I thought I was just joking in 1978 when I suggested "upgefuckt" as a correct translation to a US Army comrade, but maybe I started something. On the other hand, it was more likely obvious to a POSITA.
They could make money off postcards-- but do they?
I imagine a zonked-out "Jeff Spicoli" (Sean Penn) posed in front of a local photo, with a bright inscription, "Hey, Man, would you believe? We're in F*cking Austria!"
Hugo S Cunningham (profile), 12 Sep 2019 @ 10:13pm
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Yes. That is how Britain minimized the danger from Nazi V-bomb attacks in 1944, and Israel minimized the damage from Saddam's missile attacks in the First Gulf War (1991). Investigators should carefully go over each mass shooting (including a thorough examination of the shooter's mental health and other usually-sealed records), for clues how to detect and prevent future shootings. But there is no need for national media hysteria that incites two roughly equal halves of the population with white-hot hatred of each other.
You have set up a tiny set of goal posts that cover only 6 inches (15 centimeters) of the end zone. But the legal remedies gun-prohibitionists propose, supposedly for your 6-inch (15 centimeter) goal zone, would also impact the 24-foot (7.32 meter) goal zone of criminology and self-defense policy generally.
Those who voluntarily come in for help should be treated better (eg for restoration of gun rights), than those who are brought in by authorities after anti-social behavior.
The perp in Dayton Ohio qualified for a gun after his conviction for a juvenile crime was expunged. If you want your record expunged, you should give up any hope of owning a gun for twenty years.
The USA is a much more diverse society than the northwest European social-democracies that anti-gun people like to compare it to. Non-Hispanic whites have similar low homicide rates on both sides of the Canadian border. The US South has an honor culture, meaning higher homicide rates among all racial groups. Japanese, forbidden access to guns, have a low homicide rate, but so do Japanese-Americans, with easy access to guns.
The surest way to bring a dramatically lower homicide rate to both Jamaica and the USA would be to end our unwinnable War on (Some) Drugs.
Since Techdirt was burned by one SLAPP suit, I thought another might be of casual interest: A student newspaper is being sued for reprinting a public police announcement:
To dampen copycat hysteria, I suggest a temporary blackout of all reporting of mass shootings on all media. The democratic precedent was Britain's blackout of specific target reporting during the 1940 Blitz and the 1944 V-1 attacks. Let law enforcement and researchers continue to gather data (just as they do for the thousands of ordinary murders we have each year), and let sober evidence-based policy-making proceed, unnoticed by the mentally-unbalanced.
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Re: How to say it in Austrian (German)
I thought I was just joking in 1978 when I suggested "upgefuckt" as a correct translation to a US Army comrade, but maybe I started something. On the other hand, it was more likely obvious to a POSITA.
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Re: Well...
Yep-- it has an entry in the English Wikipedia.
They could make money off postcards-- but do they?
I imagine a zonked-out "Jeff Spicoli" (Sean Penn) posed in front of a local photo, with a bright inscription, "Hey, Man, would you believe? We're in F*cking Austria!"
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Re: Re: The US of A needs to trademark "FOOTBALL" to keep the
I suspect he was parodying a clueless w*****.
However,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Other Countries Have The Same Mental Health
Yes. That is how Britain minimized the danger from Nazi V-bomb attacks in 1944, and Israel minimized the damage from Saddam's missile attacks in the First Gulf War (1991). Investigators should carefully go over each mass shooting (including a thorough examination of the shooter's mental health and other usually-sealed records), for clues how to detect and prevent future shootings. But there is no need for national media hysteria that incites two roughly equal halves of the population with white-hot hatred of each other.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
You have set up a tiny set of goal posts that cover only 6 inches (15 centimeters) of the end zone. But the legal remedies gun-prohibitionists propose, supposedly for your 6-inch (15 centimeter) goal zone, would also impact the 24-foot (7.32 meter) goal zone of criminology and self-defense policy generally.
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And drug prohibition pours resources (black-market superprofits) into the hands of those who would break laws.
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The Newtown conspiracy-mongering only serves to make self-defense advocates look bad.
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Re: Of course...
Those who voluntarily come in for help should be treated better (eg for restoration of gun rights), than those who are brought in by authorities after anti-social behavior.
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You're just as dead shot (or stabbed) in an individual crime as you are shot in a "mass shooting."
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Puerto Rico has a homicide rate about 3 times the USA's, "sensible gun laws" notwithstanding.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/984823/homicide-rate-puerto-rico/
But you may have a point that if we tamped down the media-saturated hysteria about "mass shootings," new infringement of rights would be unnecessary.
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Re:
His tongue is still sore from last weekend...
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Re: Ok, what we said was untenable, so let's double down
Actually, a kindergarten teacher might embrace the reasoning. You can't have five-year-olds giving their teacher the bird with impunity...
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As Mary McCarthy might have put it...
"Every word in their argument is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'.
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Re:
A nimble buggy whip manufacturer might have reinvented themselves as a BDSM supplier...
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Yes, we copyright bananas
We copyright bananas today...
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Re:
The perp in Dayton Ohio qualified for a gun after his conviction for a juvenile crime was expunged. If you want your record expunged, you should give up any hope of owning a gun for twenty years.
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The USA is a much more diverse society than the northwest European social-democracies that anti-gun people like to compare it to. Non-Hispanic whites have similar low homicide rates on both sides of the Canadian border. The US South has an honor culture, meaning higher homicide rates among all racial groups. Japanese, forbidden access to guns, have a low homicide rate, but so do Japanese-Americans, with easy access to guns.
The surest way to bring a dramatically lower homicide rate to both Jamaica and the USA would be to end our unwinnable War on (Some) Drugs.
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Since we have added a War on pain treatment to our various other Wars on drugs, I am not certain obstacles to suicide are always an unalloyed good.
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Another Massachusetts SLAPP suit
Since Techdirt was burned by one SLAPP suit, I thought another might be of casual interest: A student newspaper is being sued for reprinting a public police announcement:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/07/26/student-newspaper-case-could-upend-journalism-protecti ons/cQjQafMXlhxDiG8LEm5EaK/story.html#comments
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Copycat effect
To dampen copycat hysteria, I suggest a temporary blackout of all reporting of mass shootings on all media. The democratic precedent was Britain's blackout of specific target reporting during the 1940 Blitz and the 1944 V-1 attacks. Let law enforcement and researchers continue to gather data (just as they do for the thousands of ordinary murders we have each year), and let sober evidence-based policy-making proceed, unnoticed by the mentally-unbalanced.
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