Heck this time around I walked into the local Gamestop 3 days after it was released and bought one. It was the last one they had, but still, it was on the shelf a few days later.
Overall, I was happy. I want one for myself not to sell, but I didn't want one enough to pay more than normal MSRP.
In what universe is your hobbyist collection of firearms going to go toe to toe with the US military? That is a fantasy bordering on the absurd and is not a valid reason to jeopardize public safety. Not like it matters at this point.
Wait - I thought all these AR15's were "military grade weapons of war"? It's funny how anti gunners go from civilian guns being fully semi-automatic assault weapons complete with the shoulder things that go up when it suits them, to ineffective pea-shooters incapable of taking out a fly when that framing suits their argument.
The reality is that A) the weapons that most civilians have really aren't that bad, and B) most significant civil wars involve a decent chunk of the military also fracturing and choosing various sides as well. This is even more likely when you consider that the military as a whole tends to lean very right-wing. If anything becomes truly worth rebelling over the political group that currently has the guns in this country is likely to take the majority of the military with it.
It's trite but true, but remember the old saying that you tell kids: "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt.".
Shouting is not violence. It's not an attack and she was not in danger - eminent or otherwise. Granted - he was being an asshole, but you cannot physically attack someone no matter how mean you think their words are.
You can stand there all night screaming at someone. They will never, ever die from it.
You CAN however physically beat someone to death. Once you take that step to make an argument physical that person is within their right to defend themselves.
Well, no. The topic that was being discuss here as a tangent was the recent shooting in Florida where someone was pushed to the ground and responded with deadly force. THAT shooting was justified under "Stand your ground" law. "Castle doctrine" applies within the home not when out and about.
And you've never shoved someone before who was shouting in a family member's face?
Not once, though I can't recall anyone ever shouting in a family members face. I'm a calm, collected person, and I tend to associate with other calm people.
To me it's akin to driving a motorcycle at 90 mph down the highway. Of course someone who does that doesn't DESERVE to die - but if they do it's just a matter of "Well, sometimes that happens. Don't do reckless things like that.".
It wasn't murder, though it was the result of stupid actions on both sides.
1. Party A should not have parked in the handicapped spot. 2. Party B should not have said anything about it. 3. Party A should not have escalated the situation to violence by coming out and shoving the man to the ground and then continuing towards him.
Although both parties made mistakes, the reality is that when the guy came out of the store and shoved him to the ground that was a physical attack. Whether he poked his nose where it didn't belong or not, he's not legally obligated to be beat (potentially to death) over it.
Basically everyone try to play nice, but above all keep your hands to yourself. If you take a confrontation from verbal to physical it can have consequences.
Oh, and by the way, someone should tell Californians that they "can't really own a gun anymore", because we are the state with the second-most gun owners in the entire country.
Well, in all fairness you're one out of fifty states but contain over 12% of the country's population. With that chunk of the population size even with a lower RATE of firearms ownership you still can end up with a pretty high total number.
As to the situation - in hindsight, it's better that the teen is not dead. As dumb as his trespass was he didn't deserve to die for it. That being said, I certainly wouldn't have faulted the home owners if he HAD been shot. If you enter a residence the people there have no idea why you're there (and I'm pretty sure "asking for a WIFI password" is pretty far down on their list of guesses). They can respond as needed to protect themselves.
You're obviously not familiar with castle doctrine. In a castle doctrine state (which surprisingly, California is), the mere presence of an intruder in your residence is considered a threat to your life, and you can immediately respond with deadly force. It doesn't matter if they're unarmed or not.
This comes with a couple limitations:
1. You generally cannot "bait" someone into the property and then shoot them. IE, you can't leave your front door open with a stack if cash sitting in the living room while you wait in the corner with a gun.
2. Though they are immediately considered a threat, if they obviously become a threat no longer, then you cannot then use deadly force. IE, you can't tie someone up and then shoot them, or as in one case that I'm aware of, a home owner shot a teen intruder in his home, she was still alive and he walked up and shot her point blank in the head to "finish her off". The initial shot would have likely been fine - the "finishing" shot got him convicted.
Other than that though, if you're in a castle doctrine state, if you - as a genuine surprise - find any intruder in your home or dwelling you're clear to shoot immediately.
These seem like minor changes but they are the most important ones. First thing I install on any computer I use regularly is win32pad which is old itself but is what Notepad should have been.
Unix land ending support and displaying the line #'s/cursor position are must haves in a text editor.
I can't even remember the company but I recently spoke with a rep that was somewhat joking/somewhat complaining that they'd had several (3?) different owners in the last few years. They had just been bought by CA.
Computers really became "good enough" a good while back. Heck even my 2011 vintage Mac Mini with 8GB of RAM is still chugging along just fine.
