Yours is a valid point. Also a valid point is that shutting down Government Funding of NPR would help balance the budget--a point which has been countered (along with dozens of other such suggestions) because "it's too small to matter, it's only $10 million."
The small measures become significant; but the big issues need to be addressed, and grandstanding is simply grandstanding regardless of absolute merit.
A pair of 12 shooters would have handled this nicely. 6 shooters too, if you can reload them fast enough. 6 shooter revolvers are semi-automatic and repeating (you pull the trigger on a DA revolver, the hammer comes back). Some will let you drop out the cylinder, or you can use a swing-out model and a speed loader to drop 6 or 8 rounds back in.
Honestly there are a lot of people concentrated in a small area in a school. Home made pipe bombs, just one bag of nitrogen fertilizer and a regular 5 old gallon jerrycan of fuel oil from the Shell station. If you want to get fancy, electronic trigger is cheap and easy to build, with a small manual switch that activates, and a handheld transmitter that causes the triggering. Lob them, duck around the corner, pull your detonator, and a head-level explosion kills half a dozen people. Backpack is all you need.
Run through screaming with a sword. Show up when school's letting out, the halls are full of folks--or more amply, outside just after let-out with slightly lower crowd density. Pipe bombs or a sword would get you a much bigger death toll than an assault rifle. Seriously, think about it: A lot of warm bodies are going to absorb a lot of shots from that rifle, many of which won't actually be fatal or will be repeat impacts on top of already-fatal wounds. Sword run? No way in hell, you cut people in half with a sharp sword (a Katana can cut bone; heavier swords--or a machete--can cleave bone when not absolutely sharp, while lighter swords are for fencing and can inflict mortal flesh wounds but not so great at amputation and bisection). Blades don't need reloading.
Guns are easy to conceal, easy to use, and highly lethal. They're not magic. They're great when you're more than a meter away from someone, but up close they're less great. Facing large crowds of docile targets or mobile unarmed assailants, either way, light munitions are suboptimal: unless you can get a big ass Gatling gun and mow people down with high-mass rounds, you're not doing much; and mobile assailants can mob you and take your firearm, whereas a sword does much more reliable damage much faster.
Save the guns for range: for when you want to stay unseen and escape, or when you're at war and the other side is shooting back (knives and small arms are great for infiltration, depending on situation--sometimes that Uzi outranks a combat knife, but there are definitely situations where you want to reach for the blade instead). For mass murder in crowds, bring explosives and large blades.
Ubuntu 13.04 is going to prep the system more for systemd by integrating parts of systemd instead of hackish compatibility layer bullshit. Maybe in 13.10 they'll dump upstart for systemd.
so, "install a plug-in to remove a specific package's dependencies" versus "we track and mark all the manually installed packages, and you can promote/demote packages at will. At any point you can ask apt what all the auto-removable packages are and do house keeping, or mark one or two you want to keep and then do housekeeping." One of these is a more powerful tool.
Yeah, Gnome 3's interface rocks the pants off just about anything. The windows get separated and expanded out when you hit the Activities view, whereas Unity leaves them all where they are and doesn't give a task bar (no, the thing on the left isn't a replacement). Result? You can quickly swap windows in Gnome 3 and move them around virtual desktops, creating and destroying desktops as you need to; whereas in Unity you get to curse at the screen a lot and try to squeeze yourself into 4 desktops where any kind of mult-iwindow co-existence is painful. The only problems in Gnome 3 are not being able to re-order virtual desktops and having an incompetent alt-tab behavior.
The closing point was: taking out debt and "managing" it is a high-level investor's tactic. In certain situations, it's great: I made 30% in a month on my investments when I was active (and driving myself to obsessive psychosis--look, it's a skill, I set out for an average of 1% per day and did it FOR A MONTH by skill, Wall St does this all the time). Skilled investors know they can take debt from one place at 6% and invest in a sharp bubble and make 23% and then dump it and make 17%. Businesses are in the position by which the return on debt is absolutely massive--it lets your business function, which in the end is a huge ROI if you don't go under; sometimes the business just can't start or can't keep up without a little leveraging.
