Or you can just create a TrueCrypt folder and stick the media files in there. While it is true that most airport officials are too busy (and too untrained) to thoroughly search a laptop, if you get singled out for any reason (I was once for being in possession oa a weapon of mass fruit - I forgot to declare an apple), that could lead to extra special attention in which case a laptop may be seized and searched because some underpaid grunt was having a bad day.
True. But as Wayne Gretzky said, you miss 100% of the shots that you don't take. If you don't attend the peace talks your chances of reaching a peace agreement are zero. Similar to Reagan's people convincing Iran to hold on to the hostages until after the election.
Shortly after Nixon took office in 1969, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover informed him of the existence of the file containing national security wiretaps documenting how Nixon’s emissaries had gone behind President Lyndon Johnson’s back to convince the South Vietnamese government to boycott the Paris Peace Talks, which were close to ending the Vietnam War in fall 1968.
Sorry. I should have said Humphrey. What a silly mistake that was. Not at all related to my aging brain (really). I really should take a break, cool down and go to my happy place ;-P
It doesn't work like that in UK. Voters don't vote for the PM, they vote for party members who, in turn, vote for the leader of the party
And if you can buy enough party member seats then you win the election. Same difference.
The process in US is similar, except for the Queen part.k We don't directly elect the President either, but vote for "electors" in November who in turn vote for the President in January the following year.
And the Republicans, after gerrymandering their way into a congressional majority have proposed changing the rules for the Electoral College to get a lock on that as well. But we've already had this discussion elsewhere and this is the Iron Maiden thread.
No amount of gun laws are going to prevent those tradegies.
So then let's please put to rest the completely bullshit argument that the solution to the gun problem is more guns. The argument is that guns make you safer. You already have more guns per capita than any other nation on Earth and you also have the highest gun homicide rate of any developed nation. So exactly how are more guns making you safer?
A gun in the home makes the likelihood of homicide three times higher (Kellermann AL et al. Gun Ownership As a Risk Factor for Homicide in the Home. New England Journal of Medicine 1993;329:1084-1119, p. 1084.), suicide three to five times higher (Kellermann AL et al. Suicide in the Home in Relation to Gun Ownership. New England Journal of Medicine 1992;327: 467-72, p. 467., Wiebe, DJ. “Homicide and Suicide Risks Associated With Guns in the Home: A National Case-Control Study.” Annals of Emergency Medicine 2003;41:771-82, p.780.) and accidental death four times higher (Wiebe D.J. Firearms in US homes as a risk factor for unintentional gunshot fatality. Accident Analysis and Prevention 2003;35:711-716.)
For every time a gun in the home injures or kills in self-defense, there are 11 completed and attempted gun suicides, seven criminal assaults and homicides with a gun, and four unintentional shooting deaths or injuries (Kellermann, A. et al. Injuries and Deaths Due to Guns in the Home. Journal of Trauma, Injury, Infection, and Critical Care 1998;45:263-67, p.263.)
Americans are not about to give up their guns for any one or any government. Just try and there will be a huge blood bath.
That's what it boils down to. There are no valid arguments for more guns or fewer gun controls (something the NRA is actively pursuing). So let's just admit that as a nation you've painted yourselves into a corner. The genie is out of the bottle and it ain't goin' back in. You were so afraid of Saddam Hussein and his weapons of mass destruction. I guess you only take action when it's other people who have 'em.
Current federal law requires criminal background checks only for guns sold through licensed firearm dealers, which account for just 60% of all gun sales in the United States. A loophole in the law allows individuals not “engaged in the business” of selling firearms to sell guns without a license—and without processing any paperwork. That means that two out of every five guns sold in the United States changes hands without a background check.
So "almost all" = 60%?
But there are lots more where armed women have shot and killed an assiliant
There are also plenty of stories at the other extreme. Like the two year old boy who was accidentally shot on Christmas day. His father had recently bought the gun because he felt it would make his home safer. Or the 8 year old Lapwei, Idaho boy killed in an accidental shooting. Or the 9 year old Oregon City girl killed in an accidental shooting. Or the 13 year old Jacksonville, Florida girl killed in an accidental shooting. Or the 3 year old Sumter, South Carolina boy who was accidentally killed. How much safer were these children because the family had more guns? I can do this all day.
Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia were murdered in their home. He carried a gun at all times and his wife was licensed to carry a hidden weapon. Their son said that they had guns hidden all over the house. So tell me how more guns equals safer.
And then their's this little tidbit. (I'll try to attach the picture. No guarantee it will work)
In USA you (almost always) have to have a police background check in order to buy guns
Oh really. Unless you buy the weapon at a gun show. And the NRA is opposed to closing that little loophole. And the NRA is opposed to having law enforcement agencies share gun info, something that is routinely done for vehicle registration and licencing.
That's hardly what one could call a valid source of information.
Did you notice that most of those (click on a body) come with a link to a news article which is the source for that death?
how many more deaths have occured buy automobile accidents?
Automobiles serve a much more useful purpose and are much more heavily regulated than guns. Would you agree that regulating and tracking guns to the same extent would be a good idea?
Even if the number were correct (and it isn't, not just the Twitter source data is suspect, the Slate motives are even more so)
So you are saying that the news articles that are linked to for the deaths are bogus?
most would be criminals taking potshots at each other. Can't have enough of those.
Right. We just had two innocent people in my city killed by criminals supposedly taking potshots at each other.
And of course more laws aren't going to stop criminals using guns, they're not allowed to use them according to dozens of laws already yet don't seem to mind all that much...
So your argument is "criminals don't obey the laws anyway so why bother". By that argument, why do we have any laws. "Let's outlaw robbery. Oh, wait, the criminals will just ignore that one so scrap that."
The indigenous people have lived village like for generations, and families are intertwined island wide. The clear up rate for most crime is quite high because of that,
CSI: Cyprus
COP: Sir, can you describe the suspect?
WITNESS: It was Dave.
If anyone is interested, there have been over 3530 gun deaths in the USA since the Newtown shootings. Details on those deaths can be found here. Boston got shut down while police hunted for the remaining man responsible for the injuries and deaths taking place in one incident. Where is the outrage over the more than 3000 dead between last December and today?
Reagan used to go on about a woman in the south side of Chicago who was abusing the system. According to Reagan, "She has eighty names, thirty addresses, twelve Social Security cards and is collecting veteran's benefits on four non-existing deceased husbands. And she is collecting Social Security on her cards. She's got Medicaid, getting food stamps, and she is collecting welfare under each of her names. Her tax-free cash income is over $150,000." That was his justification for gutting the welfare system.
Of course, nobody could actually verify her existence. Not even Reagan. Like most stories of this type (like the Republicans with their horror stories of massive voter fraud), they do not stand up to scrutiny and are only repeated to justify ideologically driven policies. So when you talk about this one workless guy, has 17 kids with about as many (15) different women you should be ready to cite some credible sources.
I'm not as concerned with him posting religion based material. In Geek's Lounge pretty much any topic is fair game. What concerns me is the posting of misleading, and in some cases, completely inaccurate material. From my reading (which includes sections from the Qur'an) Islam is not a religion of peace and tolerance. While it is true that there have been periods in history where Islam was far more tolerant of other religions than others were of Islam, at its core, Islam is fundamentally an intolerant religion. Have you ever heard of a Jewish suicide bomber? Does any other religion retain its membership by threatening to kill anyone who leaves?
Lest I be considered a rabid anti-Islamist, a thorough reading of the Old Testament shows that Christians can hardly take the moral high ground. The Old Testament is just as filled with hatred and violence as the Qur'an.
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