Meshugger

My citation says 10 per 100,000 deaths. Personally, I do not look it as numbers so much as I do lives. Do you realize that 10 deaths per 100,000, if we were to apply that to Obsidian forums as an example, means ten of us would be gone right now. Every life should be valued. I know that sounds corny, but think about yourself, all your uniqueness and all your stories and opinions you'd like to tell, and every single other human on earth is exactly as unique. The phrase "you are special, just like everyone" is infact not a paradox. 10 per 100000 deaths in the US are due to guns? Last study I looked at(http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/809516) shows obesity being responsible for 18.2% of deaths. That's 18200 per 100000. Being obese kills 1820x the rate of a machine designed to kill. I'd say violence is certainly isn't much, and obesity is easier to address both culturally and legally than guns, which are protected by an amendment and one of the most effective political lobbies in the world. As someone who has personally suffered with weight issues, including obesity, I can say that it is much worse than the statistically insignificant damage gun violence causes, in that it renders the lives of those who suffer with it plagued with health problems and a sense of worthlessness. Addressing the issues that cause obesity, such as the crap food available to low-income households or the lack of education in nutrition and fitness is also easier to do than touch gun ownership. I always notice that when I visit the USA..you have the most beautiful people in the world but also seemingly the most obese I didn't see one single obese person in NY. Along the Tennessee/North Carolina border...about every second one.

Which they shouldn't, according to you, because...? I find worrisome that there exists so many idiots in this society. That doesn't really answer the question...or am I missing some nuances here? Normal people profess the esoteric knowledge that gives them the insight to see that what Anita says is idiotic.

Which they shouldn't, according to you, because...? I find worrisome that there exists so many idiots in this society.

It seems like Bruce's translator is not that context-sensitive. As for the crisis. Didn't Greece just recently pay their debts one day before they were supposed to? Maybe this is an area worth exploring if it is related to this crisis.

My citation says 10 per 100,000 deaths. Personally, I do not look it as numbers so much as I do lives. Do you realize that 10 deaths per 100,000, if we were to apply that to Obsidian forums as an example, means ten of us would be gone right now. Every life should be valued. I know that sounds corny, but think about yourself, all your uniqueness and all your stories and opinions you'd like to tell, and every single other human on earth is exactly as unique. The phrase "you are special, just like everyone" is infact not a paradox. The difference being that a car is designed as a means of transport. Does the majority of the community consider it a fair risk to accept driving as a thing believing themselves capable of doing so? Yes. Guns on the other hand? The argument being made is that they protect us from violent crimes, with much of the population actually being against such liberal usage. However, evidence would suggest that within the US and many american countries, they do the exact opposite and see use in violent crimes just as much as they see use stopping it, negating their purpose in many situations. Removing them and/or heavily restricting them (aka pistols are for civil defense and need proper registration and backround checks, with the right to bear arms being something you CAN lose as a convicted felon. Rifles and shotguns should be for practical purposes such as hunting only and thus provide an extra step of registration to acquire) seems like a good solution. Again I ask, when has an assault rifle ever been vital to stop a violent crime? I have asked this question thrice, it goes unanswered. A pistol can provide the solution in such cases, a rifle is overkill. Which is horrendously inobjective to cling to. Those days are long gone, we are not pioneers in strange, unknown territories inhabited by wild animals. We live in remote suburbs, bored out of our minds safe as safe can be. The same logic that guides that way of thinking is the same logic that leads me to encounter people who will tell me I'm an inferior human being because I was born disabled, blissfully unaware that if society were given a choice between saving the life of Stephen Hawking or saving that guy's life, he would be dropped in a second flat, because disabilities are no longer the hinderance they may have once provided. Likewise, to cite the founding fathers is to fail to see that what they wanted was specific for that context, with England as a realistic threat and rifles being limited in strength. They could not have known or expected that someday we'd see fully automatic rifles. They could never have known the politics of today, where - I promise you - were the USA to become a police state, everyone and their mother would use it as an excuse to "liberate" the USA to get their hands on it's natural resources. They could not have been able to practically imagine where a line should be drawn. What they were getting across - the why of their stance - is that people deserve a form of self-defense; how much, they never specified. And if the founding fathers adhered to something, does this mean we have to blindly follow it no matter what? They were brilliant men deserving of respect, no doubt, but this does not mean they're without flaw. Einstein and Hawking have both been wrong, the founding fathers are no exception. If the founding fathers suggested we eat dirt to stay healthy, does that mean we all need to? Have reverence for the specific ideas named (such as freedom of speech and religion), not for the men spouting the ideas. And wtf the culture comes first. The laws are designed to appeal to that culture. The issue at hand is that the culture the USA has now is woefully inobjective and equates "no more fully automatic assault rifles" with "THEY WANT US TO BE HELPLESS SO THEY CAN OPPRESS US." Again, I ask for a case where someone owning an assault rifle specifically was what prevented a crime/deaths of innocents. A pistol is good enough. I do not see any point with attacking culture with reason since most cultural expressions are the result of irrational human beings. America without guns is no longer the american culture and that's why it is so difficult to change it. So you're suggesting a culture is an inflexible thing that never changes, or that somehow America as we know it would not be America if it lost one simple aspect of it's identity? I certainly don't believe that, nor do I see a cause to fear such a change. Cultures changing over time is natural. If it were not, then we'd still have to put up with the Prussian culture many Germans were exposed to where they were beaten to a pulp for not doing things in the exact fashion their parents expected of them, turning them into intolerable asses with superiority complexes. I would prefer if the culture changes in the US without the need of a president that professes his love for blood & iron. That's why is said that Hurlshot is doing the right thing, he is doing his part in adding more decent people into US society by reading to his kids. That's more than what a law in congress will ever do IMO.

