Steps to take to do a shooting spree, buy gun, buy ammo, shoot.
Steps to take do do a bombing, plan, plan, plan, plan, plan, buy components as inconspicuously as possible, put components together and hope you don't blow your stupid ass up, set the bomb in such as a way that nobody knows it is there and then try to figure out how to blow it up without blowing yourself up with it.
Oh, or were you thinking you can just go to Joe Bobs Explosives and Bait Emporium and pick up a bomb there ready made and ready to go?
My wife got herself a Samsung Relay which has a keyboard, but T-Mobile has gimped this phone in a few ways. Such as you cannot use Google Voice because T-Mobile wants you to use their new service that is similar, you also cannot do tethering or hotspot without an extra charge, which is free on my old HTC G2.
It's almost like the phone was designed to be sold by AT&T instead.
Anyways, my point is the phones with keyboards do still exist. They just aren't very popular.
Yes, that is an unfortunate effect of dealing with stupid people all day, you end up feeling really smart when you are really just a step above those you help.
You said guns are a prime target of thieves. That's true. It's why us gun owners keep them in big heavy safes. The one's that don't are negligent.
Good for you keeping it in a safe, make sure the safe itself is not stolen. A house across from mine got cleaned out before being sold. Every appliance was removed, and to remove them they had to take out the door frame in the garage. Even the direct neighbors did not notice it till morning when we all saw the empty houses garage door open. Also if you have a small gun safe, make sure it is bolted to the wall or it may not work properly at all.
Now just because someone shot someone, that doesn't mean that killing people is the solution to the problem. Besides its not like you have to keep the pepper spray in a safe where it can be difficult to get to, you can keep it right next to the door with no worries about someone killing someone with it. And if an attacker gets a hold of it and is stupid enough to spray it indoors, he will soon leave.
Thank you for mentioning one of the least likely ways your home would be robbed.
Home invasions do happen, but they tend to be planned better than regular robberies and are perpetrated by more experienced robbers since the risks are much greater. How do you think your neighbor would have done against an experienced robber with a gun? Think she would still be alive?
You are aware that guns are a prime target of thieves?
The dog may be a good idea, but guns are not nearly as good for home defense as people make them out to be. Especially since robbers do not rob you when you are home. They wait till you leave, then rob you.
You want to get an attacker (and everyone else) out of your house fast? Then use pepper spray.
If they have your desktop then they likely have all of your personal information. I would be rather worried about that portion of the theft and would be curious how one would work to make sure that the information they stole would be useless.
If this works, how slippery will the slope have to be to make you care?
Ie: if you never get another instance of spam again, if there is no longer R&D going into making better malware and virii are you going to campaign to stop the process?
Not that I think it would work anywhere near that well, but what if?
What slip in particular are you most worried about btw?
Nothing is really stopping you from conducting your day to day business with precious metals, it will just be a pain in the ass getting most companies to accept them.
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Sounds like you may be living in Minor Universe 31.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Live_Safely_in_a_Science_Fictional_Universe
You are using an example that proves his point.
Steps to take to do a shooting spree, buy gun, buy ammo, shoot.
Steps to take do do a bombing, plan, plan, plan, plan, plan, buy components as inconspicuously as possible, put components together and hope you don't blow your stupid ass up, set the bomb in such as a way that nobody knows it is there and then try to figure out how to blow it up without blowing yourself up with it.
Oh, or were you thinking you can just go to Joe Bobs Explosives and Bait Emporium and pick up a bomb there ready made and ready to go?
My wife got herself a Samsung Relay which has a keyboard, but T-Mobile has gimped this phone in a few ways. Such as you cannot use Google Voice because T-Mobile wants you to use their new service that is similar, you also cannot do tethering or hotspot without an extra charge, which is free on my old HTC G2.
It's almost like the phone was designed to be sold by AT&T instead.
Anyways, my point is the phones with keyboards do still exist. They just aren't very popular.
