I browsed quite a few of those, and the first ones I read were not preventions of a mass shooting. Like the pearl high school schooting. The deaths were already done, the suspect was fleeing, and a person stopped him from fleeing, not from shooting more.
Regardless, these sort of stories would be red meat for Fox News, so why have I never seen Fox covering a 'mass shooting prevented by armed civilian'? You think that Fox, of all news sources, would love to have a week long 24/7 story about something like this.
The only thing I found on fox, was an article complaining about the lack of coverage: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/05/22/where-is-media-coverage-heroes-who-stop-mass-killings.html . And your link isn't exactly a vetted news agencies, and obviously has an agenda, given that the name of the site is "GUN WATCH" and has the 2nd amendment quoted at the top.....
So either very few of those incidents prove much either way, or there is a nationwide conspiracy to hide the truth about good guys saving people from mass shootings.
"Does it matter what made someone a monster? I don't think so."
It matters if a bomb kills 10 of them, yet the act of killing them ends up being enough motivation to recruit 100 more in their place.
You can't really destroy an ideology with war. You can kill enough of them that they are not able to attack other people for some period of time, but it will keep coming back unless you start curing (or at least mitigating) some of the root causes.
but armed men don't normally wait for their turn to die while those around them get picked off one at a time.
I generally like guns. I'll probably go target shooting this Tday with the family. However, I cannot recall a single 'mass shooting' in the US, one of the famous ones, where a 'good guy with a gun' saved the day.
The most recent headline shooting, the one in the Oregon community college, actually had 2-3 armed students (one or more of which were active military). In an interview, one of them said they debated whether to walk out into the hallway with their pistols drawn to see if they could help, but they figured if swat was already in the hallway, it would just confuse the situation and likely get themselves killed.
Of course, if the bad guy had gone to their classroom first, it might have ended much earlier.
I guess my point is, I can't recall a mass shooting ever being stopped by an armed citizen. There are countries with less guns than us and more guns this us, and of those, both countries with more gun violence and less gun violence. Rather than resorting to simple black/white statements like "more guns is always the answer" or "less guns is always the answer", we should probably start talking about the dozens of other reasons why US gun violence is high, and just leave the guns out of the debate for now.
On windows I use a combination of mRemoteNG/Putty. mRemoteNG stores a list of sessions in a tree view. Can be grouped into folders etc.. You can assign a saved putty config to any new mRemoteNG connection. That way, X11 forwarding, etc.. is all handled by Putty. mRemoteNG is basically just a nicer putty shell that supports tabs, and other connection types like RDP/remote desktop.
I also like cygwin for quick command line scp from windows to headless servers.
On linux I'm using Pac Manager. Very similar to mRemoteNG. It helps you organize all your connections into a tree view. Supports many different ways of connecting (vnc, remote desktop, ssh, etc..).
I know you are being funny... but sadly, 99% of the US thinks food like these are real food: http://jamesbirdguess.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/hamburger-helper-logo1.jpg
Lots of kids grow up eating only processed crap in a box.
I don't get why people on slashdot argue over the second amendment. It is irrelevant when the issue of gun regulations is what most people are actually talking about. There is nothing in the constitution that would prevent stricter regulations, limits, etc...
And no, the US is not in any way, shape, or form, definable as socialist (socialism is defined as the state owning the means of production, employing the workers, and setting prices.)
Government owns parts of the means of production on all levels, local, city, state, and federal. City owned production of water, State owned medical services and insurance, Federally owned and directed highway system, etc..
We have always been a mix of socialism and capitalism. Because neither on its own is very good. If you try to purely practice one or the other, that is when you end up when a failed state. That is why China wised up and now has a mix of communism/socialism/capitalism. They are doing things for practical reasons, not ideological ones. If it makes more sense for the government to own a service, they just own it. If it makes more sense for competition to make a service better, they let it go into the free market.
the number of lines of comments can actually exceed the number of lines of code
This should be the norm.
Most people, especially those with less than 10-15 years experience, don't have experiences dealing with very old code. That code may have been written using a set of assumptions that don't even exist anymore. From dependency assumptions (of course service X will be running as long as this code runs) to business/logic assumptions (of course Sheryl in accounting will drop this data file in this folder every week).
