Nobody says all. I write, at the link, a "vocal minority". But I would like to know how we got folks like the ones who abused the late Telsa Gwynne. A person I met long ago and really liked, and wife to Alan Cox. Not anyone unreasonable. Still driven out of the community.
What about the women who have "social development issues" that draw them to the field, or do they get off with a wink and a nod?
I know they are there. I have had some startlingly unpleasant interactions with a handful of them. I don't know enough about them yet. Probably someone else should handle that side of the problem.
Oh come on. I would like to understand how we have brought up some folks like, to take the worst example, weev. Obviously I don't know a thing about his upbringing, but I know about the general situation, and I suggest a solution, although it would take a generation to implement.
Just what are you doing? Denying there's a problem?
The summarry makes it look like I'm blaming folks with Asperger's, which is not the case. It's a social development issue but not attributed to the people with pathology.
Unfortunately this is indeed the case for some number of individual police officers and police departments. It does not mean, however, that we can assume police brutality in every case of a police interaction resulting in injuries. I also know a lot more of Ian than you do.
Having gone through the data I could find this evening, it appears that Ian was a victim of mental illness and perhaps substance abuse which initiated two interactions with police. I do not have sufficient information to say if police conduct was at fault.
He was a very bright and creative guy who, unfortunately went through lots of ups and downs. He didn't deserve to end this way. Nobody does.
The Machinery handbook, the CRC Handbook, and the Radio Amateur's Handbook are the three classics. Encyclopedia Britannica was even larger but often considered to be authoritative. CRC publishes an entire series including The CRC Handbook of Avian Body Masses. It's overstating that they were so authoritative that you could take them at face value. Hand typesetting is an expensive process and when small errors came up, the publishers had to consider the cost of correction before implementing fixes. There is also the fact that many of these works arose from the work of just a few eccentric authors (neurotypical people don't write reference works) and they weren't universal experts.
SpaceX has a port in Boca Chica, Texas, which you can see from a map is almost as far south as Miami, farther south than Cape Caneveral, and across the Gulf of Mexico from Florida. Folks from SpaceX who have discussed Falcon 9 Heavy recovery so far have not implied that the geometry between Boca Chica and landing zone 1 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station line up. I'm sure we'll see.
It's not really clear there's one in the right place. Or if there is, it's covered with resort hotels.
We launch from Florida, in part, because the path to orbit isn't over other countries. Mexico got annoyed back when we launched equatorial orbits from Vandenberg.
Isn't that Kleck explaining why sheriff's are for guns in that article? Because they're elected. So, they have to follow the electorate's wishes on gun issues. Chiefs are usually appointed.
I should also have mentioned that I'd like to disarm the police along with everyone else. They really don't like that, but it works well in the U.K. The ones with guns have a distressing tendency to shoot innocent people.
I met the assistant chief of police of ReykjavÃk when I spoke there. He explained to me that the police did not carry firearms because if the did, the criminals would as well.
Looking here, it seems that police are divided. The chief's organziation supported gun control and the sheriff's organization divided it.
I've been a deputy sheriff because the county found that to be the easiest way to get emergency services volunteers under their insurance. I think in some places people get that badge just for the gun privileges - concealed carry, etc.
I'll state the statistical issue in a clearer way. The most important number is 1. There's always 1 gun in someone's hand at the time of a handgun murder. If we are to exclude manslaughter and suicide we get over 5700 murders for 2013. We also have 80,000 nonlethal injuries and even if we were to classify many of them as self-inflicted or accidents we'd be left with a lot.
So, what we need to do is get the guns used in those specific incidents out of people's hands.
And unfortunately we can't predict which are going to be the ones used. So, the only way to handle the issue without having godlike powers is to take all of them.
Sure, the link between handguns and violence is obvious. The fact that many have not been used for violence does not contradict that tens of thousands are per year.
I don't have any problem seeing why a reduction in the availability of firearms could cause an overall reduction of violence. Take away the guns, and the people who work to prevent violence (cops, etc.) can now do more non-firearm-related enforcement.
Whine all you want about your rights. You curtail the freedom of everyone around you until that gun is gone, and theirs is the higher right. We'll get it out of your hands eventually.
Australia went from 516 firearm deaths per year to 428 in the year of gun control enactment, and is now at 226. That's better than a 50% reduction in firearm deaths. And of course their population hasn't diminished! If you are reading otherwise, I suggest that someone's trying to distort the statistics.
I will restate why I would disarm you, an honest safety-trained shooter, although I've said it multiple times in this conversation.
Everybody has a crazy day in their lives. Everyone. And when that day comes, you will not be able handle your gun responsibly. Maybe nothing will happen, maybe something will. Given that there is an overall 1:1300 chance of dying from murder in your lifetime, you pose a small but finite risk to your wife and kids on that day. Or whoever is around you.
