Since it is nowhere near old enough to have electrolyte loss, any meaningful sulfate buildup, or shorted cells, it'll be fine.
While generally true I have gotten a bad car battery once. It lasted about 4 months before dropping a cell. Got it replaced under warranty and didn't have any problems for the next 3 years that I owned that vehicle. While rare it does happen. I did also check for a short in the wiring and that the alternator was good since it is really rare for a car battery to go bad so fast.
While they can track you using cell towers the accuracy isn't as great as can be achieved with even low cost GPS systems (what a phone has). Granted using cell towers you get accuracies in the 10s of meters range while GPS using only L1 signals will get you about 15 meters (assuming good geometry and not multipath issues) and with a good receiver using only the L1 signal + WAAS you could get to about 2-3 meter accuracy (sometimes better but you have to be at the right location). Now this assuming a moving individual as there are some averaging tricks you can to for stationary ones to increase the accuracy. This also ignores more advanced GPS solutions like using RTK, CORS, Differential GPS, having access to a receiver that gets both L1 and L2 signals and can decode the L2 data, or having a functioning Galileo based location system.
So despite what you have seen in the movies the tracking by cell tower isn't as good as it is made out to be but in most cases should get you to the correct city block of accuracy.
Hence my statement about the absurdity of his claims. I could see it as a typo of fscrbook, fascebook, or some other common typo like that but even on my worst day I haven't had a typo that bad where I used the completely wrong hand and letter positions.
The sad part is that it isn't that much of a stretch. I think I remember reading a ruling on a similar subject that puts it fairly close, I think it had to do with the phone book.
It probably does but not in the "she was dressed like that" manner but more of a this requires further investigation manner. Given the type of weapon, a real assault rifle and not something with different trim, it was (he was a tax stamp holder I assume unless it was an illegal weapon) it would have been highly valuable. Since you are implying he was targeted now the question is how did he become a target?
One guess would be he liked to show the weapon off to just about anyone who came over and even like to show how secure it was since the criminals came prepared. This leads me to the question of why would bank robbing criminals need a fully auto weapon over the standard handgun, shotgun, or semi auto rifle? The others are much easier to come by and if planning a big heist a fully auto weapon will just eat through ammo and wouldn't be of much use unless they were planning to mow down a crowd. You also mentioned that the criminals were caught aiming it out a window which seems to indicate these aren't the real serious criminals who know to shut the hell up and be low key. Most of your criminals (99.999%) aren't like those in the movie Heat even worse is most (99%) don't even measure up to the barely competent Man in Black Robber so something does smell a bit fishy. You claim they were serious criminals but yet they seem to be exceptionally stupid, as in below the average crackhead gang banger who knows not to wave a fucking gun around where people that can turn you in can see it.
Another scenario that jumps to my mind is insurance fraud given the value of the firearm (probably at least $15,000). As such I would have looked at the connections between your father and the criminals as there probably is a very close relationship with 1 maybe 2 degrees of separation if not directly known by your father. Again this seems to fit with the well prepared but incompetent criminals. The only other scenario that seems to fit might be your father wasn't a tax stamp holder (seems unlikely) then it seems like the person who he got it from let someone else know where to get one in which case I don't have much sympathy. But there that doesn't seem to fit since how would the criminals have known to come prepared to remove a wall.
So under your proposal I would need to sell my rifle when pheasant season is about to open and go buy a shotgun. Then once deer season starts about a month later I would have to sell my shotgun and buy a rifle which I would own for ~2 weeks then sell to get a shot gun to resume pheasant hunting until the first weekend in January. I would then have to acquire a rifle again to hunt coyotes and would be able to keep that until pheasant season starts again in the fall. Oh wait you didn't want people to be able to own more powerful weapons:
A handgun should be the maximum any person should be able to buy
I see an awful lot of criminal negligence and recklessness there. When trying to point out how dangerous firearms are try to leave suicides out as those seem somewhat specious since it is just a quicker more effective way of doing the deed than other methods. Lets look at the case that is closest to a proper accident which I would still classify as negligence. In reading the little blurb provided it mentions that the gun didn't go off when it was dropped but only once it was picked up by the owner. This is very telling that it wasn't an accident but was negligence as the idiot probably had a finger on the trigger when picking it up. The proper thing to do in that situation would have been to: 1. pick up the firearm and not put a finger on the trigger (he wasn't planning on shooting it and thus no finger should have been on the trigger) 2. maintained proper muzzle control (keep it pointed in a safe direction) 3. immediately put the safety back on 4. holstered the weapon 5. go and buy a better fucking holster
All of the other stories while tragic, are examples of gross negligence or outright recklessness. At that point it doesn't' matter what device you are talking about as it is the operator of said device not the device. For the record stupid people in cars kill more people than stupid people with firearms. I also believe most car accidents are due to negligent or reckless behavior as well, the reports may say speed, alcohol, road conditions, component failure, inattentive driving, driver error, etc. but in all except a few very rare component failure cases it is really negligent or reckless actions.
