Exactly. We should sue RIAA and MPAA for elebenty trillion dollars, using their own fucking up math, for all the works they've stolen from our public domain and for all the money they've charged for things that should be free.
Seeing that the doubling power in Moore's Law is seen in almost all technological progression, you're going to hear about it a lot more. Probably about twice as much every year or so.
Seconded. We had a single C64 in our third grade class room in 1984, and it was an amazing experience. We got classes on using BASIC, and had to write programs for it for homework (meaning, write it out with pencil and paper, then type it in the next day one student at a time into the one computer). We used C64s in school for several more years. In 7th grade, we had a computer lab and every student had one. Good times, good times.
That's not at all what happened. JFCOM wanted to show how its new tool, Operational Net Assessment (ONA), was awesome. They lost, badly. So they reran the exercise is such a way that they won, then congratulated themselves. Publicly. The exercise was touted as a success, despite the embarrassing defeat. And the tactics that van Ripen used, such as small boats swarming our ships, were ignored.
OK. I guess. But then they said they won, with no credit to Van Riper for beating them. They basically just reran the exercise with conditions that let them win, then declared themselves the winner. It's like the kid who makes up the rules as he goes along just so he can win. This wasn't about finding the right tactics that work.
Indeed. Also described in Gladwell's Blink. My wife actually worked in that exercise as an aide to Van Ripen and described things similarly then. At least we won the second round of the exercise when we cheated.
Wow, I just finished the article. Yeah, there were a few statistics in it. Very few. Almost the whole thing was anecdotal. Fucking terrible. The book I mentioned before has about 10,000 times the statistics to back up the claim of the title, no exaggeration.
Then again, about half of those were due to suicide. I see your article and raise you a book, "More Guns, Less Crime" by John R. Lott. It's worth the read.
Agree on all points. Additionally, crimes that were averted with the mere flashing or drawing of a weapon do not get reported either. A woman getting raped and beaten is newsworthy and sensationalist. A woman pulling a gun defensively on someone trying to rape her wouldn't even get reported to the news let alone aired; too common and boring. I carry concealed, as do many of my friends. One of them was approached by several hoodlums. My friend pulled his vest to the side to show his pistol, and they walked away. How many times this kind of nonviolent preemptive defensive use of a firearm occurs is anyone's guess.
I guess I can see the logic of letting students and teachers carry guns.... provided they're not nutzoid.
In most states, in order to get a concealed carry permit, one has to undergo a background check. Criminal backgrounds, diagnosis of psychosis, can all be reasons to deny a permit.
someone said if someone pulls out a handgun, take off running as most likely they will miss. Unless the shooter is trained to handle handguns, the way an untrained person fires the weapon, they will inadvertantly mis-aim when pulling the trigger
Many states also mandate firearms safety training, or proof of training such as military service.
I read someplace that significant number of people
What constitutes significant? Compared to automobile deaths?
shot are friends and family either from "moments of rage"
People also use knives and other weapons in "moments of rage." In fact, the most common implement used in stabbings is a screwdriver. If you are in a moment of rage to the point you are going to kill someone, the presence of a firearm will matter very little. You are going to use whatever is handy. And if you are the one about to be killed, a firearm may be the only thing that can save you. There are over 2,000,000 defensive uses of a firearm in the U.S. every year.
or "friendly fire" (mistaken identity).
Given how few people die from firearms each year, I can't imagine this being that many. Perhaps it is a significant proportion of accidental shootings.
The statistics are clear here: guns save lives. Arguments to the contrary are based on emotion, hearsay, conjecture, and fearmongering.
Yeah, and I read it as Self-Directed DC Loquacious Comic Explained, but that's my problem. Seriously, I don't care about everyone's reading comprehension and/or spelling problems.
These magnets come with clear warnings not to let kids eat them as they may become attached inside them. Seriously, is this article nothing more than a longer version of the warning that appears on the magnets themselves?
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Exactly. We should sue RIAA and MPAA for elebenty trillion dollars, using their own fucking up math, for all the works they've stolen from our public domain and for all the money they've charged for things that should be free.
What is this, Soviet Russia?
Seeing that the doubling power in Moore's Law is seen in almost all technological progression, you're going to hear about it a lot more. Probably about twice as much every year or so.