Pretend to be someone that doesn't know the business/process at all when writing comments. Pretend to be someone brand new 10 years from now when re-reading them for accuracy. Make a lot of "Why" comments, not just "How".
He's living with the conscious decision of enduring mild, planned hardship now with the goal of greatly improving his situation in life later. He is taking advantage of the environment and resources available to him to meet his needs, instead of blindly blowing the majority of his income on what others feel should be an acceptable quality of life for him. Why would you consider forward thinking and aggressive budgeting a 'cautionary tale'? He's got a plan and motivation, which a lot more than I can say about most of the people I work with.
Assuming his salary could afford living in the community near his work, then yeah, he has options and made a choice. I could move out of my own house, live in a tent in the backyard, and charge someone rent and pay my mortgage down at twice the rate if I wanted to also.
The thing that fake meats never get right, is the texture. I've never had a vegetarian dish deliver the texture of meat. For me, that is the single biggest factor.
I guess what I'm asking is, what problem are we trying to solve here?
Well, for me, I know for a fact how bad raising cattle is for the environment. Both to climate, and land. I know it is cruel to the animals, is promoting the destruction of rain forests worldwide, isn't very good for me if I eat it 4-5 days a week, etc... There are bunch of problems with meat. But damn it tastes so good and has nice a unique, irreplaceable texture.
If they can get the taste correct, and the product can be barbecued/charred, and the texture is correct, I would give up real meat in a heartbeat.
Evolution happens over millions of years. Fire was likely not used until 100,000 years ago at the latest.
We were thoroughly developed as an omnivore species well before fire.
Fire did allow us to unlock more calories, as well as reduce the chances of disease from meat. We lived longer, had more energy, and could out compete other animals given the same set of resources using fire and other tools.
I suspect all animals who eat meat love the smell of cooked meat (I know my dogs do!). Not because we evolved alongside cooked meat, but likely because raw meat smells good because of evolution, and cooked meat just puts out a lot more of that same smell, as well as converts part of the meat into other familiar and favored compounds, like sugars (Maillard).
The thing vegetarian dishes always lack is the texture of meat. Heavily spiced foods overwhelm the flavor of meat most of the time anyways. But you really notice the texture difference.
But the taste of various meat substitutes is important if you want any significant portion of the planet eating less meat. Roasted/smoked meat has a flavor that most people won't give up.
econdly, I am biased on the issue of gun control. I think that responsible citizens should be allowed to own and use guns.
And which politician is proposing not allowing people to own guns?
The interesting thing, is that the common sense gun safety laws and changes that have been proposed over the years, are largely supported by conservative gun owners!
30,000 people per year die due to guns, and it's a top political story every week.
Of course politicians and news folks hype the wrong things all the time. Like terrorism. More likely to get hit by lighting, but we have to fight two 10+ year long wars over a couple thousands US citizens dying...
Except in this case, the news worthy thing to take away from our death by gun stats, isn't the absolute value when compared with other forms of death, it is the US numbers when compared with other countries. For some reason the US has WAY more deaths by guns than other countries that are of a similar modern industrial level.
The US really does have an abnormal gun problem. There are likely many reasons, requiring a lot more complex fix than most news headlines or politicians are able to articulate in 30 second sound clips.
I come here to see what opinions tech people have about various issues. Not entirely just for tech articles alone, but the community of techy people commenting on X.
AGW is getting far more attention than it deserves... and he is right.
That is highly debatable. Both that AGW is getting enough attention, and whether it is more or less serious than other issues.
I personally don't see it getting nearly enough attention. Politicians give it lip service, but no country on Earth has passed aggressive climate legislation. About the only organization that is giving it a lot of attention and money, is the propaganda machine trying to cause doubt and denial about climate change! Exxon, Shell, Koch Brothers, etc.. have all spent a large amount of money funding "skeptic" groups and "think tanks" to promote confusion and doubt on the subject. They will go down in history as being on the wrong side, just like the Tobacco companies were.
As for how serious it is... I am not sure how anyone can seriously argue that it isn't the largest issue we face, unless that person does not believe the predictions from IPCC and other bodies. 90+% of the worlds population lives on the coast. Sea level rise alone will displace such a large amount of people, the cost is going to be enormous, even spread over 50 years.
