Why? The law is pretty cut and dry on this, and the copyright holders are merely protecting their rights. $5400 is hardly anything at all compared to the bullshit from the MPAA and RIAA.
The way copyright works, the holders are just about forced into suing over every little transgression.
But given their car pricing, the base model X would be price competitive with the Mercedes G class, and the Tesla would out class the Mercedes in just about every way (including looks).
Except the two "4G" technologies and marketing that don't meet the 4G standard didn't come from U.S. carriers, they came from European and Asian carriers, who then pressured ITU-R into accepting that marketing as 4G even though it didn't meet the standard.
So, sorry to spoil your U.S. Americorp conspiracy, but we were late to the party on that bullshit.
Hmm... how about, a big message telling the rest of the free market to not fuck around with regulation and try to cheat the system. Someone, somewhere, probably many times, will say to themselves 'Well.. I could shortcut x,z,y... not legal but...' And then 'well... then again, remember what happened to VW'
I blame the long history of governments 'letting it slide' with the banks, Intel, Microsoft, and numerous other big companies for a lot of the major corporate abuses we are seeing today.
This is a country in which it is widely believed that you can die from sleeping in a room with a fan because the fan will soffocate you. Common sense doesn't seem widely available there, and given their other, existing nanny-state crime/drug/gun laws, this is just part for the course for them.
That's not true at all... $28,500 will easily buy you a low miles, few year old 135i convertible w/ M sport suspension/wheels in otherwise spotless condition and leave you money left over for many months of hookers and beer.
Or if cars aren't your thing... it'd just barely buy you a BMW S1000RR and an AR-15 with a 'fun switch' (lightning link or registered receiver).
No, he definitely got that blood and powder burn when he was on his knees, arms splayed while he was screaming "Father why have you forsaken me?!". Then God gave him stigmata just before he was executed in full view of the whole black community.
At least according to his friend and race baiters.
Yea, this idea is dumb. A typical 9mm bullet has the same momentum of a baseball thrown by a 10 year old. Quarter thar momentum and this bullet isn't going to do anything to stop anyone. Would be akin to getting hit by a paintball.
Frankly, I don't want the police to have less lethal alternatives. I would rather they have more lethal alternatives like rifles. I just wish the legal system held police accountable when they misused their power and the police knew they would be scrutinized.
The problem isn't the tool, the problem is the system that let's police get away with abusing their tools.
Your causality is backwards. The cost to build each F-35 isn't all that much. What makes it "expensive" is the total development cost divided by a small number made. Same problem the F-22 had. Cost a fortune to design and progress the technology, but each individual airplane cost less than half what their overall cost is, since they only made 187 combat aircraft.
The F35 is a lot like a dual sport motorcycle. It can't keep up with the sport bikes (F-22, F-15, F-16) at track days, and it can't keep up with MX bikes (A-10) at the dirt track, but it is awfully good at the 90% of the rest of the time uses.
Its second big issue is that the Pentagon canceled the engine that was designed to go in it, which had twice the power of the current engine. That is also why it lost VTOL capability. Then they cut the dual engine dogfigter which was proposed after the more powerful version was cut.
The end result is that we have a QB with one leg broken, and thefans are demanding pushing contests with defensive linemen and races with running backs.
Scams? Ridiculous. The government did the Republican thing by incentivizing business on the cutting edge of desirable technology. Elon Musk is just an entrepreneur doing what he is legally responsible to do for his shareholders by pushing boundaries where the government is giving money and preferential loans for companies to innovate in.
Yea, the recipients being the government dock or airport workers, who will then sell said items to help fund their queen's $100k Manhattan shopping spree the next time they are in NYC to beg for foreign aid.
Between driving, double fisting donuts, surfing on their 4G enabled laptops, and their regular duties harassing drivers, I think these LEO need raises to compensate them for their newfound increase in multitasking duties.
No, he claimed he was using it to check on a friends house (instead of, you know, walking over). What his drone got shot down for was repeatedly filming and stalking a guy's female children who were in bathing suits.
