The USA sent us Guns to fight WWI because we could not manufacture them quickly enough not because we didn't have them in the first place?
The Washington post article you link to actually says the opposite of what you seem to think?
Gun ownership was very low and is now lower, but not non-existant, police do not always carry guns because they do not need to, gun crime is significantly lower than the USA, the only valid point is that after the further *handgun* restriction after Dunblaine gun crime did not go down (it was already low) [Dunblaine involved semi-automatic weapons as well which were not easily concealable, yet the restrictions were on concealable handguns?]
The reaction to incidents like Dunblaine are an overreaction but basic gun control works, gun crime is much lower then the USA...we do have no-go areas and bad neighbourhoods, but if you go there you risk getting beaten (in most cases, not shot)
Anyone carrying a gun (or anything that looks like a gun) in public get instant attention in the UK (Police firearms team called and react very quickly) criminals think twice before using guns... that's why knife crime is in the news here, use a gun you get shot, use a knife you get arrested...
If you notice which operating system you are on then it has failed.......It's job is to be unnoticed and keep out of the way, the only time you should notice any evidence of it is when something goes wrong and it saves you
People don't write email in Windows People don't write email in Outlook..they just write email...
And when was that... Guns have been restricted for many many years (We have never had the right to bear arms)? They are still not completely outlawed?
Most people in the UK have never owned a gun, and this has been true for many years, so when exactly did we "invite the thieves into our homes"?
We do not have a gun culture, as I said most criminals do not carry guns, because a person carrying a gun gets shot by SWAT teams, whereas a burglar only risks getting sent to jail
Violent crime is violent crime... If you don't have a gun then a knife will do... etc...
Having said that violent crime is higher in the USA and people have guns to protect themselves, so allowing public gun ownership does not seem to reduce violent crime ?
Most cases of people in the USA being killed with guns it is very often their own gun or a family members gun that kills them...
Don't try and down the satellite... too much effort
Just put loads of debris in the same orbit at a greatly different speed... that should disable any satellite....... China did that by blowing up one of their own satellites....
The day the Stormtroopers come knocking at your door, you'll wish you had a gun.
But even if you do one gun against a platoon of well armed and armoured stormtroopers is ineffectual at best.......and you will be killed, the unarmed man will just be arrested....
A Theory can be tested and predict unknowns, and these can be tested
More data is just more data it still predicts nothing and without a model/theory it cannot even show trends (Correlation != Causation) "The price of bread rises because flamingoes are pink..."
More data makes testing theories easier, but on it's own is useless, just like more Wikipedia Articles without editors are just ramblings
So don't use ANY MS software........ My current software works fine, my current OS works fine why do I need to "upgrade"?
What good reason is there to upgrade:
Games - many no longer work (a VERY few only work on Vista)
Business Apps - all work better under XP
Multimedia - DRM is more restrictive that XP, and Linux has none...
"When we deployed Windows on our cluster, which has more than 1,000 nodes, we went from bare metal to running the Linpack benchmark programs in just four hours"
...and if you heat iron to 2800 F it will flow like a liquid... but that's because it's a liquid....
Glass is NOT a liquid Glass is an amorphous *solid*, it just acts differently than a crystalline solid, but it not "weird" when compared with other amorphous solids...
Listening to music on Commercial radio - yes there are adverts
Using *this* website on which there are also (I understand) adverts
Of course there is money involved but my point was I do not pay anything and yet money is still made...being in the UK I am used to TV being the same - Free to Air (either Commercial with Adverts, or without adverts but a blanket Licence Fee and public service broadcasting) we also have BSkyB/VirginMedia which is subscription + Adverts + PayPerView (But I do not use!)
Well here I am listening to music, using a web site, all for nothing.. amazingly they are businesses who's employees still get paid!
It's simple they don't sell the content, but still get revenue, and they do not have any kind of artificial monopoly either, I can always go to another website or radio station to get the same content (but don't because I like the mix of music, or the style of content)
Not relevant - Commercial Software (even free Commercial Software) and Opensource have very different release systems
Most people would not bother to upgrade from IE6 To IE7 immediately...there was no heavily announced release day...
