It doesn't matter what you think of Trump or Obama. Neither of them were Hitler or Stalin or anything like that.
The things that Trump posts on twitter make me think he's aspiring to become like Stalin. The guy doesn't think he should have any oversight whatsoever.
They only build there because they have to. America is big and lots of it is sparsely populated. You should build new cities in better locations.
The San Francisco Bay Area is absolutely beautiful, though not what it was 20-30 years ago (imho). The weather is rarely too hot, or too cold. You almost never see anything close to a tornado, and definitely do not find hurricanes in that cold pacific water. The skies are blue, it rarely rains during the times of year that people want to be outside enjoying life. There is practically no humidity to deal with. It is one of the most beautiful and ideal places to live on the planet. No amount of government intervention would prevent people from wanting to live there. The only thing that could make that happen is for some sort of change upon the landscape that made habitation impossible.
At this point, the only thing I can hope for is that the RIAA and MPAA start going around suing ISPs after Net Neutrality is abolished. If Net Neutrality doesn't exist then the ISPs are no longer a common carrier under the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
I'm a different man than I was 6 months ago when I fucked your best friend. I've grown SOOO much since then!
They're being quite sincere here, thank you very much! Zuck has changed his plans from destroying society to controlling society. Zuck 2020. He was inspired by Trump himself.
Current regulations do not let them fly without anti-collision lights over US Airspace.
FAA regulations don't apply to military aircraft flying in military airspace.
That is not correct at all. Current military regulations requires all military aircraft to follow FAA regulations in US airspace, even when over military bases. They must fly with anti-collision lights over the US, barring extreme circumstances that do not include any sort of training exercise that I've ever watched. And I spent many years watching such exercises, even covert ones.
Kids are more resilient than you give them credit for. That said I think that the French ban sounds like an excellent idea. Smartphones are nothing but a distraction during the school day. They can play with them as much as they want after school hours.
Not my child. My child is a fragile, delicate masterpiece without flaw. I must hover over my child 24/7 to prevent any teacher, adult, child, or government organization from implying that my little piece of perfection might have a flaw. In order to do this, they must text and call me constantly throughout the day so that I can verify that no one is making such absurd allegations.
I know a guy who caused a few UFO sightings in his day. Army helicopter pilot, training on flying low and fast at night, all lights off, is following the terrain in Oklahoma when he spots a pickup cruising down a lonely road. He settles in for a bit of practice following a target at a consistent distance - and then when it's time to head back base, well, he flips on their multi-million-candlepower search light and banks hard to one side before flipping it back off.
How long ago was that? Current regulations do not let them fly without anti-collision lights over US Airspace. I've "watched" a helicopter that doesn't exist fly training missions simply because I was able to see the anti-collision strobes. Otherwise, I would have had no idea where the thing was, it's exhaust vents being designed to scatter sound and make it difficult to track the helicopter by sound.
They are definitely right. I haven't noticed the tracking. I don't open images in email, so I wouldn't notice that a 1x1 image was missing from an email. But then again, if my client reported unopened images and I didn't see a spot where an image ought to load, I would probably realize that whoever sent the email is attempting to track me.
I'm guessing when you say "no one had to wait" you actually mean "I didn't have to wait". From what I've seen, Starbucks prioritizes mobile orders. My personal experience has been that walk-ins now wait longer because the service personnel keep getting interrupted by new mobile orders.
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have you ever watched them make the drinks at Starbucks? They literally have a printer that prints out one label after another and the grab the bottom most label and start making that drink. What you don't realize, because you can't see them, is that those people placed their order before you and therefore were prioritized over you because their drinks could already be completed. And it's not always sunshine for the mobile orders, either. I used to travel a lot for work and had dozens of free drinks built up from expensing morning coffee at Starbucks. When that all ended, I decided to start using my free drinks while I was walking my dog in the mornings. I would place my order when we were 10 minutes away. This Starbucks was incredibly busy and the 5-7 minute drink queue was never that optimistic. Sometimes I'd wait 15+ minutes for the drink I had already paid for, only to see that people who were coming in after I had already arrived were getting their orders. It turned out that their queue would get so long that sometimes a label would touch the floor before they got to it and stick there. When that happened you had to interrupt someone and make them look on the floor so they could see they hadn't fulfilled your order. It was very irritating.
