Posts by Yamis
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Hard News: The Next Act, in reply to Scott Chris,
After they had her make a mock call to Stephen Joyce tonight saying give the teachers their 12 million dollars or she'll give him 12 million f*&ken whacks, I think it's fair to say that she's in some control of the situation and is comfortable with it.
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Hard News: MegaBox: From f**k-all to zero, in reply to richard,
Another question is what sort of advertisers would buy space that had been, um, liberated from Google? Am predicting it will be all classy stuff – you know, Make Money From Home, Free iPods, Cheap Viagra, Meet Your New Russian Girlfriend, Machines in Your Basement to Make Free Energy, One Simple Trick to Help you Lose Belly Fat, Vaccine Denialists…
Holy crap! You can get all that stuff?! Got any links?
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As a teacher I'd like to see the Teachers Council sod off completely, and leave the police and courts (and media) to deal with dodgy teacher behaviour. We pay them a decent amount of money from our stingy pay and they do a freakin useless job.
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Crank this Christmas epic.
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This is all very interesting.
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/18/latest-updates-on-connecticut-shooting-aftermath/?hp
Even Rupert Murdoch has come out in support of tighter gun controls and given his media empire that could carry some influence.
and from the NRA in another NY Times article: “The N.R.A. is prepared to offer meaningful contributions to make sure this never happens again,”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/19/us/states-leaders-proposing-steps-to-control-guns.html?hp&_r=0
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to Ross Mason,
It was your acceptance I was referring to.
Acceptance that these things happen, acceptance that there are people out there you can't do anything about. The common denominator is these are all mass deaths. They happen. We have become accepting of (some of) them happening and life carries on. But this mass shooting has moved us deeper in our self than is usual because we as parents have kids and are fearful of how vulnerable they are, and, it is possible it could be us, however small a chance/risk it is. And we won't be able to do a bloody thing about it.There are plenty of people in the US who don't accept these mass shootings and campaign year after year to get mroe gun control to try to prevent them.
To go back to your earlier comments on road deaths, ... it's like accepting road deaths. We don't. Yes they happen, but there are lot's of things constantly being done to reduce the likelihood of them happening from road design, to drink driving laws, to speed limits, to seatbelt and airbags to better designed vehicles...
Will they keep happening? yes
Will we we have to deal with that? yes.But I think dealing with something is very different to accepting something.
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to Bart Janssen,
“oh well he was xxxx, and therefore we don’t have to worry about anyone else unless they are xxxx”
Oh well he was crappy Australian beer, and therefore we don't have to worry about anyone else unless they are crappy Australian beer.
When really we need to worry about all kinds of crappy beer from all over the world.
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Have been reading and posting semi facetious remarks in the St Louis Times facebook section beneath their article on gun control.
Basically their views are those stereotyped, what about abortion, won't make a difference, ban cars, and carnival rides too then, UK gun violence went up after bans, arm civilians, in my day... etc...
Good times ... good luck turning these newspaper readers round sheesh.
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to Danielle,
Here’s my problem with this idea: let’s say we all agree that testosterone is partly “why” men are more violent than women. Yet we also agree 99.9% of men can squash the urge to go around beating the crap out of things and shooting a bunch of people because: reason; socialisation; humane qualities; not being monstrous. You know, average pleasantness. If most men can do this, why not these men?
I think that this suppressed violence isn't actually that far from the surface. I have never struck another human being but I will admit to kicking the fuck out of inanimate objects such as watering cans, pieces of timber etc when I've lost the plot.
I don't know why, maybe because men have had to run around killing shit with weapons so their family could eat for thousands of years and if you didn't return home with the goods your genes fell out of the pool quick enough.
Maybe in a few thousand years this won't be an issue. If we're still around.
I still despise DV and can't understand how anybody can systematically hurt their partner and kids. Maybe once you crack and blow it. But if you don't go get help for you and them straight after that then that is screwed up and that obviously happens in far too many cases because of pride, fear, or something down right nasty.
Peace.
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I read the first 4 pages of this thread so apologies if this popped up anywhere after that (which it may well have, I'll trawl through and find out shortly).
But I agree with this person:
http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/01/owning-a-gun-the-way-the-constitution-intended-you-to/Allow for the unrestricted ownership and use of guns and ammunition as they existed in 1789, when the Constitution and its first ten amendments were written. This would conform EXACTLY to the intent of the framers. It would satisfy the 2nd Amendment freedom to “bear arms,” without allowing for any deviations from ‘strict interpretationalism’ that would excuse the weaseling in of ownership of semi-automatic and automatic guns, and anything beyond ball, shot and black powder for ammunition: no full metal jackets, no nitrocellulose propellant, no late 19th century cordite-filled cartridges, not even percussion caps (from about 1830). Just flintlocks.
If it was good enough for the Founding Fathers, it’s good enough for you
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