Pizza Hut marketers first considered burning a billboard into the moon with lasers, Chief Executive Officer Mike Rawlings said. But astronomers and physicists advised that the image would have to be the size of Texas to be seen by earthlings more than 238,000 miles away.
I think you make a very thoughtful point here, which I've seen reiterated in a lot of foreign (er..I guess that means non-US:> ) posts on various Slashdot forums.
What I haven't seen are any reliable statistics from either side of the matter backing up either position.
Granted, no statistic is really reliable, it would be nice to see some sort of numbers comparing crime in the US to crime in a place such as the UK...but more specifically a certain city in the UK that scales well to a city in the US. Anybody have any data, or know a good source for solid statistical data?
Setting proof aside, its a tough problem to look at. It really just makes more sense that guns should be eliminated from society as much as possible. It makes sense from an idealistic sort of view. We shouldn't have to fight violence with violence!
But, I have fears that fighting violence with violence is more realistic than one would hope. For instance, look at our situation with nuclear weapons (or so we hope). Everybody has them, so everybody is afraid to bomb everybody else. This appears to be working.
The problem I have with this much more realistic position, is that it really doesn't feel like it can last forever! What are the chances that one day somebody doesn't bomb somebody else? Its almost like we're riding on a hope that nothing goes wrong.
Hmm. I feel that though one standpoint may be much more realistic than another, it still doesn't solve the problem.
Linus should sue! Seriously. He's probably the only person in the Linux world who can more or less demand 100% respect
Hrm...Linus suing would be a way for him to lose that 100% respect. Its definitely alright to be upset over this sort of thing, but its not something to get all govermental about. I think I like how Linus sticks to Linux, and not to politics.
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Just wondering, does everybody use Sendmail?
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We use qmail, and we've been very pleased with the results.
Are there reasons why people would use Sendmail over qmail? Are there reasons why people would use qmail over Sendmail?
Just interested
Thanks.
The scariest part about this article:
Pizza Hut marketers first considered burning a billboard into the moon with lasers, Chief Executive Officer Mike Rawlings said. But astronomers and physicists advised that the image would have to be the size of Texas to be seen by earthlings more than 238,000 miles away.
Marketing is a department I avoid.
I think you make a very thoughtful point here, which I've seen reiterated in a lot of foreign (er..I guess that means non-US :> ) posts on various Slashdot forums.
:>
What I haven't seen are any reliable statistics from either side of the matter backing up either position.
Granted, no statistic is really reliable, it would be nice to see some sort of numbers comparing crime in the US to crime in a place such as the UK...but more specifically a certain city in the UK that scales well to a city in the US. Anybody have any data, or know a good source for solid statistical data?
Setting proof aside, its a tough problem to look at. It really just makes more sense that guns should be eliminated from society as much as possible. It makes sense from an idealistic sort of view. We shouldn't have to fight violence with violence!
But, I have fears that fighting violence with violence is more realistic than one would hope. For instance, look at our situation with nuclear weapons (or so we hope). Everybody has them, so everybody is afraid to bomb everybody else. This appears to be working.
The problem I have with this much more realistic position, is that it really doesn't feel like it can last forever! What are the chances that one day somebody doesn't bomb somebody else? Its almost like we're riding on a hope that nothing goes wrong.
Hmm. I feel that though one standpoint may be much more realistic than another, it still doesn't solve the problem.
Thoughts?
Linus should sue! Seriously. He's probably the only person in the Linux world who can more or less demand 100% respect
Hrm...Linus suing would be a way for him to lose that 100% respect. Its definitely alright to be upset over this sort of thing, but its not something to get all govermental about. I think I like how Linus sticks to Linux, and not to politics.