I don't not live in a country where this is necessary, I would not want to live in a country were arming teachers is necessary and if it has become necessary to arm primary school teachers in the US with firearms that is quite frankly a very, very sad state of affairs.
The alternative is mandating everyone in a school be completely unarmed, and we have horrific school shootings where nobody is able to stop them. I want there to be no violence of any kind. But since that isn't going to happen, let's pick from one of the realistic alternatives. Unarmed and helpless schools, or trusted teachers with pistols. If there is another realistic alternative, i'm all ears.
I have heard this argument before and I don't buy it, you Americans have not cornered the market on fighting tyranny.
And yet America has a love and fascination with firearms unequaled in the developed world. Do you have an alternative explanation?
who are mentally unbalanced or professional criminals can very easily get a hold of guns.
...and gasoline, gunpowder, plans for explosives, and many other cheap and legal means to kill people. Solving gun violence doesn't solve violence.
I agree in general that more stringent rules for purchasing guns and being issued concealed carry permits would not be a bad thing. I don't think the required changes are likely to be made, but perhaps that is another argument. Looking at myself, not only do I have military training (as do millions of Americans), but I have had 4 concealed carry permits issued in 2 different states which means 4 background checks. I have a security clearance, and have had 3 intense background checks done, every 5 years. I have undergone a psychological test in order to work in a particularly sensitive unit. I have undergone a polygraph, during which they asked me questions to determine if I was a spy, a saboteur, and or a terrorist. I passed. I think I can be trusted to carry a gun at this point, and even carry one into a school. (I also think I can be trusted to carry a knife on a plane since the govt is convinced I am not a terrorist, but that is yet another argument). There are millions of Americans who have military or law enforcement training, security clearances, and clean backgrounds. I have heard some say, here and elsewhere, that only police should be able to buy guns, and I think that there are plenty of people like me that are in effect trustable, and at least these people should be able to have guns. I think that teachers that meet similar criteria (there are plenty of former military teachers) should be able to carry a concealed pistol to school. Allowing trusted citizens to carry pistols into schools, sporting events, etc (as well as allowing them to carry non-firearm weapons on planes) would help curb some of these types of rampage shootings where someone is able to kill multiple unarmed people.
On a separate note, I think America's very recent history of having a revolution and a dangerous frontier has made the personal firearm a part of our culture. So while much of Europe enjoys lower murder rates and fewer guns, our culture is just different and solutions that worked for Europe may not work for the US.
If you believe that bearing weapon is you constitutional right, fine. But please show me the paragraph where it says "any weapon of your choice, including weapons which were designed for warfare between military".
There are plenty of documents from the founding fathers writing about the Constitution that say pretty much exactly that. The intent of the 2nd amendment was to allow citizens to possess the same weapons the military has. I know many gun advocates that say citizens should have the right to own tanks, flame-throwers, chemical weapons, etc and whatever else is necessary to overthrow the military in the event a coup is required to take back the government from the hands of the oppressors. I'm not saying I agree, but there is ample supporting writing by the authors that the intent is to allow citizens to have the same weapons the military has.
No, see, the software in the gun knows it's being pointed at a child not because of the angle, but because we've chipped all our kids already by that point.
because smart people know guns are more harmful than they are helpful.
Maybe for stupids with no training. As a former Marine, I can tell you my having a gun is more helpful. I know when to use it, and when not to use it. I have restraint, situational awareness, compassion, and the determination to use it when necessary. I can retain my weapon when someone tries to take it and I have it well secured when not in use. Plenty of smart people own guns, unless you are defining smart people as people who agree with you.
Sure, sure. I suppose a hideous, yet incredibly well-made tablet would fly off the shelves. Apple's products are made to be beautiful, and their boxes, packaging, ads, and stores all highlight that. The vast majority of their customers know nothing about quality, nor anything about the specs of the devices they buy. They're drawn into the stores for the asthetics, not because they've researched build quality of multiple manufacturers. Apple's success has everything to do with being shiny.
Burger King employees like you are not the real demographic that any manufacturer is aiming for
I guess my having a different opinion about electronic devices means you can insult me. I can play this game. I actually make quite a good living, thankyouverymuch. Doesn't mean I want to spend 3 grand on a laptop for no good reason other than to impress self-important fucks like yourself sitting next to me at Starbucks. Maybe if you had a job in manual labor, like in a place like burger King, you would learn the value of a dollar and wouldn't blow perfectly good money on over-priced shiny status symbols. This is fun!
You can keep your Apple products if you like getting something twice as good for only 4 times the price. For a device I may only use 1-2 years, I don't need it to be rugged, beautiful, sexy, or magical. I need it to be functional and inexpensive.
