Opinionated Voice

They’re not arming the kids, they’re not arming themselves, just who do you think they are arming… politicians?

They are physically and mentally weaker and clumsier

Ya, people who don’t exercise their maturity or martial talents, tend to get ‘physically and mentally weak’

You don’t understand discipline and the power gap. Children will learn violence and how to be irresponsible regardless of whether you think this that or the other will happen.

Children are only children because society treats them as such. Ages 12 to 18 are not responsible for much of anything, least of all their own protection.

It’s a cultural issue. And most of it is motivated by distrust, lack of will, and the incorrect idea that making children mature earlier somehow is a negative thing. Much of anonymous’s arguments are based upon that incorrect world view.

But they aren’t… so all they are doing is isolating their children from the real world, a world that they don’t seem to like nor know how to deal with.

Eventually we’ll have to come up with a way to shanghai the computers into doing all this work for us.

As to transferring photos from camera to the computer – it’s fast and easy if you don’t do it the way the camera manufacturers tell you (via the special wire that goes from camera to computer.)

Here’s what to do:

1. your camera uses some sort of memory “card” or “stick” to hold the digital images, which are just ordinary “j-peg” (.jpg) image files – just like the ones that grace any website.

2. Figure out what kind of card or stick you have – it may be Compact Flash (“CF”) “SD”, or one of several other kinds. It’s in your camera manual, and often says on the card.

3. Go to BestBuy, CompUSA, or Circuit City,etc, and ask for a “Card Reader” that will accept your card. I recently bought one for my daughter for 15 bucks that reads *nine* different kinds of cards!

4. Back at home, plug the card reader into a USB port (small, rectangular connection point) on you PC or Mac – if you have a PC that you bought in this century (or any Mac), it should automatically recognize the card – it sees it as just another drive – like your “C:” drive, floppy, CD-ROM, etc. – you’ll see it show up in your file manager program (Windows Explorer for PCs – I don’t know what the Mac equivalent is called.)

5. Insert the card into the reader – on a PC, in a few moments you’ll get a window that pops up with a bunch of choices – one of which is something like “view the files” – choose that one.

6. There are your photos! (you may have to dive down through one or two levels of folders). Just copy the files from your card onto your hard drive or burn them to a CD-ROM or DVD.

I just leave my card reader permanently plugged into my PC, so if you do that, there are only 2 simple steps after the first time.

Best regards,
SteveR

Now only public places that are carefully policed, inspected, and audited, are considered relatively safe.