They will never show up to vote. Their mentality is, "If you are not perfect, there is no difference between the two candidates, I am going to stay home or vote for some useless candidate to send a message". They are easily defeated in elections.
Politicians can safely ignore them. And they do.
Oh you're one of those people who vote for someone because they are part of "your party"? You're easily ignored too. Politicians can say and do whatever they want because you're an automatic vote.
And, hey, thanks to the genius at Apple who decided to make the scroll bars disappear. Wouldn't want a user to know there was more to view in a window.
That genius must not even use a Mac. Have you ever tried to click the last item in Finder in a list view when the left/right scroll bar has disappeared? The second you click where the item is, the scroll bar magically appears over the top of it and you end up scrolling the window instead of selecting the item you want. Perfect usability.
I had to Google search how to turn off shuffle. The Music app is THAT bad.
The funny thing is that it did not used to be so. They also broke out audiobooks from the music app to the books app and the player there is terrible. If it crashes when you're 15 hours into an audiobook? Good luck finding your spot again. IF its one monolithic file, it goes right back to the beginning of your file. IF you have something like an.aa file, with chapters, it only dumps you right back to the beginning of the chapter. But when it was a part of the music app, it actually kept track of where you were in the book and, upon a crash, would start right back up where you left off (within a second or two).
The NK missile launch last week occurred with NO warning. They were able to fuel and prepare the missile for launch without detection.
That is incorrect. I read a news report out of Tokyo that NK appeared to be preparing for a ballistic missile test about 6 hours before the launch occurred. (Quick Googling find one such source here)
That's not to say that a surprise launch cannot occur, just that we have so far managed to detect them in advance.
Seriously, has anyone bothered monitoring packets from an Echo or Google Home using their router or Wireshark? If these devices ARE uploading voice data when you're not actually using it then it's not difficult to figure out.
As brought up above in re cell phones, they could store all of the audio for days before uploading it all in a single "Ok Google" request. There's really no way to know for certain just by monitoring when hits the servers. Though if you're using wireshark you should be able to tell how big the requests are. Do they seem to be relatively normal or is it sometimes sending large amounts of data?
But with that kind of range, maybe it would be enough just to find one in the city I was staying in and charge up before I went to the hotel.
Marriott seems to be working very hard to not only add a ton of EV charging stations, but to give them very convenient parking locations. The Marriott hotels I've stayed at in 2017 all seem to have 20+ charging stations. I don't know about other brands, however.
It depends on the situation. Since AFAIK is requires physical access to the computer, it wasn't really a problem for people with home computers. For people traveling with laptops, or workplaces with Macs, it was a huge security problem.
It was exploitable over remote desktop, but not over SSH. So, depending on how you have your computer configured, it may have been remotely exploitable (assuming VPN or local network connection, or an insecure router/firewall configuration)
I don't know about 1000, that would require a lot of material, and mass production capability, which I'm not sure they have setup. Though given the current climate that might prompt them to change that.
However I have heard the 3 month timeline and I believe it. They could most certainly have a bunch in short order if they really wanted to. Also they already have an advanced space program, so likely the jump from that to a delivery system is pretty minor also.
I assumed that meant the warheads themselves and not necessarily thousands of rockets to deliver them. Assuming they have enough material, I am positive they have an ample supply sophisticated CNC machines necessary to shape warheads and explosive charges used to initiate the fission reaction. I wouldn't be surprised if they have enough tritium to create hydrogen bombs, too.
