Actually you'll find that if you omit suicides from the calculation people hardly ever shoot themselves or loved ones. All these studies count suicide but don't come right out and say it because the people behind them have an agenda - to prove to us that guns are bad through omission.
That you quoted a report that includes the suicidal and didn't mention it, makes me wonder if the wool hasn't been pulled over your own eyes. Then again, the first linked article explicitly quotes Daniel Webster and if you had any grounding in reality and knowledge of his insidious agenda you'd probably not have made that error.
Almost without exception, when a state recognizes the right of its citizenry to carry concealed, crime goes down. Usually, it goes WAY down. However take away the guns, and more people get shot (Australia is a great example of this) or stabbed and the journalists out there don't ever seem to make this correlation.
It's not useless. What passes for journalism nowadays is rehashing wire feeds and making reports that are editorial in nature. Perception shaping is where the profession is, and always was. It's just that they have been dropping the facade with increasing rapidity, or the quality of graduates is declining.
Journalism is about lickspittle flacks following Obama around. It's about telling us what and how to think. It's a bunch of Judith Millers and Jeff Gannons all scrambling over each other to lick the pus infested butthole of the people in power, in hopes of getting another paycheck. And as they are realizing their model is irrelevant, and the people they wanted to sell dead trees to aren't interested in their rehashed, editorial thought shaping, they are begging to be put on the dole so society won't crumble when they are gone! That's fucking audacity.
I am agnostic, and the only news source I even slightly trust these days is the CSM. They seem to realize that reportage is important, and we can make the editorials up in our mind. Other news I get over shortwave radio and the internet, but I don't really trust it. However I would trust Pravda over the New York Times any day.
Yes, there are some journalists who try their damnedest to report what they see, and attempt to do so with integrity. But they are mostly working for bullshit artists of the first rate.
Microsoft is fine with Open Source. Hell, they are actively supporting it. After all, Open Source is mainly a way to get geeks to do work for you for free.
However, Microsoft is an avowed enemy of Free Software. Free Software is not the same thing as Open Source. This is something that most people don't realize, as your comment indicates.
Ah yes, take the moral high road and pirate software. That'll help everybody out.
I can't imagine how you think it's better to pirate software than it is to use something like OpenOffice, which is both free and largely compatible with Word and the other MS office applications. I don't really have a problem with it, but you an quit pretending that you are asserting a morally superior position by pirating half-assed software.
I am with you on the Happy Birthday song, though, and rather than singing it at all, I would suggest you to just stop using it at all.
PS - Mickey Mouse will probably be copyrighted in 1000 years.
Even the fossil record disproves the theory that an asteroid strike killed the dinosaurs. It took a few million years for them to die off after that event.
The OX911 chipset started having a LOT of issues with the last 10.4 update. It was all over the forums at that time, but Apple sanitizes their forum regularly, like Lenin did his photographs.
The pesticides are not sprayed on, they are grown by the plant. But after you harvest your corn, the pesticides made in that corn plant are still there.
And they were now in your body, too, as you can't simply wash them off. They are IN the plant.
How do you suppose GM "foods" are chasing away insects? Magic?
And 11 years after the Volt goes into production, GM will drop ALL PARTS.
I am dealing with my shitty GM car right now, and the fact that GM decided to stop making a lot of very specialized computer parts that are not obtainable elsewhere.
GM views its factory repair arms as revenue streams. Toyota views its factory repair arms as customer retention devices.
This brain implant will only be used to monitor copyright infringement, I swear. Even though it has a small explosive charge inside, we wouldn't ever activate it inside your skull. Trust us!
I just don't like the fact that this has become a trend. I have a Powerbook G4 that I plan to use for many, many years to come, and I don't wish to have to reinstall 10.5.3 (or whatever my media is) and do the upgrade dance again.
If Steve Jobs screws me again like this I will consider writing him another nasty letter.
This is a red herring that is often repeated. If the only problem with Windows was drivers, you may have an argument. But most Windows problems are not driver or hardware related - they stem from internal design problems inherent in the various Windows architectures.
