Maybe he could. It would depend on the safe. Small key safes are more of an opportunity blocker for the most part, but a coded safe would take a bit more time. It may have been enough, it may not have. We can conjecture all day long but IMHO, safes should be required "accessories" for responsible gun owners.
Because the way crimes are reported today skews the results to make it seem like guns are more of an influence in the crime. If there's a gun in your car, they assume to intended on using it.
Have no felonies and over 18 years old? Drive to WalMart and buy one...
Is that all? With such a low threshold for acquiring an easily operated killing device, how can there be any feeling of safety? It is asking too much of the collective sensibilities of millions of citizens.
Honestly, if you have to ask that question, I have to question your trust in your fellow citizen or neighbor. It's incredibly easy to own a weapon and there are lots of them all over the US. It doesn't make living here deadly by any means. The truth is that a majority of the weapons in this country are used for non-deadly (to human) sport. There are far more bullets spent on paper targets and the occasional wild animal than there are to humans. The simple fact that the weapon exists doesn't presuppose that people will instantly grab them to solve disputes. Humans are very reasonable people and they can handle a little responsibility. There are a very few percentile of the millions living here that cannot, but you get that with any society and any laws.
The legislation that I would support is the requirement that all guns purchased require either a safe being purchased at the same time and/or a certificate of safe ownership big enough to contain such a weapon. You can't force someone to use the safe, but they would own it and it may help curb some of the opportunistic "night stand" situations.
I would also support a requirement that purchasers have taken a mandatory gun safety class. I'd expect it to be more involved than the concealed carry class I took that mainly covered legal ramifications for drawing your weapon and some basic terminology and gun types. I find it a bit annoying that it's easier to own a weapon than it is to drive a car.
What I would not like to see is an outright banning of certain types of guns, or overly restrictive mandates (like must not have had a parking ticket in 3 years.)
Some people collect... those same people also lock up their weapons in a safe and don't share the code. For instance, I don't know my brother's safe combo, and I don't really want to. I have a gun that I use strictly for target shooting for self entertainment and if I ever want to shoot one of his, I simply ask.
For those "collectors" that don't lock up their collections, I'd say that there may be a problem. Considering a fairly high end gun safe will run less than the cost of a few guns, it would be retarded not to own one.
The fun part is using VS 2012 with TFS 2008. Every time I check out code, I have to go in and remove the read-only flag on every file.
Also, why the hell doesn't Visual Studio include the option to remove trailing white space like every other sane editor in the world? We have one person in our team that decided they like the option that allows them to insert text anywhere and they consistently check in code that has massive white space issues.
(Yes, I've seen the plugins, but at this point I'd have figured that "developer, developers, developers" would have included features to help developers out.)
You said it yourself. The way to combat hate speech is to talk about it. There's no need to make laws against speech. If you feel opposed to those speaking, hand out fliers refuting their rhetoric. There's no need to involve legal recourse.
In order to combat Speech you need to use Speech. Peaceably congregate at the cemetery and crowd out the hate speech with song or simply numbers if it means enough to you. I think Anon did it the wrong way. There are also other ways to get the names of the participants and post them rather than hacking in.
Free speech means having to hear to people that you don't agree with at times.
No it doesn't. You have no right to make people hear you. They are free to wear ear-plugs or ignore you.
Hearing a listening are two different things. People can shout and cry all they want. You have the freedom to not listen to it. If that involves putting earplugs in and walking past the line of picketers... so be it. I never said I have a right to be listened to.
I was in a theater that "caught fire" recently. It was rather uneventful and people all filed out in a quiet and orderly manner. That exception might have made sense in a different time, but with fires being understood and easier to control... it's a rather meaningless example now.
All speech is free speech. If you start classifying what is and isn't "hate speech" you only serve to erode away what Free Speech really is.
