That was a coordinated act of terrorism. AKA an armed non-state military action, not some loon with a gun.
We will always have terrorism and we will and should always respond to those in a different way than we do to loons. For one thing, we can throw potential terrorists into a deep dark hole for the rest of their lives on suspicion alone. We can just do that to suspicious gun owners.
If you get 10 years in prison for having a gun, people (even criminals) give up their guns very quickly.
You can't mug people with a knife if you're behind bars getting raped.
You don't understand mental illness. You would have no idea that you were about to shoot up a school full of children before you'd already done it.
What way too many people fail to understand about gun violence is not the possibility of themselves becoming a victim. It's the underestimation of their chances of becoming the shooter.
The insane generally have no idea that they're insane and you wouldn't have a clue either.
No more so than "bacon" is a cover for eviscerating an adult pig after separating her from her children who will grow up all alone in a dark smelly pen. Cutting her into small pieces and then throwing some of those pieces in boiling oil.
No body hates anybody here. These are countries, not people. Countries don't actually have friends or enemies. Only interests.
If they want us to stop setting their stuff on fire, they need to align their interests with ours. Until then, we'll keep inching that armada we've got off their coast ever closer until either they take a shot at us or somebody sneezes and then the war starts.
Hell the chances of you having a psychotic break and merely *believing* that's happening are probably higher than the chances of it actually happening.
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Basically, the chances your child will need it are really low and it's only useful until they're about 8 or so years old.
The chances that you could do something great for someone else's child are great and in doing so you are also supporting the expansion of a culture where more people will donate so that if your child were to end up needing it, it would be available from a public bank.
Doing the "right thing" also costs you $0.
This is the choice we made with our child.
If this is all true, then why isn't my world a never ending deluge of ads for Cthulhu laced tentacle porn?
Sounds to me like people have issues in their lives which they hope to avoid dealing with through "privacy". In almost all cases it's better to just punch those issues in the face and get it over with.
Which of course begs the next question which is "who cares"...
Anyone digging into my life will only have themselves to blame when they recoil in horror and can't sleep at night...
My warning to anyone asking me any meaningful questions about myself always amounts to "I'd be happy to tell you, but once I do, I can't untell you."
Most people stop asking at that point.
I tend to inject random noise into any surveys I answer, so the average of all answers is "I don't exist".
Flood any system with enough garbage and you render the entire system mostly useless.
always horny, cooks and cleans, never wants diamonds, has no parents, never drones about about some bitch at work, never cheats, never complains about wanting a bigger house or nicer car
If it were possible to kill the internet in the US by taking over, destroying or infiltrating one organization or facility, wouldn't that constitute internet FAIL?
Isn't one of the core properties of the internet that it is built to be indestructible? So, yeah, Egypt has only a few lines going into the country and they can cut those off, but I doubt they've even managed to totally shut down their own internet completely... and they're a dictatorship.
Actually, a friend of mine who is a HAM operator has been doing so from before 2400 buad modems were around.
I believe there is still a HAM based BBS system up and running. So, yeah, HAM porn.
For every IQ point my computer picks up, the line dividing "Your life is AWESOME" and "Your life is HELL" moves up a notch.
Eventually there will be very few if any people above the line. I would hope by that point we will have come up with a new way of doing economics... otherwise, I guess we just try eat the rich through a wall of killer robots.
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Because it patches a hole that allows Anon to come in and corrupt/steal your database a few times a year.
I think the implication is that we should send potentially unstable or threatening gun owners to Guantanamo.
That would actually probably help.
That was a coordinated act of terrorism. AKA an armed non-state military action, not some loon with a gun.
We will always have terrorism and we will and should always respond to those in a different way than we do to loons. For one thing, we can throw potential terrorists into a deep dark hole for the rest of their lives on suspicion alone. We can just do that to suspicious gun owners.
Maybe that's the rule that needs to change.
If you get 10 years in prison for having a gun, people (even criminals) give up their guns very quickly. You can't mug people with a knife if you're behind bars getting raped.
