Or, if you like, we'd have to get rid of massive quantities of guns. Getting massive security in place is a lot easier and more reliable.
Or, we could just study the way all the other large, industrialized democracies in the world manage to minimize gun violence. Surely, we're capable of learning something?
Suddenly PETA activist vegan Iranian women are the dominant culture?
You're referring to Nasim Najafi Aghdam, who was the shooter at the YouTube campus who killed herself. Below is the list of people we were discussing. You will notice her name is not on the list.
Whether it's Chris Raygun, Pat Condell, MundaneMatt, Sargon of Akkad, Laci Green, Shoe0nhead, Undoomed, Top Hat's and Champagne, h3h3, Phil Defranco and on and on and on and on.
On the one hand, there's no evidence that metal detectors have reduced the number of mass shootings in schools that have them.
Whoa there. You were talking about "heavily hardened" places, not just somewhere that's thrown up a few metal detectors. I've been to schools with metal detectors that have one very sleepy security guard manning them. A metal detector alone does not make a facility "heavily hardened".
Second, you mentioned airports. There have been zero mass shootings at airports behind the metal detectors. The only shooting we've seen at an airport was Ft Lauderdale, and that was in the baggage area, where there are no metal detectors. So, in the case of airports, metal detectors and the "heavily hardened" facility have stopped 100% of the mass shootings.
See, the thing is this: mass shootings require gun(s). Without guns, there are no mass shootings. As in zero. There have been no mass shootings in the United States using bombs, cars, knives, clubs or glaives.
I don't know how many of you have tried it, but nvdia's GeForce Now service is exactly the kind of thing that could be severely hampered by a lack of Net Neutrality.
[Before I continue, let's get one thing straight: Net Neutrality doesn't mean companies like Netflix don't pay for bandwidth. Of course they do. They just don't have to pay MORE for bandwidth than some other service that might have ties to the ISP. Ok, everybody clear on that?]
Anyway, back to GeForce Now. I've been beta testing it and it's just fantastic. It's basically a way to stream your video games to machines that aren't powerful enough to play them. So, if you have some i3 laptop with weak graphics, you can still play GTA V on ultra quality. No lag, no bullshit. You just play the game and it's like you're sitting at some sick $5000 gaming PC. And it works. Works perfectly. I mean, you can tell they're still dialing it in over at nvidia, because some days there might be some audio stuttering, but then it gets fixed. This is a beta product after all.
OK, so the only thing is, this GeForce Now service uses a shit-ton of bandwidth. You've got to have a pretty fast internet connection and a lot of data gets used, as you can imagine. I've been using it for a couple months and I still haven't gone over my Spectrum data limit (though to be fair, I don't know what my data limit is).
Now let's say that a piece of shit ISP, say, Spectrum, decides that they're going to start their own game streaming service, but they're going to charge nvidia five times as much for getting their data to your house. Or worse, they charge YOU more for getting nvidia's data to your house. Remember, nvidia is already paying for bandwidth at their end, and naturally, you're already paying exorbitant amounts for bandwidth at your end. THE BANDWIDTH IS ALREADY BEING PAID FOR. Nobody's getting anything for free.
In summary: 1) GeForce Now is going to be a really interesting service to watch and 2) the repeal of Net Neutrality could absolutely mess up gamers, and 3) Ajit Pai is a piece of shit. Here is a photo of Ajit Pai so you know who I'm talking about:
Yes, but how often does it happen at a given location? How often does it happen at Google?
So, your argument appears to be, "Not everyone is killed by guns every day, so..."
I'm not sure what you're saying. Given the mentality of people who make their living recording YouTube videos, I'm pretty sure they should have a moat with lasers for security.
For a given heavily-hardened school or airport or corporate office, how many active shooter attacks do those metal detectors and armed security forces actually stop?
I dislike Trump's authoritarianism, but think his hatred for the tech industry is useful. If he can destroy or slow down the growth of the ad-supported, privacy-sucking tech firms like Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, etc, then that will be one of the few good things his administration has done.
Does he want to "destroy or slow down the growth" of these companies, or bend them to his will?
He didn't seem to have any "hatred for the tech industry" when it comes to what Robert & Rebekah Mercer are doing with Cambridge Analytica.
Why not go look over the past year of people who've had their visibility revoked. Whether it's Chris Raygun, Pat Condell, MundaneMatt, Sargon of Akkad, Laci Green, Shoe0nhead, Undoomed, Top Hat's and Champagne, h3h3, Phil Defranco and on and on and on and on.
I encourage readers to google those names and discover for themselves how much of cultural importance has been lost by those people not being able to make money on YouTube.
