There were 30,896 fire arm deaths in the USA. 642 of those were unintentional. For comparison there were 43,664 unintentional deaths caused by automobiles. Water unintentionally killed almost five times as many people, 3,579!
The flu, plain old every day flu, kills more people than guns.
Regulating guns is a waste of resources. Potentially 62 times as many deaths can be prevented if those same resources are spent on vehicle safety. Any argument made about firearms that is not also made about motor vehicles or water means that you don't care about saving people. Your only agenda is restricting access to guns.
Yes I use unintentionally a lot. Why? It's not to generate a really low fire arm death number. It's because that's the only way to determine preventable deaths through regulation. Over half of the total fire arm deaths are suicide, 16,883. You can't prevent those through gun regulation. You can only move them to a different cause of death. The 12,791 homicides? Again you're just moving them to a different column. Also how is more regulation going to help? If people are willing to break the law against murder why are they going to obey laws about secondary sales? Criminals don't obey laws. That's what makes them criminals.
I leave you one final question. If you're alone in a room with a car, a gun, and a bucket of water what is the only thing in the room that can kill you?
Cars are not necessary. Compare the number of car deaths to the number of mass transit deaths.
At least half of gun deaths are accidental, since half of all gun deaths are suicide. The smaller the number of accidental deaths the safer the object is.
Car deaths are mostly unintentional. That means cars are inherently dangerous when used in their intended purpose.
Look at the stats: There are more guns than cars. There are less deaths from guns than cars. Most car deaths are accidents. Most gun deaths are intentional.
Cars, an object who's intended purpose is not to kill you, are used to kill more people than are killed by guns, who's purpose is to kill people.
If you're having more unintentional deaths through normal operation than something designed to be used to kill people it has to be more dangerous.
There are three objects in garage. You, a gun, and a car. Which is most likely to kill you?
Oh and the plain old flu, not swine, kills more people per year than guns do.
"Another good strategy is to use a fall sequence consisting of several movements, so the falling body has several points of contact with the ground, spreading the energy of the impact over a large number of joints, rather than taking it all in one disastrous crunch."
This is called a parachute landing fall. The military and the skydiving community have been teaching it for decades.
Who ever tagged this fifthamendment needs to read the fucking fifth amendment.
This is akin to saying that you can't use ballistics info from my gun to prove I shot someone. That the blood and dent on the front of my car can't be used against me in a hit and run case.
You're saying they're only allowed to look inside envelopes that contain lined paper. Yet the only way to check what type of paper it is is to open the envelope.
By your logic if I rename a non-music file.mp3 and they open it they violate the order. That's just not the case.
You're missing the point of the forensic expert. The goal is to keep RIAA honest. The forensic expert looks at everything and only gives the RIAA the music files. By order nothing more.
How do you expect them to identify a music file without being able to look at it and see if it's a music file?
You're relying on a major assumption, that they can only search based on extension.
What is they are using a program that scans each file to see if it's a music file? If the third party expert is doing it and only turns over verified music files to the RIAA then how does it violate the order?
There are plenty of games that have them. Would you care to address any of them directly or are you only going to deal with your fictional examples here?
How exactly do players award a "Developer's Choice" award? Yes broken systems are broken. That doesn't mean all systems are broken.
I was stuck trying to maintain a consistent character story while everyone around me was talking about things in the news, who got fired at work (IRL) etc. I wouldn't attack another player unless it was inline with the character but that doesn't stop everyone else attacking me without any pretence.
Two sentences complaining that you were doing one thing while others were not.
The only shortage of slots is in high traffic areas. This is because these areas are *drum roll* high traffic.
There are plenty of public research facilities. At anytime there are low cost no wait slots available. Get in something untackleable and fly the BPOs out to low sec.
Also a small tower will let you run more slots than one person can fill and you get a time bonus on your research.
Your analogy is complete fail. You have 2 like things on the left and two differing things on the right. Can you explain it please?
Rewarding RP on RP servers is like rewarding PvP on PvP server. You reward the actions you want to happen on those servers. This is called positive reinforcement.
Nice. Devolving to insult rather than address the issue.
Used sales are not lost sales. To suggest otherwise is to claim psychic ability.
As I mentioned before. Some people can't afford games at $60. Some people refuse to buy games at $60. Some games aren't available anymore and can only be purchased used.
If you can provide some sort of proof of your psychic ability, game scores or lottery numbers posted publicly ahead of time, I'll agree that all used purchases are people who are only trying to screw the game industry rather than people who enjoy games and buy them in the manner that let's them and others buy more.
DRM, by definition, only effects legitimate customers. DRM causes problems. It is well documented that DRM sometimes causes legitimately purchased games to not work or to cease working.
