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Been to a Dylan show lately?
― dally, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 18:27 (eleven years ago) Permalink
i cant get into dylan shows without my kkk membership card
― max, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 18:30 (eleven years ago) Permalink
why would anyone in their right mind go to a Dylan show in this day and age
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 18:37 (eleven years ago) Permalink
you guys are more cranky than usual today.
― dally, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 18:41 (eleven years ago) Permalink
why would anyone in their right mind go to a Dylan show in this day and age
To see all the hot, college chicks dancing in front of the stage.
― Jazzbo, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 18:56 (eleven years ago) Permalink
He hires good bands, but his voice is thoroughly destroyed.
― dally, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:06 (eleven years ago) Permalink
back to the stories! i actually wrote an article for the Onion AV Club this past summer detailing Bob's weirdest onstage moments. Some old, oft-told tales, but my fave is the Harry Dean Stanton/Chabad Marathon one: http://bp2.blogger.com/_IgB0JLKO15Q/RqDvomie9UI/AAAAAAAACBo/EjOWWXUB9fg/s1600-h/den+feat+2+4329.jpg
― tylerw, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 21:40 (eleven years ago) Permalink
Letter to Bob Dylan #1
Dear Bob,
I had just seen you Bob, at the Orpheum Theater, in Omaha, NE, '1991' or '2' or maybe even, "Love Minus Zero equals No Limit".
At the end of the show, there was a little line forming around to the side...
Exit stage left!
Those standing in that line, had high hopes, and enchanted dreams of meetings, and things, interviews, pictures, and or, at the very least, all I want, is an autograph...
Actually, I to give... For it is better, than to receive!
It seemed to me, that in all pro Bob (Top of the) bill at he, (Probability) like Elvis, you too, Bob, had left the Building. Although conflicting reports, of course, stated otherwise...
The Line was going in 'no direction known'. (Fast, I had to eat soon, or my muscles would be doomed, to the bones of the cancerous cellular fat head phones, wringing them bells like bottlenecks. All the way to the Gates Of Eden!)
After about 10 minutes, the tout. (I mean, tour. But come to think of it! I guess he was about the same tautness as I!) The Tour Manager hadn't shown his face, once yet... Don't think Twice, It's Alright Ma, I'm only frying... My brains out from the colorful sight of the bright stage light and a little dose of LSD too went he (25 or 6 to 4) Clive. Next Stop Chicago!
Already at the "End of the Line", I didn't have to step back, just to the side, and a one, and a two, and a... (My friend Bo Rose, says: "Clive! What in the Hell are you doing Man?") I took a Leap on Marianne & Ginger's Faith Hill, and, on, onto the stage!
As the island slowly sank...
It wasn't long then. (And maybe it never will be?)
From out of the shadows, enter stage fright...
The tour manager says: "Can I help you?"
I say: "Well, I don't know? Who are you?" (I really wanna know?) (Who who) (Who who) Like a Roger Doll tree and Re:Pete-ing Town send HOWL.
He says: "I am the touring Manager"
I say: "Well then!" (I meant now, but I was using Minnesota speck.) "Yes you can! Could you please make sure that Bob Gets this?" Pulling the Cassette tape out, that I had pocketed for the leap, up-staged... (By everyone, because I'm just a jest and a bumbling poetaster that does old psuedo neo doggerel tricks).
Extending my hand, to hand it to his hand, which, as soon as he saw what it was, he withdrew his hand.
He could not "Handle With Care"
Backing up, as if the tape was demonic.
He said: "Oh no no no!" (I don't smoke it no more) "No cassettes, Please! Because of Street Legal reasons we can't accept any tapes, I'm so sorry".
I said: "Well now!" (Saying what I meant, and meaning what I said, a Californian/Nebraskan's word may not be 100% in their in suing ways? But in my cassette tape case it is, and was, as I was speaking in NE/CAL speck now!) "Hows about a nice.....................
Partially inspired by Bob, with Bob, as Bob, playing Bob himself, with a cameo role in it" (The Poem That Is!)
(I'll bet you thought, I was going to say Hawaiian Punch?)
Well now, the Touring Manager was all friendly, and stuff, stepping toward me again.
The poem was folded, and placed inside, with the tape. He was a little apprehensive, yet again...
I had to assure him, of no tricks or tapes. (My Hollow Weenie was coming up soon! I saw a pretty girl winking).
I was getting a little shaky at this point, because I never knew of the poisonous qualities of ferro-chrome-oxide.
And out it came, THE POEM, that is, which he, positively 4th street guaranteed, that you Bob, was fan of your fans...
And further more, demands, that all of your fans poetry be accepted, and hand delivered, immediately, if not, by the OK Sooners. (Hey wait a minute... We're in NE REM remember) (It's not the end of the world as we know it... YET!).
And you would most definitely get it...(Even if you got it, would you really get it?)
So Bob,Did you get it?
The title was:"Christmas 1990 Whatever"
By Clive
― evilCozPoetry, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 22:05 (nine years ago) Permalink
The engineer from Love and Theft recounts some great stories here.
The best one is about "stadows..."
there's a lyric on the song where Bob sings, "The leaves cast their shadows on the stones," and, when he was singing it live, he was reading his lyrics off a piece of paper, and, I guess, for a split-second, he got dyslexic, because on the live take, he actually sang, "The leaves cast their *stadows* on the stones." So, the only time I did any editing on that song, was when I heard this word "stadows" go by, I knew he meant shadows, because I had the lyric sheet in front of me. So, when I tried a remix, I took the vocal, and I found a "sh" from somewhere else, and I chopped the "st" out and put that in, so he was singing "shadows," y'know. And Bob was listening to all these mixes, and he kept saying, "Nah, man, I really wanna use that rough mix." Finally, I said, "Well, you know, on the rough mix, you don't sing 'shadows,' you sing, 'stadows." And he took a long hit on his cigarette, and he kind of looked at me deadpan, and he went, "Well, you know:*'stadows.'
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 22:39 (nine years ago) Permalink
lol, yeah that is great
― tylerw, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 22:42 (nine years ago) Permalink
bob dylan arrested for being creepy old man.
― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 15 August 2009 01:02 (nine years ago) Permalink
great collection of people (e.g. joan baez, johnny cash, allan ginsberg, etc) recounting their first encounters w/ mr zimmerman
― Michael_Pemulis, Saturday, 15 August 2009 01:15 (nine years ago) Permalink
I went to try to get Dylan to sign a copy of his Complete Lyrics book when he played San Antonio some years ago (mid 90's). He was playing in a beautiful theater called 'The Majestic Theater'.I was hanging out before the show and started chatting to another collector whom I saw regularly when we were trying to get autographs."Do you know about the Hood?" he asked me."The Hood?!" I replied.Does he mean 'the ghetto'? The 'urban' area here in San Antonio?"You know Bob wears a hood when he wants to be left alone, and no one speaks to him..."I just sort of chuckled and thought that that was crazy... that my friend was a bit daft. We waited for a while and then around the corner came this old, black RV... with a trailer attached. And it was MATTE black - not shiny black. Not 'showroom quality modern paint technology' black, but like... can o' spray paint black. I was like "no way" that that's Bob Dylan... But it pulled right up to he stage door. A guy got out, opened the trailer, went back in, came back out with a big dog, and commenced to feeding the dog. The scene was a bit surreal and I was probably not paying close attention to the real reason I was there. My friend said "There he is!" and I looked up to see a desheveled looking gentleman exiting the bus... It was Bob.We began walking towards him and all of a sudden he pulled a hoodie-like hood over his head and made a bee-line for the stage door. Hoodies are quite common now, but back then they were more like a sweat-suit kinda gym class thing. I was flabberghasted! "THE HOOD! It is true!!!" "How freakin' weird!" And no one spoke a word to him as he meandered around the back and to and fro the bus. I believe he even took off down the street, but I didn't follow. I didn't want to be a nuisance to Mr. Dylan.The guy that was feeding the dog took a plastic bag and set it somewhere on the trailer. It blew down or fell down and started blowing towards me. I could tell there was some paper or something in it because it had weight and was moving slowly across the concrete towards me. I thought "if it makes it to me, I'm going to pick it up and see what's inside of it"... It did and I did. There were some receipts from various 'truck-stop' type places for hat pins and suff and a UPS slip from New Mexico sent to the hotel La Mansion across the street. I wish I would've held onto everything in the bag but I didn't... I thought it was just a bunch of trash (it was)... But I held onto the slip because of the address.
