All the tasks you listed are generally complementary
Training and maintenance of skill in the use of a firearm is complementary to locking your bedroom door? What?
"regular psychological evaluation" for lucidness upon a sudden awakening. That's just unadulterated FUD.
Your extraordinary assertion that almost everyone is immediately lucid upon waking requires extraordinary evidence.
The pets thing is pretty rich too.
No, it may be one of the easier things to deal with, but the person who lived in this house before me kept a shot gun just lying underneath his bed, which would have been completely inappropriate with pets. He was an intelligent, insanely highly paid professional, but amusingly paranoid... perhaps it was his conscience paying him back for the people I have since learnt he fleeced!
My guess is that your firearms experience is limited to watching "24" reruns.
No, the school I went to had military cadet training which included firearms training. Although I avoided as much of it as I could, preferring community work. Yes, the grunt with the gun may always be needed, but in the long term you need to better the neighbourhood.
Unloaded firearms are pretty much worthless.
If there is a good chance of meeting an armed robber, agreed. I guess you might get away with bluffing in a country where knife crime is far more likely than gun, e.g. England, but that's just a hypothesis.
no efficient means of protecting yourself, property and/or loved ones.
I have no desire to protect my property against a vicious intruder: it is simply not worth the risk. While I'm unlikely to be the first person in the area for as long as I can remember to be attacked without provocation by a night intruder, and while a very small proportion of intruders in this country will be armed with a gun, I do understand the desire for a man to be able to defend himself with lethal force.
But it is simply not pragmatically necessary to go to sleep with a gun here, even if it were legal.
I disagree. A well-documented in-house system is far easier to maintain and update than some humongous generic framework.
What I want is a set of talented people who appreciate engineering simplicity and know how to read and get up to speed. I have no interest in someone with enough buzzwords on their resume that they have earned themselves the title of Jack of all fashions and creator of nothing.
...are all equally unnecessarily complicated and bloated, and I've done just fine with straight C, Perl and LISPesque variants, good coding practice and in-house development, just as I have since 1996.
I remember as a new professional developer the first time I entered a meeting where someone started spouting buzzwords to describe the hip framework of the day, his boss nodding emptily and the more senior developer looking on with the bemused eyes of a mental facepalm. I, meanwhile, bust out uncontrollably with laughter and had to be excused from the meeting, my laughter accurately reflecting the eventual success of the buzzword-based proposals.
Ever since then, I have worked by the principle that no amount of Lego will build you an great home.
No, it's not just locking the door. It's selecting a firearm and receiving good training in use of a firearm and general self defence, maintaining your skill with practice at regular intervals, and remembering to station your firearm in an appropriate position each night: close enough to you but far enough away from any visitors/pets/etc. Oh, and don't forget the regular psychological evaluation to make sure you are not the kind of person to be not quite lucid when you are suddenly woken up: there's no Ctrl-Z for bullets.
And none of this solves the problem that you are fighting fire with fire rather than improving yourself to the point that you can help fix the neighbourhood or move out of it.
"At least he has a plan," is as specious as, "At least he believes in a god," with the bonus that the plan involves real guns rather imaginary than omnipotent unicorns.
Oh, you're just one of those creepy stalkers who encounters someone on the Internet with more than one opinion he doesn't like and splatters with the crudest strokes an e-psychological diagnosis to summarily dismiss opposing ideas.
Even as the broken Turing readied himself to bite the apple, you'd still be telling him that you subjected him to treatment for illness, for his own good. What was his homosexuality, friend, if not a heinous misuse of idiom?
Use more limbs. Humans are just about getting beyond the point of using a 100-year-old keyboard design (thank you Apple for bringing this forward), but they are still getting their voices and feet idle pointlessly at a computer workstation.
When I read blithering idiots like you, "Fantastic Lad", who get so worked up in the bubble of their own special philosophy with its sophomoric understanding of humanity and insistence on how things should be, I find it easier to comprehend the atrocities man is able to commit.
All the seething ideological hatred dictators and warlords have had for a particular race or class or gender is nothing but obsessive anger over a misplaced apostrophe.
Oh dear, so you understood that I meant yes to both, but you are still trying to force a false choice upon me.