Even the current ones are available with flash storage as an option and up to 16GB of RAM.
Software will always need bug fixes, but hardware just doesn't need to be constantly updated. It's settling more into the automotive model where companies will likely make mostly the same model of product for 6-7 years (sometimes 10-15 years a la the Nissan Frontier) before it gets a major refresh.
You're not helping your cause there. Indeed, the Native Americans didn't (or rather, couldn't) prevent wholesale immigration into their lands, and as a result they were replaced.
If anything their plight should be viewed as a cautionary tale AGAINST illegal immigration.
I honestly don't see this as a bad thing. Much like a lot of cops started complaining in the age of ubiquitous cell phone videos - this is just technology keeping people honest and identifying things servers had previously been getting away with.
There may be a slightly shaky start, but in general after a reasonable baseline is established the better waiters will indeed be differentiated from the no-so-good ones via feedback.
Yeah there's a motel across the street from work that is largely like that. For people with really bad credit or non-steady income it's essentially an option to rent housing on a weekly schedule with no lease agreement.
Or have better national level unemployment. A lot of state programs allow you to not qualify if you are terminated "for cause" and don't last long enough. I can understand not being eligible if you quit, but if you make a mistake (even a big one) and lose your job that's still unintentional.
I'd say universal eligibility outside of outright quitting and at least 12 months of time on the program to find a new job. I don't agree with the idea of a free handout, but realistically if someone becomes homeless between jobs that's a situation that's nearly impossible to climb back out of.
Also for people already homeless I don't support free money but a basic place to receive mail, take a shower, sleep at night, and receive spartan meals would do a lot. Make the situation bleak enough that they don't want to stay there, but provide enough stability to provide them an opportunity to get back on their feet.
Should they just adopt new and inferior solutions and hope for the best?
To me this is the "science" part of Computer Science. Do research into new algorithms and methods of video encoding, but it would be stupid to start adopting any of that into actual products or live usage until and unless it tops the more traditional methods in performance.
While I'm not a fan of removing the windows (I'm a private pilot - half the fun of flying is seeing the world from above), I highly doubt that the engineers designing a windowless plane wouldn't have looked at this issue and decided it wasn't really an issue or designed around it.
You basically just regurgitated the premise of "The Last Jedi" - and newsflash: people hated that movie.
Luke only became "disillusioned with the Jedi" and "made the same mistakes" because that was what Riann Johnson put into the story, and that idea sucked.
I wanted to see Luke rebuilding the Jedi Order. Not failing to do so, but achieving that and it being a worthwhile goal. It's OK to have a hopeful movie and not try to make everything emo and shades of grey. Is the world like that? No, of course not, but that's why I'm watching a fantasy movie where people fight with glowing laser swords.
I wonder if it's a case of just being used to the old way and not liking change.
Though I've been on the net forever, I'm a relatively new user to Reddit, only having started using it within the last 2 years (and only heavily within the last few months). As such I had no particular affinity towards the old UI. I tried the new Reddit interface recently and found it pretty much superior to the original in all ways.
On the flip side I've never seen a Slashdot UI interface that I didn't think was a downgrade from the previous iteration.
I don't see how this is really news. For the most part streamers rely on Twitch subscribers and Patreon donations. People support who they want to. You can't really force people to support creators they don't like so any disparity in income levels is simply market driven.
And though I watch streamers of both genders, I actually watch more female streamers (and my Patreon support is about 70%/30% split between females and males, respectively). Still, who people choose to support is their own decision.
You're conflating "Stand Your Ground" with "Castle Doctrine".
Stand Your Ground applies anywhere - not just your home. In states without Stand Your Ground even if you feel your life is in danger, you have whats referred to as a "Duty to retreat". IE, run away if you can. Stand Your Ground states that you have no duty to retreat and if your life is in danger then you can respond with deadly force.
Castle Doctrine applies in your home, and it not only means that you have no duty to retreat, but also that the mere presence of an intruder in your home is by default considered a threat to your life, and so you can use deadly force immediately. IE, if you come downstairs and there's a stranger standing in your living room you're clear to shoot - even if they have said or done nothing else. Their mere presence is considered a threat.
Castle Doctrine does have it's limits though. It's not applicable cases where home owners have "baited" criminals into the home, or where the criminal has already surrendered then the threat is considered ended (ie, you can't tie up an intruder and then shoot them, nor can you leave your door open with a stack of cash visible while you wait in the corner with a gun).
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I'd gladly pay $60 for that game, but I won't pay $360 for the game + a console that I'll only ever use for one game.
Wii U. Used they're about $115 for the base system from Gamestop - I grabbed mine for $85 from a pawn shop.
The Switch isn't some huge graphical leap over the Wii U and IMHO a used console plus the price of the game is well worth it for Breath of the Wild.