Thus what the game companies are basically doing is making it harder for us to buy their product. Making things hard to buy is generally counter production to selling things.
Major logic flaw there buddy. Used sales and piracy are not lost sales.
What happens if I only have $30. I can only afford the game used. Then the publisher is completely out the second sale. They only make $60 instead of the $120 you mention.
In addition the first sale person buys less games because he can't resell them and put the cash toward more new games.
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I confirm this. I read it in an interview. They want you to play with your friends. Your friends like it and talk about it. It generates more sales.
An insignificant share of the player base. That was my point. You have not contested it.
You can at best hope to represent at best a fraction a single percent of the players. That means you have no mandate. Any agenda is yours and yours alone.
They have no power. What happens if you bring something up and CCP says no? What options do you have?
The CSM was originally created with the intention of policing CCP after the T20 fuckup. What police abilities do you have? How can you prevent another T20 incident? How can you find out if one even happened?
Do I need to post the highly comical logs of some of the meetings. The in fighting? Council members kicking other from the channel? The complete disregard (or merely lack of understanding?) for the game as a whole in trade for personal agendas. "Let's put a PvP flag in so more people can experience 0.0!"
A CSM member speaks for themselves. Win your free trip to iceland. Enjoy feeling like you're an insider. But please please always be aware that you are nothing but a PR tool.
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I was reading your huppi link and what is the increased regulation?
The swiss has a "must issue" for hang guns licenses. My state has neither permit nor registration system for any firearms.
Many states in the USA have "may issue" which is more strict than the swiss.
There is _no_ regulation on carrying rifles in Switzerland.
Where is this increased regulation you speak of?
No you don't want to ban guns you just want to regulate them to the point that they are effectively banned.
You don't say why it will help. Why do you think it will help?
All numbers taken from the CDC via http://webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/mortrate10_sy.html for the year 2006.
Stronger regulation can't help.
There were 30,896 fire arm deaths in the USA. 642 of those were unintentional. For comparison there were 43,664 unintentional deaths caused by automobiles. Water unintentionally killed almost five times as many people, 3,579!
The flu, plain old every day flu, kills more people than guns.
Regulating guns is a waste of resources. Potentially 62 times as many deaths can be prevented if those same resources are spent on vehicle safety. Any argument made about firearms that is not also made about motor vehicles or water means that you don't care about saving people. Your only agenda is restricting access to guns.
Yes I use unintentionally a lot. Why? It's not to generate a really low fire arm death number. It's because that's the only way to determine preventable deaths through regulation. Over half of the total fire arm deaths are suicide, 16,883. You can't prevent those through gun regulation. You can only move them to a different cause of death. The 12,791 homicides? Again you're just moving them to a different column. Also how is more regulation going to help? If people are willing to break the law against murder why are they going to obey laws about secondary sales? Criminals don't obey laws. That's what makes them criminals.
I leave you one final question. If you're alone in a room with a car, a gun, and a bucket of water what is the only thing in the room that can kill you?
The swiss have a huge gun culture. Very high rates of ownership. Most of the population is trained in firearm usage.
They have very few gun deaths.
Please explain this.
Cars are not necessary. Compare the number of car deaths to the number of mass transit deaths.
At least half of gun deaths are accidental, since half of all gun deaths are suicide. The smaller the number of accidental deaths the safer the object is.
Car deaths are mostly unintentional. That means cars are inherently dangerous when used in their intended purpose.
Look at the stats:
There are more guns than cars.
There are less deaths from guns than cars.
Most car deaths are accidents.
Most gun deaths are intentional.
Cars, an object who's intended purpose is not to kill you, are used to kill more people than are killed by guns, who's purpose is to kill people.
If you're having more unintentional deaths through normal operation than something designed to be used to kill people it has to be more dangerous.
There are three objects in garage. You, a gun, and a car. Which is most likely to kill you?
Oh and the plain old flu, not swine, kills more people per year than guns do.
What the fuck are you talking about?
What if you're an alcoholic and you die in an accident you caused while drunk. Bonus points for taking out small children in the accident.
According to you this is living a normal life.
"Another good strategy is to use a fall sequence consisting of several movements, so the falling body has several points of contact with the ground, spreading the energy of the impact over a large number of joints, rather than taking it all in one disastrous crunch."
This is called a parachute landing fall. The military and the skydiving community have been teaching it for decades.
Who ever tagged this fifthamendment needs to read the fucking fifth amendment.
This is akin to saying that you can't use ballistics info from my gun to prove I shot someone. That the blood and dent on the front of my car can't be used against me in a hit and run case.
That's nonsensical.
You're saying they're only allowed to look inside envelopes that contain lined paper. Yet the only way to check what type of paper it is is to open the envelope.
