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This really shows how regulation screws things up. That good guy should've had the right to control a Chinese built military drone equipped with concrete piercing bombs, from in-venue via iPhone app and cloud services. Naturally, helped by open source intelligence and mass social networks with their advanced AI analysis, the active shooter would be pinpointed down in matter of seconds, and if good guy gave Twitter permission for his iCloud account, the drone would've been guided without any further delays.
 
Started planning a trip to Vegas yesterday so the news is particular eerie. I have family out there and have been there many times. Of course there was also the Maiden concert which wasn’t at the same venue, but in the same hotel. Seeing crime scene footage of an area that’s almost as familiar as home is surreal.
 
Mosh said:
Seeing crime scene footage of an area that’s almost as familiar as home is surreal.
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It is.

I started working in Oslo a few weeks after the 2011 bombing of the government quarters/Utøya massacre. It felt weird.

In other news - for the first time this autumn I don't feel like a complete wreck after playing football, just tired.
 
Perun said:
You know, if everyone at the venue had carried a gun, and all that.
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LooseCannon said:
Oh yeah, because a bunch of people with pistols can totally pick off a man firing an automatic weapon from a couple hundred metres away.
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LooseCannon said:
... I feel pretty comfortable in saying there's no possible way a "good guy with a gun" could have stopped this event.
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What's with the deliberate misconstruing of Perun's point? Of course other people with guns wouldn't have prevented this. But this is the nonsensical argument that people do make.
 
Remember my dog that was pretty sick? Multiple lesions on her spine and everything? Well, it turned out that during her last MRI scan it showed that these lesions had lessened - and that pretty much saved her life. We were not going to bring her back round if they were worse.

But she was still in pain and when everything was exhausted, treatment wise, the vets rang us up to ask permission to give her steroids. Now, I've been wanting that all along but the vets were too cautious as it could have caused serious problems if it was the wrong thing to do. But they went ahead with this in May and this treatment went on until two weeks ago.

Aside from the hair not growing back were she was shaved for spinal taps, chest drains and the insertion of a feeding tube (this particular steroid stunted hair growth), she is pretty much a normal dog. She has only just now settled after insisting I throw her toy for her or she'll bark the house down. She may well be having a course of steroids every so often for life, but she seems to have overcome whatever made her sick. And if it turns out that all she needed was a course of steroids, cheap as chips steroids, it works out that it cost me £13.5k for a course of steroids.
 
Never been a big Petty fan but I like the occasional song and Hypnotic Eye was a strong album... shocker.
 
Okay so apparently the reports have been retracted and he's "fighting for his life", last I saw... hope?
 
It's looking very likely that I'll be going to New Orleans in December as my abstract has been accepted. I have to look into flights now and the direct flight from Heathrow to New Orleans is too expensive, so the best option is to change at Toronto with a 90 minute changeover. @LooseCannon do you know if that's enough time in that airport?
 
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