Why would you care? I'd rather have the car drop me off at the door/entrance to a store, then go park anywhere. Even several streets away. Then as I'm getting ready to leave, I hit a button, and the car drives back to the store entrance. Just like a chauffeur.
I can think of one situation, perhaps you are buying a big TV, and you want the car to back up into a loading dock. Well, the simplest solution is manual control at that point.
Someone up above claimed that studies show that reaction times become noticeably slower as low as 0.02 with 0.08 being definitely at a higher risk of stopping too slow/swerving too slow.
Are you making that claim just because you feel fine after 2 glasses of wine/beer, or do you have studies to say otherwise? I really don't know either way. But people are saying the exact opposite about a topic that is truly a life or death one. How about a few citations instead of making it seems like chugging a couple beers then hitting the road is completely fine?
When Republicans or Hillary supporters talks about socialism, they're really talking about a different form of socialism - where everything is under control of the government
Either Sanders is incorrectly using the term, or he really does want a lot of the means of production controlled socially. I suspect he believes in the later. I would support more ownership of things by the people/government, especially when they are common resources. Like, I'd much rather have my city own the internet service, just like water/sewer. Infrastructure should be 'owned by the people' in some way, shape, or form.
If he really does believe in social ownership of ALL means of production, that would be a problem. If he believes in a good mix of capitalism and socialism, letting each system's strength dictate what realm they should govern, that would make more sense, and I wish he was clearer about it. I know my parents and most of their friends are confused by what he means by 'democratic socialism'.
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I browsed quite a few of those, and the first ones I read were not preventions of a mass shooting. Like the pearl high school schooting. The deaths were already done, the suspect was fleeing, and a person stopped him from fleeing, not from shooting more.
Regardless, these sort of stories would be red meat for Fox News, so why have I never seen Fox covering a 'mass shooting prevented by armed civilian'? You think that Fox, of all news sources, would love to have a week long 24/7 story about something like this.
The only thing I found on fox, was an article complaining about the lack of coverage: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/05/22/where-is-media-coverage-heroes-who-stop-mass-killings.html . And your link isn't exactly a vetted news agencies, and obviously has an agenda, given that the name of the site is "GUN WATCH" and has the 2nd amendment quoted at the top.....
So either very few of those incidents prove much either way, or there is a nationwide conspiracy to hide the truth about good guys saving people from mass shootings.
"Does it matter what made someone a monster? I don't think so."
It matters if a bomb kills 10 of them, yet the act of killing them ends up being enough motivation to recruit 100 more in their place.
You can't really destroy an ideology with war. You can kill enough of them that they are not able to attack other people for some period of time, but it will keep coming back unless you start curing (or at least mitigating) some of the root causes.
but armed men don't normally wait for their turn to die while those around them get picked off one at a time.
I generally like guns. I'll probably go target shooting this Tday with the family. However, I cannot recall a single 'mass shooting' in the US, one of the famous ones, where a 'good guy with a gun' saved the day.
The most recent headline shooting, the one in the Oregon community college, actually had 2-3 armed students (one or more of which were active military). In an interview, one of them said they debated whether to walk out into the hallway with their pistols drawn to see if they could help, but they figured if swat was already in the hallway, it would just confuse the situation and likely get themselves killed.
Of course, if the bad guy had gone to their classroom first, it might have ended much earlier.
I guess my point is, I can't recall a mass shooting ever being stopped by an armed citizen. There are countries with less guns than us and more guns this us, and of those, both countries with more gun violence and less gun violence. Rather than resorting to simple black/white statements like "more guns is always the answer" or "less guns is always the answer", we should probably start talking about the dozens of other reasons why US gun violence is high, and just leave the guns out of the debate for now.
On windows I use a combination of mRemoteNG/Putty. mRemoteNG stores a list of sessions in a tree view. Can be grouped into folders etc.. You can assign a saved putty config to any new mRemoteNG connection. That way, X11 forwarding, etc.. is all handled by Putty. mRemoteNG is basically just a nicer putty shell that supports tabs, and other connection types like RDP/remote desktop.
I also like cygwin for quick command line scp from windows to headless servers.