For the average Joe? Get yourself out of debt. Don't save for retirement, don't pay your minimums. Get some money put away to keep afloat in an emergency; divert the remainder to hammering down your debt. That house that you can afford because it's $1100/mo and your income and other expenses leaves you with a good $700/mo to put toward retirement, and a small pile for leisure? Put that $700 onto your house, pay $1800/mo. If you have credit cards, pay them off first. Pay off your car. Get rid of that crap, and then you have like $1800/mo to stick in retirement. Most importantly, you bypass paying all that interest on those high-balance loans!
"Getting out of debt" used to be the primary goal; now "saving for retirement" is the primary goal, and the ROI is shit. Maintaining your debt costs more than you're saving for retirement. Pay it off before it costs you.
So, it's her fault because she let herself be coerced (by use of mind-altering drugs, in this case)? Is the skillful use of peer pressure also fair game (potentially even more effective, although part of the whole alcohol thing is peer pressure--she can't very well NOT drink, can she?)?
(If you get bored, skip to the last paragraph; there's a lot of junk here that will give you some perspective, but it's rambling. And I'm 27.)
Oh, I lived with my parents and took a couple courses during high school. Also transferred like 87 credits for miscellany into college from highschool--highschool standard 'microcomputer applications' courses (i.e. classes about using Microsoft Word) fall under Office Administration, and so I had 6 OFAD credits in the end. An Honors Biology course falls under Bio, sometimes, but not always; however any AP math courses fall directly under college math (Calc AB becomse Calc 1, BC becomes Calc 1 AND 2, AP Stat becomes Statistics).
After about $100/credit for in-county tuition (it was $80/$190/$350 for in-county/in-state/out-of-state, but it's now $195/$350/$450) and some 40 credits I had an Associates of Network Technologies. This was 30% paid back by the HOPE and Lifetime Learning tax deductions. I also had a job working for Best Buy for about $8.50/hr, which later became a $17/hr job that didn't pan out as a help desk rep--take calls while simultaneously analyzing and resolving issues (the place was chaotic, they had multiple of the same software installed in random places based on who decided to try to hand-compile what that day, etc.. it was a mess), which I can't cope with.
Eventually my personal experience with security software on Linux got me a $45k/year security analyst job, because of my familiarity with IDS and some penetrative testing tools. This was light-duty, mostly staring at an IDS console looking for anomalies--99% false positives, but I had a high rate of picking out true positives (luck, I think). At this point I abandoned college except to study piano and singing at leisure for insane cost ($800 for one class). This became a $60k/year job, as I was always helping the security engineers solve abstract problems, and one got promoted and I got picked up. That job was lost because I can't get a security clearance--they let me work for 4 years pending investigation, then summarily denied clearance and terminated my employment. That's well enough because it slowed down greatly and I was bored; after being escorted from the building, I put together all the stuff I could remember about a few critical systems I was in charge of, encrypted it, and e-mailed it to my supervisor to fill in the gaps in my lacking documentation.
After that I spent three or four months lounging around the apartment, during which time I purchased an expensive $150 Kai Shun kitchen knife (a 7 inch Santoku) as a primary, as well as a number of Kai Wasabi $30 knives for specific tasks. I taught myself some rudimentary knife skills and used a whetstone to sharpen the Wasabi knives; they are decent, but the VG-10 that Shun is forged from readily takes and holds a ridiculously sharp edge to which there is no comparison. I canned some jam, baked some bread, made oxtail stew--several times, and canned it.
After this I began to search for re-employment and began collecting unemployment for two and a half months. I got picked up as a Linux system administrator for $65k due to previous experience with Linux stuff--the IT industry is extremely vague about experience requirements. I am currently honing those skills and have surpassed the standard operating platform at my new employment, which is advanced as individually managed systems with hand-edited configuration files. I started teaching myself Puppet and Git am in the process of lobbying for approval to make enough functional changes (properly, without major down time or risk, of course) to improve security, to implement deployment staging, and to bring us to a point where we can rebuild the entire portion of the network under my control from data back-ups and stock Operating System installation media in under an hour.
