Carry a smaller gun. It's a firearm not a penis substitute.
Well, I like to carry as small a firearm as I can, but you gotta balance round effectiveness vs number of rounds vs size of handgun (conceivability and comfort all day).
This is amazing. After a breakthrough like this, we may be on the verge of finally understanding how the electoral college works!
Apparently WE missed taking or paying attention to civics class, did we?
You know, in this day in age of google and everything online, you needn't even take a formal class, get online and look it up.
Its simple and was a brilliant way to get all the various states to unite under banner and allow a what was supposed to be a limited Federal Govt. over them.
It is important to remember that one VERY important word in the name of our country, the United STATES of America. It is managed at the state level, since each one has its own geographical and cultural needs and wants.
Head shots..22LR is a lot lighter than 00 buck. You can carry a lot more of it. Though I'd want both, there are times when a shotgun sends the right message.
Yeah, but I don't wanna depend on rim fire ammo for my life.
I"m going 9mm and 45 for handguns, and.556 I think for rifle (let's hit them longer distance if possible)...and of course 12ga for shotguns.
I think I"ll go.308 for when you really wanna reach out and "touch someone".
There are some better calibers, but then again, when the zombie apocalypse hits...I'll try to stick with the most prolific calibers of ammo out there, easier to scavenge for supply if you have to....
But if you really, really have to be quiet....22lr with a silencer is about as close to "movie quiet" as you can get, so I"d have one around, and like you said, easy to carry a LOT of it.
But, I'd not bet my life on rimfire, I'd have more reliable centerfire stuff always.
Yes, many wear helmets and there's a large market for them. Helmet adoption is near universal within the cycling community itself so if you aren't seeing it then you aren't around cyclists.
Well, anyone I see on a bicycle I guess I consider a 'cyclist'.....and around my city, which is seeing more and more bicycles on the road (they're even making lanes for them on the streets), you just don't see many people wearing a helmet.
Because the viewer finds ads less inconvenient than having to key in a credit card number and pay $5 for a month's subscription to view one document on a website that put up a paywall once privacy-respecting ads became no longer viable. Ads based on each viewer's inferred interests pay three times as much as ads based solely on the document's context.
Well, then make it Opt-In for everyone.
I'd prefer sites to ask me if they can active these 'features" in order to make ad supported delivery of content.
I can then decide if the content is worth it to me or not....for me, I'd say 99.999999% of the time it is not worth it and I"ll go on my way to other things to read, etc.
Tracking should NOT be on by default, it should be opt in only.
It is the user's data, it should be the users choice if it is to be shared or not.
Ok I can see wearing a helmet for riding a motorcycle (although I still think it should be an adult choice to wear or not, but that's another discussion).
I wear a motorcycle helmet when riding.
However, do very many people at all wear a helmet for bicycling?
I've never worn one, and while I do see the occasional bicycle rider around here with a helmet, I don't see many of them at all.
So, I'm wondering is there much of a market for bicycle helmets? Do more people wear bicycle helmets in different parts of the US than others?
I honestly ask because I hardly see anyone wear them, maybe a few kids, but not even all of them....there were really no such things when I was growing up as a kid.
So, if most gang members are shooting each other with stolen guns, where do they steal the guns from? If there are fewer legally-owned guns on the street and in people's homes, doesn't that mean there are less guns to steal?
So...there is a tiny minority of people that are gang members.
So, we curtail the rights of the VAST majority of legal, law abiding citizens, just to cater to the lowest denominator ? A few ruin it for the vast majority?
Listen, my point is, if you really need a cop on every corner or a gun to feel safe do your family a favour and move to a safe country.
Look, in the US, likely as not, your chances of having a home invasion, or having to use a weapon to defend yourself, for most people not in a gang is VERY low.
Violent crime has been going down for decades.
HOWEVER, there is a chance. Even people in good neighborhoods get home invaded. Guess what, the criminals know the good houses have stuff in them that is valuable.
In the best of cities, the police response time for emergency is like 8 minutes.
A LOT can happen in 8 minutes.
It think it is a good thing in the US to have the choice to be able to defend yourself with firearms. Criminals have them, you should be able to have them too.
For the most part, the police are not there to prevent crimes, they are there to investigate crime scenes and find people to charge with crimes.
Hell, there are even court cases in the US that establish that the police actually aren't under obligation to protect you.
It's not the legal gun owners you have to worry about. Most gun crime in the US is by hand gun, rifles (even the "scary" semi-auto rifles like the AR or other models) account for a VERY small number of gun crimes.