Usually the preferred teaching tool is a watermelon, pumpkin, cantaloupe, or gallon jug of water shot with a rifled 12 gauge slug. I got that lesson when I was about 8 and then learned how to shoot properly.
That has been an easily solved problem for a long time. There are these large hardened metal boxes that have very durable complex locking mechanisms that are sometimes lined with fire brick or refractory brick just put your guns in there. If one of those is too expensive there are always inexpensive locks that can be used but aren't as effective but still work. Also keeping loaded firearms around seems like a really stupid idea especially if you have children.
... in a safe set in a concrete wall. That didn't help much when the thiefs hacked that entire wall out...
Those sound like more serious criminals who were after something specific rather than the standard home burglary where they go and grab what ever they can find quickly, either that or that wall was rather weak if they just hacked it out. I mean really, how many thieves show up with either masonry saws (kind of slow), masonry drills (slow), or masonry chisels (really slow) for a simple home burglary? Tools I would expect would be things like a crowbar, claw hammer, or screwdriver if they have any at all not more specialized ones, hence either that was a really weak wall or they were specifically targeting your father and knew what he had and where he had it. I don't advertise to people who know me what I own since I don't want it to get out that I have a house with firearms in it. The only people who know who I am and know I own firearms are the people I go hunting with who also own their own firearms. I have a gun safe as well and it is bolted to the poured concrete floor in my basement as well as bolted to the poured concrete wall behind it. It isn't light either as it is one of the really nice and heavy upright fireproof ones that weighs in at several hundred pounds and was a bitch to get into the basement even with the proper equipment and would be even harder to get out since you would have to haul it up a flight of stairs. My safe won't stop a determined individual but it will stop the standard common criminal. Someone who wants my ~$300 worth of firearms (an M91/30 and a Mossberg pump action shot gun) would probably need at least that much in tools to get them at which point it isn't worth it.
Well apple could offer devices with safe mode on them. These devices would be unable to connect to the internet (no NIC) or have any non keyboard/mouse I/O which would provide the necessary safe mode. This means no: internal expansion, USB, Firewire, Thunderbolt, DVD, CD-ROM, etc. All apple would have to do is offer them for sale (don't even bother making one) since I don't think they will be able to sell a single one.
I'm sure we have all had typos that have been bad but really how does one accidentally replace “a-c-e” in Facebook with a “u-c-k”? I could see fat fingering it and getting incorrect but near letters, transposing letters, skipping a letter, or putting the wrong tld (I do that far too often when I want to go to weather.gov but type in weather.com and end up with bleeding eyes), but his claims are absurd to say the least.
I have a filter for it but it happens later. My body seems to reject fake food like that. I can get it into my stomach but it refuses to digest it. It feels like I ate a rock and after about 2 hours of feeling like crap I end up puking. Same thing happens with most fast food places and other very processed food.
Not a traitor as there are very specific requirements for being a traitor. Specifically see Article III section 3 of the US Constitution where it is described in detail. From what I can tell he hasn't committed an act of treason and thus is not a traitor. He does seem to be a rather sleazy individual and just because he hasn't committed an act of treason doesn't mean that he hasn't committed lesser crimes.
To be fair we basically did elect Peewee Herman (he was rather found of letting things hang out as well) previous to Bush and he didn't get the Peace Price. I wouldn't mind if one of the biggest issues of a presidency is if the president lies to congress about getting his pole smoked by an intern, it sure beats the issues with recent ones.
But we know that the USPS takes pictures to track every piece of mail. Given that this would be a law enforcement effort I'm sure that the police could subpoena the records for the USPS for the letter in question. Good luck doing the same thing when something you send gets lost though.
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Since it is nowhere near old enough to have electrolyte loss, any meaningful sulfate buildup, or shorted cells, it'll be fine.
While generally true I have gotten a bad car battery once. It lasted about 4 months before dropping a cell. Got it replaced under warranty and didn't have any problems for the next 3 years that I owned that vehicle. While rare it does happen. I did also check for a short in the wiring and that the alternator was good since it is really rare for a car battery to go bad so fast.
I did that the first time as well but mine was for Bush. But being in Minnesota it didn't affect the out come since the state went for Gore by a lot.
