Maybe if more people were carrying he wouldn't have been so quick to go on a rampage in the first place, or they could at least have defended themselves and ended it quicker.
I don't know which right-wing nutjob originally started this idiotic proposal which keeps getting parroted every time there's a shooting, but it has a huge logical flaw ya'll keep missing: If a bad guy with a gun shoots at least one person before getting shot by a good guy with a gun, it's still a shooting.
See, in those countries other than America, where we lack guns to protect ourselves, if one in three hundred of us needs to "defend" ourselves every year, we'd be dead by now. Or homeless because all our stuff was stolen. But it doesn't work that way. The threat isn't present for us. The need-to-defend isn't present.
Because other first world countries are bigger on the concept of social safety nets for people who fall on hard times. Here in America, we have this prevailing conservative attitude that if you can't pull yourself up by your own bootstraps, you should just starve to death.
Problem is, these people aren't content to sit in a gutter and slowly starve - instead, they turn to crime. Consequently, people with guns end up having to defend themselves from them.
Bigger problem is, to sell "fixing" this to the American public, you'd have to tell them you're going to take some of their money and give it to deadbeats (you're not going to be able to shake that stigma), and they'll have to give up their guns too. That's why it's a tough sell.
This along the same moronic line of thinking that lead to Google/Facebook/Twitter promoting the idea that if people used their real names, they'd be more civil towards each other. Yeah, that worked out really well.
I'm curious as to why you think mandatory military service is a terrible idea.
#1 The rich will weasel their way out of it. America loves privilege of wealth too much not to let that happen.
#2 Unskilled human labor is going to be needed less and less as warfare becomes more automated. You probably won't need a bunch of grunts with guns, when you can just drone-swarm the enemy.
Healthcare in this country is by and large, a for-profit industry. America views being healthy as a privilege of success, not a basic human right. This means if you're not feeling entirely right in the head, but you're saving up to buy that new iPhone, you'll probably skip out on getting that psych evaluation.
Around last holiday season, I bought something which required registration with the federal government, and the manufacturer insisted I take a few basic lessons before being allowed to use it. Oh wait, that was a consumer-grade camera drone, not a gun. I've never bought a gun, but I'd imagine there must be similar common-sense rules involved with something that is clearly more dangerous than a glorified toy quadcopter. Oh wait again, there aren't.
However, I didn't make the comment since this was only a single incident... until you reminded me that this is the second such incident of a mentally unstable Youtuber going on a murder suicide when they lost their income stream.
Seems to happen with some regularity in Hollywood that someone famous ODs when faced with the prospect of diminishing opportunities to earn the revenue stream they've become accustomed to.
It's probably really difficult for these types of people to accept working a "regular" job for a pittance, in much the same way I'd imagine most of us would lose our shit if we were faced with the possibility of swapping lives with a Chinese factory worker.
Realistically speaking, this guy was never likely to find something else which paid the amount of money he was making. That said, it still doesn't excuse the murderous part of his suicide.
Either that or setup and run your own website/social media platform. I'm sure it will be popular.
This.
Aren't these the same people who say bakers don't have to bake gay wedding cakes? Well guess what, Facebook and Twitter don't have to bake your alt-right cake either. Start your own damn bakery.
I will make one exception - arnica montana That is actually because it isn't really homeopathic.
For whatever reason, homeopathic medicine has incorrectly become partially synonymous with herbal medicine and natural home remedies. It's an incorrect usage of the term "homeopathic", as some herbs and home remedies have demonstrable effectiveness (mint tea for a sore throat, ice pack for a bruise - those actually work!). True homeopathic medicine, however, is 100% placebo.
Might be different in your area, but here in Orlando, FL it's all high mile crap that people are getting rid of because they never did any maintenance on it (if you're lucky, they changed the oil once or twice), or scammers selling frankencars. Very few people willing to let a genuinely good car go for $5k or less.
For the few pieces of media I want to own, I get a digital version, and I'm done. No extra piece of plastic in my house, nothing had to be manufactured or transported, and I still get to enjoy it.
You get to enjoy it until something happens to the DRM server, then like that South Park meme,...and it's gone!
I have a bunch of paid iOS games that died during the 32-bit purge. It's a bit ironic that I can fire up Windows XP under VMware and play Worms Armageddon (which I bought almost two decades ago), but my copy of UNO (yup, the card game) for iOS has gone to Apple's digital graveyard.
Don't even get me started on Netflix removing content. It was what finally motivated me to set up my own server at home, and bought Fire Sticks to run Kodi, for each TV. Content providers can shove their "kill switch" up their ass.
...you can pick up a pretty nice used car for 5 grand or so.
