I don't trust myself to carry a gun, because I'm an ordinary citizen without any training, and I don't want to carry the HUGE responsability that goes with the gun. I can get angry, I can loose my temper, I can take irrationnal decisions, and get scared for the wrong reasons, and all those things can get really interesting when you add a gun to the mix.
Ordinary citizens are exactly what the 2nd amendment applies to. Do you think cops aren't ordinary citizens, who happen to wear a uniform and carry a gun for their job? Many cops can't even hit the broad side of a barn, and have serious impulse control issues as well. It's time we stop pretending that they're infallible super humans, and that the rest of us aren't capable of carrying a gun without murdering someone. There are many training programs available to us lowly civilians; my county requires training before issuing a CCW, and there's nothing stopping us from getting more afterwards. It's actually a growing industry in these parts.
I do agree with your statement that is is a huge responsibility to carry in public. If you don't want that responsibility, or feel that you can't live up to it, then by all means please do not carry. I can support that 100%. However, please don't look down on those who do decide to carry as if we're not worthy of the right because you think we can't handle it either. I know a shit ton of people who can't drive, and are dangerous on the road, but I won't be the one crusading to get everyone off the streets because one of them might wind up killing me. It's just part of the risks of being alive and leaving the house. You're far more likely to be hit by someone on their cellphone than by a random stranger shooting you, especially a CCW holder.
Apparently you have the right to carry a gun, but I don't have the right to know if you're carrying a gun.
As far as I'm concerned, carrying a gun is far less safe than not. If you carry a gun, I am less safe around you. And I can't know if you're carrying a gun.
Just assume everyone's carrying a gun, legally or not, and live your life accordingly. The vast majority of legal CCWers are not a hazard to anyone. It's the people who don't give two shits about the laws who are the real danger, and unfortunately you can't know who they are either.
Am I the only one who see's the child's reaction as a sign of the parental teaching? Like it was a "bad thing" that this guy had a weapon and that the child was taught to immediately report to the parent and to the world if someone has a gun.
It's not just the parents, they teach this in school too. It's not necessarily a bad thing to teach them to report a gun they see in public to adults, because unless you live in an open-carry state, there's really no legitimate reason to be exposing a firearm in public. That being said, they also need to teach kids that yelling out HE'S GOT A GUN is not the best way to go about keeping a calm situation from escalating. But, I guess kids will be kids...
There's nothing wrong with a.380. It's not the most devastating caliber, but what you lose in power you gain in concealability. The 9mm cartridge requires a more substantial barrel to handle the higher pressures, which adds width and weight. My little.380 is perfect for my job, where I wind up crawling under desks all the time. A larger gun would be a burden in a lot of these cases, where the butt would get hooked on something much easier. I'm not looking to get into a gun battle, ever, so a.380 is a good insurance policy for a very unlikely scenario. If I knew I was going into a dangerous area, I might carry a more effective caliber, but I'd much more likely just not go into that dangerous place anyway.
Jesus, redneck America, stop fondling your effing guns! Not only will they go unnoticed, but the people around you will be safer as well.
Seriously, this. It's a weird feeling when you first step out into public with a firearm, but resist the urge to tell ANYBODY about it. Loose lips sink ships, and you sure as hell don't need to be unholstering a weapon anywhere around others. Everyone knows what a gun looks like, so what do you have to gain by exposing yourself to unwanted scrutiny?
No, what I believe is that 90% of humans are complete and utter morons, who can't be trusted with a firearm. They are irrationnal, moody, have mental problems (depression, mood swings, anxiety, are religious nuts, etc.)
Having a firearm at home is ok with me, but carrying it everywhere is a bad idea.
Why would you feel it's a bad idea to arm yourself when you believe that 9/10ths of humanity is FUBAR? You obviously believe yourself to be part of the 10% who aren't criminally insane, so why do you not trust yourself to carry a firearm? This is reasoning I've never understood. "The rest of the world is crazy, but I'm cool, although I still shouldn't be trusted with a gun". Wut?
So instead of thinking "maybe I shouldn't carry a weapon when I go to a family restaurant", his first reaction was "How can I hide it better?".
What's wrong with carrying a gun into a 'family' restaurant? Just because you carry a gun doesn't mean you're going to immediately start shooting babies in the face. His reaction should be "how can I hide it better", indeed. I've been carrying a gun (legally) wherever I go (even in Los Angeles. Oh, the horror!) for the past 18 months, and I've never had an incident like this guy. It's really not that hard, and apparently he's just not good at it. I live in a county that has been issuing CCWs pretty freely for the last 2 years, and there haven't been any incidents like this that I've read about. Then again, this isn't an urban county and we don't shit our pants with even the thought of guns. Please have more faith in your fellow man; not all who carry weapons are wicked.
