"deer season has been in my family since they got off the boat 400+ years ago." You, insensitive clod! Keep rubbing it in and you might just get to participate in "WASP season":)
"I keep and carry a firearm for exactly the same reason I maintain my CPR certification and first aid training." Unfortunately, my personal (equally anecdotal) experience showed that out of 5 gun-carrying people I know, 3 were borderline psychotic. I'd prefer handguns and assault rifles be banned; shotguns be allowed and non-lethal weapons like tasers be improved upon (range for instance) and encouraged.
"I've always been fascinated by this... paranoia... that Americans bear towards governments, especially their own" There are some like that. But there's more Americans who love their government and are paranoid about anything that they view as "anti-government", which they equal with "anti-American". I'm more fascinated by the latter.
"It is fun. That's why people do it. We are primates and have it in our blood." Let's take it up a notch. Hunting people is fun. That's why people do it. We are primates and have it in our blood. Right? "Treating it like it's unusual feeling or that the people who engage in it are outliers and freaks leads to misunderstanding the nature of it and away from the truth."
PS. If killing a living being is fun to you, you are a freak.
"Devry is not shit if any think just being part of the older collgle system is holding it back now if they you can say take a class in X skill from Devy and have it mean something that shows it will be nice. But right now for it to really mean some it has to be part of a 2-4 year plan with the full load of NON core classes as well."
That was one of the most idiotic things I've ever read. You didn't even fail at logic b/c you didn't use any. I really hope you get waterboarded just so you could experience your own idiocy. But, I'm afraid, that would be pointless b/c you won't be able to realize the irony. Oh well...
>True. But if you have only six missiles, do you want them on parade, or in a silo, ready to fire? >>A little from column A, and a little from column B.
And that's why you're not responsible for any country's defense.
"it's stupid to make peak fuel efficiency on the highway 55-60 when auto makers KNOW people drive 70-75." Brilliant! But why stop there? Let's mandate that auto makers tune the peak fuel efficiency for 120mph! After all, they KNOW people drive 120!
"when people drive in a completely unnatural manner---accelerating slowly and five miles under the speed limit" So, on which planet exactly is this "completely unnatural"? If you say - Earth, then I don't think you understand what the word "limit" means.
"I started learning about black markets in childhood, back in the USSR, where if you really wanted something that wasn't in the stores, that was the only option, and it was often very dangerous, not because of other participants of the black market, but because of government. Government shot and sent enough people to prisons in the former USSR who provided customers with goods they wanted through black markets." Not enough, apparently...
Not true imho. In Russia, they use both "motherland" and "fatherland" equally often, but these words have slightly different meaning ("the country which gave birth to you(?)" and "the country of your forefathers"); "holy" was used before 1917. In Germany, yes, "Vaterland" is used more often, but there's also "Heimat" and "Mutterland"; again with slightly different connotations. There's Russians and Germans here, so they can elaborate.
"classically musically trained" How about mastering reading comprehension in addition to learning to play the guitar? Do you know of any musical training that doesn't involve a musical instrument? Please enlighten us. Oh, I'm sorry! I didn't realize it at first. "I play the guitar" OMFG!!!! HE PLAYS THE GUITAR!!! We have an artist here, people!!! Forgive me, oh, maestro!:)
"Bits are very direct. I figured a byte was a bit that knew 8 different ways of saying yes or no, but I was confused about how bits and bytes would communicate, because the bit wouldn't understand all the nuanced shades of yes or no. It seemed like a very fuzzy kind of logic. I made a mental note to study it further in junior high school, as a primer for studying other... curiosities... that know hundreds of ways of saying yes or no."
Sooo... bits are men and bytes are women... I have more respect for Tron now...
Really good point. I'm not against people owning guns, but I'm worried about the stupid, the ignorant, the scared, the paranoid, the neurotic who can easily get one (if they haven't yet). I was once almost maced by a woman in a parking lot just b/c she wore headphones and I startled her by walking by. "Almost" b/c I'd already passed her when she pressed the button so the spray just "grazed" my back. Apparently she had her finger on it all along. I'm only glad she didn't have a gun.
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"We have 200million firearms here"
310 million actually - http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/18/15977143-gun-control-offers-no-cure-all-in-america?lite
"deer season has been in my family since they got off the boat 400+ years ago." :)
You, insensitive clod! Keep rubbing it in and you might just get to participate in "WASP season"
"I keep and carry a firearm for exactly the same reason I maintain my CPR certification and first aid training."
Unfortunately, my personal (equally anecdotal) experience showed that out of 5 gun-carrying people I know, 3 were borderline psychotic. I'd prefer handguns and assault rifles be banned; shotguns be allowed and non-lethal weapons like tasers be improved upon (range for instance) and encouraged.
