Comment Re:No name yet (Score 1) 213
Yup... black holes "evaporate" after some time, they lose mass through radiation. So tiny micro ones would appear and just disappear pretty much instantly. Or so the physicists say.
Comment Just look at the drug industry (Score 1) 292
Have we learned nothing from them? If this DRM plan goes through, the companies will obsolete media just as fast as the drug companies obsolete drugs that are about to lose their patent. (They remix the formula slightly, and take another patent out).
So basically, that copy of Blade Runner you bought 3 years ago? The Director's cut plus? Well, that was then, now we have a completely new product, Director's cut plus enhanced, with a never before seen napkin drawing of Roy Batty's potential haircuts that never made it into the movie. So yeah, we don't carry the old one any more, but if you want the plus enhanced, that'll be another $19.99 please.
Don't for a second think these a-holes are doing anything for YOU, the consumer. Just like the insurance industry doesn't give a shit about giving you actual medical care, these people don't care about giving you anything - it's all about their profits... perpetual and guaranteed.
Comment Re:plenty of people come in that way, too (Score 2, Interesting) 710
> First, why should I be made to wait 5 days?
Because making you wait 5 days *might* stop a Va Tech type massacre from happening. I would suggest that anyone who asks this sort of question is putting their own selfish self-gratification before the safety of others.
2) A woman's death - could've happened with a gun as well. The key to this problem might not lie in guns but other means, such as speeding up the restraining orders, better police protection, increased funding for safe houses, etc... I would argue the solution shouldn't lie in the "let's populate our town with huge wolves to fight the man-eating bats we used to solve an earlier small problem" approach. What's next? Battered wives getting permits to carry M-16s around?
3) The black market doesn't enforce wait periods, but going to the black market means you're putting yourself at a risk of sting operations and such. If your argument is that the black market exists, and you can get a gun there anyway, so why not just let anybody buy any gun they please, instantly, (in a nutshell, adjust the real market to what the black market offers), then why not extend that to drugs as well? You can buy any kind of a drug on the black market, why don't we just legalize all the drugs?
It's the risk of getting caught that is supposed to be a real deterrent. In your case, I imagine they might strip you of all your other precious guns if they caught you. Why don't YOU buy your guns on the black market if it's so quick and cheap and easy?
4) Cars and guns are not the same thing. Objects that have one purpose, and one purpose only, to kill living things, should not be mentioned in the same breath as modes of transportation, or kitchen utensiles, etc.
And no, target practice isn't "another purpose," it's just practice for the killing of living things.
5) Oh, and also, if you're so poor that you can't afford to take a day off from work, why are you buying weapons that cost hundreds of dollars?
There's you, and then there's the rest of America. Not everybody is you, the safe benign gun collector.
Because making you wait 5 days *might* stop a Va Tech type massacre from happening. I would suggest that anyone who asks this sort of question is putting their own selfish self-gratification before the safety of others.
2) A woman's death - could've happened with a gun as well. The key to this problem might not lie in guns but other means, such as speeding up the restraining orders, better police protection, increased funding for safe houses, etc... I would argue the solution shouldn't lie in the "let's populate our town with huge wolves to fight the man-eating bats we used to solve an earlier small problem" approach. What's next? Battered wives getting permits to carry M-16s around?
3) The black market doesn't enforce wait periods, but going to the black market means you're putting yourself at a risk of sting operations and such. If your argument is that the black market exists, and you can get a gun there anyway, so why not just let anybody buy any gun they please, instantly, (in a nutshell, adjust the real market to what the black market offers), then why not extend that to drugs as well? You can buy any kind of a drug on the black market, why don't we just legalize all the drugs?
It's the risk of getting caught that is supposed to be a real deterrent. In your case, I imagine they might strip you of all your other precious guns if they caught you. Why don't YOU buy your guns on the black market if it's so quick and cheap and easy?
4) Cars and guns are not the same thing. Objects that have one purpose, and one purpose only, to kill living things, should not be mentioned in the same breath as modes of transportation, or kitchen utensiles, etc.
And no, target practice isn't "another purpose," it's just practice for the killing of living things.
5) Oh, and also, if you're so poor that you can't afford to take a day off from work, why are you buying weapons that cost hundreds of dollars?
There's you, and then there's the rest of America. Not everybody is you, the safe benign gun collector.
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