I can understand if it let you in after hitting enter once, because then it's just ignoring something. If it denies entry the first few times and then lets you in, what do the *nix gurus think is happening after the first few denials to have it change its 'mind?
From my understanding, the first time it denies you access because there is no root account on the box. Once it fails to log you in, the OS is actually creating the root user. The second time it lets you log in with that user, which has no password. I've seen people say that if you do it on the login screen it immediately creates the account and lets you in without the failed password attempt.
I've seen various estimates showing that Japan could have nukes in short order if they desired. They have all of the relevant tech, the expertise, the money, and the raw materials. Certainly not advocated for them to build them, but it would likely be a relatively trivial exercise for them to develop nuclear arms.
I just came back from Asia and, according to Singapore TV news, Japan indicated last week that they can build over a thousand nuclear weapons in less than 3 months. They have everything ready to go, they have just not chosen to do so due to the fact that many of the citizens of Japan are strongly against nuclear weapons.
I have the feeling C++ is in no man's land. New mid-level code is written in C#/Java/Swift, high level in Javascript/Perl/Python/PHP/R and so on, low level code in C/assembler.
Seriously, this level of fanboi-ism gets modded up? Apple has yet to release a single version of Swift that hasn't included breaking changes from the previous version. As in, you can't even compile your code anymore kind of breaking changes. What professional would recommend a language that is constantly breaking itself? The only serious people that use Swift are those who work for Apple - they're forced to. Anyone else who uses Swift is either drinking too much Kool-Aid or a hobbyist.
And yes I am aware that they provide a refactor tool that fixes most compatibility issues. But it doesn't fix them all and there still is not ABI compatibility after 4 releases.
Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, perhaps every school district within Pennsylvania. These schools have sworn officers on the school grounds but they are barred from being armed with anything more than pepper spray, or perhaps, maybe, some other non-lethal device.
I just researched this issue and it is not the City of Pittsburgh or Philadelphia police that are barred from carrying weapons on these campuses. It is the school district's own police force that is forbidden to do so. Since the school districts employs these officers, they're well within their rights to determine what gear they use. But if the city police show up for any reason, they bring their usual equipment with them.
Of course! Oh, wait. That's actually not at all what I proposed. I propose that if the government declares a person unfit to defend themselves then the government is now responsible for their protection. This can mean imprisonment, residence in a mental health facility, or some other option that seems fitting. A government that denies the right of self defense and does not provide protection is, IMHO, borderline cruel and unusual punishment.
The government is not denying these people the ability to defend themselves, as I just stated. They are barring them from owning certain types of weapons, and rightfully so. I do believe we've made a mistake by decreasing the mental health services we provide but you cannot protect these people from everything. Life is dangerous and the only two guaranteed things in life are death and taxes. Again you sound incredibly paranoid.
So, suppose some woman, a schoolteacher, gets convicted of statutory rape for sleeping with one of her students. Certainly not a person of the best moral character but still a human being. She goes to prison for her crime and is now released. Let's say she finds work in a factory, works there for years, decades even, without any other criminal behavior. Now this middle aged woman is expected to defend herself from getting raped, mugged, or otherwise molested, while walking home from the factory in a bad part of town with what? Her "physical disability" is being a woman over 50. She's still a convicted felon, but does she get to own a gun? Every felon gets old and weak at some point. Is there an age limit for being a convicted felon and getting their right of self defense back?
At that point in her life she is perfectly capable of asking for a waiver. She can have a hearing with the BATF or her state to be granted an exception for owning a gun. That exception is very likely to be granted for a non-violent offender. Some states automatically grant the exception to any felon who has committed a non-violent crime and have not been re-incarcerated for a specific period of time. The world is a dangerous place, and not just because there are bad people in this world. The fact of the matter is that you, myself, and this hypothetical woman are all more likely to die in an accident than in a violent crime.
You do know those people are quite rare, right? However, when one of them becomes a problem there is no one in that school able to stop this person from causing harm to everyone in that school. When seconds count the police are minutes away. This ban on armed people in schools creates the very problem they are supposed to prevent. If you want to keep armed bad people from the schools then you need armed good people inside before they get there.