I don't care for all this; it happens now and then, not every day.
Yes, it happens every day. According to the Center for Disease Control, there are about 80-100 firearm deaths every day. Every year, about 115,000 people are shot. So yeah, it happens every day.
About 10 out of every 100,000 people will die from being shot in the US every year.
You pick a corporation like Centurylink. You get it's CEO and the board of directors and you shackle them all to the wall of a damp basement. You take the CEO and put him in a small glass tank with poisonous snakes. Post the video.
I guarantee we'll start seeing better behavior from our corporate overlords, and almost everyone will be a lot happier. I'm not suggesting mass executions, but simply making examples out of a handful of crooked corporate executives. The world would be a better place.
What do you say to people who say one race is better than another for qualities x, y, and z?
I'd say what everybody else says to you: you're a racist. Looking at your comment history here on Slashdot, I can see that you've been posting racist shit on here for quite some time.
couldn't you say that one race is better educated than another, has more poise (very subjective), and is "more capable" (measured somehow)?
You could, but then people would call you a racist.
Meanwhile, what actually burns up time at the checkout is waiting for Greatest Generation Great Grandma to haul out her checkbook, laboriously write out her fiscal epistle, and get it approved by a manager.
If you get that upset about the time it takes an old woman to write a check, you seriously need to relax. Don't rush through life. If the pressure of your job has you depressed, try offering to carry that little grandma's groceries to her car. Talk to her. Be respectful of other people. You'll live longer.
Most merchants still take cash, but more and more do not. As cash users dwindle, it just isn't worth the hassle and risk for businesses to keep cash on hand. Any merchant can accept e-payments, even informal unregistered businesses. A farmer was selling apples out of a wagon on the street in front of my apartment... with a WeChat QR-code sticker on his scale. Just weigh, scan, and go.
China sounds like a trip now. I was there in the 90s, studying martial arts in Wudang, and it was still pretty bare bones. I'd like to go again soon.
in China you use an app to scan the merchants QR-code, and then enter a 6 digit PIN and/or use finger/face ID to confirm the transaction. It typically takes about two seconds.
That all sounds like it takes more than two second.
Most charter schools do not save money and do a worse job educating kids. There are some good charter schools, but none of them are owned by for-profit corporations.
Here's an idea: instead of siphoning off education funds buying consumer bling, how about we pay teachers so the people who are responsible for educating your kids don't have to get food stamps to survive?
Today, I heard an Oklahoma teacher lamenting the fact that her school bought tablets for the kids, but couldn't afford wi-fi, so basically, the tablets were completely worthless. Meanwhile, public schools are being starved for funds which end up going to charter schools run by political cronies which actually such even more than the public schools.
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I miss the days of Ubuntu Linux 18.02.
Or, we could just study the way all the other large, industrialized democracies in the world manage to minimize gun violence. Surely, we're capable of learning something?
You're referring to Nasim Najafi Aghdam, who was the shooter at the YouTube campus who killed herself. Below is the list of people we were discussing. You will notice her name is not on the list.
London (which has gun control) is safer than Houston (where everybody has a gun).
https://www.numbeo.com/crime/c...
To paraphrase Errol Flynn, "A man who dies with all his brain cells is a failure."
Anyway, I've got plenty. I figure I could lose 30-40% and still be smarter than the average jamoke.
Or get rid of guns. It's hard to have a shooting without guns.
Whoa there. You were talking about "heavily hardened" places, not just somewhere that's thrown up a few metal detectors. I've been to schools with metal detectors that have one very sleepy security guard manning them. A metal detector alone does not make a facility "heavily hardened".
Second, you mentioned airports. There have been zero mass shootings at airports behind the metal detectors. The only shooting we've seen at an airport was Ft Lauderdale, and that was in the baggage area, where there are no metal detectors. So, in the case of airports, metal detectors and the "heavily hardened" facility have stopped 100% of the mass shootings.
See, the thing is this: mass shootings require gun(s). Without guns, there are no mass shootings. As in zero. There have been no mass shootings in the United States using bombs, cars, knives, clubs or glaives.
I don't know how many of you have tried it, but nvdia's GeForce Now service is exactly the kind of thing that could be severely hampered by a lack of Net Neutrality.
[Before I continue, let's get one thing straight: Net Neutrality doesn't mean companies like Netflix don't pay for bandwidth. Of course they do. They just don't have to pay MORE for bandwidth than some other service that might have ties to the ISP. Ok, everybody clear on that?]
