Having not seen it or other ones that scrape the bottom I thing someone needs to undertake a study of this. Some other ones that should be in the running are Gigli, and The Hottie & the Nottie. I mean seriously didn't The Hottie & the Nottie suck so hard that it was pulled from theaters after opening night. Maybe such an activity is specifically banned by the UN convention on human rights, the US constitution, and the Geneva convention.
It isn't "identity fraud", now you are just making up terms. There is actually a legal term and laws against this already called Wire Fraud or Mail Fraud. Too bad prosecutors and investigators don't put the screws to these idiots and send them off to federal pound me in the ass prison. The get charged with things but only small fraud charges and the victims of the original fraud then go off to further victimize others.
The one time I was contacted about having some huge credit card bill that was late by some credit card company, I politely told that that I have never requested nor received a card from them. I then informed them that since I had never personally opened an account with them they were attempting to commit wire fraud at this point and that if they pursued this matter I would be filing wire fraud chargers against them. Additionally I told them that reporting a non payment or late payment or any such action on my credit report I would consider to be libel and would file a suit against them for that. It is amazing how quickly their tone towards you changes when doing something like that. They immediately apologized and in short order got things cleared up and I even received a letter in the mail from them stating that I was not the owner of that debt and that all issues related to it had been taken care of. Granted this was with American Express and I have heard that they actually have pretty good customer service but it did seem to cut through the bull shit pretty quick.
There was a story years ago that phone companies were routing US long distance traffic through the Canadian network (same as the one used in the US) because it was supposedly cheaper for them to do so. So it wouldn't surprise me if that was still going on or even encouraged by the government.
I don't think Obama has the stones to carry out a drone strike in Russia, unless he really wants to go to war as Russia isn't like Pakistan. If the administration really wanted to drone him they would have the CIA haul his ass off to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, or Yemen and do the deed there.
But I would be willing to bet that whoever was on call did get extra compensation and while people needed to be on call all the time the same individual wasn't on call every day of the year but instead it rotated through several people. I too work in an industry that requires similar things and I am typically on call once a month for a week. I get $1/hr ($2/hr on Sundays and holidays) for just being on call and if the phone rings I get additional pay at my full rate for however long it takes to get the issue resolved, including time to drive into work if needed, minimum 1 hours of pay. In my 8 years at my current job I have been called a grand total of 2 time.
I had a manager who thought like that and believed that everyone needed to be able to be contacted at all times just in case. When I let him know that I would be unavailable during one of my hunting vacations for 2 whole weeks he wanted to know if he could reach me by cellphone. When I told him no because it was a 30 minute drive from where I was going to leave my car to where one got cell signal he then asked if I could take a laptop with a sat card. My response was a bit more snarky when I told him "Just let me plug this into a tree" as I gesture plugging something into a tree. Finally he asked if there was anyway that in an emergency they could get a hold of me. I pulled up Google maps and showed him within a few meters of where I was going to be leaving my car and told him that if he really needed to get a hold of me to hire a trained tracker and a team of dogs and start searching there as I will be leaving my car and packing all of my gear in to camp somewhere and then heading out from there to hunt each day.
It is amazing how pushing back just a little works as most of these managers are just self important assholes.
Well he did say Home Depot. I haven't been in one in years so I don't know if they carry Estwing hammers or not but they may not. I have noticed that good high quality tools are hard to find at a lot of places as most are made to be used just a couple of times. Also Estwing hammers and striking tools are great and you are correct they will last. I have a 3lb drilling hammer, 40oz cross peen, and 2lb ball peen hammers from them and they are great tools and have stood up to lots of use and abuse. As far as power tools go most of mine are made in the US or Japan, but then I haven't bought many lately and the last one I did buy was my Hobart wire feed welder which was made in the USA. These tools also tend to be more of your contractor grade ones instead of the cheap consumer grade ones which unfortunately is the market that Home Depot and other large national chain retailers cater to with their tool offerings.
I don't live in a neighborhood subject to one but the newer development across the park seem to believe since they can see my neighbors' and my backyards they can send us complaints and that we actually might care. I made it a point to not buy a home subject to the whims of a failed middle manager, my mother and step father always talked up how great they were since, and I quote: "It prevents your neighbors from deciding that they want to pave their backyard and put up a basketball court." The funny thing was that while I was in college that is what one of my mom's neighbors did despite the HOA. On the other side of things one of my neighbors has been on a building spree and I have had to go down to city hall and testify and sign off on some of his projects like his 14x16 shed and 25x30 detached garage he has put up in recent years. These are city zoning laws and he was seeking a variance and I told him that I really didn't care what he did with his property the first time he asked as it was his property. Then again I actually know most of the people on both sides of my street and instead of being dicks to each other we help each other out which doesn't seem to happen in neighborhoods with HOAs.
