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  1. Re:The Stupidity, It Hurts! on Video Game Industry Starting To Feel Heat On Gun Massacres · · Score: 1

    They are meant as a deterrent, however the deterrent does not stop people who feel that the threat/risk of being caught is either less than the chance of success, or those who simply don't care because they never bothered to work out an exit strategy.

    Guess what. The guys who never bothered learning how to land an aircraft never planned on landing it. Many of these folks plan on dying in their attempt. The minute they are confronted with equal force, they off themselves, and we are supposed to disarm? Please. Don't talk about being clever. I think you have no idea about the definition of the word.

  2. Re:The Stupidity, It Hurts! on Video Game Industry Starting To Feel Heat On Gun Massacres · · Score: 1

    And who protects you from them? The watchers need watching.

  3. Re:The Stupidity, It Hurts! on Video Game Industry Starting To Feel Heat On Gun Massacres · · Score: 1

    Shall not be infringed.

  4. Re:The Stupidity, It Hurts! on Video Game Industry Starting To Feel Heat On Gun Massacres · · Score: 2

    Except guns are not death rays. Go ahead, face 3-5 attackers who are both moving, and trying to kill you. That's NEVER happened, right? The police have no obligation to protect you. They are not responsible for your safety, and, frankly, when the situation calls for it, you will be in the exact same position they are when an attacker wants you harmed, except you'd prefer to believe that lying still will make him hurt you less.

    Screw that. Molon Labe, and stand back.

  5. Re:The Stupidity, It Hurts! on Video Game Industry Starting To Feel Heat On Gun Massacres · · Score: 1

    And yet knives are just as, if not more deadly. They simply lack range.

  6. Re:The Stupidity, It Hurts! on Video Game Industry Starting To Feel Heat On Gun Massacres · · Score: 1

    You don't get to dictate the person's requirements. You also have no idea what an assault rifle is, so kindly piss off and learn more before you become a rhetoric spouting machine.

  7. Re:The Stupidity, It Hurts! on Video Game Industry Starting To Feel Heat On Gun Massacres · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Did you know a lot of the drugs in this country are illegally brought over from Mexico and other countries? How you ask? Because laws only stop those who obey them.

  8. Re:The Stupidity, It Hurts! on Video Game Industry Starting To Feel Heat On Gun Massacres · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's stupid rhetoric that serves no purpose. The "Reasonable" background checks are a registry to be kept for indeterminate periods of time, and as the confiscations in New Orleans showed during the aftermath of Katrina, our rights are in danger when there is a registry. How would you like to have a "Reasonable" set of privacy on the internet, where everything you do is cataloged and kept with your username which also happens to be your real name with home address for anyone to search?

    Australia also did not have as many guns, the density, the crime, the drug issue that we in the US have. Why not talk about Mexico and their "Reasonable" restrictions on civilian ownership. Boy, that is a paradise...

  9. Re:The Stupidity, It Hurts! on Video Game Industry Starting To Feel Heat On Gun Massacres · · Score: 1

    Please cite sources that indicate your case's validity.

  10. Re:The Stupidity, It Hurts! on Video Game Industry Starting To Feel Heat On Gun Massacres · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's a load of crap. The original argument stands. The risks involved in a "mass shooting" are small compared to the legal uses of such tools. If someone wants to commit harm, they will. Bombs, fire, etc. You can't legislate away crazy.

  11. Crappy Argument on Using Technology To Make Guns Safer · · Score: 1

    In a crisis, your grip changes, and this can also happen during injury, which is when a gun may be used to stave off a threat. People who clamor for this sort of thing tend NOT to actually know about or use guns themselves, and that's the problem. Training is more important than any added part of a gun that can fail, causing the death of the operator from inability to defend oneself.

    Intoxication and lack of training are more dangerous than guns that can fire without the magazine, and frankly, I and other gun enthusiasts AVOID guns with lots of extra nonsense as stuff that can fail and make it difficult to do things with our own property, such as decide to sell or trade the gun toward something we would like better. Guns are collectable items that often increase in value. Let's stop this nonsense already. It is unwanted by those who actually use them.