Heck this time around I walked into the local Gamestop 3 days after it was released and bought one. It was the last one they had, but still, it was on the shelf a few days later.
Overall, I was happy. I want one for myself not to sell, but I didn't want one enough to pay more than normal MSRP.
In what universe is your hobbyist collection of firearms going to go toe to toe with the US military? That is a fantasy bordering on the absurd and is not a valid reason to jeopardize public safety. Not like it matters at this point.
Wait - I thought all these AR15's were "military grade weapons of war"? It's funny how anti gunners go from civilian guns being fully semi-automatic assault weapons complete with the shoulder things that go up when it suits them, to ineffective pea-shooters incapable of taking out a fly when that framing suits their argument.
The reality is that A) the weapons that most civilians have really aren't that bad, and B) most significant civil wars involve a decent chunk of the military also fracturing and choosing various sides as well. This is even more likely when you consider that the military as a whole tends to lean very right-wing. If anything becomes truly worth rebelling over the political group that currently has the guns in this country is likely to take the majority of the military with it.
It's trite but true, but remember the old saying that you tell kids: "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt.".
Shouting is not violence. It's not an attack and she was not in danger - eminent or otherwise. Granted - he was being an asshole, but you cannot physically attack someone no matter how mean you think their words are.
You can stand there all night screaming at someone. They will never, ever die from it.
You CAN however physically beat someone to death. Once you take that step to make an argument physical that person is within their right to defend themselves.
Well, no. The topic that was being discuss here as a tangent was the recent shooting in Florida where someone was pushed to the ground and responded with deadly force. THAT shooting was justified under "Stand your ground" law. "Castle doctrine" applies within the home not when out and about.
And you've never shoved someone before who was shouting in a family member's face?
Not once, though I can't recall anyone ever shouting in a family members face. I'm a calm, collected person, and I tend to associate with other calm people.
To me it's akin to driving a motorcycle at 90 mph down the highway. Of course someone who does that doesn't DESERVE to die - but if they do it's just a matter of "Well, sometimes that happens. Don't do reckless things like that.".
It wasn't murder, though it was the result of stupid actions on both sides.
1. Party A should not have parked in the handicapped spot.
2. Party B should not have said anything about it.
3. Party A should not have escalated the situation to violence by coming out and shoving the man to the ground and then continuing towards him.
Although both parties made mistakes, the reality is that when the guy came out of the store and shoved him to the ground that was a physical attack. Whether he poked his nose where it didn't belong or not, he's not legally obligated to be beat (potentially to death) over it.
Basically everyone try to play nice, but above all keep your hands to yourself. If you take a confrontation from verbal to physical it can have consequences.
Oh, and by the way, someone should tell Californians that they "can't really own a gun anymore", because we are the state with the second-most gun owners in the entire country.
Well, in all fairness you're one out of fifty states but contain over 12% of the country's population. With that chunk of the population size even with a lower RATE of firearms ownership you still can end up with a pretty high total number.
As to the situation - in hindsight, it's better that the teen is not dead. As dumb as his trespass was he didn't deserve to die for it. That being said, I certainly wouldn't have faulted the home owners if he HAD been shot. If you enter a residence the people there have no idea why you're there (and I'm pretty sure "asking for a WIFI password" is pretty far down on their list of guesses). They can respond as needed to protect themselves.
You're obviously not familiar with castle doctrine. In a castle doctrine state (which surprisingly, California is), the mere presence of an intruder in your residence is considered a threat to your life, and you can immediately respond with deadly force. It doesn't matter if they're unarmed or not.
This comes with a couple limitations:
1. You generally cannot "bait" someone into the property and then shoot them. IE, you can't leave your front door open with a stack if cash sitting in the living room while you wait in the corner with a gun.
2. Though they are immediately considered a threat, if they obviously become a threat no longer, then you cannot then use deadly force. IE, you can't tie someone up and then shoot them, or as in one case that I'm aware of, a home owner shot a teen intruder in his home, she was still alive and he walked up and shot her point blank in the head to "finish her off". The initial shot would have likely been fine - the "finishing" shot got him convicted.
Other than that though, if you're in a castle doctrine state, if you - as a genuine surprise - find any intruder in your home or dwelling you're clear to shoot immediately.
You don't have to buy a $900 phone for more storage. The $60 prepaid phones (ie, Samsung Luna J3) are coming with 16 GB these days.
If your phone has 8GB of storage it's either several years old already or it cost $20.
As opposed to Apple where you don't even have the option of installing an SD card?
8GB is nothing. Buy a phone with more internal memory and use your SD card for pictures and other media storage.
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These seem like minor changes but they are the most important ones. First thing I install on any computer I use regularly is win32pad which is old itself but is what Notepad should have been.
Unix land ending support and displaying the line #'s/cursor position are must haves in a text editor.
