Actually, in California you do not need a permit to carry a gun. You may carry it as long as it is visible, unloaded and not in a safety zone such as a school, government building etc.
Not a good idea for two reasons, though. 1) Citizens are nosy and tend to complain about a person with a gun whether it is legal or not...so expect a police officer to confront you if you are walking any distance, and 2) Your gun isn't loaded, but the criminal who is not legally allowed to have one might find yours better than the gun they already legally have and may take it from you. We've had armed police officers shot and their guns taken from them. Just because it is legal doesn't mean it is a good idea.
Having a unloaded and openly carried gun is fine at the firing range or in a large group of armed citizens, but not a good idea if you are alone or in a very small group.
I don't see a hero, I see a smart guy. Who knows how he would behave if there weren't a camera and the other guy wasn't white or even male?
I see an officer that paid attention during his training at the academy. I see an officer that knows the law, and knows that by being respectful of others, he will likely see the same respect returned to himself. I also see an officer that upon seeing the totality of the scene, made the determination that the level of force required in the situation was far below the threshold to deploy his own weapon and use deadly force (which is something that is trained in the academy.) A gun in a holster is a threat, but a manageable one...I am more afraid of the gun I cannot see than the one I can.
The race comment is entirely inappropriate here, especially since you have no idea about the track-record of the cop in question, and your comment is far more "racist" than what you are accusing the officer of. All you have is a single incident, between two white police officers and a white civilian. "What if" games work so well for the ignorant and uninformed, but they have no place in civilized discussion. After all, what if the police officer was black and the civilian was white...would you expect a different outcome given the only change to the equation was the color of the officer's skin? The system may (in your eyes, and to somewhat of an extent, mine too,) be inherently "racist", but that doesn't mean every actor in the system is racist.
That said if I am walking down the street and you are rude (say don't give me space and shoulder bump me) I am more likely to tell you you are an asshole if you don't have a gun on your hip.
So, in other words, the gun keeps you polite?
I prefer to be polite, regardless to whether I know a gun is present or not. Guess it is upbringing or whatever, but I find being polite is always the best policy, even when I have to be mean. Besides, what if you are unaware that the individual is armed, but they have a legal concealed carry permit and a gun located somewhere you cannot see on their body?
I find, people who are lawfully in possession of a firearm tend to be far more careful/concerned about being polite because they are aware that there is more of a risk of them losing that right if they fly off the handle or do something stupid.
You do realize that any competent criminal would never allow you to reach your firearm, yes?
There are two problems with this...first, a criminal who is interested in killing you personally will do so from a position that you will likely not know they are attacking you from. It is called an ambush, and something that the military and law enforcement training covers a lot on. You cannot prevent that, regardless to what training you receive, and the training we get is based on reducing or eliminating the "flat-foot" problem, by planning ahead and learning to react subconsciously to threats.
Second, even if I am in a room when the attacker enters and begins shooting, unless they specifically target me, I have plenty of time to react and engage the threat. There are issues with recognizing threat, but you better believe I am going to be moving for cover and preparing myself to engage the threat the moment I hear gunfire...that is what we spend a lot of time training, and we are probably better at it than most criminals, competent or otherwise. The criminal has to worry about everyone in the room...for the most part I only have to worry about the threats. And Hollywood lies to you if you believe that every shot = kill. Unless you take a head shot (and even then) or a major vessel/heart shot, you aren't likely going to die instantly and will be able to continue engaging...so every second I have until I bleed out, I am going to be striving to eliminate the threat. You only die when you bleed out or give up...
If a criminal isn't specifically out to kill you, then this doesn't make sense because it is you, not the criminal, that dictates your approach and handling of the threat. In an active shooter situation, the police are going to go in prepared to end the threat and are ready to battle. And usually, unlike the criminal, they aren't giving their position away. There is some risk in this situation that if you have a gun and are engaged with the criminal in this case that police may engage you, but that is a risk and in an active shooter situation (as with any highly dangerous situation...) the risk is quite high. But if given the choice between being a sheep and being slaughtered, and going out defending my right and the right of others to live in peace, I'd take the second one any day.
Taking guns away from law abiding citizens only makes it easier for the criminals...period.