On linux I'm using Pac Manager. Very similar to mRemoteNG. It helps you organize all your connections into a tree view. Supports many different ways of connecting (vnc, remote desktop, ssh, etc..).
Until you come across a bash line like:
ps -ef | grep blah > output.txt
I guess you could say that the alligator ate the 'ps -ef | grep blah' and, uhm..., 'transferred it' to output.txt :)
It isn't just government IT. Any sufficiently large IT project will be behind, cost more than thought, take years of fixes to make stable, etc...
There have been studies that basically 'proved' that beyond a certain level of complexity, all software projects 'fail' initially.
I know you are being funny... but sadly, 99% of the US thinks food like these are real food: http://jamesbirdguess.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/hamburger-helper-logo1.jpg
Lots of kids grow up eating only processed crap in a box.
I don't get why people on slashdot argue over the second amendment. It is irrelevant when the issue of gun regulations is what most people are actually talking about. There is nothing in the constitution that would prevent stricter regulations, limits, etc...
And no, the US is not in any way, shape, or form, definable as socialist (socialism is defined as the state owning the means of production, employing the workers, and setting prices.)
Government owns parts of the means of production on all levels, local, city, state, and federal. City owned production of water, State owned medical services and insurance, Federally owned and directed highway system, etc..
We have always been a mix of socialism and capitalism. Because neither on its own is very good. If you try to purely practice one or the other, that is when you end up when a failed state. That is why China wised up and now has a mix of communism/socialism/capitalism. They are doing things for practical reasons, not ideological ones. If it makes more sense for the government to own a service, they just own it. If it makes more sense for competition to make a service better, they let it go into the free market.
the number of lines of comments can actually exceed the number of lines of code
This should be the norm.
Most people, especially those with less than 10-15 years experience, don't have experiences dealing with very old code. That code may have been written using a set of assumptions that don't even exist anymore. From dependency assumptions (of course service X will be running as long as this code runs) to business/logic assumptions (of course Sheryl in accounting will drop this data file in this folder every week).
Pretend to be someone that doesn't know the business/process at all when writing comments. Pretend to be someone brand new 10 years from now when re-reading them for accuracy. Make a lot of "Why" comments, not just "How".
He's living with the conscious decision of enduring mild, planned hardship now with the goal of greatly improving his situation in life later. He is taking advantage of the environment and resources available to him to meet his needs, instead of blindly blowing the majority of his income on what others feel should be an acceptable quality of life for him. Why would you consider forward thinking and aggressive budgeting a 'cautionary tale'? He's got a plan and motivation, which a lot more than I can say about most of the people I work with.
Assuming his salary could afford living in the community near his work, then yeah, he has options and made a choice. I could move out of my own house, live in a tent in the backyard, and charge someone rent and pay my mortgage down at twice the rate if I wanted to also.
http://www.cowspiracy.com/facts/
"Animal agriculture is responsible for 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, more than the combined exhaust from all transportation. "
Then the acres of rain forest burned ever year to make room for cows.
A pound of beef requires 1 gallon of oil to produce.
Etc..
Lots of reasons.
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/07/19/3681740/bacon-seaweed-environmental-benefits/
The thing that fake meats never get right, is the texture. I've never had a vegetarian dish deliver the texture of meat. For me, that is the single biggest factor.
I guess what I'm asking is, what problem are we trying to solve here?
Well, for me, I know for a fact how bad raising cattle is for the environment. Both to climate, and land. I know it is cruel to the animals, is promoting the destruction of rain forests worldwide, isn't very good for me if I eat it 4-5 days a week, etc... There are bunch of problems with meat. But damn it tastes so good and has nice a unique, irreplaceable texture.
If they can get the taste correct, and the product can be barbecued/charred, and the texture is correct, I would give up real meat in a heartbeat.
Evolution happens over millions of years. Fire was likely not used until 100,000 years ago at the latest.
We were thoroughly developed as an omnivore species well before fire.
Fire did allow us to unlock more calories, as well as reduce the chances of disease from meat. We lived longer, had more energy, and could out compete other animals given the same set of resources using fire and other tools.
I suspect all animals who eat meat love the smell of cooked meat (I know my dogs do!). Not because we evolved alongside cooked meat, but likely because raw meat smells good because of evolution, and cooked meat just puts out a lot more of that same smell, as well as converts part of the meat into other familiar and favored compounds, like sugars (Maillard).
