While on the subject of women and pink guns, here is a video of a properly trained girl using a pink gun for its intended purpose: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiiQQP4-Ijw
What would have been the outcome if the girl hadn't had that cute gun, or hadn't been trained to use it properly?
Your comment about "women and gays" makes it difficult to take seriously your more valid criticisms.
I will admit I wasn't trying to be serious with that comment. I am in fact 100% in favor of women and gays having as many guns as they want in whatever color they prefer, as long as they join the NRA ASAP and receive adequate training in their safe and proper use.
Hitting a target with real guns is a lot harder than hollywood would like us to believe. The reason is that real guns have a lot of recoil, while hollywood guns do not. This video illustrates my point very well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXfg5o1ZVq4
I doubt, but would be interested to see any research, that any changes to the colour of a gun would have much effect on their attractiveness to children.
Go to the toy section of any store and take close notice of the colors used by the toys and the toy packaging. I assure you there is plenty of reliable research behind those choices. I agree that guns need to be kept away from children reach regardless of color, except at the shooting range under close supervision and with proper training.
Regulating the color of firearms probably could pass constitutional muster, and it could immediately make it clear that a particular firearm was not legal. I think it would also have a huge impact on sales to the "macho" crowd..
For some strange reason gun control people like to assume criminals obey the law. They are wrong. "If we make all guns illegal then criminals will have to get rid of them" the naive gun control folks think. In most places there are already laws that prohibit criminals from owning guns. Passing more of the same won't change anything.
Nothing would prevent criminals from paining their existing guns pink in order to make them look legit if they wish to do so. However, since most criminals carry their guns concealed, it really doesn't matter much to them what the gun color is.
There might be kids out there who get guns to look macho or cool, but for the vast majority of legal gun owners a gun is nothing more than the right tool for the right job. A gun serves the same purpose as an electric drill, which is to make small holes on different targets. The gun is better than the electric drill when the holes need to be made at some distance from the target. This is sometimes necessary, such as when you return home and find a stranger hidding in one of the rooms waiting to ambush you (happened to me once).
I think cops would look cute with pink firearms.
Then why not start a whitehouse petition asking for cops to wear pink uniforms too?
And "gang bangers" might just look silly
If gang bangers start teasing each other over their pink guns this will surely lead to even more gun violence.
Per TFA, the female fruit flies prefer laying their eggs on alcohol containing food when the killer female wasps are around, but prefer non-alcoholic food when there are no wasps or when only male wasps are around. They can even tell the difference between different species of wasp. That is smarter than some people I know, let me tell you.
The modern degree sends a message that you are a herd animal, to the point that you will stay with the herd even to the point of your own financial ruin.
Exactly. That is why when I look for a lawyer, dentist or doctor I make sure they didn't go to college. If I see any degrees hanging on the wall during the first visit I am out there ASAP!
The majority of the people that take the shot end up sick within 72 hours.
Obviously you have no idea how vaccines work. Please do a google search on this subject and you will understand why feeling some sickness shortly after taking a vaccine is a sign the vaccine is doing its job.
One last thing, why do most doctors and nurses refuse to take the vaccine???
False. Most doctors and nurses do take the flu vaccine. Some do object but it is due to various reasons, including allergy to the vaccine and religious beliefs.
I had the flu shot this year and still got the flu a couple months later. However it was a mild case of flu, so I think the vaccine did some good. I go to the gym regularly several times a week and take exercise classes as well as use the exercise machines. In the exercise clases I am exposed to plenty of sweaty and less than sterile mats, dumbells, balance balls, etc, and we lay on the floors a lot. Perhaps it was unrealistic to think a vacine could completely protect me from that much exposure to germs.
This will drastically increase the number of women and gays who own guns. Do you really want your girlfriend or gayfriend to have a loaded pink gun during their monthly PMS time?
This will also make dangerous guns look like attractive toys to children. Why in the world would anybody want that?
Finally, this will create a huge black market for non-pink guns. If the gov can't keep controlled substances from the streets, what makes you think they can keep non-pink guns from the streets?
We've known for some time that reusable grocery bags were like keyboards - absolutely filthy.
I think they need to look at the cooking habits of the people there. Cooking kiils germs, but maybe the enlightened people of San Francisco are more likely to eat food raw for the sake of the planet?
Hooray, instead of working they now can live on the street and starve to death.
Not necessarily. According to TFA:
When new violations are found, Apple requires its suppliers to return the workers back to a school chosen by the family and finance their education. "In addition, the children must continue to receive income matching what they received when they were employed. We also follow up regularly to ensure that the children remain in school and that the suppliers continue to uphold their financial commitment," wrote Apple in its latest report.