For stuff like lead paint just throw all the molding and plaster in the trash it all in the trash and go pick out some nice stuff and put up sheetrock, asbestos is harder to deal with but when we redid my father's house there wasn't any. It was built in 1927 and we striped the interior down the the studs (walls were plaster over lath). We put in all new wiring, plumbing, added insulation, new duct work with a new furnace and added an AC (it had one of those old octopus furnaces), and put up sheet rock. Once that was done we took off the wood siding that was just attached to the wood studs, put up MDF, covered it with Tyvec and put on some insulated siding. After 5 years the energy savings paid for everything even though the house didn't have AC when they moved in.
Granted it isn't just SF but the whole general area. My wife's grandmother who is 88 still lives in the house they bought out there shortly after WWII in Marin county and it is more cost effective to continue to live in the house and pay people to come and take care of everything than to move into a senior living place. A friend of the family that worked for HP near the beginning until he retired likes to joke that he always wanted to live in a multimillion dollar home, he just didn't think it would be the home he bought when he started at HP a 2 block walk to work. Even in far away places that aren't CA suffer from these things as there was a recent case in St. Paul, Minnesota where a demo permit was issued and then retracted the same day and the owner had to sue the city to demolish his own property.
As someone who leans fairly libertarian my answer to these people who complain about new development is that if they don't like it they should buy the property. I also believe that people like Edith Macefield should be able to tell a developer to piss off and there isn't anything thing the government can do to force her to give up her property.
Well if it is on a smart phone having a data connection would allow the retrieval of the necessary data so it may be that who ever wrote the article isn't really aware of what is needed. Yes the antennas in phones suck, as do the GPS chipsets. Also whoever wrote the article doesn't' seem to know much about antennas as I use some very small but pretty good ones with nice uBlox LEA-6t module in my home built setup for RTK and they work great.
I wonder, after carefully reading the article, if they are discussing getting 2cm resolution instead of 2cm accuracy since getting a better resolution would seem to be doable with a better antenna and nothing else. Also I don't believe any of the GPS modules in cellphones are capable of outputting L2 carrier phase data or raw pseudo range data which would be needed for RTK so at best they could do DGPS which is a lot less software intensive. Usually the giant dinner plate thing isn't the antenna but a shield that is meant to prevent most of the multipath problems. a piece of grounded sheet metal works just as well. On newer modules it is also handled in software but the shielding still makes things easier as it filters most of the reflected signals coming from below.
Since the last time I posted about this stuff people wanted to know where to get one here is the discussion I found that got me pointed in the right direction.
Well my step father thought the oil light on the dash meant it was time to change oil. This was back before oil change lights existed and it was the light that came on when you lost oil pressure. They replace vehicles every 5 years because they don't really work at that point.
Which is why O2 sensors need to be replaced on vehicles regularly. The usual recommendation is about 100,000 miles or at the same time you replace spark plugs. Granted O2 a single O2 sensor is about an order of magnitude more than a set of spark plugs and you will typically need 2 or 4 of them (not sure if there is a quad cat system) but they are still cheaper than getting a new cat or 2.
This is likely a RTK system which is a bit more advanced than DGPS. A lot of the hardware necessary for DGPS can also be used for RTK as both require a base/reference station. The difference is that DGPS assumes that the correction of the known reference station is also applicable to the roving station, RTK makes use of the L2 carrier phase data from the reference station and roving unit and will use that to correct for the atmospheric differences. In both cases you need to get data from the reference station in real time
What do you mean? The L1 signal is no longer randomized but the L2 is still encrypted for military use. However the L2 phase data can still be used it just takes more processing to align it but if the data wasn't encrypted it would be trivial to align which is what military GPS units do.
Well not entirely. It can be used for navigation but it requires actively communicating with a base station or set of base stations and getting their raw pseudo range data as well as the L2 carrier phase data. From there with some fancy processing and enough compute power you can basically get real-time position accuracy. There is a set of open source programs and libraries that can provide the software necessary. Also if you don't want to setup your own base station there may be one nearby or a set that can be used to create a pseudo station provided either by the state or federal government. I have played around with RTK both with my own base station and using a nearby one (1.5 miles) and the results can give you 2cm resolution in real time with something like a RPi doing the processing. I can't find it at the moment but I remember reading that the buses in the Twin Cities metro area make use of the MN CORS network to accurately track lanes when they are driving down the shoulder.
