. That's not a joke, either. You can walk down the street without a license carrying a loaded shotgun in each hand, handguns strapped all over your waist and legs, and rifles slung over your back, but nunchucks are illegal. We need to draw the line somewhere. This isn't the wild west any more.
Any one sane doesn't like armed-to-the-teeth wanna-be vigilantes walking around with an axe to grind. They are being socially ostracized too.
It may not be the Wild West anymore but the culture it shaped still clings to "simpler times". When all a man needed was his horse and a gun to tame the Wild and make a life for his family, away from that meddlesome government.
NJ State Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg says she will work to reverse a law making smart guns mandatory in her state – if the NRA will agree to stop obstructing them.
It does not give a pass for stupid laws from being passed in NJ that mandated a certain type of gun in the first place. However, there was a willingness to compromise to allow consumers make the choice and repeal said stupid law.
I am for gun rights, but the debate is so soured that any discussion to make guns safer cannot even take place.
it's just that no firearms means less risk of gun related violence.
That may be true but a key difference in the US is that gun rights are codified into law and in the culture. What is the "Wild West" without guns? In Arizona, to this day, you can walk into a bank with a gun with no problems.
My biggest gripe with gun law conversations in the US is that the discussion never can have a middle ground. Gun law advocates never admit to the 2nd amendment while gun rights advocates never admit to sane policy. So, when there is a technology that may make guns safer or better, it gets muddied by talking point vomit.
The NRA gets upset over a "smart" gun because "hurr you have to wear a bracelet to use it". While anti-gun folks were mad because "hurr it's a gun therefore EVIL! In really, it was a interesting idea that has some issues that could be better with time and better tech.
Talk to the people that build automated tests and build configurations for software. At the last place I worked, one specialized developer did the job of 3 testers and 1 developer that released software. That company was downsizing their development team because of automated tasks like that. That is currently happening in most IT shops where I have been.
What is a white man to do in a virtual black mans body in the zombie apocalypse? I killed my white friend on accident with a shotgun to the back of the head. I promise the virtual color of our skin was not a factor in his accidental death.
Tell me more about how you can encounter smallpox in the wild. Clearly, enough people encountered smallpox in the wild and built an inoculation over time. The people that died just got the wrong pathogen of course. It had nothing to do with vaccines, right?
When your immune system cannot fight off such pathogens and you have to rely on herd immunity, will you have the same reservations against vaccines?
Perhaps the risk due to reaction to vaccines should be equated to seat belts. In most crashes a seat belt will save your life (and having been through a few in my long life, I can attest to that), but in certain types of crashes it doesn't help at all (and I can't attest to this since dead people can't talk...other than Steve Jobs).
That is the point of the Vaccine courts, isn't it?. Measure the possibility of a manufacturing mistake and individual variation to vaccine reaction. FWIK, that court is very strict on what it will allow as evidence because it has to have scientific evidence to be a valid claim. Which is incredibly hard to do for something as well studied as vaccines.
The chances of adverse vaccine reactions is so low it's like the chance of getting in a car accident on the moon. There are a rover up there so an accident could happen if you jump the wrong way (if you also consider the rover a type of car).
A low percentage of people have adverse reactions to them
That is why there is the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act. That low percentage is much lower than what you make it sound.
Most people that I have seen that have "severe reactions" to vaccines are fear mongering idiots that blame vaccines for a broken arm in football. As demonstrated earlier ITT: cold gone in 5 days after homeopathic pill == homeopathic cure for the cold!
systemd has the 'd' obviously sexists. therefore we need a government grant to see if we can have some sort of metadata on the sexist naming scheme of its internal components. No wonder women stay away from STEM... everything is named so sexist. "systemd"? more like systemOnlyForMen.
Oh, God. I knew this landing a prob on a comet was bad news. Didn't the Mayans predict the Shivan invasion? Why didn't I watch more of those History Channel Doomsday shows?!
