So you want to draw a correlation between 2 completely different civilizations with different rules, laws, social policies, population densities and media filtering? Please find a source of US data to compare to US data.
You don't HAVE to have a car. There's public transportation if available, cycling, walking, telecommuting. handguns aren't a necessity just as cars aren't a necessity. They are luxuries.
Can you provide references for these 6 attacks? I'm sure that I can find 5 other shootings to average together and get a similar number. I'm not saying the gun shooting stats are lower, but you use 1 instance to justify your argument vs an average of 6 incidents.
Would you like to test that theory with felons? They aren't allowed by law to own firearms, I'll guarantee there are more of them carrying than you'd like.
You are actually so very wrong. Studies have proven that a child who plays these games does not necessarily have an increased propensity towards violence. Hell, when faced with the reality of a violent situation, most children break down into sobbing masses of useless flesh.
You would be very surprised just how much money you save if you supplement your food supply by hunting. A single deer or boar can save you hundreds on the costs of meat for a family. A $200 rifle and a $30 box of shells can keep your home stocked with meat for more than a year. How much do you spend on steak, ground beef, chicken, turkey or pork?
You grossly underestimate the innate human reaction of fear. The vast majority of people that experience a violent situation do not react with self defense or the "fight" response. Again, a guy with a sword can easily do as much damage, the attack in the chinese school proves that point.
Many of those countries also have better healthcare, education and civic responsibility. The United States is trailing behind most of the rest of the world in those areas. Do you think there is a link there? I absolutely do.
You say easy access.... I do not think you realize just what you go through to even purchase a handgun. I served for 4 years in the Army as a Ranger. I have no criminal record, barely even a few tickets. No history of mental disorders at all. When I applied for my permit to purchase my first handgun, it took them 7 months to issue me one. Yet, the Army entrusted me with enough firepower on a daily basis to have demolished that school and killed everyone in it. I didn't and I never will. You can enlist in the military and go to war to protect the constitution and the people it serves when you are 17 years old yet you cannot own a car, a gun, drink alcohol or smoke tobacco. You can serve 4 years in the military before you are even old enough to purchase a handgun or drink a beer.
It is not the gun laws that need to be visited. It's the root cause of violence that has to be looked at, and some method of treatment for it needs to be found.
You still have the biggest problem to deal with, when you create useless laws that pull guns out of the hands of normal people, then the ones who don't give a shit about the laws will still have them and they are the ones that you DON'T want having them.
And yet, the number of gun related deaths does't even make the top 10 causes of death. More than 37,000 people in the US dies in car accidents last year. Approximately 11,000 died due to gun violence. Let's outlaw cars today.
DVDs do have DRM, they are encrusted with it, then to top that off, they can and are region locked in addition to being encrypted. You could copy them and build a huge library but you would be in violation of copyright and possibly the penal code.
This is an example of racial / ethnic profiling mate. You see it happen in the airports here. I'm not saying it is right in any way, I'm just saying that they CAN do it and it isn't incredibly difficult.
Indeed. It's pretty hard to say "random search" if the guy's badge code has a special section selecting him for "extra screening"
It could be determined randomly before people are able to print their boarding passes.
In fact that would probably be the best way to ensure a random search, since a person at the gate might be influenced by your appearance.
Plus, if you have legitimate reason to believe someone is higher than average risk, you could just specify what's needed on the boarding pass, and not have to rely on the staff to spot you based on a picture.
It would be easier to have the system check against a database of persons for nationality / race. You could also have it parse the name for key consonant combinations like "kh", "Abd", "Muh", "Azi" so on and so forth. There are too many ways to reduce the "randomness" factor.
It's not compression, it would be closer to expansion. We're talking about creating and sending an equation to represent a value instead of sending the value itself. 1 + 32 = 33 is far larger than just sending 33. The difference is, if the receiver gets x +32 = 33, it can solve for x and thus rebuild the missing packet.