Well it was successful if one just looks at the damage done, but just becomes silly when one looks at the cost of the reaction. Granted this takes the high estimates from various studies as it makes for a better headline but at least when you dig into it you find out that even taking the low estimates the reaction was very disproportionate. Also Osama Bin Laden wanted 2 things, the US out of the middle ease (that didn't happen), and to bankrupt the Great Satan (appears to have been fairly successful). The interesting part of the article is that they point out that using the high estimates Osama cost the US about $7,000,000 for each dollar he spent on the 9-11 terror attack.
The bit high part was because there were more than 300,000,000 people in the US on 9-11-01 and they killed slightly fewer than 3000 people so the chance would be slightly lower. To the comment you asked about it would seem that an event like 9-11 is something that happens once in a lifetime and the last big event like that was Perl Harbor which at the time was pretty much a lifetime ago. So at least to me it seems to have the right feel which plays out well. Also further down in that comment someone did point out that the probability of.00001 was done using a 0-1 scale instead of 0-100% so it was still in the same order of magnitude over one's lifetime.
It has been a long time since I have done any serious statics as that was back in my freshman year of college after I had finished with calculus so the more advanced analysis that was done I could understand it but couldn't remember the fine details to do them myself.
Well here is some "data" granted I'm not too sure about the source.
Unfortunately most people hear that and ignore that it was over a 10 year period, assume that all of those 50 attacks were going to happen in the US, and each of them would have been on a 9-11 scale of death. I say lets use those piss poor assumptions and actually believe Gen. Keith Alexander for a moment. This means we would have a somewhat impressive pile of bodies from terrorists at 150,000 in a single year. Also using data from 9-11 that would mean that there would have to probably be about 1,000 terrorists in the country. Unfortunately that body count would only put terrorism at #3 between being a fat ass and smoking in preventable causes of death. This also ignores what this country would look like with a 9-11 event happening basically every week which in my mind's eye I see something like Germany in about 1944.
Now from this impossibly high number we can start to whittle it down to something more realistic. This was 50 attacks over 10 years not 1 year so with all of the previous assumptions terror deaths are now below deaths from STDs #10 and drug abuse #11 (excluding alcohol and smoking) so maybe still in the top 15. Also a 9-11 level even is extremely unlikely given 3 things, locked cockpit door, hardened cockpit door, and the willingness of passengers to turn a terrorist into a red smear on the nasty carpet. So this really limits large attacks so most would be similar to the Boston bombing at worst while most would be like the underwear bomber. So now we are at something like 50-100 deaths from terrorism a year in the US which seems to put in the same ballpark as the number of PowerBall and MegaMillions winners in a given year. Unfortunately this number is still too high since not all of these attacks would have happened in the US. I don't know what number to use here so lets just say that half of them were going to happen in the US so now the annual body count from terrorism in the US would be 25-50. Finally keep in mind that upper limit of 25-50 extra deaths from terrorism each year had we done nothing more than locking the hardened cockpit door and turning potential terrorists on planes into a smear. Now to further depress everyone I'll just leave this here so we can all do a face palm.
If we work with nice round numbers and say that there were 300,000,000 people in the US and that on 9-11-2001 terrorist killed about 3,000 people then that number is about right. But keep in mind that something like 9-11-2001 is a once in a lifetime event so the 0.001% chance of death by terrorist would be for one's entire life and would seem to be a good enough ballpark number. On an annual basis it would be a couple of orders magnitude less.
I'll enjoy my freedom, thankyouverymuch, even if it does come with an 0.001% chance of dying by terrorist.
A bit optimistic on that estimate unless you were looking at something like your overall lifetime chance but even that might be a bit on the high side.
Well good on you for at least trying to do something. Far too many people just take it. It is like the people who stop at the door of stores when the anti theft alarm goes off. I just keep walking as I did pay for everything and if they do try to detain me they had better evidence other than the false positive machine at the door because then it becomes a case of false imprisonment. Yet far too many people just take it and don't do anything.
