Wouldn't it be fun if a video popped up that showed these "gunmen" were just driving by protesting, and the guards riddled them with bullets, and the guy who got hurt shot his own foot?
Remember, before the video showed up, the official story was that the South Carolina cop shot in self-defence, even so the victim had 6 bullet holes in the back. And before they identified McVeigh, everybody claimed it was Teh Muslims that bombed in Oklahoma City?
The whole purpose of this contest was to attract a Jihadi to shoot.
Yeah, 'cause there's no way this could have been about free speech!
If this had been about Free Speech, they wouldn't have invited as guest a guy who wants to ban books. Or rather one book. Free Speech that doesn't include the speech of others is bullshit.
Really? Or do you want to ignore the fact of the low murder rate in easy to legally get a gun Plano, Texas (.4 per 100,000) and the highest murder rate in the hard to legally get a gun city of Detroit (54.6 per 100,000)?
I actually live a few miles from plano texas and i can say that the main reason why it is such a low number is because it is an upper middle to upper class suburban type city. it has nothing to do with the amount of guns it has to do with the amount of poverty because poverty usually equals more crime. More to the point, he makes it sound like plano is the biggest gun central in the nation, sure texas is probably the state with the most guns but i dont see plano as being the city that has more guns than any other suburban areas of the like in the south.
After the Paris "Charlie Hebdo" shooting, it was obvious that such an event, in Texas, would be well protected against similar attacks. Isn't that attack another proof that fanaticism == stupidity?
Of course even gun nuts themselves proved you needed to really protect something well to prevent an attack: “Charlie Hebdo Shooting Sim Shows More Than One Gun Is Needed” (or in other words, it takes at least "two of the gun enthusiasts at the event [...] to stop even one shooter")
Oh, well, goes to show that two amateur terrorists without the hint of actual training are no match for a couple of professional security guards. They would have fared better at a gun show, probably.
I've read the remarks about the current climate change argument, but personally I think that needs to be under NOAA or other climate related institution. NASA needs to get back to what it was designed to do: Push the boundries of Space Exploration.
Any of the climate related satellites have a huge selection of launch capabilities, and do not need the umbrella of NASA to launch.
Sure. Until the next bill tells NOAA not to send satellites up, because they don't have "Space" in their name. Anything involving both "Space" and "Atmosphere" are to be done by private enterprise to save tax money.
neither I nor any of my many friends running iPhones are having the sorts of issues he's describing...
Or they have found out the things (for example specific apps, settings or usage patterns) that make iPhone unstable and have just learned to avoid them.
Ahh, so when Android seems more unstable, it's just because Android users are too stupid to find the apps that make it so?
The non-removable Apple Watch begins blinking when you need to make a visit to the doctor. After 24 hours it starts beeping. Shortly thereafter it also beacons over a cellular link so the attendants can easily locate you.
So battery life is no longer a problem all of a sudden?
You are incorrect. At the time of the Amiga, the Apple II, the Commodore 64, and other such machines, only the IBM PC was a "Personal Computer." It was a brand, not a generic term. The "generic" term was "micro computer".
Yeah, because it's really hard to unplug the cable from that Atari console and plug it into the Apple II. It requires electricians with union cards and stuff.
Bah, sophisticated people had one of those combiners, where you plugged in two or more aerial/antenna outputs from your aerial, your VCR and several other devices like computers and game consoles, and had one cable going to your TV, either passive or with a switch to select input. Advanced Electrician's Magic, knowledge now lost to the ages.
Nobody would want to quote his personal diary if he hadn't committed any heinous acts.
Just like nobody wants to quote Anne Frank's diary? Which BTW remain protected for many more decades. Also "The Fonds has granted rights for the use of Anne Frank’s texts in plays, ballets, textbooks, etc., sometimes free of charge, sometimes for a fee, depending on the type of project. "
While I'd agree that the dying in a disaster due to lack of enabling the radio is a silly stretch, if it can receive FM, why not?
And then what? Cue the episode of Southpark where The Internet went down. And the emergency broadcasters didn't know what to report because the bloody internet was down.
They are not stealing the content. They are quoting with attribution in a scholarly work. There is no country in the world that does not allow you to quote someone else.
in Harper & Row v. Nation Enterprises,[17] the use of fewer than 400 words from President Ford's memoir by a political opinion magazine was interpreted as infringement because those few words represented "the heart of the book" and were, as such, substantial
Not in Germany. There is no law in Germany that would automatically nullify the copyright on works of a criminal.
