It's not that guns are the only way to cause mass death and fear, it is that they make it easier.
Nutcase+ability to do lots of damage=a bad day. If we reduce the number of nutcases (by making access to mental health more prevalent) and reduce the number of ways to create lots of damage (partly by restricting guns) then we will reduce the number of bad days we have.
If only there was some way we could make decisions based on the specific details of the particular circumstance rather than relying on some universal ideals about what should happen every time. We'd have to hire a whole force of people to go about and look at specific situations and police what happens.
We know better than to try to argument with you. You hold a position in which you are emotionally invested. All we have is a bunch of statistics showing how welfare helps out the entire population, examples of people who really needed the welfare and who are now back on their feet and have become productive members of society and historical accounts of the fortunes of welfare states against non-welfare states. We know that these facts are no match for your completely made up stats and feelings of loss toward the people who are abusing the system.
It's not about punishing people. These are people who hold absolutely no value to society, and allowing them to keep living is just a waste of perfectly good oxygen.
There's good versions, and bad versions. They don't follow much of a pattern except that the good versions are usually refinements of a bad version rather than a major change.
That leads to the good/bad pattern. 95 was bad, then 98 was a refinement which was good. ME was bad then XP was the refinement that was good. Vista was bad, then 7 was the refinement that was good. 8 is bad so maybe soon we'll get a refinement that is good.
I've thought sometimes about starting a business venture: all the technology in the 250GTO is old enough now that I could easily build one identical to the originals. Any patents have long expired, and as long as I don't put a "Ferrari" badge on it I should be able to skirt any trademark issues. I'm sure there are enough people willing to buy something like that to make it worthwhile.
I'm not so sure about that... my kid is constantly surprising me when she brings up something that happened months ago. I thought nothing of it at the time, but she's obviously been thinking about it and finally decided to ask about it.
Well it was a bit circular in development. We have hands, so wee develop tools we can use with our hands, then practice using these tools makes us better at it...
I think his point was more that our hand/are/ adaptable, breaking your fingers often increases their strength and makes them less likely to break in future, where playing the piano causes them to develop fine control muscles which makes you a better pianist.
They're probably looking for videos talking about how good Islam is and getting the blasphemous videos instead. I know the reverse often happens to me.
Lego don't even need to short the classic sets. If people are willing to pay these extreme prices for the sets it means that they are in demand. It makes sense for a company to produce and sell products which are in demand.
If Google have so offended you by putting them a manuscript on the internet, you should email them. I'm sure they will be happy to refund you the money you spent on it and reimburse you for the time you spent helping them do it. As lucm mentioned: what have you done to bring the Da Vinci manuscripts to the world?
Whether you believe in the sky-wizard or not, lots of people do and understanding exactly what they believe and why they believe it is the first step toward helping them.
I thought your comment started out with people writing on especially expensive meat (given the comment you were replying to it made sense.)
As I read your comment anyway I may as well reply. A good example is the pork/shellfish restrictions in the bible. It was very important for the people back then to not eat these as they quickly go bad in the desert and will make you very sick. These days we have refrigeration readily available so it's not so much of a concern. We should be preserving this knowledge and applying it to the way we choose to live our lives, but we should be doing that in the context of all the knowledge we've gained in the intervening millennia.
You must be associating with some very maladjusted people. Most cultures I have encountered treat other cultures methods of dealing with their grief with respect.
They used a taser, so they didn't care about injuring her. Also, the lady was only 80 pounds and I've subdued a 9 year old without injury who was getting close to that weight.
While I agree that we really don't want to descend into all out anarchy we can't fight the power through the courts and the media unless other people are willing to fight them physically to give us things to show.
Using a taser is at least equivalent to smacking someone in the face with a batton. If the policeman had thrown the lady over his shoulder and carried her out we'd all be laughing about it now, but he decided to be a dick and electrocute her, which has lead us to this discussion.
I still don't understand why a bottle of milk is a half gallon, while a bottle of soda is 2L. Or why the engine in my car is 3.0L but the gas tank is 14 gallons.
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These guys aren't going to whack themselves.
They will probably whack themselves off, does that count for anything?
It's not that guns are the only way to cause mass death and fear, it is that they make it easier.
Nutcase+ability to do lots of damage=a bad day. If we reduce the number of nutcases (by making access to mental health more prevalent) and reduce the number of ways to create lots of damage (partly by restricting guns) then we will reduce the number of bad days we have.
