Gorgon

Every time a school shooting happens gun sales go up because people are afraid the gov't is going to come take what they hadn't gotten around to buying yet. A thriving gun industry is the most important part of the lobbying effort. In a non related example aspestos remained legal 10 years after the link with cancer had been established. It still is, although it can only be sold to countries with no safty regulatons at all. If you have an industry behind you, if lots of jobs are at stake and if you spend the money you can wield an almost godlike influence over the legislature.

Should I go see The Hobbit or is it basically a children's movie. Harry potterish and boring like everyone says.

Let us commence with the traditional airing of grievances

I don't know why it says 'complaining about 30 C' in my post. I mean I must have written it, but I have no memory of it. Maybe because I've been awake for a day and a half now. Zero degrees = 32 Farenheit. It really is true what they say by the way, you definitely get dumber, more sluggish, as various chemical receptors in your brain lose potency. Glad there's no one at work except an equally lazy collegue.

Complaining about 30 degrees celcius. Wuss. Wuss. It's zero degrees now and I haven't even broken out my gloves.

I had an Ikea bed once. That was a mistake. It was like a sinking wobbly ship and I didn't even get to brag about how I broke it doing the deed. My rather portly aunt broke it just sitting on it which made her feel bad about herself.

Well whatever, they're toys. Hunting with a bolt action riftle, now that's skills.

Lets not have anything anime sized at all. That should solve the problem.

I'll just say this ; when the opportunity comes to call a truce, and it will in time, just remember that they don't have to love eachother, they just have to get along. That means both parties ready to start fresh 'for the greater good'. It's an argument most people can understand.

I just spent 15 minuites writing out a response and accidentally hit the back button. ugh.. some other time then.

ARGH Metal Gear Solid 4 did this quite a few times. Hitman 3 does this all the time. Sometimes you lose everything just by going through a door. Basically whenever there is a cutscene you cross your fingers that 47 isn't going to swap out his machinegun for a pistola. I get the reason, it's easier to get the difficulty just right if you control the inventory, but it's just too annoying,

I'm not familiar with the national academy of sciences, but US think tanks are notoriously biased and funded by special interests. They put out all manner of scientific reports, most of which adhere to academic standards but were only created because the results were expected.

I don't know why they have decided to do a tablet pc/ mobile device interface for the PC. One size doesn't fit all and they are really quite dense for thinking it would just IMHO.

I was always told you weren't allowed to carry around a pocket knife longer than the width of three fingers. You can carry a meat cleaver or a foot long carving knife if you wanted to though, as long as it isn't concealed.

Playing borderlands. I gotta say it was not half as bad as I expected. I wish one had communal XP and could swap out characters in town. I don't have any interest in replaying it four times and there is already too much grind focus. Looks gorgeous though.

I'm watching some senator suggesing a ban on clips with more than 10 rounds and reinstating the Clinton assault weapon ban. So, what, the guy would have had to reload once or twice giving the police time to show up ?. Is that the logic. If people aren't wearing body armor why are they wasting time with a ban like that.

Yes why don't we make the song fit that old format. That'll make em think fer sure.

Should I bother installing planetside. It's free.

Don't get me wrong, I would have prefered an invasion. Get the job done instead of dragging it out forever. That was the real cost in lives, not having the political will to put NATO forces in harms way.

We saw opportunity, much like muslim militants everywhere did with the Arab spring. We could help instate a friendly democratic government in place of Ghaddafi. and we made lemonade in the proverbial sense, with air support and special forces ground spotters. That's not an invasion. Also, don't do that. People who haven't read the thread will think I actually wrote that.

Actually you have more battery life than normal. When the headphones use their own battery source it doesn't suck as much life out of your phone. If the headset runs dry you can still use a standard cable.

I'm considering these bluetooth ones. Audio quality is excellent once the components don't have to be so tiny, of course you have to be able to not bother that you look like a nerd wearing those at all times. Fortunately I have that quality. Bluetooth has become viable because the devices now have built in transmitters and recievers which was previously prohibitively expensive. The bluetooth earplugs however are for some reason all crap. Made for looking like an idiot while making calls on your smartphone.

This from the guy who famously said that if forced to chose between them, it is far better to be feared than loved. Pulling quotes out of the air to suit your position is almost always a trivial and pointless game.

Well, whoever it is kinda tipped his hand in favor of not talking about gun control. One has to be careful not to hijack the national sentiment suit one's campaigning. Not if it happens at the expense of achieving some kind of agreement or common ground. (I'm looking at you Bloomberg) Talking about gun control won't create any copycats though. Spending money on psychological reserach... I seriously doubt that will translate into anything tangible. Psychological research is not fueled by money in the way that, say, cancer research is.

We touched on how the media spectacle was a catalyst for copycats earlier, I wonder if the president's visit is going to exponentially increase the chances of aother incident. What if from now on no self respecting mass murderer would make do with anything other than children. I suppose it's part of his job to adress a tragedy like this and attempt to be a cohesive and healing influence. A leader is not supposed to think with his heart though.