See, I smartly decided to patent the various ways of Smoking Crack, and I can assure you the awarding of, and applying for, this patent, violates my patent.
Um, you do know the NSA has it's OWN fab (DOD owns it, it's also used for making other military electronics), and you can bet your ass it's as ahead of other fabs as the NSA is ahead of general technology
it will take society a long time to realize it's not the fact that they had guns, but that they wanted them in the first place, that matters. Sure, you can stop 1 out of 6 psychos if you take away the guns, but it's not the point. Nor is that they had planned it out. In fact, the fact that they planned it out is scarier because it means they were constantly tormented for long enough to finally crack and for an entire year, plan this. How much would it take to get your average disgruntled geek to stay angry enough at an entire population for a year to kill them? Or at least how long would it take before you became so disillusioned you felt what the nazi's where doing was a good thing? (They did, you know, yell seig heil (sp?) whenever they made a strike/spare in bowling.) The general feeling is that a "Normal" person will never get to either of these points, but as most comments here show, it's simply not true. It is normal for someone, after intense periods of living hell, to want to exact some sort of "revenge". Not that it is everyone's solution, nor do i condone the violence they were involved in. Or, for that matter, the use of violence to exact revenge. But personally, after years of that crap, and being peaceful, i put one kid who had been abusing me for 4 years in the hospital. And ya know what? I still don't feel remorseful about it. And at least as far as i know, i'm not a "psycho". But pretending they were just completely psycho, with evidence completely to the contrary (read the officer's report on them after getting done with their community service), is blatantly wrong. They may have been driven sociopathic, but they sure as hell didn't start that way.
On a tangent, It's odd that there is no "Geek rights" activists. As a population, our young are being severely discriminated against and abused. Yet no one has formed any groups to try to stop it. I guess part of the problem is also that the young among us must not realize they are not alone. That basically every single geek went through the same hell. Heck, I still remember the names and faces, as i'm sure everyone does.
Back off that tangent,
Also unfortunately, this country (the US) in general has never "gotten it" when it comes to solving problems. Nobody ever attacks the right part of a problem, or even bothers to try to find it.
Trying to keep guns away from kids who want to kill students is solving step 4 before solving step 2. It might be good to stop them from wanting to kill students first. And it might be good to stop whatever caused them to want to kill students first as well. (Note that i am undecided on the issue of gun control. I just don't particularly have enough evidence either way to hold an informed/defendable opinion) --Dan The day microsoft speaks for me is the day i quit.
There are 4 now, god damn bastards stole the rea one's ID (I'm guessing it's the first from the user info "MEEPT would like to bring all the many divided factions of Linux into one big divided faction"). Or it's the newest one.
Sorry son, being an MS employee, i can say we wouldn't write something like that. Hell, even if they did pay me to sit around on slashdot all day espousing MS bullshit, i still couldn't say something like that with a straight face. Maybe you noticed he wrote "Man i love writing this drivel", implying that he was being sarcastic. Or did you just want to cry troll because you need better free time management?
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See, I smartly decided to patent the various ways of Smoking Crack, and I can assure you the awarding of, and applying for, this patent, violates my patent.
Um, you do know the NSA has it's OWN fab (DOD owns it, it's also used for making other military electronics), and you can bet your ass it's as ahead of other fabs as the NSA is ahead of general technology
it will take society a long time to realize it's not the fact that they had guns, but that they wanted them in the first place, that matters.
Sure, you can stop 1 out of 6 psychos if you take away the guns, but it's not the point. Nor is that they had planned it out. In fact, the fact that they planned it out is scarier because it means they were constantly tormented for long enough to finally crack and for an entire year, plan this. How much would it take to get your average disgruntled geek to stay angry enough at an entire population for a year to kill them? Or at least how long would it take before you became so disillusioned you felt what the nazi's where doing was a good thing? (They did, you know, yell seig heil (sp?) whenever they made a strike/spare in bowling.)
The general feeling is that a "Normal" person will never get to either of these points, but as most comments here show, it's simply not true.
It is normal for someone, after intense periods of living hell, to want to exact some sort of "revenge". Not that it is everyone's solution, nor do i condone the violence they were involved in. Or, for that matter, the use of violence to exact revenge. But personally, after years of that crap, and being peaceful, i put one kid who had been abusing me for 4 years in the hospital. And ya know what? I still don't feel remorseful about it. And at least as far as i know, i'm not a "psycho". But pretending they were just completely psycho, with evidence completely to the contrary (read the officer's report on them after getting done with their community service), is blatantly wrong. They may have been driven sociopathic, but they sure as hell didn't start that way.
On a tangent,
It's odd that there is no "Geek rights" activists.
As a population, our young are being severely discriminated against and abused.
Yet no one has formed any groups to try to stop it. I guess part of the problem is also that the young among us must not realize they are not alone. That basically every single geek went through the same hell. Heck, I still remember the names and faces, as i'm sure everyone does.
Back off that tangent,
Also unfortunately, this country (the US) in general has never "gotten it" when it comes to solving problems.
Nobody ever attacks the right part of a problem, or even bothers to try to find it.
Trying to keep guns away from kids who want to kill students is solving step 4 before solving step 2.
It might be good to stop them from wanting to kill students first.
And it might be good to stop whatever caused them to want to kill students first as well.
(Note that i am undecided on the issue of gun control. I just don't particularly have enough evidence either way to hold an informed/defendable opinion)
--Dan
The day microsoft speaks for me is the day i quit.
There are 4 now, god damn bastards stole the rea one's ID (I'm guessing it's the first from the user info "MEEPT would like to bring all the many divided factions of Linux into one big divided faction").
Or it's the newest one.
Or so i'm led to believe he's the one with formal legal training on this stuff.
Correct me if i'm wrong Bruce.
Sorry son, being an MS employee, i can say we wouldn't write something like that. Hell, even if they did pay me to sit around on slashdot all day espousing MS bullshit, i still couldn't say something like that with a straight face.
Maybe you noticed he wrote "Man i love writing this drivel", implying that he was being sarcastic.
Or did you just want to cry troll because you need better free time management?