Not at all. They're used far more than guns are. We don't have a large segment of the world population going out to shoot their gun in public, mere feet away from innocent bystanders, 2 or more times per day every day of the week.
This is a big point. They could take bribes internationally without having to handle suitcases full of cash, it will revolutionize the business of political corruption.
and of course forcibly disregarding the lack of slaughter happening in Switzerland,
So I see your knowledge of gun ownership in Switzerland doesn't extend beyond a single statistic. Switzerland has gun control like an NRA member's LSD-fueled fever-nightmare. That's why there are so few gun deaths, not because they have some mythical "polite society" which as demonstrated by the nastiest parts of Kingston, Jamaica, doesn't spontaneously form in the presence of universal gun ownership.
Banning guns in the US will not work because US citizens want to have guns and will oppose such motions. It has nothing to do with the amount of guns (because if a gun is used when banned, it's confiscated, and if it's not, it's not a problem), but about attitudes about them. Which are also what cause the gun violence problem: cars are accessible to pretty much everyone, and any dumbass can take one through a crowd on a sidewalk and easily kill more people than even the most elite sniper, and things like the GTA series ensure this is public knowledge - yet car massacres don't happen (or at least aren't reported).
They happen, but aren't called "massacres" because it's nowhere near as easy to kill whole groups of people with them as depicted by the GTA series' cartoon physics:
Cars are not designed to be weapons, and more modern ones are even designed to reduce injury to pedestrians they hit. They're just not very good for killing people.
I like to give people who are afraid of or uninterested in "risky" activities a pass, they don't have to prove anything.
Until they call people who do such activities "stupid." Then they're being just as dickish as if we said they had no balls. So the point is don't sink to that level.
People doing dumb things always skew the average downwards, the less idiotproof the activity the greater the skew. The stats on riding a motorcycle suffer heavily from this effect.
That's probably a good way to do it. Have the countries that signed the previous treaty agree to something like a "land rush" on the moon. Divide it up into many lots big enough for any space station, and any private entity that gets there can claim one. Rules would have to be strict to prevent a ton of adjacent lots from getting Disney'd in corporate shell games though.
We wouldn't have to stop using fossil fuels quickly and entirely to be on a good path to solving global warming. Fusion and photovoltaics could eliminate the need for fossil fuels to power the electrical grid, and by extension, to power most cars. That would only leave aircraft, rail and trucking, and a few super-polluting supertankers & other large ships.
Between the jellyfish blooms and this...things are looking much worse all the sudden. I'm not even getting into the various "superstorms" yet.
A risky idea that might get us out of this is to dump lots of money into a "manhattan project" for fusion power and photovoltaics. Advances in those fields could solve global warming quite easily.
Mod parent up. I don't see why so many geeks are like this. There are so many lucrative and technically fascinating things I could have done but didn't because they'd make the world a worse place. But most geeks sign up to help Facebook, DARPA & the MIC, the NSA without a second thought.
Some even lose any sense of morality and openly declare that they don't give a fuck because they're making so much sweet sexy money (standard MIC employee response).
I guess the sad truth is that geeks are just as likely to be horrible shitsacks as anybody else:-(
I wonder if it would be possible to get tattooed with something that could have its color changed externally somehow (magnetic fields, RFID signals, specific light wavelengths?) so that you could dynamically create different patterns on your face and clear them when you want to.
And yet if you try to sign in with no cert, which is worse, there's no warning. Slashdot was such a site until recently. Some other forums I'm on still use plaintext logins. So why give the DANGER WILL ROBINSON! warning with a self-signed cert and act like nothing's wrong if there's no cert?
Without some kind of content-aware AI there will be no way to give warnings appropriately. Right now we rely on user knowledge to know when to check for a trusted cert. We'd be doing the same if browsers accepted self-signed certs with no warning. So why not do that?
Well just as now, you should make sure the site uses a trusted cert (through a CA or otherwise) before sending sensitive info. You don't send important logins or credit card info over plain HTTP now do you?
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Not at all. They're used far more than guns are. We don't have a large segment of the world population going out to shoot their gun in public, mere feet away from innocent bystanders, 2 or more times per day every day of the week.
Somalia's is contained within a few blocks inside the capital, you can live outside the government-controlled area.
This is a big point. They could take bribes internationally without having to handle suitcases full of cash, it will revolutionize the business of political corruption.
Sarah Palin only said it in a wink-wink-nudge-nudge way, and he's a she:
https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2010/11/does-palin-want-to-whack-assange/
It would have to be exactly this big:
http://siliconangle.com/files/2013/05/liberator-gun-forbes.jpg
(Pictured next to a giant asshole for scale).