They don't mention if it's a touchscreen, that would be the only advantage.
Uh, yeah. It's a non-touch screen tablet. Basically a thousand-dollar hand-held monitor with no built-in interface except for the power button and volume control. It's amazing it took this long for someone to come up with the idea.
I don't think Unity has many fans when it comes to desktops and laptops. But tablets and netbooks? Yeah, I can see that. I don't like Canonical forcing a tablet OS on the desktop (and I like it even less when Microsoft does it). But moving a touch-based tablet OS onto a phone sort of makes sense. Perhaps we'll see the day when Ubuntu is nothing more than a tablet and phone OS and we'll all laugh when we think about the days we used it on the desktop.
At the time, I considered 2010 to be the year of the Linux phone, and had a signature that said such. From the beginning of the year to the end, there was a huge rise in numbers of available handsets running Android and proportion of users using Android compared to iOS and other OSs. 2010 also saw phones running Android 1.5-1.6 (which is terrible in retrospect) in the beginning to 2.3 (which is decent and still widely used) at the end. It was a rather impressive evolution in a single year. I'd love to see another popular Linux distro on the phone that could actually compete in the marketspace. Maybe this will be it. But we've already seen the year of the Linux phone.
I work for the dept of defense, and this just makes me cringe. Mobility? That sounds great, except the only electronic devices allowed in cleared spaces are old-skool one-way pagers. And the Army has been looking into getting Android devices for troops. So much for that apparently. The latest OS? They better fucking not load Windows 8 on my desktop. I'd say I would do something drastic, but more likely I'll just cry myself to sleep. And more Sharepoint? We use Sharepoint at work, and everyone hates it. We're currently looking at finding a suitable replacement. I'm going to go get a drink.
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But, NO ONE who reads this site is ignorant of how pervasive Java is.
Tell me about it. I just started my first cup of coffee.
I wasn't sure if I like this until I used my Jump to Conclusions mat. I landed on GO WILD. Now I love it! What will they think of next?
A picture of a completed Lego Death Star with the single word caption -- Done!
I would think a banner reading Mission Accomplished would be more appropriate.
If you like bad franchises that just won't stop, Police Academy 8 [imdb.com] is currently in development.
What about A Good Day to Die Hard? I understand that John McClane discovers at the end that he's been dead the whole time.
More like tugging on Superman's cape.
Perhaps you are referring to fully-automatic weapons? Semi-automatic assault rifle style weapons are incredibly easy to purchase throughout the US.
But what basement-dwelling neck beard can afford 17k for a rifle? Linux is supposed to be free!
I don't not live in a country where this is necessary, I would not want to live in a country were arming teachers is necessary and if it has become necessary to arm primary school teachers in the US with firearms that is quite frankly a very, very sad state of affairs.
The alternative is mandating everyone in a school be completely unarmed, and we have horrific school shootings where nobody is able to stop them. I want there to be no violence of any kind. But since that isn't going to happen, let's pick from one of the realistic alternatives. Unarmed and helpless schools, or trusted teachers with pistols. If there is another realistic alternative, i'm all ears.
I have heard this argument before and I don't buy it, you Americans have not cornered the market on fighting tyranny.
And yet America has a love and fascination with firearms unequaled in the developed world. Do you have an alternative explanation?
who are mentally unbalanced or professional criminals can very easily get a hold of guns.
...and gasoline, gunpowder, plans for explosives, and many other cheap and legal means to kill people. Solving gun violence doesn't solve violence. I agree in general that more stringent rules for purchasing guns and being issued concealed carry permits would not be a bad thing. I don't think the required changes are likely to be made, but perhaps that is another argument. Looking at myself, not only do I have military training (as do millions of Americans), but I have had 4 concealed carry permits issued in 2 different states which means 4 background checks. I have a security clearance, and have had 3 intense background checks done, every 5 years. I have undergone a psychological test in order to work in a particularly sensitive unit. I have undergone a polygraph, during which they asked me questions to determine if I was a spy, a saboteur, and or a terrorist. I passed. I think I can be trusted to carry a gun at this point, and even carry one into a school. (I also think I can be trusted to carry a knife on a plane since the govt is convinced I am not a terrorist, but that is yet another argument). There are millions of Americans who have military or law enforcement training, security clearances, and clean backgrounds. I have heard some say, here and elsewhere, that only police should be able to buy guns, and I think that there are plenty of people like me that are in effect trustable, and at least these people should be able to have guns. I think that teachers that meet similar criteria (there are plenty of former military teachers) should be able to carry a concealed pistol to school. Allowing trusted citizens to carry pistols into schools, sporting events, etc (as well as allowing them to carry non-firearm weapons on planes) would help curb some of these types of rampage shootings where someone is able to kill multiple unarmed people.