While they can track you using cell towers the accuracy isn't as great as can be achieved with even low cost GPS systems (what a phone has). Granted using cell towers you get accuracies in the 10s of meters range while GPS using only L1 signals will get you about 15 meters (assuming good geometry and not multipath issues) and with a good receiver using only the L1 signal + WAAS you could get to about 2-3 meter accuracy (sometimes better but you have to be at the right location). Now this assuming a moving individual as there are some averaging tricks you can to for stationary ones to increase the accuracy. This also ignores more advanced GPS solutions like using RTK, CORS, Differential GPS, having access to a receiver that gets both L1 and L2 signals and can decode the L2 data, or having a functioning Galileo based location system.
So despite what you have seen in the movies the tracking by cell tower isn't as good as it is made out to be but in most cases should get you to the correct city block of accuracy.
I don't think is is a Roberts court thing as there has been a pretty steady increase in the power of government granted by various courts.
Hence my statement about the absurdity of his claims. I could see it as a typo of fscrbook, fascebook, or some other common typo like that but even on my worst day I haven't had a typo that bad where I used the completely wrong hand and letter positions.
The sad part is that it isn't that much of a stretch. I think I remember reading a ruling on a similar subject that puts it fairly close, I think it had to do with the phone book.
It probably does but not in the "she was dressed like that" manner but more of a this requires further investigation manner. Given the type of weapon, a real assault rifle and not something with different trim, it was (he was a tax stamp holder I assume unless it was an illegal weapon) it would have been highly valuable. Since you are implying he was targeted now the question is how did he become a target?
One guess would be he liked to show the weapon off to just about anyone who came over and even like to show how secure it was since the criminals came prepared. This leads me to the question of why would bank robbing criminals need a fully auto weapon over the standard handgun, shotgun, or semi auto rifle? The others are much easier to come by and if planning a big heist a fully auto weapon will just eat through ammo and wouldn't be of much use unless they were planning to mow down a crowd. You also mentioned that the criminals were caught aiming it out a window which seems to indicate these aren't the real serious criminals who know to shut the hell up and be low key. Most of your criminals (99.999%) aren't like those in the movie Heat even worse is most (99%) don't even measure up to the barely competent Man in Black Robber so something does smell a bit fishy. You claim they were serious criminals but yet they seem to be exceptionally stupid, as in below the average crackhead gang banger who knows not to wave a fucking gun around where people that can turn you in can see it.
Another scenario that jumps to my mind is insurance fraud given the value of the firearm (probably at least $15,000). As such I would have looked at the connections between your father and the criminals as there probably is a very close relationship with 1 maybe 2 degrees of separation if not directly known by your father. Again this seems to fit with the well prepared but incompetent criminals. The only other scenario that seems to fit might be your father wasn't a tax stamp holder (seems unlikely) then it seems like the person who he got it from let someone else know where to get one in which case I don't have much sympathy. But there that doesn't seem to fit since how would the criminals have known to come prepared to remove a wall.
Also I tried to find some cases of a legally owned assault rifle (even ones that were previously legally owned and registered in the US) being used in crime and that seems difficult to find as I haven't come up with anything yet. This task is further confounded by the nebulous term of assault weapon which idiots in the media equate to assault weapon when they are not the same thing. Here are some of what I have found:
Assault Rifles Are Not Heavily Used in Crimes
Has any Fully Automatic Firearm ever been used to commit a Violent Crime?
Fully automatic guns in the US are highly regulated, and regulation workshardly a right wing outfit
I did find a case where privately owned assault rifles/machines guns were stolen but it seems far more common for the government to have them stolen
Feds release photos of stolen machine gunsThe one case of privately owned ones stolen. incompetent as hell
Hotchkiss man pleads guilty in theft of cop’s assault rifle, SWAT gear
Cop shot looking for stolen police rifle
If it saves the lives of a single person, it's worth it.
Isn't it?
and be limited to one firearm per person.
So under your proposal I would need to sell my rifle when pheasant season is about to open and go buy a shotgun. Then once deer season starts about a month later I would have to sell my shotgun and buy a rifle which I would own for ~2 weeks then sell to get a shot gun to resume pheasant hunting until the first weekend in January. I would then have to acquire a rifle again to hunt coyotes and would be able to keep that until pheasant season starts again in the fall. Oh wait you didn't want people to be able to own more powerful weapons:
A handgun should be the maximum any person should be able to buy
I see an awful lot of criminal negligence and recklessness there. When trying to point out how dangerous firearms are try to leave suicides out as those seem somewhat specious since it is just a quicker more effective way of doing the deed than other methods. Lets look at the case that is closest to a proper accident which I would still classify as negligence. In reading the little blurb provided it mentions that the gun didn't go off when it was dropped but only once it was picked up by the owner. This is very telling that it wasn't an accident but was negligence as the idiot probably had a finger on the trigger when picking it up. The proper thing to do in that situation would have been to:
1. pick up the firearm and not put a finger on the trigger (he wasn't planning on shooting it and thus no finger should have been on the trigger)
2. maintained proper muzzle control (keep it pointed in a safe direction)
3. immediately put the safety back on
4. holstered the weapon
5. go and buy a better fucking holster
All of the other stories while tragic, are examples of gross negligence or outright recklessness. At that point it doesn't' matter what device you are talking about as it is the operator of said device not the device. For the record stupid people in cars kill more people than stupid people with firearms. I also believe most car accidents are due to negligent or reckless behavior as well, the reports may say speed, alcohol, road conditions, component failure, inattentive driving, driver error, etc. but in all except a few very rare component failure cases it is really negligent or reckless actions.
