I can talk on the phone when I'm on a relatively empty and uneventful highway. Then I just have to drive straight. Games... I can grant some forgiveness for turn based games, because it's easy to handle that at a stop light or in gridlock traffic. I've also been known to play Pokemon in the car, but only because I was stuck in traffic and not moving.
Mostly, the article just made me mad for the pure irresponsibility of it all. If you want to endanger yourself, I really don't care. But if you're driving and trying to simultaneously do something as inane and unimportant as texting, you're putting other people at risk, so put that shit away.
Texting in English sucks. I hate shorthand, so it consequently takes way too much time for me to text full sentences.
Asian languages are way better for texting. Like when I'd text Behemoth in Japan way back in the day. I could say, "let's meet at the train station" in English, or I could just say 駅で会う.
I don't actually drive, but I text my boyfriend while he's driving all the time. I've been with him when he's texting, and he just looks back and forth all the time, it's not a big deal for him. I think me making him laugh is way more dangerous than him sending a text message to his parents, he's nearly hit a barrier only once from laughing at something I said, but never from looking at his phone.
I think it's just that he knows the seriousness of paying attention while driving, and so he does! The people who end up crashing are probably not very responsible people, and therefore way more likely to crash while even talking on a cell phone, let alone texting...
And I've seen older adults check e-mails on their phone while driving on the freeway. I guess it's just not that big of a deal among people I know... Dallas does have a law that you're not allowed to use any handheld electronic device while in a school speed zone, but I really think thats more for profit, less for safety. I've seen about a handful of kids total in all the time I've been driven through school speed zones, and they were all crossing at a crosswalk.
Eh, I know that only good could come from the stricter policies, but I do think that people are overreacting when they assume that anyone using their cell phone while driving isn't watching the road. I've seen it successfully done many many times, by many people (people in the age group mentioned and older), so in my experience it isn't such a huge safety issue. The people who can't assume the extra responsibility of looking up WHILE texting are the ones crashing. It's really not that hard.
NEW YORK (CNN) -- A 49-year-old woman collapsed and died on the floor of a waiting room at a Brooklyn psychiatric hospital and lay there for more than an hour as employees ignored her, according to the New York Civil Liberties Union, which on Tuesday released surveillance camera video of the incident.
Surveillance video shows a woman lying on the hospital floor for almost an hour before anyone helped her.
Surveillance video shows a woman lying on the hospital floor for almost an hour before anyone helped her.
Esmin Green was involuntarily admitted to the psychiatric emergency department of Kings County Hospital Center on June 18 for what the hospital describes as "agitation and psychosis."
Upon her admission, Green waited nearly 24 hours for treatment, said the civil liberties union, which was among the groups filing suit against the facility last year seeking improved conditions for patients.
The surveillance camera video shows the woman rolling off a waiting room chair, landing face-down on the floor and convulsing. Her collapse came at 5:32 a.m. June 19, the NYCLU said, and she stopped moving at 6:07 a.m. During that time, the organization said, workers at the hospital ignored her.
At 6:35 a.m., the tape shows a hospital employee approaching and nudging Green with her foot, the group said. Help was summoned three minutes later. Video Watch the surveillance video »
In addition, the organization said, hospital staff falsified Green's records to cover up the time she had lain there without assistance.
"Contrary to what was recorded from four different angles by the hospital's video cameras, the patient's medical records say that at 6 a.m., she got up and went to the bathroom, and at 6:20 a.m. she was 'sitting quietly in waiting room' -- more than 10 minutes since she last moved and 48 minutes after she fell to the floor."
The New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, which oversees the hospital, released a statement Tuesday saying it was "shocked and distressed by this situation. It is clear that some of our employees failed to act based on our compassionate standards of care."
After a preliminary investigation, the corporation said it suspended or terminated six employees, "including staff involved with the direct care of the patient as well as managers of security and clinical services," the statement said.
A Health and Hospitals Corporation spokeswoman said it was aware of the discrepancies in Green's record when it began the preliminary investigation on June 20. That information is now in the hands of various investigatory agencies, she said.
The corporation pledged to put "additional and significant" reforms in place in the wake of the incident.
The civil liberties group and the Mental Hygiene Legal Service filed suit against Kings County in May 2007 in federal court, alleging that conditions at the facility are filthy. Patients are often forced to sleep in plastic chairs or floors covered in urine, feces and blood while waiting for beds, the groups allege, and often go without basic hygiene such as showers, clean linens and clean clothes. The lawsuit claims that patients who complain face physical abuse and are injected with drugs to keep them docile.
