understand what you are talking about. My last job used an entirely proprietary IDE, language, and DB that was developed in house. The language was a variant of object pascal that they had created. Once I started describing it as a VB like language I started getting brought in for interviews. There I could sit with real people and explain that it was a proprietary language loosely based off of object pascal and shared a number of similarities with VB in the area of UI events who could understand what I was talking about and was actually able to learn and understand things.
Getting your resume in front of the right people is probably the best way to get a job which is how I got my internship that I had for a few summers. The company my future father-in-law worked for was looking for some interns to port some old HP-IB (HP Instrument Basic) code to VB and C/C++ to run on the brand new NT 4.0 machines with a new/different controller card. He helped me write a resume and then dropped in the correct basket. The 2 summers I had that internship I learned more than I did in most of my college career as I was writing code to run the big HP robotic equipment for testing semi conductor wafers. It was about 2 weeks into the first summer when my manager asked me how I heard about the position and found out that it was through her boss 2 levels up. I got it on my own merits as I interviewed with her and one of the other people in the department, but I did get a bit of ribbing for dating the bosses daughter.
That requires that the HR drone actually do critical thinking. At my last job I did a number of interviews (it was a small company) and I loved interviewing new candidates. I wouldn't ask them trivia questions about programming languages or OSes but would pose a problem to them and let them work through it on the white board. I wanted to see them think and how they went through the though process most of the time I didn't care if they got to the correct answer in 10-15 minutes I had for this. After a while I would go over what they had with them discussing specific things. I really got a feel for their ability to try things out and how open to new ideas or approaches they were. I did discover that how people look on paper and perform in real life can vary greatly. The worst candidate was one who stated that they never covered this problem in school and couldn't give an answer. When prodded and even told that I didn't care about the answer but wanted to see them work through something they still gave me the same response. At that point I decided the interview was over as this person didn't want to think.
Sounds similar to my last job but I was asked what it would take to keep me. My former boss though long and hard for the next day but eventually couldn't match pay that I wanted to keep working there. I was asking more than my new job started me at which was still substantially higher than what I was being paid but to stay and continue using their proprietary IDE, language, and DB which the rest of my skills went stale would have take a substantial amount of money.
Sounds like one of the offers I recently got except it wasn't a contract position. It offered almost 2x the pay, but I would have to move from the midwest and go live in the D.C. area which would wipe out all of the pay increase and probably then some. Also I would have to live in the D.C. area which is not something I want to do given what I would have to give up. I have a reasonable sized house on a.5 acre plot that backs up to a nice city park. I have good public schools in the area that are part of the highest ranked district in the state. I have plenty of outdoor activities available to me within a reasonable drive, including fishing, camping, all sorts of hunting opportunities and just about any other out door activity one would want to do. I have a fairly specialized skill set which has a fair amount of demand so I regularly get offers and when I turn them down I let them know why.
Sounds about right. If you can make it past them you are doing well. How about they actually understand what skill set is required. In the early 2000s (01 and 02) I saw tons of postings requiring 10+ years of Java experience. I also see an awful lot of low ball offers where they expect some retarded long list of X years experience with obscure program Y, certifications, and other stuff but pays in the mid $30k.
The requirements that they ask for always seem retarded. I think that is mostly driven by HR as a way to filter people without understanding. An IT manager comes and says we need a senior X person with these skills (pick appropriate subset). The HR drone assumes that means we need someone with 5, 8, or 10+ years experience with new technology Y. I saw similar things back in the early 2000s where they were looking for people with 10+ years of Java experience. Part of me does wonder if this is one of those tactics they use to show that there aren't qualified personnel in the US that can do the job so they need to import some workers for it.
To be fair the Saiga is really a scary (or cool depending on your perspective) looking shotgun. Although the Saiga being prohibited may have more to do with the detachable mag and mag capacity.
The media likes to cover wars, especially ones against people who don't look like us as it gives them better ratings. As I don't have cable I don't know whether CNN was for or against Bush. The few times I have seen cable news (on business trips) CNN seemed to be by far the best one to watch, as I would rather go slam my heat in a car door than watch Fox News or MSNBC. I have watched both of them a couple of times and I it was painful. My ideal preference would be to watch BBC World but that seems to be a fairly rare find here in the US.
