A policy that encourages lingering, with dozens of fully functioning computers, iPods and iPhones for visitors to try, even for hours on end (one patron wrote a manuscript entirely at the store) has 'given some stores, especially those in urban neighborhoods, the feel of a community center
Wait, you mean that a store that lets people freely do whatever they wish to do with little restrictions is more successful than a store in which you can just buy and leave? Who'da thunked it!
Yeah it'd be really funny until some drunk passenger that had missed several flights and was in a truly foul mood whipped out his.38 and started taking out flight attendants.
Exactly, because people in the real world (ie outside of your bedroom) start shooting random people whenever they're drunk and pissed off despite knowing that other people around them have guns. This type of shit happens every day!
So basically, you're saying that it's OK that hijackings can happen because unrelated types of airplane crashes happen more often, but that we cannot allow people to have guns on-board to prevent these hijackings, because of the unfounded idea that there's a chance that someone might go crazy with his gun, despite the fact that it is less likely to happen than hijackings?
Indeed, terrorists are rational to the extent that they'll do just what it takes to achieve their goal, even if being willing to achieve that goal might seem irrational. Besides, you put a lot of confidence in what passengers are able to do. What happened to the 9/11 flight that crashed in Pennsylvania shows that even if the passengers are determined to prevent the hijackers from reaching their goal, it doesn't mean they can do as much as they could using fire power.
after the hassle of getting to the airport and getting through the security line, and getting the additional security checks, which involve large ugly men cupping my balls, then having a screw driver and my batteries confiscated, and then having to walk a mile through the air port terminal to my gate, and then crammed onto an air planes tiny little seats with a screaming baby and smug barbie doll flight attendents and then you want to give me a gun?
Yes. Solves the security check problem. Potential weapons other than explosive devices wouldn't be checked for anymore, that means security would be only about looking for bombs, not maces/knives/scissors/box cutters and so on. Two birds, one stone.
he'll be shot by a nervous redneck who assumes he must be a terrorist.
Do you realise how racist against people from the American south this is? What you said implies that people over there are typically trigger happy racists with a low IQ. That's nothing short of racist.
And more people would see it as a great way to commit suicide without having to bother to turn your own gun on yourself.
Really, then how come this happens so rarely in police stations, shooting ranges and military bases? I love how most anti-gun arguments are based on people's imagination-based theories rather than statistical or anecdotal evidence.
If the police don't hit the bad guys with every round, imagine the carnage if a bunch of civilians started shooting.
From here : "Another study examined newspaper reports of gun incidents in Missouri, involving police or civilians. In this study, civilians were successful in wounding, driving off, capturing criminals 83% of the time, compared with a 68% success rate for the police. Civilians intervening in crime were slightly less likely to be wounded than were police. Only 2% of shootings by civilians, but 11% of shootings by police, involved an innocent person mistakenly thought to be a criminal."
Easily. They'd just shoot you while you're struggling to drag your gun case out of the overhead compartment.
Yeah, because everybody knows that people who carry guns for protection like to leave them in their luggage rather than under their belts/inside a holster.
My point exactly, I have no idea why I've even been modded Funny! Same applies to mass shootings by the way, if say one out of ten persons would carry a handgun at all times I don't see how a mass shooting could go very far. Yay, thanks for all the gun control laws people, now when a nutter wants to get famous he can just go to the nearest gun-free school zone and be sure to find no civilian resistance to prevent him from setting a new record!
which leads me to wonder if the per capita risk of hijacking is any different now versus what it was back then.
And that makes me wonder what the risk of hijacking would be if carrying guns was allowed (even encouraged?) on airplanes. I'd love to see a terrorist managing to take control of a plane for more than 5 minutes if other passengers had guns.
You still need to get your boiler serviced, seal your windows in the winter, insulate your house, trade in your stupid-ass SUV for something more efficient, turn off lights you're not using, install a programmable thermostat, purchase energy-star rated appliances when it's time to replace them, carpool, set your computers to go to sleep when idle, etc etc etc.
