To be honest I'm surprised that China and some other countries that have similar political policies haven't done something like this. It would make censorship/filtering of the internet much easier for a regime.
Hopefully this is not where India is going but with all the fuss about Richard Gere's arrest warrant for kissing a woman on the cheek I wouldn't be too overly surprised if they used their control of the telco to filter out the video of him kissing her.
That sounds like the time in high school when one of my friends passed around a petition for outlawing di-hydrogen oxide. He sited all kinds of good reasons. It can cause death if inhaled. It is ingested by almost all criminals with 24 hrs of committing a crime. He got almost 75% of the school to sign it.
I figure most of you got the joke but just in case di-hydrogen oxide - H20.;-)
That would cost money and require a lot more organizational work than just denying some kids the right to buy something that they couldn't buy on their own without mommy or daddy there to drop the money in the first place.
"If I saw a shootout start I'd duck for the nearest cover I could find, and damned if I'd draw any fire to me unless I had to."
Fine, duck and hide but realized that there are people who will put their lives on the line to save others. Generally this applies to the police but I do not believe that it should be limited to them. People keep saying that chaos would ensue if everyone carried a gun, they're probably right but here in lies the problem with that argument, not everyone carries a gun. In fact I suspect that number of people that do carry, legally, are by far in the minority. The reason, I believe, they are in the minority has to do with general attitude of "I'm not will to fight". Most people are too scared to fight for fear of injury and that is completely understandable and I would say NORMAL but please do not deny those that would stand up to defend you the right to bear arms. Yes, there are many accounts of people taking down armed assailants with out guns but it certainly evens the odds.
That said I think there should be tougher punishments for commission of crimes while in possession of a firearm. I also think that as other have said that the right to carry a concealed weapon needs to be based on a mandatory training but I'll go you one better. I think owning a pistol should require mandatory training to obtain a permit that allows you to buy such fire arms. I see guys shooting at the gun range that scare the day lights out of me because they're shooting while laughing like they're playing a video game. I think a mandatory class would go a long way to weeding out these people. Like wise I think that owning an assault weapon is a legitimate thing, they are fun to shoot for some and can be used for home security, but again there should be mandatory training/permit in order to buy them.
If these measures were enacted then people could have more confidence in those who do carry since they would be trained to respond to situations where someone was going on a rampage.
Finally I agree with others that it's largely the media's fault that there are so many copy cat shooting rampages. The downfall of living in an information age is very apparent when it comes to this. Many of you are familiar with psychological reinforcing of behavior. To draw an analogy, we see it in kids that misbehave to get attention from their parents and teachers. They purposefully act badly so they get attention and unless the parents and teachers realize this and break the cycle by reinforcing good behavior and discourage the bad they just keep doing it. In this case people who go on shooting rampages are the children and the media equal the parents, I know it's scary. The media keeps rewarding this bad behavior with a very large spotlight. There are always those who are going to be lonely to the point of being suicidal/depressed or are a psychopath(not psychotic look it up there is a difference) there is not much we can do about that, believe me I wish there was. The problem comes when they are so far gone that killing people just to be remember becomes an appealing option. Add a media that is willing, because they want ratings, to give you the coverage of your rampage you want and all the sudden killing lots of people to get noticed becomes even more appealing. It's vicious cycle that will keep happening because the next psychopath or lonely suicidal/depressed person will see what it has done for those before him/her.
Alright I'm done but I hope this points out some useful ways to help combat what seems to have become and epidemic of suicide shootings.
That'll be about as effective as the Drug Abuse Resistance Education class that taught all the pot heads in high school new ways to make a bong from a tin can. I mean common, it's not like people don't know what they're doing. They are either mad at the industry for all the DRM bull shit or they are just cheap and steal. Schools have never been super effective in teaching morals on stuff like this. In the end a person will do what ever is in their nature whether that means they'll pay for music or download it P2P.
I foresee class going like this.
Teacher: Class stay away from Bittorrent, Limewire and other P2P programs. You can download movies and songs without paying and that's bad because you're stealing.
Student: Wait, you don't have to pay?...How do you spell Bittorrent, I'm gonna go look that up!
