True but it also depends on where you go. In Canada for example, this detail is explicitly taught to anyone who goes through the process of getting a firearms license.

That is interesting, I'm curious what the payload is.

Unless it's a shotgun firing birdshot. This is why in many places you can hunt birds, it's really the only type of firearm you're allowed to use, because when shot at an upward trajectory, the pellets do not maintain enough velocity to be harmful when coming down and harmlessly fall to the ground. Anything rifled though is a different story, because its that spin on a bullet or a slug which allows the projectile to maintain its velocity and be dangerous when coming back down.

Ads are generally acceptable so long as I'm not paying money to the service I'm using and seeing them anyway.

Television. I cannot understand why anyone would willingly pay money to be advertised to constantly.

I'd go to school and take every course I possibly could for the rest of my life or until I couldn't.

From when I worked in IT:

-In your ticket, do not give a vague description and a time you want the problem fixed and then expect anything to get fixed. Often times we very much need to work with you directly to understand your problem thoroughly to investigate and fix it thoroughly.

-If you have some weird problem, it might be just as weird to us when we first look at it. We are not omniscient. What we are good at is researching possible fixes, applying them, and measuring the effect they have in actually solving your problem.

-If we didn't install it, don't expect we know anything about it. You might really like to install and use Fusion 360 over AutoCAD or something, but that doesn't mean I know where Fusion 360 is storing its configurations, or that I have a phone number to call to get support from that company as a vendor, or that I have ever troubleshot this application.

-If you're really nice to us, we might be able to offer you suggestions for problems on personal computers, but sorry, we cant usually touch it, especially if we are outsourced IT. The moment we touch your personal computer it opens us to a shitload of liabilities and it could lose me my job.

-We understand very much that typically the only time you're talking to us is when you're mad because some shit is preventing you from working, but we don't want that either so don't be mad at us about it, we would prefer you never had to put in a ticket for anything except configuration change requests.

-Pay attention to our recommendations. If we say you have to have your laptop on at a certain time of day weekly for updates, we aren't just asking for our benefit, we're asking this because if you ignore it, eventually when you power on your laptop, windows is going to force all those updates to push at once and suddenly you'll be without your computer when you're supposed to be doing an important presentation because its going to take 4 hours for a years worth of updates to apply. We have little control over this.

I kind of imagine it will be the same thing every rockstar game has become. Some pretty ok story with every mission just devolving into a shooting gallery.

Comparing the allegory of my argument to yours, there is a very wide breadth between not going outside because something bad might happen and going outside and setting your cars driver seat on fire to show your wife that someone could potentially set your entire car on fire, leading to your wife calling the police, the police checking your neighbors security camera you didnt even realize existed to notice that you set the drivers seat on fire, and then charging you with mischief, arson, and public endangerment.

My counterpoint to that is that if you're a good security professional, you wouldn't take such risks because your entire job revolves around mitigating risks.

If you break into a network, or have someone do it for you, it's very difficult to completely remove all evidence of that having occurred, and because there's just so many variables, there will always be a non-zero percent chance of it being traced back to you.

Your company can hire an entire security firm of security professionals to look for this evidence. I don't care who someone is or how good they are at their job, very few people, unless they have narcissistic personality disorder, would trust that their individual skill completely outweighs the combined skill of an entire team of people who do that every day as their occupation.

Furthermore, taking such extreme risks with ones future just screams that they have some mental problem which they should probably be talking to a professional about, because a typical person would consider taking any risk of being imprisoned for years for computer crimes too big of a risk.

Hmmm yes I suppose that is true.

Nonetheless I'll always opt for the course of action that has the smallest potential negative impact on my personal life.

Yea I don't trust the opsec of some random 4chan user to cover their tracks and therefore mine in that scenario.

I'll just take the option that guarantees I can't go to jail and ruin my entire fucking life lol.