As I've said, you can easily provide barricades, steel reinforced doors, etc for classrooms. Even if you have armed parents or teachers you can still have many people shot before anyone has time to react. And again, how do you tell the good guy from the bad guy when you see two civilians shooting at each other?
Israel has armed staff in all of their schools, they have to because of the threats they get. The criminals learned to say VERY far aw
Is it reasonable to let someone out of prison and prevent them from being able to defend themselves from criminals? I don't think so.
Then perhaps the question was not posed properly. Again, how reasonable is it to release a person from prison and deny them the right to defend their property, family, or their own life? Whether that be from animals or snakes, including the ones that walk on two legs?
Are you proposing that people with mental illnesses need to either be incarcerated or given guns? They did not choose their mental illness. Is it fair to prevent them from defending themselves? Ex-felons did choose to commit their crimes. Furthermore, you can continue to defend yourself without a gun unless you have some sort of physical disability that prevents it. Can you defend yourself in the case of an armed robbery? No, perhaps not. But if someone is already pointing a gun at you, you may not be able to defend yourself with a gun either. You seem to be arguing that we should permanently incarcerate criminals and the mentally ill.
Why the focus on "gun crime"? Should we not be concerned about *ALL* crime?
Of course we should be concerned with all crime. However, you yourself just pointed out the fact that violent crime often has irreparable effects on its victims. This is why it's of such great concern.
How does preventing school officials and parents from carrying a firearm on schools stop an animal in human skin from shooting down a school door and killing everyone inside?
Well, for one thing, it makes any parent or school official carrying a weapon an obvious criminal and threat. You do know that parents and school officials sometimes are the perpetrators of attacks on students and school officials, right? And I know that my school had an armed police officer at it at least 3-4 hours every day. I don't think anyone has ever said that a law enforcement officer ought to be disarmed at school. While a law enforcement officer could perpetuate a violent crime at a school I would argue that it's far less likely to occur than a teacher going in and shooting the office staff or a parent going in and shooting a teacher.
I'm pretty sure that an armed parent or teacher inside would be at least a deterrent to someone attempting this. Quite likely save a lot of children too.
It's possible, you're right. It's also possible that it would make matters worse. How many children do we see shoot themselves or others because their parents can't even figure out how to safely store a gun? I'm sorry but so many people are irresponsible and idiots. They have no requirement for training on marksmanship or proper use of deadly force. They do not need to be walking around a school like a vigilante.
This is what is seriously fucked up. We'll let those guys carrying cash to fill ATMs have guns but the police officers that protect the lives of our children are rarely armed.
Can you name a school district that does not allow law enforcement to be armed on campus? Because I don't believe that a school district even has the authority to enact such a rule. And someone carrying around $300,000 in cash is far more likely to be a target to a criminal than a school kid. The people who attack schools do so because they have serious mental health problems. There is zero benefit to a normal criminal to attack a school. It just means that he'll have a really tough time in prison if he survives. There's a hierarchy in prison and those who hurt women and children are not looked upon kindly, even by other criminals.
We can print another dollar bill just like one that was destroyed or stolen , we can't just print another child if one was taken from their parents. That says a lot about where our values lie as a nation. We'll defend our cash with lethal force but the people tasked with defending the next gen
Part of the reason why dolphins aren't winning Nobel prizes yet (apart from obvious specie-ism) is also because they have brain better adapted to their harsh environment (cold seas). Part of their brain size isn't due to neurons working to make them intelligent, but to all the other support cells making sure that the brain keeps working without any problem under circumstances where a human would have been frozen.
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It doesn't matter what you think of Trump or Obama. Neither of them were Hitler or Stalin or anything like that.
The things that Trump posts on twitter make me think he's aspiring to become like Stalin. The guy doesn't think he should have any oversight whatsoever.
