Apparently, Australians have learned nothing from The Road Warrior.

Crime has been on the ups in Australia ever since they banned most private firearms in 1996.

If I may : I'm not saying it's all about gun control, I know this would happen even with tighter legislation, I'm saying you're all asking the wrong questions.

Shouldn't it be : with roughly the same type of gun laws, why is the US so dominant in the statistics whereas Canada is almost totally absent ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rampage_killers#Americas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rampage_killers:_School_massacres
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rampage_killers:_Workplace_killings


And this : http://o.canada.com/2012/12/14/interactive-mass-shootings-around-the-world-since-1996/

Oh Australia, if only this had been a localized problem.

Portugal, 1996:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7f9OzYq9wM

I really dislike dark themes in general, makes me think of my early days of creating crap web pages on the web in 1996 (man, was it that long ago?).

The light theme overall is really nice, but I agree that blue on grey, especially the top video list on the right, is really hard to read. Possibly just needs to be a heavier font, as the bolded words are easy to read.

To me, dark themes feel really, really old, or amateur for the most part. Also, white text on black backgrounds burns an image into my eyes... I'm left with a ghost image for a while after looking at a site like that.

So... LIGHT... LIGHT! LIIIIIIGHT.

And fix the blue.

Fun times. Up until about 1996 you could listen in on all cell calls with a tiny ICOM R1 radio set in the 800 mhz bands.
http://deme.jp/wing/vol040/demeshin/ICR1001.jpg

http://videosift.com/video/Embrace-The-Re-Mix-TED-Talk-Edinburgh
Skip to 4:45 for the patent part.

Also worth watching:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFeC25BM9E0

Also, saw this in another forum about the law suit:
https://plus.google.com/114476892281222708332/posts/246srfbqg6G

>> ^Auger8:

@dag @ant @pumkinandstorm @mintbbb Someone help me out here and promote this, due to it's relevance in the recent lawsuit. I'd flag it as quality(I only have one Power Point) but I don't think it works the same as a promote does. Thanks guys. Promote the Arrogant Hypocrisy!

>> ^Auger8:

@dag @ant @pumkinandstorm @mintbbb Someone help me out here and promote this, due to it's relevance in the recent lawsuit. I'd flag it as quality(I only have one Power Point) but I don't think it works the same as a promote does. Thanks guys. Promote the Arrogant Hypocrisy!


Sunday morning might now get toop many views/votes, but let's just start with
*promote
*quality
and hope that helps!

>> ^Auger8:

@dag @ant @pumkinandstorm @mintbbb Someone help me out here and promote this, due to it's relevance in the recent lawsuit. I'd flag it as quality(I only have one Power Point) but I don't think it works the same as a promote does. Thanks guys. Promote the Arrogant Hypocrisy!


I used all my points, but I already upvoted this vidoe.

>> ^hpqp:

He should probably have specified that those 32'000 rape pregnancies a year are in the US alone, and that since those numbers are from 1996 they are probably higher today. /nitpicking


Actually, it's probably gone down thanks to the miracle that is internet porn TYT did a report on it, I know its somewhere on the sift, couldn't find it though

He should probably have specified that those 32'000 rape pregnancies a year are in the US alone, and that since those numbers are from 1996 they are probably higher today. /nitpicking

I was playing quake over dial-up by 1996, so I agree, not foresight. By 1995 it was just reporting on what currently existed.

<sigh>

I am officially old now, aren't I?

>> ^Gutspiller:

I thought that by 1995 these things were pretty easy to see. It doesn't seem like much foresight to me.

You seem to make a few confused points. You say that America is more violent than other countries, hence the need for more guns. You then go on to say that more guns mean less 'crime' and that lives are saved as a result. But seeing as America has more guns than other countries, shouldn't it have less crime, violence and homicide? America has a higher homicide rate than other developed countries: http://chartsbin.com/view/1454

In general, more guns does equal more homicide: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/research/hicrc/firearms-research/guns-and-death/index.html

This surprises no one, except perhaps you.

Firearm controls were introduced in Australia in 1996. Since then, the homicide rate has declined.

I'm not pretending that I'm convincing you of anything. Your mind is made up, and that's fine. Like I said, enjoy your guns. Just understand that pretty much every other country accepts the truth that more guns equals more death by guns.

Fuck those cops. My brother was assassinated by the police in Cambridge, Mass. in the summer of 1996. He had an allergic reaction to being pepper sprayed and the police prevented Emergency Medical personnel from treating him and he died.

Well, duh.

On a related note, it's interesting to me that, with more than 15 years of legalized medical marijuana in the US (California being the first in 1996), you would think that the the opponents to relaxation of the drug laws would have mountains of evidence to back up their claims of social armageddon (at least with respect to marijuana).

But, of course this isn't the case, demonstrating in sharp relief the fact that the drug war is nothing but a huge business enterprise with strong interests perpetuating an ongoing persecution of our citzenry for the profits of said interests.

Fuckin' ridiculous.

If we let the people out of prison, who will operate the factories they are attached to? Where will we get our cheap paint and crappy fiberboard office furniture?

(In the United States)the federal prison industry produces 100% of all military helmets, ammunition belts, bullet-proof vests, ID tags, shirts, pants, tents, bags, and canteens. Along with war supplies, prison workers supply 98% of the entire market for equipment assembly services; 93% of paints and paintbrushes; 92% of stove assembly; 46% of body armor; 36% of home appliances; 30% of headphones/microphones/speakers; and 21% of office furniture. Airplane parts, medical supplies, and much more: prisoners are even raising seeing-eye dogs for blind people. (...)

Profits are so good that now there is a new business: importing inmates with long sentences, meaning the worst criminals. When a federal judge ruled that overcrowding in Texas prisons was cruel and unusual punishment, the CCA signed contracts with sheriffs in poor counties to build and run new jails and share the profits. According to a December 1998 Atlantic Monthly magazine article, this program was backed by investors from Merrill-Lynch, Shearson-Lehman, American Express and Allstate, and the operation was scattered all over rural Texas. That state's governor, Ann Richards, followed the example of Mario Cuomo in New York and built so many state prisons that the market became flooded, cutting into private prison profits.

After a law signed by Clinton in 1996 - ending court supervision and decisions - caused overcrowding and violent, unsafe conditions in federal prisons, private prison corporations in Texas began to contact other states whose prisons were overcrowded, offering "rent-a-cell" services in the CCA prisons located in small towns in Texas. The commission for a rent-a-cell salesman is $2.50 to $5.50 per day per bed. The county gets $1.50 for each prisoner.

Source=/globalreasearch.ca/Vicky Pelaez/2008