No, I didn't know precisely what you meant because you didn't reply in a way which makes sense in standard English. Rash assumptions are your job, not mine. You could say "yes to both" if you meant that. "Yes" doesn't automatically mean "yes to all the questions you asked".
Perhaps that course in English would teach you what an epithet is. Or perhaps not, miracles are not that common.
shooting at transformers/insulators is not a good thing to do
'I have yet to see them actually hit the insulator, but they regularly shoot down the fibre,' Google's network engineering manager Vijay Gill told a conference in Australia.
Although attacking underlying infrastructure isn't exactly unheard of in warfare.
that certainly has its place when civilisation in the area has broken down
What? It's also used when you're fighting a much more powerful enemy within a civilised nation.
Why throw all the tea overboard? The work of bitter beer-drinkers, surely.
they (most likely - "assume" makes an ass of u and me) weren't fighting google. they were sloshed and wanted to see sparks fly.
And your evidence comprises Google PR telling you that this must be so despite the fact that they repeatedly hit Google's fiber and missed the insulators.
if that's "guerrilla tactics" then the war on terror would have been over in a week.
For whose interest would the "war on terror" be over?
Accepting vandalism does not lead to accepting suicide, murder, bombing (even if "no one is hurt"), etc. The fact that you managed to make the conclusion means that you probably need to seriously review your premises, as a lack of perspective of that magnitude could mean you end up causing considerable harm to yourself or others.
Because unlike you I am not racist enough to assume that an urban gang is black.
*golf clap* You assumed that the people doing the shooting were just "dumb hicks". This is like assuming gangs are comprised of "stupid niggers". Congratulations on failing to understand analogy.
Yes.
To which? This isn't a logic class - "or" doesn't have the same meaning in general discourse. Congratulations on failing to understand English.
Why's it always the uneducated who are first to come out with the epithets?
And yet Americans continue to pay their taxes to fund their military. Or are there sufficient levels of indirection that the IRS bill you pay doesn't really feel like it's paying for the bomb which kills the mother and maims the kid, 10,000 times over?
The stereotypical hick with the gun is the best of all "lunatics with guns".
. In fact even the dumb hicks who did it would probably "argue"
When you are using your prejudices to hypothesise randomly on the motivations of urban gangs, do you use terms like "stupid niggers"?
It takes a real armchair nutjob like you to claim that they were in the right against some evil global multinational.
So are you saying that they are in the wrong because Google it is not evil, or they are in the wrong because it is bad (immoral? ineffective?) to use guerrilla tactics against a powerful enemy?
If you think Google fiber = electricity, then you truly are a fucking moron.
If you think that it is acts of petty vandalism which have a deciding influence on your electricity bill, rather than the whims of a few very powerful energy companies, then I'm not sure how you even managed to crawl out of the slime and onto your computer chair.
Ah, so an internet company should consider fuckwit withs guns as part of its normal operating procedure, eh?
Ah, so a citizen trying to live freely should consider a global information aggregator as a harmless and healthy part of society, eh?
do the obvious thing: fuck off to the opt-out village.
Is cowardly retreat your option when confronting all problems? Did you emigrate the first time you disagreed with your government's policy on some issue?
Odd, it seems the post above was moderated "Offtopic" rather than "Disagree". Or are we assuming that all acts of civil disobedience against any Precious are mindless vandalism rather than a statement of independence?
Honestly, I'm beyond caring. I don't like what Google has become and if one thing which will put a dent in its relentless quest for information about everyone is a hick with a rifle, more power to him (I wonder if just saying that counts as the crime of glorifying terrorism in certain European countries?).
And when everyone is fully aware of the ability of Google's services to make a detailed profile about them, and the government has appropriate access to its datastores only with the full consent of all its citizens, I might consider the law having a fair balance between the rights of the individual and the rights of the powerful corporation, and start caring about the property rights of the latter.
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All the tasks you listed are generally complementary
Training and maintenance of skill in the use of a firearm is complementary to locking your bedroom door? What?
"regular psychological evaluation" for lucidness upon a sudden awakening. That's just unadulterated FUD.
Your extraordinary assertion that almost everyone is immediately lucid upon waking requires extraordinary evidence.
The pets thing is pretty rich too.
