Make it known that schools are guarded by good guys with guns and these maniacs are less likely to even attempt to kill children in a school.
Deterrence only works when your adversary isn't a suicidal maniac.
Maybe that person is wearing a uniform, maybe not.
Unless you're suggesting the lunacy of arming other students, the "good guy with a gun" will be an adult. Unless they are psychic or have the fastest draw in the west, it's just likely they'll be the first target.
Having the good guys with a gun in the schools may not mean the gun fight didn't happen but it does mean that the body count will be much lower.
Minimizing casualties sounds good if we were talking about an armed conflict. However, we're talking about kids who are going to school, not into battle.
Have you noticed anything about those people running the metal detectors? They have guns.
That's the entire point - everyone with guns, good guys and bad guys, stay outside the security checkpoint. Again, this works for airports, courthouses, theme parks. The whole reason we're okay with kids getting shot up while they're trying to take a math test is because implementing security at every public school would simply be too expensive. It's just cheaper to let a few kids die every once in awhile. Ironically, this comes from the same politicians pushing a "pro life" agenda.
Most working class people cannot afford to throw $200+ toward a complaint that might help them deal with a big business---if there is a legal basis for intervention, which, of course, they have no way of knowing without consulting a lawyer.
The way the Republican leaders see it is, if you've been wronged by a business, you should sue them. The obvious problem with this mentality is that it creates a society where only the wealthy have consumer protection.
If you've ever had the unfortunate experiences of dealing with the types of businesses which cater to low-income people (buy-here-pay-here car dealers, payday loan brokers, prepaid phone dealers, etc.), it becomes readily apparent why government enforcement of consumer protection laws is necessary.
and finally people are discussing things that will actually stop murders such as armed guards at schools.
Are these armed guards supposed to be psychic? There is a point the "we need more good guys with guns" contingent seems to keep missing: Some kid shoots up a few students and then gets capped by an armed guard (or armed teacher) - that's still a school shooting.
If you actually want to keep guns out of schools, we've already figured this shit out at airports, courtrooms, and theme parks. Send everybody through a metal detector. Of course, some psycho could still shoot up the security queue, but technically you've kept guns out of the school, so not a school shooting.
I'm freaking out over Trump because he's attacking Obamacare.
The ACA was a boondoggle from the start, and several states (my home of Florida included) sabotaged it by refusing the subsidies. The only good to come of it was the provision regarding pre-existing conditions.
Until America wises up to the concept of healthcare as a basic human right, I don't see this ever getting properly fixed. The problem is, a good portion of voters don't want to be paying for medical care for "deadbeats"; not realizing that doing so improves society as a whole (if others are healthier, they can be more productive, and the economy will thrive).
His administration did just allow 3D printed guns. I'll give you that.
Ghost guns for everyone, whoop-de-fucking-do. And when their 3D printed "2nd amendment toy" goes horribly wrong, that's why we have Darwin Awards. Meanwhile, the Trump administration reinstated drone registration, thus requiring me to register my tiny flying camera with the FAA. It's rather disturbing when your country is more quick to scrutinize flying toys than assault rifles.
what, if anything, will make you stop supporting him?
Trump has a bit of a cult-like following, with that whole unquestioning devotion thing going on. Trump could literally set the whole country ablaze, and some of them would still be happy knowing a bunch of liberals are burning too.
The problem is that it's expensive beyond belief to start an ISP, and you pretty much only get customers by luring them away from a competitor. From the perspective of an investor looking to turn his huge wad of cash into an even bigger wad of cash, starting an ISP is an exceedingly bad investment.
Here is a study (skip to page 11) that estimates that over 50% of US households have 2 or more choices for 25mbps+ landline service.
Typical Republican mindset: "I've got mine, too damn bad if you didn't get yours."
Selfish people with no empathy are ruining this country. Nobody should have to move just to have a choice of broadband provider. Certainly not half of the country.
The proper course of action is to vote with your wallet and take your business elsewhere. Don't act like you can't; it's a rare case these days where you have no choice of ISP's.
This may work for search engines, social media sites, and gay wedding cake bakers, but some of us legitimately have no choice of broadband providers.
