I can think of one potential issue immediately. What happens when the "terminator seed" plants fertilize the regular plants? Spreading genes like that around our food supply is a profoundly stupid idea. Profoundly, incredibly stupid.
Chase down the guy(s) that put your grain into that elevator and sue the living shit out of them. Then make sure all your current customers know that they're legally culpable for what a grain elevator does with your intellectual property.
Except no one in that chain did anything wrong.
1) Farmer A buys seed from Monsanto 2) Farmer A grows crop, harvests and sells the result as feed (which they are allowed to do under their license agreement) 3) Farmer B buys feed from the silo (which is legal for both farmer B and the silo)
All of that is legal, and no one, not even Monsanto argues against it. Where it gets (a tiny bit) murkier is:
4) Farmer B realizes that most of his feed is round up ready, plants it 5) Farmer B sprays the field with round up 6) Farmer B harvests the result, 100% (or near enough) round up ready seed obtained without signing any agreements with Monsanto
Monsanto's argument will be that by spraying the field with round up, farmer B was deliberately selecting for the gene that Monsanto has patented. It's a grey area in the law, which is why it's gone to the supreme court. And the annoying thing is, even after the case is decided there's going to be all kinds of wiggle room for both sides of the argument to continue litigating to their heart's content.
Not necessarily... only if the cost of living makes up the majority of your expenses. Lets say cost of living is 20k in the US and 40k in SF. Anyone making 50k elsewhere basically comes of even (making 70k) in San Francisco. Have a job that pays more than 50k? You come out ahead, less than 50 and you come out behind.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [to Igor] Now that brain that you gave me. Was it Hans Delbruck's? Igor: [pause, then] No. Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Ah! Very good. Would you mind telling me whose brain I DID put in? Igor: Then you won't be angry? Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: I will NOT be angry. Igor: Abby someone. Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [pause, then] Abby someone. Abby who? Igor: Abby... Normal. Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [pause, then] Abby Normal? Igor: I'm almost sure that was the name. Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [chuckles, then] Are you saying that I put an abnormal brain 27 zetaflop internet connected supercomputer!?
In all seriousness, there are some real ethical issues that need to be considered before we go around booting up real live functioning consciousnesses inside. We really are creating Frankenstein's monster here, pulling life out of thin air. We need to decide, as a society, just what rights and responsibilities those minds have before we make it easy enough to create a thinking entity that any teenager can do it in his mom's basement with a couple hundred dollars in computer hardware.
Well... according to wiki the global birth rate is about 2% of the global population. So 200,000,000 per year... say 10 years... 2 billions? But then, I imagine that at least some of that activity will be skilled.:)
If your "map" includes the rules that govern the evolution that goes on during learning you don't need all that other stuff. You need to understand two things that they believe, one is inarguable (IMO) and the other is highly debatable.
The inarguable proposition is that being able to run a human equivalent brain on computer hardware will provide amazing benefits. It doesn't matter that you don't know how it works, what matters is that you've got a brain running on silicon; silicon that will be twice as fast a year from now and four times faster in two years and 8 in three. Look at it this way. Imagine you could map Intel's entire R&D department into supercomputers that could run them at 2x real time. In a year they could do twice as much work as the actual brains they are designed off of and all the sudden Intel is a year ahead of everyone else in the field. The first thing they're going to upgrade is the supercomputers that run their R&D department meaning that next year they will get 4 years of R&D accomplished. Obviously there are a ton of questions there, and obviously no one at this point is talking about mapping actual brains into the hardware, but that is the essential idea. Once you have a mind, any mind, running on hardware that improves exponentially the exponential curve is going to get even steeper. Even if they had to start with a blank slate and it took 20 years equivalent of run time to produce a productive AI, eventually computing power will catch up and make that 20 years pass fast enough that it is useful.
The second part that they believe is much more questionable. Basically, they think that putting a whole crap ton of neurons together, applying the basic rules that govern how they operate and change over time, will give you a thinking mind. There's some argument to be made that that is the case; after all, the exact layout of everyone neuron in the human brain isn't mapped out a head of time. Heck, there are people who have half their brain removed as an infant that live full, healthy, normal lives. The capacity of the human brain to recover from dramatic injury in early development lends some credence to the idea that there isn't anything much special about the human brain other than it's ratio of neurons to I/O ports.
Personally I find dual 19" monitors to be both cheaper, and more usable than a single large screen. Work is usually divided between 1 primary monitor where I have my actual code, and 1 monitor that is being used to display information, references, email, IMs, etc. Combined with some software like Winsplit (No affiliation, just an awesome free product that I've used on every computer I've touched in the past 8 years) you can organize a large number of windows in ways that make sense very quickly. Obviously you can do the same thing with one large screen, but I find having 2 breaks thing up in a way that separates work from the distractions.