Later that night, at the show, Bob was playing. A girl held up an LP for Bob to sign in the middle of the performance. "Not now honey... I'll sign it after the show." I knew for an absolute FACT that she would NOT get her album signed. He was lying.After the show had ended, people started surrounding the stage door and the path to the 'Darth Vader RV'. I was stationed perfectly right in front of the bus door, off to the side. Perfect.Bob came out and the bus door opened. He through up the hood and parted the sea of screaming fans. I saw the girl with the album. She was short and engulfed by the throng of people surrounding her. She held up her LP... I don't know which one it was... You could't even see her; just a little arm and hand holding the flat cardboard. Almost like it was planned, Bob turned, reached out and took her album and signed it! "Holy Smokes!" I know I'm gonna get my book signed!"Mr. Dylan? Could you sign my book?""I can't right now! Go to Austin... I'll sign it in Austin!""But, I'm not going to Austin!"And the door closed. Me and my buddy were shut out!I can't believe that chick got her album signed! But she seemed like a real fan, so god bless her!
My friend and his mom went to Austin... His mom got Bob to sign something for them and they talked about Education or teaching or something to that effect.
I never got my book signed. Never tried again either.But I did find out just recently that the address and name on the slip belonged to Bob's driver...
― funkymonkstemple, Saturday, 6 March 2010 23:59 (nine years ago) Permalink
A friend of mine used to tell a story about the first time Dylan played Dublin in '65: they tried to get to talk to him after the show in the Adelphi, but didn't catch him, but heard he would be getting the train to Belfast next morning. So they waited at Amiens St, and, sure enough, he shows up with his entourage and boards the train. He sits in a compartment for a while, but eventually they cajole to a door - my friend who has been silent up til know, proffers some paper and asks for an autograph.... Dylan goes 'later, man': and at that exact moment the train pulls off....
(nearly) thirty years later, Dylan is playing at a festival in Tramore at which I'm working. He was followed by Jerry Lee, and I'm standing at the monitor desk, and JLL is rockin' - I turn to my friend Davy, who's kinda short, and who was standing there, and say 'this is a great!' - the unmistakable voice rises from below shoulder level 'yeah, man' .....Davy has stood back to let Bobby see.
― sonofstan, Sunday, 7 March 2010 08:27 (nine years ago) Permalink


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On May 13th, presumably due to a short circuit caused by a faulty water pipe, a disastrous fire occurred at the Faculty of Architecture Technical University of Delft. The building was designed and completed in the late 1960's by Jaap Bakema of the architecture firm Van den Broek and Bakema. The building, also home of Docomomo Netherlands and the Organizing Committee of the 10th International Docomomo Conference, was completely destroyed. Fortunately, the building was evacuated in time and there were no injuries. However, the loss of work of faculty and students, including damage to the library collection, one of the best in Europe with over 40,000 publications is regrettable. The school was also owner of a famous chair collection with over 200 works by Le Corbusier, Rietveld and Gispen, luckily of which 80 models have been saved.
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CPITConsulting necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
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Sunbury Business Association
The Sunbury Business Association is the key business advocacy organisation for Sunbury. The organisation was recently known as the 'Sunbury Chamber of Commerce'.
Association membership is open to all retail, commercial, industrial and home-based businesses.
There are 2 key targets for this logo:
* Sunbury Business Owners:
* The design has to be representative of Sunbury, but professional enough that Sunbury retail and other business owners would willingly place a sign/sticker with the design on their windows or advertising, identifying them as members.
* Wider Sunbury and surrounding towns residents:
* The design has to be distinctive enough, so that when the association runs a marketing campaign, member-stores are easily identified, obviously and clearly as SBA members.
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* A professional corporate design that demonstrates the SBA as a key business partner.
* The design should reflect the heritage of the Sunbury, but not lose sight that Sunbury Businesses and community is also very modern and progressive.
* The design should stand out, be distinctive but not gimmicky or cartoonish (please – no cartoon 'Suns' etc)
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Sunbury is located just outside of suburban Melbourne (Capital City of the State of Victoria, 2nd largest city in Australia), even though it is a suburb itself. The Victorian Government has had in place for many years an Urban Growth Boundry (UGB). This doesn't include Sunbury, therefore this has created a 'green-belt' around Sunbury, protecting it from urban encroachment. Sunbury, which is located on the Jackson Creek, has a semi-rural feel, not only in its natural environment, but also in the community spirit.
** We would like this 'spirit' and environment reflected in the design. Sunbury is also the closest food and recognised wine region to Melbourne CBD.
* We require the tagline 'Live Sunbury. Shop Sunbury' incorporated into the design.
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Please join us for a mock international tribunal, which will hear arguments on the application of principles of international humanitarian law to the property issues at the heart of the Sheikh Jarrah litigation. Sheikh Jarrah, in East Jerusalem, is an area of great historical and cultural significance, both to Palestinian and Jewish communities, and has been the site of a long-running litigation involving a wide range of international law issues. These include the status of the properties at issue under international law, the right of return of refugees to their homes in the State of Israel, and the fair and lawful resolution of international property law disputes. The purpose of this event will be to present these issues before a fair and impartial hypothetical international tribunal, which will resolve the issue based on principles of international humanitarian law.
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Michael Mansfield QC (Palestinian side) is a British lawyer with an international reputation on human rights issues. He has represented defendants in criminal trials, appeals and inquiries in some of the most controversial legal cases of the past 45 years, particularly where issues of Civil Liberty have arisen.
Michael Sfard (Israeli side) is an Israeli lawyer specializing in international human rights law and the laws of war. He has served as counsel in numerous important cases on these topics in Israel.
Sami Ershied (Israeli side) is an Israeli Bar-qualified lawyer with a significant practice and expertise dealing with housing, land and property issues. He has extensive knowledge of the current legal situation in Jerusalem.
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There are a lot of unspoken aspects of a writer's life---things we don't admit to because it will make us look bad.
Since I gave up scruples for Lent (I also gave up Catholicism), I'll share the things that no one else will share. Here's the list in no particular order:
1. Answering fan mail is a drag. Sure, when we first got started we loved to hear from fans. But after the thousandth letter of someone proclaiming their love, we begin to cut and paste our responses (Thanks so much for writing!) Yes, I know this sounds sucky and ungrateful. But at least I still answer all of my fan mail---lots of big shots have a website moderator do it for them.
2. We hate being edited. Writers will say that they love a good editor, but none of us actually believes the editor knows better. We listen, because we have to, but we think we got it right the first time and that we don't require any rewrites or tweaking. That's why, when we become bestsellers, we refuse to be edited.
3. We think our last book is better than the one that won that award. Even if we weren't on the final ballot. Even if we weren't nominated. Even if we write in an entirely different genre.
4. We don't read every book we blurb. Some writers don't even write the blurbs--they let the author who asked for the blurb write the blurb.
5. We think #1 NYT Bestsellers are crap, and that our own books aren't on the NYT List because we refused to sell out, because our publishing house didn't do enough, or because the readers are stupid. We also resent Oprah, but in public talk about how much she does for the publishing world.
6. We say snide things behind each other's backs. There's gossip, rumor mongering, and pettiness, and we badmouth people that we call our friends. Especially if they are award winners or #1 NYT bestsellers.