The customers already pay for that "data that floods their network". Should Comcast and Verizon get paid twice for the same data?
And how do I sign up for this racket where I get paid twice for every day I show up for work? I want in on this scheme.
They only build there because they have to. America is big and lots of it is sparsely populated. You should build new cities in better locations.
The San Francisco Bay Area is absolutely beautiful, though not what it was 20-30 years ago (imho). The weather is rarely too hot, or too cold. You almost never see anything close to a tornado, and definitely do not find hurricanes in that cold pacific water. The skies are blue, it rarely rains during the times of year that people want to be outside enjoying life. There is practically no humidity to deal with. It is one of the most beautiful and ideal places to live on the planet. No amount of government intervention would prevent people from wanting to live there. The only thing that could make that happen is for some sort of change upon the landscape that made habitation impossible.
At this point, the only thing I can hope for is that the RIAA and MPAA start going around suing ISPs after Net Neutrality is abolished. If Net Neutrality doesn't exist then the ISPs are no longer a common carrier under the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
I'm a different man than I was 6 months ago when I fucked your best friend. I've grown SOOO much since then!
They're being quite sincere here, thank you very much! Zuck has changed his plans from destroying society to controlling society. Zuck 2020. He was inspired by Trump himself.
Current regulations do not let them fly without anti-collision lights over US Airspace.
FAA regulations don't apply to military aircraft flying in military airspace.
That is not correct at all. Current military regulations requires all military aircraft to follow FAA regulations in US airspace, even when over military bases. They must fly with anti-collision lights over the US, barring extreme circumstances that do not include any sort of training exercise that I've ever watched. And I spent many years watching such exercises, even covert ones.
Kids are more resilient than you give them credit for. That said I think that the French ban sounds like an excellent idea. Smartphones are nothing but a distraction during the school day. They can play with them as much as they want after school hours.
Not my child. My child is a fragile, delicate masterpiece without flaw. I must hover over my child 24/7 to prevent any teacher, adult, child, or government organization from implying that my little piece of perfection might have a flaw. In order to do this, they must text and call me constantly throughout the day so that I can verify that no one is making such absurd allegations.
I know a guy who caused a few UFO sightings in his day. Army helicopter pilot, training on flying low and fast at night, all lights off, is following the terrain in Oklahoma when he spots a pickup cruising down a lonely road. He settles in for a bit of practice following a target at a consistent distance - and then when it's time to head back base, well, he flips on their multi-million-candlepower search light and banks hard to one side before flipping it back off.
How long ago was that? Current regulations do not let them fly without anti-collision lights over US Airspace. I've "watched" a helicopter that doesn't exist fly training missions simply because I was able to see the anti-collision strobes. Otherwise, I would have had no idea where the thing was, it's exhaust vents being designed to scatter sound and make it difficult to track the helicopter by sound.
They are definitely right. I haven't noticed the tracking. I don't open images in email, so I wouldn't notice that a 1x1 image was missing from an email. But then again, if my client reported unopened images and I didn't see a spot where an image ought to load, I would probably realize that whoever sent the email is attempting to track me.
I'm guessing when you say "no one had to wait" you actually mean "I didn't have to wait". From what I've seen, Starbucks prioritizes mobile orders. My personal experience has been that walk-ins now wait longer because the service personnel keep getting interrupted by new mobile orders.
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have you ever watched them make the drinks at Starbucks? They literally have a printer that prints out one label after another and the grab the bottom most label and start making that drink. What you don't realize, because you can't see them, is that those people placed their order before you and therefore were prioritized over you because their drinks could already be completed. And it's not always sunshine for the mobile orders, either. I used to travel a lot for work and had dozens of free drinks built up from expensing morning coffee at Starbucks. When that all ended, I decided to start using my free drinks while I was walking my dog in the mornings. I would place my order when we were 10 minutes away. This Starbucks was incredibly busy and the 5-7 minute drink queue was never that optimistic. Sometimes I'd wait 15+ minutes for the drink I had already paid for, only to see that people who were coming in after I had already arrived were getting their orders. It turned out that their queue would get so long that sometimes a label would touch the floor before they got to it and stick there. When that happened you had to interrupt someone and make them look on the floor so they could see they hadn't fulfilled your order. It was very irritating.