Plus, you get to feel like an evil villain in his lair... so that's cool.
How much is Tesla implying that the customer is using the car wrong?
When your charge indicator says "31 miles range" and you have a 60 mile drive ahead of you, I think it's safe to say the average user is going to know to keep charging. Assuming the posted logs are accurate there is nothing complex about this, the guy hooked it up to the charging station for less time each time he stopped. He lied about speed, temperature settings, route, charging time, and indicators. The piece was a hit job.
I know you're looking for was to bring in some extra cash, but in the long run submitting patches to OSS might actually be the way to go. You get to see a wide variety of code (both in terms of quality and subject matter) so it's usually interesting, you get to "make a difference" especially if it's a project you care about, and there are a lot of managers out there who look favorably to having such things are a resume (so it might help you bring in more money in the future, just be sure you have your patches associated with you to prove that you were the submitter to a reasonable degree). Probably not what you were looking for, just my $.02.
Well, from the standpoint of the average NK citizen, it would probably lead to a long and bloody revolution against a government which has shown to have no issue doing absolutely horrid things for it's own ends. That may, or may not, be preferable to the current situation, depending on A) who wins, B) how quickly, and C) just how far said government is willing to go to preserve itself.
More importantly, the harm to the NK power holders is obvious, which is exactly why those power holders do what they can to keep western influence out of their country.
I think what they are getting at is that criminals have access to X passwords and Y mules, where Y is significantly less than X. Lets say they have 10,000 passwords for every mule that they have, and each mule will perform 10 transactions before they are caught out (or catch on, depending). That means you could reduce the number of leaked/grabbed/cracked passwords by 99% and still have the exact same amount of financial crime; and none of those numbers seem all that far outside of the realm of possibility to me.
But that is about overall crime and statistics. You can still lower your risk of being a victim by choosing strong passwords, keeping a clean pc, etc.
They could dump a bunch of cheap consumer goods on the public, connect everyone to the internet, make sure everyone is fat and happy. Then, after that is the situation for... oh 2 years, they could make real demands from the NK government. A well fed, well informed population who is used to having what they want is not going to stand for going back to the way things were, not abruptly at least.
He's trying to show how corrupt and incompetent the LAPD is, them shoot up random citizens because they are driving a similarly shaped and colored (not, not the same make, model, or color - just similar) is doing a pretty good job of it. As for him being a dead man walking... yep, but then, he knew that when he started out, said as much in his 'manifesto'. If the guy hadn't started killing the families of those involved I might almost have a modicum of pity for him... instead now I just pity the innocent people who are getting caught in the crossfire by both Dorner and the LAPD.
They fired their weapons without identifying their target. Where I come from, they teach 12 year olds not to do that the first night of hunters safety. Firing your weapon unprovoked at anyone should automatically land a cop a suspension, even if they think they're maybe shooting at someone dangerous.
To be fair, he claims to have access to shoulder launched air to ground missiles. The fact that less than a week ago he went through check in procedures at a naval base but never went through the check out procedures certainly gets my imagination going... especially if I were a helicopter pilot assigned to look for him. Though I of course understand that gaining access to the armory isn't the same as gaining entrance to the base.
If all you use your phone for is to call people why not buy a dumb phone or a feature phone? I'm not trying to troll here... honestly asking. Personally, my phone is used to send/receive emails, manage my calendar, play games, read the news, look up random bar trivia, create a WiFi hotspot for my laptop, pay for purchases, video chat with family, take and share pictures of my daughter, etc, etc, etc...
Most likely I would be just fine with either an iPhone or Android, but there are a few features that are unique to Android that I use and I just don't like the Apple walled garden, so I stick with Android.
There was a comment a couple days ago quoting someone who said "all that's left in physics is the fifth decimal place" or something similar, the same is true for evolutionary science. What's cool is that you can teach it that way.
First decimal: Evolution is how diversity on earth came to be, it's organisms changing from one generation to the next until they are different species. (A lot of people knew that much before Darwin even came along). Second decimal: Evolution is powered by natural selection; organisms that are successful are more likely to have offspring. (Basically what Darwin came up with, along with a few other naturalists of his day) Third decimal: Sexual selection, gender wars, kin selection (a bunch of stuff Darwin came up with to some extent but wasn't to sure about) Fourth decimal: Genetics (if Darwin knew about genetics he would rage at the heavens questioning how people could still not accept his theory) Fifth decimal: Horizontal gene transfer, latent retrovirus DNA, gene regulation (stuff we are just beginning to understand the importance of)
The problem occurs when all you learn about is the first decimal, then say to yourself "but God did it" and ignore the rest or "but what about his aspect!?" and assume that your objection isn't resolved at a deeper level than you currently understand.
