If there weren't so many guns around you wouldn't need a gun to defend yourself against them. You know, like pretty much the rest of the developed world.
Armed nutjobs are not the sole province of the USA. At least here in the USA, the right to keep and bear arms offers some defense against armed nutjobs.
Too bad Parisians and Californians aren't afforded that right. What, chuck a wine bottle at an armed nutjob? (Why yes, if that's all you have by all means chuck!)
Oh, forgot -- cloud sync was added 2009, if I remember right. Which is six or seven years ago, depending on where in 2009 it was actually introduced. And this is their fifth list of bad passwords?
Not a hack, per se -- but to do tubes and wrench on 'em yourself pretty much means you're a hacker.
Hook 'em up to horn speakers and you can get very good sound for not much dosh. Depending on many factors ridiculously good sound is possible, actually, for not much dosh.
It teaches about electronics. And also teaches basic mechanical skills, what with the screwdriver, wrenches, soldering iron, etc etc -- it's more than just audio.
No, really -- but be safe, triple-digit VDC will really @#!% you up and there's plenty in your typical power amp.
Just be careful you don't step in the quite deep quicksand of hardcore audiophilia. There's a balance.
If this isn't checked it'll go beyond loons with guns. I think we, as a country, gun-friendly or not, just lost a great deal of protection with this connection between the medical profession and FBI.
What's next? Getting a knock on the door at 3 am because they found THC in a lab sample taken for something entirely medical in nature? (As opposed to a deliberate drug screen)
What we'll end up with is a plastic projectile able to change course mid-flight, in rifle caliber.. maybe even in pistol.
*sigh* and then the old-schoolers will bitch and retch that these newfangled 'lectronic steerable plastic bullits are nowhere near as elegant as the JHPs of the past, guided by the eyeball and the rifled barrel.
There's still a marked stigma associated with mental illness in the US. It has been eroding over many years now.
The more the stigma erodes, the more people will seek treatment.
It's not as easy as the vast majority of people think it is, seeking treatment. It's a very deliberate move. Akin to pulling the trigger when the sight's on something alive. That's how heavy making that first call is.
Just sayin'. Chip away at that stigma, chip away at the violence.
You sold it to DISNEY of all companies, you know that they only produce the most shallow of crap these days
Ever since John Lassater and Ed Catmull went from Pixar to Disney, Disney's features and shorts have shown an improvement.
Wreck-it-Ralph was amazing and quite deep; Frozen was a good movie that somehow went on to be their biggest hit yet and Big Hero 6 wasn't exactly a superficial, shallow piece.
Man. I can't believe I just typed nice things about the House of Mouse, I used to loathe it with a passion.. back in the Eisner days. But again.. since Pixar guys went to Disney, Disney's improved a bit.
Now, there's nothing that will make me forgive Disney for what they did to their IT people. No amount of good film will make up for that.
Oh really? Is that based on how much money the US makes exporting?
I'm in the market for consumer-grade electronics, not jet airliners, space launch vehicles, locomotives or cars.
Please point out specific makes / models of consumer-grade electronics I can get in a typical big-box or online retailer that are made here.
Where is my US-made A/V receiver? Where is my US-made phone? Where is my US-made TV?
Nowhere. Ran out of the country decades ago in the race to the bottom.
The only thing I can think of in consumer-grade electronics are speakers. We still make speakers here.. well, some of them. Even the grand old names of speakers are making some of their lineup in China.
There are some things being made at the very high end of things. Like RGM watches. beautiful stuff and US-made, but hardly within grasp of most people.
So, other than airplanes, spacecraft and other heavy stuff -- where's this "half" that you speak of?
Then they take away your right to privacy Then they take away your freedom to speak Then they take away your right to assembly Then they win.
We're so, so close to this happening is not even funny. We're being snookered exactly the same way Imperial Japan and Germany both snookered an entire populace* and turned them against their neighbors, and in Germany's case, against an entire race and religion.