7. We envy each other. If an author gets a movie deal, a huge advance, a big tour, a magazine spread, we're incredibly jealous because we feel we deserved it, not them. Then we hide our feelings behind well wishes, and say snide things behind their backs.
8. We all have a martyr complex, believing that writing is an heroic, impossible profession, and that our tremendous intestinal fortitude is the reason we're professionals. That, and our natural talent. Oh yeah, we're also all egomaniacs.
9. We all have a sense of entitlement. We expect to be treated better than the average Joe, to be catered to, to be fawned over. The higher we climb, the more prima donna we become.
10. We're all constantly afraid that the world will realize we're frauds, and it will all be taken away from us. Our careers are precarious, fragile things, and we know this all too well, but we hide that fear behind bluster and bravado and say things like, "That book flopped because the author didn't try hard enough" when we all know that but for the grace of God go I.
11. We blame our publishers, our editors, and our agents, when our careers aren't going well, but take all of the credit when they are going well.
12. We secretly think that 99% of all newbie writers aren't good enough to make it. But we also think that 99% of all professional writers aren't good enough either.
All of these things don't apply to all writers, but some of these apply to all writers. Even if they vehemently deny it.
And I want to go on the record and say that ABSOLUTELY NONE OF THIS APPLIES TO ME. I'm just relating what I've seen and heard. I'm a kind-hearted, giving writer who loves everybody and everything about this profession.
As far as you know.
Anyone else want to admit to some unpleasantness inherent in this business? Feel free to post anonymously...
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Domenici Requests Funding to Support Defense Research Work at N.M. Tech, May 30, 2002
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Domenici Will Help Craft FY2003 Defense Appropriations Bill
WASHINGTON -- Prior to departing last Friday for an international nuclear nonproliferation trip to Russia, U.S. Senator Pete Domenici signed off on the priority funding needed to accentuate the wide-variety of national defense work carried out in New Mexico, including several projects carried out by New Mexico Tech in Socorro.
Domenici is a member of the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee that this summer will develop the FY2003 Defense Appropriations Bill to provide actual funding for national defense work next year. The President has requested more than $396 billion for national defense work in FY2003, the most significant increase in military spending in decades.
"New Mexico is home to some very important components for keeping our forces on the cutting edge. In that light, my priorities are to ensure that this work is sufficiently funded as we go through the appropriations process this summer and fall," Domenici said.
"The scientific and research capabilities at New Mexico Tech can be brought to bear on our national defense. I'm requesting funding that can build on the school's contributions to national security, particularly as our defenses become more reliant on high technology," he said.
Domenici has formally requested funding for a wide variety of defense activities conducted in New Mexico as they relate to Kirtland, Holloman, and Cannon Air Force bases, Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories, White Sands Missile Range, the New Mexico National Guard and a wide-range of defense contractors in the state such as Laguna Industries in Cibola County.
Domenici is requesting a $12 million increase to the President's $25 million request for the Defense Micro-Electronics Activity to establish the MicroElectronics Testing, Technology and Obsolescense Program (METTOP) at New Mexico Tech. METTOP would be established within the school's Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center (EMRTC).
The funding sought by Domenici would support an expansion of EMRTC research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) capabilities to exercise virtually any microelectronic component used in military, space, and commercial applications. The specific purposes of the METTOP include the verification of complex software models, the determination and documentation of large variations in microelectronic device responses to various environments, and the tracking and documentation of changes in the manufacturing processes of various microelectronic devices used in military, space, and commercial programs.
Domenici has also requested $10 million for the Institute of Complex Additive Systems Analysis (ICASA) at New Mexico Tech. ICASA is a cooperative endeavor among the Defense Department, other federal agencies, academia and the private sector to analyze complex interdependent systems, i.e., networks and critical infrastructures -- electrical grids, water distribution systems, and the computer networks on which they rely. In addition, ICASA has an educational component to train and educate future experts to deal with assuring the stability of interdependent systems in the United States.
"Securing this funding will be a challenge, but a case can be made that ICASA is playing an important role in identifying vulnerabilities," Domenici said. "Recent terrorist events stress the need for a critical infrastructure systems modeling framework that allows for the rapid application of system models to support vulnerability assessments of threats. This funding would help ICASA develop the tools to more accurately predict our infrastructure vulnerabilities."
With a $17 million appropriation sought by Domenici for the Geosynchronous Laser Imaging Testbed (GLINT), the mission capabilities of WSMR would be expanded by adding a new laser transmitter that is required for very high altitude and deep space object identification and capabilities analysis. Congress last year approved $7 million for GLINT. The Bush budget recommends $28.3 million for this Advanced Weapons Technology. GLINT also involves the research and development capabilities of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology at Socorro.
Domenici is also seeking support for his $30 million request for the Magdalena Ridge Observatory (MRO) project under the Office of Naval Research, Naval Research Laboratory. The observatory complex will consist of a single stand-alone telescope and a multi-telescope interferometer. In his request, Domenici noted that the site chosen for this observatory provides both an environment free of the air and noise pollution found at sites lower in elevation and a location ideal for Defense Department agencies studying missile flights and tests at WSMR. The Bush budget does not seek any funding specific to the MRO.
"From this site, the observatory will be able to track missiles launched from Fort Wingate, the North Range Extension to WSMR, and as well as from WSMR itself. Not only will it be able to observe tests above the range complex, it will also have a lookdown capability to observe lower altitude flight tests and to track missiles from launch to intercept to ground impact," Domenici said.
New Mexico Tech would also be involved with the mission to develop an advanced Medical Biologics Detection Surveillance System. Domenici has requested $5.5 million in Navy funding for this research effort focused on improving area and personnel monitoring preparedness against biological threats.
This program will develop and integrate advances in biotechnology, optical sensors, and integrated circuits to develop rapid detection and alarm capabilities necessary for continuous, semi-autonomous, environmental surveillance of naval personnel spaces. The technology could then be used in local and federal civilian emergency situations.


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In case you haven't heard about it yet, the Xdebug extension is a full-featured library that allows you to perform all sorts of debugging tasks in PHP. These range from checking the values assigned to variables and determining which program lines are executed by the PHP engine, to performing more complex operations, such as benchmarking entire applications and verifying in which order functions are called by a script.
Of course, it's nearly impossible to learn how to achieve all of these tasks in only one single step, so if you're interested in mastering the most relevant methods that come bundled with the Xdebug PHP extension, then you might want to have a close look at this group of educational articles.
Now that you're aware of the topics that are covered in this series of articles, it's time to recall what we discussed in the previous part. In that particular chapter, I used a couple of examples to help explain how to use the "xdebug_start_code_coverage()" and "xdebug_get_code_coverage()" functions to keep track of the sequence of lines executed by a sample PHP script.
These functions permit you to verify, with a decent level of accuracy, the order in what the different blocks that compose a certain PHP application are called by the interpreter. Logically, performing this controlling process helps to debug errors that are commonly raised when working with conditional statements and recursive functions, which under normal conditions are pretty hard to grab.
You'll be pleased to hear that the Xdebug extension comes equipped with additional functions that allow us to perform other debugging tasks, such as benchmarking PHP applications and checking in what order certain functions were called by the PHP engine.
Therefore, in this sixth chapter of the series I'll be discussing in depth how to take advantage of the benchmarking abilities offered by the Xdebug library, which rely heavily on its "xdebug_time_index()" function.
Are you ready to learn how to use this brand new debugging function? Then click on the link that appears below and start reading now!
{mospagebreak title=Review: tracking program flow with the Xdebug extension}
If you didn't have the chance to learn how to use the "xdebug_start_code_coverage()" and "xdebug_get_code_coverage()" functions for keeping track of the sequence of lines executed by a PHP application, then you're in luck; here's an example created in the preceding article of this series, which demonstrates how to utilize these functions along with a simple PHP class.