They will never show up to vote. Their mentality is, "If you are not perfect, there is no difference between the two candidates, I am going to stay home or vote for some useless candidate to send a message". They are easily defeated in elections.
Politicians can safely ignore them. And they do.
Oh you're one of those people who vote for someone because they are part of "your party"? You're easily ignored too. Politicians can say and do whatever they want because you're an automatic vote.
And, hey, thanks to the genius at Apple who decided to make the scroll bars disappear. Wouldn't want a user to know there was more to view in a window.
That genius must not even use a Mac. Have you ever tried to click the last item in Finder in a list view when the left/right scroll bar has disappeared? The second you click where the item is, the scroll bar magically appears over the top of it and you end up scrolling the window instead of selecting the item you want. Perfect usability.
I once had shuffle turned on by accident.
I had to Google search how to turn off shuffle. The Music app is THAT bad.
The funny thing is that it did not used to be so. They also broke out audiobooks from the music app to the books app and the player there is terrible. If it crashes when you're 15 hours into an audiobook? Good luck finding your spot again. IF its one monolithic file, it goes right back to the beginning of your file. IF you have something like an .aa file, with chapters, it only dumps you right back to the beginning of the chapter. But when it was a part of the music app, it actually kept track of where you were in the book and, upon a crash, would start right back up where you left off (within a second or two).
The NK missile launch last week occurred with NO warning. They were able to fuel and prepare the missile for launch without detection.
That is incorrect. I read a news report out of Tokyo that NK appeared to be preparing for a ballistic missile test about 6 hours before the launch occurred. (Quick Googling find one such source here)
That's not to say that a surprise launch cannot occur, just that we have so far managed to detect them in advance.
Also, to be fair, Christ never built a bitching hot rod.
How do you know?? He was a carpenter. For all you know he built the fastest chariot that Ben Hur ever saw.
Seriously, has anyone bothered monitoring packets from an Echo or Google Home using their router or Wireshark? If these devices ARE uploading voice data when you're not actually using it then it's not difficult to figure out.
As brought up above in re cell phones, they could store all of the audio for days before uploading it all in a single "Ok Google" request. There's really no way to know for certain just by monitoring when hits the servers. Though if you're using wireshark you should be able to tell how big the requests are. Do they seem to be relatively normal or is it sometimes sending large amounts of data?
But with that kind of range, maybe it would be enough just to find one in the city I was staying in and charge up before I went to the hotel.
Marriott seems to be working very hard to not only add a ton of EV charging stations, but to give them very convenient parking locations. The Marriott hotels I've stayed at in 2017 all seem to have 20+ charging stations. I don't know about other brands, however.
It depends on the situation. Since AFAIK is requires physical access to the computer, it wasn't really a problem for people with home computers. For people traveling with laptops, or workplaces with Macs, it was a huge security problem.
It was exploitable over remote desktop, but not over SSH. So, depending on how you have your computer configured, it may have been remotely exploitable (assuming VPN or local network connection, or an insecure router/firewall configuration)
I don't know about 1000, that would require a lot of material, and mass production capability, which I'm not sure they have setup. Though given the current climate that might prompt them to change that.
However I have heard the 3 month timeline and I believe it. They could most certainly have a bunch in short order if they really wanted to. Also they already have an advanced space program, so likely the jump from that to a delivery system is pretty minor also.
I assumed that meant the warheads themselves and not necessarily thousands of rockets to deliver them. Assuming they have enough material, I am positive they have an ample supply sophisticated CNC machines necessary to shape warheads and explosive charges used to initiate the fission reaction. I wouldn't be surprised if they have enough tritium to create hydrogen bombs, too.
