What would _I_ do to make our schools safer instead?
Absolutely nothing. I used this same response to a friend of mine who was arguing about methods of stopping terrorism.
Simply speaking, our freedom as Americans is inviolate, even if it means that a large group of people have to die. In the argument with my friend, I said that if New York City is nuked, but we keep our country free, then it was worth losing even a full percentage of our population. And yes, I would even say that if it was part of my own family that got killed. I would also do my best to kill said terrorists if I knew without a doubt who they were, using any means, and breaking any "anti-gun laws" as neccessary.
This country was based upon the concept that Americans are free (yes a very loaded word but I don't have time to go into detail - assume moderate libertarian) but along with that freedom comes the responsibility to protect it with our lives if neccessary.
E3 last year (not this most recent one) the guys from Playstation and Nintendo were showing graphs of how it looked like the game systems and the computers were going to merge which was optimistic since their charts showed computers catching up to console sales in the year 2005.
As an interesting point of info, in Japan in 1995 when I was last there, about 90% of households with children (and probably most without) had a console system of some sort. Computers were exceedingly rare though. I wonder what's happening over there.
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What would _I_ do to make our schools safer instead?
Absolutely nothing. I used this same response to a friend of mine who was arguing about methods of stopping terrorism.
Simply speaking, our freedom as Americans is inviolate, even if it means that a large group of people have to die. In the argument with my friend, I said that if New York City is nuked, but we keep our country free, then it was worth losing even a full percentage of our population. And yes, I would even say that if it was part of my own family that got killed. I would also do
my best to kill said terrorists if I knew without a doubt who they were, using any means, and breaking any "anti-gun laws" as neccessary.
This country was based upon the concept that Americans are free (yes a very loaded word but I don't have time to go into detail - assume moderate libertarian) but along with that freedom comes the responsibility to protect it with our lives if neccessary.
E3 last year (not this most recent one) the guys from Playstation and Nintendo were showing graphs of how it looked like the game systems and the computers were going to merge which was optimistic since their charts showed computers catching up to console sales in the year 2005.
As an interesting point of info, in Japan in 1995 when I was last there, about 90% of households with children (and probably most without) had a console system of some sort. Computers were exceedingly rare though. I wonder what's happening over there.
If you check the home page of the author, you will also notice that it is called "Genaei Studio: Amusements of Words and Images"
Pretty clear cut case, although I honestly wouldn't put it past Japanese toilet makers.