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rooshdion How a banner ad for H&R Block appeared on Apple.com without Apple’s OK

Not that I could find, but NameCheap sells Rapid SSLs for about $10 that offer unlimited reissues.

rooshdion My experiences in tech: Death by 1000 paper cuts

Stop trolling.

No, but introspective human being might be.

No, just human. She seems to have been doing her job quite well, overall. She just voiced her dislike over some fork jokes and some people disagreed. That's life.

rooshdion A Difficult Situation

She didn't force them to fire her. People are just blowing this way out of proportion. Everybody needs to chill out, especially the corporate management of both companies.

rooshdion What happens when the Secret Service uses a NSL on you

Yea, we're all being monitored either way, just some more closely than others.

rooshdion The Ruby on Rails Tutorial for Rails 4.0 (beta)

The older version, 3.2, should be more stabler but it may be worth the slight risk to learn 4.0 from the start, as that will provide you with newer feature overviews of the framework. If you do have troubles with 4.0, you can ask and find answers on StackOverflow or the #rubyonrails IRC. You may also help by reporting any errors or bugs in 4.0.

rooshdion The Ruby on Rails Tutorial for Rails 4.0 (beta)

Yes, the Rails Tutorial and RailsCasts episodes should get you up to speed and keep you up to date. IMHO, they're the best learning resources for RoR out there.

rooshdion Twitter granted patent on Twitter-like services

I'm not diluting nothing. Patents shoot down competition.

rooshdion Twitter granted patent on Twitter-like services

What good is a choice when they've got a gun to your head? Do most of us have to die before we finally get it?

rooshdion Twitter granted patent on Twitter-like services

Many of these humans are caught within a system which incentivizes personal interests over those of society. Those in higher power are aware of this, but too cowardly to do anything about it, sadly, and the lower amongst us are forced to at least protect themselves from a broken system. But the thing is, the more they protect themselves, the more this corrupt system becomes reinforced and innovation becomes even more endangered. We need to wake up and say enough is enough already. Do we really want this paralyzing system to dictate us and future humanity?

rooshdion I'm a loser and I want to change that - now

You're not a loser, just human. Hope you make it happen bud!

rooshdion Show HN: Cibarsi.com - Create a website for your restaurant

Click on the phone and tablet image on the homepage to transfer to one of the example sites.

rooshdion TechCrunch Pump n Dump

...you do the right thing. You give competitors fair coverage. Period. Let the users decide.

rooshdion The Fireplace Delusion

While firearms do provide a means of self-defense, there is also data which suggests there's an association between less firearm laws and higher firearm fatalities:

http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=16613...

rooshdion The Fireplace Delusion

Aquatic therapy and exercise. Not being sarcastic.

rooshdion Rigging the IPO game

“If you think eToys got screwed, what do you think happened to the country?”

Sad.

rooshdion Ask HN: Simple, affordable support software for bootstraps?

Thanks, I'll give it a read through.

rooshdion Ask HN: Is it common for founders to doubt their ideas early on?

Would you use your service? The doubt of others using your service will always be there, but the only question you can answer for now is if you would use it. Your git commits should answer that question. Plus, at least you'll have software useful to you even if no one else wants it.

rooshdion Bradley Manning Takes "Full Responsibility" for Giving WikiLeaks Government Data

Those 300+ million citizens he swore to defend deserve the truth and there is no law which justifies them not knowing it. We've lost too much to find so little:

http://costsofwar.org

rooshdion Critical Thinking: Why Is It So Hard to Teach? [pdf]

Who are these teachers training their students for? I prefer looking at numbers, and the numbers don't look too fair for employees:

http://occupygeorge.com/

rooshdion Critical Thinking: Why Is It So Hard to Teach? [pdf]

That is simply not true.

Please elaborate.

rooshdion Critical Thinking: Why Is It So Hard to Teach? [pdf]

The title of this post may be part of the problem.

http://youtu.be/DsKl-ZZtEvM

rooshdion Person with a long rifle and body armor in the Main Group Building of MIT

"I have looked at exactly that. The rate at which guns are used lawfully far outstrips the number of times they are not. As such, their benefit to society is easily a net positive."

This Harvard study doesn't think so:

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/guns-and...

Also, read this for your other arguments:

http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-4-most-meaningless-arguments...

Good debate. I gotta finish work on some software now. Take care sir.

Edit for your edit about rights: http://youtu.be/bx71U-1O-eY

rooshdion Person with a long rifle and body armor in the Main Group Building of MIT

I did read it. Ultimately, you have to look at the purpose of certain tools and their net effect on society. I respect the debate and will leave you with these last few resources:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gavin-magrath/gun-control-deba... http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/15/1179166/-Cars-kill-...

rooshdion Person with a long rifle and body armor in the Main Group Building of MIT

If your whole argument rests on the words of a constitution, I don't know what to tell you. I still stand by my argument and have provided several sources in doing so.

rooshdion Person with a long rifle and body armor in the Main Group Building of MIT

Then why doesn't the NRA support most of its members when the vast majority of them want background checks on all gun sales?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/01/31/nr...

rooshdion Person with a long rifle and body armor in the Main Group Building of MIT

"I don't disagree that overpenetration should be a concern for a lot of people."

Ok.

"It isn't for me, so I like the AR15 for home defense. I've got a cabin that is even more remote, and comes replete with occasional threats from various wildlife, and I like it there too -- but that is with the knowledge that the nearest human being should be no closer than 50 acres away."

Most victims of mass shootings aren't afforded that luxury.

"Regarding the ammo, for a small caliber weapon, and the accuracy of the average person who shoots, your odds of stopping an assailant with 10 rounds is pretty good, at about 85.1%. If there are multiple assailants though, 10 rounds doesn't provide particularly great odds - at 35%. 12 rounds gets you 50% odds against 2 assailants."

Exactly why mass shooters prefer high capacity weapons.

"Further, according to the Supreme Court, bans on arms "in common use" are effectively unconstitutional, and banning down to a 7 round capacity limit is a violation of that decision."

Free negros were also unconstitutional at one point. The constitution means nothing to me.

"I forgot to mention also that banning high capacity magazines is an extra-special futile endeavor since I can make them with a 3D printer."

People print counterfeit money too but we put measures in place to minimize it.

Lastly, fully-automatic firearms are heavily regulated in comparison to semi-automatic firearms and have only accounted for 2 homicides in the last 80 years. On the other hand, semi-automatic firearms have accounted for more than 3/4ths of mass shootings, of which 88 people died and 151 were injured in 2012 alone:

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/07/mass-shootings-m... http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/12/17/1171047/-There-are-...

rooshdion Person with a long rifle and body armor in the Main Group Building of MIT

The same can be argued against the NRA:

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/1/16/behind_the_nras_money_...

rooshdion Person with a long rifle and body armor in the Main Group Building of MIT

Yea, the pros of sem-automatic rifle regulation has to be weighed against the extent of tragedies they enable. Do the pros of another firearm really out-weigh the pain they enable?