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Your lives are boring and nobody cares what you do.

Can’t be recommended enough.

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No one is blocked from YouTube.

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It’s about the metadata. And unfortunately I don’t know enough about what’s in that data to know how valuable it is, but that’s why Google is resistant. The data most likely relates to Search, so why the hell would they want to give that data to the competitor that’s trying to snip at their heels?

WP users still get YouTube through a web browser.

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I could see how you could simply think that. However, I think of it in more of this analogy:

You’re heading into a store and there’s a bum outside who begs you for change – he doesn’t seem very threatening and you go about your day.

Now, you’re in a dark alley and it’s that same bum, but this time instead of begging for change, he has a knife at your throat for your money.

That’s how I see this, and why Google would be so quick to react to this versus build out an official app for WP.

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I like how that’s the only thing you responded too.

As a matter of a fact, I don’t own a gun, so this comment: “so that you can enjoy your deadly toy?” doesn’t apply to me.

But yeah, people enjoy different things.

And also, again with the slippery slope:

So innocent people should get killed in school shootings, terrible accidents with guns and children involved, etc. so that you can enjoy your deadly toy?

Tons of innocent people die from cars, how dare you enjoy the convenience of getting to wherever you wanted faster when it’s unnecessary and you could walk. How dare you enjoy using silverware and cutlery when it’s capable of killing people.

My point is: the underlying problem with all of these scenarios is that there are sick and twisted people out there that will use whatever objects available to them to do horrible acts of violence to someone – the solution therefore is to identify these people, try to help them, or remove them from the general populace if they’re behind help (that doesn’t mean they should be treated like animals however).

You can sit there and pretend like guns are the problem all you want, but the fact is, it’s much deeper than that and guns are just a scapegoat.

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You keep believing that nonsense. The internet without sales tax was causing the big box retailers to compete by lowering prices.

This will cause online retailers to raise prices to make up for the increase

I hate to be rude, but this certainly was a pretty stupid answer.

The reason internet prices are lower is because internet companies have a MUCH lower overhead.

Besides, sales tax has nothing to do with the retailer pricing the item…

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Oh… You had to do it, didn’t you? Couldn’t leave it in peace, so let me break it down for you.

False. You said: “A gun is not designed to kill. A gun is designed to fire a
projectile at high velocity”. A guns is exactly that – designed to kill. Designer to fire a projectile at very fast speed into living beings. Why else do you think the first gun was invented? Target practicing? I don’t think so.

Wrong. Again, semantics – you could argument that a gun is meant to harm. Because, kill implies that every shot is fatal, which is clearly false. Also, a gun can also be used as a threat rather than to actually harm – a deterrent if you will. And like I said, semantics – A gun in it’s most basic form is just something that fires a projectile at high velocity. You do not have to shoot it at something living. Because, unless I’ve got this astronomically wrong, just picking up a gun doesn’t turn you into a raving machine gun wielding lunatic out to shoot everything in sight.

Sure, but it’s a helluva lot easier to go through with it when you have a gun under your mattress. With the squeeze of a finger you can end somebody’s life. With a knife or whatever you have to get up close and actually stab somebody, which takes a lot more effort. And you can’t gun down a crowd of people in 10 seconds with a knife.

With the squeeze of a finger you can end somebody’s life without a gun as well. And you can kill a crowd of people in less than 10 seconds without a gun either, so I don’t know what your point was.

So you’re comparing a device made to kill to… EVERYTHING in the world that can kill us? The difference is that all of those things have another, primary area of use. For example: a car you can use to transport yourself to other places. A knife you can use to cut meat. etc.

Sorry but, a gun can help feed you.

Of course, education is always positive. But there’s always gonna be people that are not gonna educate themself or are mentally unstable and those people need to be kept away from guns. An effective method of doing that is to take the guns from them. It’s pretty logical. Also, any person can become mentally unstable and start shooting people so you may say ‘Only give guns to people who are healthy and smart’ or whatever but that’s not true since people can change.