The hospital, the suit alleges, lacks "the minimal requirements of basic cleanliness, space, privacy, and personal hygiene that are constitutionally guaranteed even to convicted felons."
The video sent the organizations back into court Tuesday, demanding immediate reform.
"What's happening in Kings County Hospital is an affront to human dignity," New York Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Donna Lieberman said in a written statement. "In 2008 in New York City, nobody should be subjected to this kind of treatment. It should not take the death of a patient to get the city to make changes that everyone knows are long overdue."
The Department of Justice recently initiated an investigation into conditions at the hospital, the organization said, prompting the facility to improve some of its problems. "But the culture of abuse and neglect remains and, as evidenced by the June death, the situation is too dire to wait for the Justice Department to act," the group said.
Among the reforms agreed to in court Tuesday by the hospital are additional staffing; checking of patients every 15 minutes; and limiting to 25 the number of patients in the psychiatric emergency ward, officials said. In addition, the hospital said it is expanding crisis-prevention training for staff; expanding space to prevent overcrowding; and reducing patients' wait time for release, treatment or placement in an inpatient bed.
On Monday, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he was appalled by the surveillance video.
"Look, I saw the film like everybody else did and I was -- horrified is much too nice a word. Disgusted I think is a better word. I can't explain what happened there."
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Green, a native of the island of Jamaica, lived alone in Brooklyn's Brownsville neighborhood. She had no close family in the United States, and her neighbor Beatrice Wallace described her as a quiet woman who had few visitors and spent most of her free time at church.
The medical examiner is withholding autopsy results pending further study and investigation into the precise cause of death.
I saw the video on my local news, it's horrifying. The lady falls off the chair she's been waiting in. Not only do none of the other patients do anything, but two security guards and a doctor see her lying on the floor and completely ignore her. This woman dies alone, on the floor of a hospital
Getting medical help in a foreign country is especially unnerving, because policies and structures often differ between countries, and that is exactly what you don't want to deal with when you are sick and suffering.
That really creeps me out and makes me uncomfortable. I wouldn't wish that on anyone.
It IS really sad that it took a death of a patient to wake up people to what happened there. Don't hospitals have to have inspections every once in a while?
OKLAHOMA CITY -- An Oklahoma church canceled a controversial gun giveaway for teenagers at a weekend youth conference.
Windsor Hills Baptist had planned to give away a semiautomatic assault rifle until one of the event's organizers was unable to attend.
The church’s youth pastor, Bob Ross, said it’s a way of trying to encourage young people to attend the event. The church expected hundreds of teenagers from as far away as Canada.
“We have 21 hours of preaching and teaching throughout the week,” Ross said.
A video on the church Web site shows the shooting competition from last year’s conference. A gun giveaway was part of the event last year. This year, organizers included it in their marketing.
“I don’t want people thinking ‘My goodness, we’re putting a weapon in the hand of somebody that doesn’t respect it who are then going to go out and kill,'” said Ross. “That’s not at all what we’re trying to do.”
Ross said the conference isn’t all about guns, but rather about teens finding faith.
“You make a lot of new friends down here,” said Vikki Goncharenko, who attended the conference. “You get to meet new people. There's a bunch of things that are going on. It's just, you have a wonderful time.”
Friday evening, Ross said the gun giveaway had been canceled. Pastor emeritus Jim Vineyard, who ran the event, injured his foot and wouldn’t be able to attend. The gun giveaway was also removed from the church Web site.
Ross said the church would give the gun away next year instead. He said the church spent $800 buying the gun for the promotion.
I have a shirt with that on it. A surprising number of people don't get it.
Does "Thou shalt not kill" mean anything to these people? I'm not saying their bloodthirsty maniacs, I'm sure they're not. But how can they give away a tool that's designed for killing?
I feel very strangely about gun rights. Now I am not sure how I feel about them.
At first, I thought guns were freaking awesome. My cousin is a certified firearms instructor/cop, so when I go up to the Twin Cities for Christmas to visit family, he'd take me out shooting. He also gets to own super special non-civilian guns, including a big ass gun that uses BMG 50 cal ammunition.
