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Comment: Re:They saw this coming for ages... (Score 1) 211

by pixelpusher220 (#43807133) Attached to: Main US Weather Satellite Fails As Hurricane Season Looms
I usually go with the "never assume malice when incompetence can explain it", but you're probably right.

I don't want the Filibuster gone, it's a 'good' thing, but only when it hurts to use, when it stops the Senate completely while it's being used.

The last 'agreement' they made was just so convoluted it showed just how messed up the Senate is. And Reid could fix much of it if he truly wanted too.

Comment: Re:They saw this coming for ages... (Score 2) 211

by pixelpusher220 (#43805757) Attached to: Main US Weather Satellite Fails As Hurricane Season Looms
The only caveat is that Sen. Majority Leader Reid has had multiple opportunities to reform/repeal the filibuster and hasn't. Nor has he called the GOP's bluff and made them actually filibuster.

If you let the bully continue to bully you, you are not innocent in the results.

Comment: Re:You're kidding me (Score 1) 123

onsider this: your average secretary for a CEO / Chairman / President of a company may or may not have the technological literacy to know whether or not his / her machine has become infected, and is now sending the VIP's electronic Rolodex / tax returns to some bad people. But the VIP is totally cool with how things are, until some insider breaks his company, or personally targets him. And then it's asking IT / the FBI to track down some people who have had a six month start, and probably swept their tracks right before their big heist. This is how technology illiteracy is killing companies.

What if anything does this have to do with a cyber attack on the electrical grid?

Comment: Re: You're kidding me (Score 2) 123

The electrical grid does not make up a sizable chunk of the internet. Sure there's connectivity between various electrical sites but that's on physically separate networks that without someone plugging the wrong cable in aren't going to be accessible from the internet. The problem is they've attached lots of the command and control nodes to the internet, but the core electrical infrastructure is not on the internet.

Comment: Re:Well... (Score 1) 578

Banning the 3D printing of rifles, pistols, shotguns, and machine guns is a pipe dream.

Show me where I said anything of the sort? I'm a firm believer in 3D printing and am planning on purchasing one in the not too distant future (sooner if they do actually try to ban them).

3D printing is no different than printing the anarchists cookbook on your printer. The fundamental difference is that a stack of paper can't be used to kill anyone. We need to address the societal issues we have with violence and guns are at the heart of it.

Comment: Re:Well... (Score 1) 578

And I'll agree 'gun control' is going to become more and more misguided. Because guns can be created at home by absolutely anyone with no skill whatsoever.

But 'more' guns on the streets isn't ever going to be a good thing. We need to find a way to regulate ammunition then, or black powder or something because simply giving everyone a gun is a very very bad idea.

Do you agree with that?

Comment: Re:Well... (Score 2) 578

Did you see what you missed there? Gun violence is 'down'. However, so is gun ownership, so your point is moot. And of course that we're still wildly ahead of other civilized countries in deaths per capita by guns. Maybe people would use other weapons, heck even likely, but a knife can't kill as many people as quickly or as surely as a gun. And a 5 year old is going to be hard pressed to kill an adult with a knife.

I would not consider the killing of a home invader by the home owner to be "gun violence" but Brady Campaign does.

No they don't. Source?

Even if "gun violence" is high I am not so sure that is a bad thing.

Just wow. violence is a 'good' thing?

If someone breaks into the home of another they should expect some "gun violence" from the home owner in return. That would be something praiseworthy.

Pipe dreams are nice things. That's not what's happening today so it's irrelevant.

As someone smarter than me has said, "There are four types of homicide, felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy."

Seems like just everybody qualifies then....

Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill.

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