That's an obsurd level of reasoning. I have an alarm system, but by your logic it'd pointless because noone ever breaks in. Why keep a spare tire, a jack, and fix-a-flat in the trunk, it's not like I am changing tires everyday. You do understand the concept of emergency being something that doesn't follow a schedule right?
they show it on the Hitler channel... err History Channel all the time.. Heres a similar thought from the Japanese after bombing Perl Harbor
After Pearl Harbor when some Japanese officers suggested an invasion of America, Admiral Yamamoto said "You cannot invade mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass."
hell I cant lift one of those safes =).. in fact they exceed the weight ratings to install in most upstairs floors of a house. Great for storage and fire protection, not so great for home defense if your bedroom is upstairs and you have to run past the burglar, into the basement to get to your safe. That is, if we are talking about those 800lb safes you see at stores.
without the 2nd amendment the 1st amendment has no standing.. hell look around, the 1st amendment is being shredded almost daily, along with the 2nd and 4th. Eventually its going to either self correct, or otherwise the 2nd amendment is what will get enough people to take back their other bill of rights. This isnt new, Abraham Lincoln said it 150ish years ago..
"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it."
Hell it was actually all the gun-toting americans that deterred a nazi invasion into north america. The first thing hitler did when he came to power was to disarm his own people. He considered but passed on the idea of invading the USA simply because he would have to fight not only the military but the entire armed population here as well. So in a sense, it also serves as a militia for the government in time of need.
that doesnt mean he was smart in the installation or storage of it. I would never assume because they are a cop they are smart. I would argue its more of a rarity actually. Unless he intended his service weapon to also be home defense, there was no reason why he could not have removed the magazine and unchambered his live round before storage. Surely he has 1 extra minute to insert a clip into the weapon and chamber a round before going on duty. I would assume he also kept it as home defense. Having it lying on the floor of his room and not hidden somewhere else was a mistake that he has to live with forever. Most likely I am sure he was lulled into a false sense of security. If there is any lesson to be learned, embrace security but also act as if you have little of it so as to protect yourself on both fronts.
im ok with ammo in another place as long as its not one of those 'completely separate room in the house' kind of ideas.. after all its only useful if you can actually use it when an emergency arises.
yes, not being chambered is helpful. Im not a fan of shotguns, I worry about collateral damage of someone nearby when trying to shoot the perp. My 9yr old has a daisy bb gun. Everytime we use it for target practice I make her recite the safety guidelines such as
- every gun is always loaded even if you think it isnt - never ever point a gun at someone - never put your finger on the trigger until you are ready to shoot
ive had the GV2000 for years, but my biggest problem is the damn batteries run out all the time. Usually when I go to open it I have to get out the key because the damn batteries died, thereby making it worthless.
under a pillow would assume that they managed to break into your house undetected. Usually you hear them breaking open a window or kicking at the door trying to break it down. Theres a good 3-5min you could get to your weapon. Most people call 911, the problem is that thats only good enough to get them to your house to identify the bodies. Layers of security work best...
signs warning about alarm system alarm system with panic button dog gun
just dont rely on the cops. when seconds matter, cops show up in minutes. Superdome after hurricane katrina is all the proof of why you have to put your protection into your own hands. women were being gang raped right in the bleachers of the superdome with people all around and noone stopping them.
ironically, I am not sure why. Ive never heard of a cop being called back into work where he jumped up out of bed; raced to the clostet; dressed in 30 seconds; grabbed his firearm and was out the door 3min after the call. Hell sometimes they even take a fast shower. Plenty of time to unlock a traditional physical safe, take the magazine and re-insert it.
the term 'assault weapon' was stolen and redefined to be anything that 'looks' like a battlefield weapon.. pistol grip, folding stock, semi-automatic, doesnt even matter if the damn thing was a.22LR rimfire. A true 'assault rifle' fires either fully automatic or 3shot burst. Its fed by a bunch of sheep that think that the ONLY way to kill someone is by using a gun, and if we pass a law to make these guns illegal, people will stop killing people. Telaviv has great gun control, sure does a lot of good to everyone who died from a suicide bomber. Timothy McVey (oklahoma city bomber) didnt use assault weapons to mass murder. People have been killing people for thousands of years, it didnt just start after they invented rifles and muskets.