CNSNews.com was founded by L. Brent Bozell III on June 16, 1998, under the name Conservative News Service and the domain name conservativenews.org.[3] According to Bozell, the website would "report news...not touched by traditional television news outlets" and "fill the growing news void left by the establishment media in their chase for the sensational."[3] On its first day of operation the website had 61,000 hits.[3]
The name "CNSNews.com" was first used on June 15, 2000.[4]
As of 2007, CNSNews.com described its role as serving an audience which puts a "higher premium on balance than spin."[5]
"In response to these shortcomings, MRC Chairman L. Brent Bozell III founded CNSNews.com in an effort to provide an alternative news source that would cover stories that are subject to the bias of omission and report on other news subject to bias by commission. CNSNews.com endeavors to fairly present all legitimate sides of a story and debunk popular, albeit incorrect, myths about cultural and policy issues." [5]
CNSNews.com's motto is "The Right News. Right now."[6]
CNSNews.com's editor from 1998-2005 was Scott Hogenson, who took a leave of absence in November, 2003 to serve as the director of radio and online operations for the Republican National Committee in the 2004 election cycle. Hogenson's leave of absence expired on November 15, 2004 when he returned to CNSNews.com in his original capacity. CNSNews.com has staff in Washington, D.C., London, Jerusalem and the Pacific Rim. Editor-in-chief David Thibault (deceased) became top editor in April 2005 when Hogenson accepted an appointment as a deputy assistant secretary for the U.S. Department of Public Affairs. Thibault died on July 20, 2007 as a result of complications with his cancer treatment.[7]
Terence P. Jeffrey became editor-in-chief in September 2007. Jeffrey was and remains an editor-at-large for the conservative weekly newspaper Human Events. He wrote editorials for The Washington Times from 1987–1991 and was research director for the presidential campaign of Patrick J. Buchanan in 1992. Jeffrey was Buchanan's national campaign manager in his 1996 campaign.
Under editor David Thibault, CNSNews.com questioned the validity of the circumstances in which Democratic Rep. John Murtha received his purple hearts as a response to Murtha's criticisms of the U.S. War in Iraq. The Washington Post and Nancy Pelosi have commented that this approach is similar to the tactics of the Swift Vets and POWs for Truth, which opposed John Kerry's candidacy in the 2004 election.[8]
The thing I worry about the most is not the U.S. govt using things like this to provoke us into war, it's what they try to do with our freedoms and the internet to "keep us safe" from everyone else. They'd turn "Think of the children" into "Think of our national security" and we'd be right fucked.
I am all for going back to the moon. I'm all for placing a permanent station on the moon. Let's really study what's up there. Let's make an attempt at actually studying space from space.
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State by state basis. it may be easy in some and not so much in others.
So you want to draw a correlation between 2 completely different civilizations with different rules, laws, social policies, population densities and media filtering? Please find a source of US data to compare to US data.
You don't HAVE to have a car. There's public transportation if available, cycling, walking, telecommuting. handguns aren't a necessity just as cars aren't a necessity. They are luxuries.
Living in Baltimore now, What I would really like them to address is this:
Why are the speed cameras concentrated in the predominantly lower class black areas?
Why are cameras that were approved to operate ONLY in school zones ONLY during school hours, issuing tickets around the clock?
Why are mobile speed cameras being used when they were only approved for stationary cameras in school zones?
Can you provide references for these 6 attacks? I'm sure that I can find 5 other shootings to average together and get a similar number. I'm not saying the gun shooting stats are lower, but you use 1 instance to justify your argument vs an average of 6 incidents.
Would you like to test that theory with felons? They aren't allowed by law to own firearms, I'll guarantee there are more of them carrying than you'd like.
You are actually so very wrong. Studies have proven that a child who plays these games does not necessarily have an increased propensity towards violence. Hell, when faced with the reality of a violent situation, most children break down into sobbing masses of useless flesh.
Read the story, the gunman was killed at the scene.
You would be very surprised just how much money you save if you supplement your food supply by hunting. A single deer or boar can save you hundreds on the costs of meat for a family. A $200 rifle and a $30 box of shells can keep your home stocked with meat for more than a year. How much do you spend on steak, ground beef, chicken, turkey or pork?
You grossly underestimate the innate human reaction of fear. The vast majority of people that experience a violent situation do not react with self defense or the "fight" response. Again, a guy with a sword can easily do as much damage, the attack in the chinese school proves that point.
Many of those countries also have better healthcare, education and civic responsibility. The United States is trailing behind most of the rest of the world in those areas. Do you think there is a link there? I absolutely do.
You say easy access.... I do not think you realize just what you go through to even purchase a handgun. I served for 4 years in the Army as a Ranger. I have no criminal record, barely even a few tickets. No history of mental disorders at all. When I applied for my permit to purchase my first handgun, it took them 7 months to issue me one. Yet, the Army entrusted me with enough firepower on a daily basis to have demolished that school and killed everyone in it. I didn't and I never will. You can enlist in the military and go to war to protect the constitution and the people it serves when you are 17 years old yet you cannot own a car, a gun, drink alcohol or smoke tobacco. You can serve 4 years in the military before you are even old enough to purchase a handgun or drink a beer.
It is not the gun laws that need to be visited. It's the root cause of violence that has to be looked at, and some method of treatment for it needs to be found.
