Comment Re:ICOA.PK pump and dump (Score 3, Informative) 55
Right, the stock ticker and the wireless company aren't the same, which means there are a lot of dumb people out there.
Right, the stock ticker and the wireless company aren't the same, which means there are a lot of dumb people out there.
As others have said, this is not about electrical interference but social control. What's the difference between someone reading harry potter on a 1lb device or reading it in it's 10 lb hardcover form? The greater danger is from the projectile the book becomes in a crash. But since there is no FUD means for banning the book, they allow you to read it. But in reality there is no difference so long as the plane doesn't crash.
I have a post elsewhere that goes into this but the suicide rates don't change between locales that severely restrict quick access to firearms and those with more reasonable laws. Suicide rates track with economic factors for the most part. If someone has decided to end their life, they will do so with any means possible. Pills, gravity, etc it doesn't matter.
First, Child is anyone up to 19 and at least 2/3s of that ~150 or so deaths occurs in the 16-19 yro range.
Second, the original statement was not tied in any way to the CDC data because the CDC data does not in any way suggest a likelihood or probability of firearms death for those who possess a gun v. not possessing a gun.
So I am very right that the OP was munging the Brady stats, of which the Brady bunch and others have been forced to admit that their stats include suicides and treats all deaths up to 26 as "children".
I am very familiar with CDC and Census data as I used it throughout my time in graduate school.
But if you take the gun away, the person is less likely to commit suicide - the same way if you put up a fence along a bridge, people are less likely to commit suicide by jumping off.
The statistic is right to include suicides as those are deaths that could have been prevented.
You are kidding, right? If you look at the suicide rate of states it's intimately linked with economic prosperity and not easy access to, or the lack thereof, guns. MA has just as many suicides per capita that other mid size prosperous states do, but less with guns and more with pills, etc.
Nah. We'll send a neurotic genius to upload a computer virus on the mothership.
And he will miraculously be able to figure out the network protocol and to interface with the mothership when computers on earth can barely communicate with each other beyond some simple predefined syntax.
The victim having a gun doesn't help in most cases. Studies have shown that bystanders are more likely to get injured, and having a gun during a drive-by shooting is pretty much useless. Making guns harder to get isn't likely to make those go up.
Please, point me to such studies that say this. I won't hold my breath since you are mis characterizing bogus studies to begin with.
Bull. The UK has the same "gun" homicide stats that it had before they confiscated the citizen's arms. Their raw homicide rate has actually gone up. You are spouting lies.
Actually, this could be interesting, as long as we can get reliable statistics...
Do you really expect to get reliable (accurate is what I think you are going for there) statistics from a nation whose leader and the referendums he supports has "received" close to 90%+ of the vote in each of the elections despite massive opposition? Good luck with that.
Always draw your curves, then plot your reading.