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by rooshdi 14y ago
"I have looked at exactly that. The rate at which guns are used lawfully far outstrips the number of times they are not. As such, their benefit to society is easily a net positive." This Harvard study doesn't think so: http://www.hsph.ha
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by rooshdi 14y ago
I did read it. Ultimately, you have to look at the purpose of certain tools and their net effect on society. I respect the debate and will leave you with these last few resources: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gavin-magrath/gun-control-deb
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by rooshdi 14y ago
If your whole argument rests on the words of a constitution, I don't know what to tell you. I still stand by my argument and have provided several sources in doing so.
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by rooshdi 14y ago
Then why doesn't the NRA support most of its members when the vast majority of them want background checks on all gun sales? http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/01/31/nr...
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by rooshdi 14y ago
"I don't disagree that overpenetration should be a concern for a lot of people." Ok. "It isn't for me, so I like the AR15 for home defense. I've got a cabin that is even more remote, and comes replete with occasional threats from various
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by rooshdi 14y ago
The same can be argued against the NRA: http://www.democracynow.org/2013/1/16/behind_the_nras_money_...
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by rooshdi 14y ago
Yea, the pros of sem-automatic rifle regulation has to be weighed against the extent of tragedies they enable. Do the pros of another firearm really out-weigh the pain they enable?
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by rooshdi 14y ago
I'm American and the truth is we don't need automatic rifles, but there is a very strong history of firearms in this country and thus a very strong supportive lobbying group behind it fighting to strike down anything which has potential to
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by rooshdi 14y ago
Oh hey look, another dick joke on a t-shirt promoting programming to the masses. How funny, right? Hur, hur, hur. At this point, I don't know what's more of a joke, this type of marketing or the joke itself.
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by rooshdi 14y ago
Yea, if they really hate one or the other, there are converting tools like http://js2coffee.org/
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by rooshdi 14y ago
I don't know what point you're trying to make here but it's lost on me. Are you trying to imply that it's a good idea for North Korea to have nuclear weapons? That it avoids misery in some way? That's pathological. Nope. This is pathologi
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by rooshdi 14y ago
Maybe something like this won't happen: http://costsofwar.org http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vietnam_War_casual...
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by rooshdi 14y ago
WARNING: The following contents contain "assholic" statistics: http://costsofwar.org/ http://www.iraqbodycount.org/
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by rooshdi 14y ago
Interesting logic. The government is willing to go to war to obstruct Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, yet not when North Korea is actually testing and threatening to "target" the U.S.: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/25/world/asia/nort
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by rooshdi 14y ago
I wonder if the U.S. would react any differently if Iran had conducted these same tests.
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by rooshdi 14y ago
In this competitive world where a few receive fame and fortune, try to remember the efforts of those few will always be trivial compared to the combined contributions of the unnamed supporting masses. Well said and thank you for sharing.
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by rooshdi 14y ago
So since he's Arab and involved in activism we shouldn't use his software, interesting. Even more interesting is you seem to be getting upvotes. Congrats, ass.
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by rooshdi 14y ago
Good. Publish everything.
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by rooshdi 14y ago
A feeling of winning life's lottery? You've already won: http://www.globalissues.org/article/26/poverty-facts-and-sta...
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by rooshdi 14y ago
People are inherently critical. Maybe it's some evolutionary effect for human survival, but either way we're all prey. No one is going to agree with you on 100% of the issues, 100% of the time. That's not how the world works. All of us have
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by rooshdi 14y ago
Yea, what the patent system essentially does is play musical chairs with information, but even worse.....the seat holders are incentivized to knock down all surrounding chairs.
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by rooshdi 14y ago
It's not a casualty. It's a cause. What is there to lose? The laws are already imprisoning us. Might as well see it through.
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by rooshdi 14y ago
Most people don't even know what a browser is, let alone how to use plug-ins, so this approach should be better for 99% of people. Great job and great regular solution to a regular problem.
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by rooshdi 14y ago
I don't know if you're being sarcastic, but I've actually concluded the opposite. The patent system is so ridiculous now that it should be treated as such and developers should "infringe" as many patents as possible until the whole tyrannic
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by rooshdi 14y ago
Well, I too was part of their customer base, but not anymore. If this is what the company stands for, consider me out. I'd much prefer purchasing products on their merits than some played out douchey marketing scheme.
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by rooshdi 14y ago
Which was exactly the wrong way to go about things. You don't dismiss a large demographic's concerns by trying to throw it back at them.
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by rooshdi 14y ago
Because they got an apathetic, arrogant, selfish, shitty response, that's why. You respond to people like shit, you get shit back. It's not rocket science.
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by rooshdi 14y ago
Thank you for writing that post. You're not crazy, you're right. Hell, I would feel awkward too if some painted up butt-naked guys became the norm at tech conferences. Unfortunately some people just don't get it, because they fail to see ou
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by rooshdi 14y ago
I'm all for freedom of information, but let's not kid ourselves that the U.S. government doesn't restrict information either: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_the_United_States
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by rooshdi 14y ago
But Mozilla actually has leverage over Google to commit to user privacy. If Google doesn't like what they're doing, Bing, Yandex, or any other search engine has the opportunity to be the new search default.

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