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  1. Re:How smart? on Surprising Support Among Americans For Purchasing Smart Guns (jhsph.edu) · · Score: 1

    You might also want to examine the stats on deaths by murder or accident, and where a rifle fits in that list. Handguns are much higher, but still not at the top.

    You are mistaken. Guns are way at the top of the list of weapons used in murders. Guns are used more than five times more often to commit murder than any other weapon.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com...

    And here is the raw data, if you happen to believe the Washington Post is just lying to help the gun grabbers.

    https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/c...

  2. Re: Already here - it feels unfair to some on SaxoBank Predicts Universal Basic Income For Europe · · Score: 1

    Bullets are cheaper than universal income

    If bullets are cheap, that means poor people can get them too.

    Didn't think of that, did you?

  3. Re: YouTube is TRUTH! on Why I'm a Defender of YouTube (vortex.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    You can't have the truth without also having it blended with various things that ain't true.

    That's stupid.

    If you don't go through the content you refer to, fact check them, and decide for yourself if they are true or not

    Except you're not in a position to fact-check anything yourself. You're just going to go look at other sources, that uncurated, may or may not be true.

    You are making unfounded claims about them.

    What "unfounded claims"?

  4. Re:I understand on Edward Snowden Is Tired of Being Bombarded By Suitors (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Look, if it makes you feel better to think conservative women are better-looking, that's fine.

    But don't invoke "science". :

    A new survey out of UCLA found that female POLITICIANS with "stereotypical feminine facial features" are more likely to be Republicans than women with gender-ambiguous or masculine facial features.

    Maybe you somehow missed the word "politicians".

    In a nutshell, you sir can keep your gender-atypical women, and I'll stick with those with stereotypical feminine facial features. To each his own!

    You date politicians or just fap to them on Fox News?

    But it's OK. You tell yourself whatever you need to get through the day. Sure, conservative women are better looking.

  5. Re:I understand on Edward Snowden Is Tired of Being Bombarded By Suitors (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    For the edification of the Slashdot community, here is one of the women that's on his list of "hot conservative women":

    "Debbie Schlussel"

    https://blogomatica.files.word...

    Here's another woman on his list demonstrating how hot conservative women are (trigger warning: If you're heterosexual, this photo may make your nuts shrivel up permanently):

    http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1793...

  6. YouTube is TRUTH! on Why I'm a Defender of YouTube (vortex.com) · · Score: 2

    If it wasn't for YouTube, I'd never have learned that Alex Jones was a secret agent for the Knights of Malta and the Jesuits.

    https://youtu.be/0ZLIoEOjNhY

    I'd never have learned that the Moon was a hologram.

    https://youtu.be/_3axPn65MGM

    I wouldn't have learned that jet fuel can't melt steel beams.

    https://youtu.be/DXRDq9nKJ0U

    And most important, I'd never have learned that Jay-Z was an Illuminati time-traveler,

    https://youtu.be/-lf4zco47Gc ...and possibly a clone.

    https://youtu.be/AYDRHySPyDE

    So don't you fucking tell me that YouTube doesn't need defending. There's no better place to learn the truth than a platform where anyone can have a voice. We don't need journalists when we can get the straight shit from other people like us.

  7. Re:I understand on Edward Snowden Is Tired of Being Bombarded By Suitors (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    WTF are you talking about? NYC is full of beautiful (and frequently single) women. In fact, every liberal-ish major US city is full of beautiful women, though the west-coast cities don't have so many single ones while the northeast ones do.

    This. Go to Chicago's Oak Street Beach on a nice summer day. Or hang out in front of the old Water Tower. There's a reason Playboy Magazine started in Chicago.

  8. I understand on Edward Snowden Is Tired of Being Bombarded By Suitors (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Funny

    To be honest, I have the same problem. After the thousandth chick sends you a selfie of her pootenanny, it gets a bit tiresome.

    Oh, who am I kidding? No, it doesn't.

  9. Re:How smart? on Surprising Support Among Americans For Purchasing Smart Guns (jhsph.edu) · · Score: 1

    Right. So if a poor kid falls into a pool and drowns, it's a tragedy, parents should have taken measures to prevent it, yada yada yada.

    But if it involves a firearm. OMG! Ban all firearms! Require "smart-guns" knee-jerk knee-jerk knee-jerk. Yet no "ban pools!"

    A swimming pool has a purpose beyond the destruction of a life.

  10. Re:Dupe WITHIN summary... on Zika Virus Outbreak Prompts CDC To Expand Travel Advisory (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously, can you just STFU?

    He's not mad, he's laughing.

  11. Re:How smart? on Surprising Support Among Americans For Purchasing Smart Guns (jhsph.edu) · · Score: 1

    I have a double major degree in Journalism and Political Science - trust me

    No.

    I looked up the ad

    And you think the names "Cricket" and "Chipmunk" and "My First Gun" were designed to appeal to adults? It's not, "My Kid's First Gun", but rather "My First Gun".

    Crickett firearms are not targeting child demographics with their ads, as readily evidenced by looking at advertising in media children actually watch.

    Right. Gun marketing is never targeted at children.

    http://www.cabelas.com/categor...