No, it may be one of the easier things to deal with, but the person who lived in this house before me kept a shot gun just lying underneath his bed, which would have been completely inappropriate with pets. He was an intelligent, insanely highly paid professional, but amusingly paranoid... perhaps it was his conscience paying him back for the people I have since learnt he fleeced!
My guess is that your firearms experience is limited to watching "24" reruns.
No, the school I went to had military cadet training which included firearms training. Although I avoided as much of it as I could, preferring community work. Yes, the grunt with the gun may always be needed, but in the long term you need to better the neighbourhood.
Unloaded firearms are pretty much worthless.
If there is a good chance of meeting an armed robber, agreed. I guess you might get away with bluffing in a country where knife crime is far more likely than gun, e.g. England, but that's just a hypothesis.
no efficient means of protecting yourself, property and/or loved ones.
I have no desire to protect my property against a vicious intruder: it is simply not worth the risk. While I'm unlikely to be the first person in the area for as long as I can remember to be attacked without provocation by a night intruder, and while a very small proportion of intruders in this country will be armed with a gun, I do understand the desire for a man to be able to defend himself with lethal force.
But it is simply not pragmatically necessary to go to sleep with a gun here, even if it were legal.
Since the fall of Adam.
Well, you did ask.
I disagree. A well-documented in-house system is far easier to maintain and update than some humongous generic framework.
What I want is a set of talented people who appreciate engineering simplicity and know how to read and get up to speed. I have no interest in someone with enough buzzwords on their resume that they have earned themselves the title of Jack of all fashions and creator of nothing.
...are all equally unnecessarily complicated and bloated, and I've done just fine with straight C, Perl and LISPesque variants, good coding practice and in-house development, just as I have since 1996.
I remember as a new professional developer the first time I entered a meeting where someone started spouting buzzwords to describe the hip framework of the day, his boss nodding emptily and the more senior developer looking on with the bemused eyes of a mental facepalm. I, meanwhile, bust out uncontrollably with laughter and had to be excused from the meeting, my laughter accurately reflecting the eventual success of the buzzword-based proposals.
Ever since then, I have worked by the principle that no amount of Lego will build you an great home.
No, it's not just locking the door. It's selecting a firearm and receiving good training in use of a firearm and general self defence, maintaining your skill with practice at regular intervals, and remembering to station your firearm in an appropriate position each night: close enough to you but far enough away from any visitors/pets/etc. Oh, and don't forget the regular psychological evaluation to make sure you are not the kind of person to be not quite lucid when you are suddenly woken up: there's no Ctrl-Z for bullets.
And none of this solves the problem that you are fighting fire with fire rather than improving yourself to the point that you can help fix the neighbourhood or move out of it.
"At least he has a plan," is as specious as, "At least he believes in a god," with the bonus that the plan involves real guns rather imaginary than omnipotent unicorns.
general observation over time
Oh, you're just one of those creepy stalkers who encounters someone on the Internet with more than one opinion he doesn't like and splatters with the crudest strokes an e-psychological diagnosis to summarily dismiss opposing ideas.
Even as the broken Turing readied himself to bite the apple, you'd still be telling him that you subjected him to treatment for illness, for his own good. What was his homosexuality, friend, if not a heinous misuse of idiom?
canvas is crippled flash with better PR.
As Obama is to Bush.
Use more limbs. Humans are just about getting beyond the point of using a 100-year-old keyboard design (thank you Apple for bringing this forward), but they are still getting their voices and feet idle pointlessly at a computer workstation.
When I read blithering idiots like you, "Fantastic Lad", who get so worked up in the bubble of their own special philosophy with its sophomoric understanding of humanity and insistence on how things should be, I find it easier to comprehend the atrocities man is able to commit.
All the seething ideological hatred dictators and warlords have had for a particular race or class or gender is nothing but obsessive anger over a misplaced apostrophe.
actually, it will be those who pay a lot of tax.
hopefully, those with more money are going to be paying more tax.
Vandalism.
Murder.
Vandalism.
Vandalism.
1 of these words is different from all the others. I suggest you learn quickly.
Oh dear, so you understood that I meant yes to both, but you are still trying to force a false choice upon me.