A) No, they don't. They often use shotguns modified to be light and pointable if they are professional competitors, but most trap shooters use the same shotguns they would go hunting with. They also use chokes that are modified or less (as in, broad spread, less range) and the patterns are no different than any other commercial off the shelf shotgun (circular). All of my shotguns wear full chokes, which have much greater range, especially in a gun not designed for trap shooting (longer barrel). Also, trap shooters use reduced recoil (AKA, reduced range, reduced velocity, reduced power) loads and their shotguns typically only hold two shells. Basically, this argument boils down to, if a trap shotgun can reach, a hunting shotgun can reach MUCH MORE EASILY. B) Trap shooters are shooting one shell at a very fast moving target. This guy just had to shoot a stationary target with one of his several shells.
As for your third point, a shotgun pellet at 5 grains and 0.05 BC (typical for a light sphere), loses half of its 1200 fps velocity within 200 yards (600 feet), and does that between a quarter and a half of a second due to aero drag. It doesn't matter which way you shoot the shot, because in that tiny time span, gravity at its very weak 9.8 m/s^2 doesn't affect that hardly at all, as it makes up less than 10% of the velocity change.
The FAA can have any opinion it wants, but the FAA isn't the one making the decision.
A judge will decide whether a sister swatting down her brother's mall-bought $10 RC helicopter is a 20 year federal/$250,000 crime, or if that is asinine.
Same goes for this guy and the pervert's few hundred dollar RC quad-copter.
Pellets don't gain velocity when falling to earth...Have you ever even owned a firearm?
Shotgun shot (low mass spheres moving at the speed of sound) lose almost all of their velocity within 100 yards. By the time it falls to the ground, it is only moving at a fairly low terminal velocity.
I have been hit by bird shot, and one of the reasons why many places allow shotgun sports even near neighborhoods is that falling shot has about the same damage capacity as a sprinkling of rain (which is about what it feels like).
I am not sure if you were trolling or just talking completely out of ignorance, but you wasted people's time by posting.
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Why? The law is pretty cut and dry on this, and the copyright holders are merely protecting their rights. $5400 is hardly anything at all compared to the bullshit from the MPAA and RIAA.
The way copyright works, the holders are just about forced into suing over every little transgression.
But given their car pricing, the base model X would be price competitive with the Mercedes G class, and the Tesla would out class the Mercedes in just about every way (including looks).
Except he would be going to a minimum security prison (nonviolent offenders) where life wouldn't be that much different from living in a crappy motel.
The only sausage hiding would be consensual.
Except the two "4G" technologies and marketing that don't meet the 4G standard didn't come from U.S. carriers, they came from European and Asian carriers, who then pressured ITU-R into accepting that marketing as 4G even though it didn't meet the standard.
So, sorry to spoil your U.S. Americorp conspiracy, but we were late to the party on that bullshit.
People don't sue to pay for doctor bills... people sue because "pain and suffering" for a few hours can make them millionaires overnight.
Hmm... how about, a big message telling the rest of the free market to not fuck around with regulation and try to cheat the system. Someone, somewhere, probably many times, will say to themselves 'Well.. I could shortcut x,z,y... not legal but...' And then 'well... then again, remember what happened to VW'
I blame the long history of governments 'letting it slide' with the banks, Intel, Microsoft, and numerous other big companies for a lot of the major corporate abuses we are seeing today.
It is a reasonable assumption that at most people writing in C++ made it past the first week of a CS101.
This is a country in which it is widely believed that you can die from sleeping in a room with a fan because the fan will soffocate you. Common sense doesn't seem widely available there, and given their other, existing nanny-state crime/drug/gun laws, this is just part for the course for them.
That's not true at all... $28,500 will easily buy you a low miles, few year old 135i convertible w/ M sport suspension/wheels in otherwise spotless condition and leave you money left over for many months of hookers and beer.
Or if cars aren't your thing... it'd just barely buy you a BMW S1000RR and an AR-15 with a 'fun switch' (lightning link or registered receiver).
Somalia has its own problems too, you fanboy.
No, he definitely got that blood and powder burn when he was on his knees, arms splayed while he was screaming "Father why have you forsaken me?!". Then God gave him stigmata just before he was executed in full view of the whole black community.
At least according to his friend and race baiters.
Yea, this idea is dumb. A typical 9mm bullet has the same momentum of a baseball thrown by a 10 year old. Quarter thar momentum and this bullet isn't going to do anything to stop anyone. Would be akin to getting hit by a paintball.
Frankly, I don't want the police to have less lethal alternatives. I would rather they have more lethal alternatives like rifles. I just wish the legal system held police accountable when they misused their power and the police knew they would be scrutinized.