And of the majority of gun deaths (let's remove suicides, that shouldn't be included)...are gang members shooting each other with stolen hand guns.
Yet...all the gun control being promoted, is not targeted at the largest problem.
See this article The Assault Weapons Myth.
To me, it is like insurance, you likely won't need it, you hope you NEVER need it, but it is good to have around in case you do.
If you don't want a weapon in your house, fine...your decision.
If you don't want to carry concealed in your daily life, then don't.
But if "I" want to, and do so legally, then there is nothing that should prevent me from doing so, as insurance for my home, family and personal safety.
When seconds and minutes count, it is 100% up to YOU to protect and defend yourself, no one else is going to be there.
8 minutes is a lifetime when intruders are breaking into your home with you there.
You force companies to give medical benefits to all full time employees, even low wag ones....what happened?
Employee hours were cut to just under the full time standard for many low wage employees.
IN areas that forced $15/hr for all min wage jobs, what happened?
A net loss of jobs.
So, sure, if you force a living wage on full time jobs as you say, even ones that are not worth it...you will see hours cut so that they are no long "full time", and you also will see less of those jobs.
I like how you neatly fail to mention that these "unpopular experiments" that have been so successful have set the minimum wage in Germany to roughly $15/hour, which along with free health care for everyone makes for a pretty reasonable living wage, given modest living expenses of $1000/month.
And what percentage of your salary in Germany do you have to pay in taxes?
I"m easily 33% here, likely more with all state/parish/city taxes added in on things....
I pay enough.
And if you start trying to force living wage on all full time jobs? Guess what?
No...some jobs are not WORTH a living wage, but they do exist as jobs that need to be done.
It is up to the individual to pick out what jobs they are willing to work and what rate they work for.
No one is holding a gun to anyone's head forcing them to work minimum wage at Wally World.
Raking leaves is not worth a full time living wage with benefits, but it is worth it to a lot of people to pay neighborhood kids to do, or even some young adults that will work a LOT of those jobs, each one paying small, but they add up.
This is the same for any job market. The pay offered is what the job is WORTH. It is up to the person to decide if it is worth their time and effort for he money offered.
How about paying your employees enough so they don't have to go on public assistance to survive?
How about as an adult, you do what it takes to get a better paying "real" job rather than trying to work a job that at best is there for high school kids making some extra money.
If you as a child fucked up and didn't get your education, they well, it's tough, but not impossible, you have to work harder to try to get yourself set up to get a real job that pays an adult wage.
Not every job is meant for an adult to try to support a household from....
Why? I've worked with both AWS and Azure, and I'd personally pick Azure as the better service.
Is this just some archaic "MS Bad" shit from the 1990s, or do you have actual facts?
So far it is experience.
First, in our case, it was bad choice to try to move a predominately RHEL system of systems to a MS platform. It just plain isn't as friendly to RHEL as we would like.
If you are a MS shop, likely as not, you would do better in Azure.
So far, in Azure, we've had them basically kick the power cord out from under a BUNCH of systems, even on different availability sets....black out, power down, too most of a morning to come back online.
They fsck up in Azure. That's not supposed to happen.
So far, they are not that responsive.
I don't know as much about AWS, only the shortcomings of MS Azure so far.
We came from a VMWare setup, where you could easily snapshot a VM and restore it if needed. This isn't quite as easy on Azure.
And trying to get a VM custom rigged with the exact CPUs and RAM you need, is impossible, they have pre configured VMs, and you have to choose from them...can't dynamically add RAM or CPU...has to take a whole step up in VM configs they offer. If you need one with only more RAM, you are SOL....it comes with much more CPU too, and of course, much higher monthly $$$'s.
I suppose if you are coming into Azure, with mostly MS windows servers, it would be easier. If you can buy preset items from their 'store' offerings, I supposed it is nice.
But if you are predominately a RHEL outfit..if you depend on Oracle and not MSSQL...if you have a lot of custom apps and server configurations you are moving from a regular data center to Azure cloud, well, it is definitely PAINFUL.
Oh...and often for unexplained reasons....their VMs get really SLOOOOOW...command line take a long time to react even.
And they aren't really good at telling you when they are doing things to the hosts underneath you...and you can find problems with your servers that are hard to track down...till you can find out MS did something under the covers without telling you.
Yeah..its painful.
I've not used AWS yet...but I have to imagine in our case, it would have been a bit more friendly and easy to transition to.