I find it more worrisome that people believe in Anita and that the media treats her like a serious critic. Bush at least had a charming personality.

Here advanced course to spoken Finnish... * Links were meant to only for Meshugger who in my knowledge knows Finnish and lives in Finland, which is why he referenced largest Finnish Newspaper , when he said that he didn't find any news about the conflict. ** Also i made English summary of those news in my post before those links *** Sorry the of topic Finland needs to abolish finnish and change it back to the swedish like the one Snellman talked. Just like God intended. Finnish can be a curiosity like Gaelic. @ Meshugger Do you and Elerond both live in Helsinki? I currently live in Tampere, which is third biggest city in Finland that locates bit under 200km north from Helsinki. I don't have any knowledge where Meshugger lives, but from his suggestion I would guess that he lives somewhere where those some demon language (Swedish) speaking bättre folk (Swedish speaking Finns) live. Asun suomessa jossakin...ja veden lähellä tietysti. Jos on lammen, joen tai meren lähellä en viitti sanoa.

Which is horrendously inobjective to cling to. Those days are long gone, we are not pioneers in strange, unknown territories inhabited by wild animals. We live in remote suburbs, bored out of our minds safe as safe can be. The same logic that guides that way of thinking is the same logic that leads me to encounter people who will tell me I'm an inferior human being because I was born disabled, blissfully unaware that if society were given a choice between saving the life of Stephen Hawking or saving that guy's life, he would be dropped in a second flat, because disabilities are no longer the hinderance they may have once provided. Likewise, to cite the founding fathers is to fail to see that what they wanted was specific for that context, with England as a realistic threat and rifles being limited in strength. They could not have known or expected that someday we'd see fully automatic rifles. They could never have known the politics of today, where - I promise you - were the USA to become a police state, everyone and their mother would use it as an excuse to "liberate" the USA to get their hands on it's natural resources. They could not have been able to practically imagine where a line should be drawn. What they were getting across - the why of their stance - is that people deserve a form of self-defense; how much, they never specified. And if the founding fathers adhered to something, does this mean we have to blindly follow it no matter what? They were brilliant men deserving of respect, no doubt, but this does not mean they're without flaw. Einstein and Hawking have both been wrong, the founding fathers are no exception. If the founding fathers suggested we eat dirt to stay healthy, does that mean we all need to? Have reverence for the specific ideas named (such as freedom of speech and religion), not for the men spouting the ideas. And wtf the culture comes first. The laws are designed to appeal to that culture. The issue at hand is that the culture the USA has now is woefully inobjective and equates "no more fully automatic assault rifles" with "THEY WANT US TO BE HELPLESS SO THEY CAN OPPRESS US." Again, I ask for a case where someone owning an assault rifle specifically was what prevented a crime/deaths of innocents. A pistol is good enough. I do not see any point with attacking culture with reason since most cultural expressions are the result of irrational human beings. America without guns is no longer the american culture and that's why it is so difficult to change it.