Quit pretending that the only reason that Windows is unstable is drivers. That is not true and I doubt you'd convince a large amount of people that it is.
Sorry, I forgot to mention tar. It is useful for just what you mention. Of course, the Unix tool mentality precludes integrating a do-it-all product if you can instead achieve the asme effect with several smaller and perhaps more general purpose tools. Somebody will always be able to come along and say something like "Well MS Word does everything TeX does." There are of course several good open source imaging tools similar to Ghost.
Part of the idea with Unix is that you can do damn near anything you need to do with a system, using nothing but the built in utilities and some command line switches and possibly pipes. A basic live CD of your choice of the several Unix and Unix-like OSs out there can do anything Ghost can do, and is far more flexible if problems arise.
And I see no need to bring up Time Machine, but I will anyway. Microsoft is simply playing catch-up as usual. This is quite their usual place in the universe. What is sad is that most of these features are simple imitations of features that made their appearances on other operating systems years before. The Windows 7 feature checklist, predictably as well, has shrunk and most of the really interesting or innovative features have been cut.
I'm sure they'll do fine, as they have the PC makers in a headlock and most PC buyers don't know what an operating system really is anyway. This is the irony of the situation - it doesn't matter if Windows 7 is terrible, or if it is great.
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We do know that the thrice-daily Windows Updates will consume a startling amount of power, though.
The Nomad had, at most, 4mb cartridges. Pretty good for a Sega!
Actually you'll find that if you omit suicides from the calculation people hardly ever shoot themselves or loved ones. All these studies count suicide but don't come right out and say it because the people behind them have an agenda - to prove to us that guns are bad through omission.
That you quoted a report that includes the suicidal and didn't mention it, makes me wonder if the wool hasn't been pulled over your own eyes. Then again, the first linked article explicitly quotes Daniel Webster and if you had any grounding in reality and knowledge of his insidious agenda you'd probably not have made that error.
Almost without exception, when a state recognizes the right of its citizenry to carry concealed, crime goes down. Usually, it goes WAY down. However take away the guns, and more people get shot (Australia is a great example of this) or stabbed and the journalists out there don't ever seem to make this correlation.
It's not useless. What passes for journalism nowadays is rehashing wire feeds and making reports that are editorial in nature. Perception shaping is where the profession is, and always was. It's just that they have been dropping the facade with increasing rapidity, or the quality of graduates is declining.
Journalism is about lickspittle flacks following Obama around. It's about telling us what and how to think. It's a bunch of Judith Millers and Jeff Gannons all scrambling over each other to lick the pus infested butthole of the people in power, in hopes of getting another paycheck. And as they are realizing their model is irrelevant, and the people they wanted to sell dead trees to aren't interested in their rehashed, editorial thought shaping, they are begging to be put on the dole so society won't crumble when they are gone! That's fucking audacity.
I am agnostic, and the only news source I even slightly trust these days is the CSM. They seem to realize that reportage is important, and we can make the editorials up in our mind. Other news I get over shortwave radio and the internet, but I don't really trust it. However I would trust Pravda over the New York Times any day.
Yes, there are some journalists who try their damnedest to report what they see, and attempt to do so with integrity. But they are mostly working for bullshit artists of the first rate.
Microsoft is fine with Open Source. Hell, they are actively supporting it. After all, Open Source is mainly a way to get geeks to do work for you for free.
However, Microsoft is an avowed enemy of Free Software. Free Software is not the same thing as Open Source. This is something that most people don't realize, as your comment indicates.
It's Payola for the computer publications.
Ah yes, take the moral high road and pirate software. That'll help everybody out.
I can't imagine how you think it's better to pirate software than it is to use something like OpenOffice, which is both free and largely compatible with Word and the other MS office applications. I don't really have a problem with it, but you an quit pretending that you are asserting a morally superior position by pirating half-assed software.
I am with you on the Happy Birthday song, though, and rather than singing it at all, I would suggest you to just stop using it at all.