Actually, the state of Bavaria still uses its claim to the copyright of Hitler's "Mein Kampf" to block re-publishing of that work. I'm not entirely sure if that claim is solid, but so far it works for them.
Well, technically they claim ownership of the copyright as the heir because when he wrote the book he was in Bavarian prison.
Why did the English press even bring that up now? The trial started last July, and I can find no reports on it past November. And none in English media - until now. Is there some scandal in the UK that needs covering up?
In the US there are plenty of legal codes that do not allow a criminal to make money from their crimes, such as a mass murderer making money from publishing a autobiography
Even ignoring the conviction part - does the law says he loses copyright to anything he writes? Let alone everything he ever wrote? Are you saying that other should make a profit of his crimes?
Those countries that didn't care for Hitler's solution like Russia, Hungary, Austria, Poland and so on left them alone and even tried to protect them until through war, coercion and intimidation they were forced to relent.
The rest of your post was bad enough, but claiming there was no wide-spread anti-Semitism in those countries way before, during and after Nazi's controlled them takes the crown.
If you mention Pol Pot they have no idea who he was, if you mention the Armenian genocide they will also have no idea what that is.
I bet they would if you went to regions concerned. The holocaust is well known in the west because we were all involved in the war that was fought to stop it
Don't flatter yourself - WW2 started well before the Holocaust began. Unless you use the version where wars only start when the US starts fighting. And even that had all to do with Pearl Harbour and none with the Holocaust.
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She became pregnant at 9.
There is no reason to assume that he didn't consumate the marriage on their marriage night.
A Virgin Birth. Move over, Jesus.
"Let the little children come to me, and stop keeping them away". It wasn't Michael Jackson who said that.
Remember, before the video showed up, the official story was that the South Carolina cop shot in self-defence, even so the victim had 6 bullet holes in the back. And before they identified McVeigh, everybody claimed it was Teh Muslims that bombed in Oklahoma City?
The whole purpose of this contest was to attract a Jihadi to shoot.
Yeah, 'cause there's no way this could have been about free speech!
If this had been about Free Speech, they wouldn't have invited as guest a guy who wants to ban books. Or rather one book. Free Speech that doesn't include the speech of others is bullshit.
Really? Or do you want to ignore the fact of the low murder rate in easy to legally get a gun Plano, Texas (.4 per 100,000) and the highest murder rate in the hard to legally get a gun city of Detroit (54.6 per 100,000)?
http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/2tghp5/the_truth_about_guns_in_america_number_one_with_a/
I actually live a few miles from plano texas and i can say that the main reason why it is such a low number is because it is an upper middle to upper class suburban type city. it has nothing to do with the amount of guns it has to do with the amount of poverty because poverty usually equals more crime. More to the point, he makes it sound like plano is the biggest gun central in the nation, sure texas is probably the state with the most guns but i dont see plano as being the city that has more guns than any other suburban areas of the like in the south.
After the Paris "Charlie Hebdo" shooting, it was obvious that such an event, in Texas, would be well protected against similar attacks. Isn't that attack another proof that fanaticism == stupidity?
Of course even gun nuts themselves proved you needed to really protect something well to prevent an attack: “Charlie Hebdo Shooting Sim Shows More Than One Gun Is Needed” (or in other words, it takes at least "two of the gun enthusiasts at the event [...] to stop even one shooter")
Oh, well, goes to show that two amateur terrorists without the hint of actual training are no match for a couple of professional security guards. They would have fared better at a gun show, probably.
I've read the remarks about the current climate change argument, but personally I think that needs to be under NOAA or other climate related institution. NASA needs to get back to what it was designed to do: Push the boundries of Space Exploration.
Any of the climate related satellites have a huge selection of launch capabilities, and do not need the umbrella of NASA to launch.
Sure. Until the next bill tells NOAA not to send satellites up, because they don't have "Space" in their name. Anything involving both "Space" and "Atmosphere" are to be done by private enterprise to save tax money.
Attempted hacking or arson (or damaging one computer with fire)?
neither I nor any of my many friends running iPhones are having the sorts of issues he's describing...
Or they have found out the things (for example specific apps, settings or usage patterns) that make iPhone unstable and have just learned to avoid them.
Ahh, so when Android seems more unstable, it's just because Android users are too stupid to find the apps that make it so?
oooh, could this be the right time for gnu/linux people to start posting their uptime?
