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Participant[quote=Vod-Vil]The Anti-Gun Male
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/julia/gorin030802.asp%5B/quote%5DI know that a lot of right wingers (men and women) consider themselves manly and badass. The right-wing noise machine has been playing to their perceptions of themselves for a long time. Successfully. They love to talk about liberals as pussies and themselves as powerful. This article plays right along. Enjoy it. Jack off to it, even. Doesn’t change the fact that it’s only your perception of yourself and of others, not reality.
It’s easy to paint the opposition with a broad brush and to resort to emotional bluster. Any retard can do that.
I’m for guns. I have one myself. I’m against gun laws that allow just about anybody to have a gun. The U.K.’s laws seem, to me, to be pretty effective at keeping the wrong kinds of guns away from the wrong kinds of people. Certainly more effective than ours.
Again, I’d like to hear other views. So far I’ve heard nothing but irrelevant nonsense.
I’d like to hear why people think that the U.K.’s gun laws would not be good for our country.
ParticipantI think that we should have gun laws like the U.K.’s. I think we could have those and still comply with the second amendment.
I’d like to hear other views.
Participant[quote=livinincali][quote=zk]I’d be interested to hear the opinions that opponents of gun control have regarding the U.K.’s gun control laws.
It’s very difficult, but possible, to get a gun there. Handguns are illegal, with a mandatory 5-year sentence for possession.
Our homicide rate is 3.5 times theirs, despite a similarly violent culture.[/quote]
Every country is different. Switzerland has much higher gun ownership rates than we do yet much lower gun related crime. Mexico has extremely strict gun control laws yet thousands die each year in gun related crimes down there.
Connecticut already had an assault weapons ban in place. Here’s an explanation of the law.
I understand guns might be scary. I understand that people might not want to own guns. We all understand that if you are faced with someone pointing a gun at you the only equalizing force would be to have a gun of your own. Therefore many people that are scared or don’t want to own a gun have decided that nobody should have them. It puts them at a disadvantage.
We all know that banning and confiscating all guns in this country isn’t going to happen. We also know that in order for gun control to actually be effective at preventing gun related crime you’d probably have to go down that path.
Can I accept some small gun control acts? I might if I actually believed it would help but since I don’t think it would help, I see no need to trample on people’s rights.[/quote]
Since you quoted me, I anticipated that your post would be related to mine. It wasn’t.
ParticipantI’d be interested to hear the opinions that opponents of gun control have regarding the U.K.’s gun control laws.
It’s very difficult, but possible, to get a gun there. Handguns are illegal, with a mandatory 5-year sentence for possession.
Our homicide rate is 3.5 times theirs, despite a similarly violent culture.
Participant[quote=squat300]I think, therefore I drink.[/quote]
That’s it!!!
That’s why I drink.
Also my new motto.
Too much thinking wears you (me, anyway) down. Think. Then drink. Then don’t think so much. Ahhh.
Participant[quote=sdduuuude]
“Be good to good people” is one of my favorite philosophies. But sometimes, it’s hard to tell.[/quote]
Interesting.
It seems to me that the philosophy that I frequently see being followed is more like, “be good to people who have pleasant personalities.”
When you first meet someone, that’s usually all you have to go on. But later on, when you get to know someone, it still seems to hold. I know people who are funny and sociable but who are mean or dishonest or conniving. I know people who are awkward and not smooth or sociable but who have great integrity, are very nice, honorable and unselfish. The former are, almost without exception, treated better than the latter.
The former’s transgressions are quickly forgotten about or glossed over. While the latter’s gaffes are talked about, exaggerated, or blown out of proportion.
