The first victim was unarmed, and murdered in her sleep. She was not armed. Despite the fact that I own a number of weapons, if I travel to New York by way of an aircraft next week, I will be unarmed while traveling, and while in New York.
Sometimes, they do. We had a summer of fires here. Every few days, someone reported a fire in a pasture, an abandoned building, along the roadside. There are fires every year, of course, but that one year, we had more fires in the previous decade.
Someone noticed that a particular volunteer fireman was the first to arrive at many of these suspicious fires. He was watched. He was caught setting fires.
Imagine that. If you want to be a hero badly enough, you can just set up the situation that you believe will enable you to become that hero.
Even before the NRA came out with their little statement, I was already saying that we need MORE weapons in schools.
That principal who lunged at the shooter? That was brave. It was admirable. The lady knew she was going down, but she refused to go down peacefully, or silently. She lunged at the shooter. No one has said how close she came to getting her hands on him.
Imagine - if she had a.357, or even a.38 at hand, she wouldn't have had to lunge. Pull that sucker out of her desk drawer, or handbag, take aim, and squeeze.
Likely, she would have been hit by the semi-auto fire, but she could have died a real heroine, having put down the dog that threatened her students.
This post pisses me off. Not because it's wrong - but because it's so right. The terrorists have made weepy-whiny pussies of us. FFS, what went wrong in the last fifty years? Less than ten percent of the population has a pair all of a sudden. "Ohhhh - some Arab might want to hurt me. I know! We'll start groping and offending everyone who flies into or out of our nation, that will prevent anyone hurting me!
Good that you tried it. I will note that people who find animations distracting can turn it off. Anything and everything is configurable. Of course, there is time involved in figuring out how to configure all that stuff. For my own personal tastes, there is a little to much eye candy enabled by default, but with a little effort I get things just the way I like them.
That said - no desktop can fit everyone's needs and preferences. Some people actually like Unity's out of the box configuration!
Your arguments seem pretty pointless to me. I've compared Enlightenment with all the other desktop environments, and E uses less resources, while doing a prettier and faster job. Run your own tests, against the major DE's. E beats them all.
Enlightenment doesn't compare as favorably against some of the older, lighter desktops, such as XFCE. But, those older lightweight interfaces don't offer quite the "experience" that the heavyweights offer, either.
Bloated eyecandy. Confuses everyone. Phhht. Nonsense. Violates standards? I never researched that - like most users, I'm not as interested in standards, as I am interested in results. Destabilizes the working environment? Needs citations - I've witnessed nothing like that. E is as stable as anything I've used.
Which games are incompatible with E? List them please.
My ONLY complaint with E17, is that it has taken so long. I've been fooling with it for years, impatiently waiting for this release.
In context, had Apple been denied a license at any price, or had Apple been charged ten times what anyone else was paying for the same license, then that would have been discriminatory.
Reading comprehension, available in schools and colleges near you.
Consider your money. The United States owns no money. The Department of the Treasury doesn't print money, possesses no gold to back up any currency, has no authority to set lending rates, nothing. The GOVERNMENT itself has abdicated all such authority and privilege. The currency of the United States is a fiat currency, issued and controlled by a private bank, at usury interest rates. That bank sets lending rates, and in fact, intentionally precipitates recessions for it's profit. And, as with most corporations, that bank is a member of an international conglomerate.
Being aware that the US, like most nations, has privatized it's national currency, what makes you think that nuclear weaponry won't be privatized, along with all the rest of the military industrial complex?
LOL - one day, your grandchild is going to look up at you, and ask, "Did they have Google when you were little?" If you answer honestly, the kid will categorize you with tyrannosaurus rex.
Stay vigilant. Sounds cool. I'll bet you could work that up into a slogan or something! How about this: "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty!" Catchy enough?;)
That's what many of us have been saying for decades. Gun laws are impossible to apply, unless people submit to those laws.
When you get all the burglars, robbers, rapists, muggers, etc to agree to obey gun laws, then we can discuss enacting gun laws.
When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns. I know, the gun control crowd is sick of hearing that. But, they are unable to counter a very basic truth. Outlaw guns, and the criminals will know that you are unable to defend yourself. You'll be shocked at how brazen they become.
The community is emulating the metro thing. I did mention Gnome 3 and Unity, so yes, you are right.
There is also a large segment of Linux people who DO NOT have any use for a mobile device workspace on a desktop machine. For that reason, we have Cinnamon and Mate, not to mention a half dozen excellent, if less eye-candy intensive desktops that have been around for years, and aren't planning any changes.