I can't even remember the company but I recently spoke with a rep that was somewhat joking/somewhat complaining that they'd had several (3?) different owners in the last few years. They had just been bought by CA.
Honestly - what is is there to do?
Computers really became "good enough" a good while back. Heck even my 2011 vintage Mac Mini with 8GB of RAM is still chugging along just fine.
Even the current ones are available with flash storage as an option and up to 16GB of RAM.
Software will always need bug fixes, but hardware just doesn't need to be constantly updated. It's settling more into the automotive model where companies will likely make mostly the same model of product for 6-7 years (sometimes 10-15 years a la the Nissan Frontier) before it gets a major refresh.
You're not helping your cause there. Indeed, the Native Americans didn't (or rather, couldn't) prevent wholesale immigration into their lands, and as a result they were replaced.
If anything their plight should be viewed as a cautionary tale AGAINST illegal immigration.
I honestly don't see this as a bad thing. Much like a lot of cops started complaining in the age of ubiquitous cell phone videos - this is just technology keeping people honest and identifying things servers had previously been getting away with.
There may be a slightly shaky start, but in general after a reasonable baseline is established the better waiters will indeed be differentiated from the no-so-good ones via feedback.
Yeah there's a motel across the street from work that is largely like that. For people with really bad credit or non-steady income it's essentially an option to rent housing on a weekly schedule with no lease agreement.
Or have better national level unemployment. A lot of state programs allow you to not qualify if you are terminated "for cause" and don't last long enough. I can understand not being eligible if you quit, but if you make a mistake (even a big one) and lose your job that's still unintentional.
I'd say universal eligibility outside of outright quitting and at least 12 months of time on the program to find a new job. I don't agree with the idea of a free handout, but realistically if someone becomes homeless between jobs that's a situation that's nearly impossible to climb back out of.
Also for people already homeless I don't support free money but a basic place to receive mail, take a shower, sleep at night, and receive spartan meals would do a lot. Make the situation bleak enough that they don't want to stay there, but provide enough stability to provide them an opportunity to get back on their feet.
Should they just adopt new and inferior solutions and hope for the best?
To me this is the "science" part of Computer Science. Do research into new algorithms and methods of video encoding, but it would be stupid to start adopting any of that into actual products or live usage until and unless it tops the more traditional methods in performance.
While I'm not a fan of removing the windows (I'm a private pilot - half the fun of flying is seeing the world from above), I highly doubt that the engineers designing a windowless plane wouldn't have looked at this issue and decided it wasn't really an issue or designed around it.
You basically just regurgitated the premise of "The Last Jedi" - and newsflash: people hated that movie.
Luke only became "disillusioned with the Jedi" and "made the same mistakes" because that was what Riann Johnson put into the story, and that idea sucked.
I wanted to see Luke rebuilding the Jedi Order. Not failing to do so, but achieving that and it being a worthwhile goal. It's OK to have a hopeful movie and not try to make everything emo and shades of grey. Is the world like that? No, of course not, but that's why I'm watching a fantasy movie where people fight with glowing laser swords.
I wonder if it's a case of just being used to the old way and not liking change.
Though I've been on the net forever, I'm a relatively new user to Reddit, only having started using it within the last 2 years (and only heavily within the last few months). As such I had no particular affinity towards the old UI. I tried the new Reddit interface recently and found it pretty much superior to the original in all ways.
On the flip side I've never seen a Slashdot UI interface that I didn't think was a downgrade from the previous iteration.
I don't see how this is really news. For the most part streamers rely on Twitch subscribers and Patreon donations. People support who they want to. You can't really force people to support creators they don't like so any disparity in income levels is simply market driven.
And though I watch streamers of both genders, I actually watch more female streamers (and my Patreon support is about 70%/30% split between females and males, respectively). Still, who people choose to support is their own decision.
You're conflating "Stand Your Ground" with "Castle Doctrine".
Stand Your Ground applies anywhere - not just your home. In states without Stand Your Ground even if you feel your life is in danger, you have whats referred to as a "Duty to retreat". IE, run away if you can. Stand Your Ground states that you have no duty to retreat and if your life is in danger then you can respond with deadly force.
Castle Doctrine applies in your home, and it not only means that you have no duty to retreat, but also that the mere presence of an intruder in your home is by default considered a threat to your life, and so you can use deadly force immediately. IE, if you come downstairs and there's a stranger standing in your living room you're clear to shoot - even if they have said or done nothing else. Their mere presence is considered a threat.
Castle Doctrine does have it's limits though. It's not applicable cases where home owners have "baited" criminals into the home, or where the criminal has already surrendered then the threat is considered ended (ie, you can't tie up an intruder and then shoot them, nor can you leave your door open with a stack of cash visible while you wait in the corner with a gun).