Can an 80 year old woman defend herself against an attack from a 25 year old, 200lb man? Very unlikely. But give the same woman a firearm and a basic level of proficiency, and she is more than a match for such an attacker.
If there is anything providing a false sense of security, it is useless gun control laws that disarm the law-abiding, but do nothing to stop actual crime.
Yes, damn those gun control laws for trying to keep assault weapons off the street! When's the last time an 80 year old lady defended herself from a 25 year old 200lb man with a modified AK-47?
Or maybe you're referring to gun control laws that require a nice long waiting period before you can get a gun? In my opinion you not being able to wait 3 days before buying a gun is a damn good reason for not selling you one.
No one's trying to take your guns away, we're just trying to give guns to RESPONSIBLE owners. And no, those owners have no need for anything that can fire 40 rounds per second.
The days when fist fights were breaking out on the floor of Congress?
I would actually like to see this again. There was a time in this country's past when people CARED about the issues.
Now, politics is about getting re-elected and staying in office as long as possible, the bills being debated, etc. are all secondary to that and it's a damn shame.
No, you're really not. If the freakin' TVs are such a huge problem for you then don't go to the airport: don't fly! No one is forcing you to go to an airport.
If you say that your employer is, then get a new job! If your friends do, get new friends! Yes, this is all way too extreme over a few TVs but if they bother you THAT MUCH then maybe drastic life changes are needed. Or maybe just see a therapist.
When 128MB is low-end, there's a problem somewhere.
I don't get this... did you expect specs to stop improving and hold steady all of the sudden? A few years from now 1028MB (1 GB) video memory will be low-end, and it there won't be a problem there either.
I was going to mod the hell out of this story but instead I'll post.
There are some things that are more important than others not because of their immedieate consequences, but because of the CONCEPTS behind them. I agree that for the welfare of the average American, marriage reform won't make much of difference any time soon.
The problem is that this is a slippery slope that we are in the process of sliding down and if we don't grab a branch soon we're gonna hit the bottom fast. If the government can tell me what marriage is about then it's not a huge leap to assume that it can tell me what a "friendship" is. After all, friendship could be a legally viable term: for instance, "friends" are the only people, along with "immediete family" that can come over to watch a movie before I'm illegally displaying it in my house.
Soon I can't be friends with someone officially unless I've known them for 3 months (and see them at least an average of once every 2 weeks with no more than a 4 week break). Maybe friends are people that agree with you... so you, legally speaking, can't have any outside of your political party.
Yeah, it seems pretty silly to me too, but then again so does the government telling me what marriage is.
Pretty much the same thing that has stopped (the overwhelming majority of) cops from parking their cars and staring through your window.
Cameras are a tool that allow one person to do more: they are efficient. In the end there are still people doing the watching, just like we have now, only hopyfully less people (= cheaper).
it's rarely a question of whether they have the ability to, but more about the manpower. Even if they can listen to your messages, but unless you are attracting attention from them, they probably aren't. It's the same idea as with MS reading my hotmail account's email: sure, they COULD, but out of their tens (hundreds?) of thousands of accounts, why yours?
Does the thing have GPS to know where I'm going and figure out what the speed limit there is, or do i get insurance discounts because I only ever drive on 25 mph roads... at 45 mph?
There was just an
article on how it was infected windows PCs.... and I remember everyone assuming that it was PCs here, so are we talking about Windows in China, now? How do you plan on education in that case?
A friend of mine and I tried to build a handheld one of these that just discharged a LOT of electricity very quickly, creating interference over a many frequencies, but it never worked too well. It did prove to be a good soldering gun, however
I think that we need to accept that although selling songs online will make money, it won't ever be what it was at the high-point of CD sales. Instead, artist revenue should be primarily driven from selling their music to radio stations to play and from concert ticket sales.
Maybe this means that musicians no longer get to make millions of dollars a year, but I'm certain that just concert sales can still put major bands in the very-comfortable-to-lavish lifestyle range.
POS is the register system. When I worked at Best Buy, all of the registers nationwide are just AMD K6 machines (with a very bizarre 11 megs for RAM) running a VERY early windows NT and bad software. Hell, the way most things (like credit card apps) get processed was through a telnet connection to the mainframe.
I read this kind of hoping that it was all a joke or someone being a little excited in their summing up of a news story, but now, it's true.
I can't believe something like this could come to existance so soon after the whole McCarthy communism scandal. People will be able to submit lists of people and find out if any of them are Filthy Reds...er, I mean, terrorists. This is just the newest and latest in state-supported prejudice.
Woody Allen's The Front just become recommended viewing for the entire nation.
Simcity came out on PS2 a while back and it was.... hold on while I figure out the best, most appropriate word to sum it up.... it was shit.
A game like that needs a mouse.
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If there is anything providing a false sense of security, it is useless gun control laws that disarm the law-abiding, but do nothing to stop actual crime.