Take a look at the corresponding code sample, please:
class User{
private $firstName;
private $lastName;
private $email;
public function __construct($firstName,$lastName,$email){
throw new Exception('Invalid parameter First Name.');
throw new Exception('Invalid parameter Last Name.');
throw new Exception('Invalid parameter Email.');
// get first name
public function getFirstName(){
return $this->firstName;
// get last name
public function getLastName(){
return $this->lastName;
// get email
public function getEmail(){
return $this->email;
$user=new User('John','Doe','email@example.com');
echo 'First Name :'.$user->getFirstName().'
';
echo 'Last Name :'.$user->getLastName().'
';
echo 'Email :'.$user->getEmail().'
';
/* displays the following when 'rand()' function returns a value < 5
First Name :John
Last Name :Doe
'/path/to/example/program_flow_debug.php' =>
8 => int 1
11 => int 1
14 => int 1
17 => int 1
18 => int 1
19 => int 1
20 => int 1
23 => int 1
36 => int 1
37 => int 1
38 => int 1
39 => int 1
40 => int 1
44 => int 1
// displays the following when the 'rand()' function returns a value > 5
Email :email@example.com
'/path/to/example/program_flow_debug.php' =>
8 => int 1
11 => int 1
14 => int 1
17 => int 1
18 => int 1
19 => int 1
20 => int 1
31 => int 1
36 => int 1
37 => int 1
42 => int 1
44 => int 1
As illustrated by the above hands-on example, the "xdebug_start_code_coverage()" and "xdebug_get_code_coverage()" functions can be very useful when it comes to finding out the sequence of lines executed by a PHP script.
In this specific case, this pair of complementary functions is utilized in conjunction with a basic class and a simple conditional "if" statement, with the purpose of showing how the two blocks of code that compose the prior script are called by the PHP engine. Not too difficult to grasp, right?
Well, at this point I should assume that you're pretty familiar with using the "xdebug_start_code_coverage()" and "xdebug_get_code_coverage()" functions to control the flow of a specified PHP program. Therefore, it's time to continue exploring other functions of the library.
As I stated in the beginning, this extension also offers a function called "xdebug_time_index()." As its name suggests, it can be used for timing PHP scripts with minor hassles. Therefore, in the section to come I'll be explaining how to use this function for benchmarking purposes.
This topic will be discussed in the next few lines, so click on the link that appears below and keep reading.
{mospagebreak title=Benchmarking PHP applications with the X-debug extension}
As you may guess, any decent PHP debugging library must have the capability of benchmarking programs with relative ease, and certainly Xdebug isn't an exception. The library in question comes equipped with a handy function called "xdebug_time_index()," which can be used for timing PHP scripts with extreme simplicity.
To demonstrate this function, I'm going to start coding a basic example, which will use it within a typical "for" loop. Here's the corresponding code sample; have a look at it, please:
echo 'Starting time : '.xdebug_time_index().'
';
// do nothing
echo 'Total script execution time : '.xdebug_time_index();
/* displays the following
Starting time : 0.001168966293335
Total script execution time : 3.9993019104004
If you analyze the above code sample, you'll realize how simple it is to benchmark a specified PHP script using the aforementioned "xdebug_time_index()" function. As shown above, the function has been called twice, that is before the "for" statement starts its iteration, and at the end of the script, to display its total execution time.
Of course, if you're anything like me, then you may want to see how the flexibility offered by the "xdebug_time_index()" function can be exploited to create an object-oriented timing application with extreme ease.
With that idea in mind, the last section of this article will be focused on explaining how to build a basic timer class, which will use internally the previous "xdebug_time_index()" function for benchmarking PHP scripts.
This brand new timer class will be developed in the following segment, so jump ahead and read the new few lines. I'll be there, waiting for you.
{mospagebreak title=Extending the use of the xdebug_time_index() function}
In the section that you just read, I explained how to use the "xdebug_time_index()" function, to create a simple procedural timing script. However, it's also feasible to take advantage of the intrinsic capabilities of this function to build a timer class.
Want to see how this class can be built in a few easy steps? Examine the following code sample, which defines a primitive "Timer" class that obviously uses the "xdebug_time_index()" function as its workhorse. Here it is:
class Timer{
public function __construct(){}
public function getTime(){
return xdebug_time_index();
Indeed, the above "Timer" class doesn't bear any further discussion. It only implements a single method called "getTime()," which behaves as a wrapper for the "xdebug_time_index()" function. That's all.
It would, however, be pretty interesting to see how this class can be used for timing a simple application. Thus, below I coded a final hands-on example that utilizes the previous timing class for calculating the total execution time of a basic script. Here it is:
$timer=new Timer();
echo 'Starting time :'.$timer->getTime().'
';
echo 'Total script execution time :'.$timer->getTime();
/* displays the following
Starting time :0.0012168884277344
Total script execution time :5.9927868843079
Here you have it. Now that you've seen for yourself how simple it is to build a timer class using the "xdebug_time_index()" function, hopefully this will fire up your own creativity, and you'll start building your own benchmarking scripts.
Final thoughts
In this sixth episode of the series, I walked you through using the "xdebug_time_index()" function that comes with the X-debug extension, to perform basic benchmarking on several PHP scripts. Undeniably, the utilization of this function is pretty intuitive, so in theory you shouldn't have major problems using it for timing your own PHP programs.
However, this series still has a final installment, in which you'll learn how to employ another handy function of the X-debug library. It's called "xdebug_get_function_stack()," and it will be utilized for exploring the stack of function calls generated by the PHP engine during the execution of a script.
Now that you've been warned about the subject of the final article of this series, you won't want to miss it!


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Eric Snow hasn't played a game this year for the Cleveland Cavaliers. We knew that would be the case entering the year. His knees, and his jumper, just wouldn't let him compete at an NBA level anymore. Yesterday, the news hit us like a bat out of hell. Eric Snow's medical release had been granted and he was officially retired from the NBA. OK, so it wasn't completely like a bat out of hell. More like a seeing a McDonald's on the highway after seeing signs for it every half mile.
Now it is my turn to follow in Eric Snow's footsteps. Today, it is with a heavy heart, but no regrets, I announce my official retirement from J Beanie Sports and the blogging world. Like Eric Snow, we all knew this was coming at some point. Ever since I went back to school and stopped working I haven't had the time to dedicate myself to J Beanie Sports like this site deserves.
(Retirement speech sidebar: I know the irony that I quit my job and now I have less time to work on the site but when all I did at work was write, it was easy to do. Now all my time is spent away from a computer or studying. Yep, I suck.)
I wish I had more free time. I wish I had the desire to keep this site running. But I just don't anymore. You got to know when to walk away. All the great ones struggle with that and I am no exception. I thought I could keep a quality site going while still in school but that is no longer the case. I realize that now. I know it's time for me to move on; time for all of us to move on. (pause… sniff… wipe tears… long breath)
We had some great times together, there's no doubt about that. What started as a fun way for two friends to talk sports with people turned into a one-person freak show that captivated the attention of no more, no less, than 8 people for nearly two years. That is who I feel sorry for the most; (more tears) my readers, my followers, my fans. All 8 of you have meant the world to me these past two years. It is you kept me going when I didn't want to go anymore. On those days when I didn't know what to write, or didn't want to write, I thought about you and how sad, disappointed and upset; how your day would be ruined if you came to J Beanie Sports and there wasn't a new post, so I pushed out a quality post. For you, I say thank you and I'm sorry.It's been a good run, a good time and good experiences. You'll never been forgotten.
Along the way we've made some new friends, brought old friends together, torn some friendships apart, turned a few gay, started a rivalry that seems more like a man crash and made everyone hate the guy who went by one initial. All good times. Our new friends, Graig and Damman, have been the pillar of blogging commentership.
Graig, I thank you for introducing me to your blog, even if I couldn't live up to us here at J Beanie. I will continue to keep an eye on you and your site (by "keep an eye on you" I mean if you hear some jostling in the bushes outside your home, don't worry, it's just me pleasuring myself to your cannonball like body of a man.) I hope you enjoy your meat-fest pig out on Easter. If you make love to the steak before you eat it, all the more you'll enjoy it. I wish you the best of luck in your marriage. We should make a bet: whose marriage will last longer? Winner gets to pick the loser's second wife, no questions asked.