Seconded. We had a single C64 in our third grade class room in 1984, and it was an amazing experience. We got classes on using BASIC, and had to write programs for it for homework (meaning, write it out with pencil and paper, then type it in the next day one student at a time into the one computer). We used C64s in school for several more years. In 7th grade, we had a computer lab and every student had one. Good times, good times.
And backups.
That's not at all what happened. JFCOM wanted to show how its new tool, Operational Net Assessment (ONA), was awesome. They lost, badly. So they reran the exercise is such a way that they won, then congratulated themselves. Publicly. The exercise was touted as a success, despite the embarrassing defeat. And the tactics that van Ripen used, such as small boats swarming our ships, were ignored.
OK. I guess. But then they said they won, with no credit to Van Riper for beating them. They basically just reran the exercise with conditions that let them win, then declared themselves the winner. It's like the kid who makes up the rules as he goes along just so he can win. This wasn't about finding the right tactics that work.
Indeed. Also described in Gladwell's Blink. My wife actually worked in that exercise as an aide to Van Ripen and described things similarly then. At least we won the second round of the exercise when we cheated.
Wow, I just finished the article. Yeah, there were a few statistics in it. Very few. Almost the whole thing was anecdotal. Fucking terrible. The book I mentioned before has about 10,000 times the statistics to back up the claim of the title, no exaggeration.
Then again, about half of those were due to suicide. I see your article and raise you a book, "More Guns, Less Crime" by John R. Lott. It's worth the read.
Agree on all points. Additionally, crimes that were averted with the mere flashing or drawing of a weapon do not get reported either. A woman getting raped and beaten is newsworthy and sensationalist. A woman pulling a gun defensively on someone trying to rape her wouldn't even get reported to the news let alone aired; too common and boring. I carry concealed, as do many of my friends. One of them was approached by several hoodlums. My friend pulled his vest to the side to show his pistol, and they walked away. How many times this kind of nonviolent preemptive defensive use of a firearm occurs is anyone's guess.
I guess I can see the logic of letting students and teachers carry guns.... provided they're not nutzoid.
In most states, in order to get a concealed carry permit, one has to undergo a background check. Criminal backgrounds, diagnosis of psychosis, can all be reasons to deny a permit.
someone said if someone pulls out a handgun, take off running as most likely they will miss. Unless the shooter is trained to handle handguns, the way an untrained person fires the weapon, they will inadvertantly mis-aim when pulling the trigger
Many states also mandate firearms safety training, or proof of training such as military service.
I read someplace that significant number of people
What constitutes significant? Compared to automobile deaths?
shot are friends and family either from "moments of rage"
People also use knives and other weapons in "moments of rage." In fact, the most common implement used in stabbings is a screwdriver. If you are in a moment of rage to the point you are going to kill someone, the presence of a firearm will matter very little. You are going to use whatever is handy. And if you are the one about to be killed, a firearm may be the only thing that can save you. There are over 2,000,000 defensive uses of a firearm in the U.S. every year.
or "friendly fire" (mistaken identity).
Given how few people die from firearms each year, I can't imagine this being that many. Perhaps it is a significant proportion of accidental shootings.
The statistics are clear here: guns save lives. Arguments to the contrary are based on emotion, hearsay, conjecture, and fearmongering.
It's too cold.
I loled. But I was expecting a joke with ICANN in it.
several major sites threatened to pull their domains from Go Daddy, including Stack Overflow and I Can Has Cheezburger
ICHC is a major site? By what measure?
Posting to undo moderation. Dammit.
Hey, that sounds cool. Maybe one day my HTC Android phone will be able to do that.
Exactly. And what good is a newborn baby? Completely useless.
I prefer the Crystal Method.
But does it have hair?
I am a reptilian illuminati, you insensitive clod!
Yeah, and I read it as Self-Directed DC Loquacious Comic Explained, but that's my problem. Seriously, I don't care about everyone's reading comprehension and/or spelling problems.
These magnets come with clear warnings not to let kids eat them as they may become attached inside them. Seriously, is this article nothing more than a longer version of the warning that appears on the magnets themselves?
What the hell are you two talking about? Shaun's fit roommate got bit early in the movie, and the fat one made it to the end.
Uh, a station wagon? Jeep? Pickup truck?