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1. I replied to Leozno1s claim feet would be more accurate because it’s “smaller”
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I strongly believe Apple isn’t going flat, Holo flat, Metro flat. They’re just eliminating extreme things, like glossy buttons, casino themes, etc. Everything will look like the Facebook app on iOS. It’s not flat, it has depth, pushable buttons, etc.
Don’t get me wrong I totally agree with this statement. I just wanted to point out that the passbook example and your screenshot aren’t contradictory imo. Passbook as well is not completely flat, look at the sides of it.
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you could just use decimals or centimeters or millimeters oder micrometers or nanometers or picometers or femtometers or … – the sky is the limit to accuracy in the metric system.
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I want to say the pause button is now just as flat as some of the stuff in passbook.
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The skip-button wasn’t flat. It was ugly bubbaly as was the blue bar before it (which is now toned down grey).
The pause button is no more not flat than the passbook example. -
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I’m saying you shouldn’t put blind trust in anyone, regardless of their supposed credentials.
That’s why I said a trusted source has to come in. That’s not “blind” trust at all. I really don’t have the time and means to read dozens of scientific papers to get the ability to make an informed decision to decide whether better guns could be produced in the future at home. And I’m a student. For the general public to make up their minds a trusted source has to definitely come in, or do you think your mother will read up on the topic for days? That’s delusional. That’s why we have experts in fields.
We can continue discussing decision-making-processes but this is really not on topic.
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@DarthVarner: Are you suggesting I should trust an anonymous poster on a verge article on this matter? That’d be insane. And where did I mention that I believe someone like you that agrees with me?
I can assure you I’m skeptical either way.From where did you get your “high credentials”? I’m sure it wasn’t from random posters on the internet. So yes a trusted source has to come in and lay out the situation, I don’t see the problem in this claim.
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I want you to realize that there is a line of weapons that should be allowed to be made at home and other weapons where you agree with me that they should not. I took the safest bet and choose an atomic bomb. So the question evolves from “should we ban weapons or not” to “which weapons should be banned”. If you look at statistics from Europe vs. America all of you should come to the conclusion that Europe lives in a paradise of low killing rates and safety compared to the U.S. and adopt our laws in regard to this matter.
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You say this in response to an incident where 2 guys hit a soldier with a car and then proceeded to cut his head almost off – in public – with people walking all around. Awesome.
Are you suggesting it’s better to look at the last murder that’s in the headlines, than rather look at the big picture of killings per year? I posted this two times already but here it goes:
“In the US, there are roughly 17,000 murders a year, of which about 15,000 are committed with firearms. By contrast, Britain, Australia and Canada combined see fewer than 350 gun-related murders each year. And it’s not just about murder. The non-gun-related suicide rate in the US is consistent with the rest of the developed world. Factor in firearms, and the rate is suddenly twice as high as the rest of the developed world.
Children are affected particularly hard. An American youth is murdered with a firearm every four and a half hours on average. And an American youth commits suicide with a firearm every eight hours. It’s worth remembering that many of the most spectacular mass murders of recent years were really suicides, with the perpetrators choosing to take a few other people with them while they were at it.Among Germany’s 82 million citizens there have been 794 murders in 2005.
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Okay, let’s do the math: Murders per 1.000.000 inhabitants in the US: 56,3. And in Germany: 9,7. That means the murder rate is nearly six times higher in the US than in Germany."
Source: http://atlanticreview.org/archives/434-Murder-Rate-in-the-United-States-and-Germany.html
You guys are way less save and way more likely to die because of your gun laws. It may be paradox, but by thinking “oh I want loose gun laws in order for me to defend myself” you create the thing that you have to defend yourself of the most and get killed on the way. And btw wasn’t the soldier armed (I don’t read up on the story much)?
So…. Have you ever seen any footage of the LA Riots, or the Korean store owners? Mobs don’t need guns to be destructive.
