And by banning murder you drive up the price of assassinations. When one person getting killed, or one child being exploited is too many, the "driving up the price" argument doesn't hold much water.
The training is to know when you can use your handgun legally, as well as being competent enough to control it. Handguns have only one purpose, killing/maiming other human beings. Therefore as a responsible citizen you should have training on when it is within your rights to use such a device and when you will be held accountable for it. Also, no, firing a gun is not complicated. Neither is driving an automatic car. Both should require a proof of competence however before someone is allowed to use one around other citizens in pubic spaces because if you can't control or be accurate with either one it results in serious consequences to other citizens.
I for one, would not be comfortable with a law that lands a citizen in jail for 10 years because they didn't intervene when witnessing an assault. It makes sense to me for them to be punished job wise for them failing to do their job, and for the one who made the illegal assault to be punished criminally.
I'm pretty sure Tom Clancy's Rainbow 6 was not only more realistic than counter-strike but predated it by a year or more. Heck, in the single player campaign you lose a guy on a mission he's gone for good and you have to replace him!
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I think you'll find most research proposals are turned down for grant money before they're approved by someone. Especially something that sounds like you're injecting someone with HIV. Next thing you know you'd be on here shouting about "Big Pharma injecting live humans with HIV in pursuit of profits!"
In any event, this appears to be Anonymous trying to do something to hurt the U.S. Intelligence community
Yes, how will we ever find Ayman al-Zawahiri if he isn't allowed to continue to post status updates and "check in" on Facebook. We would have gotten him too if it was for those meddling Anonymous and their dog!
I'm not sure what difference it would make, you'd be unlikely to go the way of the US. We kill each other more for a variety of social, racial and cultural reasons. The guns aren't really to blame, we have a higher non gun murder rate higher then meany European countries total murder rate. You could also just as easily point out the Swiss and Israel which have a plethora of fully automatic weapons and have a very low murder rate in order to make the opposite argument.
If "catching up" requires environmental changes that cause massive amounts of resources to be devoted to simply providing clean fresh-water instead of having it in abundance for free like most of the U.S. I'd damn well prefer to stay behind and have that time and money be used towards other pursuits.
Instead of going through all this wasted effort, how about we just fix computer security and be done with it?
And while we're at it we might as well throw in world peace, a world-wide end to hunger and a couple ponies. Sadly all of these could be accomplished by killing everyone....Well, maybe not the ponies.
What I find utterly amazing is that you believe me to be serious while at the same time somehow managing to explain why everything I said is actually a well known joke.
If backup generators were super efficient you'd be using them instead of paying for grid electricity. Efficiency isn't the point, keeping your food from spoiling during a power outage is.
I always took that motto on money to be short for "In God We trust, all others must pay cash". Seems like establishment of common sense, even if you don't believe there is such a thing as God.
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Defense strategy notwithstanding, a lot of the places where we have military bases (Germany for example) give us generous benefits to keep them there because of all the business they bring to the local economies. You take all the people and businesses away and your left with a ghost town which a bunch of empty homes, barracks and office buildings that don't really server other purposes well. Even the local housing market would suffer as all the civilians that work on base and US Gov employees that are given stipends for housing up and leave. Plus all the businesses around the base that depend on their patronage immediately collapse. I'll grant you Japan might be different due to the value of space there, but I think Pacific bases have a much higher strategic value and would therefore be very low on the list.
While I don't know how I feel about the US situation this is a stupid question. You personally can't just decide to raise your salary so how do you save money and pay down debt? You spend less.
I see pretty stark differences in browsing, general UI of the phones, how it handles multi-tasking, battery life, battery management options, cameras, size and style of the phone, availability and quality of apps, standard keybaord vs the dragging the line thing, ect. And then there's the contracts and carriers besides. If you're not finding any perceived differences between the phones perhaps your just not that into phones like my grandparents aren't that into computers. They wouldn't see any perceived difference between a Mac, Windows Vista, or ubuntu box, they both have a monitor, you type with the keyboard move the cursor with a mouse and can browse the internet, so what could possibly set them apart? Must be solely branding.
To people who actually use a product, their experiences using the said product likely far outweighs stupid quotes by CEO's they've never dealt with. Really what your pointing out is a soundbtie used by people who already don't like the company to bash the product. It'll help dissuade people who have never used it before, but if you have lengthy experiences using a product that's going to be what you make your decision based off of.
Personally I don't like Steve Jobs, I don't like Apple and I don't like macs, but I do like my iphone. It's an old iphone 3g (no s), and since I got it way back when there's now a lot of competition where before there wasn't as much comparable, but the fact that my phone has worked really well over the last 3 years gives me confidence in further iterations of the product.