I can understand if it let you in after hitting enter once, because then it's just ignoring something. If it denies entry the first few times and then lets you in, what do the *nix gurus think is happening after the first few denials to have it change its 'mind?
From my understanding, the first time it denies you access because there is no root account on the box. Once it fails to log you in, the OS is actually creating the root user. The second time it lets you log in with that user, which has no password. I've seen people say that if you do it on the login screen it immediately creates the account and lets you in without the failed password attempt.
I've seen various estimates showing that Japan could have nukes in short order if they desired. They have all of the relevant tech, the expertise, the money, and the raw materials. Certainly not advocated for them to build them, but it would likely be a relatively trivial exercise for them to develop nuclear arms.
I just came back from Asia and, according to Singapore TV news, Japan indicated last week that they can build over a thousand nuclear weapons in less than 3 months. They have everything ready to go, they have just not chosen to do so due to the fact that many of the citizens of Japan are strongly against nuclear weapons.
I have the feeling C++ is in no man's land. New mid-level code is written in C#/Java/Swift, high level in Javascript/Perl/Python/PHP/R and so on, low level code in C/assembler.
Seriously, this level of fanboi-ism gets modded up? Apple has yet to release a single version of Swift that hasn't included breaking changes from the previous version. As in, you can't even compile your code anymore kind of breaking changes. What professional would recommend a language that is constantly breaking itself? The only serious people that use Swift are those who work for Apple - they're forced to. Anyone else who uses Swift is either drinking too much Kool-Aid or a hobbyist.
And yes I am aware that they provide a refactor tool that fixes most compatibility issues. But it doesn't fix them all and there still is not ABI compatibility after 4 releases.
Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, perhaps every school district within Pennsylvania. These schools have sworn officers on the school grounds but they are barred from being armed with anything more than pepper spray, or perhaps, maybe, some other non-lethal device.
I just researched this issue and it is not the City of Pittsburgh or Philadelphia police that are barred from carrying weapons on these campuses. It is the school district's own police force that is forbidden to do so. Since the school districts employs these officers, they're well within their rights to determine what gear they use. But if the city police show up for any reason, they bring their usual equipment with them.
Of course! Oh, wait. That's actually not at all what I proposed. I propose that if the government declares a person unfit to defend themselves then the government is now responsible for their protection. This can mean imprisonment, residence in a mental health facility, or some other option that seems fitting. A government that denies the right of self defense and does not provide protection is, IMHO, borderline cruel and unusual punishment.
The government is not denying these people the ability to defend themselves, as I just stated. They are barring them from owning certain types of weapons, and rightfully so. I do believe we've made a mistake by decreasing the mental health services we provide but you cannot protect these people from everything. Life is dangerous and the only two guaranteed things in life are death and taxes. Again you sound incredibly paranoid.
So, suppose some woman, a schoolteacher, gets convicted of statutory rape for sleeping with one of her students. Certainly not a person of the best moral character but still a human being. She goes to prison for her crime and is now released. Let's say she finds work in a factory, works there for years, decades even, without any other criminal behavior. Now this middle aged woman is expected to defend herself from getting raped, mugged, or otherwise molested, while walking home from the factory in a bad part of town with what? Her "physical disability" is being a woman over 50. She's still a convicted felon, but does she get to own a gun? Every felon gets old and weak at some point. Is there an age limit for being a convicted felon and getting their right of self defense back?
At that point in her life she is perfectly capable of asking for a waiver. She can have a hearing with the BATF or her state to be granted an exception for owning a gun. That exception is very likely to be granted for a non-violent offender. Some states automatically grant the exception to any felon who has committed a non-violent crime and have not been re-incarcerated for a specific period of time. The world is a dangerous place, and not just because there are bad people in this world. The fact of the matter is that you, myself, and this hypothetical woman are all more likely to die in an accident than in a violent crime.