Guess how many killings happend in Sockholm in the riots so far – zero, no one got killed (afaik)
Let’s look at the LA riots then, should be no different in order for your argument that guncontrol is somehow bad at riots – well it was 53 people. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots“In total, 53 people were killed during the riots and over two thousand people were injured.”
Your arguments are the worst that I have heard on any matter in a long time…
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“In the US, there are roughly 17,000 murders a year, of which about 15,000 are committed with firearms. By contrast, Britain, Australia and Canada combined see fewer than 350 gun-related murders each year. And it’s not just about murder. The non-gun-related suicide rate in the US is consistent with the rest of the developed world. Factor in firearms, and the rate is suddenly twice as high as the rest of the developed world.
Children are affected particularly hard. An American youth is murdered with a firearm every four and a half hours on average. And an American youth commits suicide with a firearm every eight hours. It’s worth remembering that many of the most spectacular mass murders of recent years were really suicides, with the perpetrators choosing to take a few other people with them while they were at it.Among Germany’s 82 million citizens there have been 794 murders in 2005.
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Okay, let’s do the math: Murders per 1.000.000 inhabitants in the US: 56,3. And in Germany: 9,7. That means the murder rate is nearly six times higher in the US than in Germany."
Source: http://atlanticreview.org/archives/434-Murder-Rate-in-the-United-States-and-Germany.html
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I see ‘psychopaths’ in the same way, why are they out of the mental hospital if they are dangerous?
You do know that crazy people and criminals have to do a first crazy or criminal thing in order to get locked up? In Europe it’s way harder to get access to and therefor way rarer that this ‘attack’ includes massive deaths because of guns.
The fact is weapons are a part of society and you should work to fix society instead of trying to limit weapons, as the latter is rather futile.
You look at this from a U.S. few point. In Germany no one can just buy or own a gun. If you want one you’d have to be in a club and the registration etc. is way harder than in the U.S.
So for us it’s like going from basically no one having access to guns to everybody having access to guns.Above you wanted facts, why gun control is good (I’ll post it there too). Well look at this:
“In the US, there are roughly 17,000 murders a year, of which about 15,000 are committed with firearms. By contrast, Britain, Australia and Canada combined see fewer than 350 gun-related murders each year. And it’s not just about murder. The non-gun-related suicide rate in the US is consistent with the rest of the developed world. Factor in firearms, and the rate is suddenly twice as high as the rest of the developed world.
Children are affected particularly hard. An American youth is murdered with a firearm every four and a half hours on average. And an American youth commits suicide with a firearm every eight hours. It’s worth remembering that many of the most spectacular mass murders of recent years were really suicides, with the perpetrators choosing to take a few other people with them while they were at it.Among Germany’s 82 million citizens there have been 794 murders in 2005.
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Okay, let’s do the math: Murders per 1.000.000 inhabitants in the US: 56,3. And in Germany: 9,7. That means the murder rate is nearly six times higher in the US than in Germany."
Source: http://atlanticreview.org/archives/434-Murder-Rate-in-the-United-States-and-Germany.html
I’d like to keep our rate this low.
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If I had to guess it seems possible but the thing is, it is I don’t know whether printing better guns will be feasible in the next decades.
However I don’t trust the judgment of a random poster in a verge forum either. The governments or universities or whoever should look into this and experts should make an informed decision how dangerous the whole thing could really be.Until I hear from a trusted source that there is no danger, I don’t like the recent development at all.
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That’s right, you in Europe are busy waiting for the Bobbies to show up 20 minutes later after your head has been almost completely separated from your body.
There are way less killings in europe than in the u.s. probably because not every freak can buy a gun.
Or having Youths of an Indeterminate Origin riot and burn parts of France annually, or Sweden for multiple nights in a row now.
Yap it would have been so much better if all those rioting people had guns at their hands! What could possibly go wrong.
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We in Europe don’t have guns and I can assure you nobody is using arrows either. You’re almost (?) trolling.
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So doesn’t that destroy DarthVarner arguments then?
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Oh please… for one how many people got killed by bows/arrows vs. how many got killed by fireguns last year.