You're smart person
probably knows how to spell.
If only there was some way we could make decisions based on the specific details of the particular circumstance rather than relying on some universal ideals about what should happen every time. We'd have to hire a whole force of people to go about and look at specific situations and police what happens.
If you learned to spell you might be able to get a job. Aloud means audible, allowed is what you are permitted.
We know better than to try to argument with you. You hold a position in which you are emotionally invested. All we have is a bunch of statistics showing how welfare helps out the entire population, examples of people who really needed the welfare and who are now back on their feet and have become productive members of society and historical accounts of the fortunes of welfare states against non-welfare states. We know that these facts are no match for your completely made up stats and feelings of loss toward the people who are abusing the system.
It's not about punishing people. These are people who hold absolutely no value to society, and allowing them to keep living is just a waste of perfectly good oxygen.
Also, in the rest of Texas there's the joke that Austin isn't really part of Texas, it's a colony from California.
There's good versions, and bad versions. They don't follow much of a pattern except that the good versions are usually refinements of a bad version rather than a major change.
That leads to the good/bad pattern. 95 was bad, then 98 was a refinement which was good. ME was bad then XP was the refinement that was good. Vista was bad, then 7 was the refinement that was good. 8 is bad so maybe soon we'll get a refinement that is good.
I've thought sometimes about starting a business venture: all the technology in the 250GTO is old enough now that I could easily build one identical to the originals. Any patents have long expired, and as long as I don't put a "Ferrari" badge on it I should be able to skirt any trademark issues. I'm sure there are enough people willing to buy something like that to make it worthwhile.
Exactly what I came here to say. Government regulates a lot of things and does most of them quite well.
I'm not so sure about that... my kid is constantly surprising me when she brings up something that happened months ago. I thought nothing of it at the time, but she's obviously been thinking about it and finally decided to ask about it.
Well it was a bit circular in development. We have hands, so wee develop tools we can use with our hands, then practice using these tools makes us better at it...
I think his point was more that our hand /are/ adaptable, breaking your fingers often increases their strength and makes them less likely to break in future, where playing the piano causes them to develop fine control muscles which makes you a better pianist.
They're probably looking for videos talking about how good Islam is and getting the blasphemous videos instead. I know the reverse often happens to me.
Lego don't even need to short the classic sets. If people are willing to pay these extreme prices for the sets it means that they are in demand. It makes sense for a company to produce and sell products which are in demand.
+1 whoosh?
He didn't add "you dead" to the statement, he only added "dead".
If Google have so offended you by putting them a manuscript on the internet, you should email them. I'm sure they will be happy to refund you the money you spent on it and reimburse you for the time you spent helping them do it. As lucm mentioned: what have you done to bring the Da Vinci manuscripts to the world?
Whether you believe in the sky-wizard or not, lots of people do and understanding exactly what they believe and why they believe it is the first step toward helping them.
I thought your comment started out with people writing on especially expensive meat (given the comment you were replying to it made sense.)
As I read your comment anyway I may as well reply. A good example is the pork/shellfish restrictions in the bible. It was very important for the people back then to not eat these as they quickly go bad in the desert and will make you very sick. These days we have refrigeration readily available so it's not so much of a concern. We should be preserving this knowledge and applying it to the way we choose to live our lives, but we should be doing that in the context of all the knowledge we've gained in the intervening millennia.
face it, Iran isn't exactly a socialist heaven. neither was ussr. plenty of asshats liked to think so just to spite the western establishment though.
Compared to the libertarian paradise of Somalia?
You must be associating with some very maladjusted people. Most cultures I have encountered treat other cultures methods of dealing with their grief with respect.
while avoiding injuring them
They used a taser, so they didn't care about injuring her. Also, the lady was only 80 pounds and I've subdued a 9 year old without injury who was getting close to that weight.
While I agree that we really don't want to descend into all out anarchy we can't fight the power through the courts and the media unless other people are willing to fight them physically to give us things to show.
Using a taser is at least equivalent to smacking someone in the face with a batton. If the policeman had thrown the lady over his shoulder and carried her out we'd all be laughing about it now, but he decided to be a dick and electrocute her, which has lead us to this discussion.
I still don't understand why a bottle of milk is a half gallon, while a bottle of soda is 2L. Or why the engine in my car is 3.0L but the gas tank is 14 gallons.
Maybe that's the reason we use 000 in Australia.