You still have the biggest problem to deal with, when you create useless laws that pull guns out of the hands of normal people, then the ones who don't give a shit about the laws will still have them and they are the ones that you DON'T want having them.
I wish I could mod you up.
And yet, the number of gun related deaths does't even make the top 10 causes of death. More than 37,000 people in the US dies in car accidents last year. Approximately 11,000 died due to gun violence. Let's outlaw cars today.
DVDs do have DRM, they are encrusted with it, then to top that off, they can and are region locked in addition to being encrypted. You could copy them and build a huge library but you would be in violation of copyright and possibly the penal code.
HTC HD2 as my backup phone. Used it from launch til I got my SG3. Rooted running android. It's still a great phone.
Other manufacturers/OSes are seeing their unit sales decline but Apple most certainly isn't one of them
You might want to ask Samsung about that one.
This is an example of racial / ethnic profiling mate. You see it happen in the airports here. I'm not saying it is right in any way, I'm just saying that they CAN do it and it isn't incredibly difficult.
That because Paula is a hottie. I'm not saying that the system is perfect and yes the values would need tweaking but it far more feasible.
Indeed. It's pretty hard to say "random search" if the guy's badge code has a special section selecting him for "extra screening"
It could be determined randomly before people are able to print their boarding passes.
In fact that would probably be the best way to ensure a random search, since a person at the gate might be influenced by your appearance.
Plus, if you have legitimate reason to believe someone is higher than average risk, you could just specify what's needed on the boarding pass, and not have to rely on the staff to spot you based on a picture.
It would be easier to have the system check against a database of persons for nationality / race. You could also have it parse the name for key consonant combinations like "kh", "Abd", "Muh", "Azi" so on and so forth. There are too many ways to reduce the "randomness" factor.
It's not compression, it would be closer to expansion. We're talking about creating and sending an equation to represent a value instead of sending the value itself. 1 + 32 = 33 is far larger than just sending 33. The difference is, if the receiver gets x +32 = 33, it can solve for x and thus rebuild the missing packet.
CNSNews.com was founded by L. Brent Bozell III on June 16, 1998, under the name Conservative News Service and the domain name conservativenews.org.[3] According to Bozell, the website would "report news ...not touched by traditional television news outlets" and "fill the growing news void left by the establishment media in their chase for the sensational."[3] On its first day of operation the website had 61,000 hits.[3]
The name "CNSNews.com" was first used on June 15, 2000.[4]
As of 2007, CNSNews.com described its role as serving an audience which puts a "higher premium on balance than spin."[5]
"In response to these shortcomings, MRC Chairman L. Brent Bozell III founded CNSNews.com in an effort to provide an alternative news source that would cover stories that are subject to the bias of omission and report on other news subject to bias by commission. CNSNews.com endeavors to fairly present all legitimate sides of a story and debunk popular, albeit incorrect, myths about cultural and policy issues." [5]
CNSNews.com's motto is "The Right News. Right now."[6]
CNSNews.com's editor from 1998-2005 was Scott Hogenson, who took a leave of absence in November, 2003 to serve as the director of radio and online operations for the Republican National Committee in the 2004 election cycle. Hogenson's leave of absence expired on November 15, 2004 when he returned to CNSNews.com in his original capacity. CNSNews.com has staff in Washington, D.C., London, Jerusalem and the Pacific Rim. Editor-in-chief David Thibault (deceased) became top editor in April 2005 when Hogenson accepted an appointment as a deputy assistant secretary for the U.S. Department of Public Affairs. Thibault died on July 20, 2007 as a result of complications with his cancer treatment.[7]
Terence P. Jeffrey became editor-in-chief in September 2007. Jeffrey was and remains an editor-at-large for the conservative weekly newspaper Human Events. He wrote editorials for The Washington Times from 1987–1991 and was research director for the presidential campaign of Patrick J. Buchanan in 1992. Jeffrey was Buchanan's national campaign manager in his 1996 campaign.
Under editor David Thibault, CNSNews.com questioned the validity of the circumstances in which Democratic Rep. John Murtha received his purple hearts as a response to Murtha's criticisms of the U.S. War in Iraq. The Washington Post and Nancy Pelosi have commented that this approach is similar to the tactics of the Swift Vets and POWs for Truth, which opposed John Kerry's candidacy in the 2004 election.[8]
Thanks Wikipedia!
The thing I worry about the most is not the U.S. govt using things like this to provoke us into war, it's what they try to do with our freedoms and the internet to "keep us safe" from everyone else. They'd turn "Think of the children" into "Think of our national security" and we'd be right fucked.
I am all for going back to the moon. I'm all for placing a permanent station on the moon. Let's really study what's up there. Let's make an attempt at actually studying space from space.