Those kinds of people need to be kept away from more than just guns bud. Sorry but, I don’t see how guns are the problem for their actions. Also, you’re on a slippery slope there, “so because everyone has the potential to be a shitbag, we should take away everything everyone else enjoys.” Right? Perfect world huh.

Drugs don’t do harm to others than your self though. So they’re not the same.

Most ignorant thing you said in that entire comment.

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It may not be the drunk driver’s intention to end life, but it is certainly willful ignorance, poor planning, and irresponsible to drive drunk, and should be punished as though they had the intentions to kill someone.

15 days ago on First 3D-printed gun fired on video, blueprint files available to download

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This… Is the most perplexing comment I’ve seen in a while.

At first, I agree with you – our children are our future and any solutions are going to start there.

Then to go on to suggest, that because someone does not feel safe in this society means that they may be mentally ill??? You’re right, I should feel so safe that, I should take the locks off my doors and garage and let anyone come and take my stuff, leave my keys in my car and leave it unlocked everywhere I go. Oh wait, that sounds pretty insane, doesn’t it?

Robust system of laws? I suppose that might depend on where you live. But where I live, if someone side swipes my car while it’s parked on the street, if it didn’t get caught on tape, I don’t stand much chance of the law helping me – I have no reliable recourse.

And then you go on to basically say, “nothing you do is going to prevent a tragedy” so it’s confusing to me… Like, so we do nothing? Or do we waste our time trying to do something, when as you say, will do nothing?

I still can’t get over how you’re implying that anyone who wants to defend themselves with a gun is mentally ill.

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Well this is going to quickly get into an argument about semantics, which I don’t mind… But it’s not even really about that.

It’s about whether you accept that people are accountable for their own actions, the devices in which they use play no part in the mental decision that the person has already made. I.e. Someone who has already made up their mind to kill someone, is going to do it with whatever they can.

And you must acknowledge that there many, many, many things out there capable of killing us on a daily basis. (Don’t take that as a “Well, there’s so many things that can kill us, let’s just give up and not try anything” argument.)

I think the solution isn’t going to be more laws, but rather better education, training and a better upbringing of our children that are going to lead to a better tomorrow.

Guns/drugs/etc are all just branches/leaves of the problem, if you really want a fix, you have to start at the roots.

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A gun can put food on your table. And sure, it could cut your sandwich in half if it had a bayonet attached.

And if you care to get into a semantics arguments: A gun does not have intentions. A gun is designed to launch projectiles at a high velocity.

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I’d propose that a gun is a tool as well. You can put food on your table with a gun.

All 3 of those things you listed are different, but have 1 thing in common: they can all have disastrous effects when used improperly.

So all you’re doing is underlining the root problem of misuse, irresponsibility and carelessness.

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A gun is not designed to kill. A gun is designed to fire a projectile at high velocity.

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I consider being able to do whatever the hell you want within the confines of your own personal space and life, so long as it does not interfere detrimentally with someone else’s life – to be a basic human right.

If I want to fill up my tub in Jell-o and Twinkies and jump in, who are you to tell me I can’t do that?

Owning a gun does not suddenly make you a hell-bent psychopath on a mission to end lives.

I’m just going to say that a gun is simply an object, much as anything else we use in the world: cars, hammers, forks, etc. How that object is used is up to the person using it. If someone drives up on the sidewalk in their car and runs you over – that person is a dick and should be punished (severely – but then again I believe in strict punishments for willfully harming someone), not the car.

Stop taking the responsibility of being a decent fucking human being away from people and trying to blame it on the tools they use.

And there are already background checks on weapons of all types. There however is the gun show loophole, which I wholly believe needs to be fixed. I also believe there should be much more training and education on the use/care/storage/etc. of firearms before someone is allowed to own one.

Also, in relation to this article, I believe this is a horrible idea.

15 days ago on First 3D-printed gun fired on video, blueprint files available to download