Consider yourself lucky; they haven't painted the walls of my office since I got here 8 years ago. All that eggshell, and I didn't even get to watch it dry.
In all fairness. speaking from overseas.. this sounds like a good deal. If all rural area gets 10/1Mbit net, or better, for only 100M.. then it's a pretty good deal.
That would be a great deal. Unfortunately this is AT&T we're talking about. They'll take the money and run, like they have in the past. We'll be $100 million poorer, they'll be $100 million richer, and absolutely nothing else will change. We've been here before, and the taste hasn't quite left our mouths yet.
I'm not sure how this is more convenient for the main user... compare "get keys out of pocket, click button, put keys in ignition"
Not even that. I have keyless entry/start on my car. My key fob always stays in my pocket, I just push a button on the handle to open, and another on the dash to start. The battery runs out maybe once every 2 years. I've never once wished it could be "easier" by bringing a phone into the mix.
The only way this will ever work is if all payment is withheld until the work is completed, and satisfactorily at that. Unless there's a risk of AT&T having to foot the bill, they'll just continue to rob us blind and shit directly into our mouths, as usual. They just paid almost $50 billion acquiring DirecTV, so I'm sure they still have a few hundred million in petty cash laying around to float this until they're finished.
There's brain dead mouth breathers working in the planning department of every city.... Two different streets in the same suburb with the same name.
I work in the San Fernando Valley, which is in the northern reaches of Los Angeles city. We've got some streets here that are broken into 30 different parts, and all have the same name because they run roughly in a line. Check out Lurline Ave, Superior St, or Mayall St for shits and giggles.
How hard would it be to go to the nearest intersection and make sure you're on the right street, and double check the street address?
According to Google maps, Cousteau turns into Calypso, and street view verifies this. The streets form a loop, and there is only one set of signs in that area, in a non-intersection corner where one street name arbitrarily turns into the other. Due to the tornado, this sign pole may not even currently exist. I can completely see where the confusion lies with this situation. While the demo crew are at fault for lack of due diligence, who's the fucking imbecile at the city planning office that approved the same exact street number for two houses within spitting distance of each other on what is essentially the same street?
In the end, "cutting the chord" is not going to save anybody any money, because instead of paying cable $99+ / month for shows and HBO, they're going to have to sign on to 7 services to get the same shows they want to watch, resulting in the same $99/month.
Not really. As long as there's no long term commitment to these services, people like me will just binge watch everything we want in a month, then cancel and move on to the next service. That is, until they start pulling dick moves like only keeping the 2 or 3 latest episodes, at which point they will get none of my money.
2) Barring the invention of commercially viable electrical generation from fusion (or some similar massive source of energy), hydrocarbons are pretty much it for providing the majority of humanity's energy, so unless someone at Rockefeller has information that the rest of us do not have...
So, what's wrong with fission? Other than some people's overblown and misguided fear of it?
It's never going to be "real-world" until there's a real element of real shit hitting the real fan.
If there is no real danger of being killed then this is nothing more than a (probably very cool) video game.
Untrue. Our local Sheriff's department has a huge screen/wall that they use for shoot/don't shoot training scenarios. I was able to participate in one of the drills as a guest a few years back. Even though I knew it was just a video, and the gun in my hand was empty, when the drill began everything got weird. When your whole field of vision is filled with a realistic-enough video, part of your brain treats it as if it was real. Heart rate and blood pressure went up, a bit of tunnel vision set in. I wound up shooting the guy as he pulled a gun, but only got one shot off and froze. If that had been real life, I probably would have died. I certainly saw the value in the simulator after that. It's nowhere close to a real combat situation, but it does let you asses how you'll react to one without the actual threat of injury, and adjust your training accordingly.
We all have our points of view, but ultimately part of the price you pay for living in a democracy is sometimes having to put up with what you consider dumb decisions made by governments and the courts and other people for voting for idiots. You can't pick and choose which laws or warrants you obey - that way lies anarchy.
Democracy and dumb decisions are one thing, but the current state of affairs has turned into something entirely different. It's clearly no longer "We the People", but "Us and Them", and it's getting worse. Remember, this country was founded by a bunch of people who were fed up with the Us and Them, and rose up violently against the bullshit. We've headed back down that road again, but unfortunately this time, the Them is also the Us. There is no England vs Colonists, or even North vs South. The biggest threat to the people of America is ourselves, and that's the scariest part.