just as long as you don't want to borrow one of mine when you realize you totally need one I'm fine with that. You made your choice, and as long as you're willing to live with that decision when the time comes and not ask for a mulligan, I can respect that. The only issue at stake are the electronic safes based on this article. If you aren't going to have one for self-protection (such as a collector etc) then theres no issue with storing ammo in a completely different location or for that matter kept in a more traditional mechanical strongbox. its the quick acting ones that seem to be the trouble. Ive had the old gunvault one with the finger combination for 10yrs but had never seen the 'pry the cover off and use a paperclip' application till today. I doubt thats something that would be discovered accidentally, and I am certain his 3yr was trained how to do it for the video. However, those lift/drop exploits I could totally see a kid stumbling across. Most of my weapons are stored in a 5ft high stack-on cabinet with a traditional cam style locking mechanism at which I have several cans of ammo in the bottom which weighs the crap out of that cabinet. No one would be able to do any lift-drop on that one even if it had that vulnerability (which it does not). Could it be forced open with a crowbar by a burglar? Probably, but the point of the article was to point out death by accidental exposure to a gun, not intent to destroy the container to get to it.
if you're allowing the car to self-drive, then chances are you are distracted by some other activity like watching tv/movie, surfing the internet, following up on a litany of work email messages. If you do the math, going 15mph over the speed limit only saves, on average, about 6 - 8 min to destination except for longer trips. Ive wasted more than 6 - 8 min just scanning slashdot this hour. I don't think there would be much notice about not going 'fast'
for those 1hr commutes just take a nap till you reach destination.
for those late night bar activities - tell the car to take you home, meanwhile you're crashed in the back seat
Most programmers I know always ask themselves.. "how can I abuse or misuse this?" in order to try to guard against it. Who would you blame for the MS dumb-as-fuck decision to allow embedded code in JPEG to allow unattended execution of binaries with the same privilege level of the user only intending to view a picture?? Who would you blame for the decision to allow remote execution of binaries feature stuck into notepad?? Its a friggen text viewer, it should NOT be executing code without user consent. This isn't a coding error that resulted in a race condition, this is a deliberately installed feature that is a bad idea from day 0. The engineers ARE intelligent, but not very seasoned. They've apparently lived a very privileged lifestyle where everything has been given to them and they haven't been fucked over in life nearly enough to have the sufficient level of cynicism required to write code with better safeguards.
you seem to assume that without a gun these same crimes would not exist. That in a fit of rage someone wouldnt just stab someone to death or kill themselves some other way. 'Blind killing rage'... like the suicide vests that happen in israel frequently? I'm pretty sure that suicide vests are and always have been illegal in israel but those laws havent done much to deter that 'blind killing rage'.
I'll give you another bit of info to lump in with group 1. This group thinks that by somehow making guns illegal, a magical fairy is going to travel to every home and make firearms vanish into thin air. At this point enranged people will hug each other instead of looking for another improvised method of killing someone in a fit of rage. Most cities also have fines making it illegal to walk your dog, let it shit all over someone elses property and not clean up after it. I dare anyone to count the number of people they see walking a dog actually carrying some means of doing this. No surprise that most people walking their dogs have nothing at all with them to deal with any 'mess' their dog creates. As someone who walks for 1hr every morning right out of bed, I am just amazed at how much dogshit I see all over the goddamn sidewalk. Laws are worthless, no one seems to follow them anyway. About the only way to get these assholes to stop their behavior is to follow them around, wait for the offense, tackle them and shove them face first right into the steaming pile of shit. This is basically true of just about every other rediculous law we've passed. Last time I checked murder has been against the law since the beginning of our country. I dont see its existence do one thing to deter that from happening either:-).. this is, in my opinion, the overwhelming reason to dismiss gun control laws. You arent doing shit to deter the actual crime, just the method used to comit it.
simply standing for 8hrs instead of sitting (once your legs adjust to that much standing) will increase your overall metabolism quite a bit, which in the long run can burn more calories than the average 20min/day 3x/week 'suggested' amount of workout. I'm not putting down exercise, theres no reason why you cant do both. Sometimes doing one will motivate you to do more of the other. Standing is very low impact and you can start to feel the difference in just a week or two.
I recently read an article about 6-8 months ago that revealed that sitting in a chair for more than 4 hours a day was as much of a risk to heart disease as a 2pack a day smoker. The article went on to say that even daily exercise did nothing to improve this issue. As programmers and high level IT persons, we are at significant risk of this problem. At work I threw out my office chair and replaced it with one of those Pilates/therapy balls, the large size. Until I can get a standing workstation, I want to at least prevent myself from slouching in a chair by forcing myself to use abdominal muscles to hold myself upright while working. Its not perfect but its an improvement over the comfy-chair. (no, no! not the comfy-chair!)
