Personal crisis? Put on your big girl panties. Life is tough. Life is unfair. Get over it, deal with it, and quit expecting the almighty Hand Of Government to come to your rescue. Christ, if these limp-wristed wimps were all we had to work with back when Seattle was first being settled there would be no Seattle. They'd have been too terrified to head west.
A personal crisis can be many things, including things beyond the control of the individual. I've been rear-ended at a stop light. There was nothing I could do about it. I was lucky that I didn't have to spend months in recovery. It's not pretty when a Corolla gets slammed into by a Jeep Grand Cherokee traveling at highway speeds. Had I been in the hospital for an extended recovery or otherwise unable to work, how the hell would I pay my rent? And don't assume the other person had insurance - there's plenty out there without it. But thanks for your empathy and compassion.
Mental illness? Sure would mean a lot of crazies in Seattle which, come to think of it, may not be far off base given the composition of the city and state governments.
In other places too I've seen it: people who would otherwise have been treated in state-run mental institutions were let out on the streets instead because the gov't needed a quick way to save money.
Substance abuse? Sorry, not my problem, nor anyone else's except those who are abusing. Responsibility for your own actions comes along with being an adult. Apparently a lot of grown-up kids in Seattle.
You realize that some who are in poverty and unemployed or underemployed use drugs as a means of coping with their shitty situation right? Then try to get a job, as many entry level ones require a drug test. And consider how long THC will stay in one's body.
You mistake "hack" with "this is how it is by design". Caller ID was never meant to be authoritative. That data is called ANI, and you often only get to see it when you have a toll free number (as you, the non-carrier, do get the right to know whose call you're agreeing to receive and pay for). And in the SIP world things get even more interesting with the From, the rpid, the PAI, and other headers, plus any isup that might be mapped over from the ss7 network and so on. I can think of about 1 or 2 possible services out there to authenticate those headers and cryptographically sign them, but that is dependent on a trust network basically. It isn't infallible either.
Ah, another one of these. Sadly you have no idea what you're breaking or how things work on the PSTN or what legitimate services you would be breaking by this statement. And furthermore, there's limited options for caller identity verification out there for VoIP calls.
I'm just going to leave this here... And the wage disparity may not be as big as the perception is, though I don't have the articles at my fingertips. (As I recall, the ones that show the largest gaps did not do a proper apples-to-apples comparison of the positions held by the women in the study.) But I still fail to understand why there's this dire need to get more women and more non-"caucasian"-cisgender men in this specific field. The lack of them is not in of itself a problem any more than a lack of male nurses is in of itself a problem either. I grew up as more or less an outcast among my peers due to my interest in computing. I'm sure many others who are my age or older that work in this field had similar experiences, at least in certain countries.
A very poor analogy. A webpage is more akin to living inside a house made of transparent glass. Everybody on the street can see inside, and nobody actually has to breach the walls of your house to know your activities. A subset of your webpage is like having the bathroom be the one room that is not transparent, which would be akin to some sort of authentication method. Doesn't sound like there was any real attempt at this authentication layer, so the house basically remained 100% transparent. That the user stood at the street for hours recording everything that happened in the house does not a trespass make.
I'm not sure what "mowed down wave after wave [of?] soldiers" you are referring to. Firing on full auto would mostly be used for suppressive fire, not actually to hit people. There are numerous studies on the use of full auto in wartime. I don't recall off the top of my head, but I think it was something like 1 in 1000 rounds fired hit a target during the 1973 Yom Kipor War. We were barred from firing on full auto due to the simple fact that it's a great way to waste ammunition without ever neutralizing a target. A bumpstock would be even more problematic when you think about how it works. As it is, in full auto, the firearm is climbing - that's exactly the reason why that little girl accidentally shot the "instructor" at Bullets & Burgers in Las Vegas (they used an Uzi, but the concept is the same for pretty much all select fire firearms). Now add to the mechanical operation of the weapon some extra springs and such to basically use recoil the gun back so you don't even have to move, and perhaps you can understand that you're even further reducing the likelihood of a hit a target (even a non-aimed target, even in a crowd). Again, the most important aspects of Las Vegas are simply that the guy was perched up in a hotel room and had enough time in the world to take his sweet ass time shooting at a crowd of people who had little cover options for them. He could have sat there and aimed every. single. shot. It's what Charles Joseph Whitman did at Texas Tower over a generation ago, and with FAR less people to shoot at in a concentrated area. As for me, I have both military training and still engage in shooting sports.