REAL men play the krumhorn, you panty-waisted, hare-lipped, fart-winded poseur! You have the embrasure of a baby sucking his mommy's teat. Run back to France and your simpering high-heeled king and leave the REAL horn playing to men in leiderhosen!
If I walk into a restaurant, supermarket, or any obviously-licensed business, then yes, I expect them to comply with certain standards.
Unfortunately, those standards sometimes only exist during the time in which the health inspector visits. And unless there are complaints, that only happens once in a great while. There are quite a few organizations I know that recently lost their license due to failed inspections after a number of complaints, who had "A" ratings until they lost them. I also know a couple friends whose stories about their teenage years in the restaurant industry nearly caused me to swear off going to restaurants ever again and the companies they work for never lost their rating either.
Since it is pretty hard to mess up lemonade (but not impossible,) and with proper parental supervision, the chances of me getting e-coli from drinking their lemonade are several orders of magnitude smaller than me going down the street to McDonalds... Life is about taking acceptable risks...you risk being killed or injured every second you are alive...but it is better than the alternative.
If he's not playing a gorram instrument, he's not a musician.
Absolutely agree (with your statement.) If this is not music, and he is not an artist because he didn't play a gorram instrument, then anyone who uses autotune is not a musician either. Unless you are playing a traditional musical instrument (something that wasn't invented/discovered since the 50's,) then you aren't a musician. Since I play the trumpet/coronet/flugelhorn, I qualify...but the rappers don't...sorry rappers. See how dumb this slides down the hill. Anyone who makes music, whether I personally like it or not, is by definition a musician, even rappers.
I hate autotune, but I have heard some really good autotune songs. And I would never have the audacity to say that those who use autotune aren't musicians, but my bias is showing because personally, I like Kutiman more than most of the major owned musicians right now.
Well, ostriches eat rocks. Pebbles to be more precise. They grind them up, think, "ooh, tasty, tasty" and then burp.
Most birds do (except, I believe, Owls.) They have part of their stomach called a craw/crop/croup, which is a pouch in their throats where food is "pre-digested" before hitting the stomach. Birds eat rocks, pebbles, and sand to aid in this digestion, but it doesn't affect their flight characteristics because it is only a small amount.
It is often fun watching chickens do this...the pecking they do on the ground isn't for worms, but for pebbles and sand granules which they store in their crop to help digestion.
It is also why some people find sand/dirt in bird poop, because the stuff gets cycled through the system and they have to eat more.
Not to mention that the premise is wrong. If a police officer tazes you for no reason other than that they are going through the population and tazering 10% of them with no legal cause (or just because doing so makes the 90% of the public not tazed happy that the government is looking out for their safety,) you have every right to use the same or more level of force against them. Being a police officer gives you no right to break the law, and police officers are given certain privileges by the public (specifically use of force,) in order to do their job...but all citizens may use force to protect their own life. Use of force has limits and thank FSM that TSA doesn't have tazers...that is a nightmare given how badge-heavy they are without having weapons at their disposal.
So, she might be a good actor. Nothing impossible about that.
And you might be an alien from another planet. It is entirely possible, but very, very, very unlikely. If it was an act, this woman needs an Oscar right now, and needs to be signed up for every drama out there because she is far more convincing than every actor I've seen out there.
Sounds a bit like the story of Richmond Felicity Avenal.
Yup, though he got there by listening to Goth Metal. But at least he gets stuck in a room with blinking lights. I'd do the same if it meant that I could get a job I love working in the basement with Jen Barber (and Moss and Roy.) God, I hate reality (ok, not really, I like my job, but I'd still like hanging out with them too.)
when i traveled to germany back in '07(beautiful place btw) I met a total of 1 person who didn't speak english
I had a similar experience (though my experience was mainly in the Frankfurt/Mainz area.) Even those that didn't speak English knew enough English to point me to someone who did speak fluent English. I don't think Mr. Oizo has ever been to Germany or Europe for that matter...my general observation in Europe is that most people I met there knew at least two languages, and many of them knew enough to be conversational with me, even if it was very basic. Germany isn't that far away from England.
Re: Re: Re: Totally impractical. Too bulky and complex.
I'm confident that current mechanisms will be used forever, and that this will never be more than a toy.
Uhm...this has precedence.