Ive seen a couple companies have a problem where the whole underlying fabric of their VM architecture render them broken for almost a week. During this time none of their VMs were accessible. My advise is if there is one thing your company just cant live without, dont put that in your VM cloud. One example would be PBX software. If you live and die by your phones, then having them on a separate independent system with its own built in redundancies will do more to ensure some level of survivability during a disaster.
/soapbox/ when you send mail bombs and make assassination attempts you're a fucking terrorist. this whole pussy-footing around the label is horse shit. Calling a terrorist an 'anarchist' because you don't want to use the word terrorist is as horse-shit as saying only white people can be a racist and is right up there with calling an illegal alien an undocumented immigrant. Whats next? Calling drug dealers unlicensed pharmacists? Piss or get off the pot.. they're fucking terrorists. Anarchists reject organized authority and prefer mass chaos. An 'Eco-Anarchist' would be someone who would want to screw up the planet, not assassinate people to 'save' it from the big bad corporation or science. Calling them anything other than terrorists is a complete disservice to anarchists. I know a few anarchists and theyre hardly sending letter bombs and trying to assassinate people. They simply think that if we got rid of all the laws on the books people would step up and whip the shit out of their neighbors that get out of line and the problems would solve themselves. These eco-assholes are just terrorists of opportunity/endSoapbox/
I wont even let my 9yr old daughter have webcam access unsupervised, and I'd never leave the webcam in the room unattended. With the vast proliferation of malware, trojans, and ever other botnet tool out there, you'd have to be pretty naive to think there aren't ones that activate webcams in the hope of spying on children/adults undressing. I would do what other members have suggested and run your cam in the living/family room off your Xbox/PS3 so that at least there's less chance you one day discover your kid's voyeur pics were on some perv's hard drive when he finally got arrested.
Hell, my daughter's computer runs Ubuntu LTS, it stays off when she isnt using it, and she isnt allowed to be on the computer with her bedroom door closed (preconditioning expectations so when she turns 14 I dont have to worry about all the new chatroom/webcam issues that can come about)
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That's an obsurd level of reasoning. I have an alarm system, but by your logic it'd pointless because noone ever breaks in. Why keep a spare tire, a jack, and fix-a-flat in the trunk, it's not like I am changing tires everyday. You do understand the concept of emergency being something that doesn't follow a schedule right?
they show it on the Hitler channel... err History Channel all the time.. Heres a similar thought from the Japanese after bombing Perl Harbor
After Pearl Harbor when some Japanese officers suggested an invasion of America,
Admiral Yamamoto said "You cannot invade mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass."
get a live cd and execute (assuming the hdd is sda)
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=16k
no recovery tool in the world will scrape that data off that drive.
hell I cant lift one of those safes =) .. in fact they exceed the weight ratings to install in most upstairs floors of a house. Great for storage and fire protection, not so great for home defense if your bedroom is upstairs and you have to run past the burglar, into the basement to get to your safe. That is, if we are talking about those 800lb safes you see at stores.
without the 2nd amendment the 1st amendment has no standing.. hell look around, the 1st amendment is being shredded almost daily, along with the 2nd and 4th. Eventually its going to either self correct, or otherwise the 2nd amendment is what will get enough people to take back their other bill of rights. This isnt new, Abraham Lincoln said it 150ish years ago..
"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it."
Hell it was actually all the gun-toting americans that deterred a nazi invasion into north america. The first thing hitler did when he came to power was to disarm his own people. He considered but passed on the idea of invading the USA simply because he would have to fight not only the military but the entire armed population here as well. So in a sense, it also serves as a militia for the government in time of need.
that doesnt mean he was smart in the installation or storage of it. I would never assume because they are a cop they are smart. I would argue its more of a rarity actually. Unless he intended his service weapon to also be home defense, there was no reason why he could not have removed the magazine and unchambered his live round before storage. Surely he has 1 extra minute to insert a clip into the weapon and chamber a round before going on duty. I would assume he also kept it as home defense. Having it lying on the floor of his room and not hidden somewhere else was a mistake that he has to live with forever. Most likely I am sure he was lulled into a false sense of security. If there is any lesson to be learned, embrace security but also act as if you have little of it so as to protect yourself on both fronts.
im ok with ammo in another place as long as its not one of those 'completely separate room in the house' kind of ideas.. after all its only useful if you can actually use it when an emergency arises.
