I'm not sure if you're having a reading comprehension issue
There's no indication I don't understand plain English. Just that we have different opinions. I suggest you don't use that particular tactic, because it just makes it look like you're running out of real arguments.
That likewise basically applies to most Americans, who live outside of right to carry shall issue states
But it's more significant even than that. It's cultural. In the US, guns are treated by many as toys and status symbols. That doesn't seem to be the case in Switzerland.
If they're passing the courses, who cares if they're attending the lectures?
The UK Border Authority does. Yes, even if they are a genius and can pass exams without attending any lectures.
The point is they are in the UK on a visa issued so they can attend a UK university. If they're not attending, then they don't need the visa. More to the point experience shows that they are generally not attending because they are doing paid work. Which they don't have a visa for.
Criminals? There's two issues here: recording attendance and using fingerprint scanners to do it. I see nothing wrong with recording attendance. Indeed it was done at my uni back in the 1980s.
Fingerprints seems over the top. But perhaps they have good reason for that too.
"I want turn by turn directions, and for you to redirect me when I make a wrong turn, but I don't want you to know where I'm located or where I'm headed".
SImple. You don't have a persistent ID associated with all requests from the app. The problem is not that a location is sent to the server as part of a request. It's that it's associated with a persistent ID and stored by Google.
However the far right wing people who wrote the rants you link to probably are. The first in particular appears to be written by someone who doesn't know Britain at all. Perhaps he's not even visited.
The second fails at the very first fact check - there were not 927 homicides in the UK in 2007, there were 773. But either number is a far lower per capita rate than the US, thus making a mockery of the thrust of the article.
Right wing nuts - gun nuts. There's an enormous overlap.
Sure it is. The states just passed laws reflecting direct public democracy making it legal.
Passing state laws to "legalize" something that is still illegal under federal law is counterproductive. Much better is to send representatives to Washington who will change the federal laws.
Not at all. This way has produced the first steps of a result in line with what the public wants. Lobbying in Washington means that they on their own wouldn't make progress on the issue for decades. There's are too many interests making money from prohibition.
"To carry firearms in public or outdoors (and for an individual who is a member of the militia carrying a firearm other than his Army-issue personal weapons off-duty), a person must have a Waffentragschein (gun carrying permit), which in most cases is issued only to private citizens working in occupations such as security." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Switzerland
Sounds very different from the US actually. Again, the emphasis is on specific NEED, not leisure.
In 2001 Leibacher still managed to obtain a gun and kill 14 people in Zug, Switzerland.
Last year Handguns Killed: 48 People in Japan, 8 Great Britain, 34 Switzerland, 52 Canada, 58 Israel, 21 Sweden, 10,728 in The United States
It doesn't take a genius to see the USA has a gun problem the rest of the developed world doesn't. A single massacre doesn't make a country the same as the USA.
But that won't help the USA now since there are nearly 270 million guns in the US. Guns are everywhere.
Don't forget the ammunition. In Bowling for Columbine, it was pointed out you can even get ammo in Walmart. During the filming Walmart promised to stop selling ammo. A quick look shows that they are back to selling it again. What a fucking crazy country.
Gun control should also mean severely restricting ammo. And introducing unique IDs for every bullet sold, traceable back to the purchaser.
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I'm not sure if you're having a reading comprehension issue
There's no indication I don't understand plain English. Just that we have different opinions. I suggest you don't use that particular tactic, because it just makes it look like you're running out of real arguments.
That likewise basically applies to most Americans, who live outside of right to carry shall issue states
The majority of states are right to carry. 37 states right to carry, with another three indicated as "in-practice". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concealed_carry_in_the_United_States
But it's more significant even than that. It's cultural. In the US, guns are treated by many as toys and status symbols. That doesn't seem to be the case in Switzerland.
Fire extinguishers can't be used for starting fires.
If they're passing the courses, who cares if they're attending the lectures?
The UK Border Authority does. Yes, even if they are a genius and can pass exams without attending any lectures.
The point is they are in the UK on a visa issued so they can attend a UK university. If they're not attending, then they don't need the visa. More to the point experience shows that they are generally not attending because they are doing paid work. Which they don't have a visa for.
Criminals? There's two issues here: recording attendance and using fingerprint scanners to do it. I see nothing wrong with recording attendance. Indeed it was done at my uni back in the 1980s.
Fingerprints seems over the top. But perhaps they have good reason for that too.
"I want turn by turn directions, and for you to redirect me when I make a wrong turn, but I don't want you to know where I'm located or where I'm headed".
None of that follows from what I said.