"I've always been fascinated by this... paranoia ... that Americans bear towards governments, especially their own"
There are some like that. But there's more Americans who love their government and are paranoid about anything that they view as "anti-government", which they equal with "anti-American". I'm more fascinated by the latter.
"It is fun. That's why people do it. We are primates and have it in our blood."
Let's take it up a notch. Hunting people is fun. That's why people do it. We are primates and have it in our blood. Right?
"Treating it like it's unusual feeling or that the people who engage in it are outliers and freaks leads to misunderstanding the nature of it and away from the truth."
PS. If killing a living being is fun to you, you are a freak.
If living in a civilized country sucks, then yes - it does suck.
"Devry is not shit if any think just being part of the older collgle system is holding it back now if they you can say take a class in X skill from Devy and have it mean something that shows it will be nice. But right now for it to really mean some it has to be part of a 2-4 year plan with the full load of NON core classes as well."
Let me guess... a Devry graduate?
That was one of the most idiotic things I've ever read. You didn't even fail at logic b/c you didn't use any.
I really hope you get waterboarded just so you could experience your own idiocy. But, I'm afraid, that would be pointless b/c you won't be able to realize the irony. Oh well...
Are _you_ daft? Do you think FedEx can open the mail they carry b/c it's on their trucks?
...Just like the US and its Constitution... :)
(zigzags away)
What's that distant sound?! It's getting louder!
Ah, right! It's WHHOOOOOOSHHHHHHH! :)
Same experience here. Comcast -> CL. 12Mbs. $30/m. No complaints so far.
>True. But if you have only six missiles, do you want them on parade, or in a silo, ready to fire?
>>A little from column A, and a little from column B.
And that's why you're not responsible for any country's defense.
"it's stupid to make peak fuel efficiency on the highway 55-60 when auto makers KNOW people drive 70-75."
Brilliant! But why stop there? Let's mandate that auto makers tune the peak fuel efficiency for 120mph! After all, they KNOW people drive 120!
PS. In short, what you said was silly :)
"when people drive in a completely unnatural manner---accelerating slowly and five miles under the speed limit"
So, on which planet exactly is this "completely unnatural"?
If you say - Earth, then I don't think you understand what the word "limit" means.
" they don't account for the effects of aerodynamics"
Even TFA says they do take aerodynamics into account.
"Most places that have private police forces have been some of the safest places there are."
Like what?
"I started learning about black markets in childhood, back in the USSR, where if you really wanted something that wasn't in the stores, that was the only option, and it was often very dangerous, not because of other participants of the black market, but because of government. Government shot and sent enough people to prisons in the former USSR who provided customers with goods they wanted through black markets."
Not enough, apparently...
Not true imho.
In Russia, they use both "motherland" and "fatherland" equally often, but these words have slightly different meaning ("the country which gave birth to you(?)" and "the country of your forefathers"); "holy" was used before 1917.
In Germany, yes, "Vaterland" is used more often, but there's also "Heimat" and "Mutterland"; again with slightly different connotations.
There's Russians and Germans here, so they can elaborate.
"classically musically trained" :)
How about mastering reading comprehension in addition to learning to play the guitar? Do you know of any musical training that doesn't involve a musical instrument? Please enlighten us.
Oh, I'm sorry! I didn't realize it at first.
"I play the guitar"
OMFG!!!! HE PLAYS THE GUITAR!!! We have an artist here, people!!! Forgive me, oh, maestro!
"Bits are very direct. I figured a byte was a bit that knew 8 different ways of saying yes or no, but I was confused about how bits and bytes would communicate, because the bit wouldn't understand all the nuanced shades of yes or no. It seemed like a very fuzzy kind of logic. I made a mental note to study it further in junior high school, as a primer for studying other... curiosities... that know hundreds of ways of saying yes or no."
Sooo... bits are men and bytes are women... I have more respect for Tron now...
Commenting to undo an accidental moderation.
...but then I remembered I had Amazon VOD on my TV.
One would think if they can make it work on one Linux-based device, it shouldn't be too hard to do the same for other Linux-based devices.
"At least your average civilian isn't going to shoot you unless you start shooting first."
Is that a new law of nature that I'm not aware of?
Really good point. I'm not against people owning guns, but I'm worried about the stupid, the ignorant, the scared, the paranoid, the neurotic who can easily get one (if they haven't yet).
I was once almost maced by a woman in a parking lot just b/c she wore headphones and I startled her by walking by. "Almost" b/c I'd already passed her when she pressed the button so the spray just "grazed" my back. Apparently she had her finger on it all along. I'm only glad she didn't have a gun.