The problem isn't the tool, the problem is the system that let's police get away with abusing their tools.
Your causality is backwards. The cost to build each F-35 isn't all that much. What makes it "expensive" is the total development cost divided by a small number made. Same problem the F-22 had. Cost a fortune to design and progress the technology, but each individual airplane cost less than half what their overall cost is, since they only made 187 combat aircraft.
The F35 is a lot like a dual sport motorcycle. It can't keep up with the sport bikes (F-22, F-15, F-16) at track days, and it can't keep up with MX bikes (A-10) at the dirt track, but it is awfully good at the 90% of the rest of the time uses.
Its second big issue is that the Pentagon canceled the engine that was designed to go in it, which had twice the power of the current engine. That is also why it lost VTOL capability. Then they cut the dual engine dogfigter which was proposed after the more powerful version was cut.
The end result is that we have a QB with one leg broken, and thefans are demanding pushing contests with defensive linemen and races with running backs.
Saying whatever the most ignorant of the GOP wants to hear while simultaneously acting as a puppet for Hillary is hardly honest.
Or do what many games do and randomize the number pad for each user or key press.
No F35 variant is VTOL. One variant is STOVL, but they scrapped the VTOL idea early on because the engineering costs were prohibitive.
That sounds complicated. We should just annex Mexico like Russia did with Crimea and turn Mexicans into Americans.
Scams? Ridiculous. The government did the Republican thing by incentivizing business on the cutting edge of desirable technology. Elon Musk is just an entrepreneur doing what he is legally responsible to do for his shareholders by pushing boundaries where the government is giving money and preferential loans for companies to innovate in.
Hardly something to fault him for.
Yea, the recipients being the government dock or airport workers, who will then sell said items to help fund their queen's $100k Manhattan shopping spree the next time they are in NYC to beg for foreign aid.
Between driving, double fisting donuts, surfing on their 4G enabled laptops, and their regular duties harassing drivers, I think these LEO need raises to compensate them for their newfound increase in multitasking duties.
No, he claimed he was using it to check on a friends house (instead of, you know, walking over). What his drone got shot down for was repeatedly filming and stalking a guy's female children who were in bathing suits.
A) No, they don't. They often use shotguns modified to be light and pointable if they are professional competitors, but most trap shooters use the same shotguns they would go hunting with. They also use chokes that are modified or less (as in, broad spread, less range) and the patterns are no different than any other commercial off the shelf shotgun (circular). All of my shotguns wear full chokes, which have much greater range, especially in a gun not designed for trap shooting (longer barrel). Also, trap shooters use reduced recoil (AKA, reduced range, reduced velocity, reduced power) loads and their shotguns typically only hold two shells. Basically, this argument boils down to, if a trap shotgun can reach, a hunting shotgun can reach MUCH MORE EASILY.
B) Trap shooters are shooting one shell at a very fast moving target. This guy just had to shoot a stationary target with one of his several shells.
As for your third point, a shotgun pellet at 5 grains and 0.05 BC (typical for a light sphere), loses half of its 1200 fps velocity within 200 yards (600 feet), and does that between a quarter and a half of a second due to aero drag. It doesn't matter which way you shoot the shot, because in that tiny time span, gravity at its very weak 9.8 m/s^2 doesn't affect that hardly at all, as it makes up less than 10% of the velocity change.
The FAA can have any opinion it wants, but the FAA isn't the one making the decision.
A judge will decide whether a sister swatting down her brother's mall-bought $10 RC helicopter is a 20 year federal/$250,000 crime, or if that is asinine.
Same goes for this guy and the pervert's few hundred dollar RC quad-copter.
The drone just muddles the issue because nerds are passionate about them.
If a creep kept holding up a camera on a stick to videotape my daughters over my fence, I would put some bird shot in that camera as well.
Pellets don't gain velocity when falling to earth...Have you ever even owned a firearm?
Shotgun shot (low mass spheres moving at the speed of sound) lose almost all of their velocity within 100 yards. By the time it falls to the ground, it is only moving at a fairly low terminal velocity.
I have been hit by bird shot, and one of the reasons why many places allow shotgun sports even near neighborhoods is that falling shot has about the same damage capacity as a sprinkling of rain (which is about what it feels like).
I am not sure if you were trolling or just talking completely out of ignorance, but you wasted people's time by posting.