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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Your Name Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: DOJ is correct that Apple iPhone is far less secure than Android when RCS messaging is involved Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 18:40:29 +1200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 08:40:30 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="9317c9a5239312b9d45d2fd3bee5189e"; logging-data="2242541"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19GCOwPFdJATeBGll+Ady/LO0AQ5uXmjNY=" User-Agent: Unison/2.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:HtUffibPXfYOIjseVYRhUW9FY/Y= Bytes: 2474 On 2024-04-18 06:20:37 +0000, The Real Bev said: > On 4/17/24 10:18 AM, Alan wrote: >> On 2024-04-17 10:05, The Real Bev wrote: >>> On 4/15/24 11:48 PM, Chris wrote: >>>> >>>> Pre-empirically carrying a gun is not "self-defence". Its weakness. >>>> Billions of people are quite capable of not becoming a victim without >>>> needing guns for "self-defence". >>> >>> Yes, screaming I AM NOT A VICTIM at the thug with a knife will >>> definitely send him on his way abashed and save Granny from being >>> harmed. Or perhaps you were thinking of the umbrella with the sharpened >>> tip? >> >> You still haven't explained why the US has so many more deaths than >> other countries similar to it. > > I have no idea why. Do you? Perhaps we are just violent people. > > Given that this is true, how do we best protect ourselves when law > enforcement is too far away to be protective? > > A few nights ago a guy pulled a knife on a woman, forced her to drive > to a different location and raped her. This happened a few blocks > away. What should she have done? Same as any women in the other 99% of countries that do not have gun-obessessed idiots. :-\ Most people in the world have enough sense to know that owning a gun achieves absolutely nothing, so don't want one and don't need one. Americans (and it's only a loud-mouthed minority of those!) don't have that simple sense.