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CoronitaParticipant…and the dude keeps emailing me and emailing me today…..
I think I’m going to change my voicemail for today…
”
Hello, I’m not here today. But if you need assistance with Java programming questions,
push 1 for Bangalore
push 2 for China
push 3 for Taiwan
push 4 for Korea”
CoronitaParticipantThe thing is though my w2 income didn’t really change *that* much this year from last from the previous year…. Why now? Or was I just randomly selected by my employer? Lol
CoronitaParticipantI learned a new acronym today from a colleague when I told him about this…
RTFM….
I would have never known….
CoronitaParticipant[quote=all]Is that a neighbor’s kid or a coworker?[/quote]
Employee….I don’t know the person, just randomly called me…I guess since I’m the resident mobile expert…(which in itself is a joke)…..
See what I have to deal with?
CoronitaParticipant[quote=scaredyclassic][quote=flyer][quote=scaredyclassic][quote=flyer]IMO, whether it’s “mental illness,” the bursting of the “entitle mentality” illusion, “narcissism,” “bad parenting,” or any other “cause,” what I find sad and disgusting in all of these cases is, that many of these people choose to share their misery with other innocent people by destroying or trying to them.
If they can’t get help, don’t respond to it, or simply don’t want it, it’s unfortunate that the “miserable” can’t seem to keep their misery to themselves and leave everyone else alone.[/quote]
We are social creatures who seek to find our place in the pecking order by status, dominance and getting hot babes.
Hell …we are barely civil in the forum sometimes!!![/quote]
Granted, we are all instinctively motivated to get what we want in life, but most of us don’t blame others, or seek to destroy innocents, if things don’t work out the way we planned.[/quote
True, but most of us don’t believe or dost at the very bottom of the pecking order. Perhaps if we did we might be a bit more crazy desperate and mean[/quote]
But this kid wasnt exactly at the bottom of the pecking order. Socially.. Or economically..
According to his manifesto. He murdered his roommates because he thought they were nerdie and they annoyed him.
Apparently he didnt think he was that lowly on the social ladder. He sure had a lot of contempt for his roommates
CoronitaParticipant[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=livinincali]It’s impossible to prove or disprove that gun controls work.[/quote]
Not all solutions work, but there are solutions that will work. leave it to the academics and technocrats to figure it out and they will.
maybe a solution involves making guns so expensive that only few people can own them.
A solution that works might not be cost effective or consumer friendly, but it will work.[/quote]
Wow, that sounds like a society in which 1% of the population here that controls 90%+ of the wealth here also controls 90%+ of the gun ownership…..Are you sure that’s what you mean? I guess rich(er) people are all free from mental illness…But it doesn’t sound very democratic…..
CoronitaParticipant[quote=svelte][quote=CA renter]
As flu mentioned above, you seem to be missing the fact that 50% of the victims were STABBED to death.
[/quote]If you’re gonna have a crazy approach you, which would have the crazy armed with – a gun or a knife?
It is easier to approach and disarm someone with a knife than with a gun. With a gun, you can be murdered from a distance with no opportunity to defend yourself.
I’m glad to see most people on here at least agreeing that this likely wasn’t a parenting problem as much as mental illness. As flu said, mental illness is hard to diagnose, and it’s even harder to determine which of the MI will snap. It’s just the way it is and always will be.
And of course this leads to the subject of guns.
The left and the right are very prone to making very broad statements to justify their positions.
The right: there should be no regulations on guns because of the “right to bear arms” clause. Well okay, if that’s the way you’re going to interpret that, why aren’t you upset that normal citizens can’t possess nuclear weapons and land mines? They are certainly “arms”.
