His friends or family may have asked him to stop carrying a dangerous weapon, but he sounds like a smart, responsible gun-owner, who probably lives in a dangerous area.
Speaking as a non-American, my definition of a dangerous area would be one where everyone walked around carrying guns.
I have nothing against responsible gun owners [...]
I don't think anybody does.
This only applies to the US.
In most Western countries, people only see the point of gun ownership for those who need them, like farmers, hunters or target shooting enthusiasts. Not for "home defence" and certainly not for carrying around in public in case you get into a fight.
I'm telling you we need a new Godwin's law involving the mention of SJW. No one on either side can argue SJW without sounding a fuming idiot.
I've already learned to scan posts for the phrase "SJW" and pretty much ignore them.
However, no one identifies themselves as a SJW (since it is by definition an insult), so in effect it's a one-sided screening of right wingers, reactionaries, anti-feminists or however you like to characterize them.
It's not a matter of opinion. The quality of any work of art is subjective, but its status as art is an objective, self-evident, irrefutable fact.
And it's not just the "best" games, or the ones that meet some arbitrary threshold of "artiness". Yes, Braid and Bioshock are art, but so are Duke Nukem Forever and Custer's Revenge.
Nor is it just video games. It's all games. Everything from tag to checkers to D&D to Monopoly is art, too.
There is not, never has been, and cannot ever be a game that is not art.
Well, ok, but that's just like saying that if a two year old draws two circles and calls it a cat, or if I whistle the Close Encounters motif out of tune, then they're "art" too, because they are drawing and music.. Having such a wide definition reduces the term to meaninglessness.
Is me laying a rotten plank of wood over a puddle "civil engineering" as much as the Golden Gate Bridge?
"art" could mean just about anything in English, so yes video games can be art.
Other languages are different. For example in Korean, art means painting/drawing/sculpture. Music is not art, it's music. So for Koreans, video games are not art.
I live in Iceland. In our drivers' ed books there was a section that said something to the effect of, "For a while car manufacturers experimented with adding air conditioning systems into vehicles. This generally proved to not be worth the cost and posed maintenance issues, so few do this anymore."
Do they actually remove the air conditioning system for vehicles imported to iceland then? Most non-basic cars (even in the UK) have AC as standard, even though it's barely needed here.
If they can convince you that a new VW will get you laid, you will buy one.
See also Ferrari. Terrible cars cynically sold to customers regarded as full idiots by the manufacturer. But they will get you laid.
If you see someone in a Ferrari, you can reasonably assume they have more money than sense. This will attract a certain sort of person, but in that case why not just buy a Fiat Panda and spend the money on high class prostitutes instead?
I don't know what's so bad about that. Sounds like it would remove morons from the gene pool.
The problem with driving un-roadworthy cars is that when your brakes fail and the wheels drop off, you are likely to involve someonw else in the ensuing accident.
It's one of those areas where libertarianism doesn't really work. If my family are killed by a driver of a dangerous vehicle, I really don't care that I can sue him. Prevention is better than cure, even if it does involve impinging on his freedom.
tl;dr you have the right to kill yourself, not other people
If the police knock on your door and ask to come in, you can say no. If they police knock on your door with a search warrant, you have to step aside
Yes, but say that is a warrant to SEIZE ALL YOUR GUNS AND AMMO? In that case, internet tough guys the world over will agree that you should yell the legendary Chuck Heston line "you can pry my weapon(s) from my cold dead hands" before the police oblige.
A portable shelter in the form of a 20ft or 40ft shipping container might be great because the infrastructure exists to move them around so easily. You could load a couple thousand on a ship to move them to the nearest port and then use a combination of trains and trucks to get them to where you need. Just need a few cranes at the site to take them off the truck and it's ready to go. Would have to be better than the trailers FEMA have before.
Shipping containers require a lot of conversion work, as otherwise they're freezing in the winter and sweltering in the summer. They're better than nothing, but so's a decent tent.
It has been said many times already in this thread that the UK has already colluded in extraordinary renditions through its airports, so it would presumably have been easier for the US to do this to Assange while he was being held in custody in the UK, rather than go through the legal process of extraditing him to Sweden first.
Although, of course, this would be so far removed from a covert kidnapping that the CIA might as well take out an advert in all the national newspapers announcing their intention in advance if they were really going to nab him.
He was questioned by the police while he was in Sweden. He was in Sweden for 40 days after the allegations were first made to to the police and was not stopped from leaving the country. They could have withheld his passport and ordered him not to leave the country while he was under investigation, but they did not do so.
It raises the question of why they let him go, then went through the whole alleged legal charade of "rape" claims, in order to get him back to Sweden from the UK so that teh US could renditionalize him to Guantanamo Bay.
Why not just hand him over to the CIA the first time?
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Less guns means less gun violence.
maybe true if only tautologically.
instead you will see a rise in beatings, knifing and other forms a violence.
You have to try a lot harder to knife and a lot, lot harder to beat someone to death compared with shooting them.
It's kind of why the military give soldiers rifles and bullets rather than a pointy stick.
His friends or family may have asked him to stop carrying a dangerous weapon, but he sounds like a smart, responsible gun-owner, who probably lives in a dangerous area.
Speaking as a non-American, my definition of a dangerous area would be one where everyone walked around carrying guns.
He had plenty of training
Probably not. Police training in the USA is typically 4-6 months. Your barber almost certainly was in training longer than the cop was.
You don't need any special training to know you don't leave loaded guns lying around near children.
I have nothing against responsible gun owners [...]
I don't think anybody does.
This only applies to the US.
In most Western countries, people only see the point of gun ownership for those who need them, like farmers, hunters or target shooting enthusiasts. Not for "home defence" and certainly not for carrying around in public in case you get into a fight.
