Hey, look at that! The trend is that more gun ownership is correlated with LESS homicide. It is a weak correlation, but it is there.
That sounded great until I remembered that the USA has an unusually high rate of gun-related deaths. If your correlation held we wouldn't be looking at countries like France enviously.
Equally bigoted are the people who couldn't handle his views.
It wasn't his views that drew ire, it was his actions. You have to intentionally mislead people to make your point, that's not very solid footing for you.
Alan Rickman has played a number of iconic roles in his lifetime. That man has played a persona that has been part of my life in every decade of my being. Very appreciated, and certainly missed.
Guns are so bad, but Obama keeps is armed Secret Service agents?
Or, to put it another way, the Secret Service is armed to protect the President from the US's gun-crazed citizens, which is perfectly consistent with his message.
I understand that bugs will happen. I really do. But this is like a total breakdown in process. Why the fuck weren't these problems detected sooner, like when the code was committed and reviewed? The code was reviewed, right?!
That's what's great about Open Source and all those millions of eyeballs!
My issue with this is that it's still an arms race. Creativity will be poured into putting more onoxious crap in regardless of the guidelines. On top of that, how do we know one of the advertising providers won't bring a wheelbarrow full of money to AdBlock and purchase their loophole?
Although I do agree with the sentiment that some ads are okay to keep sites alive, I definitely love the idea of consumers world-wide sending the message that they need us more than we need them. I fear this approach will weaken the respect advertisers would have for us otherwise.
Suddenly all these gun control laws are really effective now. Anyway, no, the stats don't support it. In fact the recent shooting in Oregon really hammered that home.
You know what happens when a mass shooting is stopped by a "good guy with a gun"? It's not a mass shooting! It's just one guy using a firearm in self defense to stop another guy with a gun. That's hardly newsworthy,...
Heh. So, just to be clear, if somebody had shot the two people in California last week before they killed anybody else, and they found that cache of weapons etc, that wouldn't have made news? Be serious.
It's no coincidence that the vast majority of mass shootings happen in gun-free zones!
It's also not a coincidence that most gun-free zones are in places where they're likely to happen. Oh and a couple of more things: You're not allowed weapons in most places. Most of these killings are at places the shooter(s) have ties to. No, the gun-free zone is not a shooter magnet.
What do you mean? Millions more people own guns now than they did 30 years ago, and violence crimes of all kinds, including those involving guns, have been going steadily down, and are down 46% since the 1990's. So, more honest people own legal guns, and we have much, much less violent crime.
The USA's gun death rate is far far far higher than places like Canada, France, UK, etc.
Those are areas with the most draconian gun laws, but they still seem to have a problem. Why? Because they have a rampant violent gang crime problem in those small parts of those four cities.
And how would that have stopped last week's shooting?
You want a "better answer?" Address the culture problems in that handful of urban areas, and ask your favorite media outlets to report this stuff in some sort of honest context.
In other words: "Nah that's your problem, not mine, so long as I can keep my guns."
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Hey, look at that! The trend is that more gun ownership is correlated with LESS homicide. It is a weak correlation, but it is there.
That sounded great until I remembered that the USA has an unusually high rate of gun-related deaths. If your correlation held we wouldn't be looking at countries like France enviously.
This is Slashdot. We don't do discussin, we do arguin! Give us something to wave our pitchforks at or we'll just go "meh".
Yes, they did. Complete with tales of how no one would use them because they'd just carry their point'n'shoots around,
People around here said that about cameras in cell phones, too.
Oh... you mean you're a Windows user?
Equally bigoted are the people who couldn't handle his views.
It wasn't his views that drew ire, it was his actions. You have to intentionally mislead people to make your point, that's not very solid footing for you.
So if pretty much every manufacturer is doing this, how is this not equal to a kind of mass civic protest?
Money.
...baseballs, tennis balls, frisbees, nerf darts, shuttlecocks, boomerangs, bullets, your child's bike...
How many people run outside with their shotgun to shoot down baseballs, tennis balls, etc?
And a sign that says: "This device may cause cancer."
Heh. Yeah, blasting your opinions on social media is really lame. Thanks for posting on Slashdot so we can hear about it.
That's a seriously cool story!
Alan Rickman has played a number of iconic roles in his lifetime. That man has played a persona that has been part of my life in every decade of my being. Very appreciated, and certainly missed.
Now I'm off to see if there's a pub.
I think most of the planet would support sending Trump into space.
Why not? That's all Luke did with the blaster remote.
Oh please. Even Harry Potter is better than LoTR.
Please define "most" and "ever", because it's clear you're not using them correctly.
Heh. This nitpick was just for decorative purposes only.
Guns are so bad, but Obama keeps is armed Secret Service agents?
Or, to put it another way, the Secret Service is armed to protect the President from the US's gun-crazed citizens, which is perfectly consistent with his message.
If all they're doing is providing a 1.5mb pipe, then why do they need to be the gatekeeper of what sites can use it?
I understand that bugs will happen. I really do. But this is like a total breakdown in process. Why the fuck weren't these problems detected sooner, like when the code was committed and reviewed? The code was reviewed, right?!
That's what's great about Open Source and all those millions of eyeballs!
Hehe heh hehheheh heheh heheh. Yah yah. Hehhe heh.
As my Christmas gift to you all I've made all erector jokes redundant, you may now enjoy a civilized discussion about your planned erections.
If he were either black or Muslim then he would have instead gotten an invite to the White house. Different standards for crackers though.
Yeah because if there's one group of people in America that truly knows what oppression is, it's the white folk. /s
My issue with this is that it's still an arms race. Creativity will be poured into putting more onoxious crap in regardless of the guidelines. On top of that, how do we know one of the advertising providers won't bring a wheelbarrow full of money to AdBlock and purchase their loophole?
Although I do agree with the sentiment that some ads are okay to keep sites alive, I definitely love the idea of consumers world-wide sending the message that they need us more than we need them. I fear this approach will weaken the respect advertisers would have for us otherwise.
Suddenly all these gun control laws are really effective now. Anyway, no, the stats don't support it. In fact the recent shooting in Oregon really hammered that home.
You know what happens when a mass shooting is stopped by a "good guy with a gun"? It's not a mass shooting! It's just one guy using a firearm in self defense to stop another guy with a gun. That's hardly newsworthy,...
Heh. So, just to be clear, if somebody had shot the two people in California last week before they killed anybody else, and they found that cache of weapons etc, that wouldn't have made news? Be serious.
It's no coincidence that the vast majority of mass shootings happen in gun-free zones!
It's also not a coincidence that most gun-free zones are in places where they're likely to happen. Oh and a couple of more things: You're not allowed weapons in most places. Most of these killings are at places the shooter(s) have ties to. No, the gun-free zone is not a shooter magnet.
What do you mean? Millions more people own guns now than they did 30 years ago, and violence crimes of all kinds, including those involving guns, have been going steadily down, and are down 46% since the 1990's. So, more honest people own legal guns, and we have much, much less violent crime.
The USA's gun death rate is far far far higher than places like Canada, France, UK, etc.
Those are areas with the most draconian gun laws, but they still seem to have a problem. Why? Because they have a rampant violent gang crime problem in those small parts of those four cities.
And how would that have stopped last week's shooting?
You want a "better answer?" Address the culture problems in that handful of urban areas, and ask your favorite media outlets to report this stuff in some sort of honest context.
In other words: "Nah that's your problem, not mine, so long as I can keep my guns."