Nazi Germany had a major advantage over the current state of the USA: There were no 1st, 4th or 5th amendments, but most importantly, no 2nd. The former cannot survive without the latter, if the Third Reich is any indicator of how badly that situation will devolve. Please keep this in mind if you ever think it's wise to pick and choose the rights that you agree with, and attack those that you do not. This is quickly turning into an all-or-nothing affair.
Centralia wasn't so much a product of the mine, but the fact that some genius decided to use ground immediately above an exposed coal vein (in an old strip mine pit, no less) as a landfill and BURN PIT, even after they were aware of the danger. This is a case of stupid people doing stupid things, not an actual mining disaster.
The ocean is big. I mean huge. Massive. A little mineral exploration isn't going to harm it at all.
The first question that comes to my mind is what effect all the sediment that gets kicked up will have on the rest of the ocean? A little bit of activity can cast quite a lot of fine silt into the currents, which will travel far outside the confines of any mining area.
Why not let a drone lift the jets straight up 500 feet or so and then lighting up the jet engine as it detaches from the drone?.
Because no drone in existence can lift a jet even an inch? Plus there's that fun race to the ground while the jet attempted to gain enough airspeed to generate the lift required to stay airborne, while not burning more fuel than a VTOL would in the first place (not to mention what the drone would consume). They don't exactly have the same flight characteristics as a sailplane, you know...
I really wish people like this got booted out of office by the fed up constituency.
I really wish people this empty-headed never got voted into office in the first place. It's much easier to not let them in than it is to kick them out.
So he picks a fight and some good and innocent people die, but 100% of his country gets vaporised in the counter strike.
Most of his country is poor rural villages, who really present no threat to the world. Aside from Pyongyang, I'm guessing you could count the actual number of targets worth nuking without taking off your shoes. This isn't a case of an entire nation foaming at the mouth wanting to kill western civilization, it's a relatively small number of brainwashed overlords keeping the majority of the people in terrified poverty under the guise of the big bad west being at fault. If you destroy the political/military leadership, I'm sure you'll find the rest of the country is really in no need of destruction.
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I don't trust myself to carry a gun, because I'm an ordinary citizen without any training, and I don't want to carry the HUGE responsability that goes with the gun. I can get angry, I can loose my temper, I can take irrationnal decisions, and get scared for the wrong reasons, and all those things can get really interesting when you add a gun to the mix.
Ordinary citizens are exactly what the 2nd amendment applies to. Do you think cops aren't ordinary citizens, who happen to wear a uniform and carry a gun for their job? Many cops can't even hit the broad side of a barn, and have serious impulse control issues as well. It's time we stop pretending that they're infallible super humans, and that the rest of us aren't capable of carrying a gun without murdering someone. There are many training programs available to us lowly civilians; my county requires training before issuing a CCW, and there's nothing stopping us from getting more afterwards. It's actually a growing industry in these parts.
I do agree with your statement that is is a huge responsibility to carry in public. If you don't want that responsibility, or feel that you can't live up to it, then by all means please do not carry. I can support that 100%. However, please don't look down on those who do decide to carry as if we're not worthy of the right because you think we can't handle it either. I know a shit ton of people who can't drive, and are dangerous on the road, but I won't be the one crusading to get everyone off the streets because one of them might wind up killing me. It's just part of the risks of being alive and leaving the house. You're far more likely to be hit by someone on their cellphone than by a random stranger shooting you, especially a CCW holder.
Apparently you have the right to carry a gun, but I don't have the right to know if you're carrying a gun.
As far as I'm concerned, carrying a gun is far less safe than not. If you carry a gun, I am less safe around you. And I can't know if you're carrying a gun.
Just assume everyone's carrying a gun, legally or not, and live your life accordingly. The vast majority of legal CCWers are not a hazard to anyone. It's the people who don't give two shits about the laws who are the real danger, and unfortunately you can't know who they are either.
Am I the only one who see's the child's reaction as a sign of the parental teaching? Like it was a "bad thing" that this guy had a weapon and that the child was taught to immediately report to the parent and to the world if someone has a gun.
It's not just the parents, they teach this in school too. It's not necessarily a bad thing to teach them to report a gun they see in public to adults, because unless you live in an open-carry state, there's really no legitimate reason to be exposing a firearm in public. That being said, they also need to teach kids that yelling out HE'S GOT A GUN is not the best way to go about keeping a calm situation from escalating. But, I guess kids will be kids...