In Greece and Rome, circa 400BC and ~100AD, there were simple toys called "Steam Engines." You may have heard of them. Old dudes like Hero of Alexandria explained how they used boiling water in a turbine to move objects as part of plays and for religious ceremonies.
Those of course disappeared into history as just a fad...they never had general applicability to anyone in our modern society.
The simple truth is that 80 years ago, there was no general applicability, but that doesn't mean that there isn't now.
Re: Re: Re: Why read badly written blogs like Leslie Burns'?
Talking to people willing to talk, sure. But people who don't have ideas, but rather throw out polemical grenades, don't deserve being part of the conversation.
Taking a queue from John Locke (of the founding fathers fame, not the Lost fame,) free speech isn't about allowing speech that everyone wants to hear or agrees with, but specifically about allowing the worst ideas and most revolting discussions be heard, so that they can be dismissed.
If you aren't willing to give the soapbox to the town idiot, then you don't deserve the soapbox yourself. Whether she deserves to be listened to, that is one thing, but she deserves the soapbox.
You have no idea who I am, nor do you know anything about me. How do you know I am lying? Or, is it that you are attributing your particular foibles to everyone else? You steal from others, therefore everyone steals from others?
Netflix streaming still costs the same: $7.99/mo. It's their dvd-by-mail business that has risen, and I'll happily drop that portion of my plan in favor of Redbox.
Exactly. I cannot see what the problem is.
When I received the email and went to the site, I read that they were allowing me to chose one or the other, or keep both. A win in my book. I use both, and amazingly, I did the math and realized that I was going to pay the same for both from what I currently was paying now, so I am not sure where the 60% is coming from. My cost hasn't increased, but my options have been increased if I want to decrease my cost. Since they didn't allow me to separate them before, and now they are, I saw it as a win.
If I felt RedBox (which I still have to go to 7-Eleven 2.25mi away from me in order to use,) was a better deal, I'd drop the DVDs and just go with the streaming. However, even though I run 3.2mi every other day to 7-Eleven 2.25mi away from my house (I don't go there directly, but run in a random pattern to get there,) it still isn't worth the effort to get them from RedBox, for me.
Thus, I am paying more ($13.99/mo at current cost listed on their site,) versus $1/ea at RedBox and yet I am still going to stay with them (partly because at 30 days, that would be at least $15 if I rented one movie each time I ran to 7-Eleven, vs 3 at a time, 1-2 times a week.)
Well, since a supernova is a death event, it would be whoever is the heir of the former star's estate, not the actual stellar corpse, who would have ownership.
Heh, only if it happened the life of the former star's life plus 75 years. Or under US law, life plus 95 years.
Something that happened 4.5 billion years ago probably exceeds the time period established by statue.
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Not a good idea for two reasons, though. 1) Citizens are nosy and tend to complain about a person with a gun whether it is legal or not...so expect a police officer to confront you if you are walking any distance, and 2) Your gun isn't loaded, but the criminal who is not legally allowed to have one might find yours better than the gun they already legally have and may take it from you. We've had armed police officers shot and their guns taken from them. Just because it is legal doesn't mean it is a good idea.
Having a unloaded and openly carried gun is fine at the firing range or in a large group of armed citizens, but not a good idea if you are alone or in a very small group.
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Re: boys and their toys
I see an officer that paid attention during his training at the academy. I see an officer that knows the law, and knows that by being respectful of others, he will likely see the same respect returned to himself. I also see an officer that upon seeing the totality of the scene, made the determination that the level of force required in the situation was far below the threshold to deploy his own weapon and use deadly force (which is something that is trained in the academy.) A gun in a holster is a threat, but a manageable one...I am more afraid of the gun I cannot see than the one I can.
The race comment is entirely inappropriate here, especially since you have no idea about the track-record of the cop in question, and your comment is far more "racist" than what you are accusing the officer of. All you have is a single incident, between two white police officers and a white civilian. "What if" games work so well for the ignorant and uninformed, but they have no place in civilized discussion. After all, what if the police officer was black and the civilian was white...would you expect a different outcome given the only change to the equation was the color of the officer's skin? The system may (in your eyes, and to somewhat of an extent, mine too,) be inherently "racist", but that doesn't mean every actor in the system is racist.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: hmm...