Here advanced course to spoken Finnish... * Links were meant to only for Meshugger who in my knowledge knows Finnish and lives in Finland, which is why he referenced largest Finnish Newspaper , when he said that he didn't find any news about the conflict. ** Also i made English summary of those news in my post before those links *** Sorry the of topic Finland needs to abolish finnish and change it back to the swedish like the one Snellman talked. Just like God intended. Finnish can be a curiosity like Gaelic.

Well, the Czech and the Swiss don't exactly have founding fathers that emphasized on having guns against tyrannical government. Neither do they have long history of pioneers going into the next frontiers with nothing but guns to protect them. Oh, and what comes first: the culture or the laws and regulations that govern it? I have no answers. Well, except Hurlshot is doing the right thing with his kids.

Yes I am not saying they shouldn't be allowed to create it, I am more interested in what people think about the caliber of this type of game. Why are there Horror-movies? Why is there Death Metal? It's a mystery i tell you.

Maybe only americans are culturally predisposed to freedom and thus the reason why there's relatively so little gun violence there (if you take out minorities like blacks out of the equation). The germans sure do not have the inclination to it. Imagine arming that country with 100 million guns or rifles, yikes!

Clicked link. Doesn't work. Many have tried to click it, but it just hasn't been properly implemented yet.

You kidding right? I never know when you are being serious .. It's intentional, or at least to 40%. It keeps people on edge and it tingles their paranoidal senses. Which is good as that requires people to think harder than before. Or maybe not. Maybe it is just an experiment in Jungian psychology. But what moral decree do democrats swear upon that republicans lack? Is it the one when they chose to side with the southern states before the civil war and were pro-slavery? Or was it the one when Johnson signed the civil rights bill? Or was it the one when Ron Paul demanded all military bases to withdrawn from the middle east? Or was it the one when Obama extended the Patriot Act? Or was it the one when he demanded JSOC to attack globally, causing 2000 innocent deaths in assassin missions that we know of as collateral deaths? What is morally good here?

I am confused by your confusement. In the poster that was thrown in the thread, Faith from Mirrors Edge is taking a side. IIRC, EA had Anita Sarkeesian as a creative consultant on how to remodel Faith in Mirror's Edge 2. How did you feel about that on personal level? Do you think Anita is justified in this case or do you think her intentions are misplaced? Don't ever ask a finn about what they feel on a personal level. Not even wives ask their husbands questions like that unless they want to thought of as some kind of f****t. But i'll let this one slide since it was most likely based on ignorance more than anything else. What i think about this is that she was definately misplaced and i feel sorry for the developers having to take cues from a con-artist.

As long as there are hot boothbabes, then everything is forgiven. I do not expect any Fallout announcement.

I am confused by your confusement. In the poster that was thrown in the thread, Faith from Mirrors Edge is taking a side. IIRC, EA had Anita Sarkeesian as a creative consultant on how to remodel Faith in Mirror's Edge 2.

How are the democrats morally good and the republicans morally bad?

I am confused by your confusement.

So your problem is, essentially, that power corrupts, and the bigger the power, the bigger the risk of corruption - hence governments need to be limited in power, because that will prevent those who want to bend the world to their will from accruing the means to do so. Am I reading you correctly? I'd agree with that. Niet comrade. The power is of the people, vox populi as some might say it, and the will of the people is the will of the state; therefore the state is only as corrupted as the spirit of common worker man. *twists the bushy moustache* I really need to stop visiting /leftypol/

50 were identified as far as I'm hearing and there were trained at that. They were smuggled from Kosovo and put in to hiding in the city until the conflict started. This was no armature hour operation and the scary thing is that there was one suicide bomber. Finnish news say that there are 30 people that got charged for terrorism from which 18 was Kosovo's Albanians, because of last weekends violence. They also mention that 22 people got killed in clashes that lasted over day, and it is mentioned that 8 of the dead were police officers. Where? hs.fi didn't have anything...

Just checked the news, there's little to nothing about this in the local headlines. So i checked the foreign news section. Nope, not even mentioned. But they did mention in the bottom of the page that outdated frozen raspberries killed three people in an eldery home in Sweden. At least as of a scando-land perspective, nothing's happened, move along.

Oh Bruce, did you just indirectly admit that the SJW conspiracy is real? *BUSTED*

Not much chance of that happening as we were pretty much neutered after Bosnia, also there is a reason Bondsteel is there. Though I think(hope) we are still strong enough to protect ourselves. Things will get messy fast if they get stupid enough to go over the border in to Serbia. From what i've heard of the Balkans, nothing is really off the table....well except for Slovenia to start invading anyone.

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