Just wondering, if where I live (in France) all the power I consume comes from a nuclear power plant, does it still matter if I do all of that?
What about microfilms? I know this is a terribly old solution, but that's what was used in the 1940 time capsule that's scheduled to be opened in 8113. Surely, that's terribly old tech, but anyone can read microfilms.
I'm pretty sure that eating too much is the major issue with American obesity. You get just as fat sitting at the computer as you do in front of the TV.
Noooo you're wroooooong. Americans are fatter not because they have the fattest food in the world but because they don't hit the gym everyday. Why is everybody from Ireland to Ethiopia fit? That's because we all spend one hour on the treadmill at least three times a week!
Americans just need to exercise more. It's useless to eat equilibrated food, it won't make you any fitter, it's just commen sense, besides that's very un-american because it decreases the profits of all-American food restaurants owned by hard working American families from generation to generation like McDonald's or Wendy's! So stay patriotic, eat at your favourite fast-food restaurant chain at least once every day, and do like the rest of the entire world by getting a subscription to your local gym!
Unnatural radio transmissions would stand out against the background radiation and give us a sense that another civilization is there.
The background radiation, really? You mean that? Oh yeah do you see that little spot, right next the big blue blob? Might just be them..
Seriously, you seem to think that all our telescopes put together form some sort of super fish-eye that monitors the entirety of the sky permanently. If it was the case, then we would know a lot more than the small fraction of asteroids we estimate we know (about a tenth of how much we estimate there are in total, depends on which figures you look at). Telescopes have an extremely narrow field of view, so narrow you could try every night for a year to catch a commercial airplane with one of these with no success.
Actually I think it's a good analogy. You couldn't find find an airplane in the nightly sky with a 10-meter telescope if you tried hard. They are there tho! Just not too often, and in a small part of the sky you're not looking at.
Yeah, the world is dangerous out there. You think you're buying a legitimate CD for $5 on a street corner out of a trunk, and what do you know, this is pirated music. Ouch, whoda thunk it! Fortunately the RIAA is here to tell us about the dangers of unintentionally buying pirated music.
And that's not all, they have more videos coming up, one with a guy baking a couple of bacon slices going "These are your ears. These are your ears on pirated music.". Really, what would become of us without the RIAA?
It targets portable devices -- not x86's usual forte
Yeah, that's not x86's usual forte because x86s are more power thirsty than say MIPS or ARM, which is why it would be interesting if the article could mention how much this new thing is supposed to drain.
I read the article, and understood that a star among many others has been ejected out of its galaxy, something relatively usual, and that at the end of its life, it supernovaed. I can understand that scientists would be amazed by the unusualness of such an event, but what's puzzling about it? What is that to explain that is unexplained?
Is it me or did everyone mistake a period of time for an error margin? I seemed to understand that what it means is that 4,568 million years ago, microscopic interstellar dust started to coalesce into mountain-sized chunks of rock, and this during 2,080,000 years, and then these mountain-sized masses quickly grew into about 20 Mars-sized planets, and so on..
That's really what what I'm reading seems to say, but then it implies that I must be right and anyone else is wrong. Usually when you think you're the only one who's right it's not a good sign though..
What I find bizarre is that religion is not considered a form of mental illness in the US.
Yeah, me too. I wish anyone who thinks or acts differently from me in a way I disapprove would be considered mentally ill, just like the homosexuals back in the day.
Tolerance? What the fuck is that?! I brainwash a Jesus-freak and go get a six-pack. On an unrelated note, why do some many people in this country don't like atheists like me? I don't get it..
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A policy that encourages lingering, with dozens of fully functioning computers, iPods and iPhones for visitors to try, even for hours on end (one patron wrote a manuscript entirely at the store) has 'given some stores, especially those in urban neighborhoods, the feel of a community center
Wait, you mean that a store that lets people freely do whatever they wish to do with little restrictions is more successful than a store in which you can just buy and leave? Who'da thunked it!
Yeah it'd be really funny until some drunk passenger that had missed several flights and was in a truly foul mood whipped out his .38 and started taking out flight attendants.