The light rail station is just behind this building. I can take a full-sized bike on, but I prefer to take a folding bike to avoid taking up excess room and inconveniencing t
The concept--literally taken--that Newton was no more right (or wrong) about gravity than Aristotle is an interesting one, though. Consider existence as a flexible entity: it takes form based on what is projected from belief--or simply put it reflects what is largely held true. If most of everyone believes the laws of physics work a certain way, then they do. What would be the implication?
Well first off, you have absolutely no way to measure this. Writing from early times confirms that, yes, heavy objects fall faster than lighter ones. This was accepted and true for ages, until very recently. Our experiments show it not to be true, so we accept that ignorance and dogma propagate systematically--that common sense and knowledge are often wrong because the world is complex and nobody bothered to actually look under the hood.
Second, you have no way to disprove it. People have taken a route of reason--somebody challenged the notion that heavy objects fall faster, because what if you tie an object loosely together? The lighter object holds up the heavier, slowing descent? The whole system falls as one? What? At a point the entire collective of mankind begun shifting toward the notion that things need explanation, or began to just not care. The push for scientific understanding went precisely nowhere for a while, until isolated incidents where things started to make sense. Why? Did the demand for reason suddenly produce a universe where reasonable, fixed rules would necessarily exist to be discovered? Or has it always been this way?
An understanding of the actual proposal and its implications precludes any meaning, though. If we seek understanding, obviously the universe follows its rigid structure as we've projected, so it's of no use. Unless, of course, the concept that humans can 'bend' the universal laws into the great shape of the collective mind share becomes a part of the collective mind share--in which case some freedom of movement is produced, which has consequences. For example, accepting that, scientific study of the current state continues; but also the acceptance that deciding that a certain condition exists will cause it to exist becomes a part of the universe, and we simply don't define the mechanism and instead study it until we prove the hypothesis true--until the universe figures out how to explain the created behavior rationally so it is scientific. On the other hand, knowing humans can manipulate the physical laws, individuals may manifest magical powers contrary to the physical laws as-is--because we know that's basically how it works anyway.
Strange world, huh?
What is less hokey is that silly religious science-worshippers are too dumb for their own good. People reject things like meditation because they're primarily understood as some kind of magical ritual connected to ancient religions and superstition. In other words: the tag "spirituality" is stuck on the tin, so it must be bullshit. Funny enough, properly controlled studies have shown great benefits to meditation, including the ability to improve health and prolong life--of course because it is a mental exercise that improves focus and self-control, and thus reduces stress and increases intelligence. But since the scientific part is obscured, some people will immediately scream that they don't believe in religious superstitious bullshit--effectively clinging to their science-worship and loudly attacking anything challenging their beliefs until they hear it as part of the word of their lords (i.e. scientists).
Repeat after me: all porn is fake. Yes, ALL of it.
I personally know people who run porn sites that amount to they and a few of their friends hooking up with girls from their college. Hell, there was an article on Fark because someone called the police on a bunch of kids from a frat that bought a house together and had live cameras streaming them screwing girls they knew--the police determined nothing illegal was happening and left.
It's not all fake. There are a few sites out there that collect up peoples' personal inventories and post them online. Guy that lives 3 miles from me is screwing his daughter's 19 year old friend, he shares the videos with anyone who happens to broach the topic in any way. Could take that and post it online somewhere... could find plenty of folks like that and post all their shit online... make a mint. Hint: It's been done.
Because sex with drunk chicks is a major past time in America. Parties are arranged with alcohol specifically because people want to get drunk and fuck. It is well known that women do not go to bars to get laid; they go to bars to have fun, which is why we have wingmen--distract the girl's friends so she is isolated, because she's not there to get picked up. That's why guys take home so many drunk chicks: they did not come there to get taken home, they're just too drunk to think straight!
Guys go out to the bar to find drunk bitches to fuck. Guys arrange parties and tell their friends to find chicks to bring so they can get them drunk and fuck them. This is not what college kids do. This is not what teenagers do. Thirties, forties guys do this. It is common, consistent, continuous behavior.