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Having not seen it or other ones that scrape the bottom I thing someone needs to undertake a study of this. Some other ones that should be in the running are Gigli, and The Hottie & the Nottie. I mean seriously didn't The Hottie & the Nottie suck so hard that it was pulled from theaters after opening night. Maybe such an activity is specifically banned by the UN convention on human rights, the US constitution, and the Geneva convention.
It isn't "identity fraud", now you are just making up terms. There is actually a legal term and laws against this already called Wire Fraud or Mail Fraud. Too bad prosecutors and investigators don't put the screws to these idiots and send them off to federal pound me in the ass prison. The get charged with things but only small fraud charges and the victims of the original fraud then go off to further victimize others.
The one time I was contacted about having some huge credit card bill that was late by some credit card company, I politely told that that I have never requested nor received a card from them. I then informed them that since I had never personally opened an account with them they were attempting to commit wire fraud at this point and that if they pursued this matter I would be filing wire fraud chargers against them. Additionally I told them that reporting a non payment or late payment or any such action on my credit report I would consider to be libel and would file a suit against them for that. It is amazing how quickly their tone towards you changes when doing something like that. They immediately apologized and in short order got things cleared up and I even received a letter in the mail from them stating that I was not the owner of that debt and that all issues related to it had been taken care of. Granted this was with American Express and I have heard that they actually have pretty good customer service but it did seem to cut through the bull shit pretty quick.
There was a story years ago that phone companies were routing US long distance traffic through the Canadian network (same as the one used in the US) because it was supposedly cheaper for them to do so. So it wouldn't surprise me if that was still going on or even encouraged by the government.
I don't think Obama has the stones to carry out a drone strike in Russia, unless he really wants to go to war as Russia isn't like Pakistan. If the administration really wanted to drone him they would have the CIA haul his ass off to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, or Yemen and do the deed there.
But I would be willing to bet that whoever was on call did get extra compensation and while people needed to be on call all the time the same individual wasn't on call every day of the year but instead it rotated through several people. I too work in an industry that requires similar things and I am typically on call once a month for a week. I get $1/hr ($2/hr on Sundays and holidays) for just being on call and if the phone rings I get additional pay at my full rate for however long it takes to get the issue resolved, including time to drive into work if needed, minimum 1 hours of pay. In my 8 years at my current job I have been called a grand total of 2 time.
I had a manager who thought like that and believed that everyone needed to be able to be contacted at all times just in case. When I let him know that I would be unavailable during one of my hunting vacations for 2 whole weeks he wanted to know if he could reach me by cellphone. When I told him no because it was a 30 minute drive from where I was going to leave my car to where one got cell signal he then asked if I could take a laptop with a sat card. My response was a bit more snarky when I told him "Just let me plug this into a tree" as I gesture plugging something into a tree. Finally he asked if there was anyway that in an emergency they could get a hold of me. I pulled up Google maps and showed him within a few meters of where I was going to be leaving my car and told him that if he really needed to get a hold of me to hire a trained tracker and a team of dogs and start searching there as I will be leaving my car and packing all of my gear in to camp somewhere and then heading out from there to hunt each day.
It is amazing how pushing back just a little works as most of these managers are just self important assholes.
So what you are saying is that we should have "Politician flu", or "Media flu"
Probably not that many. Granted farm and factory injuries have gone down but I'm sure more than 1 out of 10,000 is missing 1 or more fingers.
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I would disagree with that assessment.
Well he did say Home Depot. I haven't been in one in years so I don't know if they carry Estwing hammers or not but they may not. I have noticed that good high quality tools are hard to find at a lot of places as most are made to be used just a couple of times. Also Estwing hammers and striking tools are great and you are correct they will last. I have a 3lb drilling hammer, 40oz cross peen, and 2lb ball peen hammers from them and they are great tools and have stood up to lots of use and abuse. As far as power tools go most of mine are made in the US or Japan, but then I haven't bought many lately and the last one I did buy was my Hobart wire feed welder which was made in the USA. These tools also tend to be more of your contractor grade ones instead of the cheap consumer grade ones which unfortunately is the market that Home Depot and other large national chain retailers cater to with their tool offerings.
I don't live in a neighborhood subject to one but the newer development across the park seem to believe since they can see my neighbors' and my backyards they can send us complaints and that we actually might care. I made it a point to not buy a home subject to the whims of a failed middle manager, my mother and step father always talked up how great they were since, and I quote:
"It prevents your neighbors from deciding that they want to pave their backyard and put up a basketball court."