Damman, some say you look like Peyton, others like Eli. I've always thought you looked like a Cooper mixed with Maury Povich. Those of us up north were never sure how to pronounce your name. We didn't know if it was Dam-man, Damon, Da-man or if Damman was even your real name. It spurred many a great arguments.
Seal, you were always the most fired up of my commenters. It didn't matter if it W talking about the Tribe like he was a sixth-grade girl, Graig talking about the Browns or me just calling you bald, you were always there with an over-the-top, ridiculous, grade-school retort, and I love you for it. Yours and Graig's rivalry was classic and it will be one of the most missed things about this site.
Rosie, your silence never meant you didn't read or appreciate my work. To me, it meant I was dead on perfect with my opinions and predictions and there nothing you could add since I said it all so perfectly.
Frank, your silence did mean you stopped reading but I can forgive you since you are always there with open arms and a shoulder when I need it.
Wes, you didn't comment much but when you did, my God was it glorious.
Whoever was Graig Jr., thank you. Your time at this site was more enjoyable and entertaining than watching Bub run to first base during our awesomely bad softball season.
GFB, this site has brought us closer than any brother-in-laws could possibly have become through non-sexual relations. Your insights have been slightly above what W brought to the table but for some reason everyone seems respect you more. I know you were always there to talk Browns but I hope I gave you some reason to be a Cavs fan too. We have become so close I'm almost ready to drop the GF from your name and just call you Brother. (more, lots more, tears)
W, I almost regret giving you this website. Almost, because as annoying as you were, it was fun to watch everyone rip on you.
Scott, I loved… well, I don't know what I loved about your presence here but I love you. I did love how you like to piss off the OSU people because that is always funny. Stupid Buckeye fans.
J, this was supposed to be a two man team. It ended up being mostly just me. But I never felt alone out here. (sniff, wipe tears) Even if you weren't contributing with posts or comments, I knew you were with me, guiding and helping me along. I could feel your big soft hands and flush warm belly on me as I typed every single word on this site.
To the rest of you who I may have forgotten, I'm sorry. It's not because I don't appreciate what you brought to this site. It just that I can't remember anything you did to make this site better, or worse, off the top of my head. But I still think you're average.
This is harder now than I thought it would be. I thought announcing my retirement would be easy since I had just about retired a few weeks ago. But now that I'm making it official, with these big old tears in my eyes, I'm realizing how much this site has meant to me. I hope, and know, that it has meant a lot to you too. Even it only meant a five minute break in your day where you got to come and make fun of my grammar and spelling, it gave you something to do. You all came here every day and I gave you something to talk about. For that, you're welcome. I know I took my shots from you but I know it was out of respect and love since you all looked up to me with fondness and jealousy. But I am not a God, simply an above average mortal that you will never be equal with.
Eric Snow's career wasn't always rosy and peachy. He had a good run, had some really good seasons ended long after he should have. I'll always remember him playing 42+ minutes in the game after the big trade last year (the same game BILLY came into our lives). Snow also played in an NBA Finals, I think he made an All-Star game and he generally was a quality NBA player. I like to remember him for that and not his horrible jump shot that a retarted one-armed seven-year old girl that looked bad.
I've had my ups and downs as a blogger. Of course my spelling and grammar is not the best. You know that and you appreciate that. I've had moments of not such brilliance; like some of my predictions (see, NCAA tournament, 2009). But overall I think I've had a good run. I brought you quality post like the Levels of Creepiness, BILLY, first-hand Browns experiences, live updates of the Gladiators in the AFL Championship, Cavs run to the NBA Finals and so much more. Like I'll remember E. Snow for his quality career, remember me for my quality blogsmenship, not the way my career fizzled out down the stretch. (Really trying to hold back the tears now)
So this is it. This is the final J Beanie entry. There will be no more. I know I'm going to miss it. I know I'm going to miss putting my predictions and ideas out there just in case one of them actually comes true. But as I've said, you deserve better and right now I can't give it to you. I'm not saying there isn't a Michael Jordan comeback in me but I'm saying there is a 99.8% chance that I won't blog again. (Not even trying to hold the tears back anymore, let them flow because I know yours are streaming down your face too.) To fill you void of random awesomeness blogs, continue to check G$'s site. I will, from time-to-time share some ideas there that may just blow your mind over there.
Homer Simpson once said "I don't think anything I've ever done has been wrong." I echo that thought today. Sure, my grammar and spelling and predictions are usually off just a bit but that doesn't mean I'm wrong. I was right in so many ways for starting J Beanie. And now is also the right time to end it. I love you guys. (I never thought I'd compare myself to Eric Snow in my final post.)


text: > > Is there (objective) comparison chart (bandwidth + latency) of > > Gigabit ethernet vs Myrinet vs Dolphin ? > > It's impossible to get an objective comparaison, there is too many perhaps to get a complete and comprehensive picture. but I don't see why some simple but useful metrics can't be had. for instance, suppose I just want to know the latency for a zero-sized packet between just two machines. I don't see why CPU/PCI/etc would make much of a difference here. sure, it's not enough of a picture to start ordering hardware, but it's a start (and a fundamental number). for instance, conventional wisdom seems to be that 1000bT doesn't much improve the ~50-100 uS latency shown by 100bT for tinygrams. does anyone have good measurements on that, particularly with irq-mitigation turned *off*?


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Another sensless shooting. What can be done to reduce gun violence in the USA?
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I wonder if everyone in Sydney walks down the street in terror everyday, because they cant pack a gun, so they cant shoot back if someone shoots at them?
Or, maybe they are content, not because they are exercising their right to carry a gun to defend themselves, but because they know they dont need that right to make it home in 1 piece.
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Provide firearm safety screenings and mental health evaluations to prevent this. This incident really angers me, I like weapons, I would love to own a weapon but my wife says no. She's Japanese and even watching security forces on Travis AFB carry their M4s scare her because it's not a daily norm for her since Japan doesn't worship firearms like we do here in the States. People committing these crimes aren't criminals from the get go until they have a meltdown like we saw in Aurora this summer and now this event.
I like this argument that some have saying that it's necessary to defend against a tyrannical government, but what good would your peashooter do against a Reaper or an AC-130 flying miles up in the sky shooting down on you should such an event come to pass? What gets me the most is that the President went on TV to give a tearful statement about the event, what we should want from our President is to pass some legislation because after all, 5000+ kids die yearly in the US from gun violence and people have the nerve to call that freedom.
Just venting here because I have two small children I might just send them back to Japan if the situation across the country is completely fucked by the time they enter grade school. The time to talk is now and not later like Fox News and other media outlets prefer to do. The "War On Christmas" is not important, the war for the future safety of our children's future is.
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I certainly dont have an answer as to why certain countries dont exhibit the same behavior that we do. But I do know its not going to be solved by banning guns. The violent tendenices are still there deeply rooted in who we are
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As others have rightly pointed out mental health is an important aspect to all of this. Statistics show not all, but many of these mass murder shooters are young males with some form of mental illness. We need to get serious about identifying these individuals and intervening before they become a threat to others as well as themselves.
Easy access is another big problem. It's too easy in most states for anyone to get their hands on fire arms without proper screening. In most states it's easier for a young person to own assault weapons than it is for that same individual to obtain a drivers license. Getting access to guns is rediculously easy in most states in this country. That has to stop.
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There are too many issues to address when it comes to these mass shootings. First of all you have to throw political correctness out of the window. It sucks when something like this happens, it sucks for the families involved especially, but every responsible gun owner always feels a separate remorse because they know this is just one step closer to stricter gun control. Every single one of these shooters is a prime example of an irresponsible gun owner and they ruin it for everyone else.
