Comment: Re:Pathetic (Score 1) 508
Here's the thing though -- none of the things the government will do can make anyone "safer."
So fire all the cops, firemen, garbage men, and teachers in your community if you think it will just improve your tax return, and still keep you just as safe from criminals, fires, cholera, and idiocy.
Protesting Animal Testing, Intruders Vandalize Italian Lab 285
from the matter-of-priorities dept.
Comment: Re:Old News (Score 1) 317
just because this particular pair of bombs were detonated in the USA it doesn't make it an international event.
It may have been the way one of them was planted underneath a Russian flag at an international event that did it.
Comment: Re:Sense of proportion is key. (Score 0) 317
School shootings and similar mass murder/rampages outside schools (the Batman movie theater shooting, the odd mall shooting, etc.) seem to occur on the order of once a year, and kill on the order of 10 people. Gang and/or drug-trade related homicides are on the order of 3000 a year. Motor vehicle deaths are on the order of 30000 a year.
My gun only provides you transportation to heaven and hell.
Comment: Re:we had reasonable guesses though (Score 1) 604
there was no particularly strong evidence that there would be dozens of people out there or something. I suspect it comes down to just the word "terrorism" causing people to refuse to apply the kind of logic they normally apply.
Yeah, maybe just indications of one or two more pressure cookers embedded among dozens of people.
Comment: Re:9/11 vs Columbine again (Score 1) 773
Comment: Re:9/11 vs Columbine again (Score 1) 773
and that right there discredits your rambling post.
Why?
Comment: 9/11 vs Columbine again (Score 3, Insightful) 773
The uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, looks like he's carrying normal alleles at this locus. He announced to a mob of reporters that he thought his older nephew was up to no good. He said that his nephew Jahar was a loser for doing what he did, announced he should turn himself in, and ask for forgiveness from the wider population of Boston. He said the brothers "brought shame on their family and upon the entire Chechen ethnicity." It might run in his family, but I don't think the uncle is as interested in seeing people run into trouble just for not being related to him.
Hopefully we decide not to waste another decade. This is not the time to go off fuming about how everyone in Chechnya is carrying this psychotic gene. Everybody there would be dead. Comfort with inhibiting the reproduction of people unrelated to you runs in families all around the world. It occurs in legislatures everywhere. It preserves itself by making you cause problems for people who don't have it. But it has to self-regulate in any wider human population, Chechnya or Boston or wherever, or it goes extinct along with the rest of the genome in the region.
Hopefully we won't see this as an excuse to waste another decade with more political 9/11-style bullshit against one particular religion or another. This was in the end a story of two bungling religious-minded psychotics, with a "mastermind", a "pushover with no conscience", and a shared comfort with mass-murdering a dense unrelated-looking crowd in a city far from home.
Comment: I WIPE MY ASS WITH A 360-720 DEGREE FLOOR SPIN (Score 1) 335
This has damaged my relationship with my French bulldog as well. She is contacting her lawyer in Paris after having seen a picture of herself holding a demeaning sign online.
Comment: Why not 420 states? (Score 1) 642
Comment: Re:Metal Penis in rear view mirror (Score 1) 51
So far it does not appear they plan to turn back to study the "metal penis" closer.
The hunchback and the withered arm weren't even as surprising.
Comment: Re:Last post (Score 0) 247
Comment: 6079 Smith W! Stop playing that movie! (Score 1) 151
Comment: Re:Real bread goes stale after 1 day (Score 1) 440
Why only a tiny volume %? Everything is chemicals. It's either a chemical or it doesn't exist in physical form.
Oh come on, it may be vague but you know someone isn't referring to "100%" if they're referring to the mass fraction or volume fraction of bread that might be derived from chemicals. That would be an argumentum ad lexicon, a fallacious argument that pivots on some irrelevant dictionary definition.