What about people killed with their own firearms, or stolen firearms? Sure there are a few hundred. Should their lives simply be disregarded?
Also a 1 in 10,000 chance of failure is probably better than the mechanical reliability of many guns. There are probably more dud bullets being sold than that. Even doctors don't deal in absolutes...they take chances and play the stats all the time.
Or does anyone actually worry about such scenarios on a daily basis?
Yes, people living in extreme safety in society's nurturing first-world womb.
It reminds me of an article by a psychiatrist about children who had parents that raised them in such a way that they basically didn't know what disappointment felt like. Instead of growing up to be incredibly happy, they grew up feeling constant anxiety even though they all said they'd had objectively great lives and should be happy. They didn't know what happiness should feel like because they didn't have anything to compare it to, and what they got instead was anxiety.
So I think that American suburbanites, who have no clue what a dangerous situation looks like, similarly don't appreciate how safe their situation is, and instead feel constant anxiety - but unlike the anxiety those children grew up with, there is something tangible these people can do to placate it. Pick up a gun, arm themselves against the unseen uneasiness that lurks in every shadow, make themselves ready should it ever become real.
You need to defend your life with a gun so often that a 1 in 10,000 chance of malfunction isn't good enough? I bet you could finish most FPSes with that number of shots!
No I've thought about this and discussed it with others before. If you count the Afghanistan/Pakistan border region as a national group...it is at least a regional group...what does that look like?
It's not THAT far from mainstream, but...it's not quite mainstream, and most likely never will be due to the ridiculous amount of labor required to make a CF part. The first time an economy car goes on sale with a CF part on it, then we'll talk.
"As mankind built more things out of unrecyclable carbon fiber, bigger and bigger landfills were needed to contain it, thus solving the problem once and for all!"
Good point. The drone war is bordering on what amounts to tele-genocide and nobody gives a shit. But the US isn't alone, nobody gives a shit about Syria's war crimes or NK's human rights violations either.
and you don't have to send body bags and letters home to widows?
Yes you do, just later when the border is dissolved and civilians run across any mines that weren't removed (which, if the mines were deployed in a shithole, will be all of them).
Well technically you could be sending the letters to parents or widowers, but you get the idea.
I didn't think you'd compare the overall budget of SF Muni with the overall budget of Google's buses...of course SF Muni's budget is bigger overall, but Google clearly spends more per bus. Look at the buses for one thing.
Nope battery swapping is stupid, just plagued with problems, and it makes less and less sense every day as battery technology advances. No mainstream EV has a swappable battery. It's a technology that will only be found in race cars.
You can sell the electricity back to the grid to offset the charging cost. I know it's a crappy deal because the electricity you sell back is somehow worth much less than the electricity you use, but it can help offset some of the electrical costs.
Google's bus system works better because it runs on a monster budget compared to public transit. Not because it's more clever or efficient. They're just willing to dump healthy sums of money into giving their employees a ride to work, because they have so much money they don't really know what to do with it (which is why they came up with Google X labs way back when - to find new things to do with the money).
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Anyone who modded this Troll is completely unfamiliar with his work.
Many of the things he painted were either full of phallic forms or just actual phalluses.
What about people killed with their own firearms, or stolen firearms? Sure there are a few hundred. Should their lives simply be disregarded?
Also a 1 in 10,000 chance of failure is probably better than the mechanical reliability of many guns. There are probably more dud bullets being sold than that. Even doctors don't deal in absolutes...they take chances and play the stats all the time.
ONCE AND FOR ALL!
Or does anyone actually worry about such scenarios on a daily basis?
Yes, people living in extreme safety in society's nurturing first-world womb.
It reminds me of an article by a psychiatrist about children who had parents that raised them in such a way that they basically didn't know what disappointment felt like. Instead of growing up to be incredibly happy, they grew up feeling constant anxiety even though they all said they'd had objectively great lives and should be happy. They didn't know what happiness should feel like because they didn't have anything to compare it to, and what they got instead was anxiety.
So I think that American suburbanites, who have no clue what a dangerous situation looks like, similarly don't appreciate how safe their situation is, and instead feel constant anxiety - but unlike the anxiety those children grew up with, there is something tangible these people can do to placate it. Pick up a gun, arm themselves against the unseen uneasiness that lurks in every shadow, make themselves ready should it ever become real.
You need to defend your life with a gun so often that a 1 in 10,000 chance of malfunction isn't good enough? I bet you could finish most FPSes with that number of shots!
I'd weigh the chance of losing my life from the smart gun malfunctioning vs. the chance of losing my life from the dumb gun being used against me.
No I've thought about this and discussed it with others before. If you count the Afghanistan/Pakistan border region as a national group...it is at least a regional group...what does that look like?
It's not THAT far from mainstream, but...it's not quite mainstream, and most likely never will be due to the ridiculous amount of labor required to make a CF part. The first time an economy car goes on sale with a CF part on it, then we'll talk.
"As mankind built more things out of unrecyclable carbon fiber, bigger and bigger landfills were needed to contain it, thus solving the problem once and for all!"
Good point. The drone war is bordering on what amounts to tele-genocide and nobody gives a shit. But the US isn't alone, nobody gives a shit about Syria's war crimes or NK's human rights violations either.
and you don't have to send body bags and letters home to widows?
Yes you do, just later when the border is dissolved and civilians run across any mines that weren't removed (which, if the mines were deployed in a shithole, will be all of them).
Well technically you could be sending the letters to parents or widowers, but you get the idea.
You know those are only virtual mines right? /reverseendersgame
I know at least rubber bullets and paintballs can still maim the shit out of you.
Not sure if Evangelion reference was intentional...
I once suffered a multi-day nation-wide power outage because a monkey touched some power equipment (an act that left him extra crispy).
I didn't think you'd compare the overall budget of SF Muni with the overall budget of Google's buses...of course SF Muni's budget is bigger overall, but Google clearly spends more per bus. Look at the buses for one thing.
I'm still confident about what I said. I know which way battery technology is headed, and about the laundry list of downsides to swappable batteries.
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Nope battery swapping is stupid, just plagued with problems, and it makes less and less sense every day as battery technology advances. No mainstream EV has a swappable battery. It's a technology that will only be found in race cars.
You can sell the electricity back to the grid to offset the charging cost. I know it's a crappy deal because the electricity you sell back is somehow worth much less than the electricity you use, but it can help offset some of the electrical costs.
Google's bus system works better because it runs on a monster budget compared to public transit. Not because it's more clever or efficient. They're just willing to dump healthy sums of money into giving their employees a ride to work, because they have so much money they don't really know what to do with it (which is why they came up with Google X labs way back when - to find new things to do with the money).
Using these numbers here:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...
The difference in fraction spilled is within 10,000ths of a percent. But that's different than barrel-miles of course.
I've shown my numbers, now show me yours!
http://www.csmonitor.com/Envir...
It's also like this in pretty much the whole rest of the world :-(
3D printed guns don't mean the end of gun control. If it means the end of anything, it's unregulated 3D printing.