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Firearms are only as dangerous as the individual owning/using them. They don't magically load themselves and fire randomly at people. The situations you describe are pure negligence. Firearms aren't toys and kids shouldn't be playing with them. If you have firearms in a house with kids and don't keep them locked up they will find them and are naturally curious. As far as mishandling or misusing a firearm that is again negligence. Why people feel the need to waive them around, show them off, point them at things they don't intend to shoot, etc is beyond me
In general I don't believe in accidental gun injuries/deaths. Most of the time it is negligence. Far too many people seem to think of a gun as a toy or as an extension of their cock and treat them as such. A couple of times a year I see a story in the paper about someone who shot themselves in the foot, leg, gut, chest, their spouse, etc while cleaning their gun which I never understand how it happens. Toss in the idiots that keep a loaded gun in the night stand that their kids find and you probably have most cases of "accidental" shootings. In all of these cases it was negligent storage or handling of the firearm which caused that accident. Accidental shootings also don't seem to happen at gun ranges either as they strictly enforce the rules for proper handling firearms and kick out those who are reckless, careless, or negligent in their handling or use of a firearm.
The real answer is the egg. Given how evolution works the first what we would call a modern chicken would have come from an egg. Previous to that egg was not modern chickens. Of course this supposes evolution is real, if you believe in creationism then the chicken came first as the bible clearly states that god created the animals.
If most people sleep in on Sundays then why is it if I go to the grocery store during church hours (9 a.m. to about noon) on a Sunday they are basically empty but on any other day there are always substantially more people.
Hey mayonnaise on fries is awesome.
This is truly an insightful comment, if I only had mod points today.
So long as I can carry a sign and yell back at them I will take their speech over the ability to shut it down. Personally I like being able to criticize religion especially ones as marginal and defective as the WBC, Scientology, the Railains, etc.
I can play that game to with a much less offensive example. Lets say I create a site that advocates that white people (or pick your favorite ethnic group) are superior to all others and as such should be the only ones allowed to run things. More common instances of restricted speech in Europe are the various Holocaust deniers. While their ideas are patently false should only truthful information be allowed on the internet?
While in principal I agree with you I am not sure what group, country or organization I would trust to not screw it up more. I would trust myself, but then why would anyone else trust me to be internet dictator.
I need to sign that one, but I will probably get put on the do not fly list and taken off of the do not call list.
As I don't know the laws in those countries but am aware of some of the laws in some of the EU countries would I be able to to create the following site:
One the proclaims that Adolph Hitler was right and drums up support for white power groups
One the advocates kill whitey
One that insists that homosexuals need to punished and removed from society because of their deviant ways
One that insists that everyone either convert to Islam of be the victim of jihad
One that seeks to ban minaret
One that promotes Anders Breivik's actions and ideals
One that hosts renderings of the Prophet Mohammad
One that states that the King of Myanmar likes to screw pigs while sodomizing himself with a candelabra
Like it or not these are currently allowable but I would bet a number of other countries, even in the EU, that would seek to ban one or more of these not to mention what other countries would like to ban from the above list.
Personally I wouldn't want Germany in control of it either, as well as a host of other countries with various "hate speech" laws. Now these countries are less scary than China, Russia, Iran, and Saudi Arabia and may actually not bar speech you agree with but the result would be much the same. Given some of the laws that various US states and the US Federal Government are currently passing they may very well be a better choice but at the moment speech seems to be better protected by the US government.
Despite some claiming that this is bunk there is actually truth there. It would appear that there was a large number of documents released in 1994 that confirmed the stories locals (like my mother) had been telling people. I wish I knew where to find those US Army documents as they would be a great addition to the news paper articles I found with a quick Google search. If you are going to make claims like the parents you had better be able to back them up with sources:
Operation LAC
Operation Dew
Army test Sprayed chemical over the city in 1950s
Biological warfare tests near Corpus Christi safe, Army says
THE ARMY'S SMOKE SCREEN
Outstate spraying
Fear the day when this changes from banks recovering their transaction costs to a profit center.
That day has already come.
Yes there would.