yes, not being chambered is helpful. Im not a fan of shotguns, I worry about collateral damage of someone nearby when trying to shoot the perp. My 9yr old has a daisy bb gun. Everytime we use it for target practice I make her recite the safety guidelines such as
- every gun is always loaded even if you think it isnt
- never ever point a gun at someone
- never put your finger on the trigger until you are ready to shoot
etc etc
ive had the GV2000 for years, but my biggest problem is the damn batteries run out all the time. Usually when I go to open it I have to get out the key because the damn batteries died, thereby making it worthless.
under a pillow would assume that they managed to break into your house undetected. Usually you hear them breaking open a window or kicking at the door trying to break it down. Theres a good 3-5min you could get to your weapon. Most people call 911, the problem is that thats only good enough to get them to your house to identify the bodies. Layers of security work best...
signs warning about alarm system
alarm system with panic button
dog
gun
just dont rely on the cops. when seconds matter, cops show up in minutes. Superdome after hurricane katrina is all the proof of why you have to put your protection into your own hands. women were being gang raped right in the bleachers of the superdome with people all around and noone stopping them.
ironically, I am not sure why. Ive never heard of a cop being called back into work where he jumped up out of bed; raced to the clostet; dressed in 30 seconds; grabbed his firearm and was out the door 3min after the call. Hell sometimes they even take a fast shower. Plenty of time to unlock a traditional physical safe, take the magazine and re-insert it.
or keep your ammo cans in the bottom because noone is running off with 400lbs of safe
the term 'assault weapon' was stolen and redefined to be anything that 'looks' like a battlefield weapon.. pistol grip, folding stock, semi-automatic, doesnt even matter if the damn thing was a .22LR rimfire. A true 'assault rifle' fires either fully automatic or 3shot burst. Its fed by a bunch of sheep that think that the ONLY way to kill someone is by using a gun, and if we pass a law to make these guns illegal, people will stop killing people. Telaviv has great gun control, sure does a lot of good to everyone who died from a suicide bomber. Timothy McVey (oklahoma city bomber) didnt use assault weapons to mass murder. People have been killing people for thousands of years, it didnt just start after they invented rifles and muskets.
just as long as you don't want to borrow one of mine when you realize you totally need one I'm fine with that. You made your choice, and as long as you're willing to live with that decision when the time comes and not ask for a mulligan, I can respect that. The only issue at stake are the electronic safes based on this article. If you aren't going to have one for self-protection (such as a collector etc) then theres no issue with storing ammo in a completely different location or for that matter kept in a more traditional mechanical strongbox. its the quick acting ones that seem to be the trouble. Ive had the old gunvault one with the finger combination for 10yrs but had never seen the 'pry the cover off and use a paperclip' application till today. I doubt thats something that would be discovered accidentally, and I am certain his 3yr was trained how to do it for the video. However, those lift/drop exploits I could totally see a kid stumbling across. Most of my weapons are stored in a 5ft high stack-on cabinet with a traditional cam style locking mechanism at which I have several cans of ammo in the bottom which weighs the crap out of that cabinet. No one would be able to do any lift-drop on that one even if it had that vulnerability (which it does not). Could it be forced open with a crowbar by a burglar? Probably, but the point of the article was to point out death by accidental exposure to a gun, not intent to destroy the container to get to it.
Al Gore may not have invented the internet, but he sure did make up global warming
http://www.tshirthell.com/funny-shirts/al-gore-didnt-invent-the-internet-but-he-did-make-up-global-warming
if you're allowing the car to self-drive, then chances are you are distracted by some other activity like watching tv/movie, surfing the internet, following up on a litany of work email messages. If you do the math, going 15mph over the speed limit only saves, on average, about 6 - 8 min to destination except for longer trips. Ive wasted more than 6 - 8 min just scanning slashdot this hour. I don't think there would be much notice about not going 'fast'
for those 1hr commutes just take a nap till you reach destination.
for those late night bar activities - tell the car to take you home, meanwhile you're crashed in the back seat
Most programmers I know always ask themselves.. "how can I abuse or misuse this?" in order to try to guard against it. Who would you blame for the MS dumb-as-fuck decision to allow embedded code in JPEG to allow unattended execution of binaries with the same privilege level of the user only intending to view a picture?? Who would you blame for the decision to allow remote execution of binaries feature stuck into notepad?? Its a friggen text viewer, it should NOT be executing code without user consent. This isn't a coding error that resulted in a race condition, this is a deliberately installed feature that is a bad idea from day 0. The engineers ARE intelligent, but not very seasoned. They've apparently lived a very privileged lifestyle where everything has been given to them and they haven't been fucked over in life nearly enough to have the sufficient level of cynicism required to write code with better safeguards.
you seem to assume that without a gun these same crimes would not exist. That in a fit of rage someone wouldnt just stab someone to death or kill themselves some other way. 'Blind killing rage'... like the suicide vests that happen in israel frequently? I'm pretty sure that suicide vests are and always have been illegal in israel but those laws havent done much to deter that 'blind killing rage'.