I don't live out in BFE, either. I'm in central Florida (the 3rd most populated state in the USA). The choice in my neighborhood is Spectrum broadband, or nothing. AT&T used to offer DSL, but it is not available to new customers and they have no plans to ever offer any form of broadband services for new customers in my neighborhood.
It doesn't take away as many jobs as you might think, they still have a staff (someone has to keep people from smashing the machine, or clean out its greasy innards at night).
Until someone else comes along and decides they can make MOAR PROFIT!!1 by opening their own robo-burger joint, with a self-cleaning robot, taser drones for security, and automated ordering kiosks.
The Lorax nailed it ages ago: "If I didn't do it, then someone else would."
a shortage of meat and beer is indeed a crisis worthy of drastic government intervention.
Yup, maybe the British will move to a single-payer beer and meat system.
On this side of the pond, if beer and meat became more expensive, that's just supply and demand, buttercup. Stop being a fat lazy mooch and get a 2nd job in Trump's coal mines. A little black lung will put some hair on your chest. MAGA!
The problem arises when idiots^H^H^H^H^H^H users install some trojan and then expect Apple to fix it and then bad mouth the company when they refuse to deal with it or for having bad security.
Nothing is stopping you from buying something at Home Depot which ends up burning down your house and/or sending you to the E.R. Somehow, they still manage to stay in business.
Apple locks down their devices because you're not really buying a piece of hardware. You're paying for the transferable rights to use iOS and its associated services, which just happens to include the requisite hardware as part of your purchase. It's like buying a Magic Band with admission rights to Disney World, but with better hardware specs.
I remain surprised the "high end" Android phones sell at all, given it seems that the more expensive they are, the fewer key features are included and the more fragile the phone (iPhones? Yes, because iPhone buyers tend to already be locked into the iOS ecosystem, but Android users have alternatives.)
Every flagship Android phone these days is a nearly-identical phablet. If you don't want any of that trendy shit like CRT-inspired rounded glass/corners, lack of a headphone jack, a "notch", an OLED display (sorry, but it still suffers from burn-in and poor daylight readability), etc., prepare to be relegated to low-end garbage phones.
Or Apple, at least until they release their iPhone X-inspired refreshed iPhone line-up, which will make them yet another "me too" in the field of nearly-identical rounded-corner, OLED screen phablets.
So everyone gets charged except for the cop that actually killed a man? That seems a huge lapse of justice.
Getting in trouble for goading someone into swatting you seems like a huge lapse of justice, too. Don't talk shit in online games, because some scumbag might get pissed at you and end up swatting the wrong person?
I get that the torches and pitchforks are out over this, but the faults lie with the lowlife who actually placed the false 911 call, and the police department for going in "guns blazing" without properly assessing the situation (hell, consumer grade video drones can fly miles from the operator - buy one, idiotic police department).
When exactly are you cowards planning on starting to fire guns?
Most of the "cling to their guns" crowd supported the administration which allowed this to happen. They believe that if you make businesses happy by removing regulations, the economy will prosper, and a brand new 4x4 pickup truck will miraculously appear in their driveway.
And they have the nerve to call the left "snowflakes"...
Take this fucking logical fallacy and shove it so far up your ass, that it re-materializes in your brain and forces you to re-evaluate it.
Absolutely nothing is forcing you to use Google or Facebook. They may abuse their positions in the industry, but you can still choose not to patronize their services. Also, anyone can easily register a domain and start their own search engine or social media business. It's not quite so easy to start a broadband ISP.
Many Americans (myself included) have one choice of landline broadband provider, and if they decide to start charging extra for Netflix, or a "premium online gaming package", cancelling service in protest would be a significantly larger sacrifice than switching to DuckDuckGo/deleting Facebook.
I can't think of anything I want less than endless flocks of drones constantly buzzing overhead.
At the altitude they intend on using for commercial drone flights, they'd be nearly inaudible from the ground.
I live within a few miles of a regional airport and hear all manner of manned craft buzzing/wooshing overhead. You get used to it, unless you're Trump.
So now Trump is allowing Drones to take out more jobs than coal miners lost jobs...
It's almost as if Trump supporters enjoy shooting themselves in the foot. With an AR-15.
When you look at the number of people employed by the transportation industry, the prospect of most of them losing their jobs to drones and autonomous vehicles is pretty scary. The way politics go in this country, I guess we'll be jumping off that bridge when we come to it.