But also, living in a country where they outwardly banned does have a few advantages. I know that average punk ass kids don't have guns. I've had a problem with break-ins into my apartment, and I know that if someone comes back while I'm at home, I can beat the everliving shit out of him with relatively low fear being shot. Being stabbed is another issue, but that's better than being shot.
I don't know. On that level, I'd almost see owning a gun as necessary because others own guns. They're like lawyers in a way; you only need lawyers to defend yourself from other lawyers. If no one has them, then they're less necessary.
And yes, I know there are raging flaws in my argument, preventing the government from having too much power, recreational use, etc. I'm just giving you my first hand observations of being somewhere with no guns.
Depending on where the wound is, being stabbed is much worse, in fact, it's almost always worse because of the fact that the wound is generally bigger, because of the width of the blade an' all that.
The only advantage to being attacked with a knife over a gun is that the gun can't be intentionally avoided.
Sorry, I did not word my thoughts correctly. Being stabbed AT is better than being shot AT, because then I have a greater chance to defend myself. Any jerk off can use a gun. I'm no master at hand to hand combat, far from it, but I like my chances there a lot more than being shot at.
I don't know how it is in China, but isn't there always the possibility of getting black market guns? Here guns aren't banned but they are a tad more heavily controlled than in the US, and still you never know when some break-in or street punk might have an illegally obtained firearm.
Also, Amoeba Boy you're awesome for having that shirt.
Depending on where the wound is, being stabbed is much worse, in fact, it's almost always worse because of the fact that the wound is generally bigger, because of the width of the blade an' all that.
The only advantage to being attacked with a knife over a gun is that the gun can't be intentionally avoided.
I'm gonna have to disagree with that. A bullet will always tear its way through, a knife will tear a little, but mostly cut (I know cutting is technically tearing on a microscopic scale). The wound from the knife will stop bleeding and begin healing more rapidly than the bullet. And a bullet will always be able to penetrate farther than a knife, unless they have like, a 12" kitchen knife. But assuming they know how to use they knife, they'll probably try to slash at you instead of stab, then you have even less chance of a fatal wound, unless they get your neck. But with a bullet, anywhere in the torso could puncture a vital organ and kill you.
I don't know how it is in China, but isn't there always the possibility of getting black market guns?
Well yeah it's possible. I actually have no idea how prevalent it is though. I just work in marketing, so as a consequence I have surprisingly few ties to the Chinese underground. State run news also keeps things happy, and while an occasional news release about a man who tried to stab police officers in a station will get out, there will be fewer reports about people with illegal firearms. Either because there are not many, or because they just don't report it. Couldn't tell you.
And it's ground I have to tread quite lightly. Sometimes I think that they don't like foreigners too much here, and they just wait for us to screw up. I mean shit, I got busted by the police for moving from my hotel to my apartment after a couple weeks, because I broke the law by not notifying them first. Apparently the very fact that I was voluntarily in the police station applying for a residency permit two days after moving didn't mean didly squat, as I had to spend my whole Friday waiting for paperwork to go up and down its inefficient chain of command, to where I had to sign some documentation about my breaking of the law, and then pay my hefty fine of approximately $7.15. Three weeks in Hangzhou and I had started a criminal record, no joke.
Point being, if I were to put my nose into areas where it doesn't belong, say black market guns, I might not be here much longer.
BUT I can tell you my theory from an economic perspective! I would doubt that many guns would be manufactured in China, and as such would have to be imported. Imported means that they reflect Western prices, which are unbelievably, painfully expensive for the average person to buy on the average Chinese salary. For Americans, take the price of anything that was not made exclusively in America and multiply the price by 3 or so (won't go into details, but that's computed through purchasing power parity), and that's what it feels like to average Chinese to buy foreign on their salary.
Therefore, I can be fairly certain that the average punk kid isn't going to have the kind of extra money lying around to pick up a gun, and those that do won't be wasting their time in a very child and elderly focused middle class area like mine; they'd head off to the richer suburbs.
Dad Gary Crutchley thought it would be nice to take pictures of his sons having fun on a slide.
But his innocent snaps caused a furious row with staff and another parent - who called him a pervert.
First, a woman running the fairground slide tried to stop him from taking photos of his two youngest children Cory, seven, and Miles, five.
Then, other families waiting in the queue also demanded he stop.
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Mr Crutchley, 39, who claimed he had only taken snaps of his own children, said: "A woman said I could be taking pictures of any child to put on the internet and called me a pervert. It was sheer madness.