The funny thing was that while I was in college that is what one of my mom's neighbors did despite the HOA. On the other side of things one of my neighbors has been on a building spree and I have had to go down to city hall and testify and sign off on some of his projects like his 14x16 shed and 25x30 detached garage he has put up in recent years. These are city zoning laws and he was seeking a variance and I told him that I really didn't care what he did with his property the first time he asked as it was his property. Then again I actually know most of the people on both sides of my street and instead of being dicks to each other we help each other out which doesn't seem to happen in neighborhoods with HOAs.
For stuff like lead paint just throw all the molding and plaster in the trash it all in the trash and go pick out some nice stuff and put up sheetrock, asbestos is harder to deal with but when we redid my father's house there wasn't any. It was built in 1927 and we striped the interior down the the studs (walls were plaster over lath). We put in all new wiring, plumbing, added insulation, new duct work with a new furnace and added an AC (it had one of those old octopus furnaces), and put up sheet rock. Once that was done we took off the wood siding that was just attached to the wood studs, put up MDF, covered it with Tyvec and put on some insulated siding. After 5 years the energy savings paid for everything even though the house didn't have AC when they moved in.
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I think I found the problem.
Granted it isn't just SF but the whole general area. My wife's grandmother who is 88 still lives in the house they bought out there shortly after WWII in Marin county and it is more cost effective to continue to live in the house and pay people to come and take care of everything than to move into a senior living place. A friend of the family that worked for HP near the beginning until he retired likes to joke that he always wanted to live in a multimillion dollar home, he just didn't think it would be the home he bought when he started at HP a 2 block walk to work. Even in far away places that aren't CA suffer from these things as there was a recent case in St. Paul, Minnesota where a demo permit was issued and then retracted the same day and the owner had to sue the city to demolish his own property.
As someone who leans fairly libertarian my answer to these people who complain about new development is that if they don't like it they should buy the property. I also believe that people like Edith Macefield should be able to tell a developer to piss off and there isn't anything thing the government can do to force her to give up her property.
Well if it is on a smart phone having a data connection would allow the retrieval of the necessary data so it may be that who ever wrote the article isn't really aware of what is needed. Yes the antennas in phones suck, as do the GPS chipsets. Also whoever wrote the article doesn't' seem to know much about antennas as I use some very small but pretty good ones with nice uBlox LEA-6t module in my home built setup for RTK and they work great.
I wonder, after carefully reading the article, if they are discussing getting 2cm resolution instead of 2cm accuracy since getting a better resolution would seem to be doable with a better antenna and nothing else. Also I don't believe any of the GPS modules in cellphones are capable of outputting L2 carrier phase data or raw pseudo range data which would be needed for RTK so at best they could do DGPS which is a lot less software intensive. Usually the giant dinner plate thing isn't the antenna but a shield that is meant to prevent most of the multipath problems. a piece of grounded sheet metal works just as well. On newer modules it is also handled in software but the shielding still makes things easier as it filters most of the reflected signals coming from below.
Since the last time I posted about this stuff people wanted to know where to get one here is the discussion I found that got me pointed in the right direction.
Well my step father thought the oil light on the dash meant it was time to change oil. This was back before oil change lights existed and it was the light that came on when you lost oil pressure. They replace vehicles every 5 years because they don't really work at that point.
Which is why O2 sensors need to be replaced on vehicles regularly. The usual recommendation is about 100,000 miles or at the same time you replace spark plugs. Granted O2 a single O2 sensor is about an order of magnitude more than a set of spark plugs and you will typically need 2 or 4 of them (not sure if there is a quad cat system) but they are still cheaper than getting a new cat or 2.
This is likely a RTK system which is a bit more advanced than DGPS. A lot of the hardware necessary for DGPS can also be used for RTK as both require a base/reference station. The difference is that DGPS assumes that the correction of the known reference station is also applicable to the roving station, RTK makes use of the L2 carrier phase data from the reference station and roving unit and will use that to correct for the atmospheric differences. In both cases you need to get data from the reference station in real time
What do you mean? The L1 signal is no longer randomized but the L2 is still encrypted for military use. However the L2 phase data can still be used it just takes more processing to align it but if the data wasn't encrypted it would be trivial to align which is what military GPS units do.