I have lived and worked in Norway and the U.K., and of course have traveled all over the world as a speaker. Every continent but Antartica so far. One reason I want to change things here (and yes, force them on you if that's the way it has to be) is my admiration for the security that people have in some of those nations that we don't have. And their freedom is in no way reduced, I would say that freedom from being murdered is a big part of freedom.
And sorry, but I don't think that I should have to live somewhere else so that you can have guns.
I think you're missing the history point. My dad certainly had read or heard of more than one returned G.I. who, for whatever reason, picked up his own firearm and did something insane to his own family. Cops do this stuff too. Here's a recent one. Senseless tragedy made possible by the convenience of his firearm.
You're sure you would never ever do such a thing and so was your dad. But history says otherwise. And any person of normal intelligence can take the fact that such things do happen, and conclude that they might happen to the most trusted, well-meaning people, including yourself.
I get this comment a lot. For the record, I would like to have the respect of my wife and kid. It's always been inherent in working for causes that I'd hear "I used to think you were cool and you've completely lost my respect". For some reason these people think I would be in some way bothered by their opinion, but it just comes with working for causes. I don't mind breaking some eggs. In fact, I like pissing people off for a good cause.
You harm my freedom by helping to put firearms in the hands of people who use them against innocent civilians. You are confident that you will never be one of those people, but the historical record is that lots of vets have ended up being the shooter in that sort of situation.
I'll keep working on the cause without your support.
I read the Gary Kleck piece and he seems to be pretty biased and actually narcissistic in his presentation. And the other URLs you gave are obviously from pro-gun sites so I didn't go there. I'm still sticking with the report I cited as by far a better scientific reporting than the ones you gave. It's scientists trying to deal with an illness and its causes, rather than folks who started with a point and then used Polya's tactics to justify it.
I am not counting what you presented as honest research, sorry.
NWS lists U.S. lightning fatalities here. 26 so far this year, although the figures seem to be several months delayed and the date on #26 has a typo. 1 in 700,000 per year get hit, from this. In contrast, there are 1 in 19,000 per year odds that you will be murdered, and about 69% of those involve firearms.
Uh, you really didn't do well on that one. Perhaps it's your mindset that needs adjustment?
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Nobody says all. I write, at the link, a "vocal minority". But I would like to know how we got folks like the ones who abused the late Telsa Gwynne. A person I met long ago and really liked, and wife to Alan Cox. Not anyone unreasonable. Still driven out of the community.
I know they are there. I have had some startlingly unpleasant interactions with a handful of them. I don't know enough about them yet. Probably someone else should handle that side of the problem.
Oh come on. I would like to understand how we have brought up some folks like, to take the worst example, weev. Obviously I don't know a thing about his upbringing, but I know about the general situation, and I suggest a solution, although it would take a generation to implement.
Just what are you doing? Denying there's a problem?
The summarry makes it look like I'm blaming folks with Asperger's, which is not the case. It's a social development issue but not attributed to the people with pathology.
Click through the link to get the whole story.
Unfortunately this is indeed the case for some number of individual police officers and police departments. It does not mean, however, that we can assume police brutality in every case of a police interaction resulting in injuries. I also know a lot more of Ian than you do.
Ian was a victim of mental illness.
This is horrible.
Having gone through the data I could find this evening, it appears that Ian was a victim of mental illness and perhaps substance abuse which initiated two interactions with police. I do not have sufficient information to say if police conduct was at fault.
He was a very bright and creative guy who, unfortunately went through lots of ups and downs. He didn't deserve to end this way. Nobody does.
An algae which contains neurotoxic domoic acid has shut down the shellfish season in California. I'm not sure we're beyond all algae bloom issues.
Google Now gives a pretty good answer. And to the woodchuck question too.
Yes, I have a Chinese clone of a Gerstner chest with that special drawer in the middle. Lots of people don't even know what it's for.
It might be worth it if we get our national parks back.
Nothing like being able to pick it up and read an exciting chemical reaction at bedtime, eh? :-)
The Machinery handbook, the CRC Handbook, and the Radio Amateur's Handbook are the three classics. Encyclopedia Britannica was even larger but often considered to be authoritative. CRC publishes an entire series including The CRC Handbook of Avian Body Masses. It's overstating that they were so authoritative that you could take them at face value. Hand typesetting is an expensive process and when small errors came up, the publishers had to consider the cost of correction before implementing fixes. There is also the fact that many of these works arose from the work of just a few eccentric authors (neurotypical people don't write reference works) and they weren't universal experts.
SpaceX has a port in Boca Chica, Texas, which you can see from a map is almost as far south as Miami, farther south than Cape Caneveral, and across the Gulf of Mexico from Florida. Folks from SpaceX who have discussed Falcon 9 Heavy recovery so far have not implied that the geometry between Boca Chica and landing zone 1 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station line up. I'm sure we'll see.
It's not really clear there's one in the right place. Or if there is, it's covered with resort hotels.