* by educating the young with your doctrine, by using popular media to give your doctrine wide reach, well into the adult segment of the populace, and by singling out one group of people as "undersirable"
Are we becoming the Fourth Reich?
The only solace I have is that our own Government is so retarded, so inbred, so incompetent they'll never be able to pull that off.
Or maybe... they're just playing the fool... for now.
Really? You're sure about that? Hate the NRA much?
How about the people who, when faced with news of home invasions, random acts of terrorism, and other atrocities decide to arm themselves? All of these people are NRA-brainwashed stooges? Every single one? You don't think, for a second, that common people, without being "told what to do" by the NRA or Fox are arming themselves just out of common sense? That's a neat little fantasy world you live in.
There's never a cop around when you need one -- right that instant, when some meth-head kicks down your door to rob you in your house. Or when some redneck decides he's Going To Do Something About The Government.
Or when some brain-damaged, mentally-troubled person decides to open fire on an entire theater?
Or when some Koran-addled islamic radical decides it's time to go get their 72 virgins.
Where's the cops then? You have to be your own cop.
All it's going to take is ONE.. just ONE armed citizen putting a few holes in a mass shooter before the mass shooter can kill masses to drive the point home -- that an armed citizenry is not to be fucked with. This will happen. One day, an armed citizen is going to prevent a mass shooting.
If you're too scared or too close-minded to see this, then good luck when you need help from the police.. and they're not there. Who knows.. maybe a private, unassuming, low-key person who is carrying concealed may come to your aid.
How would you feel then -- let's say at a movie theater -- if you're in the aftermath of a citizen-prevented shooting? When you can see the shooter lying in a pool of blood, dying, all his arsenal on display? Would you still think the person who took down the shooter to be an NRA stooge? Would you condemn and vilify the citizen who just stopped a mass-shooting-in-progress?
Yeah... I didn't think so.
Grow a pair, America, and fight back. Just because Europe takes it lying down doesn't mean we have to. Learn self-defense. Arm yourself with fists, knives, knees, a solid kick to the head, pepper spray, firearms, whatever it takes to protect you and yours.
The other day I was wikibinging and ended up in an article about the history of the jet bridge -- and that let to another piece on how someone either at HSBC or at their agency "discovered" or "realized" that jet bridges were an untapped source of revenue.
I would've been happy with that space being left untapped. Now there's ads glaring at you inside the jet bridge - and on the exteriors, too -- visible from the terminal windows.
No space is safe. Already see so many private cars either wearing badly-aligned magnetic signs, or full vinyl wraps.
Just give me enough dumb screen to give me a 47 degree field of view from my chair, and I'm happy. What I plug into that screen could be anything. It could even be a cable box, thus turning into a "television."
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design guns so that if you pick one up and point it at someone, the barrel swivels around and shoots you in the face
in the US that's called a Saturday Night Special. More likely to kill the shooter than the target.
If there weren't so many guns around you wouldn't need a gun to defend yourself against them. You know, like pretty much the rest of the developed world.
Armed nutjobs are not the sole province of the USA. At least here in the USA, the right to keep and bear arms offers some defense against armed nutjobs.
Too bad Parisians and Californians aren't afforded that right. What, chuck a wine bottle at an armed nutjob? (Why yes, if that's all you have by all means chuck!)
So you don't trust doctors?
Before they get swallowed by SuperMegaInsuranceBackedHospitalConglomerate? Yes.
After they get swallowed? Hell no. Let me rephrase, fuck no.
Oh, forgot -- cloud sync was added 2009, if I remember right. Which is six or seven years ago, depending on where in 2009 it was actually introduced. And this is their fifth list of bad passwords?
Questions abound.
Splash ID sells password vaults that can sync to cloud.
Supposedly this is all encrypted.
So.. where is Splash getting this info from?
Ten points from whatever house you're in. You feel like a Hufflepuff to me. Or maybe you're the troll in the dungeon?
Harry Potter, Galaxy Quest, Die @$@# Hard, NOT nerd material?
Dude. Seriously. Are you yourself a nerd?