There's nothing wrong with a .380. It's not the most devastating caliber, but what you lose in power you gain in concealability. The 9mm cartridge requires a more substantial barrel to handle the higher pressures, which adds width and weight. My little .380 is perfect for my job, where I wind up crawling under desks all the time. A larger gun would be a burden in a lot of these cases, where the butt would get hooked on something much easier. I'm not looking to get into a gun battle, ever, so a .380 is a good insurance policy for a very unlikely scenario. If I knew I was going into a dangerous area, I might carry a more effective caliber, but I'd much more likely just not go into that dangerous place anyway.
Jesus, redneck America, stop fondling your effing guns! Not only will they go unnoticed, but the people around you will be safer as well.
Seriously, this. It's a weird feeling when you first step out into public with a firearm, but resist the urge to tell ANYBODY about it. Loose lips sink ships, and you sure as hell don't need to be unholstering a weapon anywhere around others. Everyone knows what a gun looks like, so what do you have to gain by exposing yourself to unwanted scrutiny?
No, what I believe is that 90% of humans are complete and utter morons, who can't be trusted with a firearm. They are irrationnal, moody, have mental problems (depression, mood swings, anxiety, are religious nuts, etc.)
Having a firearm at home is ok with me, but carrying it everywhere is a bad idea.
Why would you feel it's a bad idea to arm yourself when you believe that 9/10ths of humanity is FUBAR? You obviously believe yourself to be part of the 10% who aren't criminally insane, so why do you not trust yourself to carry a firearm? This is reasoning I've never understood. "The rest of the world is crazy, but I'm cool, although I still shouldn't be trusted with a gun". Wut?
So instead of thinking "maybe I shouldn't carry a weapon when I go to a family restaurant", his first reaction was "How can I hide it better?".
What's wrong with carrying a gun into a 'family' restaurant? Just because you carry a gun doesn't mean you're going to immediately start shooting babies in the face. His reaction should be "how can I hide it better", indeed. I've been carrying a gun (legally) wherever I go (even in Los Angeles. Oh, the horror!) for the past 18 months, and I've never had an incident like this guy. It's really not that hard, and apparently he's just not good at it. I live in a county that has been issuing CCWs pretty freely for the last 2 years, and there haven't been any incidents like this that I've read about. Then again, this isn't an urban county and we don't shit our pants with even the thought of guns. Please have more faith in your fellow man; not all who carry weapons are wicked.
Just what we needed... another IT training app.
Consider yourself lucky; they haven't painted the walls of my office since I got here 8 years ago. All that eggshell, and I didn't even get to watch it dry.
In all fairness. speaking from overseas.. this sounds like a good deal. If all rural area gets 10/1Mbit net, or better, for only 100M.. then it's a pretty good deal.
That would be a great deal. Unfortunately this is AT&T we're talking about. They'll take the money and run, like they have in the past. We'll be $100 million poorer, they'll be $100 million richer, and absolutely nothing else will change. We've been here before, and the taste hasn't quite left our mouths yet.
I'm not sure how this is more convenient for the main user... compare "get keys out of pocket, click button, put keys in ignition"
Not even that. I have keyless entry/start on my car. My key fob always stays in my pocket, I just push a button on the handle to open, and another on the dash to start. The battery runs out maybe once every 2 years. I've never once wished it could be "easier" by bringing a phone into the mix.
The only way this will ever work is if all payment is withheld until the work is completed, and satisfactorily at that. Unless there's a risk of AT&T having to foot the bill, they'll just continue to rob us blind and shit directly into our mouths, as usual. They just paid almost $50 billion acquiring DirecTV, so I'm sure they still have a few hundred million in petty cash laying around to float this until they're finished.
There's brain dead mouth breathers working in the planning department of every city.... Two different streets in the same suburb with the same name.
I work in the San Fernando Valley, which is in the northern reaches of Los Angeles city. We've got some streets here that are broken into 30 different parts, and all have the same name because they run roughly in a line. Check out Lurline Ave, Superior St, or Mayall St for shits and giggles.
How hard would it be to go to the nearest intersection and make sure you're on the right street, and double check the street address?
According to Google maps, Cousteau turns into Calypso, and street view verifies this. The streets form a loop, and there is only one set of signs in that area, in a non-intersection corner where one street name arbitrarily turns into the other. Due to the tornado, this sign pole may not even currently exist. I can completely see where the confusion lies with this situation. While the demo crew are at fault for lack of due diligence, who's the fucking imbecile at the city planning office that approved the same exact street number for two houses within spitting distance of each other on what is essentially the same street?