You don't understand mental illness. You would have no idea that you were about to shoot up a school full of children before you'd already done it. What way too many people fail to understand about gun violence is not the possibility of themselves becoming a victim. It's the underestimation of their chances of becoming the shooter. The insane generally have no idea that they're insane and you wouldn't have a clue either.
No more so than "bacon" is a cover for eviscerating an adult pig after separating her from her children who will grow up all alone in a dark smelly pen. Cutting her into small pieces and then throwing some of those pieces in boiling oil.
No body hates anybody here. These are countries, not people. Countries don't actually have friends or enemies. Only interests.
If they want us to stop setting their stuff on fire, they need to align their interests with ours. Until then, we'll keep inching that armada we've got off their coast ever closer until either they take a shot at us or somebody sneezes and then the war starts.
How about The Killing Star http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Killing_Star Future is awesome... we've achieved so much... aaaand we're dead.
Hell the chances of you having a psychotic break and merely *believing* that's happening are probably higher than the chances of it actually happening.
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Google to set large mountain of money on fire to make room for even larger mountain of money.
Basically, the chances your child will need it are really low and it's only useful until they're about 8 or so years old. The chances that you could do something great for someone else's child are great and in doing so you are also supporting the expansion of a culture where more people will donate so that if your child were to end up needing it, it would be available from a public bank. Doing the "right thing" also costs you $0. This is the choice we made with our child.
Unless that God demands you cut off important body parts or social connections in which case it's very expensive.
If this is all true, then why isn't my world a never ending deluge of ads for Cthulhu laced tentacle porn?
Sounds to me like people have issues in their lives which they hope to avoid dealing with through "privacy". In almost all cases it's better to just punch those issues in the face and get it over with.
Which of course begs the next question which is "who cares"...
Anyone digging into my life will only have themselves to blame when they recoil in horror and can't sleep at night...
My warning to anyone asking me any meaningful questions about myself always amounts to "I'd be happy to tell you, but once I do, I can't untell you."
Most people stop asking at that point.
Isn't it easier to just live in a world where you assume everyone knows everything about you???
That's mostly how I live my life.
I tend to inject random noise into any surveys I answer, so the average of all answers is "I don't exist". Flood any system with enough garbage and you render the entire system mostly useless.
I want a SLR shaped gun to go with my gun shaped SLR... Soon as someone says to take the shot, spectacular confusion ensues :D
always horny, cooks and cleans, never wants diamonds, has no parents, never drones about about some bitch at work, never cheats, never complains about wanting a bigger house or nicer car
Um... your hand does not qualify as a robot... :/
I am soooo coughing on one of these the next time I get the flu. This will make it so easy to identify which strains to mix for uber results.
"Iran? Contra? What are you people talking about? Who touched my Jelly Beans?!?"
If it were possible to kill the internet in the US by taking over, destroying or infiltrating one organization or facility, wouldn't that constitute internet FAIL?
Isn't one of the core properties of the internet that it is built to be indestructible? So, yeah, Egypt has only a few lines going into the country and they can cut those off, but I doubt they've even managed to totally shut down their own internet completely... and they're a dictatorship.
Actually, a friend of mine who is a HAM operator has been doing so from before 2400 buad modems were around. I believe there is still a HAM based BBS system up and running. So, yeah, HAM porn.
The problem is that they filter "breast" on what they think might be offensive to us.
They filter "torrent" based on what is offensive to an industry.
If beef gets its panties in a twist, does this mean they'll start filtering "vegan" and vegetarian?
For every IQ point my computer picks up, the line dividing "Your life is AWESOME" and "Your life is HELL" moves up a notch. Eventually there will be very few if any people above the line. I would hope by that point we will have come up with a new way of doing economics... otherwise, I guess we just try eat the rich through a wall of killer robots.
So what happens when the cyber police force gets influenced by these evil social networks? Will there be a cyber police police?