On a separate note, I think America's very recent history of having a revolution and a dangerous frontier has made the personal firearm a part of our culture. So while much of Europe enjoys lower murder rates and fewer guns, our culture is just different and solutions that worked for Europe may not work for the US.
If you believe that bearing weapon is you constitutional right, fine. But please show me the paragraph where it says "any weapon of your choice, including weapons which were designed for warfare between military".
There are plenty of documents from the founding fathers writing about the Constitution that say pretty much exactly that. The intent of the 2nd amendment was to allow citizens to possess the same weapons the military has. I know many gun advocates that say citizens should have the right to own tanks, flame-throwers, chemical weapons, etc and whatever else is necessary to overthrow the military in the event a coup is required to take back the government from the hands of the oppressors. I'm not saying I agree, but there is ample supporting writing by the authors that the intent is to allow citizens to have the same weapons the military has.
No, see, the software in the gun knows it's being pointed at a child not because of the angle, but because we've chipped all our kids already by that point.
because smart people know guns are more harmful than they are helpful.
Maybe for stupids with no training. As a former Marine, I can tell you my having a gun is more helpful. I know when to use it, and when not to use it. I have restraint, situational awareness, compassion, and the determination to use it when necessary. I can retain my weapon when someone tries to take it and I have it well secured when not in use. Plenty of smart people own guns, unless you are defining smart people as people who agree with you.
Time flies like an arrow. Carrion flies like a carcass.
But it's not technically allowed. But everyone does it.
Sure, sure. I suppose a hideous, yet incredibly well-made tablet would fly off the shelves. Apple's products are made to be beautiful, and their boxes, packaging, ads, and stores all highlight that. The vast majority of their customers know nothing about quality, nor anything about the specs of the devices they buy. They're drawn into the stores for the asthetics, not because they've researched build quality of multiple manufacturers. Apple's success has everything to do with being shiny.
Burger King employees like you are not the real demographic that any manufacturer is aiming for
I guess my having a different opinion about electronic devices means you can insult me. I can play this game. I actually make quite a good living, thankyouverymuch. Doesn't mean I want to spend 3 grand on a laptop for no good reason other than to impress self-important fucks like yourself sitting next to me at Starbucks. Maybe if you had a job in manual labor, like in a place like burger King, you would learn the value of a dollar and wouldn't blow perfectly good money on over-priced shiny status symbols. This is fun!
You can keep your Apple products if you like getting something twice as good for only 4 times the price. For a device I may only use 1-2 years, I don't need it to be rugged, beautiful, sexy, or magical. I need it to be functional and inexpensive.
Battery Life Storage Windows 8
Is that a new version of Windows 8? It's so hard to keep track of all the different versions.
They don't mention if it's a touchscreen, that would be the only advantage.
Uh, yeah. It's a non-touch screen tablet. Basically a thousand-dollar hand-held monitor with no built-in interface except for the power button and volume control. It's amazing it took this long for someone to come up with the idea.
Nice sig. Must be nice to have a monopoly on all the right opinions.
I don't think Unity has many fans when it comes to desktops and laptops. But tablets and netbooks? Yeah, I can see that. I don't like Canonical forcing a tablet OS on the desktop (and I like it even less when Microsoft does it). But moving a touch-based tablet OS onto a phone sort of makes sense. Perhaps we'll see the day when Ubuntu is nothing more than a tablet and phone OS and we'll all laugh when we think about the days we used it on the desktop.
At the time, I considered 2010 to be the year of the Linux phone, and had a signature that said such. From the beginning of the year to the end, there was a huge rise in numbers of available handsets running Android and proportion of users using Android compared to iOS and other OSs. 2010 also saw phones running Android 1.5-1.6 (which is terrible in retrospect) in the beginning to 2.3 (which is decent and still widely used) at the end. It was a rather impressive evolution in a single year. I'd love to see another popular Linux distro on the phone that could actually compete in the marketspace. Maybe this will be it. But we've already seen the year of the Linux phone.
Feel free to use it without attribution. I came up with it myself, but I don't think it's so creative that no one else could have.
Yeah, like there's only one troll story a day. You must not check very often.
I work for the dept of defense, and this just makes me cringe. Mobility? That sounds great, except the only electronic devices allowed in cleared spaces are old-skool one-way pagers. And the Army has been looking into getting Android devices for troops. So much for that apparently. The latest OS? They better fucking not load Windows 8 on my desktop. I'd say I would do something drastic, but more likely I'll just cry myself to sleep. And more Sharepoint? We use Sharepoint at work, and everyone hates it. We're currently looking at finding a suitable replacement. I'm going to go get a drink.