"We left. Two police officers confirmed that I had been perfectly within my rights to take photographs of my own children in the park."
The Walsall dad added: "What is the world coming to? This parental paranoia is getting out of hand."
Mr Crutchley's wife Tracey, who was with him, said: "I was annoyed, upset and embarrassed."
Malcolm Gwinnett, whose daughter was running the attraction at the Wolverhampton City Show, said: "Our policy is to ask people taking photos whether they have children on the slide. If they do, then that is fine.
"But another customer took exception and an argument developed."
What the hell? Why don't people just leave it? Even if he was a pervert he would probably be trying to be inconspicuous, he mostly likely wasn't halfway across the park with a magnifying lens for his camera.
Creating viral videos and concepts has become a keystone for many businesses marketing online.
Such Web phenomena are known by technophiles as "memes." Coined by biologist Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book "The Selfish Gene," a meme is a unit of cultural information -- an idea, a practice, a phrase, or an online video --that's passed on virally. Although sometimes frivolous, every word-of-mouth marketer dreams of creating memorable memes that will catapult their product or client to fame.
Over the last few years, 4chan.org has become one of the most talked-about sites when it comes to launching new memes. After appearing on the site, "LOLcats," humorous images of cats with loud text beneath them in a fake language called "LOLspeak", stormed the Web last year. (For example, instead of saying "hello," the cats would say "oh hai.") Another phrase "So I herd u like mudkips," a reference to a sea creature from the popular animated show "Pokémon," spawned thousands of tribute videos on YouTube. 4chan.org began as a simple message board with pictures and text. It was started by Christopher Poole in his Long Island bedroom in 2003 when he was 15 years old. Since then it has grown to more than 3 million monthly users, according to Mr. Poole.
One of the site's most popular memes is an online bait-and-switch known as the "Rick Roll." Here's how it works: A friend sends an email suggesting you take a peek at an "amazing" online video and passes along the link. You follow the link, but instead of the video you expect, you've been sent to the music video of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up," a hit song from 1988. Over the past year, Rick Rolling has become an online sensation, pushing Mr. Astley's video past 16 million views on YouTube.
4chan is a quaint throwback to the earliest Web pages that have since been eclipsed in the newest iterations of the Web. While other Web sites focus on flashy-social networking features and eye-catching advertisements, 4chan's design is archaic and the color scheme is two-tone. Each page on 4chan features photos and text. One user will post an image of something to start a discussion on one of the more than 40 different subject areas spanning origami and automobiles. Other users follow up with responses or requests for more images.
"It's like Craigslist -- hugely simple and highly useful," says David Weinberger, a fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. 4chan's utility is its ability to gather millions of people in conversation in a single place and create a "meme-rich" environment, says Mr. Weinberger.
Last September, Ben Huh and a team of investors purchased "I Can Has Cheezburger," a site that aggregated the "LOLcats." Mr. Huh hopes to turn the 4chan-generated tradition into a meme empire with several other related sites in the works. The site now has more than 2.5 million unique visitors a month, according to Mr. Huh, and a book based on the site is coming this fall for Gotham Books.
Mr. Poole originally just wanted a place to share his fascination with Japanese comics and television shows. He was a fan of the popular Japanese image Web site 2chan and wanted to create a version for American audiences. With his mother's approval, he used her credit card to purchase server space and started 4chan.org.
Soon, running 4chan became a full-time job. He hired a programmer (based on his skill playing online Tetris) and recruited a team of active community members to serve as moderators. "It was a struggle to get him to turn off his computer," says Tom Poole, Mr. Poole's father, who says his son built a computer with a water-cooling system as a teen. "He's a bit obsessive."
A large part of the site's success is its emphasis on anonymity. Users are not required to provide a working email address or any other personal information, a standard practice for other online communities like Facebook or MySpace. Mr. Poole uses the codename "moot" and says that he's never revealed his connection to the site until The Wall Street Journal inquired. "I have a firewall between my two lives," he says.
Mr. Poole says that anonymity encourages unfettered creativity. But it also removes individual accountability as some posts can veer into hurtful or profane territories. "Shock posts," or graphic images of violence or sex, occasionally mar the largest general interest board known as " /b/ ." Mr. Poole has a disclaimer that he wrote so that users "don't post anything that violates U.S. or international law." He says a lawyer reviewed the notice, but concedes, "I'm sure they don't have much legal clout behind them."
