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I guess the alien concept is this : if my freedom is making people unsafe then maybe I can't have it. Not because I pose a danger, but because we aren't smart enough to know in advance who is going to be. That's not going to be easy to get an individualist to wrap his head around. Also society needs to be safe enough for people not to feel that they must have guns for their protection come what may. Also, it's not surprising at all that membership goes up every time the issue is raised.

The passing of time will do a lot of things. It might take generations, an 'unthinkable' change can also happen a lot faster than one would imagine, but it probably won't be you they will have to deal with so much as your grandkids.

There might come a time when the lastest loss of life from a mass shooting will make all those arguments seem irrelevant. What we are seeing now is the beginning of the marginalisation of the pro gun lobby. The thinking is, I imagine, that since the gun lobby will consider no middle ground because to them it's all a slippery slope, that there is no point in engaging them anymore. You could stop the open trade of certain firearms. whatever people have in their sheds, well, you are never going to find those anyway so it's not worth the effort. People with the desire for a shootout with the federal government, well, there is no need to grant them that request if the same could be achieved with a fine. Maybe an amnesty or fair market value in compensation.

Well, you get a ****ty 22 caliber bike instead.

Has anyone voiced support for that? Other than a few of our European folks who just say ban guns altogether. Well, for any of this to be effective you would have to say goodbye to most of your toys. You can still have guns, there are loads of gun owners in europe, but you have to show proof that you have a reason to purchase it. if you want a rifle, you need to produce a hunting license, a pistol a membership in some sports shooting club and so on and the selection will me much smaller, nothing automatic anywhere and 5 shot clips for the most part. Our resident Austrian and any Belgians can have much more and most of what Americans have currently, but then they have demonstrated that they tend not to have mass shootings. In other words, take away the toys until you learn how to play safe.

The EU are considering deliberately targeting industries in Trump states to make him feel it. Bush got away with it. If memory serves he did exactly the same thing, trying to protect the US steel industry. This time the sense is that they will respond in kind.

I can't remember the ending. I assume Christian Bale saves the day.

You can get the basic windows 10 for like 60 bucks. I dunno what's actually in the pro version that you need. I don't love windows 10 but at least it's not a major investment anymore.

My sense of the brief paid mods for Skyrim debacle was nothing less than that Steam almost destroyed a vibrant, crazy and weird and wonderful thing by inserting a profit incentive. How can you say that people who make mods don't deserve to reap some benefits, they do, and how can you argue that having 100+ mods in your Skyrim directory which used to be free should now cost a thousand bucks, you can't. Like you said it makes people aware that sharing and helping others is not in their own interest in a competitive and at times predatory environment. The whole community almost committed collective suicide. In a perfect world there are many more examples like Pavonis interactive, they made an Xcom mod that everyone had and went into business for themselves.

It seems to be more of a visual difference than a functional one. Which I get that people love to nitpick, but that doesn't change the fact that a lot of these mass shooters have been attracted to very similar looking weapons. Remember the Vegas shooting. 58 people dead and we are still supposed to pretend that a fork is a deadly weapon in the right hands. Guns don't kill people, yada yada. Guns aren't all the same and they aren't equally good at killing 58 people in the shortest amount of time.

You people need to get your act together, he's an embarrassment. Get rid of him.

Here's the question that begs answering though. What if you know there are going to be a lot more like him.

So, there was someone there with a gun and it didn't help.

How is it supposed to be a deterrent anyway it it's concealed.

Or just do everything over Skype. Large gatherings are too dangerous because, the constitution, Ted Nugent and whatnot.

Yeah, you can ask Kennedy how he feels about that. A guy with a plan is going to trump a security guard every time. Unless you really ramp up and who is going to pay for that.

So, someone who can blend in with the passengers, 21 jump street style. It's all reactive though. Prevention is what you need.

It is very much as if America has been psychologically immunized against gun control. You have all seen these mass shootings endless times and been unable to arrive at a solution, I suppose both because radical solutions are difficult, and because you are now predetermined to not seek them. There is only one solution guaranteed to work, get rid of the guns. Never gonna happen in the current climate though. Do you have any notion how uselessly impractical it would be to try and solve the mass shooting problem by curing or barring from ownership every american with a potentially dangerous mental condition. Besides, the gun lobby would view even half arsed attempts as encroachments on their rights. The logical conclusion, which is gun control the way most of the rest of the world does it, lies several generations ahead.

Huh, I didn't know they even did that. With all the popups I get on my mobile games, I'm impervious to such machinations. They want the pirates in their install base as well, while of course pretending that they don't. The risk that a segment might jump ship and that Linux or whatever might lose its fringe status and a common alternative might emerge and windows then not being THE OS anymore is present, then OEMs aren't worth as much anymore.

Let the white suits try and come get me. I'm dogsitting a rottweiler.

Nope, It's the hard drive tax. They slap it on any media capable of storing data. So whoever you are you have already contributed to the piracy eco system.

mmm yeah, they show you a bunch of pictures of people who are thin and some who are neither particularly thin nor fat but somewhere in between and teach you that they are all 'thin'. That's a false dichotomy. Thin isn't the opposite of fat - or rather, those people aren't all 'thin' some of them are regular size, you know, where you want to be if you aren't obsessive. Indeed being extra thin can have a bunch of negative associations as well. What about healthy and not healthy. Most regular humans fall somewhere in between.

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/uk/takeatest.html I took this test for giggles. Apparently I have a slight bias for associating the male gender with the sciences and the female gender with the humanities. So proof that the patriarchy is real ? I suspect the learning curve is a big factor though. They test reaction time, and the whole time I felt that the test was trying to tell me that there was a connection. More precisely, if I know for a fact that one valid outcome, one that does not result in an error or taking too long which invalidates the result, is playing the test like a misogynist. Well, I'm a power gamer, I do whatever works best. The only frame I got perfect was the last one and I played that one trying to anticipate the answers.

That looks awesome

As far as I can remember Denmark has a limit on the commencement of cancer treatment of one month. Meaning if you have not been given treatment one month after your diagnosis the hospital is heavily penalized, and you would be sent to Germany or anywhere else with capacity. The news loves to bring up that our cancer treatment success rate is the worst in Scandinavia. Say you need back surgery for pain relief though, yes you could be on the list for years. They want people who are well off to give up on the list and pony up for the treatment themselves I guess.