Most laymen don't register this as 'wrong' until somebody calls it rape. Hell even women don't really take much notice that they've been taken for a romp; they just wake up, ask where the hell they are, and try to find their way home without giving it much thought.
There is a sickness in the world, though perhaps I am pessimistic. Maybe the only reason we freak out when someone calls it 'rape' is because we've accepted this behavior to such a level that everyone pre-accepts the consequences--women don't go out to get fucked while they're passed out drunk, but when it happens most of them are like, "Oh yeah, that happens lol... man I was druuuuunk..." and don't flinch. Is this really what we are?
This girl was, apparently, passed out drunk (she was 16) and while passed out, was raped by at least 2 members of the football. Her limp, violated, body was carried by her arms and legs, all while being recorded and while others stood by and did nothing.
Do you know how much porn is online from what counts as respectable pornographic film companies doing exactly that? I don't mean staged content; I mean a couple 40 year old guys slip into a college party and fuck a completely drunk, barely awake (if even) college girl.
Alcohol is considered fair play. I know too many girls who, when I bring up that I don't mess with girls once they've had more than a minor buzz, proceed to carefully explain to me that what they do when they're drunk as fuck is their business and their responsibility--up to and including fucking the hell out of everyone when they're too far gone to remember their own name (or stay conscious).
People just don't see this as wrong. I don't know why.
The line in the constitution was added shortly after taking our firearms against our glorious ruler.
One of the more refined subjects of system administration is "understanding of why you should never use RAID-5."
What would be immoral about it?
Is a fully automatic weapon really any more useful than a semi-auto for the purpose of mass murder? Seems like you'd just waste a lot of ammo.
Yours is a valid point. Also a valid point is that shutting down Government Funding of NPR would help balance the budget--a point which has been countered (along with dozens of other such suggestions) because "it's too small to matter, it's only $10 million."
The small measures become significant; but the big issues need to be addressed, and grandstanding is simply grandstanding regardless of absolute merit.
"Natural rights" is a bullshit phrase.
Three words my friend: Precision Shooting Equipment.
Bullshit. The Liberals are constantly at odds with Reagan, citing him as the Great Evil Legacy that the Republican Party aspires to emulate.
A pair of 12 shooters would have handled this nicely. 6 shooters too, if you can reload them fast enough. 6 shooter revolvers are semi-automatic and repeating (you pull the trigger on a DA revolver, the hammer comes back). Some will let you drop out the cylinder, or you can use a swing-out model and a speed loader to drop 6 or 8 rounds back in.
Honestly there are a lot of people concentrated in a small area in a school. Home made pipe bombs, just one bag of nitrogen fertilizer and a regular 5 old gallon jerrycan of fuel oil from the Shell station. If you want to get fancy, electronic trigger is cheap and easy to build, with a small manual switch that activates, and a handheld transmitter that causes the triggering. Lob them, duck around the corner, pull your detonator, and a head-level explosion kills half a dozen people. Backpack is all you need.
Run through screaming with a sword. Show up when school's letting out, the halls are full of folks--or more amply, outside just after let-out with slightly lower crowd density. Pipe bombs or a sword would get you a much bigger death toll than an assault rifle. Seriously, think about it: A lot of warm bodies are going to absorb a lot of shots from that rifle, many of which won't actually be fatal or will be repeat impacts on top of already-fatal wounds. Sword run? No way in hell, you cut people in half with a sharp sword (a Katana can cut bone; heavier swords--or a machete--can cleave bone when not absolutely sharp, while lighter swords are for fencing and can inflict mortal flesh wounds but not so great at amputation and bisection). Blades don't need reloading.
Guns are easy to conceal, easy to use, and highly lethal. They're not magic. They're great when you're more than a meter away from someone, but up close they're less great. Facing large crowds of docile targets or mobile unarmed assailants, either way, light munitions are suboptimal: unless you can get a big ass Gatling gun and mow people down with high-mass rounds, you're not doing much; and mobile assailants can mob you and take your firearm, whereas a sword does much more reliable damage much faster.
