I call bullshit on the assumption that gun-control laws lead to "victim zones" as you put it - the opposite is the case. The important point about gun-control laws is availability, rather than carrying of firearms. Of course you cannot stop people from bringing their guns into gun-free places like VT (except by installing a perimeter of metal-detectors around campus, and then the psychos might still go amok at the entry-points), if they are allowed to own a gun in the first place. Therefore gun-control needs to legislate the availability of firearms, and not how and where carrying a gun is OK.
And, yes, it's certainly not a quick and simple task to disarm american society, but if you don't start now, your murder-rates and public safety will never be on the level of other civilised nations.
Energy Production: I recall reading some news about experimental fusion reactors being build/developed in France and China.
Space Travel: I don't see any problem here either. Combined with horizontal launch techniques, ion-engines will propably do. Nuclear power is doable, but has been neglected due to environmental hazards.
Artificial Intelligence: Ever heard of the term 'embodied cognition' - it's still in its infancy, but i'm sure that's the way to head on, in combination with neural networks.
most of you guys are using free software and not even appreciating it. i find that sick.
guess what, RMS is the reason why linux exists and why we are able to use it productively. he's the single most important reason as to why we still have open sourcecode at all.
if everyone was as ignorant as you are, we'd all be using trashy OS like windows and shit.
i, for my part, am really grateful for the things RMS has achieved and everytime i 'convert' some of my friends and relatives to a gnu/linux system, i'll give them a lesson about copyleft and freedom of information. so should you.
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I call bullshit on the assumption that gun-control laws lead to "victim zones" as you put it - the opposite is the case. The important point about gun-control laws is availability, rather than carrying of firearms. Of course you cannot stop people from bringing their guns into gun-free places like VT (except by installing a perimeter of metal-detectors around campus, and then the psychos might still go amok at the entry-points), if they are allowed to own a gun in the first place. Therefore gun-control needs to legislate the availability of firearms, and not how and where carrying a gun is OK.
And, yes, it's certainly not a quick and simple task to disarm american society, but if you don't start now, your murder-rates and public safety will never be on the level of other civilised nations.
is beginning to seriously annoy me, 'coz they really are.
For those of you who speak german, this might be a interesting read:
http://saar-echo.de/de/art.php?a=25378
Stop the whining and face it.
"we all know the alternatives don't work"
My friend, that's pure bullshit. Corporate media forces everyone into believing it, because they are capitalism.
let the flame wars begin! *ggg*
PS: does anyone know wether sd-cards work under openbsd now?
Energy Production: I recall reading some news about experimental fusion reactors being build/developed in France and China.
Space Travel: I don't see any problem here either. Combined with horizontal launch techniques, ion-engines will propably do. Nuclear power is doable, but has been neglected due to environmental hazards.
Artificial Intelligence: Ever heard of the term 'embodied cognition' - it's still in its infancy, but i'm sure that's the way to head on, in combination with neural networks.
mind if i care?
most of you guys are using free software and not even appreciating it. i find that sick.
guess what, RMS is the reason why linux exists and why we are able to use it productively. he's the single most important reason as to why we still have open sourcecode at all.
if everyone was as ignorant as you are, we'd all be using trashy OS like windows and shit.
i, for my part, am really grateful for the things RMS has achieved and everytime i 'convert' some of my friends and relatives to a gnu/linux system, i'll give them a lesson about copyleft and freedom of information. so should you.