Evolution is an excellent theory and it absolutely can and does make testable, reliable predictions about change in a population of short lived organisms... it's been done so many times that there are elementary schools that do experiments with fruit flies showing exactly what you suggest is impossible. And that's to say nothing about things like long term e.coli. experiments which produced the exact mutations that the researchers expected (which surprised exactly no one involved) before the e.coli. evolved a couple previously unseen mutations that were much, much more interesting to study.
Actually, we don't do much directed broadcasts so even that is a stretch. Less than a couple dozen directed transmissions so far that would actually be detectable when they reached their destination. Only one of those has reached its destination, and even if there happened to be aliens living there (which seems even less likely given what we've learned about the star since then) we wouldn't have heard a response back yet.
Having a whole bunch of radio signals emanating from your planet is like saying "rob me! rape me! kill me!" to any wandering castoffs from alien civilization.
It's more like saying that while penniless and surrounded by mountains of gold. Anyone capable of interstellar travel has easier access to anything we have to offer than invading a planet and boosting it up from the surface (more likely the bigger factor). There's more usable metal in the trojan asteroids around Jupiter than all that humanity has dug up in its history. More water in the cometary halo and various moons than could conceivably be cost efficient to boost into orbit from the Earth's surface. And that ignores all the hundreds of thousands (if not hundreds of millions) of uninhabited systems which most likely have a similar level of resources.
Now, the serial killers and flesh fetishists you have a point. Wonder if anyone has written some sci-fi where humanity makes contact with the lowest, poorest, stupidest, backwards redneck the aliens have to offer.
We could build floating habitats in Venus's atmosphere though. There are elevations where the temperature is pleasant, the pressure is basically 1 atmosphere, and the wind would carry you around the planet in a matter of a few days. And you can use a breathable mix of gas for you lifting gas, since there doesn't need to be a significant pressure differential between the inside and out any holes would only leak at the rate of diffusion. 50 miles up in the Venusian atmosphere is the most pleasant place off earth for human life in the entire solar system: you could walk outside with some modified scuba gear and a rubber trench coat.
I suspect you'd end up with huge networks of corporations, each one owning part of one or more of the others. No central control point, no obvious way to determine who is actually calling the shots in any particular part of the network. AKA, you'd have organizations just as large, but each individual corporation would put itself in the lowest possible tax bracket. Oh, and also much harder to hold anyone accountable should something go wrong.
Then you make the legal punishments just as strong for running your economy destabilizing large company incompetently. And I assure you, if your company is doing something on a large enough scale to destabilize the economy and the CEO and board don't know about it, they are not running the company competently.
The secret service absolutely does use magazines that would be banned by this legislation (unless you think they load 7 round magazines in their submachine guns) and the only reason their weapons aren't banned by this law is because they are already banned by earlier ones. MP5s, P90s, SR-16s, Mk11s... this is not the tack to take when responding to this line of argument.
The correct line IMO is this: Those agents are all background checked, mentally evaluated, and properly trained. They also have a legitimate use case for those weapons; that of defending a high risk target against an organized and well armed attack. To use the obligatory car analogy, trying to compare the Secret Service to placing armed guards in every school in America (or every home in America) is like arguing that drag racers are really fast, so we should all drive dragsters everywhere we go.
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I can think of one potential issue immediately. What happens when the "terminator seed" plants fertilize the regular plants? Spreading genes like that around our food supply is a profoundly stupid idea. Profoundly, incredibly stupid.
A better question would be: "Why haven't all the people who wrote the laws that make this possible (and legal) been thrown out of office yet?"
Chase down the guy(s) that put your grain into that elevator and sue the living shit out of them. Then make sure all your current customers know that they're legally culpable for what a grain elevator does with your intellectual property.
Except no one in that chain did anything wrong.
1) Farmer A buys seed from Monsanto
2) Farmer A grows crop, harvests and sells the result as feed (which they are allowed to do under their license agreement)
3) Farmer B buys feed from the silo (which is legal for both farmer B and the silo)
All of that is legal, and no one, not even Monsanto argues against it. Where it gets (a tiny bit) murkier is:
4) Farmer B realizes that most of his feed is round up ready, plants it
5) Farmer B sprays the field with round up
6) Farmer B harvests the result, 100% (or near enough) round up ready seed obtained without signing any agreements with Monsanto
Monsanto's argument will be that by spraying the field with round up, farmer B was deliberately selecting for the gene that Monsanto has patented. It's a grey area in the law, which is why it's gone to the supreme court. And the annoying thing is, even after the case is decided there's going to be all kinds of wiggle room for both sides of the argument to continue litigating to their heart's content.