Save the guns for range: for when you want to stay unseen and escape, or when you're at war and the other side is shooting back (knives and small arms are great for infiltration, depending on situation--sometimes that Uzi outranks a combat knife, but there are definitely situations where you want to reach for the blade instead). For mass murder in crowds, bring explosives and large blades.
Given that cogs and gears do very different things, I wonder why Spacely Sprockets was ever in competition with Cogswell Cogs.
Ubuntu 13.04 is going to prep the system more for systemd by integrating parts of systemd instead of hackish compatibility layer bullshit. Maybe in 13.10 they'll dump upstart for systemd.
Or alternately, just migrate Fedora wholesale onto dpkg.
so, "install a plug-in to remove a specific package's dependencies" versus "we track and mark all the manually installed packages, and you can promote/demote packages at will. At any point you can ask apt what all the auto-removable packages are and do house keeping, or mark one or two you want to keep and then do housekeeping." One of these is a more powerful tool.
It was called "Anaconda" and I submitted an extension called "Trouser Snake" so they needed to rename it.
Yeah, Gnome 3's interface rocks the pants off just about anything. The windows get separated and expanded out when you hit the Activities view, whereas Unity leaves them all where they are and doesn't give a task bar (no, the thing on the left isn't a replacement). Result? You can quickly swap windows in Gnome 3 and move them around virtual desktops, creating and destroying desktops as you need to; whereas in Unity you get to curse at the screen a lot and try to squeeze yourself into 4 desktops where any kind of mult-iwindow co-existence is painful. The only problems in Gnome 3 are not being able to re-order virtual desktops and having an incompetent alt-tab behavior.
Yeah I think I forgot to close it.
The closing point was: taking out debt and "managing" it is a high-level investor's tactic. In certain situations, it's great: I made 30% in a month on my investments when I was active (and driving myself to obsessive psychosis--look, it's a skill, I set out for an average of 1% per day and did it FOR A MONTH by skill, Wall St does this all the time). Skilled investors know they can take debt from one place at 6% and invest in a sharp bubble and make 23% and then dump it and make 17%. Businesses are in the position by which the return on debt is absolutely massive--it lets your business function, which in the end is a huge ROI if you don't go under; sometimes the business just can't start or can't keep up without a little leveraging.
For the average Joe? Get yourself out of debt. Don't save for retirement, don't pay your minimums. Get some money put away to keep afloat in an emergency; divert the remainder to hammering down your debt. That house that you can afford because it's $1100/mo and your income and other expenses leaves you with a good $700/mo to put toward retirement, and a small pile for leisure? Put that $700 onto your house, pay $1800/mo. If you have credit cards, pay them off first. Pay off your car. Get rid of that crap, and then you have like $1800/mo to stick in retirement. Most importantly, you bypass paying all that interest on those high-balance loans!
"Getting out of debt" used to be the primary goal; now "saving for retirement" is the primary goal, and the ROI is shit. Maintaining your debt costs more than you're saving for retirement. Pay it off before it costs you.
So, it's her fault because she let herself be coerced (by use of mind-altering drugs, in this case)? Is the skillful use of peer pressure also fair game (potentially even more effective, although part of the whole alcohol thing is peer pressure--she can't very well NOT drink, can she?)?
Yeah the Germans famously do not have a sense of humor.
(If you get bored, skip to the last paragraph; there's a lot of junk here that will give you some perspective, but it's rambling. And I'm 27.)
Oh, I lived with my parents and took a couple courses during high school. Also transferred like 87 credits for miscellany into college from highschool--highschool standard 'microcomputer applications' courses (i.e. classes about using Microsoft Word) fall under Office Administration, and so I had 6 OFAD credits in the end. An Honors Biology course falls under Bio, sometimes, but not always; however any AP math courses fall directly under college math (Calc AB becomse Calc 1, BC becomes Calc 1 AND 2, AP Stat becomes Statistics).