"They get rowdy -- it's like a bar without alcohol," says Willard Ling, a moderator and long-time user of the site. "It's like that psychological concept of deinvidualization -- when groups of people become less aware of their own responsibility." Mr. Poole and his team of moderators have handed out 70,000 bans over the last three years, but preventing long-term abuse can be difficult.
4chan's "Wild West" reputation has created a dilemma for Mr. Poole. While it's brought him Internet fame, albeit through his alter ego, and created enviable traffic, he has trouble selling ads to more cautious companies who don't want their ads appearing next to potentially graphic content. He's attempted to quarantine sexual material on a set of adult boards, but that doesn't stop pornography or other adult content from appearing elsewhere.
Max Goldberg, owner of You're The Man Now Dog, a similar community with about 230,000 registered users and a focus on animated videos, says dealing with mature content is a problem for any site that allows its users creative license. "On the Web, you either have clean content or you have pornography. People upload both, but they don't want to buy pornography, because they can get it for free," says Mr. Goldberg. Even a small percentage of racy or blue content can ruin a site's image with advertisers, he says.
4chan's growing pains are part of a larger issue: how to turn a wave of online traffic into a viable business. "That's been an uphill battle for me personally. My biggest time spent has been convincing companies in marketing potential in 4chan but no one sees eye to eye," says Mr. Poole.
Part of 4chan's problem is counting how many users are on the site. Many advertisers look at third-party Web-measurement companies like comScore to determine a site's overall traffic and demographic information. Currently, comScore says 4chan only has around about 796,000 unique visitors a month globally, a more than threefold difference from 4chan's claims. ComScore says that it uses a Nielsen-like system to track Web traffic.
Mr. Poole says that comScore's demographic data is correct, but disagrees with their traffic data, arguing that panel-based data is flawed. "It's a generalization," he says of comScore's figures, "Our users are hard to pinpoint."
In contrast to other startups that have amassed millions of dollars in seed money from investors, 4chan is a modest operation. Mr. Poole makes money from advertising and the occasional donation drive. He says the site breaks even, but won't release the site's revenue figures. His only paid staff member is his programmer. "He makes more money than I do," says Mr. Poole.
There's even a pic of Banker Cat if you follow the link.
If 4chan makes it to the Economist I might have to kill myself.
One of the site's most popular memes is an online bait-and-switch known as the "Rick Roll." Here's how it works: A friend sends an email suggesting you take a peek at an "amazing" online video and passes along the link. You follow the link, but instead of the video you expect, you've been sent to the music video of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up," a hit song from 1988. Over the past year, Rick Rolling has become an online sensation, pushing Mr. Astley's video past 16 million views on YouTube.
One of the site's most popular memes is an online bait-and-switch known as the "Rick Roll." Here's how it works: A friend sends an email suggesting you take a peek at an "amazing" online video and passes along the link. You follow the link, but instead of the video you expect, you've been sent to the music video of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up," a hit song from 1988.
Oh, that's how that works. I'm pretty sure Mario has never offered me a link to an "amazing video", so I guess technically that means he's never performed a legitimate "Rick Roll" on me.
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Mostly, the article just made me mad for the pure irresponsibility of it all. If you want to endanger yourself, I really don't care. But if you're driving and trying to simultaneously do something as inane and unimportant as texting, you're putting other people at risk, so put that shit away.
Asian languages are way better for texting. Like when I'd text Behemoth in Japan way back in the day. I could say, "let's meet at the train station" in English, or I could just say 駅で会う.
I think it's just that he knows the seriousness of paying attention while driving, and so he does! The people who end up crashing are probably not very responsible people, and therefore way more likely to crash while even talking on a cell phone, let alone texting...
And I've seen older adults check e-mails on their phone while driving on the freeway. I guess it's just not that big of a deal among people I know... Dallas does have a law that you're not allowed to use any handheld electronic device while in a school speed zone, but I really think thats more for profit, less for safety. I've seen about a handful of kids total in all the time I've been driven through school speed zones, and they were all crossing at a crosswalk.
Eh, I know that only good could come from the stricter policies, but I do think that people are overreacting when they assume that anyone using their cell phone while driving isn't watching the road. I've seen it successfully done many many times, by many people (people in the age group mentioned and older), so in my experience it isn't such a huge safety issue. The people who can't assume the extra responsibility of looking up WHILE texting are the ones crashing. It's really not that hard.
