savvyandsassier said:

So much for the playoff needs to be reformatted narrative. Oregon's the #1 seed. And they're getting spanked like they were lucky to beat a G5 team like Boise St. when they did.

In any event losing to Michigan was a blessing in disguise for tOSU.

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NDinNJ said:

Bro, ND is offering as much as the top programs, but these top athletes don't want to be bothered by academics. They don't want to go to class. ND won't compromise on that, get used to it @sshole.

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chaseball said:

Notre Dame has some of the deepest pockets in the sport.

Not saying this to you directly, but why do ND fans like to act like ND is this indie band starting in their garage? ND is the biggest most mainstream most wealthy most old money brand in the sport. Or at least easily in the first tier of programs that are. They are just insanely cheap, and ND fans give them a pass for it under the "education first" rhetoric that ND uses to stuff their coffers and make them disgustingly wealthy beyond belief.

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banmate6 said:

I work in AI. Data can be securely anonymized. Encryption. Where you need:

1) Encryption key material to un-encrypt.
2) Legal permission and the appropriate authentication and authorization....be it a human or bot.

Let the bots have access to anonymized real time streaming & historical data. Every 30 seconds or so they can apply threat, intrusion, and anomaly detection algorithms. If they get a positive signal, alerts are sent to human authorities for the said encryption, authentication, and authorization needed to concretely identify the suspects.

And sure, the opinions and experiences of victims matter. Protecting life is important and, as I discussed, can be done with regards for privacy, security, and freedom.

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Patrish said:

We have different views on the pace and direction that factions of Islam are moving

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ivan brunetti said:

It seems that a student who feels bullied and kills 15, should be just as big of a concern as a vet who feels bullied and kills 15 as a result. Labeling one as worse because it is "terrorism" does not make sense to me. Both are equally horrific.

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banmate6 said:

Just like the Catholic Church once did, Islam needs a process of exegesis. I am sure you heard that term. The Islamic world is working itself in modernity.

Obviously it is a painful and costly process. Mostly to themselves. There is massive strife in Islamic societies, costing many lives, loss of GDP, and a cycle of violence.

At such scale, it hurts the world. Even in Islamic communities in the West. This is going to be a long enough process.

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PHJIndy said:

You must have listened through jaundiced ears! It was not that confusing for most of us.

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NDinNJ said:

Bro, ND is offering as much as the top programs, but these top athletes don't want to be bothered by academics. They don't want to go to class. ND won't compromise on that, get used to it @sshole.

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chaseball said:

drive a car into a crowd and ruin the lives of millions who weren't even there ... smh

should have just played the game tonight .. don't give this terrorist attack any attention .. business as usual

but of course not

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Shakin' Down the Thunder said:

Right. So why is this happening? Are our armed forces and our government not doing enough to prevent this from happening? Did this guy ask for help and was told, take a number?

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savvyandsassier said:

So it is. I spoke too soon. I was watching the games and the initial report I glanced at didn't mention terrorism and it appeared to have enough of the hallmarks of a loan gunman type scenario, which would not be at all surprising in this country. Where those things happen all the time to varying degrees of death and destruction, and if this guy was a vet as reported, he might be more inclined to go ham with it. And in any case it didn't sound like a terrorist attack at first blush. And it's nevertheless true that the war on terror is never ending, and is almost like a self fulfilling prophecy.

I don't want to get in an argument over this but I don't care what the families think. Grieving families don't decide policy for an entire nation. And there's no evidence that I'm privy to at least that advanced surveillance is implemented with any of the safeguards you allude to. The direct opposite is indeed the whole point of domestic surveillance.

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Pennick4 said:

That guy is brutal to listen to. Can't believe he had 1 year on Monday night football.

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savvyandsassier said:

I just went over the whole 'terrorism' labeling, and I would say it's not because it's an act of terrorism, because it isn't one. It's what I said it is. You're denying that, and saying this isn't just another school shooting, enacted by a bullied kid. Even though it is, the difference is he drove a truck through a busy tourist area, whatever his personal situation was, instead of shooting up a wal-mart. But if you arbitrarily label it as such, and just expand the definition to include lone wolf acts of mass violence, then you get to politically take advantage of it, because everyone's all horrified. And I'm pretty sure we have dozens of very significant mass shootings every year in this country.

The word 'terrorism', semantically refers to the idea of blowing up bombs in a Paris subway or something, in the hopes of the govt. meeting your political demands, And so you 'terrorize' the public until they give in, and keep them in a state of terror. This is nothing like that. There'd be no basis for good-faith categorizing it as terrorism.

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