So, in other words, the gun keeps you polite?
I prefer to be polite, regardless to whether I know a gun is present or not. Guess it is upbringing or whatever, but I find being polite is always the best policy, even when I have to be mean. Besides, what if you are unaware that the individual is armed, but they have a legal concealed carry permit and a gun located somewhere you cannot see on their body?
I find, people who are lawfully in possession of a firearm tend to be far more careful/concerned about being polite because they are aware that there is more of a risk of them losing that right if they fly off the handle or do something stupid.
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There are two problems with this...first, a criminal who is interested in killing you personally will do so from a position that you will likely not know they are attacking you from. It is called an ambush, and something that the military and law enforcement training covers a lot on. You cannot prevent that, regardless to what training you receive, and the training we get is based on reducing or eliminating the "flat-foot" problem, by planning ahead and learning to react subconsciously to threats.
Second, even if I am in a room when the attacker enters and begins shooting, unless they specifically target me, I have plenty of time to react and engage the threat. There are issues with recognizing threat, but you better believe I am going to be moving for cover and preparing myself to engage the threat the moment I hear gunfire...that is what we spend a lot of time training, and we are probably better at it than most criminals, competent or otherwise. The criminal has to worry about everyone in the room...for the most part I only have to worry about the threats. And Hollywood lies to you if you believe that every shot = kill. Unless you take a head shot (and even then) or a major vessel/heart shot, you aren't likely going to die instantly and will be able to continue engaging...so every second I have until I bleed out, I am going to be striving to eliminate the threat. You only die when you bleed out or give up...
If a criminal isn't specifically out to kill you, then this doesn't make sense because it is you, not the criminal, that dictates your approach and handling of the threat. In an active shooter situation, the police are going to go in prepared to end the threat and are ready to battle. And usually, unlike the criminal, they aren't giving their position away. There is some risk in this situation that if you have a gun and are engaged with the criminal in this case that police may engage you, but that is a risk and in an active shooter situation (as with any highly dangerous situation...) the risk is quite high. But if given the choice between being a sheep and being slaughtered, and going out defending my right and the right of others to live in peace, I'd take the second one any day.
Taking guns away from law abiding citizens only makes it easier for the criminals...period.
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Re: Re: Re: Le sigh
:-)
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Unfortunately, those standards sometimes only exist during the time in which the health inspector visits. And unless there are complaints, that only happens once in a great while. There are quite a few organizations I know that recently lost their license due to failed inspections after a number of complaints, who had "A" ratings until they lost them. I also know a couple friends whose stories about their teenage years in the restaurant industry nearly caused me to swear off going to restaurants ever again and the companies they work for never lost their rating either.
Since it is pretty hard to mess up lemonade (but not impossible,) and with proper parental supervision, the chances of me getting e-coli from drinking their lemonade are several orders of magnitude smaller than me going down the street to McDonalds... Life is about taking acceptable risks...you risk being killed or injured every second you are alive...but it is better than the alternative.
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Re: Le sigh
Absolutely agree (with your statement.) If this is not music, and he is not an artist because he didn't play a gorram instrument, then anyone who uses autotune is not a musician either. Unless you are playing a traditional musical instrument (something that wasn't invented/discovered since the 50's,) then you aren't a musician. Since I play the trumpet/coronet/flugelhorn, I qualify...but the rappers don't...sorry rappers. See how dumb this slides down the hill. Anyone who makes music, whether I personally like it or not, is by definition a musician, even rappers.
I hate autotune, but I have heard some really good autotune songs. And I would never have the audacity to say that those who use autotune aren't musicians, but my bias is showing because personally, I like Kutiman more than most of the major owned musicians right now.
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Re: Re: Nitpicking
Most birds do (except, I believe, Owls.) They have part of their stomach called a craw/crop/croup, which is a pouch in their throats where food is "pre-digested" before hitting the stomach. Birds eat rocks, pebbles, and sand to aid in this digestion, but it doesn't affect their flight characteristics because it is only a small amount.
It is often fun watching chickens do this...the pecking they do on the ground isn't for worms, but for pebbles and sand granules which they store in their crop to help digestion.
It is also why some people find sand/dirt in bird poop, because the stuff gets cycled through the system and they have to eat more.