I saw the video on my local news, it's horrifying. The lady falls off the chair she's been waiting in. Not only do none of the other patients do anything, but two security guards and a doctor see her lying on the floor and completely ignore her. This woman dies alone, on the floor of a hospital
That really creeps me out and makes me uncomfortable. I wouldn't wish that on anyone.
If they were any further to the right, they'd be left.
Best quote ever.
Does "Thou shalt not kill" mean anything to these people? I'm not saying their bloodthirsty maniacs, I'm sure they're not. But how can they give away a tool that's designed for killing?
At first, I thought guns were freaking awesome. My cousin is a certified firearms instructor/cop, so when I go up to the Twin Cities for Christmas to visit family, he'd take me out shooting. He also gets to own super special non-civilian guns, including a big ass gun that uses BMG 50 cal ammunition.
But also, living in a country where they outwardly banned does have a few advantages. I know that average punk ass kids don't have guns. I've had a problem with break-ins into my apartment, and I know that if someone comes back while I'm at home, I can beat the everliving shit out of him with relatively low fear being shot. Being stabbed is another issue, but that's better than being shot.
I don't know. On that level, I'd almost see owning a gun as necessary because others own guns. They're like lawyers in a way; you only need lawyers to defend yourself from other lawyers. If no one has them, then they're less necessary.
And yes, I know there are raging flaws in my argument, preventing the government from having too much power, recreational use, etc. I'm just giving you my first hand observations of being somewhere with no guns.
The only advantage to being attacked with a knife over a gun is that the gun can't be intentionally avoided.
Also, Amoeba Boy you're awesome for having that shirt.
I'm gonna have to disagree with that. A bullet will always tear its way through, a knife will tear a little, but mostly cut (I know cutting is technically tearing on a microscopic scale). The wound from the knife will stop bleeding and begin healing more rapidly than the bullet. And a bullet will always be able to penetrate farther than a knife, unless they have like, a 12" kitchen knife. But assuming they know how to use they knife, they'll probably try to slash at you instead of stab, then you have even less chance of a fatal wound, unless they get your neck. But with a bullet, anywhere in the torso could puncture a vital organ and kill you.
Well yeah it's possible. I actually have no idea how prevalent it is though. I just work in marketing, so as a consequence I have surprisingly few ties to the Chinese underground. State run news also keeps things happy, and while an occasional news release about a man who tried to stab police officers in a station will get out, there will be fewer reports about people with illegal firearms. Either because there are not many, or because they just don't report it. Couldn't tell you.
And it's ground I have to tread quite lightly. Sometimes I think that they don't like foreigners too much here, and they just wait for us to screw up. I mean shit, I got busted by the police for moving from my hotel to my apartment after a couple weeks, because I broke the law by not notifying them first. Apparently the very fact that I was voluntarily in the police station applying for a residency permit two days after moving didn't mean didly squat, as I had to spend my whole Friday waiting for paperwork to go up and down its inefficient chain of command, to where I had to sign some documentation about my breaking of the law, and then pay my hefty fine of approximately $7.15. Three weeks in Hangzhou and I had started a criminal record, no joke.
Point being, if I were to put my nose into areas where it doesn't belong, say black market guns, I might not be here much longer.
BUT I can tell you my theory from an economic perspective! I would doubt that many guns would be manufactured in China, and as such would have to be imported. Imported means that they reflect Western prices, which are unbelievably, painfully expensive for the average person to buy on the average Chinese salary. For Americans, take the price of anything that was not made exclusively in America and multiply the price by 3 or so (won't go into details, but that's computed through purchasing power parity), and that's what it feels like to average Chinese to buy foreign on their salary.
Therefore, I can be fairly certain that the average punk kid isn't going to have the kind of extra money lying around to pick up a gun, and those that do won't be wasting their time in a very child and elderly focused middle class area like mine; they'd head off to the richer suburbs.
Anyway, enough ranting, bed for me.
Family fun!
oh no, not ever.
There's even a pic of Banker Cat if you follow the link.
If 4chan makes it to the Economist I might have to kill myself.
This has no good foreseeable end.
I lol'd though
Oh, that's how that works. I'm pretty sure Mario has never offered me a link to an "amazing video", so I guess technically that means he's never performed a legitimate "Rick Roll" on me.