Yes, damn those gun control laws for trying to keep assault weapons off the street! When's the last time an 80 year old lady defended herself from a 25 year old 200lb man with a modified AK-47?
Or maybe you're referring to gun control laws that require a nice long waiting period before you can get a gun? In my opinion you not being able to wait 3 days before buying a gun is a damn good reason for not selling you one.
No one's trying to take your guns away, we're just trying to give guns to RESPONSIBLE owners. And no, those owners have no need for anything that can fire 40 rounds per second.
Maybe if more people read this we'll have a /. community that actually stops to think before responding! Especially the Global Warming stuff, amazing!
I would actually like to see this again. There was a time in this country's past when people CARED about the issues.
Now, politics is about getting re-elected and staying in office as long as possible, the bills being debated, etc. are all secondary to that and it's a damn shame.
No, you're really not. If the freakin' TVs are such a huge problem for you then don't go to the airport: don't fly! No one is forcing you to go to an airport.
If you say that your employer is, then get a new job! If your friends do, get new friends! Yes, this is all way too extreme over a few TVs but if they bother you THAT MUCH then maybe drastic life changes are needed. Or maybe just see a therapist.
Ahh, slashdot, the only "News for Nerds" forum you can post to while calling other people "internet tough guys."
I don't get this... did you expect specs to stop improving and hold steady all of the sudden? A few years from now 1028MB (1 GB) video memory will be low-end, and it there won't be a problem there either.
There are some things that are more important than others not because of their immedieate consequences, but because of the CONCEPTS behind them. I agree that for the welfare of the average American, marriage reform won't make much of difference any time soon.
The problem is that this is a slippery slope that we are in the process of sliding down and if we don't grab a branch soon we're gonna hit the bottom fast. If the government can tell me what marriage is about then it's not a huge leap to assume that it can tell me what a "friendship" is. After all, friendship could be a legally viable term: for instance, "friends" are the only people, along with "immediete family" that can come over to watch a movie before I'm illegally displaying it in my house.
Soon I can't be friends with someone officially unless I've known them for 3 months (and see them at least an average of once every 2 weeks with no more than a 4 week break). Maybe friends are people that agree with you... so you, legally speaking, can't have any outside of your political party.
Yeah, it seems pretty silly to me too, but then again so does the government telling me what marriage is.
And pitchforkes, torches, and shotguns held high, screaming, "Kill the beast!"
Cameras are a tool that allow one person to do more: they are efficient. In the end there are still people doing the watching, just like we have now, only hopyfully less people (= cheaper).
that the wastes of orgasms presently holding the highest offices in our country You must REALLY like the current administration....
Capitalism at its finest, or semi-evil abuse of having money?
it's rarely a question of whether they have the ability to, but more about the manpower. Even if they can listen to your messages, but unless you are attracting attention from them, they probably aren't. It's the same idea as with MS reading my hotmail account's email: sure, they COULD, but out of their tens (hundreds?) of thousands of accounts, why yours?
Now we know who the secret customer of the petabox really was!
We've gotten to the point where you need to post AC if you want to say something nice about Microsoft.
ahhh, Slashdot, the place where "Oh, bullshit" is an insightful comment.
Does the thing have GPS to know where I'm going and figure out what the speed limit there is, or do i get insurance discounts because I only ever drive on 25 mph roads... at 45 mph?
In other news, Starbucks will sell it's profitable business and concetrate on taking over the money-losing Kmart chain.
There was just an article on how it was infected windows PCs.... and I remember everyone assuming that it was PCs here, so are we talking about Windows in China, now? How do you plan on education in that case?
A friend of mine and I tried to build a handheld one of these that just discharged a LOT of electricity very quickly, creating interference over a many frequencies, but it never worked too well. It did prove to be a good soldering gun, however
THIS was modded funny? Oh, right, there's no "Too Geeky even for Slashdot" mod.
I think that we need to accept that although selling songs online will make money, it won't ever be what it was at the high-point of CD sales. Instead, artist revenue should be primarily driven from selling their music to radio stations to play and from concert ticket sales.
Maybe this means that musicians no longer get to make millions of dollars a year, but I'm certain that just concert sales can still put major bands in the very-comfortable-to-lavish lifestyle range.
POS is the register system. When I worked at Best Buy, all of the registers nationwide are just AMD K6 machines (with a very bizarre 11 megs for RAM) running a VERY early windows NT and bad software. Hell, the way most things (like credit card apps) get processed was through a telnet connection to the mainframe.
I can't believe something like this could come to existance so soon after the whole McCarthy communism scandal. People will be able to submit lists of people and find out if any of them are Filthy Reds
Woody Allen's The Front just become recommended viewing for the entire nation.
Simcity came out on PS2 a while back and it was.... hold on while I figure out the best, most appropriate word to sum it up.... it was shit.
A game like that needs a mouse.