I'm running Linux Mint Debian Edition, with Cinnamon, Mate, Enlightenment, Blackbox, XFCE, FVWM, and Fluxbox all installed. I spend almost all my time on Mate. There was a very slight learning curve on both Cinnamon and Mate. Kinda like going over a speed bump that is almost unnoticeable, but it was there.
So - despite the fact that "the community" is emulating the Metro thing, there are more than enough of us who despise the whole metro that we have created not one, but TWO new desktop environments, plus we have all those wonderful OLD desktop environments from which to choose.
You like Win8. You're part of a select audience for which Win8 was designed for. You haven't enabled the start menu, because you love the metrosexual aspect so much. You love that shit, and you didn't even have a learning curve to deal with. You don't need or want any of the more advanced features of Windows that are semi-hidden on the metrosexual workspace.
Of course that invalidates the complaints that all the rest of us have about Win8 and the other metro "desktops" being pushed by Gnome, Unity, etc. We're all just idiots.
Mexico's "war on drugs" has a death toll that exceeds the United States' death toll in Viet Nam. Thank God that weapons are illegal in Mexico. If they actually had access to weapons, the death toll would be much higher, right?
I would laugh at you, if your kind of ignorance weren't so deadly.
Due process, my ass. A person is incompetent to handle his affairs, it should require minimal process to ensure that person doesn't have access to weapons. The most dangerous weapon such a person should have access to is a steak knife.
There are times and circumstances in which the public good might take precedence over someone's rights. This is exactly such a case. Ask the good folk of Newtown, Ct.
"We don't even have a national way to find out if you have ever been committed."
BINGO!!
I'm a veteran. Anyone with an interest, and my SSN can easily verify that. I don't know how much more info such an interested party can get, but he can easily verify that I am an honorably discharged veteran.
Convicts? Ditto. In fact, all you need is to be arrested these days, and that arrest record follows you forever, unless you can convince a judge to have it expunged.
Most especially, sex offenders. Get run in for pissing on some shrubbery, you're automatically a sex offender, and you've got to register with whatever county you live in, forevermore.
Mentally incompetent people? Spend a weekend at the local looney bin, get turned loose because you don't have insurance to pay for treatment, and there is no record. You can walk straight from the nuthouse to the gun shop, and fill out the paperwork to get a gun.
Surprised? No. Shocked? Hmmm. Not real sure about that. You can only be shocked so many times, then you begin to grow callused. Yeah, I guess shock would set in pretty quickly if I had to help clean up the mess.
Horrified and sickened? Yes - I still feel that every time I read of a new killing.
Sorry, but you chose the wrong weapon for your example. The M1911 can be field stripped, and reassembled in less than a minute - BLINDFOLDED. I didn't believe it, but it was demonstrated for me. Then, my squad leader told ME to do it. I says, "Bullshit - there's some trick to it!" Squad leader says, "Yes, there is a trick to it. If you don't sit down and field strip that weapon, I'm going to kick your ass. And, if you lose any parts, I'm going to kick your ass. And, if you take longer than three minutes, I'm going to kick your ass anyway."
Fact is, he just wanted to kick my ass.
But, after a lot of attempts, I did indeed field strip that pistol, and reassemble it, in less than a minute, blindfolded.
A lot of people play games with statistics. Statistics in the US are pretty much meaningless, when it comes to an armed population. Anyone who manipulates numbers seems to have an agenda, so they manage to make the numbers say whatever their agenda demands.
The fact is, most of our most dangerous cities are the very cities with the strictest gun control laws.
Go ahead, read the report. Tell me how safe it is to live in a country with very strict gun control laws.
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The first victim was unarmed, and murdered in her sleep. She was not armed. Despite the fact that I own a number of weapons, if I travel to New York by way of an aircraft next week, I will be unarmed while traveling, and while in New York.
What AC has already stated. She made a heroic effort, but she didn't make the heroic preparations.
Our heros who die on the battlefields spend weeks and months in preparation, so that they know HOW, and are EQUIPPED to die as heros.
Sometimes, they do. We had a summer of fires here. Every few days, someone reported a fire in a pasture, an abandoned building, along the roadside. There are fires every year, of course, but that one year, we had more fires in the previous decade.
Someone noticed that a particular volunteer fireman was the first to arrive at many of these suspicious fires. He was watched. He was caught setting fires.
Imagine that. If you want to be a hero badly enough, you can just set up the situation that you believe will enable you to become that hero.
"run out of sensible things"
Even before the NRA came out with their little statement, I was already saying that we need MORE weapons in schools.