Anyway, back to GeForce Now. I've been beta testing it and it's just fantastic. It's basically a way to stream your video games to machines that aren't powerful enough to play them. So, if you have some i3 laptop with weak graphics, you can still play GTA V on ultra quality. No lag, no bullshit. You just play the game and it's like you're sitting at some sick $5000 gaming PC. And it works. Works perfectly. I mean, you can tell they're still dialing it in over at nvidia, because some days there might be some audio stuttering, but then it gets fixed. This is a beta product after all.
OK, so the only thing is, this GeForce Now service uses a shit-ton of bandwidth. You've got to have a pretty fast internet connection and a lot of data gets used, as you can imagine. I've been using it for a couple months and I still haven't gone over my Spectrum data limit (though to be fair, I don't know what my data limit is).
Now let's say that a piece of shit ISP, say, Spectrum, decides that they're going to start their own game streaming service, but they're going to charge nvidia five times as much for getting their data to your house. Or worse, they charge YOU more for getting nvidia's data to your house. Remember, nvidia is already paying for bandwidth at their end, and naturally, you're already paying exorbitant amounts for bandwidth at your end. THE BANDWIDTH IS ALREADY BEING PAID FOR. Nobody's getting anything for free.
In summary: 1) GeForce Now is going to be a really interesting service to watch and 2) the repeal of Net Neutrality could absolutely mess up gamers, and 3) Ajit Pai is a piece of shit. Here is a photo of Ajit Pai so you know who I'm talking about:
https://www.google.com/search?...:
So, your argument appears to be, "Not everyone is killed by guns every day, so..."
I'm not sure what you're saying. Given the mentality of people who make their living recording YouTube videos, I'm pretty sure they should have a moat with lasers for security.
All of them?
Does he want to "destroy or slow down the growth" of these companies, or bend them to his will?
He didn't seem to have any "hatred for the tech industry" when it comes to what Robert & Rebekah Mercer are doing with Cambridge Analytica.
Since we're talking about the YouTube shooting, which happened to be a suicide by the way, why would we exclude suicides?
It's not "counter-culture" to espouse the prejudices of the dominant culture. That's not how it works.
I encourage readers to google those names and discover for themselves how much of cultural importance has been lost by those people not being able to make money on YouTube.
Yes, it happens every day. According to the Center for Disease Control, there are about 80-100 firearm deaths every day. Every year, about 115,000 people are shot. So yeah, it happens every day.
About 10 out of every 100,000 people will die from being shot in the US every year.
https://drive.google.com/file/...
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/...
"I'm from a land called secret Estonia
Nobody knows where it's at "
Anyone who has played Burnout Paradise knows all about Estonia.
https://youtu.be/K6SvTAzZlLw
You pick a corporation like Centurylink. You get it's CEO and the board of directors and you shackle them all to the wall of a damp basement. You take the CEO and put him in a small glass tank with poisonous snakes. Post the video.
I guarantee we'll start seeing better behavior from our corporate overlords, and almost everyone will be a lot happier. I'm not suggesting mass executions, but simply making examples out of a handful of crooked corporate executives. The world would be a better place.
I'd say what everybody else says to you: you're a racist. Looking at your comment history here on Slashdot, I can see that you've been posting racist shit on here for quite some time.
You could, but then people would call you a racist.
I don't see what the confusion is here.
You have more imagination than that. And charter schools have been, overall, a failure.
And why do people who believe that the "only alternative we have that works is competition" always ignore educational successes in other countries?
If you get that upset about the time it takes an old woman to write a check, you seriously need to relax. Don't rush through life. If the pressure of your job has you depressed, try offering to carry that little grandma's groceries to her car. Talk to her. Be respectful of other people. You'll live longer.
China sounds like a trip now. I was there in the 90s, studying martial arts in Wudang, and it was still pretty bare bones. I'd like to go again soon.
Is that with chicken, pork or beef?
That all sounds like it takes more than two second.
Do they not take cash in China?
The downside is that anyone who pays by waving their phone looks like a total douche.
I'm not kidding. Has anyone seen a person pay by waving their phone and NOT thought, "That person looks like a total douche"?
Most charter schools do not save money and do a worse job educating kids. There are some good charter schools, but none of them are owned by for-profit corporations.
Here's an idea: instead of siphoning off education funds buying consumer bling, how about we pay teachers so the people who are responsible for educating your kids don't have to get food stamps to survive?
Today, I heard an Oklahoma teacher lamenting the fact that her school bought tablets for the kids, but couldn't afford wi-fi, so basically, the tablets were completely worthless. Meanwhile, public schools are being starved for funds which end up going to charter schools run by political cronies which actually such even more than the public schools.