I take issue with that. From where that guy was perched in his hotel room, the bumpstock was very superfluous. I've fired full auto before, and even firing into a crowd it doesn't mean I'll mow down a lot more people. Maybe I'll hit a lot more arms and legs, maybe hands. And a bumpstock does nothing for accuracy either. The number of casualties he caused could just as easily been accomplished during the same time period with nothing more than standard semi-auto rifles. Sufficie it to say that this was the only time we've heard of a bumpstock being used, and it wasn't even very effective for that usage.
Use a 9mm with appropriate ammunition type and you WILL stop people pretty damn well. You don't have to use a.357 magnum, and in fact, in closer ranges a 9mm will generally be a better choice due to lower average recoils. And civilian weapons that fire more than one round are restricted starting with the 1934 NFA all the way up to the 1986 law that sunsets what a civilian can purchase to anything made on or prior to 1986. A bumpstock != a select fire NFA weapon, as the bumpstock causes additional trigger pulls.
As for who lived and who died, a lot of it comes down to how rapidly medical attention is received. There was a much longer delay at Parkland, and thus a number of people who likely could have been saved were instead guaranteed to bleed out.
Per capita. Means very little if Farmer Bob owns now 9 guns instead of the 3 he had 40 years ago while his 2 neighbors don't own any. Does he walk around with 9 guns on him at all time? Does he walk into a bar or the supermarket or to church with them? So even IF the number of guns in private ownership increased, and yet the overall firearms homicide rate dropped during that same period, I guess I should thank you for proving the point that it's quite unequivocally not the guns that are the causative agent here.
You've decided that instead of restricting the freedom of mentally ill people you'd rather restrict the freedoms of everyone in order to avoid dealing with the mentally ill.
Stop being so PC, persecution complexes are for betas.
Every other country in the world has the same amount of mental illness as the US. No other wealthy industrialized country as even close to the same level of gun violence. The problem isn't mental illness.
The US has the same amount of mental illness as every other country in the world? Citation please. In fact, for such a claim, multiple citations from differing sources, peer reviewed.
A bumpstock isn't even useful in a homicide situation either, even a mass homicide. The only time I remember hearing about one in use for criminal activities was the Las Vegas attack, and that guy planned that attack like it was his full time day job. And I'm quite positive that the bumpstock did little to actually up the casualty count. As for keeping guns out of the hands of those who may hurt themselves or others - well, unless your crystal ball is infallible, it is not always possible to determine that. Even look at the Austin Bomber and how people who knew him were shocked that he was the bomber.
You conflate ISP with carrier. Carriers own infrastructure, ISP's do not necessary own infrastructure. Comcast is a carrier, and in many places has exclusivity deals. I'm sorry to say that I think you need to put in a lot more effort than you are if you're going to attempt to speak in an informed manner on this subject.
I think reality is a lot more complicated than your simplistic view allots for. Unfortunately I do not have time to expand upon this, but I've worked quite some time in telecom.
Man it's all about bilking the simple-minded no? Got to make sure you leverage AI blockchains for cryptocurrency in the cloud. (Surely I've missed a few buzzwords, but I digress...)
I hate Comcast, but in this case, they are right. Why in the hell would Vermont even have the authority to "license" a corporation to exist, not to mention dictate how it must grow it's business and get a bunch of free kickbacks on those government entities?
For a corporation to exist within the boundaries of the USA, it has to be registered with a state's Secretary of State first. That's where the regulation begins, not ends.
I agree, and even think this is nefarious because it hides that cost from the consumer. And that was no mistake on behalf of the credit card processors.
Credit cards charge a fee to the merchant at time of transaction, at least in the USA they do. 4% is a very high rate for a merchant to pay. I most commonly hear around 1% or less, depending on whether it's a smaller, low volume store versus a big-box retailer.
Although if your car is Jeffrey Lebowski's (the Dude, not the old man), then your car is in fact a disused lavatory... But I wouldn't hold out for the Credence.
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I'm pretty sure that Ramon would object if you tried to eat him, not to mention cannibalism laws...
Didn't stop Jeffrey Dahmer until after his feast.
Personal crisis? Put on your big girl panties. Life is tough. Life is unfair. Get over it, deal with it, and quit expecting the almighty Hand Of Government to come to your rescue. Christ, if these limp-wristed wimps were all we had to work with back when Seattle was first being settled there would be no Seattle. They'd have been too terrified to head west.