That principal who lunged at the shooter? That was brave. It was admirable. The lady knew she was going down, but she refused to go down peacefully, or silently. She lunged at the shooter. No one has said how close she came to getting her hands on him.
Imagine - if she had a .357, or even a .38 at hand, she wouldn't have had to lunge. Pull that sucker out of her desk drawer, or handbag, take aim, and squeeze.
Likely, she would have been hit by the semi-auto fire, but she could have died a real heroine, having put down the dog that threatened her students.
This post pisses me off. Not because it's wrong - but because it's so right. The terrorists have made weepy-whiny pussies of us. FFS, what went wrong in the last fifty years? Less than ten percent of the population has a pair all of a sudden. "Ohhhh - some Arab might want to hurt me. I know! We'll start groping and offending everyone who flies into or out of our nation, that will prevent anyone hurting me!
Good that you tried it. I will note that people who find animations distracting can turn it off. Anything and everything is configurable. Of course, there is time involved in figuring out how to configure all that stuff. For my own personal tastes, there is a little to much eye candy enabled by default, but with a little effort I get things just the way I like them.
That said - no desktop can fit everyone's needs and preferences. Some people actually like Unity's out of the box configuration!
Your arguments seem pretty pointless to me. I've compared Enlightenment with all the other desktop environments, and E uses less resources, while doing a prettier and faster job. Run your own tests, against the major DE's. E beats them all.
Enlightenment doesn't compare as favorably against some of the older, lighter desktops, such as XFCE. But, those older lightweight interfaces don't offer quite the "experience" that the heavyweights offer, either.
Bloated eyecandy. Confuses everyone. Phhht. Nonsense. Violates standards? I never researched that - like most users, I'm not as interested in standards, as I am interested in results. Destabilizes the working environment? Needs citations - I've witnessed nothing like that. E is as stable as anything I've used.
Which games are incompatible with E? List them please.
My ONLY complaint with E17, is that it has taken so long. I've been fooling with it for years, impatiently waiting for this release.
In context, had Apple been denied a license at any price, or had Apple been charged ten times what anyone else was paying for the same license, then that would have been discriminatory.
Reading comprehension, available in schools and colleges near you.
The mention of a corporation is not incorrect.
Consider your money. The United States owns no money. The Department of the Treasury doesn't print money, possesses no gold to back up any currency, has no authority to set lending rates, nothing. The GOVERNMENT itself has abdicated all such authority and privilege. The currency of the United States is a fiat currency, issued and controlled by a private bank, at usury interest rates. That bank sets lending rates, and in fact, intentionally precipitates recessions for it's profit. And, as with most corporations, that bank is a member of an international conglomerate.
Being aware that the US, like most nations, has privatized it's national currency, what makes you think that nuclear weaponry won't be privatized, along with all the rest of the military industrial complex?
I read that as "9 out of 10 politicians prefer their victims to be unarmed". Was that a mistake, or not?
LOL - one day, your grandchild is going to look up at you, and ask, "Did they have Google when you were little?" If you answer honestly, the kid will categorize you with tyrannosaurus rex.
Stay vigilant. Sounds cool. I'll bet you could work that up into a slogan or something! How about this: "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty!" Catchy enough? ;)
http://www.monticello.org/site/blog-and-community/posts/eternal-vigilance
That's what many of us have been saying for decades. Gun laws are impossible to apply, unless people submit to those laws.
When you get all the burglars, robbers, rapists, muggers, etc to agree to obey gun laws, then we can discuss enacting gun laws.
When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns. I know, the gun control crowd is sick of hearing that. But, they are unable to counter a very basic truth. Outlaw guns, and the criminals will know that you are unable to defend yourself. You'll be shocked at how brazen they become.
The community is emulating the metro thing. I did mention Gnome 3 and Unity, so yes, you are right.
There is also a large segment of Linux people who DO NOT have any use for a mobile device workspace on a desktop machine. For that reason, we have Cinnamon and Mate, not to mention a half dozen excellent, if less eye-candy intensive desktops that have been around for years, and aren't planning any changes.
I'm running Linux Mint Debian Edition, with Cinnamon, Mate, Enlightenment, Blackbox, XFCE, FVWM, and Fluxbox all installed. I spend almost all my time on Mate. There was a very slight learning curve on both Cinnamon and Mate. Kinda like going over a speed bump that is almost unnoticeable, but it was there.
