I fully believe that the second amendment is a good thing and that it ought to be upheld, but if you are literally walking down the street in a public area with an open gun near a lot of families, you are going to cause some concern and should expect someone to question your behavior. Not only that, but when the police (who you ought to be working with to protect public safety) question you as to why you are carrying a large weapon in a family area, you're going to sound suspicious when your response is "I'm not answering any more of your questions" and "it's my right."

Don't get me wrong. I'm not necessarily arguing that open carry is a bad thing. There have been numerous studies that have shown that civilians can have a major effect reducing casualties during mass shootings, which shouldn't be surprising. My overall feeling is that banning guns would do nothing to prevent them from getting into the wrong hands, but would prevent them from getting into the hands of those who intend to protect the public. The police can't be everywhere at every time. However, that said, refusing to cooperate with the police when you are causing a genuine suspicion is asking for trouble and is flat out irresponsible towards the public in general.

Although this is no new debate, what is your overall opinion of guns and gun control today?

We've all heard catchy songs before, but do you have any song lyrics stuck in your head? Tell us!

Currently, I have the main lyric from Maroon 5's song "Maps" stuck in my head:

Quote:The map that leads to you
Ain't nothing I can do
The map that leads to you
Following, following, following to you
The map that leads to you
Ain't nothing I can do
The map that leads to you

Hi, I'm Mohawk (but I don't mind being called Shane or Russ, I'll explain later) and I am an 18 year old high school senior. I am the creator of Stenix OS, an upcoming Linux distribution that aims to please the end-user's needs while not including un-necessary clutter in the distro. Other than that, I like anime, web design and gaming too.

Anyways, I go by the names I said on top cause Shane is my real name but I sometimes go under the alias of Russell out of boredom and the need of change every now and then. I chose my nickname cause the mohawk is my favorite hairstyle and would like to get one sometime. School won't allow it under their dress code though. Anyways, I will be making a Skype soon so if you'd like to chat, feel free to PM me for it. Thank you!

Have you ever worked in a situation where your boss (or bosses) were unappreciative of the hard work and effort you had put in? Or where corporate has been unsympathetic to the actual difficulties of working on the floor with day to day tasks in the company?

I like where I work currently, but I can say that in the past, there have been some corporate issues that could use some resolving. The management is good though, so I can't complain.

Hey guys, I'm Guardian. I thought I already had an account on here, but I guess not. So, lurker no more, I have finally registered. Again. I think.

Which one do you prefer when it comes to websites A simplistic, clean design, or something fancy with many graphic elements and lots of buttons, flash elements etc.?

Yes, there is a difference between inspiration and motivation. Which one do you prefer: a leader who motivates or a leader who inspires?

I need your guys' opinion on the design of a website I'm currently working on.

Here's the link to the picture: http://imgur.com/Wj296WT

Tell me what you think below and vote above!

NOTE: Sorry if this is the wrong board for this type of thread I didn't know where it should go.

So I've noticed that there's been quite a bit of spam lately. Is there any way that we can prevent these spammers from creating threads and spamming up the forums?

I've been doing a lot of filecave development work over the past few days, and plan on spending the next few weeks actively converting all existing code to use the new API, as well as to fully flesh out content types. Once that's completed, the ACP will be completely recoded from scratch and I may be able to rethink an alpha release.

I was going to release an alpha release "before the end" of last July. Yes, even now, it's a year late, but back then I wasn't exactly anticipating Filecave being a full CMS, so a lot has been recoded since then. I'd say a good 70-80% of the code has been replaced or heavily reworked at this point, with the old code still remaining for actual file exchange related functions. That percentage is going to increase significantly in the coming weeks as I finish the basic functionality for content types and convert existing file exchange code to use these content types.

The advantage is that essentially, every piece of content that is managed by filecave will be a node. That allows for a lot more consistency as far as what's supported and what's not. For example, if a user created a plugin for adding tags and sorting content by them, it would be very easy to apply this functionality for all nodes, regardless of whether they are website pages, articles, blog posts, file uploads, or even forum posts. This isn't really anything particularly impressive as many of the leading CMSs take a similar approach, but it's nevertheless a concept I am proud of so far, and I'm looking forward to implementing it and seeing how everything goes.

Anyway, from now on, the majority of the development updates will be posted on the blog. For the weeks where a lot of active development is going on, I'll probably do Sunday or Monday night "weekly updates, " and plan on documenting API changes and progress as often as possible. Let me know what you think and what you want to see!

Click here for the filecave blog