. I'm still flipping through the manifesto and a lot of it reads like what you would hear on Rush Limbaugh for the three hours that slime is on the air every day.
So it's 90% him advocating the "newest breakthrough" in hearing aids/arthritis medication?
Because they have seen that when a country has nuclear capability no one, especially the US, fucks with them.
Yea, we would definitely never ever fuck with Russia even a little bit in the entire history of it having nuclear weapons, and certainly not Pakistan since they're nuclear armed. Well at least we wouldn't bomb them. No? We're doing that? Oh. Well, maybe just a few missiles, but we would certainly never send any troops into their territory without permission and kill- oh? oh.....wait, never mind, what are we saying again?
Union jobs tend to be lower paying jobs with little to no skill. I wouldn't consider a teaching job as little to no skill.
Neither would I consider air traffic controllers, nuclear plant engineers/workers, or GE draftsmen and engineers as having little to no skill. Maybe your understanding or perception of unions simply hasn't been updated from when you learned about them while covering the industrial revolution in history class?
People who need credit cards aren't managing their money well enough......instead of lines of credit, I have money in the bank. And I don't buy stupid stuff like I used to. Turns out, when it's "your money" you think a little more about how you spend it.
What you mean here, is people who don't use credit cards wisely, aren't managing their money well enough. I use credit cards for pretty much everything, but I use it just like I would real money, because it IS real money. Honestly I've never understood why everyone has such distinction problems between the two. To me it's just a convenient way to consolidate my bills so I'm not constantly having to move money in and out of my checking account. I don't like debit cards because the fact that the charge takes money out of my account before I can dispute it scares me. I realize you can still dispute charges and get it back but I like the feeling of safety I get from disputing charges while I still own the money rather then asking for it back. And I don't want to carry cash around.
currently adding on a youth center and a gym to "keep the kids out of sin."
Great Odin's Raven!!!! Someone needs to step in and do something before these fundamentalists go off the deep end and build a playground with a jungle gym/monkey bars! Everyone knows, the monkey bars are the KEY to training TERRORISTS!!!
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And by banning murder you drive up the price of assassinations. When one person getting killed, or one child being exploited is too many, the "driving up the price" argument doesn't hold much water.
The training is to know when you can use your handgun legally, as well as being competent enough to control it. Handguns have only one purpose, killing/maiming other human beings. Therefore as a responsible citizen you should have training on when it is within your rights to use such a device and when you will be held accountable for it. Also, no, firing a gun is not complicated. Neither is driving an automatic car. Both should require a proof of competence however before someone is allowed to use one around other citizens in pubic spaces because if you can't control or be accurate with either one it results in serious consequences to other citizens.
I for one, would not be comfortable with a law that lands a citizen in jail for 10 years because they didn't intervene when witnessing an assault. It makes sense to me for them to be punished job wise for them failing to do their job, and for the one who made the illegal assault to be punished criminally.
driving man back to the Stone ages, except with less Jesus and more abortions.
How does one achieve less than zero Jesus in the new stone-age?
I'm pretty sure Tom Clancy's Rainbow 6 was not only more realistic than counter-strike but predated it by a year or more. Heck, in the single player campaign you lose a guy on a mission he's gone for good and you have to replace him!
I think you'll find most research proposals are turned down for grant money before they're approved by someone. Especially something that sounds like you're injecting someone with HIV. Next thing you know you'd be on here shouting about "Big Pharma injecting live humans with HIV in pursuit of profits!"
In any event, this appears to be Anonymous trying to do something to hurt the U.S. Intelligence community
Yes, how will we ever find Ayman al-Zawahiri if he isn't allowed to continue to post status updates and "check in" on Facebook. We would have gotten him too if it was for those meddling Anonymous and their dog!
I'm not sure what difference it would make, you'd be unlikely to go the way of the US. We kill each other more for a variety of social, racial and cultural reasons. The guns aren't really to blame, we have a higher non gun murder rate higher then meany European countries total murder rate. You could also just as easily point out the Swiss and Israel which have a plethora of fully automatic weapons and have a very low murder rate in order to make the opposite argument.
If "catching up" requires environmental changes that cause massive amounts of resources to be devoted to simply providing clean fresh-water instead of having it in abundance for free like most of the U.S. I'd damn well prefer to stay behind and have that time and money be used towards other pursuits.
Instead of going through all this wasted effort, how about we just fix computer security and be done with it?
And while we're at it we might as well throw in world peace, a world-wide end to hunger and a couple ponies. Sadly all of these could be accomplished by killing everyone....Well, maybe not the ponies.