We launch from Florida, in part, because the path to orbit isn't over other countries. Mexico got annoyed back when we launched equatorial orbits from Vandenberg.
The center rocket of Falcon 9 Heavy goes too far downrange to return to land. You need the barge to get it back.
Isn't that Kleck explaining why sheriff's are for guns in that article? Because they're elected. So, they have to follow the electorate's wishes on gun issues. Chiefs are usually appointed.
I should also have mentioned that I'd like to disarm the police along with everyone else. They really don't like that, but it works well in the U.K. The ones with guns have a distressing tendency to shoot innocent people.
I met the assistant chief of police of ReykjavÃk when I spoke there. He explained to me that the police did not carry firearms because if the did, the criminals would as well.
Looking here, it seems that police are divided. The chief's organziation supported gun control and the sheriff's organization divided it.
I've been a deputy sheriff because the county found that to be the easiest way to get emergency services volunteers under their insurance. I think in some places people get that badge just for the gun privileges - concealed carry, etc.
I'll state the statistical issue in a clearer way. The most important number is 1. There's always 1 gun in someone's hand at the time of a handgun murder. If we are to exclude manslaughter and suicide we get over 5700 murders for 2013. We also have 80,000 nonlethal injuries and even if we were to classify many of them as self-inflicted or accidents we'd be left with a lot.
So, what we need to do is get the guns used in those specific incidents out of people's hands.
And unfortunately we can't predict which are going to be the ones used. So, the only way to handle the issue without having godlike powers is to take all of them.
Sure, the link between handguns and violence is obvious. The fact that many have not been used for violence does not contradict that tens of thousands are per year.
I don't have any problem seeing why a reduction in the availability of firearms could cause an overall reduction of violence. Take away the guns, and the people who work to prevent violence (cops, etc.) can now do more non-firearm-related enforcement. Whine all you want about your rights. You curtail the freedom of everyone around you until that gun is gone, and theirs is the higher right. We'll get it out of your hands eventually.
Australia went from 516 firearm deaths per year to 428 in the year of gun control enactment, and is now at 226. That's better than a 50% reduction in firearm deaths. And of course their population hasn't diminished! If you are reading otherwise, I suggest that someone's trying to distort the statistics.
I will restate why I would disarm you, an honest safety-trained shooter, although I've said it multiple times in this conversation.
Everybody has a crazy day in their lives. Everyone. And when that day comes, you will not be able handle your gun responsibly. Maybe nothing will happen, maybe something will. Given that there is an overall 1:1300 chance of dying from murder in your lifetime, you pose a small but finite risk to your wife and kids on that day. Or whoever is around you.
I have lived and worked in Norway and the U.K., and of course have traveled all over the world as a speaker. Every continent but Antartica so far. One reason I want to change things here (and yes, force them on you if that's the way it has to be) is my admiration for the security that people have in some of those nations that we don't have. And their freedom is in no way reduced, I would say that freedom from being murdered is a big part of freedom.
And sorry, but I don't think that I should have to live somewhere else so that you can have guns.
I think you're missing the history point. My dad certainly had read or heard of more than one returned G.I. who, for whatever reason, picked up his own firearm and did something insane to his own family. Cops do this stuff too. Here's a recent one. Senseless tragedy made possible by the convenience of his firearm.
You're sure you would never ever do such a thing and so was your dad. But history says otherwise. And any person of normal intelligence can take the fact that such things do happen, and conclude that they might happen to the most trusted, well-meaning people, including yourself.
I get this comment a lot. For the record, I would like to have the respect of my wife and kid. It's always been inherent in working for causes that I'd hear "I used to think you were cool and you've completely lost my respect". For some reason these people think I would be in some way bothered by their opinion, but it just comes with working for causes. I don't mind breaking some eggs. In fact, I like pissing people off for a good cause.
You harm my freedom by helping to put firearms in the hands of people who use them against innocent civilians. You are confident that you will never be one of those people, but the historical record is that lots of vets have ended up being the shooter in that sort of situation.
I'll keep working on the cause without your support.
I read the Gary Kleck piece and he seems to be pretty biased and actually narcissistic in his presentation. And the other URLs you gave are obviously from pro-gun sites so I didn't go there. I'm still sticking with the report I cited as by far a better scientific reporting than the ones you gave. It's scientists trying to deal with an illness and its causes, rather than folks who started with a point and then used Polya's tactics to justify it.
I am not counting what you presented as honest research, sorry.
NWS lists U.S. lightning fatalities here. 26 so far this year, although the figures seem to be several months delayed and the date on #26 has a typo. 1 in 700,000 per year get hit, from this. In contrast, there are 1 in 19,000 per year odds that you will be murdered, and about 69% of those involve firearms.
Uh, you really didn't do well on that one. Perhaps it's your mindset that needs adjustment?
I'll tell you another secret then. Open Source was a mistake. I am not a Freetard any longer.