Didn't most of Trump's blustering during the campaign trail revolve around how he'd hold back progress in the name of creating jobs for coal miners, buggy whip makers, and what-have-you?
Drones are going to put a *lot* of people out of work.
Do many of them have analog components to them...ie tube amps, pre-amps, tape....etc?
Vacuum tubes are still used quite extensively on the artistic side of audio production. It's not uncommon to see them in microphone/instrument amplifiers, and many electric guitar players prefer tube amps. In those cases though, they're used specifically because the inherent non-linearities and distortion characteristics of tube amplification sound good to most people.
Thing is though, once you've got the sound you want, it's like a perfectly cooked steak - adding anything else to it might ruin it. That's why most studios use high-end digital recording to capture all of that tube-y goodness in pristine clarity.
Most people couldn't afford reel-to-reel machines back in the day (when it actually was the superior format), hence the nostalgia for shitty ass vinyl. Today, even if it was less expensive, it's likely the hipsters wouldn't want it because reel-to-reel doesn't have that "warm" (which is really just the RIAA EQ curve and any other adjustments done to the sound to make it cuttable) sound they associate with "analog". If you wanted your music to sound true to the source, you'd just be using lossless digital formats anyway.
In other words, people buy vinyl copies of modern albums because they want the shitty music to sound shittier. There's no helping those people.
The dynamic range compression required to stop the needle jumping out of the groove
Actually, it's called the RIAA curve. It's like freaky mirror-universe version of that Meghan Trainor song, where it's now all about that treble, no bass.
In 1968, a 23-year-old audio engineer named Bob Ludwig at New York's A&R Recording was asked to create a test pressing of The Band's debut, Music From Big Pink, so that the producers could hear what it would sound like on LP. During the process, he especially tried to preserve as much as possible of the deep low end of the band's sound, which he believed was critical to its music.
But when he heard the final LP that was released, he was stunned. "All the low, extreme low bass that I knew was there, was chopped right off."
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Make it known that schools are guarded by good guys with guns and these maniacs are less likely to even attempt to kill children in a school.
Deterrence only works when your adversary isn't a suicidal maniac.
Maybe that person is wearing a uniform, maybe not.
Unless you're suggesting the lunacy of arming other students, the "good guy with a gun" will be an adult. Unless they are psychic or have the fastest draw in the west, it's just likely they'll be the first target.
Having the good guys with a gun in the schools may not mean the gun fight didn't happen but it does mean that the body count will be much lower.
Minimizing casualties sounds good if we were talking about an armed conflict. However, we're talking about kids who are going to school, not into battle.
Have you noticed anything about those people running the metal detectors? They have guns.
That's the entire point - everyone with guns, good guys and bad guys, stay outside the security checkpoint. Again, this works for airports, courthouses, theme parks. The whole reason we're okay with kids getting shot up while they're trying to take a math test is because implementing security at every public school would simply be too expensive. It's just cheaper to let a few kids die every once in awhile. Ironically, this comes from the same politicians pushing a "pro life" agenda.
Most working class people cannot afford to throw $200+ toward a complaint that might help them deal with a big business---if there is a legal basis for intervention, which, of course, they have no way of knowing without consulting a lawyer.
The way the Republican leaders see it is, if you've been wronged by a business, you should sue them. The obvious problem with this mentality is that it creates a society where only the wealthy have consumer protection.
If you've ever had the unfortunate experiences of dealing with the types of businesses which cater to low-income people (buy-here-pay-here car dealers, payday loan brokers, prepaid phone dealers, etc.), it becomes readily apparent why government enforcement of consumer protection laws is necessary.
and finally people are discussing things that will actually stop murders such as armed guards at schools.
Are these armed guards supposed to be psychic? There is a point the "we need more good guys with guns" contingent seems to keep missing: Some kid shoots up a few students and then gets capped by an armed guard (or armed teacher) - that's still a school shooting.
If you actually want to keep guns out of schools, we've already figured this shit out at airports, courtrooms, and theme parks. Send everybody through a metal detector. Of course, some psycho could still shoot up the security queue, but technically you've kept guns out of the school, so not a school shooting.
I'm freaking out over Trump because he's attacking Obamacare.