Then lean to program and make your own unmanned drones to fight their unmanned drones! Come brother, we can all look up in the sky to see if our revolution succeeded by seeing their automatons falling from the sky! Or we find out it was a waste of time and back to business as usual. At least we can keep our pitchforks for hay as the FSM intended.
I am sorry but one of the problems I have experienced personally was the deregulation of the student loan markets in 2005. By reducing the requirements of investors and insuring payoff to investors, it opened up the flood gaits for private investments to student loans.
The "Obama-era take-over" or the special loan consolidation of federal student loans was in response to the growing percent of defaulted loans and the total student loan debt. It wasn't a take over. It was a consolidation at low interest rates (not guaranteed mind you because congress later raised those rates). Funny thing is, the government still made money off those loan consolidations. It helped immensely for those that could do it. The absolute sad part about it though was the argument against it was that the investors wouldn't make enough money back. God forbid you don't get your double digit returns in your stock options.
Sure students hold some responsibility to the student loan problem but there is as much shit to go around to the colleges, governments, and private interests that have muddied the water.
But for you, the Apocalypse started when Obama was elected in 08. No need to critically think about anything because Obama dun did it and Obama hates Murica.
While it is true that the original scope of the intelligence community were not to enforce the law, that role is increasingly becoming part of their previously secret budget. Or that budget just increases with the collaboration between the different alphabet soup agencies. A microscopic gap indeed. That gap is non-existent to foreigners especially if you are in certain regions of Pakistan and Yemen under a CIA drone.
Slashdot Mirror
I think you would have bigger problems to worry about.
. That's not a joke, either. You can walk down the street without a license carrying a loaded shotgun in each hand, handguns strapped all over your waist and legs, and rifles slung over your back, but nunchucks are illegal. We need to draw the line somewhere. This isn't the wild west any more.
http://www.motherjones.com/pol...
Any one sane doesn't like armed-to-the-teeth wanna-be vigilantes walking around with an axe to grind. They are being socially ostracized too.
It may not be the Wild West anymore but the culture it shaped still clings to "simpler times". When all a man needed was his horse and a gun to tame the Wild and make a life for his family, away from that meddlesome government.
NJ State Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg says she will work to reverse a law making smart guns mandatory in her state – if the NRA will agree to stop obstructing them.
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/wa... http://www.usatoday.com/story/...
It does not give a pass for stupid laws from being passed in NJ that mandated a certain type of gun in the first place. However, there was a willingness to compromise to allow consumers make the choice and repeal said stupid law.
I am for gun rights, but the debate is so soured that any discussion to make guns safer cannot even take place.
it's just that no firearms means less risk of gun related violence.
That may be true but a key difference in the US is that gun rights are codified into law and in the culture. What is the "Wild West" without guns? In Arizona, to this day, you can walk into a bank with a gun with no problems.
My biggest gripe with gun law conversations in the US is that the discussion never can have a middle ground. Gun law advocates never admit to the 2nd amendment while gun rights advocates never admit to sane policy. So, when there is a technology that may make guns safer or better, it gets muddied by talking point vomit.
The NRA gets upset over a "smart" gun because "hurr you have to wear a bracelet to use it". While anti-gun folks were mad because "hurr it's a gun therefore EVIL! In really, it was a interesting idea that has some issues that could be better with time and better tech.
I hope you are wrong. :(
Talk to the people that build automated tests and build configurations for software. At the last place I worked, one specialized developer did the job of 3 testers and 1 developer that released software. That company was downsizing their development team because of automated tasks like that. That is currently happening in most IT shops where I have been.
My Dayz avatar is black. Does that count?
What is a white man to do in a virtual black mans body in the zombie apocalypse? I killed my white friend on accident with a shotgun to the back of the head. I promise the virtual color of our skin was not a factor in his accidental death.
Tell me more about how you can encounter smallpox in the wild. Clearly, enough people encountered smallpox in the wild and built an inoculation over time. The people that died just got the wrong pathogen of course. It had nothing to do with vaccines, right?