Exactly, because people in the real world (ie outside of your bedroom) start shooting random people whenever they're drunk and pissed off despite knowing that other people around them have guns. This type of shit happens every day!
So basically, you're saying that it's OK that hijackings can happen because unrelated types of airplane crashes happen more often, but that we cannot allow people to have guns on-board to prevent these hijackings, because of the unfounded idea that there's a chance that someone might go crazy with his gun, despite the fact that it is less likely to happen than hijackings?
You're assuming the terrorist is rational
Indeed, terrorists are rational to the extent that they'll do just what it takes to achieve their goal, even if being willing to achieve that goal might seem irrational. Besides, you put a lot of confidence in what passengers are able to do. What happened to the 9/11 flight that crashed in Pennsylvania shows that even if the passengers are determined to prevent the hijackers from reaching their goal, it doesn't mean they can do as much as they could using fire power.
Rawlpindi is a garisson city. No shortage of arms there. Yet the suicide bomber still managed to kill rather more than any US spree shooter.
People carrying guns help solve the problem of criminality, doesn't help preventing suicide bombings and doesn't help curing cancer.
after the hassle of getting to the airport and getting through the security line, and getting the additional security checks, which involve large ugly men cupping my balls, then having a screw driver and my batteries confiscated, and then having to walk a mile through the air port terminal to my gate, and then crammed onto an air planes tiny little seats with a screaming baby and smug barbie doll flight attendents and then you want to give me a gun?
Yes. Solves the security check problem. Potential weapons other than explosive devices wouldn't be checked for anymore, that means security would be only about looking for bombs, not maces/knives/scissors/box cutters and so on. Two birds, one stone.
he'll be shot by a nervous redneck who assumes he must be a terrorist.
Do you realise how racist against people from the American south this is? What you said implies that people over there are typically trigger happy racists with a low IQ. That's nothing short of racist.
And more people would see it as a great way to commit suicide without having to bother to turn your own gun on yourself.
Really, then how come this happens so rarely in police stations, shooting ranges and military bases? I love how most anti-gun arguments are based on people's imagination-based theories rather than statistical or anecdotal evidence.
If the police don't hit the bad guys with every round, imagine the carnage if a bunch of civilians started shooting.
From here : "Another study examined newspaper reports of gun incidents in Missouri, involving police or civilians. In this study, civilians were successful in wounding, driving off, capturing criminals 83% of the time, compared with a 68% success rate for the police. Civilians intervening in crime were slightly less likely to be wounded than were police. Only 2% of shootings by civilians, but 11% of shootings by police, involved an innocent person mistakenly thought to be a criminal."
Easily. They'd just shoot you while you're struggling to drag your gun case out of the overhead compartment.
Yeah, because everybody knows that people who carry guns for protection like to leave them in their luggage rather than under their belts/inside a holster.
My point exactly, I have no idea why I've even been modded Funny! Same applies to mass shootings by the way, if say one out of ten persons would carry a handgun at all times I don't see how a mass shooting could go very far. Yay, thanks for all the gun control laws people, now when a nutter wants to get famous he can just go to the nearest gun-free school zone and be sure to find no civilian resistance to prevent him from setting a new record!
which leads me to wonder if the per capita risk of hijacking is any different now versus what it was back then.
And that makes me wonder what the risk of hijacking would be if carrying guns was allowed (even encouraged?) on airplanes. I'd love to see a terrorist managing to take control of a plane for more than 5 minutes if other passengers had guns.
The picture would show nothing more than a blurry spot, with one pixel slightly different from the others.
Yeah, but now, that pixel's spectrum would be quite interesting.
Or the 40ies and 50ies
You mean back in the good old days of racist lynch mobs and communist witch-hunts? Yeah, I miss those days too.
You still need to get your boiler serviced, seal your windows in the winter, insulate your house, trade in your stupid-ass SUV for something more efficient, turn off lights you're not using, install a programmable thermostat, purchase energy-star rated appliances when it's time to replace them, carpool, set your computers to go to sleep when idle, etc etc etc.