Well not entirely. It can be used for navigation but it requires actively communicating with a base station or set of base stations and getting their raw pseudo range data as well as the L2 carrier phase data. From there with some fancy processing and enough compute power you can basically get real-time position accuracy. There is a set of open source programs and libraries that can provide the software necessary. Also if you don't want to setup your own base station there may be one nearby or a set that can be used to create a pseudo station provided either by the state or federal government. I have played around with RTK both with my own base station and using a nearby one (1.5 miles) and the results can give you 2cm resolution in real time with something like a RPi doing the processing. I can't find it at the moment but I remember reading that the buses in the Twin Cities metro area make use of the MN CORS network to accurately track lanes when they are driving down the shoulder.
Well it was successful if one just looks at the damage done, but just becomes silly when one looks at the cost of the reaction. Granted this takes the high estimates from various studies as it makes for a better headline but at least when you dig into it you find out that even taking the low estimates the reaction was very disproportionate. Also Osama Bin Laden wanted 2 things, the US out of the middle ease (that didn't happen), and to bankrupt the Great Satan (appears to have been fairly successful). The interesting part of the article is that they point out that using the high estimates Osama cost the US about $7,000,000 for each dollar he spent on the 9-11 terror attack.
The bit high part was because there were more than 300,000,000 people in the US on 9-11-01 and they killed slightly fewer than 3000 people so the chance would be slightly lower. To the comment you asked about it would seem that an event like 9-11 is something that happens once in a lifetime and the last big event like that was Perl Harbor which at the time was pretty much a lifetime ago. So at least to me it seems to have the right feel which plays out well. Also further down in that comment someone did point out that the probability of .00001 was done using a 0-1 scale instead of 0-100% so it was still in the same order of magnitude over one's lifetime.
It has been a long time since I have done any serious statics as that was back in my freshman year of college after I had finished with calculus so the more advanced analysis that was done I could understand it but couldn't remember the fine details to do them myself.
Well here is some "data" granted I'm not too sure about the source.
Unfortunately most people hear that and ignore that it was over a 10 year period, assume that all of those 50 attacks were going to happen in the US, and each of them would have been on a 9-11 scale of death. I say lets use those piss poor assumptions and actually believe Gen. Keith Alexander for a moment. This means we would have a somewhat impressive pile of bodies from terrorists at 150,000 in a single year. Also using data from 9-11 that would mean that there would have to probably be about 1,000 terrorists in the country. Unfortunately that body count would only put terrorism at #3 between being a fat ass and smoking in preventable causes of death. This also ignores what this country would look like with a 9-11 event happening basically every week which in my mind's eye I see something like Germany in about 1944.
Now from this impossibly high number we can start to whittle it down to something more realistic. This was 50 attacks over 10 years not 1 year so with all of the previous assumptions terror deaths are now below deaths from STDs #10 and drug abuse #11 (excluding alcohol and smoking) so maybe still in the top 15. Also a 9-11 level even is extremely unlikely given 3 things, locked cockpit door, hardened cockpit door, and the willingness of passengers to turn a terrorist into a red smear on the nasty carpet. So this really limits large attacks so most would be similar to the Boston bombing at worst while most would be like the underwear bomber. So now we are at something like 50-100 deaths from terrorism a year in the US which seems to put in the same ballpark as the number of PowerBall and MegaMillions winners in a given year. Unfortunately this number is still too high since not all of these attacks would have happened in the US. I don't know what number to use here so lets just say that half of them were going to happen in the US so now the annual body count from terrorism in the US would be 25-50. Finally keep in mind that upper limit of 25-50 extra deaths from terrorism each year had we done nothing more than locking the hardened cockpit door and turning potential terrorists on planes into a smear. Now to further depress everyone I'll just leave this here so we can all do a face palm.
If we work with nice round numbers and say that there were 300,000,000 people in the US and that on 9-11-2001 terrorist killed about 3,000 people then that number is about right. But keep in mind that something like 9-11-2001 is a once in a lifetime event so the 0.001% chance of death by terrorist would be for one's entire life and would seem to be a good enough ballpark number. On an annual basis it would be a couple of orders magnitude less.
I'll enjoy my freedom, thankyouverymuch, even if it does come with an 0.001% chance of dying by terrorist.
A bit optimistic on that estimate unless you were looking at something like your overall lifetime chance but even that might be a bit on the high side.
Well good on you for at least trying to do something. Far too many people just take it. It is like the people who stop at the door of stores when the anti theft alarm goes off. I just keep walking as I did pay for everything and if they do try to detain me they had better evidence other than the false positive machine at the door because then it becomes a case of false imprisonment. Yet far too many people just take it and don't do anything.