I can feel like I'm going to be long winded on this so I'm going to break this into different topics and I will state right now that even though I love to play devil's advocate with myself I am bias towards gun owners. I love shooting for recreation and thats about it. I do not personally own any firearms, but I'm in the military, Marines, I am a marksmanship instructor, and carry daily in my current assignment. (oh and expect profanity)
The US and getting rid of guns.
The US is too far gone to try and take guns away from people. Too many people are too comfortable with their gun ownership to even consider turning them over. If you even bring it up, most people will become enraged and you'll likely get a statement along the lines of "you can pry it from my cold dead hands." The U.S. is too large and people are too proud to try any big change like this. Americans are proud of the way they do things, even if it is the most illogical, ridiculous, offensive thing. Look at our system of measurement for example. Distance makes no fucking sense. An inch is devided by 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16 and so on, then an foot is 12in, yard is 3ft, mile is 5280ft or 1760yd. NO LOGIC! Metric, everything is 10's, it's simple and logical. Try to tell the average American that we will start phasing everything into the metric system. Could you imagine telling Americans that football (name is another illogical American thing) fields will be metric?! There would be riots! The way we measure temperature is the same way! Thirty-two degrees is freezing but 212 degrees is boiling. I had to look it up because I forgot. Celsius, 0º freezing 100º boiling. Simple, makes sense. Did you know every 10 meters is 1 atmosphere of pressure underwater. This all makes perfect sense, but Americans are too proud of their ways and too stubborn to change them regardless of how illogical they are. Trying to take guns away from Americans would be like trying to change America to the metric system. It probably would be for the best, but it will most likely never happen.
Purchasing guns in the US
Some states like Texas boast about how easy it is to buy firearms. This IS a problem. As I said, I love guns, I love shooting, but not everyone should be able to buy firearms, and even those who should shouldn't have it easy. Thorough background checks can prevent the mentally unstable and criminals from buying firearms if the proper information is put into the systems. Also sometimes making it a difficult process prevents people from buying them all together. When I lived in Hawaii the process for buying a handgun was insane! You had to go back and fourth from the gun shop to the one and only police station to transfer information, get permits and such. It was so much of a pain that often people just wouldn't buy. Buying a rifle was a little easier, but still a difficult task. Every state should have at least a one week waiting period to buy any firearm. This gives enough time for a proper background check to be performed plus it creates the "cool down" time for someone who is buying a firearm with bad intentions. If you don't know, the idea is that if I want to kill my ex girlfriend, if I have to wait a week to pick up the gun I just bought I will most likely not have that motivation after a week or just not buy the gun. So America needs stricter gun purchasing laws, especially screening for mental instability.
Firearms and the mentally ill
This tends to be the common factor with the mass shootings. First off if someone has a mental illness they should not be permitted to buy firearms. I am not a psychologist so I do not know of every mental illness so please dont tell me that simplex whatever the fuck isn't that bad and blah blah blah, you should know what I mean by my previous statement. Also it wouldn't be too bad of an idea to say that anyone with a child that has a mental illness should not be permitted to have a firearm in the house. Yes, the parents or whoever could have the firearm locked up in a safe that the mentally ill person/child doesn't have access too, but apparently that isn't always stopping them. So someone will inevitably say "Arg! You can take away the 2nd Amendment freedoms of someone just because their child has a mental illness of some sort!" and yes that is true, but it COULD possibly be a very big step in preventing these situations. It would suck and almost feel like a punishment for someone who enjoys recreational shooting if they had a kid that had autism or aspergers and they had to get rid of their firearms. Often times it isn't the parents' fault that the kid came out that way, the mother didn't drink or smoke while pregnant, it just happened. Sadly though it does seem that the majority of the people doing this shootings are not right in the head and preventing them from access to firearms is necessary.
Mass shootings" and political correctness/media
This is where I am about to piss off some people. Speaking completely statistically and throwing out compassion and opinion, mass shootings are not that bad when compared to the numbers of how people die. Yes it is tragic, but in reality it is not that bad. More people die from incidents with vehicles than bullets. More people safely and responsibly own, carry and operate firearms than those who use them to kill other people. While it may seem like these are frequent and a lot of people are dying from mass shootings, more people are dying from the use of alcohol. I am not saying I do not care about the victims and that their families do have my sympathy, but there are worse things out there. At the same time however, I do not know anyone involved in any of these tragedies, and I cannot stop my life and be sympathetic for every person who meets an untimely and violent end. My Uncle died earlier this year, but unless if you knew about it you probably wouldn't care that just some other guy died. Its sad, but true.
Part of the problem is all the media coverage. The media in this country in particular is out of control. I'm not a subscriber to the idea that they control us and sway every way we live our lives, but to an extent they kind of do. They make these mass shooting incidents out to be like everyone in the country is in danger. It's what sells. Turn on fox news at 11 and the first 5-10 minutes is hardly ever anything good. It is usually about people being murdered because that is what sells on the news. I read an article about gun control a few months ago that talked about the psychology behind this. He called it "logical fallacy of misleading vividness". It explained how the media makes these events seem like it is so bad that it will inevitably happen to you tomorrow. He states that it is portrayed in such detail and makes it so easy to imagine it happening to you that it effects your life. Much like how people are afraid to fly even though flying is statistically the safest way to travel. I will post a link to this article at the bottom and will reference it for other things as well. There is also the quote from Morgan Freeman going around (haven't seen a credible source yet) about how all the media coverage is about the shooter and that all it is doing is making the next potential shooter want to be worse than the last. You always hear about the bad, and rarely the good.
Same goes for celebrity news too. What is the ratio you hear for any given celebrity doing something good to ANYTHING they do looked at in a bad light. Then stop and think, why the fuck should I care what -insert celebrity- had for breakfast, looks like without makeup, wore to the beach. This is another problem in America, we encourage this constant invasion of privacy by the media and paparazzi into the lives of celebrities but flip the fuck out when facebook changes a policy that you didn't actually read in detail.
People are constantly dying in the world, and a lot of them are violent tragic deaths. When was the last time you heard about service members dying in Afghanistan? While I was over there in one day we had more than 10 Marines fall victim to an attack, a few died, a lot are now missing limbs. I know the story was not on the national news because sadly the average American just doesn't care anymore. Its the same story only the names have changed, and unless you know the person, a victim story with only different names isn't something people care about. When was the last time you heard on the national news all of the good we are doing in Afghanistan? You probably aren't. You only heard the stories about the ONE soldier who lost it and slaughters a bunch of Afghans, or the one group of stupid Marines who urinated on a dead Taliban fighter. You dont hear about how we saved children's lives when they stepped on an IED that the Taliban planted. You dont hear the story about how Naria, a little Afghan girl who lost an eye, was flown to from one of the worst places in Afghanistan to San Diego so that a team of surgeons, who volunteered, could give her a prosthetic eye. I picked these stories because I was there for them, but there are other AMAZING things people are doing in the world that you never hear of.
Did the national news cover much about Nasa finding water ice on Mercury or what Curiosity found on Mars? Why are these stories not getting attention?
Gun Control and Bans
When it comes to firearm bans, usually anyone who knows anything about firearms realized they are a joke. In the article i mentioned before and have a link to below, the author goes into detail about how the politicians writing these things have NO CLUE what they are talking about. A lot of things they ban are basically things that LOOK scary, but dont make a weapon more lethal. The national assault weapon ban was lifted, but California still has theirs in effect. Even the name "assault weapon" makes the firearm sound more dangerous and scary to the uneducated and the unfamiliar with firearms. Things like pistol grips, barrel shrouds, collapsable butt stocks, and suppressors are all things that LOOK scary, but dont actually have much effect on the lethality of the firearm. In the article there is even a video of an interview with a politician where she clearly doesn't know what she put a ban on. I'm afraid how much this might effect other things they decide on. I probably would not be far off in saying that the majority of people who are anti-guns have never fired one before.