Have you ever actually tried to buy a $5k car? The major dealerships won't touch 'em, because they generally won't sell anything that can't be financed (the finance companies won't deal with anything too old/cheap). Your remaining options are buy-here-pay-here lots, and private sellers.
A $5k car at a buy-here-pay-here dealership is a piece of shit they got from the local auto auction, lovingly restored by throwing out the majority of the garbage from the passenger compartment, and slapping a price tag on the vehicle.
A $5k car from a private seller is either a vehicle that has been driven into the ground by the previous owner(s) and needs major mechanical work, or it's a rebuilt frankencar from flooded/salvaged parts (which is why they don't just trade it in at a dealer).
The reason the situation is so grim, is that lease turn-ins are almost the only instance where people rid themselves of a perfectly working, low mileage car. Those cars end up in the "pre-owned" section of major car dealerships, with nice big fat price tags on them. Good luck trying to haggle one of those down to $5k.
As of right now self-driving cars DO NOT WORK and there is no evidence that it ever will.
This isn't "warp drive" where we're constrained by the laws of physics. We can equip human-operated cars with transponders (as part of vehicle registration, to ensure it rolls out to everyone), and make changes to roads (QR codes on signs, perhaps?) to make things more machine-compatible.
Why do people assume that self-driving cars will EVER exist?
Do you believe the Earth is flat, too? Self-driving vehicles already exist. Heck, you can buy consumer drones for less than a grand that can fly themselves.
Even if AI never gets good enough to fully replace a human, there are still workarounds to make the roads (and other cars) more "machine compatible". The humble old barcode is a perfect example of designing something to be machine readable, at a time when OCR technology wasn't up to the task.
This is why half the country will vote for Trump again. They are sick and tired of the left's antics.
No, this is why the country is fucked, because of voters who don't care if we go straight to hell in a handbasket, so long as it pisses off the "liberals".
The greatest trick the 1%ers in this country managed to pull was turning the 99%ers against each other. God forbid a properly operating democracy became an impediment to their acquisition of additional wealth.
This is because people are finally realizing how impractical cryptocurrencies are.
The problem is cryptocoins have very few legitimate applications beyond resale to the next bigger fool. Once the fool pool is depleted, the value has nowhere to go but down. It will probably never reach $0 though, as there will always be illegal uses (money laundering, drug money, ransomware, etc.) propping up the value.
The reason rags-to-riches stories are newsworthy is because they're not a frequent occurrence. You probably heard about the Papa John guy selling his favorite car to start his pizza restaurant. What you probably didn't hear about is the stories of every other mom & pop pizza shop which didn't grow to become a national chain.
Capitalism wants to introduce other ISPs to make it a competitive marketplace, but is blocked by government regulations prohibiting competing ISPs.
The bigger problem is there's not too many investors who think it's a great idea to compete in a saturated market, against cable companies with very deep pockets.
Of course, if you have any sense to understand what you're getting into, you don't keep $23 million dollars worth of cryptocoins on an unregulated, uninsured crypto exchange either.
No, this is like Amazon telling you the glove box of your car is a safe place to keep your Amazon stock. Then some criminal gets the car dealer to give them a copy of your car key, and uses it to pilfer your stock.
OTOH, text messaging is a common 2FA method and AT&T needs to do better before someone gets their bank account hoovered.
Car door locks are a common way of securing your vehicle, and they can be easily defeated with a wedge, an inflatable bag, and a bent coat hanger. Car manufacturers need to do better, before someone gets their valuables stolen.
Or perhaps, you can realize the security is inherently shitty and don't rely on a locked car to protect your valuables.
I am currently rooting for true two factor hardware fobs to improve cross platform usability, but I'm not sure it has the legs.
If we were talking a reputable financial institution holding on to your $23 million real dollars, of course they'd want to implement decent security measures. But this most likely involved a theft from a Bitcoin exchange, and thus it becomes a $23 million dollar lesson in the meaning of the word "unregulated".
But isn't as much blame to put on whoever maintained the first factor? The article doesn't tell us how and why that factor failed...
If the investor ("crypto gambler" sounds more apt) had their virtual tulip bulbs in their blockchain wallet, there would've been no heist. My best guess would be that the coins were stolen from an account on Coinbase, which uses this sort of 2FA.
So, as much as I loathe AT&T, this is really just another case of someone failing to heed the advice of "don't keep your Bitcoins on an exchange." There are so many ways that can end badly, and most of them don't involve AT&T.
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Maybe if more people were carrying he wouldn't have been so quick to go on a rampage in the first place, or they could at least have defended themselves and ended it quicker.
I don't know which right-wing nutjob originally started this idiotic proposal which keeps getting parroted every time there's a shooting, but it has a huge logical flaw ya'll keep missing: If a bad guy with a gun shoots at least one person before getting shot by a good guy with a gun, it's still a shooting.