December 15, 2012 at 3:37 PM in reply to: OT: Anyone interested in a Tesla Roadster demo…Enclosed L.A. invite… #756335Participant[quote=AN]I expect nothing less from a $105k car. In that price range, you’re playing with the M5, C63 AMG, RS6, Panamera GTS, etc. The downside for me with all of these electric car is the range. I wish they would add a small engine to charge the battery so you’ll have amazing range as well. I also wish the would add some digital sound track as well. The sound track is almost as important as the performance #.[/quote]
I agree you should expect nothing less. In fact, I don’t think you get your money’s worth with any electric or hybrid. I’d rather have almost any other $105k car than a Tesla and most any comparably-priced car to any electric or hybrid. Not sure they help the environment, either.
The Tesla goes 300+ miles on a charge. So it’s not for long road trips, obviously. But pretty decent range for an electric car.
December 15, 2012 at 12:05 PM in reply to: OT: Anyone interested in a Tesla Roadster demo…Enclosed L.A. invite… #756329ParticipantA friend of mine just got a Tesla S Performance. I drove it this morning. Very nice car. Good ride. Lots of great electronic features. Great camera views all around.
As I’m driving it, I say, “Wow. It’s fast. And quiet.” My friend, who’d test driven numerous other cars before buying the Tesla, says, “yeah, the opposite of a German car.”
Exactly.
ParticipantBreaking News!! Jindal in talks with Satan!!
Participant[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]
I might also be thinking of Batman…[/quote]More like the penguin.
Speaking of Batman villains, I think Rich is owed a royalty. This character first appeared in 2007:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor_Pyg
His evil twin. DeVito to Rich’s Schwarzenegger.
Professor Pyg has a “personal army of zombie-like, mind-controlled people.”
Professor Pigg has us, his personal army of intelligent, clear-thinking professionals.
Advantage Pyg.
Participant[quote=Allan from Fallbrook][quote=zk]
zk: Perhaps you cut such an impressive figure, he was simply overawed by your presence and blurted that out from sheer respect?[/quote]
I didn’t realize we’d met, Allan.
Participant[quote=squat250]this skill might have been raised to an actual art form by judges and lawyers who want to appear normal “on the record” in the written transcript, but who are conveying utter contempt for the other party, in facially polite language.
actually, i hate being called sir, and can’t recall any time I’ve ever heard it when it was actually employed as a term of respect.
I do really like being called Counselor, though….don’t like mouthpiece, shyster or leech.[/quote]
I was in line at Costco and I dropped something. The 30-year old guy in line behind me said, “sir, you dropped your…” I remember thinking, “sir?” Might as well call me “old man.” If I was 30, I doubt he’d have called me sir. He’d probably have called me “dude.” Which I think I’d have preferred, even though I’m 50.
Participant[quote=meadandale]The one thing all of the people mentioned in the article all have in common? They are all type A personalities and would have been successful in any businesses INCLUDING tech…with or without college.[/quote]
I agree with this. If you have a (viable, profitable) vision and the drive and other traits necessary to force your vision into reality, you don’t need college. Not many people have those things.
ParticipantI don’t find this article convincing at all.
While I agree that a young adult might learn more “out in the world” than at college, I’m not convinced that their job and financial prospects aren’t better if they go to college.
For every Gates, Dell, or Zuckerberg there are a thousand Vincent Chus. Never heard of Vincent Chu? Of course not. He and thousands of other “mavericks” dropped out of or never went to college, and never hit it big with an app or anything else. Now they work at The Gap to pay the bills, and they’re hoping to get into management some day.
When I was in high school (or college, I don’t remember – either way, it was at least 30 years ago) one of my teachers said that college wasn’t so much to learn things as to show prospective employers that you could do what it took to get into and then get through college (and, by extension, that you might have what it takes to do whatever job they were offering). Whether that’s a good measuring stick or not is certainly debatable. The point is that, whether you learn anything useful or not, a college degree does improve your marketability as a prospective employee.
A college degree is certainly not a golden ticket. In fact, it’s even less of a golden ticket than it was a decade or two ago. But it still (imho) offers the best chance of a decent-paying job.
Plus it’s a great place to meet chicks.
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