Except most people shot in the US are contained in pockets of festering inter-generational poverty. Account for that variable and the US is just as safe as Europe if not more so.
The organized mass shootings in France are notable for their level of organization and the fact that they weren't limited to impoverished housing estates.
For Slashdot reader, the danger of being shot is the same in the US as it is in Europe. Any hysteria to the contrary is just people allowing themselves to fall prey to media propaganda.
In one incident, France managed to instantly catch up to all of the recent shootings that the media actually cares about in the US.
If anything, the prospect of well organized mass shootings and suicide bombers makes France FAR more dangerous to the average Slashdot reader.
>> 1. You assume a ban on guns means criminals will have fewer guns to commit violence with. > > This is an assumption, but is a reasonable one to make
Seriously. You must be joking. Our "war on drugs" is probably older than you are and just as effective. If we can't keep one form of contraband out, what makes you think that we can keep out another?
SSDs are already viable for the "I don't really use much" use case. They have been for awhile. Those of us that don't fall into the "I don't really use much" use case are still not impressed as many of us are hard pressed to be satisfied with what spinning rust still offers. This includes capacity as well as price.
SSDs are still expensive and small and vaporware is just that.
There's been similar vaporware for spinning rust too.
> Except for the fact they they don't fucking work
Sure they do. You're lucky enough to be healthy enough to have no real experience with this. Otherwise you would be singing a different tune.
Market based solutions are perhaps not as efficient as they should but but there really don't seem to be any alternatives. The socialist nations aren't exactly leading the way here. It seems to be left to greedy assholes.
It depends on the quality of the build scripts really.
It's like the software quality of ANYTHING. Either the developers decided to put in the time to make the software robust and reasonably easy to use or they didn't.
The fact that you might have to type some bog standard commands that haven't changed in 20 years is really not the issue.
The Russians had a single unified ICBM effort and they decided to just "put a cherry on top" as it were. American leadership was much less in a panic about it than the general public. Eisenhower also liked the idea of setting the precedent of allowing sat overflights as the US was priming to put up spy satellites.
...and even if he unilaterally enacts a regulation, or one of his subordinates enacts a regulation, good luck getting that enforced as the other party and offended corporate interests will descend and object in a variety of ways.
...and another thing: the kid also has to have a cause of action for his lawsuit. You aren't just limited by the laws of physics when it comes to being an environmental crusader. You are also limited by the laws of man.
...and even then, you can only do what's feasible. "Environmentalists" really get nasty when you rain on their parade with things like facts. If you have (or are getting) a STEM degree, you are likely to get shunned. They don't even like people with a proper science or engineering background at the EPA.
People with an agenda don't want to be bothered with pesky issues like reality.
Plus not everyone is interested in using their PC as an expression of how much money they have to waste (or rather don't). Some people just view the PC as a tool to get shit done. As long as it gets shit done, it doesn't matter how fancy it is or whether or not it can impress some random loser you've never met and never will.
I would never trust a "journalist" that isn't willing to open themselves up to public feedback. That is likely a sure sign that you are dealing with someone with an agenda who doesn't want inconvenient facts to interfere with their chosen narrative. They probably don't even acknowledge the autonomy of their own staff.
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Except most people shot in the US are contained in pockets of festering inter-generational poverty. Account for that variable and the US is just as safe as Europe if not more so.
The organized mass shootings in France are notable for their level of organization and the fact that they weren't limited to impoverished housing estates.
For Slashdot reader, the danger of being shot is the same in the US as it is in Europe. Any hysteria to the contrary is just people allowing themselves to fall prey to media propaganda.
In one incident, France managed to instantly catch up to all of the recent shootings that the media actually cares about in the US.
If anything, the prospect of well organized mass shootings and suicide bombers makes France FAR more dangerous to the average Slashdot reader.
Such a great respect for the rule of law you have there. [/sarc]
Just the kind of people we want setting public policy and giving over militarized cops a monopoly on firearms.
>> 1. You assume a ban on guns means criminals will have fewer guns to commit violence with.
