A shooter can't train his weapon on 32 people at the same time. Duck and Cover isn't very helpful when the shooter is stalking around the room putting a bullet in everyone's head.
But it's not in the event a shooter is running around killing people that matters so much, but the rest of the time when someone has a loaded weapon in the school.
Teenagers think they are invincible in high school and would be more apt to go "vigilante" in this situation and try to track down a shooter. This exercise could help identify some of these lemmings.
Why are you calling them "lemmings?" Someone who goes all vigilante and tries to do something is not following the herd.
In many school shootings, fewer people would have died had students rushed the shooter(s) in an attempt to take them out. Especially in the VT massacre, where the shooter was allowed to methodically murder 32 people trapped in a building. It would only have taken a small group of people to disarm him. Yes, it would certainly be risky to be part of that group, but if you're trapped with no way to escape... you've nothing to lose. As we saw.
No. This is not a good exercise to do. At any school. Especially lead by the fucking idiots who did it.
Every situation is going to be different. This is not like a fire-drill. There is no way to prepare students for such an event. Teach them to do one thing to do, and you are just as likely to get students killed as you are to save them.
The people who are considering a PS3 are generally people who play certain types of games. They are going to get a PS3 or a 360. There's no way around that. So what do you propose?
Anyone who believes in fairness and honesty has a moral obligation not to purchase anything from Sony until many helpings of $1200 are released to many people out there.
Fuck you, clown. I have no such obligation, and I'd appreciate you not telling me what I'm obligated to do.
I could say the same thing about a thousand corporations, but it's not my place to demand that other people do what I feel they should.
For those in the slashdot community with any knowledge of who might be making these posts, it is incumbent upon you to bring forward that information.
No, no it's not.
For those in the slashdot community with some sniffing/hacking skills (mine are rusty), have at it deducing who the asswipes are, find them, and report them.
Now that IS definitely illegal. I don't know that the supposed death threats are really illegal; they appear to me to be jokes, admittedly offensive, inappropriate and mean, but jokes nonetheless.
It's not for me to say, or anyone else on/. to say either.
I completely disagree. One has to do nothing other than LOOK at what artists are producing full length albums that follow through, versus artists of the one track variety.
No, you're wrong. The NFL and / or other sports leagues have sued/threatened to sue people for exactly that. They either *do* believe it's within their rights, or they are trying to make other people believe so, and threatening/filing lawsuits on that premise.
Exactly. Hence... Ms. Seltzer is surely correct about them overreaching.
This reminds me of the Olympics(R) shutting down athletes' blogs on the grounds of copyright infringement a few years ago. I never did hear what happened with all that. Did they back down? Did anyone fight it?
*sigh* as if we needed more reason to go out and play sports instead of watching rich assholes on TV playing them.
Who cares? His choice of language doesn't make him wrong. I find it quite interesting that you chose to attack his use of language instead of his calling for the murder of patent trolls.
Slashdot: Where language is more important than ideas? WTF?
If there were an award for Most Ridiculous Person on Slashdot, you would win it. You want two consenting teenagers charged as pedophiles... That is just staggeringly idiotic, and smacks of you being a total fascist. FFS man, what is wrong with you?
Are you really that fucking daft? Please re-read what you posted, and try to figure out/why/ it was stupid. Until you figure it out, please refrain from interacting with the world.
I just had a conversation with several folks yesterday about water poisoning, I being the only "stupid American," and/most/ of them did not have any idea that one could die from drinking too much water. If you think it is common knowledge that drinking too much water is dangerous, or if you think there's a natural inclination to limit water intake,/you/ are the one who is ignorant and/or stupid.
These water holding contests are very common with radio stations, so it is no surprise that a reasonable person wouldn't question it.
That is all to say... you think you're somehow "smart" because you are aware of the danger of water poisoning. Well, dipshit, I guarantee you there's a billion seemingly innocuous things that can kill you that you are unaware of too. Frankly, I hope karma exists and catches up with you.
Wow, just wow. I certainly stopped watching that show at the right time. What a load of turds.
BTW, I stopped watching it the season where some asshat kept saying nukular and there were terrorists hacking into nukular power plant control systems over the webertubes. I'm pretty good at suspending disbelief, but 24 was just becoming grating.
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A shooter can't train his weapon on 32 people at the same time. Duck and Cover isn't very helpful when the shooter is stalking around the room putting a bullet in everyone's head.
But it's not in the event a shooter is running around killing people that matters so much, but the rest of the time when someone has a loaded weapon in the school.
Teenagers think they are invincible in high school and would be more apt to go "vigilante" in this situation and try to track down a shooter. This exercise could help identify some of these lemmings.
Why are you calling them "lemmings?" Someone who goes all vigilante and tries to do something is not following the herd.