The ACA was a boondoggle from the start, and several states (my home of Florida included) sabotaged it by refusing the subsidies. The only good to come of it was the provision regarding pre-existing conditions.
Until America wises up to the concept of healthcare as a basic human right, I don't see this ever getting properly fixed. The problem is, a good portion of voters don't want to be paying for medical care for "deadbeats"; not realizing that doing so improves society as a whole (if others are healthier, they can be more productive, and the economy will thrive).
His administration did just allow 3D printed guns. I'll give you that.
Ghost guns for everyone, whoop-de-fucking-do. And when their 3D printed "2nd amendment toy" goes horribly wrong, that's why we have Darwin Awards. Meanwhile, the Trump administration reinstated drone registration, thus requiring me to register my tiny flying camera with the FAA. It's rather disturbing when your country is more quick to scrutinize flying toys than assault rifles.
what, if anything, will make you stop supporting him?
Trump has a bit of a cult-like following, with that whole unquestioning devotion thing going on. Trump could literally set the whole country ablaze, and some of them would still be happy knowing a bunch of liberals are burning too.
The solution is to allow competition
The problem is that it's expensive beyond belief to start an ISP, and you pretty much only get customers by luring them away from a competitor. From the perspective of an investor looking to turn his huge wad of cash into an even bigger wad of cash, starting an ISP is an exceedingly bad investment.
Here is a study (skip to page 11) that estimates that over 50% of US households have 2 or more choices for 25mbps+ landline service.
Typical Republican mindset: "I've got mine, too damn bad if you didn't get yours."
Selfish people with no empathy are ruining this country. Nobody should have to move just to have a choice of broadband provider. Certainly not half of the country.
The proper course of action is to vote with your wallet and take your business elsewhere. Don't act like you can't; it's a rare case these days where you have no choice of ISP's.
This may work for search engines, social media sites, and gay wedding cake bakers, but some of us legitimately have no choice of broadband providers.
I don't live out in BFE, either. I'm in central Florida (the 3rd most populated state in the USA). The choice in my neighborhood is Spectrum broadband, or nothing. AT&T used to offer DSL, but it is not available to new customers and they have no plans to ever offer any form of broadband services for new customers in my neighborhood.
It doesn't take away as many jobs as you might think, they still have a staff (someone has to keep people from smashing the machine, or clean out its greasy innards at night).
Until someone else comes along and decides they can make MOAR PROFIT!!1 by opening their own robo-burger joint, with a self-cleaning robot, taser drones for security, and automated ordering kiosks.
The Lorax nailed it ages ago: "If I didn't do it, then someone else would."
Cue the vegetarians, vegans, teetotallers, puritans, and other idiots.
"I like chocolate, you like vanilla; let's argue on the internet about it." - how you sound
a shortage of meat and beer is indeed a crisis worthy of drastic government intervention.
Yup, maybe the British will move to a single-payer beer and meat system.
On this side of the pond, if beer and meat became more expensive, that's just supply and demand, buttercup. Stop being a fat lazy mooch and get a 2nd job in Trump's coal mines. A little black lung will put some hair on your chest. MAGA!
The problem arises when idiots^H^H^H^H^H^H users install some trojan and then expect Apple to fix it and then bad mouth the company when they refuse to deal with it or for having bad security.
Nothing is stopping you from buying something at Home Depot which ends up burning down your house and/or sending you to the E.R. Somehow, they still manage to stay in business.
Apple locks down their devices because you're not really buying a piece of hardware. You're paying for the transferable rights to use iOS and its associated services, which just happens to include the requisite hardware as part of your purchase. It's like buying a Magic Band with admission rights to Disney World, but with better hardware specs.
I remain surprised the "high end" Android phones sell at all, given it seems that the more expensive they are, the fewer key features are included and the more fragile the phone (iPhones? Yes, because iPhone buyers tend to already be locked into the iOS ecosystem, but Android users have alternatives.)
Every flagship Android phone these days is a nearly-identical phablet. If you don't want any of that trendy shit like CRT-inspired rounded glass/corners, lack of a headphone jack, a "notch", an OLED display (sorry, but it still suffers from burn-in and poor daylight readability), etc., prepare to be relegated to low-end garbage phones.
Or Apple, at least until they release their iPhone X-inspired refreshed iPhone line-up, which will make them yet another "me too" in the field of nearly-identical rounded-corner, OLED screen phablets.