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Well, I like to carry as small a firearm as I can, but you gotta balance round effectiveness vs number of rounds vs size of handgun (conceivability and comfort all day).
Not sure what penis had to do with it....?
Yep, it's already hard to carry your regular phone, pocket knife, wallet, earbuds and gun......and that's with cargo shorts!!!
Apparently WE missed taking or paying attention to civics class, did we?
You know, in this day in age of google and everything online, you needn't even take a formal class, get online and look it up.
Its simple and was a brilliant way to get all the various states to unite under banner and allow a what was supposed to be a limited Federal Govt. over them.
It is important to remember that one VERY important word in the name of our country, the United STATES of America. It is managed at the state level, since each one has its own geographical and cultural needs and wants.
Yeah, but I don't wanna depend on rim fire ammo for my life.
I"m going 9mm and 45 for handguns, and .556 I think for rifle (let's hit them longer distance if possible)...and of course 12ga for shotguns.
I think I"ll go .308 for when you really wanna reach out and "touch someone".
There are some better calibers, but then again, when the zombie apocalypse hits...I'll try to stick with the most prolific calibers of ammo out there, easier to scavenge for supply if you have to....
But if you really, really have to be quiet....22lr with a silencer is about as close to "movie quiet" as you can get, so I"d have one around, and like you said, easy to carry a LOT of it.
But, I'd not bet my life on rimfire, I'd have more reliable centerfire stuff always.
You using that word....
I do not think it means what you think it means....
Had to....was from the Minister of Howsinge.....was spelt like that!!!
Last time it happened to me, it was the Cat Detector Van....
I never seen so many bleedin' aerials !!!!
Well, anyone I see on a bicycle I guess I consider a 'cyclist'.....and around my city, which is seeing more and more bicycles on the road (they're even making lanes for them on the streets), you just don't see many people wearing a helmet.
Just going with what I observe....
Well, then make it Opt-In for everyone.
I'd prefer sites to ask me if they can active these 'features" in order to make ad supported delivery of content.
I can then decide if the content is worth it to me or not....for me, I'd say 99.999999% of the time it is not worth it and I"ll go on my way to other things to read, etc.
Tracking should NOT be on by default, it should be opt in only.
It is the user's data, it should be the users choice if it is to be shared or not.
I wear a motorcycle helmet when riding.
However, do very many people at all wear a helmet for bicycling?
I've never worn one, and while I do see the occasional bicycle rider around here with a helmet, I don't see many of them at all.
So, I'm wondering is there much of a market for bicycle helmets? Do more people wear bicycle helmets in different parts of the US than others?
I honestly ask because I hardly see anyone wear them, maybe a few kids, but not even all of them....there were really no such things when I was growing up as a kid.
If you require a "living wage" for full time employees, and not for part time....then yes, you will see less full time jobs.
They'll hire 2x part time employees to cover the former full time employee, and cover the full time hours with two staggered employees.
Look, in the US, likely as not, your chances of having a home invasion, or having to use a weapon to defend yourself, for most people not in a gang is VERY low.
Violent crime has been going down for decades.
HOWEVER, there is a chance. Even people in good neighborhoods get home invaded. Guess what, the criminals know the good houses have stuff in them that is valuable.
In the best of cities, the police response time for emergency is like 8 minutes.
A LOT can happen in 8 minutes.
It think it is a good thing in the US to have the choice to be able to defend yourself with firearms. Criminals have them, you should be able to have them too.
For the most part, the police are not there to prevent crimes, they are there to investigate crime scenes and find people to charge with crimes.
Hell, there are even court cases in the US that establish that the police actually aren't under obligation to protect you.
It's not the legal gun owners you have to worry about. Most gun crime in the US is by hand gun, rifles (even the "scary" semi-auto rifles like the AR or other models) account for a VERY small number of gun crimes.
And of the majority of gun deaths (let's remove suicides, that shouldn't be included)...are gang members shooting each other with stolen hand guns.
Yet...all the gun control being promoted, is not targeted at the largest problem. See this article The Assault Weapons Myth .
To me, it is like insurance, you likely won't need it, you hope you NEVER need it, but it is good to have around in case you do.
If you don't want a weapon in your house, fine...your decision.
If you don't want to carry concealed in your daily life, then don't.
But if "I" want to, and do so legally, then there is nothing that should prevent me from doing so, as insurance for my home, family and personal safety.
When seconds and minutes count, it is 100% up to YOU to protect and defend yourself, no one else is going to be there.