See, in those countries other than America, where we lack guns to protect ourselves, if one in three hundred of us needs to "defend" ourselves every year, we'd be dead by now. Or homeless because all our stuff was stolen. But it doesn't work that way. The threat isn't present for us. The need-to-defend isn't present.
Because other first world countries are bigger on the concept of social safety nets for people who fall on hard times. Here in America, we have this prevailing conservative attitude that if you can't pull yourself up by your own bootstraps, you should just starve to death.
Problem is, these people aren't content to sit in a gutter and slowly starve - instead, they turn to crime. Consequently, people with guns end up having to defend themselves from them.
Bigger problem is, to sell "fixing" this to the American public, you'd have to tell them you're going to take some of their money and give it to deadbeats (you're not going to be able to shake that stigma), and they'll have to give up their guns too. That's why it's a tough sell.
"An armed society is a polite society."
This along the same moronic line of thinking that lead to Google/Facebook/Twitter promoting the idea that if people used their real names, they'd be more civil towards each other. Yeah, that worked out really well.
I'm curious as to why you think mandatory military service is a terrible idea.
#1 The rich will weasel their way out of it. America loves privilege of wealth too much not to let that happen.
#2 Unskilled human labor is going to be needed less and less as warfare becomes more automated. You probably won't need a bunch of grunts with guns, when you can just drone-swarm the enemy.
Healthcare in this country is by and large, a for-profit industry. America views being healthy as a privilege of success, not a basic human right. This means if you're not feeling entirely right in the head, but you're saving up to buy that new iPhone, you'll probably skip out on getting that psych evaluation.
Around last holiday season, I bought something which required registration with the federal government, and the manufacturer insisted I take a few basic lessons before being allowed to use it. Oh wait, that was a consumer-grade camera drone, not a gun. I've never bought a gun, but I'd imagine there must be similar common-sense rules involved with something that is clearly more dangerous than a glorified toy quadcopter. Oh wait again, there aren't.
I suppose we deserve this shit.
So the more we let young people kill themselves, the worse it will be for the society in economical sense.
In earlier times, youngsters with low regard for their own lives were sent off to war (ostensibly because they weren't good for much else).
That might also have meant the lunatic wasn't able to buy a car or didn't want one as it wasn't a status symbol.
You do realize this happened in the United States, where being a lunatic doesn't necessarily preclude you from owning a gun?
However, I didn't make the comment since this was only a single incident... until you reminded me that this is the second such incident of a mentally unstable Youtuber going on a murder suicide when they lost their income stream.
Seems to happen with some regularity in Hollywood that someone famous ODs when faced with the prospect of diminishing opportunities to earn the revenue stream they've become accustomed to.
It's probably really difficult for these types of people to accept working a "regular" job for a pittance, in much the same way I'd imagine most of us would lose our shit if we were faced with the possibility of swapping lives with a Chinese factory worker.
Realistically speaking, this guy was never likely to find something else which paid the amount of money he was making. That said, it still doesn't excuse the murderous part of his suicide.
Either that or setup and run your own website/social media platform. I'm sure it will be popular.
This.
Aren't these the same people who say bakers don't have to bake gay wedding cakes? Well guess what, Facebook and Twitter don't have to bake your alt-right cake either. Start your own damn bakery.
I will make one exception - arnica montana That is actually because it isn't really homeopathic.
For whatever reason, homeopathic medicine has incorrectly become partially synonymous with herbal medicine and natural home remedies. It's an incorrect usage of the term "homeopathic", as some herbs and home remedies have demonstrable effectiveness (mint tea for a sore throat, ice pack for a bruise - those actually work!). True homeopathic medicine, however, is 100% placebo.
Might be different in your area, but here in Orlando, FL it's all high mile crap that people are getting rid of because they never did any maintenance on it (if you're lucky, they changed the oil once or twice), or scammers selling frankencars. Very few people willing to let a genuinely good car go for $5k or less.
For the few pieces of media I want to own, I get a digital version, and I'm done. No extra piece of plastic in my house, nothing had to be manufactured or transported, and I still get to enjoy it.
You get to enjoy it until something happens to the DRM server, then like that South Park meme, ...and it's gone!
I have a bunch of paid iOS games that died during the 32-bit purge. It's a bit ironic that I can fire up Windows XP under VMware and play Worms Armageddon (which I bought almost two decades ago), but my copy of UNO (yup, the card game) for iOS has gone to Apple's digital graveyard.
Don't even get me started on Netflix removing content. It was what finally motivated me to set up my own server at home, and bought Fire Sticks to run Kodi, for each TV. Content providers can shove their "kill switch" up their ass.
...you can pick up a pretty nice used car for 5 grand or so.