    I think you should get right in the fucking sea.

  12. Re:biggest single source of donations on How Have Large Donations Affected Education Policy In New York City? · · Score: 1

    The fact that in recent years, supporters for charter schools and private donations have managed to reach similar contributions is a glimmer of hope.

    The education system has failed you.

  13. Re:On the one hand... on Psychic Dogs and Enlisted Men: the Military's Research Into ESP (muckrock.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Put simply - if we actually have to ask whether such an ability exists... ...it doesn't.

    There have been several studies now which show a statistically significant psi effect, though too small to be practical.

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...

  14. Re:How smart? on Surprising Support Among Americans For Purchasing Smart Guns (jhsph.edu) · · Score: 0

    The day I see a kindergardner filling out purchase paperwork at the gn counter at Cabellas, maybe I'll give a shit.

    Why do you think companies spend billions on marketing toys and sweet cereals and snack foods to children? Because it works. It's not like 5 year-olds are plopping down credit cards at the grocery store or Toys-R-Us. Marketing is very often directed at someone besides the ones doing the purchasing.

    You really should think a bit before posting.

  15. Re:How smart? on Surprising Support Among Americans For Purchasing Smart Guns (jhsph.edu) · · Score: 1

    That's great. It should be noted that nowhere in the united states can a 5 year old purchase a firearm.

    Exactly. In every case it's parents buying guns for their 5 year olds.

    Which also makes a compelling case for "smart guns".

  16. Re:How smart? on Surprising Support Among Americans For Purchasing Smart Guns (jhsph.edu) · · Score: 1

    It's not necessarily a question of intelligence; sometimes even smart people express moments of poor judgement, and they have to deal with the consequences (in this case, their own death).

    Or the death of their kids.

    You are making the case for "smart guns" better than I could.

  17. Re:Dupe WITHIN summary... on Zika Virus Outbreak Prompts CDC To Expand Travel Advisory (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    a rare condition in which babies are born with abnormally small heads.

    And that, class, is where Trump voters came from.

  18. Re:How smart? on Surprising Support Among Americans For Purchasing Smart Guns (jhsph.edu) · · Score: 0

    Did you miss the detail that the uzi was already loaded and that she had already fired a shot before he told her to switch to full auto? Moving a firing mode selector switch is very, very easy and the instructor was a damn fool as well, it's very stupid to do with a child and even so what he should have done was stand behind her and held onto the gun as well (that was the procedure even for adults at the range I visited in Vegas right after this incident, I had to prove that I could control the firearm without assistance.)

    You make a very good argument for smart guns. Because if even instructors aren't smart enough not to hand a kid a loaded weapon, and then tell her to switch to full auto, then I'm pretty sure that no assumptions can be made that anyone is smart enough to own guns.

  19. WEARABLE SMART GUNS FOR PETS! on Pet Wearables? But Seriously, Folks... (Video) · · Score: 0

    https://youtu.be/kfVsfOSbJY0?t...

    Oh, and something something SJWs.

  20. Re:The Hollywood Effect on Surprising Support Among Americans For Purchasing Smart Guns (jhsph.edu) · · Score: 1

    I want a dub-step gun.

  21. Re:That's what I was thinking. on Surprising Support Among Americans For Purchasing Smart Guns (jhsph.edu) · · Score: 1

    Like this bad boy. http://tracking-point.com/ [tracking-point.com]

    And the good news: "Tracking Point Now Offers Financing".

  22. Re:How smart? on Surprising Support Among Americans For Purchasing Smart Guns (jhsph.edu) · · Score: 0

    Anyone who has ever cycled the slide on a semi auto can tell you that it's pretty much beyond a "child's" capability.

    Oops, somebody didn't tell this 9 year-old.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com...

  23. Re:How smart? on Surprising Support Among Americans For Purchasing Smart Guns (jhsph.edu) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Who would NOT be in favour of a "childproof" gun?

    That's too easy:

    The company is called Keystone Sporting Arms, and they make .22 rifles called the "Crickett" and the "Chipmunk" that are meant for children as young as five years old. They became famous a few years ago when a five year old killed his two year old sister with what Keystone sells as "My First Gun". They are still proudly marketing their products to kindergartners.

    http://www.crickett.com/

    "Quality Firearms for America's Youth"

    I assume from your use of the letter "u" in the word "favour" that you are not American. This would explain why you might that there is a level below which the American gun industry would not sink.

  24. Re:From neglect or from hackers? on At How Much Risk Is the US's Critical Infrastructure? (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    QFT. Flint, MI says hi. Public works and infrastructure require a lot of maintenance

    It wasn't lack of maintenance that caused the environmental disaster and poisoning of 100k people in Flint. It was an attempt to run government on "free market" principles. An emergency manager appointed by Gov Rick Snyder (R-Atlas Shrugged) decided to change the water source to a polluted river to save money, punish Democratic voters and kill poor people.

    It was a Republican governor sending small pox infected blankets to the people of Flint.

  25. Extremely poor form and maturity in the attempt to cherry pick the free market example and argument I gave.

    Don't be so hard on yourself. You chose that example to make your argument. It failed, but it doesn't really speak to form or maturity.