Do you classify "Hate Speech" by popular opinion? If so, then burning a cross in someone's yard was at one point not considered "Hate Speech." So who's the inevitably curator of what you classify as "Hate Speech"? Is it the government? What if you say that our Electoral College is fucked up and should be replaced... could the Government classify that as "Hate Speech" against America?
This whole "Hate Speech" movement is really starting to concern me. It's censorship.
I have 2TB drive with well over 2 seasons of 5 different shows (I have 5 seasons of one of them) and it just breached 50%. I think you should probably find out why your video encoding software sucks balls or keep fewer episodes.
As much as I'd love to agree... (though, I still mainly agree with the "Google it" suggestion)... There are new people coming along all the time that may not know how to configure a VPS or even know what it is. Even in my day job I find that I have to explain things over and over again to the new people that have never dealt with something. I can't expect that everyone I talk to in my field knows everything I do and I may have to re-iterate some of my knowledge from time to time.
But the Steam box could be a list of minimum requirements so devs can program against a known configuration. If you choose to go off and build your own with different hardware, the support just wouldn't be there...
Nothing says professional like slow load times and a blurred out stock photo in the banner... I mean, it literally took me 3 minutes to load the page. And now it's down.
One is permanently breaking the legs of a creature and the other is clipping something that can grow back... If you somehow think those two events are in any way the same, I feel sorry for you.
Heaven forbid you have a giant mirror in your house. We had parakeets that would go ape shit over the other birds and try to fly to them. We ended up clipping their feathers just so they wouldn't hurt themselves on the mirror.
By that logic we should also not cut our hair, but instead buy bigger houses every few years to accommodation the growth and extra space needed... Also, fingernails and toenails. The feathers, while being an important aspect of flight, are not important for the life of the animal enclosed in a home and it does not hurt for them to be cut.
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Maybe he could. It would depend on the safe. Small key safes are more of an opportunity blocker for the most part, but a coded safe would take a bit more time. It may have been enough, it may not have. We can conjecture all day long but IMHO, safes should be required "accessories" for responsible gun owners.
Fu... now I have to change my password.
Because the way crimes are reported today skews the results to make it seem like guns are more of an influence in the crime. If there's a gun in your car, they assume to intended on using it.
Have no felonies and over 18 years old?
Drive to WalMart and buy one...
Is that all? With such a low threshold for acquiring an easily operated killing device, how can there be any feeling of safety? It is asking too much of the collective sensibilities of millions of citizens.
Honestly, if you have to ask that question, I have to question your trust in your fellow citizen or neighbor. It's incredibly easy to own a weapon and there are lots of them all over the US. It doesn't make living here deadly by any means. The truth is that a majority of the weapons in this country are used for non-deadly (to human) sport. There are far more bullets spent on paper targets and the occasional wild animal than there are to humans. The simple fact that the weapon exists doesn't presuppose that people will instantly grab them to solve disputes. Humans are very reasonable people and they can handle a little responsibility. There are a very few percentile of the millions living here that cannot, but you get that with any society and any laws.
The legislation that I would support is the requirement that all guns purchased require either a safe being purchased at the same time and/or a certificate of safe ownership big enough to contain such a weapon. You can't force someone to use the safe, but they would own it and it may help curb some of the opportunistic "night stand" situations.
I would also support a requirement that purchasers have taken a mandatory gun safety class. I'd expect it to be more involved than the concealed carry class I took that mainly covered legal ramifications for drawing your weapon and some basic terminology and gun types. I find it a bit annoying that it's easier to own a weapon than it is to drive a car.
What I would not like to see is an outright banning of certain types of guns, or overly restrictive mandates (like must not have had a parking ticket in 3 years.)
Some people collect... those same people also lock up their weapons in a safe and don't share the code. For instance, I don't know my brother's safe combo, and I don't really want to. I have a gun that I use strictly for target shooting for self entertainment and if I ever want to shoot one of his, I simply ask.
For those "collectors" that don't lock up their collections, I'd say that there may be a problem. Considering a fairly high end gun safe will run less than the cost of a few guns, it would be retarded not to own one.