Usually the preferred teaching tool is a watermelon, pumpkin, cantaloupe, or gallon jug of water shot with a rifled 12 gauge slug. I got that lesson when I was about 8 and then learned how to shoot properly.
That has been an easily solved problem for a long time. There are these large hardened metal boxes that have very durable complex locking mechanisms that are sometimes lined with fire brick or refractory brick just put your guns in there. If one of those is too expensive there are always inexpensive locks that can be used but aren't as effective but still work. Also keeping loaded firearms around seems like a really stupid idea especially if you have children.
... in a safe set in a concrete wall. That didn't help much when the thiefs hacked that entire wall out ...
Those sound like more serious criminals who were after something specific rather than the standard home burglary where they go and grab what ever they can find quickly, either that or that wall was rather weak if they just hacked it out. I mean really, how many thieves show up with either masonry saws (kind of slow), masonry drills (slow), or masonry chisels (really slow) for a simple home burglary? Tools I would expect would be things like a crowbar, claw hammer, or screwdriver if they have any at all not more specialized ones, hence either that was a really weak wall or they were specifically targeting your father and knew what he had and where he had it. I don't advertise to people who know me what I own since I don't want it to get out that I have a house with firearms in it. The only people who know who I am and know I own firearms are the people I go hunting with who also own their own firearms. I have a gun safe as well and it is bolted to the poured concrete floor in my basement as well as bolted to the poured concrete wall behind it. It isn't light either as it is one of the really nice and heavy upright fireproof ones that weighs in at several hundred pounds and was a bitch to get into the basement even with the proper equipment and would be even harder to get out since you would have to haul it up a flight of stairs. My safe won't stop a determined individual but it will stop the standard common criminal. Someone who wants my ~$300 worth of firearms (an M91/30 and a Mossberg pump action shot gun) would probably need at least that much in tools to get them at which point it isn't worth it.
Scum bag. Yes
Criminal. Probably.
Traitor. No
Well apple could offer devices with safe mode on them. These devices would be unable to connect to the internet (no NIC) or have any non keyboard/mouse I/O which would provide the necessary safe mode. This means no: internal expansion, USB, Firewire, Thunderbolt, DVD, CD-ROM, etc. All apple would have to do is offer them for sale (don't even bother making one) since I don't think they will be able to sell a single one.
That doesn't go far enough. Make it a constitutional amendment.
Dammit,of all the days to not have mod points. +1 funny
I'm sure we have all had typos that have been bad but really how does one accidentally replace “a-c-e” in Facebook with a “u-c-k”? I could see fat fingering it and getting incorrect but near letters, transposing letters, skipping a letter, or putting the wrong tld (I do that far too often when I want to go to weather.gov but type in weather.com and end up with bleeding eyes), but his claims are absurd to say the least.
I have a filter for it but it happens later. My body seems to reject fake food like that. I can get it into my stomach but it refuses to digest it. It feels like I ate a rock and after about 2 hours of feeling like crap I end up puking. Same thing happens with most fast food places and other very processed food.
But we know the poster is lying as no one on Slashdot is married.
I know but was going for a joke that fell flat.
Not a traitor as there are very specific requirements for being a traitor. Specifically see Article III section 3 of the US Constitution where it is described in detail. From what I can tell he hasn't committed an act of treason and thus is not a traitor. He does seem to be a rather sleazy individual and just because he hasn't committed an act of treason doesn't mean that he hasn't committed lesser crimes.
To be fair we basically did elect Peewee Herman (he was rather found of letting things hang out as well) previous to Bush and he didn't get the Peace Price. I wouldn't mind if one of the biggest issues of a presidency is if the president lies to congress about getting his pole smoked by an intern, it sure beats the issues with recent ones.
But we know that the USPS takes pictures to track every piece of mail. Given that this would be a law enforcement effort I'm sure that the police could subpoena the records for the USPS for the letter in question. Good luck doing the same thing when something you send gets lost though.
As a bonus the court can't force you to testify against your spouse so you really are good to go.