8 minutes is a lifetime when intruders are breaking into your home with you there.
I mean, we've already seen similar things happen.
You force companies to give medical benefits to all full time employees, even low wag ones....what happened?
Employee hours were cut to just under the full time standard for many low wage employees.
IN areas that forced $15/hr for all min wage jobs, what happened?
A net loss of jobs.
So, sure, if you force a living wage on full time jobs as you say, even ones that are not worth it...you will see hours cut so that they are no long "full time", and you also will see less of those jobs.
And if you start trying to force living wage on all full time jobs? Guess what?
No more minimum wage jobs...all part time.
And what percentage of your salary in Germany do you have to pay in taxes?
I"m easily 33% here, likely more with all state/parish/city taxes added in on things....
I pay enough.
And if you start trying to force living wage on all full time jobs? Guess what?
No more minimum wage jobs...all part time.
What will you do next? Outlaw part time work?
Not when it comes to taxes.
Neither an individual nor a company is obligated in any manner to pay a penny more than they are legally obligated to.
Do you pay more than you owe in taxes? I mean, there are places on the forms for you to do so...do you take advantage of this?
If you don't like how much tax revenue you're taking in, then change the tax laws.
Morality has nothing to do with it...purely legal.
It is up to the individual to pick out what jobs they are willing to work and what rate they work for.
No one is holding a gun to anyone's head forcing them to work minimum wage at Wally World.
Raking leaves is not worth a full time living wage with benefits, but it is worth it to a lot of people to pay neighborhood kids to do, or even some young adults that will work a LOT of those jobs, each one paying small, but they add up.
This is the same for any job market. The pay offered is what the job is WORTH. It is up to the person to decide if it is worth their time and effort for he money offered.
No, they pay what the job is WORTH.
Again, not every job is meant for an adult to try to support a family.
There are jobs that are more suited for HS and college kids.
Hell,am I supposed to pay a living wage with benefits and all for getting my lawn mowed? For someone to come in occasionally and help clean my house?
Really?
How about as an adult, you do what it takes to get a better paying "real" job rather than trying to work a job that at best is there for high school kids making some extra money.
If you as a child fucked up and didn't get your education, they well, it's tough, but not impossible, you have to work harder to try to get yourself set up to get a real job that pays an adult wage.
Not every job is meant for an adult to try to support a household from....
"Everybody have fun tonight...."
"Everyone Yang Chung tonight...."
Tell that to those folks living on the border states that are being overrun by the ever growing influx of illegals coming across the border.
Maybe...for about all of a month of so, they the country would be on the precipice of being BROKE.
Even if you confiscated the entirety of the 1%'s assets, you could not fund all the free stuff AOC and crew are promoting.
So far it is experience.
First, in our case, it was bad choice to try to move a predominately RHEL system of systems to a MS platform. It just plain isn't as friendly to RHEL as we would like.
If you are a MS shop, likely as not, you would do better in Azure.
So far, in Azure, we've had them basically kick the power cord out from under a BUNCH of systems, even on different availability sets....black out, power down, too most of a morning to come back online.
They fsck up in Azure. That's not supposed to happen.
So far, they are not that responsive.
I don't know as much about AWS, only the shortcomings of MS Azure so far.
We came from a VMWare setup, where you could easily snapshot a VM and restore it if needed. This isn't quite as easy on Azure.
And trying to get a VM custom rigged with the exact CPUs and RAM you need, is impossible, they have pre configured VMs, and you have to choose from them...can't dynamically add RAM or CPU...has to take a whole step up in VM configs they offer. If you need one with only more RAM, you are SOL....it comes with much more CPU too, and of course, much higher monthly $$$'s.
I suppose if you are coming into Azure, with mostly MS windows servers, it would be easier. If you can buy preset items from their 'store' offerings, I supposed it is nice.
But if you are predominately a RHEL outfit..if you depend on Oracle and not MSSQL...if you have a lot of custom apps and server configurations you are moving from a regular data center to Azure cloud, well, it is definitely PAINFUL.
Oh...and often for unexplained reasons....their VMs get really SLOOOOOW...command line take a long time to react even.
And they aren't really good at telling you when they are doing things to the hosts underneath you...and you can find problems with your servers that are hard to track down...till you can find out MS did something under the covers without telling you.
Yeah..its painful.
I've not used AWS yet...but I have to imagine in our case, it would have been a bit more friendly and easy to transition to.
And...if they can next manage to avoid MS Azure like the plague...they'll have completed the path to possible success.