On windows 2k I logged into the C$ admin share on a college's PC and discovered that I could change the name on the WINNT directory. This has the interesting effect of making the explorer.exe crash, with no error message, but the kernel kept running with out a problem. When you changed the name back everything would restore to the way it was. If memory serves even the programs that were running before were still there.
So ever so often I would go in and change the name of the WINNT dir back and fourth a few times to screw my coworkers. They never did figure out what caused their PCs to do that. I'd just smile and suggest gremlins.
The Church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints Thinks they did. Read the Book of Mormon sometime you might find it interesting as it relates to this topic.
In a nut shell it says that a small group of Jews left Israel shortly before it was conquered and sailed to the Americas.
The book is much more involved than that so I recommend the reading if you'd like the full story.
P.S. It would also explain Pyramids on two separate continents because they had the record of the Jews that left Egypt.
I think you're right. It would be like going to the grocery store and having the option of organic or nonorganic produce. Myabe that should be the lable we give DRM free media, organic.
Next they'll be sueing the Goverment for cars that hit their children who were playing in the streen unsupervised. They'll claim something like, "It took the government too long to place children playing the street signs" on every block.
While you're suing the tanned amongst us I'll be suing you for infringing on my patent of "Suing those who have infringed upon your patent". So, please cease and desist or else.
The Northwest, eh? I live near Seattle and and we've had more than out usual share of snow in the low lands. Over the past 15 years we've only had a usually one time a year that it snows around sea level this year we've had it happen a couple of times.
It's also interesting to note that we usualy have a major wind storm about every 5 to 10 years. In last few months we've had 3.
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Now if only that same crowd would realize the Government is supposed to work the same way.
What? You couldn't just give him one?
Crica 1999
Slashdot: Bring out your dead. Bring out your dead.
Microsoft: Here's one!
Apple: I'm not dead yet.
Slashdot: You hear that? He says he's not dead yet.
Microsoft: Look you're not fooling anyone. You're going to die any minute now.
Slashdot: Look he really can't be delisted on the stock exchange until he's dead.
Apple: I'm feeling better, I've got an iPOD now!
Microsoft:Crap... what to do, what to do? I've got it! We'll call it a Zune and it will be brown so the unwashed masses can associate with it.
To be honest I'm surprised that China and some other countries that have similar political policies haven't done something like this. It would make censorship/filtering of the internet much easier for a regime.
Hopefully this is not where India is going but with all the fuss about Richard Gere's arrest warrant for kissing a woman on the cheek I wouldn't be too overly surprised if they used their control of the telco to filter out the video of him kissing her.
...any videos of a lithium ion laptop batteries catching on fire?
They really should take all those defective batteries and sell them as fire starters at REI
cause I was just wondering about this very topic yesterday. :-S
That sounds like the time in high school when one of my friends passed around a petition for outlawing di-hydrogen oxide. He sited all kinds of good reasons. It can cause death if inhaled. It is ingested by almost all criminals with 24 hrs of committing a crime. He got almost 75% of the school to sign it.
;-)
I figure most of you got the joke but just in case di-hydrogen oxide - H20.
That would cost money and require a lot more organizational work than just denying some kids the right to buy something that they couldn't buy on their own without mommy or daddy there to drop the money in the first place.
Fine, duck and hide but realized that there are people who will put their lives on the line to save others. Generally this applies to the police but I do not believe that it should be limited to them. People keep saying that chaos would ensue if everyone carried a gun, they're probably right but here in lies the problem with that argument, not everyone carries a gun. In fact I suspect that number of people that do carry, legally, are by far in the minority. The reason, I believe, they are in the minority has to do with general attitude of "I'm not will to fight". Most people are too scared to fight for fear of injury and that is completely understandable and I would say NORMAL but please do not deny those that would stand up to defend you the right to bear arms. Yes, there are many accounts of people taking down armed assailants with out guns but it certainly evens the odds.
That said I think there should be tougher punishments for commission of crimes while in possession of a firearm. I also think that as other have said that the right to carry a concealed weapon needs to be based on a mandatory training but I'll go you one better. I think owning a pistol should require mandatory training to obtain a permit that allows you to buy such fire arms. I see guys shooting at the gun range that scare the day lights out of me because they're shooting while laughing like they're playing a video game. I think a mandatory class would go a long way to weeding out these people. Like wise I think that owning an assault weapon is a legitimate thing, they are fun to shoot for some and can be used for home security, but again there should be mandatory training/permit in order to buy them.