  12. Re:Question on Schmidt On Why Tax Avoidance is Good, Robot Workers, and Google Fiber · · Score: 1

    The mere fact of having a fiat currency means you are taxed, or penalized in two different and equally damaging ways. They need to stop this imbalance, because as our debt grows faster than we can pay it off, our credit worthiness, as judged by other nations decreases. Wealth cannot come from the will of the government. They don't understand it, and they try to have at least a fractional estimate of their spending come in via the tax coffers each year.

    Inflation is not being kept down. It is running away, and being hidden. The mere printing of more and more money demands that this happens, and in order to deal with our overspending, they print more money.

  13. Re:Question on Schmidt On Why Tax Avoidance is Good, Robot Workers, and Google Fiber · · Score: 1

    The issue was never meant to be their equivalence, but rather the waste associated with it. By the way, Do you know how much that 1.5% actually is?

  14. Re:Question on Schmidt On Why Tax Avoidance is Good, Robot Workers, and Google Fiber · · Score: 1

    The value of taxes diminishes with the waste and poor performance of government. Most of that money is going to be used for aid to countries with whom we have no business propping up when our own is failing, or in the ever increasing military spending which does not make our troops safer, but instead wastes billions of dollars building the latest blowy uppy thing.

  15. Re:Okay. on A Gentle Rant About Software Development and Installers · · Score: 1

    Your lack of ability shines here. This technique carries it all. If the application brings all it needs, then it doesn't matter if the user of the application has their directory first in the search path. If you want to make sure you use your own version of shared or linked objects, that's how you segregate them. It won't break anything, as the path is user specific.

    Now again... where's my check.

  16. Re:Okay. on A Gentle Rant About Software Development and Installers · · Score: 1

    Easy enough. Don't use that hot mess.

  17. Re:Okay. on A Gentle Rant About Software Development and Installers · · Score: 1

    It's a difference of nomenclature, and I don't really need a lesson on managing systems, as that's been my field for quite some time. System level accounts are just that, built in. You can, however, have application accounts, and they are still users.

    Running production software out of /home/bob is bad. Running it out of /opt/software/versionX/bin/foo with a link back to /opt/software/bin is good. You can make /opt/software a home directory.

    Plus one for root creating the files/configs so the user has the ability to execute, but not modify beyond perhaps some sudo rights. Unfortunately, politics often screws that up, and an exception is filed, accepted, and never read.

  18. Re:Okay. on A Gentle Rant About Software Development and Installers · · Score: 1

    Users are not people. Users are users. Not to mention, it is easy to change ownership of directories and give them to a new user. That's the beauty of UNIX.

    Now, that being said, when is user apache22 going to leave the company?

  19. Re:Okay. on A Gentle Rant About Software Development and Installers · · Score: 1

    On an enterprise software level... bring what you need in a local, self contained directory structure. There is absolutely no reason your reliance on foobar v1.20a-final means that Software X cannot have 1.21c-upgraded.

    Link to your own directory first in your search path.

    Where's my check?

  20. Re:When Egypt or Libya does it, it's bad, of cours on Executive Order Grants US Gov't New Powers Over Communication Systems · · Score: 0

    You magically assumed that "your guy" meant he had a "his guy" or rather who "his guy" was. Logic, bitches.

  21. Re:When Egypt or Libya does it, it's bad, of cours on Executive Order Grants US Gov't New Powers Over Communication Systems · · Score: 4, Insightful

    False dichotomy is false. Stop playing this like it is my team vs their team. There is one team there. You don't get a say, you don't get to play.

  22. Re:Interesting technology on Microsoft-Funded Startup Aims To Kill BitTorrent Traffic · · Score: 1

    They would be copyrighted, not copywritten. The issue is RIGHTS not writing.

  23. Re:Gasoline-like energy density on IBM Creates 'Breathing' High-Density Lithium-Air Battery · · Score: 2

    Because people have played mario cart, and I don't want to be hit by a red shell because I got to the charging mat first.

  24. Let them boycott on EA Defends Itself Against Thousands of Anti-Gay Letters · · Score: 1

    EA does a lot of shitty things, but this isn't one of them. EA may lose .02% of their revenue, because I doubt these fundies really buy their games.

  25. Re:do they tax frosty piss? on Indian Government To Tax Angel Funding · · Score: 1

    Yet "Please give us the codes" appears on how many pages for assistance?