A personal crisis can be many things, including things beyond the control of the individual. I've been rear-ended at a stop light. There was nothing I could do about it. I was lucky that I didn't have to spend months in recovery. It's not pretty when a Corolla gets slammed into by a Jeep Grand Cherokee traveling at highway speeds. Had I been in the hospital for an extended recovery or otherwise unable to work, how the hell would I pay my rent? And don't assume the other person had insurance - there's plenty out there without it. But thanks for your empathy and compassion.
Mental illness? Sure would mean a lot of crazies in Seattle which, come to think of it, may not be far off base given the composition of the city and state governments.
In other places too I've seen it: people who would otherwise have been treated in state-run mental institutions were let out on the streets instead because the gov't needed a quick way to save money.
Substance abuse? Sorry, not my problem, nor anyone else's except those who are abusing. Responsibility for your own actions comes along with being an adult. Apparently a lot of grown-up kids in Seattle.
You realize that some who are in poverty and unemployed or underemployed use drugs as a means of coping with their shitty situation right? Then try to get a job, as many entry level ones require a drug test. And consider how long THC will stay in one's body.
You mistake "hack" with "this is how it is by design". Caller ID was never meant to be authoritative. That data is called ANI, and you often only get to see it when you have a toll free number (as you, the non-carrier, do get the right to know whose call you're agreeing to receive and pay for). And in the SIP world things get even more interesting with the From, the rpid, the PAI, and other headers, plus any isup that might be mapped over from the ss7 network and so on. I can think of about 1 or 2 possible services out there to authenticate those headers and cryptographically sign them, but that is dependent on a trust network basically. It isn't infallible either.
Ah, another one of these. Sadly you have no idea what you're breaking or how things work on the PSTN or what legitimate services you would be breaking by this statement. And furthermore, there's limited options for caller identity verification out there for VoIP calls.
I'm just going to leave this here... And the wage disparity may not be as big as the perception is, though I don't have the articles at my fingertips. (As I recall, the ones that show the largest gaps did not do a proper apples-to-apples comparison of the positions held by the women in the study.) But I still fail to understand why there's this dire need to get more women and more non-"caucasian"-cisgender men in this specific field. The lack of them is not in of itself a problem any more than a lack of male nurses is in of itself a problem either. I grew up as more or less an outcast among my peers due to my interest in computing. I'm sure many others who are my age or older that work in this field had similar experiences, at least in certain countries.
A very poor analogy. A webpage is more akin to living inside a house made of transparent glass. Everybody on the street can see inside, and nobody actually has to breach the walls of your house to know your activities. A subset of your webpage is like having the bathroom be the one room that is not transparent, which would be akin to some sort of authentication method. Doesn't sound like there was any real attempt at this authentication layer, so the house basically remained 100% transparent. That the user stood at the street for hours recording everything that happened in the house does not a trespass make.
Epileptic sea cucumber? That's an electric eel, you insensitive clod!
I'm not sure what "mowed down wave after wave [of?] soldiers" you are referring to. Firing on full auto would mostly be used for suppressive fire, not actually to hit people. There are numerous studies on the use of full auto in wartime. I don't recall off the top of my head, but I think it was something like 1 in 1000 rounds fired hit a target during the 1973 Yom Kipor War. We were barred from firing on full auto due to the simple fact that it's a great way to waste ammunition without ever neutralizing a target. A bumpstock would be even more problematic when you think about how it works. As it is, in full auto, the firearm is climbing - that's exactly the reason why that little girl accidentally shot the "instructor" at Bullets & Burgers in Las Vegas (they used an Uzi, but the concept is the same for pretty much all select fire firearms). Now add to the mechanical operation of the weapon some extra springs and such to basically use recoil the gun back so you don't even have to move, and perhaps you can understand that you're even further reducing the likelihood of a hit a target (even a non-aimed target, even in a crowd). Again, the most important aspects of Las Vegas are simply that the guy was perched up in a hotel room and had enough time in the world to take his sweet ass time shooting at a crowd of people who had little cover options for them. He could have sat there and aimed every. single. shot. It's what Charles Joseph Whitman did at Texas Tower over a generation ago, and with FAR less people to shoot at in a concentrated area. As for me, I have both military training and still engage in shooting sports.
I take issue with that. From where that guy was perched in his hotel room, the bumpstock was very superfluous. I've fired full auto before, and even firing into a crowd it doesn't mean I'll mow down a lot more people. Maybe I'll hit a lot more arms and legs, maybe hands. And a bumpstock does nothing for accuracy either. The number of casualties he caused could just as easily been accomplished during the same time period with nothing more than standard semi-auto rifles. Sufficie it to say that this was the only time we've heard of a bumpstock being used, and it wasn't even very effective for that usage.