That fact that My windows PC upgraded the IE6 I didn't use to the IE7 I don't use is not really relevant...
Every one of the FF3 Downloads will actually be at least looked at.. many people who have upgraded to IE7 have never even run it... I know I have seen copies where it still opens the first use page...
Somalia - US made bad decisions, backed the wrong side, made tactical mistakes, alienated both sides (with just these tactics), refused (and still refuse) to recognise the stable, democratic half of the country (Somaliland) instead recognise the half of the country variously led by warlords and jihadists!
Bosnia - Bombed the wrong targets, did not put in enough ground troops, generally let the Serbs do what they wanted...
These tactics do not apply in either case - in both situations the people the US were fighting were the recognised legitimate leaders of the country (however much they disagreed with them) the insurgents were the ordinary people the US were supposed to be defending...?
No! No not autopackage - it's a just bunch of scripts that make assumptions about the filesystem which may not be true, cannot correctly determine the dependencies (no matter what Autopackage claims) I have been burnt by Autopackage too often (they never seem to work and leave debris in some very odd places...)
Use either DEB or RPM... Alien can convert it to other formats and the native package manager can sort out dependencies far better....
So they cannot use the fact that you have encrypted files or that you wont reveal the key as evidence or as an excuse to do further searches/seizure but if they already have suspicions for other reasons then the 5th will not protect you....
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The USA sent us Guns to fight WWI because we could not manufacture them quickly enough not because we didn't have them in the first place?
The Washington post article you link to actually says the opposite of what you seem to think?
Gun ownership was very low and is now lower, but not non-existant, police do not always carry guns because they do not need to, gun crime is significantly lower than the USA, the only valid point is that after the further *handgun* restriction after Dunblaine gun crime did not go down (it was already low)
[Dunblaine involved semi-automatic weapons as well which were not easily concealable, yet the restrictions were on concealable handguns?]
The reaction to incidents like Dunblaine are an overreaction but basic gun control works, gun crime is much lower then the USA...we do have no-go areas and bad neighbourhoods, but if you go there you risk getting beaten (in most cases, not shot)
Anyone carrying a gun (or anything that looks like a gun) in public get instant attention in the UK (Police firearms team called and react very quickly) criminals think twice before using guns ... that's why knife crime is in the news here, use a gun you get shot, use a knife you get arrested ...
If you notice which operating system you are on then it has failed .... ...It's job is to be unnoticed and keep out of the way, the only time you should notice any evidence of it is when something goes wrong and it saves you
People don't write email in Windows ..they just write email ...
People don't write email in Outlook
My name is Legion, for we are many
...since outlawing guns...
And when was that ... Guns have been restricted for many many years (We have never had the right to bear arms)? They are still not completely outlawed?
Most people in the UK have never owned a gun, and this has been true for many years, so when exactly did we "invite the thieves into our homes"?
We do not have a gun culture, as I said most criminals do not carry guns, because a person carrying a gun gets shot by SWAT teams, whereas a burglar only risks getting sent to jail
Violent crime is violent crime ... If you don't have a gun then a knife will do ... etc ...
Having said that violent crime is higher in the USA and people have guns to protect themselves, so allowing public gun ownership does not seem to reduce violent crime ?
Most cases of people in the USA being killed with guns it is very often their own gun or a family members gun that kills them ...
Don't try and down the satellite... too much effort
Just put loads of debris in the same orbit at a greatly different speed ... that should disable any satellite .... ... China did that by blowing up one of their own satellites ....
Come to the UK .. Guns are *almost* banned and most criminals do not use them!
UK had 58 deaths by firearms last year .... ..that's 232 times as many per head of population
USA had 11,346 deaths by firearms
The day the Stormtroopers come knocking at your door, you'll wish you had a gun.
But even if you do one gun against a platoon of well armed and armoured stormtroopers is ineffectual at best .... ...and you will be killed, the unarmed man will just be arrested ....