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> This is an assumption, but is a reasonable one to make
Seriously. You must be joking. Our "war on drugs" is probably older than you are and just as effective. If we can't keep one form of contraband out, what makes you think that we can keep out another?
Yeah, that's probably because everyone who's carrying already has a high risk of getting shot. That's why they've chosen to arm themselves.
"long gun" is still far to vague to be terribly informative.
A 256G drive won't even hold my Steam folder and I'm a Linux user.
SSDs are already viable for the "I don't really use much" use case. They have been for awhile. Those of us that don't fall into the "I don't really use much" use case are still not impressed as many of us are hard pressed to be satisfied with what spinning rust still offers. This includes capacity as well as price.
SSDs are still expensive and small and vaporware is just that.
There's been similar vaporware for spinning rust too.
> Except for the fact they they don't fucking work
Sure they do. You're lucky enough to be healthy enough to have no real experience with this. Otherwise you would be singing a different tune.
Market based solutions are perhaps not as efficient as they should but but there really don't seem to be any alternatives. The socialist nations aren't exactly leading the way here. It seems to be left to greedy assholes.
> Oh yeah totally doable for non comp.sci majors.
It depends on the quality of the build scripts really.
It's like the software quality of ANYTHING. Either the developers decided to put in the time to make the software robust and reasonably easy to use or they didn't.
The fact that you might have to type some bog standard commands that haven't changed in 20 years is really not the issue.
Sputnik in fact was an AFTERTHOUGHT.
The Russians had a single unified ICBM effort and they decided to just "put a cherry on top" as it were. American leadership was much less in a panic about it than the general public. Eisenhower also liked the idea of setting the precedent of allowing sat overflights as the US was priming to put up spy satellites.
...and even if he unilaterally enacts a regulation, or one of his subordinates enacts a regulation, good luck getting that enforced as the other party and offended corporate interests will descend and object in a variety of ways.
...and another thing: the kid also has to have a cause of action for his lawsuit. You aren't just limited by the laws of physics when it comes to being an environmental crusader. You are also limited by the laws of man.
...and even then, you can only do what's feasible. "Environmentalists" really get nasty when you rain on their parade with things like facts. If you have (or are getting) a STEM degree, you are likely to get shunned. They don't even like people with a proper science or engineering background at the EPA.
People with an agenda don't want to be bothered with pesky issues like reality.
Plus not everyone is interested in using their PC as an expression of how much money they have to waste (or rather don't). Some people just view the PC as a tool to get shit done. As long as it gets shit done, it doesn't matter how fancy it is or whether or not it can impress some random loser you've never met and never will.
Neither of those overblown specs (SSD, 16G RAM) are required to yield a decent PC even if you are running Windows.
Cheap motherboards from the dawn of time quite often have 6 or 8 SATA ports. Even small tower cases tend to have space for plenty of drives.
> At what point do people need to take responsibility for their actions or words?
The point at which they actually do real harm.
A bunch of butthurt SJWs getting upset enough to form a lynch mob is not sufficient justification.
The irony here is that it's the SJWs that are out to do something resembling a real crime here.
Pants? What's to "design"? This isn't even a college level job. It's a midieval trade.
No. The problem is that you screwed with the defaults. If you did that on a Mac you would have the same problem for the same reason.
> Imagine giving an android tablet to your children. They would cry from disappointment...
If they really did that, they need to live with a hillbilly family for awhile and get a fucking grip.
I would never trust a "journalist" that isn't willing to open themselves up to public feedback. That is likely a sure sign that you are dealing with someone with an agenda who doesn't want inconvenient facts to interfere with their chosen narrative. They probably don't even acknowledge the autonomy of their own staff.
You mean a small minority of people that got fed up with the People's Republic of California?
There is a real Captain Kirk. The only thing keeping him from commanding the next Enterprise is the fact that he isn't an aviator.
...yes, but nobody tries to implement those.
We're talking about real tasks here, not parlour tricks.
Desktop Linux is fine. You just have to buy a different brand of graphics card.
"AMD drops the ball again"
Not really news.