So - despite the fact that "the community" is emulating the Metro thing, there are more than enough of us who despise the whole metro that we have created not one, but TWO new desktop environments, plus we have all those wonderful OLD desktop environments from which to choose.
This ain't Windows, after all.
Let me understand this.
You like Win8. You're part of a select audience for which Win8 was designed for. You haven't enabled the start menu, because you love the metrosexual aspect so much. You love that shit, and you didn't even have a learning curve to deal with. You don't need or want any of the more advanced features of Windows that are semi-hidden on the metrosexual workspace.
Of course that invalidates the complaints that all the rest of us have about Win8 and the other metro "desktops" being pushed by Gnome, Unity, etc. We're all just idiots.
"Its authoritarian, but in this case I feel like its sound advice."
I don't think you understand the words you are using. Authoritarian? Whose "authority" are you drawing on, to make such statements?
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/authoritarian
Citations. You're making an assumption that some particular set of statistics was accurate and truthful.
How are things going in Mexico? Let me help you with that question: http://www.borderlandbeat.com/
Mexico's "war on drugs" has a death toll that exceeds the United States' death toll in Viet Nam. Thank God that weapons are illegal in Mexico. If they actually had access to weapons, the death toll would be much higher, right?
I would laugh at you, if your kind of ignorance weren't so deadly.
Hmm. I wonder. What weapons are legal in Mexico?
http://www.examiner.com/article/mexicans-conspire-to-obtain-stinger-missile-and-other-weapons
http://www.caat.org.uk/resources/facts-figures/weapon-costs.php
http://www.asharq-e.com/news.asp?section=1&id=30738
http://www.pcworld.com/article/260415/google_creates_interactive_visual_about_small_arms_trade.html
http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/11/13/egyptian-daily-details-sinai-arms-trade/
http://www.keepandbeararms.com/newsarchives/XcNewsPlus.asp?cmd=view&articleid=2050
You might want to reconsider your assumptions.
Due process, my ass. A person is incompetent to handle his affairs, it should require minimal process to ensure that person doesn't have access to weapons. The most dangerous weapon such a person should have access to is a steak knife.
There are times and circumstances in which the public good might take precedence over someone's rights. This is exactly such a case. Ask the good folk of Newtown, Ct.
Oh yeah - you didn't read the PDF either. Go ahead, clicky the linky, open it up, and read it. Pretty amazing stuff in that PDF.
"We don't even have a national way to find out if you have ever been committed."
BINGO!!
I'm a veteran. Anyone with an interest, and my SSN can easily verify that. I don't know how much more info such an interested party can get, but he can easily verify that I am an honorably discharged veteran.
Convicts? Ditto. In fact, all you need is to be arrested these days, and that arrest record follows you forever, unless you can convince a judge to have it expunged.
Most especially, sex offenders. Get run in for pissing on some shrubbery, you're automatically a sex offender, and you've got to register with whatever county you live in, forevermore.
Mentally incompetent people? Spend a weekend at the local looney bin, get turned loose because you don't have insurance to pay for treatment, and there is no record. You can walk straight from the nuthouse to the gun shop, and fill out the paperwork to get a gun.
I believe that disarming the general population causes criminals to feel safer while committing crimes. Did you read the PDF?
Surprised? No. Shocked? Hmmm. Not real sure about that. You can only be shocked so many times, then you begin to grow callused. Yeah, I guess shock would set in pretty quickly if I had to help clean up the mess.
Horrified and sickened? Yes - I still feel that every time I read of a new killing.
Sorry, but you chose the wrong weapon for your example. The M1911 can be field stripped, and reassembled in less than a minute - BLINDFOLDED. I didn't believe it, but it was demonstrated for me. Then, my squad leader told ME to do it. I says, "Bullshit - there's some trick to it!" Squad leader says, "Yes, there is a trick to it. If you don't sit down and field strip that weapon, I'm going to kick your ass. And, if you lose any parts, I'm going to kick your ass. And, if you take longer than three minutes, I'm going to kick your ass anyway."
Fact is, he just wanted to kick my ass.
But, after a lot of attempts, I did indeed field strip that pistol, and reassemble it, in less than a minute, blindfolded.
http://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/policy-report/2004/3/cpr-26n2-1.pdf
A lot of people play games with statistics. Statistics in the US are pretty much meaningless, when it comes to an armed population. Anyone who manipulates numbers seems to have an agenda, so they manage to make the numbers say whatever their agenda demands.
The fact is, most of our most dangerous cities are the very cities with the strictest gun control laws.
Go ahead, read the report. Tell me how safe it is to live in a country with very strict gun control laws.