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Re: speaking of spammy crossposting....

From Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>
Newsgroups alt.computer.workshop, alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.survival, comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.sys.mac.advocacy, talk.politics.guns
Subject Re: speaking of spammy crossposting....
Date 2020-09-13 21:56 +0000
Message-ID <hs7iscFmhp7U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References (1 earlier) <rjk7sc$gri$1@dont-email.me> <hs5pcsF7qrnU20@mid.individual.net> <op.0qwfn3uswdg98l@glass> <hs7d5pFbp05U4@mid.individual.net> <op.0qwjy9nrwdg98l@glass>

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Commander Kinsey <CFKinsey@military.org.jp> wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Sep 2020 21:19:05 +0100, Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Sep 13, 2020 at 1:10:41 PM MST, ""Commander Kinsey""
>> <CFKinsey@military.org.jp> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sun, 13 Sep 2020 06:35:24 +0100, Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Sep 12, 2020 at 9:40:44 PM MST, "anonlinuxuser" <linuxuser@noone.net>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On 9/12/20 4:15 PM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, 11 Sep 2020 12:54:52 +0100, chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Commander Kinsey wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> I bet you take a gun with you.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> It's my right and I exercise it. I don't take it into a bar though,
>>>>>>>>> that would be illegal.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> It should be illegal to even own one.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Because making them "illegal" would prevent "bad" people from getting
>>>>>>> them, right?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Look on Wikipedia at the number of gun deaths in the USA compared to the
>>>>>> UK.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Now look up highway accidents causing deaths.  Should cars be illegal to
>>>>> own?
>>>> 
>>>> No. Why would they be? What would the logic of it be? How do you think it is
>>>> relevant?
>>>> 
>>>> But since you bring it up, they SHOULD work to improve car safety and road
>>>> safety. And they DO.
>>> 
>>> No they shouldn't.  Nobody but nobody gets to tell me to be safe.  I never
>>> wear a seatbelt, and I never obey speed limits.
>> 
>> The car you drive is far safer than the cars made 10 years before it.
> 
> And yet the UK's highway code still bases stopping distances on a Ford
> Anglia with drum brakes and no ABS.  Modern cars can stop in the same
> distance from TWICE the speed.

Laws should be updated — but my point stands. 

> And don't mention thinking time, because we recently tried that response
> time test and everyone got 2 or 3 times faster than the highway code states.

When primed to be hyper alert. 

>> Well, unless it is new and has one of those idiotic screens that pops up crap to
>> distract you every five seconds.
> 
> You mean the BONG! when you don't wear a seatbelt?  I took a rental van
> back because it was doing that.  I thought a door wasn't closing right. 
> Nothing on the dash to say what was wrong just BONG!  And even worse, it
> gave you 5 minutes before it did it, so it was damn impossible to diagnose the "fault".

No. The new cars have far worse. Touch screens that flash and warnings if
you go out of your lane (or cross a line it thinks means that) and worse.
Beyond stupid. 
> 
>> I bet in a few years they have regulations to reduce the harm of those.
> 
> Did you know in the UK they actually have regulations on the noise
> produced by the reversing bleepers on building sites.  Nice to see health
> and softy shooting itself in the foot.

Do you mean the high pitched beep commercial and construction vehicles make
when in reverse? We have that here as well. 

>>>> And vehicular deaths are down.
>>> 
>>> Yes, we mustn't kill cars, they're an endangered species what with the
>>> greenies saying everyone should use those useless outdated bicycles.
>> 
>> I am happy you understand how we should not kill cars. Yet people turn them
>> into things like this:
>> 
>> https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2606
> 
> "The Amazon CloudFront distribution is configured to block access from
> your country."  WTF?  Why are they blocking the UK?
> 
> [engages proxy]

That is weird. 

>> How many cars had to die for that! :)
> 
> I think those were expired cars anyway.

Should we make a dead person henge?

> DAMNIT!  I tried to send a very rude message to the website for blocking
> me, but if I use a proxy, the captcha check to prove I'm not a robot
> fails.  Can you send something nasty to them please?  Ask why they're
> blocking the UK, and inform them us mischievous Brits will just bypass
> the block with a proxy, so they're achieving nothing.

Why the hell would they block you? That is insane. 

>>>> And vehicles are used to
>>>> get people from point A to point B, and to get stuff there, too... they are
>>>> not designed as weapons. But even then they are licensed and registered and
>>>> checked for safety and so much more. The whole line of thinking is a false
>>>> equivalence, but if you want to go down it let's start doing those things
>>>> with
>>>> guns.
>>> 
>>> You're arguing with a moron who belongs 200 years ago, when the yanks were
>>> shooting the people who really belong in America, the American Indians.
>> 
>> Yup. And then the whites in their own communities DID have gun control laws.
>> The movies lie -- people did not generally "open carry" in Old West towns.
> 
> Some people think movies are real, including a fuckwit pig (actually all
> pigs are fuckwits but this one especially so) who thought my cracked
> number plate could fly off, spin round, and decapitate someone, and all
> because it happened in a movie.