By your logic if I rename a non-music file .mp3 and they open it they violate the order. That's just not the case.
You're missing the point of the forensic expert. The goal is to keep RIAA honest. The forensic expert looks at everything and only gives the RIAA the music files. By order nothing more.
How do you expect them to identify a music file without being able to look at it and see if it's a music file?
You're relying on a major assumption, that they can only search based on extension.
What is they are using a program that scans each file to see if it's a music file? If the third party expert is doing it and only turns over verified music files to the RIAA then how does it violate the order?
To throw some money/work at the CGI house that made the cloverfield monster.
There are plenty of games that have them. Would you care to address any of them directly or are you only going to deal with your fictional examples here?
How exactly do players award a "Developer's Choice" award? Yes broken systems are broken. That doesn't mean all systems are broken.
I was stuck trying to maintain a consistent character story while everyone around me was talking about things in the news, who got fired at work (IRL) etc. I wouldn't attack another player unless it was inline with the character but that doesn't stop everyone else attacking me without any pretence.
Two sentences complaining that you were doing one thing while others were not.
Go check out simutronics. All RP. All the time.
Just a point of clarification.
The only shortage of slots is in high traffic areas. This is because these areas are *drum roll* high traffic.
There are plenty of public research facilities. At anytime there are low cost no wait slots available. Get in something untackleable and fly the BPOs out to low sec.
Also a small tower will let you run more slots than one person can fill and you get a time bonus on your research.
Every RP heavy game I've played has RP rewards.
Your analogy is complete fail. You have 2 like things on the left and two differing things on the right. Can you explain it please?
Rewarding RP on RP servers is like rewarding PvP on PvP server. You reward the actions you want to happen on those servers. This is called positive reinforcement.
I don't understand what the complaint is here. You can't expect others to obey arbitrary rules created by you.
If you want true RP get out of the mainstream. Go check out simutronics. I think they're exactly what you're looking for.
You can't eliminate lag caused by population density. A linear increase in players in an area is an exponential load on the server.
I honestly don't expect a solution until we see a paradigm shift. The real use of paradigm not the PHB use.
No matter how much processing power you have eventually n+1 players will be in an area.
Until we have said paradigm shift the only solution is to in some way limit the number in an area as is done with instances currently.
Nice. Devolving to insult rather than address the issue.
Used sales are not lost sales. To suggest otherwise is to claim psychic ability.
As I mentioned before. Some people can't afford games at $60. Some people refuse to buy games at $60. Some games aren't available anymore and can only be purchased used.
If you can provide some sort of proof of your psychic ability, game scores or lottery numbers posted publicly ahead of time, I'll agree that all used purchases are people who are only trying to screw the game industry rather than people who enjoy games and buy them in the manner that let's them and others buy more.
No, it's you that's making the flawed assumption. Please show me where I mention Gamestop.
There are 4 stores that I know of in my town that offer better prices, both buy and sell, than Gamestop.
You too, make a flawed assumption. A used sale is not a lost sale.
Just because everyone you know can buy anything they want means anyone can?
DRM, by definition, only effects legitimate customers. DRM causes problems. It is well documented that DRM sometimes causes legitimately purchased games to not work or to cease working.
Thus what the game companies are basically doing is making it harder for us to buy their product. Making things hard to buy is generally counter production to selling things.
Major logic flaw there buddy. Used sales and piracy are not lost sales.
What happens if I only have $30. I can only afford the game used. Then the publisher is completely out the second sale. They only make $60 instead of the $120 you mention.
In addition the first sale person buys less games because he can't resell them and put the cash toward more new games.
I confirm this. I read it in an interview. They want you to play with your friends. Your friends like it and talk about it. It generates more sales.
An insignificant share of the player base. That was my point. You have not contested it.
You can at best hope to represent at best a fraction a single percent of the players. That means you have no mandate. Any agenda is yours and yours alone.
They have no power. What happens if you bring something up and CCP says no? What options do you have?
The CSM was originally created with the intention of policing CCP after the T20 fuckup. What police abilities do you have? How can you prevent another T20 incident? How can you find out if one even happened?
Do I need to post the highly comical logs of some of the meetings. The in fighting? Council members kicking other from the channel? The complete disregard (or merely lack of understanding?) for the game as a whole in trade for personal agendas. "Let's put a PvP flag in so more people can experience 0.0!"
A CSM member speaks for themselves. Win your free trip to iceland. Enjoy feeling like you're an insider. But please please always be aware that you are nothing but a PR tool.
Define Initiating. Pacer is only going to list the date that they entered the court system.
What if they were already working on them before August 31st and took them to court in December.
They were filed after the given date but were initiated before the given date?
So you agree that the CSM can not be described as representing the player base?