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Comment Re:Could you tell a difference at distance? (Score 1) 535

The only thing people who carry are afraid of is being in the wrong place at the wrong time and having to watch their loved ones die because they didn't have the means to at least try to defend them or get them to safety.

The world must be a scary place for them!

The good thing about first aid and insurance are that they help make realistic issues better. I don't keep a surgical table or have volcano insurance because those aren't issues I will realistically have to deal with, and if they are then there are others better equipped to handle them

Comment Re:Maybe we SHOULD fear guns (Score 1) 535

Should we teach everyone about all dangerous things? Have a class on crossbow safety just in case people come across a medieval crossbow?

We give 16 year olds access to cars because cars are useful. Guns really have no use in modern society other than dangerous toys.

Comment Re:Corollary: It's difficult to be "clever" in Jav (Score 1) 414

I think that's one thing that makes Java both desired and despised. There are a lot of "clever" code chunks in other languages that are short AND easier to read. Even if it's not as easy to read, it's much nicer to decipher 4 lines of "clever" code than 100 lines of enterprise code spread over multiple files. To find out what a function does, you sometimes have to dig down through several layers of classes and compare across files. It's straightforward if you have the time to deal with it and you don't have to know too much about complicated theories to do it.

Comment Re:If you didn't sing it... (Score 1) 226

If someone rents a house, they cannot rent it to another person during that time. A house has physical value, making a new house costs money. The same is not true for a song.

I think there is value in shorter copyright periods. It gives artists protections against their works being ripped off, Longer copyrights don't help that case as much since most works are popular when they are first released, not 150 years after.

Can you tell me the benefit of copyright on works where the artist is dead?

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