It happened to me. 



-- 
Personal attacks from those who troll show their own insecurity. They
cannot use reason to show the message to be wrong so they try to feel
somehow superior by attacking the messenger. They cling to their attacks
and ignore the message time and time again.

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  Re: speaking of spammy crossposting.... "Commander Kinsey" <CFKinsey@military.org.jp> - 2020-09-09 01:14 +0100
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      Re: speaking of spammy crossposting.... "Commander Kinsey" <CFKinsey@military.org.jp> - 2020-09-09 14:28 +0100
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        Re: speaking of spammy crossposting.... Gremlin <nobody@haph.org> - 2020-09-10 23:43 +0000
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              Re: speaking of spammy crossposting.... "Commander Kinsey" <CFKinsey@military.org.jp> - 2020-09-13 21:11 +0100
                Re: speaking of spammy crossposting.... Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2020-09-13 20:16 +0000
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                Re: speaking of spammy crossposting.... Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2020-09-13 20:19 +0000
                Re: speaking of spammy crossposting.... "Commander Kinsey" <CFKinsey@military.org.jp> - 2020-09-13 22:43 +0100
                Re: speaking of spammy crossposting.... Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2020-09-13 21:56 +0000
                Re: speaking of spammy crossposting.... "Commander Kinsey" <CFKinsey@military.org.jp> - 2020-09-13 23:42 +0100
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                Re: speaking of spammy crossposting.... Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2020-09-21 03:38 +0000
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                Re: speaking of spammy crossposting.... Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2020-09-13 20:22 +0000
                Re: speaking of spammy crossposting.... "Commander Kinsey" <CFKinsey@military.org.jp> - 2020-09-13 22:32 +0100
                Re: speaking of spammy crossposting.... Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2020-09-13 21:36 +0000
                Re: speaking of spammy crossposting.... "Commander Kinsey" <CFKinsey@military.org.jp> - 2020-09-13 22:44 +0100
                Re: speaking of spammy crossposting.... Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2020-09-13 21:51 +0000
                Re: speaking of spammy crossposting.... "Commander Kinsey" <CFKinsey@military.org.jp> - 2020-09-14 22:50 +0100
                Re: speaking of spammy crossposting.... Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2020-09-14 21:58 +0000
                Re: speaking of spammy crossposting.... "Commander Kinsey" <CFKinsey@military.org.jp> - 2020-09-15 22:52 +0100
                Re: speaking of spammy crossposting.... Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2020-09-15 21:55 +0000
                Re: speaking of spammy crossposting.... anonlinuxuser <linuxuser@noone.net> - 2020-09-13 18:20 -0600
                Re: speaking of spammy crossposting.... Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2020-09-14 01:08 +0000
            Re: speaking of spammy crossposting.... chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2020-09-17 11:39 -0500
              Re: speaking of spammy crossposting.... "Commander Kinsey" <CFKinsey@military.org.jp> - 2020-09-17 21:20 +0100
                Re: speaking of spammy crossposting.... Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2020-09-17 20:35 +0000
                Re: speaking of spammy crossposting.... % <persent@gmail.com> - 2020-09-17 13:40 -0700
                Re: speaking of spammy crossposting.... Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2020-09-17 20:46 +0000
                Re: speaking of spammy crossposting.... % <persent@gmail.com> - 2020-09-17 13:53 -0700
                Re: speaking of spammy crossposting.... chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2020-09-17 16:45 -0500
                Re: speaking of spammy crossposting.... Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2020-09-17 21:51 +0000
                Re: speaking of spammy crossposting.... % <persent@gmail.com> - 2020-09-17 15:01 -0700
                Re: speaking of spammy crossposting.... Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2020-09-18 00:56 +0000
                Re: speaking of spammy crossposting.... % <persent@gmail.com> - 2020-09-17 18:03 -0700
                Re: speaking of spammy crossposting.... Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2020-09-18 05:41 +0000
                Re: speaking of spammy crossposting.... chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2020-09-17 17:20 -0500
                Re: speaking of spammy crossposting.... "Commander Kinsey" <CFKinsey@military.org.jp> - 2020-09-17 23:32 +0100
                Re: speaking of spammy crossposting.... chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2020-09-17 19:08 -0500
                Re: speaking of spammy crossposting.... "Commander Kinsey" <CFKinsey@military.org.jp> - 2020-09-18 21:35 +0100

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