[geeks] What desk toy or "tchotchke" says "geek" to you?

[Chris Petrov]

I give up... I'm going off to smoke some weed and read a yiddish or  
perhaps old polish dictionary. Perhaps then I'll understand why why  
there are enough guns for every man woman and child U.S.A. but only  
25% of the population has them...

Then when I've figured that out I'll brush the dust off the r10k 02  
whack a larger drive in it (which I might have to pry out with a  
handmade butterfly knife with genuine bone inlay) When I get the old  
drive out I'll put it on the fence and blow it away with my Dan  
Wesson. (Ok I don't have a handgun :-( so I'll have to use a compound  
bow or maybe I'll just throw rocks) at this point I'll start getting  
concerned about the concentration of beta bouncing around and I'll  
fire up the 4ch eeg and trigger some binaural beats for a little more  
theta and delta. To make totally sure that it's all ticking over  
nicely I'll fill the rebreather up with  100% O2 and go for dive -  
but not too deep, cause on so rich a mix if you dive too deep, you die.

What I do know though, is, that if I stay away from places with lots  
of guns, I won't need one....

So please "no more already"  ?

Tchuss, and thanks for all the fish

Cheerio
cp

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On 27/03/2006, at 10:57 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:

> Chris Petrov wrote:
>> at no point did I say "ban handguns" I'm simply questioning the
>> rationale behind taking it to work with you and everywhere else you
>> go and to what end? particularly given the escalating rate of
>> depression in disaffected youth.
>
> Well, the basic problem here is that you don't know in advance when
> you're going to need it.  It's sort of like car insurance -- if you  
> knew
> in advance when you were going to get in an accident, you could drive
> uninsired and buy insurance that morning, take a different route that
> day, or just not drive on that day.  But you don't know, so you buy
> insurance.
>
> Carrying a pistol is like that too.  You don't do anything stupid, you
> practice situational awareness, you don't go looking for trouble, but
> you carry anyway because you never know when it may find you despite
> your best efforts.
>
> To what end?  Well, first of all, the police are not, and cannot be,
> everywhere.  Assuming you get a chance to call 911, it may take them
> time to get there.  And when they do, it may be too late, or they may
> not realize anything was wrong.  There's a legal-landmark case in New
> Jersey in which several men forced their way into a house occupied by
> two women, one of whom managed to call 911.  By the time the police
> arrived, the house was quiet, no-one answered the door, so lacking a
> warrant for entry, they looked around outside, didn't see anything,  
> and
> drove off.  The two women were subsequently repeatedly beaten,  
> tortured
>  and raped over a period of 16 hours or so before one of them  
> managed to
> escape.
>
> Out of this case came a Supreme Court ruling that the police cannot be
> held responsible for failing to protect you.  And that's the key  
> lesson:
> The police CANNOT protect you, nor is it their job.  Their job is to
> enforce the law, to catch the perpetrator, and to clean up the mess.
> Protecting yourself is your responsibility, and one which American
> citizens have been repeatedly taking back the legal right to carry  
> out.
>  (I think it was Kansas whose legislature just passed a shall-issue
> concealed carry law, overriding its second veto by the Governor.)
>
>
> -- 
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