In the end, "cutting the chord" is not going to save anybody any money, because instead of paying cable $99+ / month for shows and HBO, they're going to have to sign on to 7 services to get the same shows they want to watch, resulting in the same $99/month.
Not really. As long as there's no long term commitment to these services, people like me will just binge watch everything we want in a month, then cancel and move on to the next service. That is, until they start pulling dick moves like only keeping the 2 or 3 latest episodes, at which point they will get none of my money.
2) Barring the invention of commercially viable electrical generation from fusion (or some similar massive source of energy), hydrocarbons are pretty much it for providing the majority of humanity's energy, so unless someone at Rockefeller has information that the rest of us do not have...
So, what's wrong with fission? Other than some people's overblown and misguided fear of it?
It's never going to be "real-world" until there's a real element of real shit hitting the real fan.
If there is no real danger of being killed then this is nothing more than a (probably very cool) video game.
Untrue. Our local Sheriff's department has a huge screen/wall that they use for shoot/don't shoot training scenarios. I was able to participate in one of the drills as a guest a few years back. Even though I knew it was just a video, and the gun in my hand was empty, when the drill began everything got weird. When your whole field of vision is filled with a realistic-enough video, part of your brain treats it as if it was real. Heart rate and blood pressure went up, a bit of tunnel vision set in. I wound up shooting the guy as he pulled a gun, but only got one shot off and froze. If that had been real life, I probably would have died. I certainly saw the value in the simulator after that. It's nowhere close to a real combat situation, but it does let you asses how you'll react to one without the actual threat of injury, and adjust your training accordingly.
We all have our points of view, but ultimately part of the price you pay for living in a democracy is sometimes having to put up with what you consider dumb decisions made by governments and the courts and other people for voting for idiots. You can't pick and choose which laws or warrants you obey - that way lies anarchy.
Democracy and dumb decisions are one thing, but the current state of affairs has turned into something entirely different. It's clearly no longer "We the People", but "Us and Them", and it's getting worse. Remember, this country was founded by a bunch of people who were fed up with the Us and Them, and rose up violently against the bullshit. We've headed back down that road again, but unfortunately this time, the Them is also the Us. There is no England vs Colonists, or even North vs South. The biggest threat to the people of America is ourselves, and that's the scariest part.
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Nazi Germany had a major advantage over the current state of the USA: There were no 1st, 4th or 5th amendments, but most importantly, no 2nd. The former cannot survive without the latter, if the Third Reich is any indicator of how badly that situation will devolve. Please keep this in mind if you ever think it's wise to pick and choose the rights that you agree with, and attack those that you do not. This is quickly turning into an all-or-nothing affair.
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Centralia wasn't so much a product of the mine, but the fact that some genius decided to use ground immediately above an exposed coal vein (in an old strip mine pit, no less) as a landfill and BURN PIT, even after they were aware of the danger. This is a case of stupid people doing stupid things, not an actual mining disaster.
The ocean is big. I mean huge. Massive. A little mineral exploration isn't going to harm it at all.
The first question that comes to my mind is what effect all the sediment that gets kicked up will have on the rest of the ocean? A little bit of activity can cast quite a lot of fine silt into the currents, which will travel far outside the confines of any mining area.
Just dig a giant frickin' pit mine at the bottom of the ocean. You're welcome.
Why not let a drone lift the jets straight up 500 feet or so and then lighting up the jet engine as it detaches from the drone?.
Because no drone in existence can lift a jet even an inch? Plus there's that fun race to the ground while the jet attempted to gain enough airspeed to generate the lift required to stay airborne, while not burning more fuel than a VTOL would in the first place (not to mention what the drone would consume). They don't exactly have the same flight characteristics as a sailplane, you know...
I really wish people like this got booted out of office by the fed up constituency.
I really wish people this empty-headed never got voted into office in the first place. It's much easier to not let them in than it is to kick them out.
So he picks a fight and some good and innocent people die, but 100% of his country gets vaporised in the counter strike.
Most of his country is poor rural villages, who really present no threat to the world. Aside from Pyongyang, I'm guessing you could count the actual number of targets worth nuking without taking off your shoes. This isn't a case of an entire nation foaming at the mouth wanting to kill western civilization, it's a relatively small number of brainwashed overlords keeping the majority of the people in terrified poverty under the guise of the big bad west being at fault. If you destroy the political/military leadership, I'm sure you'll find the rest of the country is really in no need of destruction.