The cost of RE-creating the supply is nothing.
Sounds a lot like any MMO that has an issue with real money being used to advance gameplay vs actually playing.
Whether the company allows in game transactions or not, it still happens.
Sparrows are the carriers of the soul.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopomp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Half
Very true.
I know the people I help are not stupid, they just don't have the same knowledge I have, much like I don't have the same knowledge they do.
Doesn't make me smarter than them.
I'm not sure what OS LG has on their Blu-ray players, but whatever it is WebOS has gotta be an upgrade.
And yes their current OS does have an app store, with apps, that suck.
Yes, that is an unfortunate effect of dealing with stupid people all day, you end up feeling really smart when you are really just a step above those you help.
I gave it a bump in the firehose, but who knows if it will make it to the main page.
Did you submit it as an article here?
If not please do.
Oh, and there is more than one reason why those gun safes need to be bolted down.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/marcwebertobias/2012/07/27/unsafe-gun-safes-can-be-opened-by-a-three-year-old/
Very true.
You said guns are a prime target of thieves. That's true. It's why us gun owners keep them in big heavy safes. The one's that don't are negligent.
Good for you keeping it in a safe, make sure the safe itself is not stolen. A house across from mine got cleaned out before being sold. Every appliance was removed, and to remove them they had to take out the door frame in the garage. Even the direct neighbors did not notice it till morning when we all saw the empty houses garage door open. Also if you have a small gun safe, make sure it is bolted to the wall or it may not work properly at all.
Tell that to this mother: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1-Kz3vU5DY
Now just because someone shot someone, that doesn't mean that killing people is the solution to the problem. Besides its not like you have to keep the pepper spray in a safe where it can be difficult to get to, you can keep it right next to the door with no worries about someone killing someone with it. And if an attacker gets a hold of it and is stupid enough to spray it indoors, he will soon leave.
How would a safe undermine the argument?
Are we talking about keeping the guns in a safe, or all valuables in a safe?
Is the safe a floor safe that cannot be removed, or is it bolted to the wall so that is hard to removed, or is it just sitting there?
So, what about safes?
Thank you for mentioning one of the least likely ways your home would be robbed.
Home invasions do happen, but they tend to be planned better than regular robberies and are perpetrated by more experienced robbers since the risks are much greater. How do you think your neighbor would have done against an experienced robber with a gun? Think she would still be alive?
You are aware that guns are a prime target of thieves?
The dog may be a good idea, but guns are not nearly as good for home defense as people make them out to be. Especially since robbers do not rob you when you are home. They wait till you leave, then rob you.
You want to get an attacker (and everyone else) out of your house fast? Then use pepper spray.
If they have your desktop then they likely have all of your personal information. I would be rather worried about that portion of the theft and would be curious how one would work to make sure that the information they stole would be useless.
Yes, because the courts do such a good job of protecting the little guy.
If this works, how slippery will the slope have to be to make you care?
Ie: if you never get another instance of spam again, if there is no longer R&D going into making better malware and virii are you going to campaign to stop the process?
Not that I think it would work anywhere near that well, but what if?
What slip in particular are you most worried about btw?
I was for the most part just pointing out there are services that do what was asked.
What was asked was also show a video of using gold or silver at a restaurant or grocery store, just do a search and you will find just that.
It's a pain in the ass to use precious metals to purchase goods or services, and it doesn't make sense to do so, but it can be done.
There are companies that will sell you gold or silver, hold it for you, and allow you to spend it online.
I haven't looked into them because well, it sounds like a stupid idea to me, but it does exist.
Nothing is really stopping you from conducting your day to day business with precious metals, it will just be a pain in the ass getting most companies to accept them.
From RTFA it does not look like it is going to be up to just one organization to determine if it is an illegal website.
Are you trying to say that nobody is as stupid as the presenters appear on Top Gear?
Cause if so I have some bad news for you.