I'll give you another bit of info to lump in with group 1. This group thinks that by somehow making guns illegal, a magical fairy is going to travel to every home and make firearms vanish into thin air. At this point enranged people will hug each other instead of looking for another improvised method of killing someone in a fit of rage. Most cities also have fines making it illegal to walk your dog, let it shit all over someone elses property and not clean up after it. I dare anyone to count the number of people they see walking a dog actually carrying some means of doing this. No surprise that most people walking their dogs have nothing at all with them to deal with any 'mess' their dog creates. As someone who walks for 1hr every morning right out of bed, I am just amazed at how much dogshit I see all over the goddamn sidewalk. Laws are worthless, no one seems to follow them anyway. About the only way to get these assholes to stop their behavior is to follow them around, wait for the offense, tackle them and shove them face first right into the steaming pile of shit. This is basically true of just about every other rediculous law we've passed. Last time I checked murder has been against the law since the beginning of our country. I dont see its existence do one thing to deter that from happening either :-) .. this is, in my opinion, the overwhelming reason to dismiss gun control laws. You arent doing shit to deter the actual crime, just the method used to comit it.
simply standing for 8hrs instead of sitting (once your legs adjust to that much standing) will increase your overall metabolism quite a bit, which in the long run can burn more calories than the average 20min/day 3x/week 'suggested' amount of workout. I'm not putting down exercise, theres no reason why you cant do both. Sometimes doing one will motivate you to do more of the other. Standing is very low impact and you can start to feel the difference in just a week or two.
I recently read an article about 6-8 months ago that revealed that sitting in a chair for more than 4 hours a day was as much of a risk to heart disease as a 2pack a day smoker. The article went on to say that even daily exercise did nothing to improve this issue. As programmers and high level IT persons, we are at significant risk of this problem. At work I threw out my office chair and replaced it with one of those Pilates/therapy balls, the large size. Until I can get a standing workstation, I want to at least prevent myself from slouching in a chair by forcing myself to use abdominal muscles to hold myself upright while working. Its not perfect but its an improvement over the comfy-chair. (no, no! not the comfy-chair!)
Ive seen a couple companies have a problem where the whole underlying fabric of their VM architecture render them broken for almost a week. During this time none of their VMs were accessible. My advise is if there is one thing your company just cant live without, dont put that in your VM cloud. One example would be PBX software. If you live and die by your phones, then having them on a separate independent system with its own built in redundancies will do more to ensure some level of survivability during a disaster.
isnt this the same thing as those Med-Alert bracelets? I believe ambulances have quick access to that data already.
/soapbox/ when you send mail bombs and make assassination attempts you're a fucking terrorist. this whole pussy-footing around the label is horse shit. Calling a terrorist an 'anarchist' because you don't want to use the word terrorist is as horse-shit as saying only white people can be a racist and is right up there with calling an illegal alien an undocumented immigrant. Whats next? Calling drug dealers unlicensed pharmacists? Piss or get off the pot.. they're fucking terrorists. Anarchists reject organized authority and prefer mass chaos. An 'Eco-Anarchist' would be someone who would want to screw up the planet, not assassinate people to 'save' it from the big bad corporation or science. Calling them anything other than terrorists is a complete disservice to anarchists. I know a few anarchists and theyre hardly sending letter bombs and trying to assassinate people. They simply think that if we got rid of all the laws on the books people would step up and whip the shit out of their neighbors that get out of line and the problems would solve themselves. These eco-assholes are just terrorists of opportunity /endSoapbox/
I wont even let my 9yr old daughter have webcam access unsupervised, and I'd never leave the webcam in the room unattended. With the vast proliferation of malware, trojans, and ever other botnet tool out there, you'd have to be pretty naive to think there aren't ones that activate webcams in the hope of spying on children/adults undressing. I would do what other members have suggested and run your cam in the living/family room off your Xbox/PS3 so that at least there's less chance you one day discover your kid's voyeur pics were on some perv's hard drive when he finally got arrested.
Hell, my daughter's computer runs Ubuntu LTS, it stays off when she isnt using it, and she isnt allowed to be on the computer with her bedroom door closed (preconditioning expectations so when she turns 14 I dont have to worry about all the new chatroom/webcam issues that can come about)