It's starting to look like school officials had gotten together to decide how they were going to cover their asses on what they thought was a single crime-of-passion type of incident.
You just answered your own question. If some nut job in the apartments down the street shoots somebody, they don't lock down the surrounding 5 miles. As far as the administrators were concerned, it was a single homicide, there were probably no indications the guy was going to go across campus and kill 30 more people.
Does anybody know if Virginia Tech has a policy against firearms on campus? If so, I hope people stop and ask: could one student, armed with a handgun, have prevented the death toll from climbing as high as it did?
Last year the VA legislature tried to amend the laws to allow licensed students and faculty to carry concealed on campus. Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker was happy to hear the bill was defeated. "I'm sure the university community is appreciative of the General Assembly's actions because this will help parents, students, faculty and visitors feel safe on our campus."
Would guns on campus have prevented more people from getting shot? Who the hell knows? Maybe it would have meant several people trying to play hero and causing even more casualties by shooting wildly in the direction of the gunman.
To get a CCP in the vast majority of states you have to show you are proficient in handling a firearm. I can't speak for other states, but the people who can pass a CCP exam aren't the type that will be shooting wildly.
If by Maintaining Civility they mean "Only showing what the majority agrees with while everything else is downmodded" then yes, that is a good description. I'm not saying/.'s mod system doesn't have its merits, but it does suffer from groupthink.
I don't want to seem like I think you're a self-entitled douche bag, but please point out, in great and precise detail which law was passed saying you get anything you want for free, just because you don't want to pay for it. Because I could use a new car right now.
Social Security teaches people to be lazy. People rely on it too much, it was never designed to fully support people, that's what retirement funds and savings are for.
Yes, not everyone gets the cool binocular headsets, but that's a matter of Democrats being too cheap-ass to properly equip troops
Had to fix that for ya. Lets take a look at what the Democrats felt were vital for the troops in the Iraqi funding bill.
-- $25 million for payments to spinach producers -- $120 million to the shrimp industry -- $74 million for peanut storage -- $5 million for shellfish, oyster and clam producers
I'm sure spinach, shrimp, peanuts, and shellfish will help keep troops alive.
Sales tax, schmales tax, couldn't they just drop the price of the books they sell so their price with sales tax is competitive with amazon without tax?
How hard is it to run a line off the sound board to a recording device and have some dude hit a button at the end of every song to signal 'put this as a new track'?
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. . but this screams "Getting gullible people to give me $50 for mostly snake oil"
Thought there was a compatibility-exemption for reverse-engineering.
linking to the Speculations blog anyways. I mean it's not like it isn't the very top story on there or anything . . .
So this post is downloaded from my computer?
It's starting to look like school officials had gotten together to decide how they were going to cover their asses on what they thought was a single crime-of-passion type of incident.
You just answered your own question. If some nut job in the apartments down the street shoots somebody, they don't lock down the surrounding 5 miles. As far as the administrators were concerned, it was a single homicide, there were probably no indications the guy was going to go across campus and kill 30 more people.
Does anybody know if Virginia Tech has a policy against firearms on campus? If so, I hope people stop and ask: could one student, armed with a handgun, have prevented the death toll from climbing as high as it did?
Last year the VA legislature tried to amend the laws to allow licensed students and faculty to carry concealed on campus. Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker was happy to hear the bill was defeated. "I'm sure the university community is appreciative of the General Assembly's actions because this will help parents, students, faculty and visitors feel safe on our campus."
Would guns on campus have prevented more people from getting shot? Who the hell knows? Maybe it would have meant several people trying to play hero and causing even more casualties by shooting wildly in the direction of the gunman.
To get a CCP in the vast majority of states you have to show you are proficient in handling a firearm. I can't speak for other states, but the people who can pass a CCP exam aren't the type that will be shooting wildly.
I for one would rather go buy a more expensive DVD then get a crappy quality video from iTunes.
Not to be rude, but no shit. Trying to game on a Sempron 1.8 with only a gig of ram and integrated graphics is stupid.
If by Maintaining Civility they mean "Only showing what the majority agrees with while everything else is downmodded" then yes, that is a good description. I'm not saying /.'s mod system doesn't have its merits, but it does suffer from groupthink.
'Nuff said.
If they get Human Rights, can I get Animal Rights, like flinging my poo at my boss when he annoys me?
Yes shallow, my BS in CS Degree has a 3000 level Philosophy requirement. God knows philosophers love to write.
I don't want to seem like I think you're a self-entitled douche bag, but please point out, in great and precise detail which law was passed saying you get anything you want for free, just because you don't want to pay for it. Because I could use a new car right now.
in fact by allowing the free copying of works that did not further the arts or the sciences
Way to kill the entire non-fiction genre.
Normal for Firefox, but not normal for a good browser.
Social Security teaches people to be lazy. People rely on it too much, it was never designed to fully support people, that's what retirement funds and savings are for.
Yes, not everyone gets the cool binocular headsets, but that's a matter of Democrats being too cheap-ass to properly equip troops
Had to fix that for ya. Lets take a look at what the Democrats felt were vital for the troops in the Iraqi funding bill.
-- $25 million for payments to spinach producers
-- $120 million to the shrimp industry
-- $74 million for peanut storage
-- $5 million for shellfish, oyster and clam producers
I'm sure spinach, shrimp, peanuts, and shellfish will help keep troops alive.
Sales tax, schmales tax, couldn't they just drop the price of the books they sell so their price with sales tax is competitive with amazon without tax?
Why dont people learn to just foot the bandwidth bill themselves so they have control over it.
How hard is it to run a line off the sound board to a recording device and have some dude hit a button at the end of every song to signal 'put this as a new track'?
Not only does it stop fires, but it gets rid of your stupid employees!
See the search box in the top right corner, try typing in registerfly . . . you'd be surprised what those search thinggies do.
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
/.'s Spectrograph needs fixed.
I guess
is that his 2003 choice mirrored his writing ability of the last few movies.