Shooting is fun! Like I said before, I enjoy recreational shooting and thats pretty much it. When I am able to, I would like to purchase many firearms to keep in my house. My interest with with having guns for protection is significantly less than the interest is having something that would be fun to go to the range with and pop off some rounds. A topic I got into with a friend on assault weapons was also regarding competitions. Three-gun competitions are becoming more and more popular and look like a lot of fun, but you can't do it in certain states because of the restrictive gun laws against assault weapons. Look it up on youtube, they look like a blast! ...Pun intended, gotta lighten this up a little if you have read this far.
When looking at the effects of the national assault weapon ban, it pretty much didn't do anything. Such a small percentage of gun related violence involves assault weapons to begin with. Its not like the movies where criminals are getting crates and crates of AKs and M16s. Most crimes with firearms involve pistols as they are easily concealed. Even then I have never seen anything restricting bolt action rifles other than .50BMG rounds. In the hands of anyone who spent time reading military manuals on the internet a run of the mill, common, .308 caliber rifle at long range could do more damage than anyone with a pistol, physically and psychologically to the public.
This took awhile to type and is about all I can think of for now. If you actually read all of it I am amazed. If you want to debate any parts of it I just ask that you keep it civilized. I did not intend to offend anyone by what I have said, but emotion and tone do not convey through text and it is easy to misinterpret.
Link to article on gun control (written by a leftist too)
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Thanks Nate for the post.
Never let a good crisis go to waste. The poor victims aren't even buried and the media and politicians are calling for more gun control. Instead of taking a logical, reasoned approach to trying to find out what went wrong and trying to fix it, the knee-jerk reaction is to blame the gun.
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I can get a drive's license in a matter of hours with minimal cash. If i want to buy an "assault weapon" (which is a stupid fucking term that fear mongers came up with; really, what weapon isn't made for assaulting?!?!) i would have to come up with at least $850, pass a FDLE back ground check, and then wait 3 days to pick up the weapon. Now if i'm a convicted criminal i can still obtain a DL but will not legally get my hands on a firearm.
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"Assault" is just a word appended to weapons by the anti-gun lobby. It has no particular or specific meaning other than to engender or play to fears. There are automatic (one trigger pull empties magazine), semi-automatic (one pull, one shot), and single-shot weapons--that's basically it. Automatics that exist legally are the subject of licensing, extensive controls and personal possession is extremely rare. And as to the "scary" weapons, there is effectively no functional difference between a pink-stocked kids beginner .22 and an AR-15--it's one pull, one shot.
I'm starting to think that an assault weapon is apparently anything with a black plastic stock or is aggressive looking.
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Let's not veer off the topic at hand. Obviously some have a problem with the term "assault weapons". Fair enough. Maybe a automatic weapons is a better term or perhaps the terminology should be debated in another thread altogether.
We have a problem in this country with mass murder shootings. That's a fact.
Nobody's talking about taking anybody's guns away or restricting 2nd ammendment rights. This is about addressing the serious problem in our country with mass murder shootings. Consider these facts cited in a Mother Jones article entitled "A Guide to Mass Shootings in America"
Since 1982, there have been at least 62 mass murders carried out with firearms across the country. This does not include crimes primarily related to armed robbery or gang activity.
Of the 142 guns possessed by the killers, more than three quarters were obtained legally. Over 70 percent of the guns used were semi automatic handguns.
Half of the cases involved school or workplace shootings; the other 31 cases took place in locations including shopping malls, restaurants, government buildings, and military bases. 44 of the killers were white males. Only one of them was a woman. The average age of the killers was 35, though the youngest among them was 11 years old.
Whether you own a gun or not. What can we do to address this problem?
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I understand the tragic nature of what happened in CT, however nothing is being done in Chicago. Every ban imposed in the City affects Law abiding gun owners, not gang-bangers.
See...http://www.npr.org/2011/03/21/132678...violence...and the number is higher in 2012.
In Chicago, nearly 700 children were hit by gunfire last year an average of almost two a day and 66 of them died. That number is up over the previous year, even though the overall number of homicides in Chicago fell last year to a 45-year low.
Obama will try to throw the 2nd Amendment out, but needs one or two more picks in the Supreme Court. So, until then he will try and use the UN handgun treaty which we are close to signing.
The root of the problem is not the guns but who has access to these guns. How do we keep weapons away from the mentally impaired? BTW...when was the last time Obama visited Chicago to discuss the gang and shooting of children problem?
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So, the calls for action continue. What, exactly, would we do differently?
-Mental evaluation prior to purchase. Of course that amounts to licensing to own a weapon, something that is probably not acceptable to strict adherents to the 2d Amendment. Also, sanity is a tenuous thing and certainly not permanent. And of course it will take about two cosmic minutes for everyone to know what the "right" answers are. I guess you could also require yearly "check-ups" but that won't go over well and, can we depend on a government bureaucracy to reliably detect legitimate mental illness? And what kind of mental illness disqualifies one--ADHD, psychosis, sex addicts, alchoholics....? Gets kinda deep kinda fast.
-Required training prior to ownership. Of course that may make people feel good but has no capacity to catch the whack jobs. And of course criminals simply won't do it. Already required in many states for concealed carry.
-Restriction on the number and/or type of weapons that can be owned. Of course that already exists in some respects when it comes to automatic weapons, short barreled rifles/shotguns. May seem reasonable but in reality, more laws only control law abiding people and, again no impact on the deranged. And of course, if any of my weapons end up on the banned list, well, they will probably be "lost" in a boating accident prior to confiscation.
-Declaring insane use of a firearm to be illegal (Bwahahahahaha!). Sorry, lost it for a minute.
-Mandatory and severe penalties for use of a firearm in commission of a crime. Good for criminals, no impact on the insane.
-Mandatory penalties for anyone who fails to secure their weapons sufficiently to preclude use in a crime (or deranged mass murder). Now this one I might be able to go for. It could deter access out of fear of punishment. Doesn't keep an adult from buying his own but could help keep under-aged from gaining access. Would certainly buoy up the gun lock business. Of course it could be extended to gunshop owners who miss the signs of mental illness, don't administer the sanity check or "should have" been suspicious.
-And of course, the totally outlandish notion that many gun control folks would jump at. Total confiscation of all firearms. Impossible to execute, all that will do is get a lot of "confiscators" killed.
Soooo...best I can do for now. And remember, any "law" or regulation or sanction will have no impact on the mentally ill and only inconvenience the sane and law abiding. What else...?
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I don't know.... If someone really wants to do something and has set their mind to it, they'll find a way to do it.
I"m not saying that nothing can be done or that i'm close minded to logical solutions but to think we can create a utopian society is a fallacy. We can't protect everyone from every possible situation. I just don't think it can be done.
I just learned of this incident in 1927 which killed 38 school children...
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Here is a very interesting read from the Associated press, putting together a few facts:
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While the perception in the wake of this years mass shootings has been that such acts are on the rise, the Associated Press found that its actually the exact opposite when you look at the data on a macro level.
There is no pattern, there is no increase, says criminologist James Allen Fox of Bostons Northeastern University.
He adds that the random mass shootings that get the most media attention are the rarest.
While mass shootings rose between the 1960s and the 1990s, they actually dropped in the 2000s. And mass killings actually reached their peak in 1929, Grant Duwe, a criminologist with the Minnesota Department of Corrections who has written a history of mass murders in America, says.
Chances of being killed in a mass shooting, he says, are probably no greater than being struck by lightning.
This is a piece by the Associated Press and Helen ONeill.
FILE In this Aug. 7, 2012 file photo, people cover their heads at a candle light vigil in Oak Creek, Wis., for the victims of a mass shooting at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin this summer. Credit: AP
(AP) A gold plaque hangs next to a bullet hole in the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis., where a lone gunman killed six worshippers and injured three others last August. It is engraved with the words, We Are One.