You shouldn't lose your second amendment right. You should lose your child.
No, you should lose both. Next time, it might be someone else's child.
It's perfectly legal for an infant to own a firearm.
And that's the sort of thing that confirms to outsiders that the US is crazy when it comes to guns.
I'm telling you we need a new Godwin's law involving the mention of SJW. No one on either side can argue SJW without sounding a fuming idiot.
I've already learned to scan posts for the phrase "SJW" and pretty much ignore them.
However, no one identifies themselves as a SJW (since it is by definition an insult), so in effect it's a one-sided screening of right wingers, reactionaries, anti-feminists or however you like to characterize them.
The people who state games as not a form of art have not ever made a single game asset in their lives.
As Dr Johnson said, you may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table.
It's not a matter of opinion. The quality of any work of art is subjective, but its status as art is an objective, self-evident, irrefutable fact.
And it's not just the "best" games, or the ones that meet some arbitrary threshold of "artiness". Yes, Braid and Bioshock are art, but so are Duke Nukem Forever and Custer's Revenge.
Nor is it just video games. It's all games. Everything from tag to checkers to D&D to Monopoly is art, too.
There is not, never has been, and cannot ever be a game that is not art.
Well, ok, but that's just like saying that if a two year old draws two circles and calls it a cat, or if I whistle the Close Encounters motif out of tune, then they're "art" too, because they are drawing and music.. Having such a wide definition reduces the term to meaninglessness.
Is me laying a rotten plank of wood over a puddle "civil engineering" as much as the Golden Gate Bridge?
"art" could mean just about anything in English, so yes video games can be art.
Other languages are different. For example in Korean, art means painting/drawing/sculpture. Music is not art, it's music. So for Koreans, video games are not art.
That is completely correct but entirely useless .
Clearly, you are a mathematician.
That blocks 20% of the star's light? Asteroid belts are mostly empty.
It could be a special type of asteroid belt. Organised by aliens from an anti-matter universe.
Among competing hypotheses, the one with Aliens should be selected.
This is just a special case of Awesome's Razor.
Always multiply complexities provided they give an awesome result.
Any civilization capable of building anything close to size of a dyson sphere would not be limited to what's available in a single solar system.
Pretty much by definition.
I don't think most people really grasp how mindboggingly big a Dyson sphere is. I sure as hell don't.
What, even compared to the trip down the road to the chemist?
Yes, but no one is suggesting that neutrinos are evidence of aliens engaged in vast construction works.
I live in Iceland. In our drivers' ed books there was a section that said something to the effect of, "For a while car manufacturers experimented with adding air conditioning systems into vehicles. This generally proved to not be worth the cost and posed maintenance issues, so few do this anymore."
Do they actually remove the air conditioning system for vehicles imported to iceland then? Most non-basic cars (even in the UK) have AC as standard, even though it's barely needed here.
Back then, if a heat wave came in and people died, tough.
Ah yes, the good old days!
New cars sales are based on ego, not trust.
If they can convince you that a new VW will get you laid, you will buy one.
See also Ferrari. Terrible cars cynically sold to customers regarded as full idiots by the manufacturer. But they will get you laid.
If you see someone in a Ferrari, you can reasonably assume they have more money than sense. This will attract a certain sort of person, but in that case why not just buy a Fiat Panda and spend the money on high class prostitutes instead?
I don't know what's so bad about that. Sounds like it would remove morons from the gene pool.
The problem with driving un-roadworthy cars is that when your brakes fail and the wheels drop off, you are likely to involve someonw else in the ensuing accident.
It's one of those areas where libertarianism doesn't really work. If my family are killed by a driver of a dangerous vehicle, I really don't care that I can sue him. Prevention is better than cure, even if it does involve impinging on his freedom.
tl;dr you have the right to kill yourself, not other people
Do you realize how many people are in an orchestra? They can't work for free.
Concert halls aren't cheap, either.
Couldn't they have free entry to the concerts and sell action figures and Tshirts to make money?
I thought the title read: "Klingon Conflict Resolved At Last"
Same here. Even after I shook my head and re-read it.
Fuck lattes, it's quadruple espresso time and a bag of chocolate doughnuts.
Be sure to obtain a good lawyer. Or better yet just don't drive drunk.
Perhaps more pertinently, don't drive drunk and advertise it over the fucking internet.
If the police knock on your door and ask to come in, you can say no. If they police knock on your door with a search warrant, you have to step aside
Yes, but say that is a warrant to SEIZE ALL YOUR GUNS AND AMMO? In that case, internet tough guys the world over will agree that you should yell the legendary Chuck Heston line "you can pry my weapon(s) from my cold dead hands" before the police oblige.
A portable shelter in the form of a 20ft or 40ft shipping container might be great because the infrastructure exists to move them around so easily. You could load a couple thousand on a ship to move them to the nearest port and then use a combination of trains and trucks to get them to where you need. Just need a few cranes at the site to take them off the truck and it's ready to go. Would have to be better than the trailers FEMA have before.
Shipping containers require a lot of conversion work, as otherwise they're freezing in the winter and sweltering in the summer. They're better than nothing, but so's a decent tent.
Although, of course, this would be so far removed from a covert kidnapping that the CIA might as well take out an advert in all the national newspapers announcing their intention in advance if they were really going to nab him.
He was questioned by the police while he was in Sweden. He was in Sweden for 40 days after the allegations were first made to to the police and was not stopped from leaving the country. They could have withheld his passport and ordered him not to leave the country while he was under investigation, but they did not do so.
It raises the question of why they let him go, then went through the whole alleged legal charade of "rape" claims, in order to get him back to Sweden from the UK so that teh US could renditionalize him to Guantanamo Bay.
Why not just hand him over to the CIA the first time?