After about $100/credit for in-county tuition (it was $80/$190/$350 for in-county/in-state/out-of-state, but it's now $195/$350/$450) and some 40 credits I had an Associates of Network Technologies. This was 30% paid back by the HOPE and Lifetime Learning tax deductions. I also had a job working for Best Buy for about $8.50/hr, which later became a $17/hr job that didn't pan out as a help desk rep--take calls while simultaneously analyzing and resolving issues (the place was chaotic, they had multiple of the same software installed in random places based on who decided to try to hand-compile what that day, etc.. it was a mess), which I can't cope with.
Eventually my personal experience with security software on Linux got me a $45k/year security analyst job, because of my familiarity with IDS and some penetrative testing tools. This was light-duty, mostly staring at an IDS console looking for anomalies--99% false positives, but I had a high rate of picking out true positives (luck, I think). At this point I abandoned college except to study piano and singing at leisure for insane cost ($800 for one class). This became a $60k/year job, as I was always helping the security engineers solve abstract problems, and one got promoted and I got picked up. That job was lost because I can't get a security clearance--they let me work for 4 years pending investigation, then summarily denied clearance and terminated my employment. That's well enough because it slowed down greatly and I was bored; after being escorted from the building, I put together all the stuff I could remember about a few critical systems I was in charge of, encrypted it, and e-mailed it to my supervisor to fill in the gaps in my lacking documentation.
After that I spent three or four months lounging around the apartment, during which time I purchased an expensive $150 Kai Shun kitchen knife (a 7 inch Santoku) as a primary, as well as a number of Kai Wasabi $30 knives for specific tasks. I taught myself some rudimentary knife skills and used a whetstone to sharpen the Wasabi knives; they are decent, but the VG-10 that Shun is forged from readily takes and holds a ridiculously sharp edge to which there is no comparison. I canned some jam, baked some bread, made oxtail stew--several times, and canned it.
After this I began to search for re-employment and began collecting unemployment for two and a half months. I got picked up as a Linux system administrator for $65k due to previous experience with Linux stuff--the IT industry is extremely vague about experience requirements. I am currently honing those skills and have surpassed the standard operating platform at my new employment, which is advanced as individually managed systems with hand-edited configuration files. I started teaching myself Puppet and Git am in the process of lobbying for approval to make enough functional changes (properly, without major down time or risk, of course) to improve security, to implement deployment staging, and to bring us to a point where we can rebuild the entire portion of the network under my control from data back-ups and stock Operating System installation media in under an hour.
The light rail station is just behind this building. I can take a full-sized bike on, but I prefer to take a folding bike to avoid taking up excess room and inconveniencing t
It's often quite clear that a woman will in no way have sex with you, ever. Then: alcohol. Fuck yeah.
The concept--literally taken--that Newton was no more right (or wrong) about gravity than Aristotle is an interesting one, though. Consider existence as a flexible entity: it takes form based on what is projected from belief--or simply put it reflects what is largely held true. If most of everyone believes the laws of physics work a certain way, then they do. What would be the implication?
Well first off, you have absolutely no way to measure this. Writing from early times confirms that, yes, heavy objects fall faster than lighter ones. This was accepted and true for ages, until very recently. Our experiments show it not to be true, so we accept that ignorance and dogma propagate systematically--that common sense and knowledge are often wrong because the world is complex and nobody bothered to actually look under the hood.
Second, you have no way to disprove it. People have taken a route of reason--somebody challenged the notion that heavy objects fall faster, because what if you tie an object loosely together? The lighter object holds up the heavier, slowing descent? The whole system falls as one? What? At a point the entire collective of mankind begun shifting toward the notion that things need explanation, or began to just not care. The push for scientific understanding went precisely nowhere for a while, until isolated incidents where things started to make sense. Why? Did the demand for reason suddenly produce a universe where reasonable, fixed rules would necessarily exist to be discovered? Or has it always been this way?
