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  1. Vavrik

    Guns. Good or Bad?

    Not just Doritos, but all forms of corn chips. I've lost two kids to nachos in the past 5 years.
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    Science and Futurism

    Cool, I'd love to hear it and accuse you of over thinking things too! I mean it's not as if the universe isn't a little bit odd anyway.
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    Is Killing Justified in Star Citizen?

    It's a PVP game, and I like PVP but I didn't join just for the PVP. If someone wants a fight I'll probably indulge. If someone is griefing or doing something stupid, I might indulge. I also lose a bit more than I win, because lag but I have fun. I saw this one day about a month ago. It...
  4. Vavrik

    Hello

    Welcome to Test @Vouch! You live in a place I consider among the most beautiful on the planet. Just sayin.
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    Guns. Good or Bad?

    Strangely enough, firearm crime is perpetrated by criminals and not by people who are law-abiding. Even if they weren't criminals before they pulled the trigger, the moment they pulled the trigger they are. In many cases, the people who are responsible for mass shootings are already known to...
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    Guns. Good or Bad?

    By "stricter gun controls", I'm saying laws that encourage, support, and mandate responsible gun ownership and handling, and provide a framework for ensuring that these aspects of gun ownership are met, or you don't get a gun. Most jurisdictions in the US do not have these kinds of rules. The...
  7. Vavrik

    Guns. Good or Bad?

    Sure. https://www.atf.gov/resource-center/docs/2016-firearms-commerce-united-states/download https://www.atf.gov/resource-center/docs/undefined/firearms-commerce-united-states-annual-statistical-update-2017/download Go nuts. But I can't tell which side of the fence you're on anymore. I...
  8. Vavrik

    Guns. Good or Bad?

    Ezz is right by the way. That Crowder video contains a lot of mis-direction, and it's unfortunate that he does so in an incredibly arrogant style. [EDIT] The Vox video also has a few issues, but it is a media report, and not a statistical report. I want to make a point about gun ownership in...
  9. Vavrik

    Guns. Good or Bad?

    I suspect that the suicide shouldn't be included crowd is right, but for a different reason than they think. It's quite simply not defined as homicide. Suicide by whatever means, is mostly about the availability of that means. IMO, overall rates of suicide wouldn't change even if you removed...
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    Guns. Good or Bad?

    Thing about statistics is, there are always more statistics, and this report is based on statistics that are interpreted in a specific way, and so removes the bulk of gun crime from the statistics, to focus on a very small number of specific cases. It focuses on a specific kind of crime: and...
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    Science and Futurism

    Hundreds of billions of them. The current estimate is there are 100 billion or so in the visible universe alone, which is either very large or very small compared with the true size of the universe - something we will likely never be able to know. Don't try to wrap your head around it too...
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    Guns. Good or Bad?

    They simply do not understand why Americans seem unwilling and unable to take the steps necessary to protect their children, and instead argue and fume amongst themselves like a bunch of idiots whenever the subject comes up - which lately has been every few days. By the way. You invoked...
  13. Vavrik

    Guns. Good or Bad?

    I think... he didn't take your sarcasm as sarcasm. Or something like that.
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    Guns. Good or Bad?

    So, don't take this wrong, it's a nice sentiment and I love it, but this is not what makes America different from the rest of the world. You could translate the words of the video into German, Spanish, French, Chinese, Arabic, Swahili...ancient Greek. It wouldn't matter, it would resonate the...
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    Guns. Good or Bad?

    Just to correct something. In the first 45 days of this year, there were 30 mass shootings in the USA, defined as " four or more individuals being shot OR killed in the same general time and location." Map of incident locations...
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    Guns. Good or Bad?

    Commie! Actually no. This is not something unique to communist countries. There is plenty of historical precedent for mandatory service, in all known forms of Government. The US actually never had mandatory service, but they did employ conscription on many occasions.
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    Radu_Voda

    Welcome to Test @RaduVoda !!
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    Aegis Vulcan (concept ship sale starting Feb 22)

    There is also a wrecking crew package for $900 for those with more money than I have at the moment.
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    Test Squadron Dev Team??

    I think it actually might be a good thing in Academics, if it's done right. It does allow, or should allow, students to explore the limits and ramifications of technology decisions before they make a big mess in, for example, my projects. Or. It is an opportunity to allow them to do that...
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    Test Squadron Dev Team??

    What I said is there is nothing about NodeJS that would have made his project more successful or better that would justify a higher price for development of the same project. I'm talking about the development pricing model, not the technology. Otherwise I agree with you almost 100%.
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