unless they are trying to steal guns. Guns are worth a lot on the black market (Im assuming, but it seems reasonable), especially good ones in excellent condition. All they have to do is wait for you to leave your house. Unless you're a agroaphobe, we all leave sometime.
A smart band of crooks could hit houses with a week of recon easily enough. Most gun cases or lockboxes are either portable or can be broken into without much effort.
A trained soldier with an assault weapon who has no fear of hitting innocent bystanders would mow down teacher with guns easily enough.
But arming teachers is just a silly idea. A shooter can just as easily spray a classroom from the outside, before a teacher even sees them. Unless you are going to put up bullet proof glass in all schools, or concrete walls. At which point schools have become prisons.
As the GP posted, the rarity of these event seems to be being ignored at the moment. It is just not that big a deal when looked at rationally. There are so many other ways we can save more lives. ROI my friends.
If belittling others is fun to you, you need to reevaluate your priorities.
The religious need our help, they were raised with a handicap which they need to overcome. Alternately we can leave them alone with this limitation as long as it doesn't affect us personally. Honestly I see both sides of the argument and respect the points both sides have.
The issue is not whether religion needs treatment, but whether we have the right to force that treatment on others.
This.
Seriously, I dont care how irritate she was, how on earth could she be a risk. I do love the export comment, like it mitigates their actions...I mean tasering an illegal exporter is totally justified, right?
Desperately need some mod points....
name a single 'class warfare' bill that has actually passed.
And no, the AMA is not a valid example. Arguably it hurts lower classes more than upper.
In trouble.
Whether is is slime (and I honestly dont care) is not important. He was violated in multiple ways. He deserves way more than an apology.
I fI make a mistake and someone dies, the prison sentence might be lighter, but Im still probably going to jail.
How do we know none of the evidence was gathered in the raid.
THEY WONT LET HIM SEE IT....
Are you saying we need to rust the NZ government on their word? Seriously.
Then you are the exception. Voter fraud in the US is VERY rare. And statistically speaking meaningless.
Which is the point. The only reason ANY hurdle to voting should be in place is if there is a risk of fraud. If not, then open and easy should be the default. This is what happens when one party tries to manipulate the system to increase their chances of winning. It hurts all of us. Voter registraiton is adequate in the VAST majority of situations to maintain a fair election. Even if you multiply the voter fraud reports by 10x you are still talking about a statistically insignificant number. Compare that to the idea of ANY number of people not being able to vote when they should have, and you will start to see the problem.
And if you think that this is REALLY about non citizens voting, here is a good article on the results in Florida and Colorado voter role purges.
http://www.npr.org/2012/09/20/161437481/voter-purges-under-review-ahead-of-election-day
All I need to do is run a website or service on UDP/53 and mobile users wont ever get charged? It can't be that easy.
Wish I had mod points for the parent here.
The key point HFT people keep harping on is increased liquidity. The issue is that at some point, a point we reached long ago, that increased liquidity became meaningless to investors and the HFT tax became a burden. Even institutional investors pay this tax. Only other HFT traders care now.
They are skimming money off the top, adding ZERO value to the market, and pissing off just about everyone.
But they have the money, so they can prevent regulations from limiting this... (plus regulaiton are always bad, right?)
The really amusing part about all this is that the comic just was not that funny. It was smart, telling, and exposed a huge hole in the gaming paradigm we are involved with. It was a great way to make a point. But it was NOT funny.
can someone remove the mod points from the parent post. Old bug.
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