When you say "gay" do you mean the laser is very happy or do mean that the boy laser likes other boy lasers? If the laser is very happy, how can that be a laser is an inanimate object and if the laser likes other boy lasers then thats stupid because a laser isn't a person. I like lasers they are cool and I like pointing them at the wall while my cat tries to catch it but can't hahahaha stupid cat its only a laser
I don't believe he did. You wrote "But then I guess that's the difference between a country of free people who had to earn that freedom by force, versus a country full of quavering subjects who've been taught, as a culture, that they're not to be trusted."
I mean, I don't know why you have that opinion (note I say opinion as there is very little that is factually accurate about that statement), but you started straying off-topic with that sentence, and he just responded to what you said. Hardly off-topic.
Did you not read the parent poster? He says that it's "also assuming that its well nigh impossible to find the little fuckers who are doing it", then the "banning [of] laser pointers powerful enough (or with a beam coherent enough over long distances), is possibly a valid thing."
It's almost impossible to find the buggers, let alone catch them in the act.
That's where you and I differ. If the device is dangerous and not really useful for no other reason than to cause mischief or a crime, it should be illegal. Why would you need to carry around a class IV laser again?
I'm a bit unsure where you're going with this. Firstly, I thought that you didn't like the new law. Then you said that they should catch those shining the laser into the pilot's eyes. But what are they going to "hit them hard" with? Isn't that the point of the legislation?
Flamebait? which genius modded that comment to this? I can definitely imagine that a pilot might say this, given that the United States Congressional Research Service found that:
These higher powered laser devices can incapacitate pilots and inflict eye injuries when viewed at closer ranges. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) documented two such cases in which pilots sustained eye injuries and were incapacitated during critical phases of flight. In one of these events, the pilot experienced a burning sensation and tearing. A subsequent eye examination revealed "multiple flash burns" in the pilot's cornea. In a few other documented incidents, pilots provided safety reports indicating that injuries were sustained from exposure to laser lights. In one case, a copilot received burns on the outer coating of the eye and broken blood vessels.6 In another incident, a pilot was struck several times by a laser beam and was diagnosed as having a "burned retina." In about a dozen other cases, pilots reported short term visual impairment that did not require further medical attention.
FAA researchers have compiled a database of more than 400 incidents since 1990 in which pilots have been startled, distracted, temporarily blinded, or disoriented by laser exposure. To date no aviation accidents have been attributed to laser lights, although there have been crashes caused by similarly debilitating glare and flashblinding from natural sunlight. Flight simulator studies conducted by the FAA found that exposure to bright lasers can result in unacceptable levels of visual and operational problems, but concluded that enforcing already established limits to protect pilots from laser exposure when operating near airports provides an adequate margin of safety.
Flamebait? Sounds like he's being positively reasonable to me!
Better idea: let's implement draconian wire tap and search & seizure laws, then create a massive database of where and when our citizens are calling. Heck, while we are about it, why don't we setup free speech zones and ignore any pretense at privacy for the individual citzen. That'll show those terrorists!
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I wonder what part of your anatomy you'd clone first... on second thoughts... doesn't bare thinking about :-(
Yeah? And what happens when they start cloning meat... HUMAN meat? Will you eat it then?
I don't know about that. Many laser points are level II lasers. What applications were you thinking of?
When you say "gay" do you mean the laser is very happy or do mean that the boy laser likes other boy lasers? If the laser is very happy, how can that be a laser is an inanimate object and if the laser likes other boy lasers then thats stupid because a laser isn't a person. I like lasers they are cool and I like pointing them at the wall while my cat tries to catch it but can't hahahaha stupid cat its only a laser
Finally I can agree with you on something.
I don't believe he did. You wrote "But then I guess that's the difference between a country of free people who had to earn that freedom by force, versus a country full of quavering subjects who've been taught, as a culture, that they're not to be trusted."
I mean, I don't know why you have that opinion (note I say opinion as there is very little that is factually accurate about that statement), but you started straying off-topic with that sentence, and he just responded to what you said. Hardly off-topic.
Every one of those articles is getting close to 10 years old. Don't you have any more recent articles? It sounds a bit...dated.
Speak for yourself indeed!
I'm sorry, but I don't need saving from my oppression. Please leave us alone to our gun-free lifestyle. Thanks.
Did you not read the parent poster? He says that it's "also assuming that its well nigh impossible to find the little fuckers who are doing it", then the "banning [of] laser pointers powerful enough (or with a beam coherent enough over long distances), is possibly a valid thing."
It's almost impossible to find the buggers, let alone catch them in the act.
True. I probably would have done neither.
That's where you and I differ. If the device is dangerous and not really useful for no other reason than to cause mischief or a crime, it should be illegal. Why would you need to carry around a class IV laser again?
I'm a bit unsure where you're going with this. Firstly, I thought that you didn't like the new law. Then you said that they should catch those shining the laser into the pilot's eyes. But what are they going to "hit them hard" with? Isn't that the point of the legislation?
If I'm driving at 110km/h down the Pacific Hwy and I lose eyesight for 5 seconds, I'm probably good as dead.
Awesome... I would have thrashed the kid. Or called the cops.
Withot knowing where you've lived, it's hard not to call "bullshit" on this statement.
Do you have a list of ideas from the 2020 Summit that the rest of is not aware of? If so, could you point me to it? Thanks.
Flamebait? Sounds like he's being positively reasonable to me!
It is about America if said American debater either feels defensive of/morally superior to the other person's point of view.
I stand corrected.
Ummm... not sure how to break it to you, but euthenasia is illegal and so is suicide.
Better idea: let's implement draconian wire tap and search & seizure laws, then create a massive database of where and when our citizens are calling. Heck, while we are about it, why don't we setup free speech zones and ignore any pretense at privacy for the individual citzen. That'll show those terrorists!
But Agent Smith... you say that now but yesterday when Neo kicked your butt it was like "it's only a simulation, it's not like this is reality"...
Evidently it's informative to know that sand should be removed from your vagina when you are all "butt hurt".
Parent poster seems to have an unhealthy obsession with body parts. Please, whoever you are, get help!
Sounds like "rascal".
I'm wondering what part of "I'm not averse to the command line, but there are times when it's just nicer to have a visual interface" you didn't get.
The guy isn't complaining, he's just saying that PG does it better. And it's true.