An understanding of the actual proposal and its implications precludes any meaning, though. If we seek understanding, obviously the universe follows its rigid structure as we've projected, so it's of no use. Unless, of course, the concept that humans can 'bend' the universal laws into the great shape of the collective mind share becomes a part of the collective mind share--in which case some freedom of movement is produced, which has consequences. For example, accepting that, scientific study of the current state continues; but also the acceptance that deciding that a certain condition exists will cause it to exist becomes a part of the universe, and we simply don't define the mechanism and instead study it until we prove the hypothesis true--until the universe figures out how to explain the created behavior rationally so it is scientific. On the other hand, knowing humans can manipulate the physical laws, individuals may manifest magical powers contrary to the physical laws as-is--because we know that's basically how it works anyway.
Strange world, huh?
What is less hokey is that silly religious science-worshippers are too dumb for their own good. People reject things like meditation because they're primarily understood as some kind of magical ritual connected to ancient religions and superstition. In other words: the tag "spirituality" is stuck on the tin, so it must be bullshit. Funny enough, properly controlled studies have shown great benefits to meditation, including the ability to improve health and prolong life--of course because it is a mental exercise that improves focus and self-control, and thus reduces stress and increases intelligence. But since the scientific part is obscured, some people will immediately scream that they don't believe in religious superstitious bullshit--effectively clinging to their science-worship and loudly attacking anything challenging their beliefs until they hear it as part of the word of their lords (i.e. scientists).
I assume all humans are simply insane.
Repeat after me: all porn is fake. Yes, ALL of it.
I personally know people who run porn sites that amount to they and a few of their friends hooking up with girls from their college. Hell, there was an article on Fark because someone called the police on a bunch of kids from a frat that bought a house together and had live cameras streaming them screwing girls they knew--the police determined nothing illegal was happening and left.
It's not all fake. There are a few sites out there that collect up peoples' personal inventories and post them online. Guy that lives 3 miles from me is screwing his daughter's 19 year old friend, he shares the videos with anyone who happens to broach the topic in any way. Could take that and post it online somewhere... could find plenty of folks like that and post all their shit online... make a mint. Hint: It's been done.
Next thing you'll tell me is child porn is fake.
Because sex with drunk chicks is a major past time in America. Parties are arranged with alcohol specifically because people want to get drunk and fuck. It is well known that women do not go to bars to get laid; they go to bars to have fun, which is why we have wingmen--distract the girl's friends so she is isolated, because she's not there to get picked up. That's why guys take home so many drunk chicks: they did not come there to get taken home, they're just too drunk to think straight!
Guys go out to the bar to find drunk bitches to fuck. Guys arrange parties and tell their friends to find chicks to bring so they can get them drunk and fuck them. This is not what college kids do. This is not what teenagers do. Thirties, forties guys do this. It is common, consistent, continuous behavior.
Most laymen don't register this as 'wrong' until somebody calls it rape. Hell even women don't really take much notice that they've been taken for a romp; they just wake up, ask where the hell they are, and try to find their way home without giving it much thought.
There is a sickness in the world, though perhaps I am pessimistic. Maybe the only reason we freak out when someone calls it 'rape' is because we've accepted this behavior to such a level that everyone pre-accepts the consequences--women don't go out to get fucked while they're passed out drunk, but when it happens most of them are like, "Oh yeah, that happens lol... man I was druuuuunk..." and don't flinch. Is this really what we are?
This girl was, apparently, passed out drunk (she was 16) and while passed out, was raped by at least 2 members of the football. Her limp, violated, body was carried by her arms and legs, all while being recorded and while others stood by and did nothing.
Do you know how much porn is online from what counts as respectable pornographic film companies doing exactly that? I don't mean staged content; I mean a couple 40 year old guys slip into a college party and fuck a completely drunk, barely awake (if even) college girl.
Alcohol is considered fair play. I know too many girls who, when I bring up that I don't mess with girls once they've had more than a minor buzz, proceed to carefully explain to me that what they do when they're drunk as fuck is their business and their responsibility--up to and including fucking the hell out of everyone when they're too far gone to remember their own name (or stay conscious).
People just don't see this as wrong. I don't know why.
Uh. They're chaotic-whatthefuck. They do what they want with no regard for impact, just attention.