The fun part is using VS 2012 with TFS 2008. Every time I check out code, I have to go in and remove the read-only flag on every file.
Also, why the hell doesn't Visual Studio include the option to remove trailing white space like every other sane editor in the world? We have one person in our team that decided they like the option that allows them to insert text anywhere and they consistently check in code that has massive white space issues.
(Yes, I've seen the plugins, but at this point I'd have figured that "developer, developers, developers" would have included features to help developers out.)
You said it yourself. The way to combat hate speech is to talk about it. There's no need to make laws against speech. If you feel opposed to those speaking, hand out fliers refuting their rhetoric. There's no need to involve legal recourse.
In order to combat Speech you need to use Speech. Peaceably congregate at the cemetery and crowd out the hate speech with song or simply numbers if it means enough to you. I think Anon did it the wrong way. There are also other ways to get the names of the participants and post them rather than hacking in.
Sure, if you want to get technical... you can only produce so many tears and your vocal chords will eventually quit working.
So... why haven't the WBC folks been arrested for indecency?
Free speech means having to hear to people that you don't agree with at times.
No it doesn't. You have no right to make people hear you. They are free to wear ear-plugs or ignore you.
Hearing a listening are two different things. People can shout and cry all they want. You have the freedom to not listen to it. If that involves putting earplugs in and walking past the line of picketers... so be it. I never said I have a right to be listened to.
I was in a theater that "caught fire" recently. It was rather uneventful and people all filed out in a quiet and orderly manner. That exception might have made sense in a different time, but with fires being understood and easier to control... it's a rather meaningless example now.
2) You must be able to get your message to people who want to hear it.
Slave Owner's didn't WANT to hear messages of their slaves... so is it not in their right to speak freely?
Free speech means having to hear to people that you don't agree with at times. You don't have to listen.
All speech is free speech. If you start classifying what is and isn't "hate speech" you only serve to erode away what Free Speech really is.
Do you classify "Hate Speech" by popular opinion? If so, then burning a cross in someone's yard was at one point not considered "Hate Speech." So who's the inevitably curator of what you classify as "Hate Speech"? Is it the government? What if you say that our Electoral College is fucked up and should be replaced... could the Government classify that as "Hate Speech" against America?
This whole "Hate Speech" movement is really starting to concern me. It's censorship.
Because nobody makes exceptions for Acts of God?
I wouldn't say that I've been missing it, Bob.
I have 2TB drive with well over 2 seasons of 5 different shows (I have 5 seasons of one of them) and it just breached 50%. I think you should probably find out why your video encoding software sucks balls or keep fewer episodes.
As much as I'd love to agree... (though, I still mainly agree with the "Google it" suggestion)... There are new people coming along all the time that may not know how to configure a VPS or even know what it is. Even in my day job I find that I have to explain things over and over again to the new people that have never dealt with something. I can't expect that everyone I talk to in my field knows everything I do and I may have to re-iterate some of my knowledge from time to time.
Estimates have Steam at just over 50 million active accounts and Xbox Live at just over 40 million.
But the Steam box could be a list of minimum requirements so devs can program against a known configuration. If you choose to go off and build your own with different hardware, the support just wouldn't be there...
Nothing says professional like slow load times and a blurred out stock photo in the banner... I mean, it literally took me 3 minutes to load the page. And now it's down.
One is permanently breaking the legs of a creature and the other is clipping something that can grow back... If you somehow think those two events are in any way the same, I feel sorry for you.
Heaven forbid you have a giant mirror in your house. We had parakeets that would go ape shit over the other birds and try to fly to them. We ended up clipping their feathers just so they wouldn't hurt themselves on the mirror.
By that logic we should also not cut our hair, but instead buy bigger houses every few years to accommodation the growth and extra space needed... Also, fingernails and toenails. The feathers, while being an important aspect of flight, are not important for the life of the animal enclosed in a home and it does not hurt for them to be cut.