Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.
Orson Scott

Comment preview: > The judge ruled that Oscar could not have foreseen that his actions would have killed whoever was in the bathroom ... How could he not have foreseen that firing four shots through a door into a small space could have killed someone? As a hunter, *I un ....


Comment preview: Greek Fire is indeed a great example. The "recipe" for Greek Fire was likely lost due to several reasons: * After the death of Manuel I Komnenos, the Byzantine Empire goes into a state of major decay. In 24 years from 1180-1204, pretty much everything, fro ....


Comment preview: There must be a general superintendent or someone at your company's office that you can tell. Telling the union rep may not do anything. Hell, telling the local inspection agency may not do anything. But if the president of your company knows of this he ....


Comment preview: > Manslaughter is murder and a deliberate act in the heat of the moment. Criminal negligence causing death and dangerous driving causing death would have been the charges they'd have looked at. manslaughter is absolutely NOT limited to deliberate acts. ....


Comment preview: No that argument doesn't hold up. These are professionals. They don't get to say, "Well, he drew a gun and I was scared." Training is specifically for when you're scared. If they weren't trained not to fire in a crowded place where there's tons of things f ....


Comment preview: I'm not an NRA member, but I am very pro-2A and have a concealed handgun permit. I also spent four years in the US Marine infantry and have been handling weapons nearly my entire life. You don't accidentally shoot yourself or anything else. There are fou ....


Comment preview: OP seems to have a classic negligence case and should seek actual legal counsel regarding the particularities of the law of the state and jurisdiction he's currently in. If OP is not barred from making his own negligence claim by his insurance and there is ....


Comment preview: So what happened was, the hotel that Apex was originally at was damaged in the storm (parking lot roof collapsed, hotel ballrooms suffered damage). When Apex staff asked if they could still run the tournament, hotel management assured them that there would ....


Comment preview: If you get fired for losing a laptop, even by your own negligence, it's not a place you want to work. I realize that's easy for me to type after several years of a career and it's tougher for someone just starting out. Trust me, I'm not ignoring that. It i ....


Comment preview: I'm sorry but this guy clearly lost his temper IMO. I'm all for defending cops or anyone really if they are in the right, but this cop was clearly negligent, though agreed on it not being malicious. He did not intend to seriously harm her, but the way in w ....


Comment preview: > Hunting is not comparable to believing there is a possible armed intruder in your home. You missed my point entirely - I'm talking about trigger discipline. No matter what, it is irresponsible and bloody stupid to shoot at something you haven't proper ....


Comment preview: When you look at the actual manufacturing costs of some of these things it's fascinating. Suppose the lowest paid workers in the world all went on strike and demanded at a minimum a pay rate of $10 a day, and successfully got away with it. That's not very ....


Comment preview: To everyone who saying this isn't justice.. I can understand wanting to kill something that scares you, but I can't imagine a situation where I could say OH SHIT THERE'S AN ANIMAL, let me run to the garage (unless she was gardening with gasoline) grab a ca ....


Comment preview: I carry with a round in the chamber for several reasons. 1. The Four Rules prevent all negligent discharges. The only time that gun is dangerous to anyone is when I mean it to be dangerous. 2. The gun I carry has multiple safeties. These prevent the gun fr ....


Comment preview: Hi, I wrote my (first) mater's thesis on the employment effects of the statewide minimum wage. well, suppose that they fire either a small enough amount of workers that this measure still makes the median income appreciate...or that they end up firing comp ....


Comment preview: It's not an ethical dilemma in my mind at all. If you have the ability to help. You should do so. There are laws in certain US states that require anyone trained in first aid to render assitance to someone that may need it. Figuring out what to charge her ....


Comment preview: We had a guy accidentally discharge his AR-15 into the grass *at our police shooting range* and, since it was not an intentional firing of the weapon, there was paperwork! Edit: I wasn't trying to downplay the facts surrounding a Negligent Discharge. A bul ....


Comment preview: Other answers are generally correct, explaining that the effects are mostly negligible. However, there is one airplane that stands head and shoulders above other aircraft in terms of amount of gunfire that it can rain down upon a target: the A-10 Thunderbo ....


Comment preview: There is no such thing as an accidental discharge - only a negligent. You keep your damn finger off of the trigger unless you intend to fire on a threat. There are no accidents with firearms, YOU are in complete control of what your weapon does and does no ....


Comment preview: Edit: see caveat in my above comment. This analysis probably wouldn't apply to the scenario where the owners *actively* locked the doors after the fire started, which some witnesses claim, but I don't think was proven in court. This applies only to the g ....


Comment preview: Hydrogen cyanide is also one of the many dangerous by-products of plain ol' house fires. Benzine, a well-studied carcinogen, is too. In a fire, most deaths occur because of smoke inhalation and/or suffocation due to oxygen displacement. There were many ....


Comment preview: That articles makes all the points I wanted to rant about in length the first time I saw this gif. If you're a fellow gun-owner and you hand someone a weapon without any instruction on how to fire it? You're being negligent. If you're a gun-owner and you k ....


Comment preview: Holy shit this is awesome: >Each barrel fires when it reaches roughly the 9 o'clock position, when viewed from the front of the plane. Because the gun's recoil forces could push the entire plane off target during firing, the weapon itself is mounted off ....


Comment preview: Under California law, as long as it wasn't intentional she will be fine. If the cops are called, she WILL have a much better chance of getting away without consequence if she tells the truth, which is she heard a noise, thought someone could have been in t ....


Comment preview: I may have killed an old woman. I worked at an answering service and one of our clients was a palliative care home nursing company. During a night shift a very old woman called in, complaining of discomfort. I attempted to reach the on-call nurse per sta ....