Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

emergency.mit.net

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

301–308 of 308 posts

Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

#301

Post by jlgreco »

[deleted] wrote: post #299
jlgreco wrote: post #297

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think he was suggesting it should be made illegal to do that, and obviously I know that it already is... I am quite pro-gun (remember the part about growing up around a lot of responsible gun owners?), but you making the kind of comments that make me strongly reconsider identifying that way. Hurling insults around does not contribute to the discussion; it is just childish and makes you look desperate.

[deleted]

He has backed up that statement, while you have done nothing but hurl insults. I understand that you may feel insulted by what he said, but that is no excuse for the quality of your comments.

Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

#302

Post by lostlogin »

HarryHirsch wrote: post #269
lostlogin wrote: post #198

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Many places face hazards that have a delay before hitting - tsunami is one I know of specifically, and gunmen wondering around would seem to be relevant here. How is this not the best sort of alert system?

> Many places face hazards that have a delay before hitting You ask yourself how people dealt with large-scale civil emergencies before cellphones became widespread. There were such things as warning sirens, and of course the police with loudspeaker vans. They are still doing that today - every time a hurricane is set to hit Miami the emergency services make the rounds of low-lying areas to get the word out to the ho…

Loud speakers aren't very effective if populations are spread out, or if one speaker fails many may be uninformed. However I agree SMS isn't a perfect solution either. The phone may be off, people may not have one, low signal etc. It's one more tool to communicate with as I see it.

Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

#303

Post by grecy »

jlgreco wrote: post #301
[deleted] wrote: post #299

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[deleted]

He has backed up that statement, while you have done nothing but hurl insults. I understand that you may feel insulted by what he said, but that is no excuse for the quality of your comments.

Feels like Reddit around here, with that guy deleting all his comments when you pin him down...

Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

#304

Post by danvideo »

WestCoastJustin wrote: post #143

Breakdown of what is happening on this reddit thread [1]. You can listen to the police scanner here [2]. Live steaming video here [3]. For those listening on the scanner this is the area/streets they are talking about [4]. [1] http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1cnwms/mods_removed_th... [2] http://tunein.com/radio/Boston-Police-Fire-and-EMS-Scanner-s... [3] http://www1.whdh.com/video/7newslive [4] https://maps.goo…

phew. it sounds like it is finally over.

live video feed based on shots outside watertown house http://livewire.wcvb.com/Event/117th_Running_of_Boston_Marat...

Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

#305

Post by youngerdryas »

grecy wrote: post #303
jlgreco wrote: post #301

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He has backed up that statement, while you have done nothing but hurl insults. I understand that you may feel insulted by what he said, but that is no excuse for the quality of your comments.

Feels like Reddit around here, with that guy deleting all his comments when you pin him down...

I can keep insulting you if you like.

Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

#306

Post by grecy »

youngerdryas wrote: post #305
grecy wrote: post #303

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Feels like Reddit around here, with that guy deleting all his comments when you pin him down...

I can keep insulting you if you like.

Sure. By all means.

Of course, as jlgreco pointed out, you're only showing your ignorance to the topic and hand by trying to deflect the real issue with insults at me. It's shocking/hilarious/sad you need to resort to that, instead of actually addressing the issue at hand.

Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

#307

Post by youngerdryas »

grecy wrote: post #306
youngerdryas wrote: post #305

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can keep insulting you if you like.

Sure. By all means. Of course, as jlgreco pointed out, you're only showing your ignorance to the topic and hand by trying to deflect the real issue with insults at me. It's shocking/hilarious/sad you need to resort to that, instead of actually addressing the issue at hand.

I don't think shooting in the air is really an issue in the US. I do feel bad for insecure souls that need to believe America is an underdeveloped nation. Or were you joking about that?

Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

#308

Post by grecy »

youngerdryas wrote: post #307
grecy wrote: post #306

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure. By all means. Of course, as jlgreco pointed out, you're only showing your ignorance to the topic and hand by trying to deflect the real issue with insults at me. It's shocking/hilarious/sad you need to resort to that, instead of actually addressing the issue at hand.

I don't think shooting in the air is really an issue in the US. I do feel bad for insecure souls that need to believe America is an underdeveloped nation. Or were you joking about that?

I don't believe America is an underdeveloped nation, exactly.

If you compare stats for all the factors that really make a difference for quality of life for the average person on the street (healthcare, education, death rates, crime rates, pollution, safety, etc. just to name a few), you'll see America is very often comparable to developing nations, and not often comparable to developed nations. In many cases, it's staggering far behind the best in the world.

Food for thought.

Post reply on HN