Of course I have no idea if those lofty goals actually happen or not.
If grandma is going to sit at the normal 6 to 8 feet from the 1080p HDTV, I am not sure the text will be any more legible than on a 1080p 10 inch android tablet held 1 foot from here face.
With a tablet-only solution the touch screen can provide a less intimidating and more intuitive user interface than a linux PC + mouse would.
Finally, the tablet-only solution is a far more portable and uncomplicated setup. Grandma can read her paper books anywhere she wants (car, bus, train, front porch, doctor office waiting room, etc) using a tablet instead of always having to use the room where the big hdtv + clunky linux PC + clunky webcam + clunky mouse + table for the mouse happen to be.
What these 4k TVs would be immediatelly useful for is to allow families to watch up to four 1080p video channels simultaneously. The wife, husband, and 2.5 kids can all watch their favorite channels at the same time on a single large 4k screen. Of course these TVs should include a remote control for each tuner, and some way to distribute 4 independent audio outputs, maybe via bluetooth or something similar.
Just because iron might be abundant in asteroids that doesn't mean it is a good idea to harvest and process it in space. It would make more sense to build the infrastructure to harvest the lighter metals such as aluminum and magnesium. Those can then be used to build not just space stations but also the spacecrafts capable of landing on and taking off from Mars.
This isn't such a bad idea. Think about how much suffering and bloodshed could have been prevented in Iran if the hard line clerics had been able to use an emergency kill switch for the internet during their last election.
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In the old days kings used to lead their soldiers into battle. In modern times this is impractical and counterproductive.
The vicepresident doesn't have much to do. Why not send him or her to lead the charge into battle? I think VP Cheney would have loved that.
To win, you have to kill the enemy. To kill the enemy, you need efficient soldiers who are committed to the mission.
To win all you have to do is persuade the enemy to give up fighting. That is how the USA lost the wars in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.
What would have been the outcome if the girl hadn't had that cute gun, or hadn't been trained to use it properly?
Your comment about "women and gays" makes it difficult to take seriously your more valid criticisms.
I will admit I wasn't trying to be serious with that comment. I am in fact 100% in favor of women and gays having as many guns as they want in whatever color they prefer, as long as they join the NRA ASAP and receive adequate training in their safe and proper use. Hitting a target with real guns is a lot harder than hollywood would like us to believe. The reason is that real guns have a lot of recoil, while hollywood guns do not. This video illustrates my point very well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXfg5o1ZVq4
I doubt, but would be interested to see any research, that any changes to the colour of a gun would have much effect on their attractiveness to children.
Go to the toy section of any store and take close notice of the colors used by the toys and the toy packaging. I assure you there is plenty of reliable research behind those choices. I agree that guns need to be kept away from children reach regardless of color, except at the shooting range under close supervision and with proper training.
Regulating the color of firearms probably could pass constitutional muster, and it could immediately make it clear that a particular firearm was not legal. I think it would also have a huge impact on sales to the "macho" crowd. .
For some strange reason gun control people like to assume criminals obey the law. They are wrong. "If we make all guns illegal then criminals will have to get rid of them" the naive gun control folks think. In most places there are already laws that prohibit criminals from owning guns. Passing more of the same won't change anything.
Nothing would prevent criminals from paining their existing guns pink in order to make them look legit if they wish to do so. However, since most criminals carry their guns concealed, it really doesn't matter much to them what the gun color is.
There might be kids out there who get guns to look macho or cool, but for the vast majority of legal gun owners a gun is nothing more than the right tool for the right job. A gun serves the same purpose as an electric drill, which is to make small holes on different targets. The gun is better than the electric drill when the holes need to be made at some distance from the target. This is sometimes necessary, such as when you return home and find a stranger hidding in one of the rooms waiting to ambush you (happened to me once).
I think cops would look cute with pink firearms.
Then why not start a whitehouse petition asking for cops to wear pink uniforms too?
And "gang bangers" might just look silly
If gang bangers start teasing each other over their pink guns this will surely lead to even more gun violence.
"alcohol can be toxic" I'd better reduce my intake to 50 beers a day.
I'ts worse than that. Alcohol is a level 1 carcinogen, so it's in the same list as asbestos, plutonium and gamma rays.
Per TFA, the female fruit flies prefer laying their eggs on alcohol containing food when the killer female wasps are around, but prefer non-alcoholic food when there are no wasps or when only male wasps are around. They can even tell the difference between different species of wasp. That is smarter than some people I know, let me tell you.
