Build everything on a secured CI/CD system, keep things patched, monitor traffic egress especially with PII, manual review of code changes, especially for sensitive things
Unrestricted access to toothbrushes doesn’t result in amazing dental hygiene across the country. Mass shootings are a mental health issue. If we were to go to the extreme and outlaw all guns, people with severe mental illness who wanted to kill a bunch of people could either buy a gun illegally, or use a knife, a homemade pipe bomb, a vehicle, or a myriad of other ways to kill a lot of people.
Maybe we should be looking at the data for guns instead of toothbrushes since we already have it? "There are more public mass shootings in America than in any other country in the world."
is buying a gun legally and shooting youself/people with it *as easy as* "buying a gun illegally, or use a knife, a homemade pipe bomb, a vehicle"?
Mass stabbing? Not a thing. Suicice with a knife? Any idiot knows that it'll be much more painful than a bullet in the head, so they'd think (more than) twice a about that, as opposed to a gun, just pull the trigger and be done with it.
How did you even type that comment with a straight face?
That was a lazy response, but my point was you don't need access to gun to commit mass killings. You claimed that nobody would commit a mass killing with anything but a gun. I provided you with an example of where you were wrong.
> You claimed that nobody would commit a mass killing with anything but a gun
Phrasing it like that is a bit disingenuous. The only thing I said was mass stabbing was not a thing, which was wrong I guess. You don't have to read it so literally.
The point is gun is one of, if not the most effective vehicle for mass killing.
I'm not quite sure what point you're trying to make by saying you can kill a lot of people with other things too. Yes but it's not as easy as killing with a gun that's why those things have not happened to the same degree.
thanks for completely ignore the point, "it happens" is very different than it being a pandemic level occurence like in the US. Obviously the harm one can inflict with a blade is much less than that of gun, unless you are batman.
> Regardless, you bet it would decrease the death count.
Absolutely not. Guns "democratize" violence. People who are less strong will at least have a fighting chance to defend themselves. Without guns, those with brute force have all the power. It would be especially bad for women.
When we have a country where everyone gets along and trusts the police and government, then we can have a discussion about banning guns. I still won't support it but at least you have some justification for considering gun control.
what does "democratizing" have anything to do with death count? I guess you are saying maybe less women die? If they do carry guns that is? Do they?
Point is overall number, men or women, will be lower, unless you think that with the same number of violent incidents, the chance of fatal injuries with and without guns are exactly the same.
The rifle deaths in the US are superb. 300 per year via FBI statistics in a country of 320 million. Thats practically a number we should be celebrating. For comparison theres about 1500 homicides by knife per year.
If you want to live in a free society every once in a while some shit is going to go down.
I'm not sure if you've noticed, but the entire national discussion has been over banning the AR15. Have you been living under a rock?
No kidding, most homicides are committed with hand guns in liberal cities from gang violence where they have already completely banned guns. I dont think people are stupid but I do think you are. And quite triggered, clearly.
I wasn't saying it's irrelevant, I was saying that stipulating reverse (or sometimes 'forward-proxy' if there's a need to disambiguate from a reverse-proxy) is somewhat specific to web proxies or other network protocol proxies. This is in contrast to say, a legal or rhetorical proxy.
I have noticed a huge surge in ads compared to last year. Every video has 2 ads, sometimes the first is unskippable. Its just crazy. Unfortunately there is no competition so what are you going to do?
JS based ad blocking isn't really an option on mobile and DNS based filtering doesnt work
Exactly. Frankly, I'm tired of this tip-toed attitude - there hasn't been any sort of consequences suffered or imposed on the Chinese government for how they surreptitiously dealt with the virus, initially.
I'm not condoning or advocating conspiracy theories, but where they are wrong, they should be penalised.
The Chinese government also started limiting domestic flights in January 2020 but allowed foreign flights out until late March 2020 (https://english.alarabiya.net/features/2020/04/09/Coronaviru...). That seems like they were containing damage that affected them but were happy to risk the rest of the world. I’m not sure if this was an economic decision or something more malicious but it doesn’t matter - how are they not held accountable for this obvious export of the virus?
Meanwhile in the US, hysterical partisans attacked Trump for correctly naming the virus along with its origin. This resulted in a societal unwillingness to direct blame at the Chinese government for all their numerous missteps, starting with suppression of early reports of a new pneumonia like illness in late 2019. How many deaths could have been avoided with just the most basic level of transparency and responsibility?
> Meanwhile in the US, hysterical partisans attacked Trump for correctly naming the virus along with its origin
He spent months doing nothing in preparation, and denying there was an issue then when it turned out there was an actual problem decided it was all China's fault ... even though they had it largely under control by that point. That's why people were "hysterical" - he saw it coming, did nothing and refused to take any responsibility, but blamed someone else. He wasn't trying to accurately identify the source of the virus, he was trying to save his own skin.
Sure it's frustrating that we only found out in (I think) December that it was spreading human-to-human, and it'd be good to see some actual investigation from China. But Trump's finger-pointing was all just desperate attempt to save face and deflect from his own poor management and nothing more. Your question should be rephrased "How many deaths could have been avoided with just the most basic level of competency?" and directed at Donald Trump and his administration.
> But China knew about the virus in 2019 and kept it quiet.
I don't think it would have mattered. We had documentaries such as The Lockdown [1] in the end of February 2020, yet still most Western countries spent much of March 2020 still debating whether they should react somehow or not.
This is the truth. We don't have evidence that the virus came from a lab (how could we when China refused investigation?), but we have evidence that the whistleblowers were arrested. Some are dead and some aren't seen again. Are we not supposed to blame this regime?
I feel like only one thing matters. If regular people find out that gain of function research (or something similar) resulted in a lab leak that killed millions of people, then regular people will demand this kind of research stop.
None of the people most qualified to speak on this issue want their funding cut or the research to stop.
Let's focus on solving problems in america for american citizens first, then we can worry about everyone else.