What I find utterly amazing is that you believe me to be serious while at the same time somehow managing to explain why everything I said is actually a well known joke.
If backup generators were super efficient you'd be using them instead of paying for grid electricity. Efficiency isn't the point, keeping your food from spoiling during a power outage is.
I always took that motto on money to be short for "In God We trust, all others must pay cash". Seems like establishment of common sense, even if you don't believe there is such a thing as God.
Defense strategy notwithstanding, a lot of the places where we have military bases (Germany for example) give us generous benefits to keep them there because of all the business they bring to the local economies. You take all the people and businesses away and your left with a ghost town which a bunch of empty homes, barracks and office buildings that don't really server other purposes well. Even the local housing market would suffer as all the civilians that work on base and US Gov employees that are given stipends for housing up and leave. Plus all the businesses around the base that depend on their patronage immediately collapse. I'll grant you Japan might be different due to the value of space there, but I think Pacific bases have a much higher strategic value and would therefore be very low on the list.
While I don't know how I feel about the US situation this is a stupid question. You personally can't just decide to raise your salary so how do you save money and pay down debt? You spend less.
I see pretty stark differences in browsing, general UI of the phones, how it handles multi-tasking, battery life, battery management options, cameras, size and style of the phone, availability and quality of apps, standard keybaord vs the dragging the line thing, ect. And then there's the contracts and carriers besides. If you're not finding any perceived differences between the phones perhaps your just not that into phones like my grandparents aren't that into computers. They wouldn't see any perceived difference between a Mac, Windows Vista, or ubuntu box, they both have a monitor, you type with the keyboard move the cursor with a mouse and can browse the internet, so what could possibly set them apart? Must be solely branding.
To people who actually use a product, their experiences using the said product likely far outweighs stupid quotes by CEO's they've never dealt with. Really what your pointing out is a soundbtie used by people who already don't like the company to bash the product. It'll help dissuade people who have never used it before, but if you have lengthy experiences using a product that's going to be what you make your decision based off of.
Personally I don't like Steve Jobs, I don't like Apple and I don't like macs, but I do like my iphone. It's an old iphone 3g (no s), and since I got it way back when there's now a lot of competition where before there wasn't as much comparable, but the fact that my phone has worked really well over the last 3 years gives me confidence in further iterations of the product.
. I'm still flipping through the manifesto and a lot of it reads like what you would hear on Rush Limbaugh for the three hours that slime is on the air every day.
So it's 90% him advocating the "newest breakthrough" in hearing aids/arthritis medication?
Because they have seen that when a country has nuclear capability no one, especially the US, fucks with them.
Yea, we would definitely never ever fuck with Russia even a little bit in the entire history of it having nuclear weapons, and certainly not Pakistan since they're nuclear armed. Well at least we wouldn't bomb them. No? We're doing that? Oh. Well, maybe just a few missiles, but we would certainly never send any troops into their territory without permission and kill- oh? oh.....wait, never mind, what are we saying again?
Ack, just realized you were pointing out the same thing as me when in context with the posts above, apologies.
Union jobs tend to be lower paying jobs with little to no skill. I wouldn't consider a teaching job as little to no skill.
Neither would I consider air traffic controllers, nuclear plant engineers/workers, or GE draftsmen and engineers as having little to no skill. Maybe your understanding or perception of unions simply hasn't been updated from when you learned about them while covering the industrial revolution in history class?
People who need credit cards aren't managing their money well enough......instead of lines of credit, I have money in the bank. And I don't buy stupid stuff like I used to. Turns out, when it's "your money" you think a little more about how you spend it.
What you mean here, is people who don't use credit cards wisely, aren't managing their money well enough. I use credit cards for pretty much everything, but I use it just like I would real money, because it IS real money. Honestly I've never understood why everyone has such distinction problems between the two. To me it's just a convenient way to consolidate my bills so I'm not constantly having to move money in and out of my checking account. I don't like debit cards because the fact that the charge takes money out of my account before I can dispute it scares me. I realize you can still dispute charges and get it back but I like the feeling of safety I get from disputing charges while I still own the money rather then asking for it back. And I don't want to carry cash around.
currently adding on a youth center and a gym to "keep the kids out of sin."
Great Odin's Raven!!!! Someone needs to step in and do something before these fundamentalists go off the deep end and build a playground with a jungle gym/monkey bars! Everyone knows, the monkey bars are the KEY to training TERRORISTS!!!
Out of sheer curiosity, were you for how we ended the first gulf war?
If they want to carry around their entire collection on read-only material it'll make them that much easier to prosecute when they get caught.