Data is data, it can predict nothing
A Theory can be tested and predict unknowns, and these can be tested
More data is just more data it still predicts nothing and without a model/theory it cannot even show trends (Correlation != Causation) "The price of bread rises because flamingoes are pink..."
More data makes testing theories easier, but on it's own is useless, just like more Wikipedia Articles without editors are just ramblings
So don't use ANY MS software .... .... My current software works fine, my current OS works fine why do I need to "upgrade"?
What good reason is there to upgrade: ...
Games - many no longer work (a VERY few only work on Vista)
Business Apps - all work better under XP
Multimedia - DRM is more restrictive that XP, and Linux has none
"When we deployed Windows on our cluster, which has more than 1,000 nodes, we went from bare metal to running the Linpack benchmark programs in just four hours"
Four Hours! what took them so long?
Ahhh Apple Pie so typically American
Originally from Europe, Not Native ... So typically American
Done exactly like they have done it in Europe for 500 years
...and if you heat iron to 2800 F it will flow like a liquid... but that's because it's a liquid ....
Glass is NOT a liquid ...
Glass is an amorphous *solid*, it just acts differently than a crystalline solid, but it not "weird" when compared with other amorphous solids
Listening to music on Commercial radio - yes there are adverts
Using *this* website on which there are also (I understand) adverts
Of course there is money involved but my point was I do not pay anything and yet money is still made ...being in the UK I am used to TV being the same - Free to Air (either Commercial with Adverts, or without adverts but a blanket Licence Fee and public service broadcasting) we also have BSkyB/VirginMedia which is subscription + Adverts + PayPerView (But I do not use!)
Well here I am listening to music, using a web site, all for nothing.. amazingly they are businesses who's employees still get paid!
..?
It's simple they don't sell the content, but still get revenue, and they do not have any kind of artificial monopoly either, I can always go to another website or radio station to get the same content (but don't because I like the mix of music, or the style of content)
Why cannot TV do this
Not relevant - Commercial Software (even free Commercial Software) and Opensource have very different release systems
...there was no heavily announced release day ...
.. many people who have upgraded to IE7 have never even run it ... I know I have seen copies where it still opens the first use page ...
Most people would not bother to upgrade from IE6 To IE7 immediately
That fact that My windows PC upgraded the IE6 I didn't use to the IE7 I don't use is not really relevant...
Every one of the FF3 Downloads will actually be at least looked at
The Falkland Islanders are simply protesting about being left off the downloaders map .....
I think that would come under the heading of not leaving any evidence to give to a war crimes tribunal....
And who are all the Iranians who are downloading it ...?
Unfortunately a very bad analogy ...
...
Somalia - US made bad decisions, backed the wrong side, made tactical mistakes, alienated both sides (with just these tactics), refused (and still refuse) to recognise the stable, democratic half of the country (Somaliland) instead recognise the half of the country variously led by warlords and jihadists!
Bosnia - Bombed the wrong targets, did not put in enough ground troops, generally let the Serbs do what they wanted
These tactics do not apply in either case - in both situations the people the US were fighting were the recognised legitimate leaders of the country (however much they disagreed with them) the insurgents were the ordinary people the US were supposed to be defending...?
No! No not autopackage - it's a just bunch of scripts that make assumptions about the filesystem which may not be true, cannot correctly determine the dependencies (no matter what Autopackage claims) I have been burnt by Autopackage too often (they never seem to work and leave debris in some very odd places...)
... Alien can convert it to other formats and the native package manager can sort out dependencies far better ....
Use either DEB or RPM
It's like the Baby on board stickers... ... it seems to say nothing except "I am better than you"
Can you please apologise to all the dead or injured cyclists who followed the highway code and were run over by people in cars
....
Yes there are Cyclists who are reckless, just as there are car drivers who are thoughtless, but if a bike hits a car guess who suffers most
It's Illegal
It's Immoral
Or It Makes You Fat - Edmundo Ros
So they cannot use the fact that you have encrypted files or that you wont reveal the key as evidence or as an excuse to do further searches/seizure but if they already have suspicions for other reasons then the 5th will not protect you ....