So everyone gets charged except for the cop that actually killed a man? That seems a huge lapse of justice.
Getting in trouble for goading someone into swatting you seems like a huge lapse of justice, too. Don't talk shit in online games, because some scumbag might get pissed at you and end up swatting the wrong person?
I get that the torches and pitchforks are out over this, but the faults lie with the lowlife who actually placed the false 911 call, and the police department for going in "guns blazing" without properly assessing the situation (hell, consumer grade video drones can fly miles from the operator - buy one, idiotic police department).
Or zombie snacks
Have they considered just lowering the damn price?
When exactly are you cowards planning on starting to fire guns?
Most of the "cling to their guns" crowd supported the administration which allowed this to happen. They believe that if you make businesses happy by removing regulations, the economy will prosper, and a brand new 4x4 pickup truck will miraculously appear in their driveway.
And they have the nerve to call the left "snowflakes"...
Do you really think Google and Facebook
Take this fucking logical fallacy and shove it so far up your ass, that it re-materializes in your brain and forces you to re-evaluate it.
Absolutely nothing is forcing you to use Google or Facebook. They may abuse their positions in the industry, but you can still choose not to patronize their services. Also, anyone can easily register a domain and start their own search engine or social media business. It's not quite so easy to start a broadband ISP.
Many Americans (myself included) have one choice of landline broadband provider, and if they decide to start charging extra for Netflix, or a "premium online gaming package", cancelling service in protest would be a significantly larger sacrifice than switching to DuckDuckGo/deleting Facebook.
I can't think of anything I want less than endless flocks of drones constantly buzzing overhead.
At the altitude they intend on using for commercial drone flights, they'd be nearly inaudible from the ground.
I live within a few miles of a regional airport and hear all manner of manned craft buzzing/wooshing overhead. You get used to it, unless you're Trump.
So now Trump is allowing Drones to take out more jobs than coal miners lost jobs...
It's almost as if Trump supporters enjoy shooting themselves in the foot. With an AR-15.
When you look at the number of people employed by the transportation industry, the prospect of most of them losing their jobs to drones and autonomous vehicles is pretty scary. The way politics go in this country, I guess we'll be jumping off that bridge when we come to it.
Didn't most of Trump's blustering during the campaign trail revolve around how he'd hold back progress in the name of creating jobs for coal miners, buggy whip makers, and what-have-you?
Drones are going to put a *lot* of people out of work.
Do many of them have analog components to them...ie tube amps, pre-amps, tape....etc?
Vacuum tubes are still used quite extensively on the artistic side of audio production. It's not uncommon to see them in microphone/instrument amplifiers, and many electric guitar players prefer tube amps. In those cases though, they're used specifically because the inherent non-linearities and distortion characteristics of tube amplification sound good to most people.
Thing is though, once you've got the sound you want, it's like a perfectly cooked steak - adding anything else to it might ruin it. That's why most studios use high-end digital recording to capture all of that tube-y goodness in pristine clarity.
However, no hipster has $11,000 to spend
Most people couldn't afford reel-to-reel machines back in the day (when it actually was the superior format), hence the nostalgia for shitty ass vinyl. Today, even if it was less expensive, it's likely the hipsters wouldn't want it because reel-to-reel doesn't have that "warm" (which is really just the RIAA EQ curve and any other adjustments done to the sound to make it cuttable) sound they associate with "analog". If you wanted your music to sound true to the source, you'd just be using lossless digital formats anyway.
In other words, people buy vinyl copies of modern albums because they want the shitty music to sound shittier. There's no helping those people.
All it brings to mind is this.
The dynamic range compression required to stop the needle jumping out of the groove
Actually, it's called the RIAA curve. It's like freaky mirror-universe version of that Meghan Trainor song, where it's now all about that treble, no bass.
Relevant quote from this article:
In 1968, a 23-year-old audio engineer named Bob Ludwig at New York's A&R Recording was asked to create a test pressing of The Band's debut, Music From Big Pink, so that the producers could hear what it would sound like on LP. During the process, he especially tried to preserve as much as possible of the deep low end of the band's sound, which he believed was critical to its music.
But when he heard the final LP that was released, he was stunned. "All the low, extreme low bass that I knew was there, was chopped right off."