Use a 9mm with appropriate ammunition type and you WILL stop people pretty damn well. You don't have to use a .357 magnum, and in fact, in closer ranges a 9mm will generally be a better choice due to lower average recoils. And civilian weapons that fire more than one round are restricted starting with the 1934 NFA all the way up to the 1986 law that sunsets what a civilian can purchase to anything made on or prior to 1986. A bumpstock != a select fire NFA weapon, as the bumpstock causes additional trigger pulls.
As for who lived and who died, a lot of it comes down to how rapidly medical attention is received. There was a much longer delay at Parkland, and thus a number of people who likely could have been saved were instead guaranteed to bleed out.
Meh, I'm an omnivore, and I'm holding out until our spaceships can make it to Beta Librae I... Not to eat them, but we'll need them in our alliance...
We've only started having these problems recently.
That might have something to do with:
From 1968 to 2012 the number of guns per capita doubled.
From 2008 to 2013 gun manufacturers doubled their output from 630K/yr to 1200K/yr
Per capita. Means very little if Farmer Bob owns now 9 guns instead of the 3 he had 40 years ago while his 2 neighbors don't own any. Does he walk around with 9 guns on him at all time? Does he walk into a bar or the supermarket or to church with them? So even IF the number of guns in private ownership increased, and yet the overall firearms homicide rate dropped during that same period, I guess I should thank you for proving the point that it's quite unequivocally not the guns that are the causative agent here.
You've decided that instead of restricting the freedom of mentally ill people you'd rather restrict the freedoms of everyone in order to avoid dealing with the mentally ill.
Stop being so PC, persecution complexes are for betas.
Every other country in the world has the same amount of mental illness as the US. No other wealthy industrialized country as even close to the same level of gun violence. The problem isn't mental illness.
The US has the same amount of mental illness as every other country in the world? Citation please. In fact, for such a claim, multiple citations from differing sources, peer reviewed.
What, no foes? You must be new here and are operating with a stolen account! :-)
A bumpstock isn't even useful in a homicide situation either, even a mass homicide. The only time I remember hearing about one in use for criminal activities was the Las Vegas attack, and that guy planned that attack like it was his full time day job. And I'm quite positive that the bumpstock did little to actually up the casualty count. As for keeping guns out of the hands of those who may hurt themselves or others - well, unless your crystal ball is infallible, it is not always possible to determine that. Even look at the Austin Bomber and how people who knew him were shocked that he was the bomber.
AC on /. ? Pssh. Just wait until Netcraft confirms it.
"Oh sh*t, not that! No, anything but that!!!!! Wooooooooaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!" Everybody knows I like to have coffee when I watch radar, right?
You conflate ISP with carrier. Carriers own infrastructure, ISP's do not necessary own infrastructure. Comcast is a carrier, and in many places has exclusivity deals. I'm sorry to say that I think you need to put in a lot more effort than you are if you're going to attempt to speak in an informed manner on this subject.
I think reality is a lot more complicated than your simplistic view allots for. Unfortunately I do not have time to expand upon this, but I've worked quite some time in telecom.
You're ignoring one itty-bitty problem, and it's a big one: the last mile. He who owns that owns the market.
Man it's all about bilking the simple-minded no? Got to make sure you leverage AI blockchains for cryptocurrency in the cloud. (Surely I've missed a few buzzwords, but I digress...)
I hate Comcast, but in this case, they are right. Why in the hell would Vermont even have the authority to "license" a corporation to exist, not to mention dictate how it must grow it's business and get a bunch of free kickbacks on those government entities?
For a corporation to exist within the boundaries of the USA, it has to be registered with a state's Secretary of State first. That's where the regulation begins, not ends.
Did they ever fix the bug in image recognition that caused people with dark complexions to be tagged as gorillas?
I agree, and even think this is nefarious because it hides that cost from the consumer. And that was no mistake on behalf of the credit card processors.
Coinbase charges 1%. Credit cards charge 4%.
Credit cards charge a fee to the merchant at time of transaction, at least in the USA they do. 4% is a very high rate for a merchant to pay. I most commonly hear around 1% or less, depending on whether it's a smaller, low volume store versus a big-box retailer.
Although if your car is Jeffrey Lebowski's (the Dude, not the old man), then your car is in fact a disused lavatory... But I wouldn't hold out for the Credence.