Yeah, I'd love to get free info on computers with unpatched vulnerabilities.
The non-removable Apple Watch begins blinking when you need to make a visit to the doctor. After 24 hours it starts beeping. Shortly thereafter it also beacons over a cellular link so the attendants can easily locate you.
So battery life is no longer a problem all of a sudden?
Read TFA. The flaw isn't in the OSS.
You are right. The flaw is in the OSS-users who think that OSS magically makes them secure from Trojans.
You are incorrect. At the time of the Amiga, the Apple II, the Commodore 64, and other such machines, only the IBM PC was a "Personal Computer." It was a brand, not a generic term. The "generic" term was "micro computer".
You disagree with IBM then, who called the IBM PC "the IBM of Personal Computers" in one of the introducing ads. Which only makes sense if there were other Personal Computers before. http://s7.computerhistory.org/is/image/CHM/500004393-03-01?$re-medium$
Yeah, because it's really hard to unplug the cable from that Atari console and plug it into the Apple II. It requires electricians with union cards and stuff.
Bah, sophisticated people had one of those combiners, where you plugged in two or more aerial/antenna outputs from your aerial, your VCR and several other devices like computers and game consoles, and had one cable going to your TV, either passive or with a switch to select input. Advanced Electrician's Magic, knowledge now lost to the ages.
Nobody would want to quote his personal diary if he hadn't committed any heinous acts.
Just like nobody wants to quote Anne Frank's diary? Which BTW remain protected for many more decades. Also "The Fonds has granted rights for the use of Anne Frank’s texts in plays, ballets, textbooks, etc., sometimes free of charge, sometimes for a fee, depending on the type of project. "
Because it's always good to have less features?
While I'd agree that the dying in a disaster due to lack of enabling the radio is a silly stretch, if it can receive FM, why not?
And then what? Cue the episode of Southpark where The Internet went down. And the emergency broadcasters didn't know what to report because the bloody internet was down.
I'm ashamed that vi vs. emacs never ended in a knife fight. The youngens are showing us up!!
Because their tools are softened enough to not hurt anybody. You need sed to do that.
>body of the windows phone fanboy is that like bigfoot? at least we have video of bigfoot
And like Bigfoot, Windows Phone Fanboy lives in the forests around Seattle.
This is why society would be better off legalizing marijuana. Just chill man.
Nobody ever got hurt by a broken spliff or hash-brownie. Okay, you could strangle someone with a hemp rope ...
They are not stealing the content. They are quoting with attribution in a scholarly work. There is no country in the world that does not allow you to quote someone else.
There are very few countries in the world that don't limit that right - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use
in Harper & Row v. Nation Enterprises,[17] the use of fewer than 400 words from President Ford's memoir by a political opinion magazine was interpreted as infringement because those few words represented "the heart of the book" and were, as such, substantial
Not in Germany. There is no law in Germany that would automatically nullify the copyright on works of a criminal.
Actually, the state of Bavaria still uses its claim to the copyright of Hitler's "Mein Kampf" to block re-publishing of that work. I'm not entirely sure if that claim is solid, but so far it works for them.
Well, technically they claim ownership of the copyright as the heir because when he wrote the book he was in Bavarian prison.
Why did the English press even bring that up now? The trial started last July, and I can find no reports on it past November. And none in English media - until now. Is there some scandal in the UK that needs covering up?
In the US there are plenty of legal codes that do not allow a criminal to make money from their crimes, such as a mass murderer making money from publishing a autobiography
Even ignoring the conviction part - does the law says he loses copyright to anything he writes? Let alone everything he ever wrote? Are you saying that other should make a profit of his crimes?
Those countries that didn't care for Hitler's solution like Russia, Hungary, Austria, Poland and so on left them alone and even tried to protect them until through war, coercion and intimidation they were forced to relent.
The rest of your post was bad enough, but claiming there was no wide-spread anti-Semitism in those countries way before, during and after Nazi's controlled them takes the crown.
If you mention Pol Pot they have no idea who he was, if you mention the Armenian genocide they will also have no idea what that is.
I bet they would if you went to regions concerned. The holocaust is well known in the west because we were all involved in the war that was fought to stop it
Don't flatter yourself - WW2 started well before the Holocaust began. Unless you use the version where wars only start when the US starts fighting. And even that had all to do with Pearl Harbour and none with the Holocaust.