When your immune system cannot fight off such pathogens and you have to rely on herd immunity, will you have the same reservations against vaccines?
the whole medical field has lost the ability to diagnose
Really? I mean, you must know because their diagnostic methods and results conflicts with your google results, Right?
Perhaps the risk due to reaction to vaccines should be equated to seat belts. In most crashes a seat belt will save your life (and having been through a few in my long life, I can attest to that), but in certain types of crashes it doesn't help at all (and I can't attest to this since dead people can't talk...other than Steve Jobs).
That is the point of the Vaccine courts, isn't it?. Measure the possibility of a manufacturing mistake and individual variation to vaccine reaction. FWIK, that court is very strict on what it will allow as evidence because it has to have scientific evidence to be a valid claim. Which is incredibly hard to do for something as well studied as vaccines.
The chances of adverse vaccine reactions is so low it's like the chance of getting in a car accident on the moon. There are a rover up there so an accident could happen if you jump the wrong way (if you also consider the rover a type of car).
What is the morbidity rate?
Because herd immunity does not exist and 100% effective medicine does exist? You're a special kind of retard, aren't you?
A low percentage of people have adverse reactions to them
That is why there is the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act. That low percentage is much lower than what you make it sound.
Most people that I have seen that have "severe reactions" to vaccines are fear mongering idiots that blame vaccines for a broken arm in football. As demonstrated earlier ITT: cold gone in 5 days after homeopathic pill == homeopathic cure for the cold!
Think of the children! err, larva.
People who want the 'd' are satanists. People who have the 'd' are sexist.
systemd has the 'd' obviously sexists. therefore we need a government grant to see if we can have some sort of metadata on the sexist naming scheme of its internal components. No wonder women stay away from STEM... everything is named so sexist. "systemd"? more like systemOnlyForMen.
The Hitler Channel? If aliens didn't do it. Hitler did... Or both.
It seemed more likely to be haunted by ghosts than to worry about ancient alien invasions... May future generations never make our mistakes.
Oh, God. I knew this landing a prob on a comet was bad news. Didn't the Mayans predict the Shivan invasion? Why didn't I watch more of those History Channel Doomsday shows?!
tl;dr Fusion is still 30 years out... k thanks
obligatory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Then lean to program and make your own unmanned drones to fight their unmanned drones! Come brother, we can all look up in the sky to see if our revolution succeeded by seeing their automatons falling from the sky! Or we find out it was a waste of time and back to business as usual. At least we can keep our pitchforks for hay as the FSM intended.
Obama-era take-over of the student loans business
I am sorry but one of the problems I have experienced personally was the deregulation of the student loan markets in 2005. By reducing the requirements of investors and insuring payoff to investors, it opened up the flood gaits for private investments to student loans.
The "Obama-era take-over" or the special loan consolidation of federal student loans was in response to the growing percent of defaulted loans and the total student loan debt. It wasn't a take over. It was a consolidation at low interest rates (not guaranteed mind you because congress later raised those rates). Funny thing is, the government still made money off those loan consolidations. It helped immensely for those that could do it. The absolute sad part about it though was the argument against it was that the investors wouldn't make enough money back. God forbid you don't get your double digit returns in your stock options.
Sure students hold some responsibility to the student loan problem but there is as much shit to go around to the colleges, governments, and private interests that have muddied the water.
But for you, the Apocalypse started when Obama was elected in 08. No need to critically think about anything because Obama dun did it and Obama hates Murica.
Seriously, fuck you.
While it is true that the original scope of the intelligence community were not to enforce the law, that role is increasingly becoming part of their previously secret budget. Or that budget just increases with the collaboration between the different alphabet soup agencies. A microscopic gap indeed. That gap is non-existent to foreigners especially if you are in certain regions of Pakistan and Yemen under a CIA drone.
I wish most people believed that. In my state, the biggest argument is who can be the better conservative and who can hate Obamacare more. http://www.idahostatesman.com/2013/08/21/2717233/simpson-wisely-skips-a-showdown.html