Just wondering, if where I live (in France) all the power I consume comes from a nuclear power plant, does it still matter if I do all of that?
What about microfilms? I know this is a terribly old solution, but that's what was used in the 1940 time capsule that's scheduled to be opened in 8113. Surely, that's terribly old tech, but anyone can read microfilms.
Clinton is a corporate whore.
Wow, way to make a point, dude! Keep sticking it to the man.. I mean woman, whatever..
Bullshit.
Sounds like you wouldn't know a sarcasm if it painted itself purple and danced naked on the table in front of you singing "sarcasms are here again!".
You can't eat twice as much as other people and expect to stay the same weight.
Heeey, thanks for the insight Captain Obvious!
I'm pretty sure that eating too much is the major issue with American obesity. You get just as fat sitting at the computer as you do in front of the TV.
Noooo you're wroooooong. Americans are fatter not because they have the fattest food in the world but because they don't hit the gym everyday. Why is everybody from Ireland to Ethiopia fit? That's because we all spend one hour on the treadmill at least three times a week!
Americans just need to exercise more. It's useless to eat equilibrated food, it won't make you any fitter, it's just commen sense, besides that's very un-american because it decreases the profits of all-American food restaurants owned by hard working American families from generation to generation like McDonald's or Wendy's! So stay patriotic, eat at your favourite fast-food restaurant chain at least once every day, and do like the rest of the entire world by getting a subscription to your local gym!
Unnatural radio transmissions would stand out against the background radiation and give us a sense that another civilization is there.
The background radiation, really? You mean that? Oh yeah do you see that little spot, right next the big blue blob? Might just be them..
Seriously, you seem to think that all our telescopes put together form some sort of super fish-eye that monitors the entirety of the sky permanently. If it was the case, then we would know a lot more than the small fraction of asteroids we estimate we know (about a tenth of how much we estimate there are in total, depends on which figures you look at). Telescopes have an extremely narrow field of view, so narrow you could try every night for a year to catch a commercial airplane with one of these with no success.
Actually I think it's a good analogy. You couldn't find find an airplane in the nightly sky with a 10-meter telescope if you tried hard. They are there tho! Just not too often, and in a small part of the sky you're not looking at.
Yeah, the world is dangerous out there. You think you're buying a legitimate CD for $5 on a street corner out of a trunk, and what do you know, this is pirated music. Ouch, whoda thunk it! Fortunately the RIAA is here to tell us about the dangers of unintentionally buying pirated music.
And that's not all, they have more videos coming up, one with a guy baking a couple of bacon slices going "These are your ears. These are your ears on pirated music.". Really, what would become of us without the RIAA?
It targets portable devices -- not x86's usual forte
Yeah, that's not x86's usual forte because x86s are more power thirsty than say MIPS or ARM, which is why it would be interesting if the article could mention how much this new thing is supposed to drain.
I read the article, and understood that a star among many others has been ejected out of its galaxy, something relatively usual, and that at the end of its life, it supernovaed. I can understand that scientists would be amazed by the unusualness of such an event, but what's puzzling about it? What is that to explain that is unexplained?
its really about 4 parts in 10000
Is it me or did everyone mistake a period of time for an error margin? I seemed to understand that what it means is that 4,568 million years ago, microscopic interstellar dust started to coalesce into mountain-sized chunks of rock, and this during 2,080,000 years, and then these mountain-sized masses quickly grew into about 20 Mars-sized planets, and so on..
That's really what what I'm reading seems to say, but then it implies that I must be right and anyone else is wrong. Usually when you think you're the only one who's right it's not a good sign though..
What I find bizarre is that religion is not considered a form of mental illness in the US.
Yeah, me too. I wish anyone who thinks or acts differently from me in a way I disapprove would be considered mentally ill, just like the homosexuals back in the day.
Tolerance? What the fuck is that?! I brainwash a Jesus-freak and go get a six-pack. On an unrelated note, why do some many people in this country don't like atheists like me? I don't get it..