Yep there are pics of that floating around online...dude was blown open at the waist like Elmer Fudd's shotgun.
and of course forcibly disregarding the lack of slaughter happening in Switzerland,
So I see your knowledge of gun ownership in Switzerland doesn't extend beyond a single statistic. Switzerland has gun control like an NRA member's LSD-fueled fever-nightmare. That's why there are so few gun deaths, not because they have some mythical "polite society" which as demonstrated by the nastiest parts of Kingston, Jamaica, doesn't spontaneously form in the presence of universal gun ownership.
Banning guns in the US will not work because US citizens want to have guns and will oppose such motions. It has nothing to do with the amount of guns (because if a gun is used when banned, it's confiscated, and if it's not, it's not a problem), but about attitudes about them. Which are also what cause the gun violence problem: cars are accessible to pretty much everyone, and any dumbass can take one through a crowd on a sidewalk and easily kill more people than even the most elite sniper, and things like the GTA series ensure this is public knowledge - yet car massacres don't happen (or at least aren't reported).
They happen, but aren't called "massacres" because it's nowhere near as easy to kill whole groups of people with them as depicted by the GTA series' cartoon physics:
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/mystery-surrounds-venice-beach-boardwalk-attack-article-1.1418621
Cars are not designed to be weapons, and more modern ones are even designed to reduce injury to pedestrians they hit. They're just not very good for killing people.
Wow, that video really shows you how a canopy drops like a rock in a turn...
I like to give people who are afraid of or uninterested in "risky" activities a pass, they don't have to prove anything.
Until they call people who do such activities "stupid." Then they're being just as dickish as if we said they had no balls. So the point is don't sink to that level.
People doing dumb things always skew the average downwards, the less idiotproof the activity the greater the skew. The stats on riding a motorcycle suffer heavily from this effect.
One word: Tablejob.
I was trying not to be ageist... :-P
This is the problem. They've decided that safe driving is smooth driving with no sudden accelerations, decelerations or quick turns.
You know who drives like that? All those awful oblivious drivers who everyone else is dodging. And the people doing the dodging look like maniacs.
That's probably a good way to do it. Have the countries that signed the previous treaty agree to something like a "land rush" on the moon. Divide it up into many lots big enough for any space station, and any private entity that gets there can claim one. Rules would have to be strict to prevent a ton of adjacent lots from getting Disney'd in corporate shell games though.
...EVE Online.
We wouldn't have to stop using fossil fuels quickly and entirely to be on a good path to solving global warming. Fusion and photovoltaics could eliminate the need for fossil fuels to power the electrical grid, and by extension, to power most cars. That would only leave aircraft, rail and trucking, and a few super-polluting supertankers & other large ships.
HAHAHAHAHA Yes this is so perfect! It just keeps getting better and better!" - Bin Laden's ghost
Between the jellyfish blooms and this...things are looking much worse all the sudden. I'm not even getting into the various "superstorms" yet.
A risky idea that might get us out of this is to dump lots of money into a "manhattan project" for fusion power and photovoltaics. Advances in those fields could solve global warming quite easily.
Straight to ad-hominems huh?
Well I would like important laws to take twice as much effort to repeal. I think there were similar ideas behind the concept of a constitution.
If only politics were so simple...
Mod parent up. I don't see why so many geeks are like this. There are so many lucrative and technically fascinating things I could have done but didn't because they'd make the world a worse place. But most geeks sign up to help Facebook, DARPA & the MIC, the NSA without a second thought.
Some even lose any sense of morality and openly declare that they don't give a fuck because they're making so much sweet sexy money (standard MIC employee response).
I guess the sad truth is that geeks are just as likely to be horrible shitsacks as anybody else :-(
I wonder if it would be possible to get tattooed with something that could have its color changed externally somehow (magnetic fields, RFID signals, specific light wavelengths?) so that you could dynamically create different patterns on your face and clear them when you want to.
And yet if you try to sign in with no cert, which is worse, there's no warning. Slashdot was such a site until recently. Some other forums I'm on still use plaintext logins. So why give the DANGER WILL ROBINSON! warning with a self-signed cert and act like nothing's wrong if there's no cert?
Without some kind of content-aware AI there will be no way to give warnings appropriately. Right now we rely on user knowledge to know when to check for a trusted cert. We'd be doing the same if browsers accepted self-signed certs with no warning. So why not do that?
Well just as now, you should make sure the site uses a trusted cert (through a CA or otherwise) before sending sensitive info. You don't send important logins or credit card info over plain HTTP now do you?