No, I didn't know precisely what you meant because you didn't reply in a way which makes sense in standard English. Rash assumptions are your job, not mine. You could say "yes to both" if you meant that. "Yes" doesn't automatically mean "yes to all the questions you asked".
Perhaps that course in English would teach you what an epithet is. Or perhaps not, miracles are not that common.
My usage was entirely correct. Care to counter?
shooting at transformers/insulators is not a good thing to do
'I have yet to see them actually hit the insulator, but they regularly shoot down the fibre,' Google's network engineering manager Vijay Gill told a conference in Australia.
Although attacking underlying infrastructure isn't exactly unheard of in warfare.
that certainly has its place when civilisation in the area has broken down
What? It's also used when you're fighting a much more powerful enemy within a civilised nation.
Why throw all the tea overboard? The work of bitter beer-drinkers, surely.
they (most likely - "assume" makes an ass of u and me) weren't fighting google. they were sloshed and wanted to see sparks fly.
And your evidence comprises Google PR telling you that this must be so despite the fact that they repeatedly hit Google's fiber and missed the insulators.
if that's "guerrilla tactics" then the war on terror would have been over in a week.
For whose interest would the "war on terror" be over?
If elephants are pink, I have 10,000 members.
IOW, if I had said that vandalism never causes harm to normal people then your statement would be more than vacuous.
True. The latter allows me to escape mostly from a country's clutches, while the former still allows me to be tracked by Analytics, AdSense, etc.
Accepting vandalism does not lead to accepting suicide, murder, bombing (even if "no one is hurt"), etc. The fact that you managed to make the conclusion means that you probably need to seriously review your premises, as a lack of perspective of that magnitude could mean you end up causing considerable harm to yourself or others.
Because unlike you I am not racist enough to assume that an urban gang is black.
*golf clap* You assumed that the people doing the shooting were just "dumb hicks". This is like assuming gangs are comprised of "stupid niggers". Congratulations on failing to understand analogy.
Yes.
To which? This isn't a logic class - "or" doesn't have the same meaning in general discourse. Congratulations on failing to understand English.
Why's it always the uneducated who are first to come out with the epithets?
Equating vandalism with suicide and/or murder?
Obvious troll is obvious, Sir.
And yet Americans continue to pay their taxes to fund their military. Or are there sufficient levels of indirection that the IRS bill you pay doesn't really feel like it's paying for the bomb which kills the mother and maims the kid, 10,000 times over?
The stereotypical hick with the gun is the best of all "lunatics with guns".
. In fact even the dumb hicks who did it would probably "argue"
When you are using your prejudices to hypothesise randomly on the motivations of urban gangs, do you use terms like "stupid niggers"?
It takes a real armchair nutjob like you to claim that they were in the right against some evil global multinational.
So are you saying that they are in the wrong because Google it is not evil, or they are in the wrong because it is bad (immoral? ineffective?) to use guerrilla tactics against a powerful enemy?
If you think Google fiber = electricity, then you truly are a fucking moron.
If you think that it is acts of petty vandalism which have a deciding influence on your electricity bill, rather than the whims of a few very powerful energy companies, then I'm not sure how you even managed to crawl out of the slime and onto your computer chair.
Ah, so an internet company should consider fuckwit withs guns as part of its normal operating procedure, eh?
Ah, so a citizen trying to live freely should consider a global information aggregator as a harmless and healthy part of society, eh?
do the obvious thing: fuck off to the opt-out village.
Is cowardly retreat your option when confronting all problems? Did you emigrate the first time you disagreed with your government's policy on some issue?
Odd, it seems the post above was moderated "Offtopic" rather than "Disagree". Or are we assuming that all acts of civil disobedience against any Precious are mindless vandalism rather than a statement of independence?
Honestly, I'm beyond caring. I don't like what Google has become and if one thing which will put a dent in its relentless quest for information about everyone is a hick with a rifle, more power to him (I wonder if just saying that counts as the crime of glorifying terrorism in certain European countries?).
And when everyone is fully aware of the ability of Google's services to make a detailed profile about them, and the government has appropriate access to its datastores only with the full consent of all its citizens, I might consider the law having a fair balance between the rights of the individual and the rights of the powerful corporation, and start caring about the property rights of the latter.