The left is just as guilty by equating “global warming” with carbon dioxide emissions. Not one and the same, and a broad overgeneralization. The earth has warmed and cooled repeatedly for many reasons almost all of which are not human derived.[/quote]
I generally agree with some gun control laws, but in this particular case, if it wasn’t by a knife, he was going to use a gun or car, and if he wasn’t going to use a gun, he could have created an explosive device. We’ll never know because the sack if sheet is dead. But I’d say if a person is hell bent on creating carnage, as apparently he was, he wouldn’t have just stopped with a knife if guns weren’t available….
I’m not even sure what you really call whatever he had as “mental illness”. It’s very difficult to diagnose. And even if you do pass a background check at one point, things can and will happen to cause people to snap.
People are looking for ways to solve “this problem”…There isn’t a solution, if you believe americans should have the right to bear arms at all…
There’s no amount of legislation is going to fix this type of problem, unless you completely ban guns… In as much as no amount of legislation is going to prevent death on the road, unless you eliminate all cars..
Some people seem to take each gun violence as if there is some magic law or legislation that can be passed that could have prevented this…
And let’s face it, you have a lot of stupid and crazy people in america. And you can’t regulate stupidity and crazy, no matter how hard one tries…CoronitaParticipant[quote=scaredyclassic]Moving away from pistols and toward picking up chicks, the pickup artist community is undercattack. They actually have sound advice for engaging women, which Rodger ignored. Not sure if this incident will gain more PUA advocates or negatively affect them.[/quote]
I’m sure we can come of with a government program to take care of that too, like we take care of everything else…
Something like “no man left behind?”
CoronitaParticipant[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=flu]
I got a better solution. In this particular case…Ban knives and BMW’s…Or raise prices so knives and BMW’s are incredibly expensive….I’m sure that would be as effective too…
Might also want to ban gasoline and fertilizer too….[/quote]
You’re being facetious.
There’s a balance to everything. We don’t want to do any of that because car sales are good for business and the economy. Cars pollute and kill but we want convenience and transportation. We need knives in the kitchen.
Making guns very expensive and inconvenient to own would hardly affect our day to day lives. Also back in the 18th century, when the second amendment was adopted, guns represented a huge portion of owners’ networth. Making guns ultra expensive today would be very proportionate to their value back in the 18th century.
We can achieve lower gun deaths if we want to.[/quote]
Great, so only rich(er) people can own guns…
Wealth inequality now becomes gun inequality…
Sounds like a winning plan…Fine by me..
CoronitaParticipant[quote=FlyerInHi]I use economic principles.
Make guns 100 times more expensive and you still would not violate the second amendment and there will be less shootings, period.
Raise the price if gas and people will drive less. Simple.
There are levers you can pull to achieve aggregate behavior change.[/quote]
I got a better solution. In this particular case…
Ban knives and BMW’s…Or raise prices so knives and BMW’s are incredibly expensive….I’m sure that would be as effective too…
Might also want to ban gasoline and fertilizer too….
CoronitaParticipant[quote=spdrun]
Another day another record close….
Shorts are getting the arses kicked…
Up maybe 2% for the whole year since Jan? And we have another Fed meeting in two weeks, with a taper to $35 billion expected. Tick … tock … tick … tock.
Bonus points if Ukraine blows up into full civil war mode with Russia and a few EU states jumping in.[/quote]
If ERUS goes back down, I’ll be happy to pick some up again in the mid 17ies and sell them around 19….
CoronitaParticipantAnother day another record close….
Shorts are getting the arses kicked…
CoronitaParticipant[quote=Jazzman]There is still a lot of soul searching going on in America over this issue. From the outside, the focus on psychoanalysis to try and explain the problem starts to look like an excuse for it, with the unfortunate unintended consequence of deflecting attention away from the real victims. Whether you believe the solution lies in vitamins, psychoanalysis, and better parenting another disaster is waiting to happen. The NRA is credited with highjacking gun control legislation, which addresses the immediate problem of access. If there is even a grain of truth to this, then the exercise of rational prioritizing would appear to be obliquely conspicuous by its absence.[/quote]
BUT 3 people were killed with a knife…..
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