In many school shootings, fewer people would have died had students rushed the shooter(s) in an attempt to take them out. Especially in the VT massacre, where the shooter was allowed to methodically murder 32 people trapped in a building. It would only have taken a small group of people to disarm him. Yes, it would certainly be risky to be part of that group, but if you're trapped with no way to escape... you've nothing to lose. As we saw.
No. This is not a good exercise to do. At any school. Especially lead by the fucking idiots who did it.
Every situation is going to be different. This is not like a fire-drill. There is no way to prepare students for such an event. Teach them to do one thing to do, and you are just as likely to get students killed as you are to save them.
Slashdot getting rid of that wonderful little icon would prove once and for all that Slashdot is no longer worth visiting.
And you really need to get your head out of your ass more.
Wow, you are a fucking idiot. The truth is, you do not know what happened. You are making an assumption, and a knee-jerk one at that.
I don't like Microsoft either.
The people who are considering a PS3 are generally people who play certain types of games. They are going to get a PS3 or a 360. There's no way around that. So what do you propose?
Anyone who believes in fairness and honesty has a moral obligation not to purchase anything from Sony until many helpings of $1200 are released to many people out there.
Fuck you, clown. I have no such obligation, and I'd appreciate you not telling me what I'm obligated to do.
I could say the same thing about a thousand corporations, but it's not my place to demand that other people do what I feel they should.
For those in the slashdot community with any knowledge of who might be making these posts, it is incumbent upon you to bring forward that information.
/. to say either.
No, no it's not.
For those in the slashdot community with some sniffing/hacking skills (mine are rusty), have at it deducing who the asswipes are, find them, and report them.
Now that IS definitely illegal. I don't know that the supposed death threats are really illegal; they appear to me to be jokes, admittedly offensive, inappropriate and mean, but jokes nonetheless.
It's not for me to say, or anyone else on
I completely disagree. One has to do nothing other than LOOK at what artists are producing full length albums that follow through, versus artists of the one track variety.
They are not peers.
No, you're wrong. The NFL and / or other sports leagues have sued/threatened to sue people for exactly that. They either *do* believe it's within their rights, or they are trying to make other people believe so, and threatening/filing lawsuits on that premise.
How do you manage to breathe?
So you're saying they gave the judges too much credit? Yeah, I agree :D
Exactly. Hence... Ms. Seltzer is surely correct about them overreaching.
This reminds me of the Olympics(R) shutting down athletes' blogs on the grounds of copyright infringement a few years ago. I never did hear what happened with all that. Did they back down? Did anyone fight it?
*sigh* as if we needed more reason to go out and play sports instead of watching rich assholes on TV playing them.
You seem to have missed the point.
If that's a copy... of XBL and Mii respectively, then my house is a copy of a 10x10 toolshed.
Alright, that's it. Last straw. Crossed the line(as if they hadn't already). Who the fuck do we gotta kill to stop the insanity?
You've got to be fucking kidding.
Who cares? His choice of language doesn't make him wrong. I find it quite interesting that you chose to attack his use of language instead of his calling for the murder of patent trolls.
Slashdot: Where language is more important than ideas? WTF?
If there were an award for Most Ridiculous Person on Slashdot, you would win it. You want two consenting teenagers charged as pedophiles... That is just staggeringly idiotic, and smacks of you being a total fascist. FFS man, what is wrong with you?
Are you really that fucking daft? Please re-read what you posted, and try to figure out /why/ it was stupid. Until you figure it out, please refrain from interacting with the world.
I just had a conversation with several folks yesterday about water poisoning, I being the only "stupid American," and /most/ of them did not have any idea that one could die from drinking too much water. If you think it is common knowledge that drinking too much water is dangerous, or if you think there's a natural inclination to limit water intake, /you/ are the one who is ignorant and/or stupid.
These water holding contests are very common with radio stations, so it is no surprise that a reasonable person wouldn't question it.
That is all to say... you think you're somehow "smart" because you are aware of the danger of water poisoning. Well, dipshit, I guarantee you there's a billion seemingly innocuous things that can kill you that you are unaware of too. Frankly, I hope karma exists and catches up with you.
Wow, just wow. I certainly stopped watching that show at the right time. What a load of turds.
BTW, I stopped watching it the season where some asshat kept saying nukular and there were terrorists hacking into nukular power plant control systems over the webertubes. I'm pretty good at suspending disbelief, but 24 was just becoming grating.
But couldnt they just crank the graphics and textures down to nil? The wii isn't that crippled graphically.
Uhhh, compared to what the U3 engine is designed for... uh... yes, yes it most certainly is.
You must not be able to read, dipshit, he said his son wants to play "his favorite game du jour."
Every car, every box, and every dark skinned human could be a bomb too. Better we all just stay inside forever.
Stop jumping at shadows, you goddamn coward.