I have used similar techniques to evade the auto filters as it is much easier to explain in an interview to people who understand technology than to get a HR drone to understand what you are talking about. My last job used an entirely proprietary IDE, language, and DB that was developed in house. The language was a variant of object pascal that they had created. Once I started describing it as a VB like language I started getting brought in for interviews. There I could sit with real people and explain that it was a proprietary language loosely based off of object pascal and shared a number of similarities with VB in the area of UI events who could understand what I was talking about and was actually able to learn and understand things.
Getting your resume in front of the right people is probably the best way to get a job which is how I got my internship that I had for a few summers. The company my future father-in-law worked for was looking for some interns to port some old HP-IB (HP Instrument Basic) code to VB and C/C++ to run on the brand new NT 4.0 machines with a new/different controller card. He helped me write a resume and then dropped in the correct basket. The 2 summers I had that internship I learned more than I did in most of my college career as I was writing code to run the big HP robotic equipment for testing semi conductor wafers. It was about 2 weeks into the first summer when my manager asked me how I heard about the position and found out that it was through her boss 2 levels up. I got it on my own merits as I interviewed with her and one of the other people in the department, but I did get a bit of ribbing for dating the bosses daughter.
best car analogy of the day.
That requires that the HR drone actually do critical thinking. At my last job I did a number of interviews (it was a small company) and I loved interviewing new candidates. I wouldn't ask them trivia questions about programming languages or OSes but would pose a problem to them and let them work through it on the white board. I wanted to see them think and how they went through the though process most of the time I didn't care if they got to the correct answer in 10-15 minutes I had for this. After a while I would go over what they had with them discussing specific things. I really got a feel for their ability to try things out and how open to new ideas or approaches they were. I did discover that how people look on paper and perform in real life can vary greatly. The worst candidate was one who stated that they never covered this problem in school and couldn't give an answer. When prodded and even told that I didn't care about the answer but wanted to see them work through something they still gave me the same response. At that point I decided the interview was over as this person didn't want to think.
Sounds similar to my last job but I was asked what it would take to keep me. My former boss though long and hard for the next day but eventually couldn't match pay that I wanted to keep working there. I was asking more than my new job started me at which was still substantially higher than what I was being paid but to stay and continue using their proprietary IDE, language, and DB which the rest of my skills went stale would have take a substantial amount of money.
Sounds like one of the offers I recently got except it wasn't a contract position. It offered almost 2x the pay, but I would have to move from the midwest and go live in the D.C. area which would wipe out all of the pay increase and probably then some. Also I would have to live in the D.C. area which is not something I want to do given what I would have to give up. I have a reasonable sized house on a .5 acre plot that backs up to a nice city park. I have good public schools in the area that are part of the highest ranked district in the state. I have plenty of outdoor activities available to me within a reasonable drive, including fishing, camping, all sorts of hunting opportunities and just about any other out door activity one would want to do. I have a fairly specialized skill set which has a fair amount of demand so I regularly get offers and when I turn them down I let them know why.
Sounds about right. If you can make it past them you are doing well. How about they actually understand what skill set is required. In the early 2000s (01 and 02) I saw tons of postings requiring 10+ years of Java experience. I also see an awful lot of low ball offers where they expect some retarded long list of X years experience with obscure program Y, certifications, and other stuff but pays in the mid $30k.
The requirements that they ask for always seem retarded. I think that is mostly driven by HR as a way to filter people without understanding. An IT manager comes and says we need a senior X person with these skills (pick appropriate subset). The HR drone assumes that means we need someone with 5, 8, or 10+ years experience with new technology Y. I saw similar things back in the early 2000s where they were looking for people with 10+ years of Java experience. Part of me does wonder if this is one of those tactics they use to show that there aren't qualified personnel in the US that can do the job so they need to import some workers for it.
To be fair the Saiga is really a scary (or cool depending on your perspective) looking shotgun. Although the Saiga being prohibited may have more to do with the detachable mag and mag capacity.
Nah, they are just being honest /snarky
The media likes to cover wars, especially ones against people who don't look like us as it gives them better ratings. As I don't have cable I don't know whether CNN was for or against Bush. The few times I have seen cable news (on business trips) CNN seemed to be by far the best one to watch, as I would rather go slam my heat in a car door than watch Fox News or MSNBC. I have watched both of them a couple of times and I it was painful. My ideal preference would be to watch BBC World but that seems to be a fairly rare find here in the US.