If not... USA Today is 3 doors down the hall, on the right.
Snape was my favorite out of the entire story, books and films both.
"Always."
That one word says it all for me. That's why he's my favorite.
I'll miss Rickman. Any film he was in was better than it would've otherwise been.
Not a hack, per se -- but to do tubes and wrench on 'em yourself pretty much means you're a hacker.
Hook 'em up to horn speakers and you can get very good sound for not much dosh. Depending on many factors ridiculously good sound is possible, actually, for not much dosh.
It teaches about electronics. And also teaches basic mechanical skills, what with the screwdriver, wrenches, soldering iron, etc etc -- it's more than just audio.
No, really -- but be safe, triple-digit VDC will really @#!% you up and there's plenty in your typical power amp.
Just be careful you don't step in the quite deep quicksand of hardcore audiophilia. There's a balance.
Not all mentally ill people are crazy. Depression is a mental illness. Bi-polarism also. So's OCD.
So.. you see where this is going? Who decides which patient gets ratted out to the feds?
"..there's someone in my head, but it's not me..."
If this isn't checked it'll go beyond loons with guns. I think we, as a country, gun-friendly or not, just lost a great deal of protection with this connection between the medical profession and FBI.
What's next? Getting a knock on the door at 3 am because they found THC in a lab sample taken for something entirely medical in nature? (As opposed to a deliberate drug screen)
This. This is the point where the slope just became very slippery.
Why stop at loons with guns?
There's no stopping it now. We're in freefall.
What we'll end up with is a plastic projectile able to change course mid-flight, in rifle caliber.. maybe even in pistol.
*sigh* and then the old-schoolers will bitch and retch that these newfangled 'lectronic steerable plastic bullits are nowhere near as elegant as the JHPs of the past, guided by the eyeball and the rifled barrel.
There's no winning!
There's still a marked stigma associated with mental illness in the US. It has been eroding over many years now.
The more the stigma erodes, the more people will seek treatment.
It's not as easy as the vast majority of people think it is, seeking treatment. It's a very deliberate move. Akin to pulling the trigger when the sight's on something alive. That's how heavy making that first call is.
Just sayin'. Chip away at that stigma, chip away at the violence.
You sold it to DISNEY of all companies, you know that they only produce the most shallow of crap these days
Ever since John Lassater and Ed Catmull went from Pixar to Disney, Disney's features and shorts have shown an improvement.
Wreck-it-Ralph was amazing and quite deep; Frozen was a good movie that somehow went on to be their biggest hit yet and Big Hero 6 wasn't exactly a superficial, shallow piece.
Man. I can't believe I just typed nice things about the House of Mouse, I used to loathe it with a passion.. back in the Eisner days. But again.. since Pixar guys went to Disney, Disney's improved a bit.
Now, there's nothing that will make me forgive Disney for what they did to their IT people. No amount of good film will make up for that.
Oh really? Is that based on how much money the US makes exporting?
I'm in the market for consumer-grade electronics, not jet airliners, space launch vehicles, locomotives or cars.
Please point out specific makes / models of consumer-grade electronics I can get in a typical big-box or online retailer that are made here.
Where is my US-made A/V receiver?
Where is my US-made phone?
Where is my US-made TV?
Nowhere. Ran out of the country decades ago in the race to the bottom.
The only thing I can think of in consumer-grade electronics are speakers. We still make speakers here.. well, some of them. Even the grand old names of speakers are making some of their lineup in China.
There are some things being made at the very high end of things. Like RGM watches. beautiful stuff and US-made, but hardly within grasp of most people.
So, other than airplanes, spacecraft and other heavy stuff -- where's this "half" that you speak of?
You've described all we've been doing since the early 90s - draw it here, make it anywhere but here.
Do you really think there's no link between that mentality (design here, build anywhere but) and the decline of the Electric and Electronic Engineer?
I think there is, so does the government, and so does the guy who wrote TFA.
Why do you think where it's built doesn't matter? Is it because that's the status quo for the past third of century?