PS - Mickey Mouse will probably be copyrighted in 1000 years.
Even the fossil record disproves the theory that an asteroid strike killed the dinosaurs. It took a few million years for them to die off after that event.
Talk about delayed effects!
From 10.6.1:
bash-3.2$ java -version
java version "1.6.0_15"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_15-b03-219)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 14.1-b02-90, mixed mode)
HP's driver package for many printers is now larger than a default Ubuntu installation.
What the hell?
Sure we can. Those of us who live in earthquake zones and are interested in being prepared for "a big one" have obtained ham radio licenses.
Hell, there are handhelds that do voice and data AND cost less than a good smartphone. No plan required!
The OX911 chipset started having a LOT of issues with the last 10.4 update. It was all over the forums at that time, but Apple sanitizes their forum regularly, like Lenin did his photographs.
What are you, retarded?
Seriously. If you are retarded I will excuse your comment. Otherwise, you need to read 1984 again.
Sure we could. We could grow nutritive algae in vats and process it into shape, color, form, or taste we wish.
Humans can do fine without a single other species of life on this planet.
The pesticides are not sprayed on, they are grown by the plant. But after you harvest your corn, the pesticides made in that corn plant are still there.
And they were now in your body, too, as you can't simply wash them off. They are IN the plant.
How do you suppose GM "foods" are chasing away insects? Magic?
You're right. It IS a troll to suggest the GM's subsidies and bailouts will ever cease.
You forget that it is possible, and even economically feasible now (especially with the subsidies) to produce your own electricity.
And 11 years after the Volt goes into production, GM will drop ALL PARTS.
I am dealing with my shitty GM car right now, and the fact that GM decided to stop making a lot of very specialized computer parts that are not obtainable elsewhere.
GM views its factory repair arms as revenue streams. Toyota views its factory repair arms as customer retention devices.
This brain implant will only be used to monitor copyright infringement, I swear. Even though it has a small explosive charge inside, we wouldn't ever activate it inside your skull. Trust us!
Instability with my Firewire devices, as well as tremendously higher idle usage.
I just don't like the fact that this has become a trend. I have a Powerbook G4 that I plan to use for many, many years to come, and I don't wish to have to reinstall 10.5.3 (or whatever my media is) and do the upgrade dance again.
If Steve Jobs screws me again like this I will consider writing him another nasty letter.
I'm waiting on this one. The "final" updates of both 10.4 and 10.3 both caused me serious issues and headaches.
Sometimes I think it's a conspiracy to get me to upgrade to the new boxed OS.
This is a red herring that is often repeated. If the only problem with Windows was drivers, you may have an argument. But most Windows problems are not driver or hardware related - they stem from internal design problems inherent in the various Windows architectures.
Quit pretending that the only reason that Windows is unstable is drivers. That is not true and I doubt you'd convince a large amount of people that it is.
Sorry, I forgot to mention tar. It is useful for just what you mention. Of course, the Unix tool mentality precludes integrating a do-it-all product if you can instead achieve the asme effect with several smaller and perhaps more general purpose tools. Somebody will always be able to come along and say something like "Well MS Word does everything TeX does." There are of course several good open source imaging tools similar to Ghost.
Part of the idea with Unix is that you can do damn near anything you need to do with a system, using nothing but the built in utilities and some command line switches and possibly pipes. A basic live CD of your choice of the several Unix and Unix-like OSs out there can do anything Ghost can do, and is far more flexible if problems arise.
And I see no need to bring up Time Machine, but I will anyway. Microsoft is simply playing catch-up as usual. This is quite their usual place in the universe. What is sad is that most of these features are simple imitations of features that made their appearances on other operating systems years before. The Windows 7 feature checklist, predictably as well, has shrunk and most of the really interesting or innovative features have been cut.
I'm sure they'll do fine, as they have the PC makers in a headlock and most PC buyers don't know what an operating system really is anyway. This is the irony of the situation - it doesn't matter if Windows 7 is terrible, or if it is great.
The dd command's been around for almost 40 years, and does about the same thing.