Have you ever actually tried to buy a $5k car? The major dealerships won't touch 'em, because they generally won't sell anything that can't be financed (the finance companies won't deal with anything too old/cheap). Your remaining options are buy-here-pay-here lots, and private sellers.
A $5k car at a buy-here-pay-here dealership is a piece of shit they got from the local auto auction, lovingly restored by throwing out the majority of the garbage from the passenger compartment, and slapping a price tag on the vehicle.
A $5k car from a private seller is either a vehicle that has been driven into the ground by the previous owner(s) and needs major mechanical work, or it's a rebuilt frankencar from flooded/salvaged parts (which is why they don't just trade it in at a dealer).
The reason the situation is so grim, is that lease turn-ins are almost the only instance where people rid themselves of a perfectly working, low mileage car. Those cars end up in the "pre-owned" section of major car dealerships, with nice big fat price tags on them. Good luck trying to haggle one of those down to $5k.
As of right now self-driving cars DO NOT WORK and there is no evidence that it ever will.
This isn't "warp drive" where we're constrained by the laws of physics. We can equip human-operated cars with transponders (as part of vehicle registration, to ensure it rolls out to everyone), and make changes to roads (QR codes on signs, perhaps?) to make things more machine-compatible.
Why do people assume that self-driving cars will EVER exist?
Do you believe the Earth is flat, too? Self-driving vehicles already exist. Heck, you can buy consumer drones for less than a grand that can fly themselves.
Even if AI never gets good enough to fully replace a human, there are still workarounds to make the roads (and other cars) more "machine compatible". The humble old barcode is a perfect example of designing something to be machine readable, at a time when OCR technology wasn't up to the task.
This is why half the country will vote for Trump again. They are sick and tired of the left's antics.
No, this is why the country is fucked, because of voters who don't care if we go straight to hell in a handbasket, so long as it pisses off the "liberals".
The greatest trick the 1%ers in this country managed to pull was turning the 99%ers against each other. God forbid a properly operating democracy became an impediment to their acquisition of additional wealth.
This is because people are finally realizing how impractical cryptocurrencies are.
The problem is cryptocoins have very few legitimate applications beyond resale to the next bigger fool. Once the fool pool is depleted, the value has nowhere to go but down. It will probably never reach $0 though, as there will always be illegal uses (money laundering, drug money, ransomware, etc.) propping up the value.
I could launch and promote my Kickstarter campaign for my solar-powered, blockchain enabled, 3D printed drone. I'm sure it would be a hit.
It's hard, it's difficult - but it can happen.
It's statistically unlikely.
The reason rags-to-riches stories are newsworthy is because they're not a frequent occurrence. You probably heard about the Papa John guy selling his favorite car to start his pizza restaurant. What you probably didn't hear about is the stories of every other mom & pop pizza shop which didn't grow to become a national chain.
Capitalism wants to introduce other ISPs to make it a competitive marketplace, but is blocked by government regulations prohibiting competing ISPs.
The bigger problem is there's not too many investors who think it's a great idea to compete in a saturated market, against cable companies with very deep pockets.
I expect AT&T has some sort of terms of service that limits or disclaims their liability.
Yup, it's in the TOS that no one ever reads.
Of course, if you have any sense to understand what you're getting into, you don't keep $23 million dollars worth of cryptocoins on an unregulated, uninsured crypto exchange either.
No, this is like Amazon telling you the glove box of your car is a safe place to keep your Amazon stock. Then some criminal gets the car dealer to give them a copy of your car key, and uses it to pilfer your stock.
OTOH, text messaging is a common 2FA method and AT&T needs to do better before someone gets their bank account hoovered.
Car door locks are a common way of securing your vehicle, and they can be easily defeated with a wedge, an inflatable bag, and a bent coat hanger. Car manufacturers need to do better, before someone gets their valuables stolen.
Or perhaps, you can realize the security is inherently shitty and don't rely on a locked car to protect your valuables.
I am currently rooting for true two factor hardware fobs to improve cross platform usability, but I'm not sure it has the legs.
If we were talking a reputable financial institution holding on to your $23 million real dollars, of course they'd want to implement decent security measures. But this most likely involved a theft from a Bitcoin exchange, and thus it becomes a $23 million dollar lesson in the meaning of the word "unregulated".
But isn't as much blame to put on whoever maintained the first factor? The article doesn't tell us how and why that factor failed...
If the investor ("crypto gambler" sounds more apt) had their virtual tulip bulbs in their blockchain wallet, there would've been no heist. My best guess would be that the coins were stolen from an account on Coinbase, which uses this sort of 2FA.
So, as much as I loathe AT&T, this is really just another case of someone failing to heed the advice of "don't keep your Bitcoins on an exchange." There are so many ways that can end badly, and most of them don't involve AT&T.