I think it does matter, and for reasons which have been obscured by various economic bubbles over the past 30 years.
Since we're not bothering with making things in the USA anymore, and we're not improving our country's infrastructure, this was to be expected, no?
Still think the direction this country is going in is the one it should be taking?
I'm having doubts about it, myself.
That's Oswald the Lucky Rabbit... and he was stolen by Mintz, and later Walter Lanz.
Disney didn't get Oswald back until 2006.
Then they take away your right to privacy
Then they take away your freedom to speak
Then they take away your right to assembly
Then they win.
We're so, so close to this happening is not even funny. We're being snookered exactly the same way Imperial Japan and Germany both snookered an entire populace* and turned them against their neighbors, and in Germany's case, against an entire race and religion.
* by educating the young with your doctrine, by using popular media to give your doctrine wide reach, well into the adult segment of the populace, and by singling out one group of people as "undersirable"
Are we becoming the Fourth Reich?
The only solace I have is that our own Government is so retarded, so inbred, so incompetent they'll never be able to pull that off.
Or maybe... they're just playing the fool... for now.
Where's my tin hat?!
From a Florida newspaper:
Brevard County's sheriff says licensed citizens who carry firearms should be prepared to use them in an active-shooter scenario until law enforcement arrives.
He's not the only
one.
Are the people all these LEOs speaking to NRA stooges? Brainwashed?
I'll just leave this here.
When cartoonists are saying it.. well.. draw whatever conclusions you want.
Hint: Look just behind and to the side of the lightsabre.
Really? You're sure about that? Hate the NRA much?
How about the people who, when faced with news of home invasions, random acts of terrorism, and other atrocities decide to arm themselves? All of these people are NRA-brainwashed stooges? Every single one? You don't think, for a second, that common people, without being "told what to do" by the NRA or Fox are arming themselves just out of common sense? That's a neat little fantasy world you live in.
There's never a cop around when you need one -- right that instant, when some meth-head kicks down your door to rob you in your house. Or when some redneck decides he's Going To Do Something About The Government.
Or when some brain-damaged, mentally-troubled person decides to open fire on an entire theater?
Or when some Koran-addled islamic radical decides it's time to go get their 72 virgins.
Where's the cops then? You have to be your own cop.
All it's going to take is ONE.. just ONE armed citizen putting a few holes in a mass shooter before the mass shooter can kill masses to drive the point home -- that an armed citizenry is not to be fucked with. This will happen. One day, an armed citizen is going to prevent a mass shooting.
Such an event may look something like this.
If you're too scared or too close-minded to see this, then good luck when you need help from the police.. and they're not there. Who knows.. maybe a private, unassuming, low-key person who is carrying concealed may come to your aid.
How would you feel then -- let's say at a movie theater -- if you're in the aftermath of a citizen-prevented shooting? When you can see the shooter lying in a pool of blood, dying, all his arsenal on display? Would you still think the person who took down the shooter to be an NRA stooge? Would you condemn and vilify the citizen who just stopped a mass-shooting-in-progress?
Yeah... I didn't think so.
Grow a pair, America, and fight back. Just because Europe takes it lying down doesn't mean we have to. Learn self-defense. Arm yourself with fists, knives, knees, a solid kick to the head, pepper spray, firearms, whatever it takes to protect you and yours.
The other day I was wikibinging and ended up in an article about the history of the jet bridge -- and that let to another piece on how someone either at HSBC or at their agency "discovered" or "realized" that jet bridges were an untapped source of revenue.
I would've been happy with that space being left untapped. Now there's ads glaring at you inside the jet bridge - and on the exteriors, too -- visible from the terminal windows.
No space is safe. Already see so many private cars either wearing badly-aligned magnetic signs, or full vinyl wraps.
No space is safe. No property is safe.
Just give me enough dumb screen to give me a 47 degree field of view from my chair, and I'm happy. What I plug into that screen could be anything. It could even be a cable box, thus turning into a "television."