The modern degree sends a message that you are a herd animal, to the point that you will stay with the herd even to the point of your own financial ruin.
Exactly. That is why when I look for a lawyer, dentist or doctor I make sure they didn't go to college. If I see any degrees hanging on the wall during the first visit I am out there ASAP!
The majority of the people that take the shot end up sick within 72 hours.
Obviously you have no idea how vaccines work. Please do a google search on this subject and you will understand why feeling some sickness shortly after taking a vaccine is a sign the vaccine is doing its job.
One last thing, why do most doctors and nurses refuse to take the vaccine???
False. Most doctors and nurses do take the flu vaccine. Some do object but it is due to various reasons, including allergy to the vaccine and religious beliefs.
I had the flu shot this year and still got the flu a couple months later. However it was a mild case of flu, so I think the vaccine did some good. I go to the gym regularly several times a week and take exercise classes as well as use the exercise machines. In the exercise clases I am exposed to plenty of sweaty and less than sterile mats, dumbells, balance balls, etc, and we lay on the floors a lot. Perhaps it was unrealistic to think a vacine could completely protect me from that much exposure to germs.
Guess what happens when the victim isn't rich?
We never hear about it, and the agent seizes his boat and profits.
Corruption is a very real threat.
So only rich people are allowed to make slashdot submissions? No wonder so many of my submissions are voted down so quickly.
Pink firearms: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/require-all-civilian-firearms-be-painted-pink/YfFtRGVL
What a harebrained idea.
This will drastically increase the number of women and gays who own guns. Do you really want your girlfriend or gayfriend to have a loaded pink gun during their monthly PMS time?
This will also make dangerous guns look like attractive toys to children. Why in the world would anybody want that?
Finally, this will create a huge black market for non-pink guns. If the gov can't keep controlled substances from the streets, what makes you think they can keep non-pink guns from the streets?
We've known for some time that reusable grocery bags were like keyboards - absolutely filthy.
I think they need to look at the cooking habits of the people there. Cooking kiils germs, but maybe the enlightened people of San Francisco are more likely to eat food raw for the sake of the planet?
This must be another anti environment study payed for by billionaire.
Surely not by the billionaires who own the paper mills.
Is Soros doing it secretly?
How can anybody what evil or unethical things Soros is doing secretly?
I have NEVER had to replace a battery on a nexus phone. nobody needs a replaceable battery unless you cant afford the phone to begin with.
Lucky you. Lithium batteries do fail. Ask Boeing if you need proof.
Hooray, instead of working they now can live on the street and starve to death.
Not necessarily. According to TFA:
When new violations are found, Apple requires its suppliers to return the workers back to a school chosen by the family and finance their education. "In addition, the children must continue to receive income matching what they received when they were employed. We also follow up regularly to ensure that the children remain in school and that the suppliers continue to uphold their financial commitment," wrote Apple in its latest report.
Of course I have no idea if those lofty goals actually happen or not.
If grandma is going to sit at the normal 6 to 8 feet from the 1080p HDTV, I am not sure the text will be any more legible than on a 1080p 10 inch android tablet held 1 foot from here face. With a tablet-only solution the touch screen can provide a less intimidating and more intuitive user interface than a linux PC + mouse would. Finally, the tablet-only solution is a far more portable and uncomplicated setup. Grandma can read her paper books anywhere she wants (car, bus, train, front porch, doctor office waiting room, etc) using a tablet instead of always having to use the room where the big hdtv + clunky linux PC + clunky webcam + clunky mouse + table for the mouse happen to be.
Why bother with connecting to a TV when there are now android phones and tablets with built-in 1080p IPS screens?
Concrete has a very poor compressive strength compared to many metals.
What these 4k TVs would be immediatelly useful for is to allow families to watch up to four 1080p video channels simultaneously. The wife, husband, and 2.5 kids can all watch their favorite channels at the same time on a single large 4k screen. Of course these TVs should include a remote control for each tuner, and some way to distribute 4 independent audio outputs, maybe via bluetooth or something similar.
Just because iron might be abundant in asteroids that doesn't mean it is a good idea to harvest and process it in space. It would make more sense to build the infrastructure to harvest the lighter metals such as aluminum and magnesium. Those can then be used to build not just space stations but also the spacecrafts capable of landing on and taking off from Mars.
This isn't such a bad idea. Think about how much suffering and bloodshed could have been prevented in Iran if the hard line clerics had been able to use an emergency kill switch for the internet during their last election.