You do know those people are quite rare, right? However, when one of them becomes a problem there is no one in that school able to stop this person from causing harm to everyone in that school. When seconds count the police are minutes away. This ban on armed people in schools creates the very problem they are supposed to prevent. If you want to keep armed bad people from the schools then you need armed good people inside before they get there.
As I've said, you can easily provide barricades, steel reinforced doors, etc for classrooms. Even if you have armed parents or teachers you can still have many people shot before anyone has time to react. And again, how do you tell the good guy from the bad guy when you see two civilians shooting at each other?
Israel has armed staff in all of their schools, they have to because of the threats they get. The criminals learned to say VERY far aw
Is it reasonable to let someone out of prison and prevent them from being able to defend themselves from criminals? I don't think so.
Then perhaps the question was not posed properly. Again, how reasonable is it to release a person from prison and deny them the right to defend their property, family, or their own life? Whether that be from animals or snakes, including the ones that walk on two legs?
Are you proposing that people with mental illnesses need to either be incarcerated or given guns? They did not choose their mental illness. Is it fair to prevent them from defending themselves? Ex-felons did choose to commit their crimes. Furthermore, you can continue to defend yourself without a gun unless you have some sort of physical disability that prevents it. Can you defend yourself in the case of an armed robbery? No, perhaps not. But if someone is already pointing a gun at you, you may not be able to defend yourself with a gun either. You seem to be arguing that we should permanently incarcerate criminals and the mentally ill.
Why the focus on "gun crime"? Should we not be concerned about *ALL* crime?
Of course we should be concerned with all crime. However, you yourself just pointed out the fact that violent crime often has irreparable effects on its victims. This is why it's of such great concern.
How does preventing school officials and parents from carrying a firearm on schools stop an animal in human skin from shooting down a school door and killing everyone inside?
Well, for one thing, it makes any parent or school official carrying a weapon an obvious criminal and threat. You do know that parents and school officials sometimes are the perpetrators of attacks on students and school officials, right? And I know that my school had an armed police officer at it at least 3-4 hours every day. I don't think anyone has ever said that a law enforcement officer ought to be disarmed at school. While a law enforcement officer could perpetuate a violent crime at a school I would argue that it's far less likely to occur than a teacher going in and shooting the office staff or a parent going in and shooting a teacher.
I'm pretty sure that an armed parent or teacher inside would be at least a deterrent to someone attempting this. Quite likely save a lot of children too.
It's possible, you're right. It's also possible that it would make matters worse. How many children do we see shoot themselves or others because their parents can't even figure out how to safely store a gun? I'm sorry but so many people are irresponsible and idiots. They have no requirement for training on marksmanship or proper use of deadly force. They do not need to be walking around a school like a vigilante.
This is what is seriously fucked up. We'll let those guys carrying cash to fill ATMs have guns but the police officers that protect the lives of our children are rarely armed.
Can you name a school district that does not allow law enforcement to be armed on campus? Because I don't believe that a school district even has the authority to enact such a rule. And someone carrying around $300,000 in cash is far more likely to be a target to a criminal than a school kid. The people who attack schools do so because they have serious mental health problems. There is zero benefit to a normal criminal to attack a school. It just means that he'll have a really tough time in prison if he survives. There's a hierarchy in prison and those who hurt women and children are not looked upon kindly, even by other criminals.
We can print another dollar bill just like one that was destroyed or stolen , we can't just print another child if one was taken from their parents. That says a lot about where our values lie as a nation. We'll defend our cash with lethal force but the people tasked with defending the next gen
Part of the reason why dolphins aren't winning Nobel prizes yet (apart from obvious specie-ism) is also because they have brain better adapted to their harsh environment (cold seas). Part of their brain size isn't due to neurons working to make them intelligent, but to all the other support cells making sure that the brain keeps working without any problem under circumstances where a human would have been frozen.
So long, and thanks for all the fish!