Wow, I didn't think it was actually possible to get this stupid while still being able to write.
Yes, it's quite an achievement you've made there.
That's not the opposite.
SImple. You don't have a persistent ID associated with all requests from the app. The problem is not that a location is sent to the server as part of a request. It's that it's associated with a persistent ID and stored by Google.
which is what a normal person would expect if they selected "anonymous".
On Slashdot there are two models of anonymity.
1) AmiMoJo is a pseudonym. We don't know your real name, but we can tie together your posts to learn a fair amount about you.
2) Anonymous Coward. Every post is separate. You never know which ACs are the same person.
For Google maps, people would expect type 2. What they get is type 1.
The issue is Google collecting data on where you've been. That's not to serve you. It's to serve the interests of Google.
It's one of the reasons Apple wouldn't accept Google's conditions for adding turn-by-turn navigation to the old Google Maps app.
Daughter? I'd guess text messaging, voice calls and Angry Birds type games, in that order.
I would assume the opposite.
Then you'd be wrong. Read more carefully.
Touched a nerve? Too close to the truth?
Pot, meet kettle?
Well I'm certainly not a gun--nut.
However the far right wing people who wrote the rants you link to probably are. The first in particular appears to be written by someone who doesn't know Britain at all. Perhaps he's not even visited.
The second fails at the very first fact check - there were not 927 homicides in the UK in 2007, there were 773. But either number is a far lower per capita rate than the US, thus making a mockery of the thrust of the article.
Right wing nuts - gun nuts. There's an enormous overlap.
States can't repeal federal laws
They can make them look antiquated and ridiculous by changing their own laws. It's a very valid way of pressuring for federal law changes.
It can be counter productive if you change an average joe consumer and worker into a criminal.
Average Joe consumer and worker has already smoked cannabis*. These laws remove most if not all of the risk of jail.
* More than 50% have tried it at some time in their lives. 55% are in favour of legalisation.
Except it's not a legal pastime.
Sure it is. The states just passed laws reflecting direct public democracy making it legal.
Passing state laws to "legalize" something that is still illegal under federal law is counterproductive. Much better is to send representatives to Washington who will change the federal laws.
Not at all. This way has produced the first steps of a result in line with what the public wants. Lobbying in Washington means that they on their own wouldn't make progress on the issue for decades. There's are too many interests making money from prohibition.
"To carry firearms in public or outdoors (and for an individual who is a member of the militia carrying a firearm other than his Army-issue personal weapons off-duty), a person must have a Waffentragschein (gun carrying permit), which in most cases is issued only to private citizens working in occupations such as security."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Switzerland
Sounds very different from the US actually. Again, the emphasis is on specific NEED, not leisure.
Yes it does.
Especially in context. The OP said the shooter had to pass an NRA firearm course. Well clearly he didn't.
You misread me.
Oh, OK. What you wrote was ambiguous. I see what you intended now.
Yep, his DAs are prosecuting everyone they can find here in California.
Not everyone. The policy before in California, and now in Washington and Colorado is to go after producers and dealers, but not users.
Cultivate your own pot plants (up to 6) and nobody is at risk of prosecution.
with over 90% of the country still holding on to "pot is teh badz, dur" laws
Not any more. 56% of people are now in favour of legalising pot. That's why things are starting to change. It just won't happen overnight.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/lifestyle/general_lifestyle/may_2012/56_favor_legalizing_regulating_marijuana
The ONLY reason that the feds won't be going after recreational users is that they simply don't have the resources to do so.
That's just a restatement of what Obama himself said.
A school teacher, who had two 9mm handguns and a rifle. I say there's a good chance she was mentally unstable too.
It means that cannabis users in Washington and Colorado will feel more at ease as they go about their legal pastime.
And that's a good thing.
In 2001 Leibacher still managed to obtain a gun and kill 14 people in Zug, Switzerland.
Last year Handguns Killed:
48 People in Japan,
8 Great Britain,
34 Switzerland,
52 Canada,
58 Israel,
21 Sweden,
10,728 in The United States
It doesn't take a genius to see the USA has a gun problem the rest of the developed world doesn't. A single massacre doesn't make a country the same as the USA.
But that won't help the USA now since there are nearly 270 million guns in the US. Guns are everywhere.
Don't forget the ammunition. In Bowling for Columbine, it was pointed out you can even get ammo in Walmart. During the filming Walmart promised to stop selling ammo. A quick look shows that they are back to selling it again. What a fucking crazy country.
Gun control should also mean severely restricting ammo. And introducing unique IDs for every bullet sold, traceable back to the purchaser.