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Re: Re: Bad analogy
Not to mention that the premise is wrong. If a police officer tazes you for no reason other than that they are going through the population and tazering 10% of them with no legal cause (or just because doing so makes the 90% of the public not tazed happy that the government is looking out for their safety,) you have every right to use the same or more level of force against them. Being a police officer gives you no right to break the law, and police officers are given certain privileges by the public (specifically use of force,) in order to do their job...but all citizens may use force to protect their own life. Use of force has limits and thank FSM that TSA doesn't have tazers...that is a nightmare given how badge-heavy they are without having weapons at their disposal.
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And you might be an alien from another planet. It is entirely possible, but very, very, very unlikely. If it was an act, this woman needs an Oscar right now, and needs to be signed up for every drama out there because she is far more convincing than every actor I've seen out there.
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Re: Richmond
Yup, though he got there by listening to Goth Metal. But at least he gets stuck in a room with blinking lights. I'd do the same if it meant that I could get a job I love working in the basement with Jen Barber (and Moss and Roy.) God, I hate reality (ok, not really, I like my job, but I'd still like hanging out with them too.)
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I had a similar experience (though my experience was mainly in the Frankfurt/Mainz area.) Even those that didn't speak English knew enough English to point me to someone who did speak fluent English. I don't think Mr. Oizo has ever been to Germany or Europe for that matter...my general observation in Europe is that most people I met there knew at least two languages, and many of them knew enough to be conversational with me, even if it was very basic. Germany isn't that far away from England.
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Re: Re: Re: Totally impractical. Too bulky and complex.
Uhm...this has precedence.
In Greece and Rome, circa 400BC and ~100AD, there were simple toys called "Steam Engines." You may have heard of them. Old dudes like Hero of Alexandria explained how they used boiling water in a turbine to move objects as part of plays and for religious ceremonies.
Those of course disappeared into history as just a fad...they never had general applicability to anyone in our modern society.
The simple truth is that 80 years ago, there was no general applicability, but that doesn't mean that there isn't now.
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Re: Name should include "Enforcement"
I prefer "Copyright Enforcement". They aren't enforcing music, just enforcing copyright.
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Re: Re: Re: Why read badly written blogs like Leslie Burns'?
Taking a queue from John Locke (of the founding fathers fame, not the Lost fame,) free speech isn't about allowing speech that everyone wants to hear or agrees with, but specifically about allowing the worst ideas and most revolting discussions be heard, so that they can be dismissed.
If you aren't willing to give the soapbox to the town idiot, then you don't deserve the soapbox yourself. Whether she deserves to be listened to, that is one thing, but she deserves the soapbox.
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Re: Re: "almost certainly"
It was his other brother, darryl. Obviously.
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To be fair, they were working on Hamlet.
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Citation needed.
You have no idea who I am, nor do you know anything about me. How do you know I am lying? Or, is it that you are attributing your particular foibles to everyone else? You steal from others, therefore everyone steals from others?
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Exactly. I cannot see what the problem is.
When I received the email and went to the site, I read that they were allowing me to chose one or the other, or keep both. A win in my book. I use both, and amazingly, I did the math and realized that I was going to pay the same for both from what I currently was paying now, so I am not sure where the 60% is coming from. My cost hasn't increased, but my options have been increased if I want to decrease my cost. Since they didn't allow me to separate them before, and now they are, I saw it as a win.
If I felt RedBox (which I still have to go to 7-Eleven 2.25mi away from me in order to use,) was a better deal, I'd drop the DVDs and just go with the streaming. However, even though I run 3.2mi every other day to 7-Eleven 2.25mi away from my house (I don't go there directly, but run in a random pattern to get there,) it still isn't worth the effort to get them from RedBox, for me.
Thus, I am paying more ($13.99/mo at current cost listed on their site,) versus $1/ea at RedBox and yet I am still going to stay with them (partly because at 30 days, that would be at least $15 if I rented one movie each time I ran to 7-Eleven, vs 3 at a time, 1-2 times a week.)
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Copy. Stop.
Heh, only if it happened the life of the former star's life plus 75 years. Or under US law, life plus 95 years.
Something that happened 4.5 billion years ago probably exceeds the time period established by statue.
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