If these measures were enacted then people could have more confidence in those who do carry since they would be trained to respond to situations where someone was going on a rampage.
Finally I agree with others that it's largely the media's fault that there are so many copy cat shooting rampages. The downfall of living in an information age is very apparent when it comes to this. Many of you are familiar with psychological reinforcing of behavior. To draw an analogy, we see it in kids that misbehave to get attention from their parents and teachers. They purposefully act badly so they get attention and unless the parents and teachers realize this and break the cycle by reinforcing good behavior and discourage the bad they just keep doing it. In this case people who go on shooting rampages are the children and the media equal the parents, I know it's scary. The media keeps rewarding this bad behavior with a very large spotlight. There are always those who are going to be lonely to the point of being suicidal/depressed or are a psychopath(not psychotic look it up there is a difference) there is not much we can do about that, believe me I wish there was. The problem comes when they are so far gone that killing people just to be remember becomes an appealing option. Add a media that is willing, because they want ratings, to give you the coverage of your rampage you want and all the sudden killing lots of people to get noticed becomes even more appealing. It's vicious cycle that will keep happening because the next psychopath or lonely suicidal/depressed person will see what it has done for those before him/her.
Alright I'm done but I hope this points out some useful ways to help combat what seems to have become and epidemic of suicide shootings.
It does sound a bit like the High School version of 24.
...the web controls YOU!!!
:-P
I couldn't resist.
That'll be about as effective as the Drug Abuse Resistance Education class that taught all the pot heads in high school new ways to make a bong from a tin can. I mean common, it's not like people don't know what they're doing. They are either mad at the industry for all the DRM bull shit or they are just cheap and steal. Schools have never been super effective in teaching morals on stuff like this. In the end a person will do what ever is in their nature whether that means they'll pay for music or download it P2P.
I foresee class going like this.
Teacher: Class stay away from Bittorrent, Limewire and other P2P programs. You can download movies and songs without paying and that's bad because you're stealing.
Student: Wait, you don't have to pay?...How do you spell Bittorrent, I'm gonna go look that up!
On windows 2k I logged into the C$ admin share on a college's PC and discovered that I could change the name on the WINNT directory. This has the interesting effect of making the explorer.exe crash, with no error message, but the kernel kept running with out a problem. When you changed the name back everything would restore to the way it was. If memory serves even the programs that were running before were still there.
So ever so often I would go in and change the name of the WINNT dir back and fourth a few times to screw my coworkers. They never did figure out what caused their PCs to do that. I'd just smile and suggest gremlins.
... from Florida!
I bet a few Christian Creationists got all excited until they read TFA.
The Church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints Thinks they did. Read the Book of Mormon sometime you might find it interesting as it relates to this topic. In a nut shell it says that a small group of Jews left Israel shortly before it was conquered and sailed to the Americas. The book is much more involved than that so I recommend the reading if you'd like the full story. P.S. It would also explain Pyramids on two separate continents because they had the record of the Jews that left Egypt.
As will my 200+ dive SCUBA experience. ;-)
I think you're right. It would be like going to the grocery store and having the option of organic or nonorganic produce. Myabe that should be the lable we give DRM free media, organic.
Next they'll be sueing the Goverment for cars that hit their children who were playing in the streen unsupervised. They'll claim something like, "It took the government too long to place children playing the street signs" on every block.
While you're suing the tanned amongst us I'll be suing you for infringing on my patent of "Suing those who have infringed upon your patent". So, please cease and desist or else.
Signed, your friendly patent troll
The Northwest, eh? I live near Seattle and and we've had more than out usual share of snow in the low lands. Over the past 15 years we've only had a usually one time a year that it snows around sea level this year we've had it happen a couple of times.
It's also interesting to note that we usualy have a major wind storm about every 5 to 10 years. In last few months we've had 3.
I can see it now. It's Saturday morning and the streets of college towns accross America are littered with cars that 'slowed down and stopped'.
They might as well use "Worst Buy" as part of that index too.
I'm betting SCO wishes that you were right. ;-)