The thing vegetarian dishes always lack is the texture of meat. Heavily spiced foods overwhelm the flavor of meat most of the time anyways. But you really notice the texture difference.
But the taste of various meat substitutes is important if you want any significant portion of the planet eating less meat. Roasted/smoked meat has a flavor that most people won't give up.
econdly, I am biased on the issue of gun control. I think that responsible citizens should be allowed to own and use guns.
And which politician is proposing not allowing people to own guns?
The interesting thing, is that the common sense gun safety laws and changes that have been proposed over the years, are largely supported by conservative gun owners!
So, I find that there are generally two arguments:
--You can't take my guns
--Ban all the guns
Where are you hearing that second argument from? That hasn't be proposed by any serious politician I've ever listened to.
30,000 people per year die due to guns, and it's a top political story every week.
Of course politicians and news folks hype the wrong things all the time. Like terrorism. More likely to get hit by lighting, but we have to fight two 10+ year long wars over a couple thousands US citizens dying...
Except in this case, the news worthy thing to take away from our death by gun stats, isn't the absolute value when compared with other forms of death, it is the US numbers when compared with other countries. For some reason the US has WAY more deaths by guns than other countries that are of a similar modern industrial level.
The US really does have an abnormal gun problem. There are likely many reasons, requiring a lot more complex fix than most news headlines or politicians are able to articulate in 30 second sound clips.
I come here to see what opinions tech people have about various issues. Not entirely just for tech articles alone, but the community of techy people commenting on X.
AGW is getting far more attention than it deserves ... and he is right.
That is highly debatable. Both that AGW is getting enough attention, and whether it is more or less serious than other issues.
I personally don't see it getting nearly enough attention. Politicians give it lip service, but no country on Earth has passed aggressive climate legislation. About the only organization that is giving it a lot of attention and money, is the propaganda machine trying to cause doubt and denial about climate change! Exxon, Shell, Koch Brothers, etc.. have all spent a large amount of money funding "skeptic" groups and "think tanks" to promote confusion and doubt on the subject. They will go down in history as being on the wrong side, just like the Tobacco companies were.
As for how serious it is... I am not sure how anyone can seriously argue that it isn't the largest issue we face, unless that person does not believe the predictions from IPCC and other bodies. 90+% of the worlds population lives on the coast. Sea level rise alone will displace such a large amount of people, the cost is going to be enormous, even spread over 50 years.
Patents are fine. They just need to return to their original duration of ~17 years.
car to park in the 3rd spot, 4 rows over
Why would you care? I'd rather have the car drop me off at the door/entrance to a store, then go park anywhere. Even several streets away. Then as I'm getting ready to leave, I hit a button, and the car drives back to the store entrance. Just like a chauffeur.
I can think of one situation, perhaps you are buying a big TV, and you want the car to back up into a loading dock. Well, the simplest solution is manual control at that point.
The BAC legal levels are WAAAY too low now
Someone up above claimed that studies show that reaction times become noticeably slower as low as 0.02 with 0.08 being definitely at a higher risk of stopping too slow/swerving too slow.
Are you making that claim just because you feel fine after 2 glasses of wine/beer, or do you have studies to say otherwise? I really don't know either way. But people are saying the exact opposite about a topic that is truly a life or death one. How about a few citations instead of making it seems like chugging a couple beers then hitting the road is completely fine?
with social ownership of the means of production.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_socialism
When Republicans or Hillary supporters talks about socialism, they're really talking about a different form of socialism - where everything is under control of the government
Either Sanders is incorrectly using the term, or he really does want a lot of the means of production controlled socially. I suspect he believes in the later. I would support more ownership of things by the people/government, especially when they are common resources. Like, I'd much rather have my city own the internet service, just like water/sewer. Infrastructure should be 'owned by the people' in some way, shape, or form.
If he really does believe in social ownership of ALL means of production, that would be a problem. If he believes in a good mix of capitalism and socialism, letting each system's strength dictate what realm they should govern, that would make more sense, and I wish he was clearer about it. I know my parents and most of their friends are confused by what he means by 'democratic socialism'.