It frames the wound, says Pardeep Kaleka, son of former temple president Satwant Singh Kaleka, who died in the massacre. The wound of our community, the wound of our family, the wound of our society.
In the past week, that wound has been ripped open with shocking ferocity.
In what has become sickeningly familiar, gunmen opened fire on innocents in what should be the safest of places first, at a shopping mall in Oregon, and then, unthinkably, at an elementary school in Connecticut.
Once again there were scenes of chaos as rescuers and media descended on the scene. Once again there were pictures of weeping survivors clutching one another, of candlelight vigils and teddy bears left as loving memorials. And once again a chorus of pundits debated gun control and violence as society attempted to make sense of the senseless.
A photo provided by the Oakland POlice Department shows weapons taken off the streets in a buy-back program in Oakland and San Francisco, Calif., Saturday, Dec. 15, 2012. Credit: AP
Are there any sanctuaries left? Kaleka asked. Is this a fact of life, one we have become content to live with? Can we no longer feel safe going Christmas shopping in a mall, or to temple, or to the movies? What kind of society have we become?
As this year of the gun lurches to a close, leaving a bloody wake, we are left to wonder along with Kaleka: What is the meaning of all this?
Even before Portland and Newtown, we saw a former student kill seven people at Oikos University in Oakland, Calif. We saw gunmen in Seattle and Minneapolis each kill five people and then themselves. We saw the midnight premiere of The Dark Knight Rises at a theater in Aurora, Colo., devolve into a bloodbath, as 12 people died and 58 were wounded; 24-year-old James Holmes was arrested outside.
And yet those who study mass shootings say they are not becoming more common.
There is no pattern, there is no increase, says criminologist James Allen Fox of Bostons Northeastern University, who has been studying the subject since the 1980s, spurred by a rash of mass shootings in post offices.
The random mass shootings that get the most media attention are the rarest, Fox says. Most people who die of bullet wounds knew the identity of their killer.
FOXBORO, MA DECEMBER 16: A New England Patriots fan shows support for the 26 victims of the mass shooting that took place at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut before the game against the San Francisco 49ers at Gillette Stadium on December 16, 2012 in Foxboro, Massachusetts. Credit: Getty Images
Society moves on, he says, because of our ability to distance ourselves from the horror of the day, and because people believe that these tragedies are one of the unfortunate prices we pay for our freedoms.
Grant Duwe, a criminologist with the Minnesota Department of Corrections who has written a history of mass murders in America, said that while mass shootings rose between the 1960s and the 1990s, they actually dropped in the 2000s. And mass killings actually reached their peak in 1929, according to his data. He estimates that there were 32 in the 1980s, 42 in the 1990s and 26 in the first decade of the century.
Chances of being killed in a mass shooting, he says, are probably no greater than being struck by lightning.
Still, he understands the public perception and extensive media coverage when mass shootings occur in places like malls and schools. There is this feeling that could have been me. It makes it so much more frightening.
On one spring day more than four years ago, it WAS Colin Goddard.
For two years after a gunman pumped four bullets into him in a classroom at Virginia Tech, Goddard said he couldnt bear to listen to television reports about other shootings, or read about them. It brought him back instantly to that day April 16, 2007 when he lay on the floor of classroom 211, blood dripping from his shoulder and leg as he wondered if he would survive.
And then, on April 3, 2009, he turned on the computer and heard the news. A 41-year-old man had opened fire at an immigrant community center in Binghamton, N.Y., killing 11 immigrants and two workers. The shooter, a Vietnamese immigrant and a former student at the center, killed himself as police rushed to the scene.
Goddard watched, riveted, realizing that this is what it was like for the rest of the world when a mass shooting occurs. Inside the school, or the mall, or the theater, the victims lie wounded and terrified and dying, while the rest of the world watches from afar. People glue themselves to the television for a day. They soak in the horror from the safety of their office or home. They feel awful for a while. Then they move on with their lives. They grow numb.
Duwe says the cycle has gone on for generations.
NEWTOWN, CT DECEMBER 14: Responders gather at the scene of a mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School with police tape surrounding a vehicle on December 14, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut. Twenty-seven are dead, including 20 children, after a gunman identified as Adam Lanza in news reports, opened fire in the school. Lanza also reportedly died at the scene.Credit: Getty Images
Mass shootings provoke instant debates about violence and guns and mental health and thats been the case since Charles Whitman climbed the tower at the University of Texas in 1966, he said, referring to the engineering student and former Marine who killed 13 people and an unborn child and wounded 32 others in a shooting rampage on campus. It becomes mind-numbingly repetitive.
Rampage violence seems to lead to repeated cycles of anguish, investigation, recrimination, and heated debate, with little real progress in prevention, wrote John Harris, clinical assistant professor of medicine in the College of Medicine at the University of Arizona, in the June issue of American Journal of Public Health. These types of events can lead to despair about their inevitability and unpredictability.
And there is despair and frustration, even among those who have set out to stop mass killings.
We do just seem to slog along, from one tragedy to the next, Tom Mauser said last July, after the Aurora shootings.
Mauser knows all about the slog. He became an outspoken activist against such violence after his 15-year-old son, Daniel, was slain along with 12 other at Columbine High School in 1999. But he has grown frustrated and weary.
There was a time when I felt a certain guilt, said Mauser. Id ask, `Why cant I do more about this? Why havent I dedicated myself more to it? But Ill be damned if Im going to put it all on my shoulders.
This, he said, is all of our problem.
Carolyn McCarthy enlisted in the cause in 1993, when a deranged gunman killed her husband and seriously injured her son in shooting rampage. She has served in Congress since 1997.
Known as the gun lady on Capitol Hill for her fierce championship of gun control laws, McCarthy says she nearly gave up her lonely crusade after hearing about the Virginia Tech shooting. And when she heard about the January 2011 shooting of former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords she says, I just sat there frozen and watching the television and couldnt stop crying.
Its like a cancer in our society, she says. And if we keep doing nothing to stop it, its only going to spread.
After the Binghamton shootings, Colin Goddard resolved that he had to get involved, to somehow try to stop the cycle. Reminders are lodged inside him: three bullets, a legacy of Virginia Tech.
He now works in Washington for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
I refuse to believe this is something we have to accept as normal in this country, he said. There has to be a way to change the culture of violence in our society.
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After each of these tragedies, I don't ever recall hearing about where the existing system broke down. I don't know the rules/laws for all states but a number require background checks and varied lengths of 'cool off' periods. While I don't believe the latter to be effective for those have are determined to be a plague on our society, what about the former? In theory, these checks should be at least helping to prevent some of the shooters from legally acquiring legal firearms since mental state is inquired about, at least on the forms filled out in some states at time of purchase (not time of pick up). Seeing a shrink by itself shouldn't necessarily disqualify someone from owning, but it should at least set a flag to indicate that a little more digging is needed for that person's background (e.g. help coping w/ life event vs required therapy while displaying malicious actions/thoughts).
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I think a start would be having the media stop making these perpetrators famous. Personally, i think you have something wrong with you if your contemplating suicide. So it seems to me that someone who is contemplating suicide and is pissed off at society would have no problem taking some people with them and gain some posthumous fame.
Maybe fore those like in Aurora who don't turn the gun on themselves, make the consequences extreme and quick, a zero tolerance policy.
We don't live in "Minority Report" so we still have to work with passing laws and consequences for breaking them. Prevention laws are on a slippery slope leading to a police state. So the task is not an easy one for sure, it's difficult because most ideas involve creating a ton of legislation.
Any ideas?
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I just got this email randomly from someone I do not know. It was put in my spam folder.
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And here is a thought for you, saying that assault rifles should be banned because no one NEEDS one would be the same as banning aftermarket turbos. No one NEEDS to put a bigger turbo on their car, and it does lead to deaths in some cases. Often times people put turbos on their cars for recreational use, and a lot of people who own assault rifles own them for recreational use and never use them to kill anyone.
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