Basics
From iGeek
Articles that are foundational (pretty basic).
~ Aristotle Sabouni
Created: 2019-01-30 |
- AR-15 Bullets - FakeNews/idiots claim that the AR-15 bullets (the .223) are uniquely deadly. That they can do things like enter one place, and spin inside you body and exit somewhere else. The truth is the .223 is weaker than most varmit rounds, and it's advantages were weight (carry more rounds), not firepower. But anti-gunners and media without fact checkers won't tell you that.
- Alt-Economics - These are alternate-reality economics that Fake Economists (usually leftist polemics) tell each other and their base. AKA Leftonomics. Never blame on malice that which is more easily explained by incompetence. But when you are an "expert" that knows the facts and repeat the fabrications anyways? Then malice (dishonesty) is all that's left. They know better.
- Backup - Are you backed up? No, this isn't an advertisement for laxatives; I'm talking about your data (computer). Unless everything you care about is stored "in the cloud" and being backed up by them, then you should make sure to go out and buy a drive and back your data up. In fact, you should do it even if you have a cloud account and keep your own copy.
- Defensive Gun Use - Best estimates are that guns are used in ≈9,000 murders per year but they're used about 2.2 million times a year to stop a crime or save a list. That means if you outlawed all guns (and you're naive enough to think that would stop 9,000 murders), you'd probably increase crime by a couple million more cases a year?
- Discussion with a Gun-Controller - Almost every discussion with a gun-controller looks the same. This is a paraphrased version of that thread.
- Do something - After every mass shooting (especially School shootings), there's the hue and cry from the left, "this happened again, we have to do something!" What they usually want to do is institute marxism/tyranny, because that's what they wanted before there was a shooting. Thus the shooting is just another excuse to get them what they wanted all along.
- Geeks aren't Wizards - Too many people in this world look for "authorities" then trust them blindly on topics they don't fully understand. Since most people don't understand computers, they tend to find their local tech nerd and trust them blindly. Not a good move. Geeks are not wizards.
- Gun Controllers - This is a short list of some of the "smartest Gun-Controllers in the room". This isn't just "gotcha" type mistakes, but fundamental failures to understand the basics of what they're talking about. I've been looking for a gun-controller that could talk about the basic parts and operation without sounding like an idiot and I have yet to find one, but I'm only 58 years old.
- Guns and Igno-arrogance - Really dumb smart people are folks that are good and one thing (software, science, accademia...) and think that being a domain expert in one area, translates to things they know nothing about (politics, the real world, etc). Then they are particulary arrogant because they know how smart they are. So they can't fathom they are out of their depth.
- Knife Control - While I wish it was a joke, California, UK and Oz (Australia) all have "knife control" to keep the public from having pointy things. Since banning some guns didn't work, they banned more guns. When they ran out of guns to ban, and stabbings went through the roof, they had to ban pointy sticks. Never mind that criminals ignore laws, so the laws only punishing the innocent.
- Silk Road - An online market for the alternate internet (dark web). It was operated as a Tor hidden service, that allowed users to browse anonymously and securely (without potential traffic monitoring). The FBI shut it down and arrested Ross Ulbricht because some of the users were doing illegal activities.
- Ross Ulbricht - Licensing is a protection racket: the government takes away your right to something, then leases it back to you for a fee. Fuck with that, and the mafia will kill you, the government will give you life in prison (with no possibility of parole). That just happened to Ross Ulbricht for creating Silk Road (eBay for the DarkNet).
- Unions - Unions and Organized Labor, what are they? Unions prove that while too much power in the hands of greedy self-serving corrupt management may not be good, too much power in the hands of a greedy self-serving corrupt labor monopoly is no better. As they say, absolute power corrupts absolutely; and that explains the scandals with Unions.
- United Airlines - Overbooked plane, Poker-playing unethical doctor (lost his license trading drugs for sexual favors) is asked to leave, calls his lawyer who tells him to make a scene, he ignores directions, makes the airport police to drag him off. The media blames the airline.
- What is a gun? - A gun is just a tool. A tool is just a device used to aid in work. At the mechanical level, this tool throws small rocks (called bullets) very quickly. So it is nothing more than a gas-powered slingshot. Hating a slingshot, or people that want to own them, is not rational (e.g. it's emotional). Which is why it's so hard to reason with people that want to hate a tool.
- What is an assault rifle? - Assault rifle is fully automatic close quarters military weapon (one squeeze of the trigger fires multiple bullets). Assault Weapon was invented in 1988 for a black scary looking gun, and to confuse rubes into thinking civilians had assault rifles. Both used smaller/lower powered cartriges (to carry more), and were compact for easy use.
- Who needs an AR15? - Asking "who needs an AR15?" is like asking "who needs free speech?". Why do you need your 1st, 4th or 14th amendment rights? If you're not doing anything wrong, you shouldn't need a right to privacy, and if you aren't saying anything wrong, then guaranteeing free speech is redundant.
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