Not necessarily... only if the cost of living makes up the majority of your expenses. Lets say cost of living is 20k in the US and 40k in SF. Anyone making 50k elsewhere basically comes of even (making 70k) in San Francisco. Have a job that pays more than 50k? You come out ahead, less than 50 and you come out behind.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [to Igor] Now that brain that you gave me. Was it Hans Delbruck's?
Igor: [pause, then] No.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Ah! Very good. Would you mind telling me whose brain I DID put in?
Igor: Then you won't be angry?
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: I will NOT be angry.
Igor: Abby someone.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [pause, then] Abby someone. Abby who?
Igor: Abby... Normal.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [pause, then] Abby Normal?
Igor: I'm almost sure that was the name.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [chuckles, then] Are you saying that I put an abnormal brain 27 zetaflop internet connected supercomputer!?
In all seriousness, there are some real ethical issues that need to be considered before we go around booting up real live functioning consciousnesses inside. We really are creating Frankenstein's monster here, pulling life out of thin air. We need to decide, as a society, just what rights and responsibilities those minds have before we make it easy enough to create a thinking entity that any teenager can do it in his mom's basement with a couple hundred dollars in computer hardware.
Well... according to wiki the global birth rate is about 2% of the global population. So 200,000,000 per year... say 10 years... 2 billions? But then, I imagine that at least some of that activity will be skilled. :)
If your "map" includes the rules that govern the evolution that goes on during learning you don't need all that other stuff. You need to understand two things that they believe, one is inarguable (IMO) and the other is highly debatable.
The inarguable proposition is that being able to run a human equivalent brain on computer hardware will provide amazing benefits. It doesn't matter that you don't know how it works, what matters is that you've got a brain running on silicon; silicon that will be twice as fast a year from now and four times faster in two years and 8 in three. Look at it this way. Imagine you could map Intel's entire R&D department into supercomputers that could run them at 2x real time. In a year they could do twice as much work as the actual brains they are designed off of and all the sudden Intel is a year ahead of everyone else in the field. The first thing they're going to upgrade is the supercomputers that run their R&D department meaning that next year they will get 4 years of R&D accomplished. Obviously there are a ton of questions there, and obviously no one at this point is talking about mapping actual brains into the hardware, but that is the essential idea. Once you have a mind, any mind, running on hardware that improves exponentially the exponential curve is going to get even steeper. Even if they had to start with a blank slate and it took 20 years equivalent of run time to produce a productive AI, eventually computing power will catch up and make that 20 years pass fast enough that it is useful.
The second part that they believe is much more questionable. Basically, they think that putting a whole crap ton of neurons together, applying the basic rules that govern how they operate and change over time, will give you a thinking mind. There's some argument to be made that that is the case; after all, the exact layout of everyone neuron in the human brain isn't mapped out a head of time. Heck, there are people who have half their brain removed as an infant that live full, healthy, normal lives. The capacity of the human brain to recover from dramatic injury in early development lends some credence to the idea that there isn't anything much special about the human brain other than it's ratio of neurons to I/O ports.
Personally I find dual 19" monitors to be both cheaper, and more usable than a single large screen. Work is usually divided between 1 primary monitor where I have my actual code, and 1 monitor that is being used to display information, references, email, IMs, etc. Combined with some software like Winsplit (No affiliation, just an awesome free product that I've used on every computer I've touched in the past 8 years) you can organize a large number of windows in ways that make sense very quickly. Obviously you can do the same thing with one large screen, but I find having 2 breaks thing up in a way that separates work from the distractions.
Plus, you get to feel like an evil villain in his lair... so that's cool.
How much is Tesla implying that the customer is using the car wrong?
When your charge indicator says "31 miles range" and you have a 60 mile drive ahead of you, I think it's safe to say the average user is going to know to keep charging. Assuming the posted logs are accurate there is nothing complex about this, the guy hooked it up to the charging station for less time each time he stopped. He lied about speed, temperature settings, route, charging time, and indicators. The piece was a hit job.
I know you're looking for was to bring in some extra cash, but in the long run submitting patches to OSS might actually be the way to go. You get to see a wide variety of code (both in terms of quality and subject matter) so it's usually interesting, you get to "make a difference" especially if it's a project you care about, and there are a lot of managers out there who look favorably to having such things are a resume (so it might help you bring in more money in the future, just be sure you have your patches associated with you to prove that you were the submitter to a reasonable degree). Probably not what you were looking for, just my $.02.
Well, from the standpoint of the average NK citizen, it would probably lead to a long and bloody revolution against a government which has shown to have no issue doing absolutely horrid things for it's own ends. That may, or may not, be preferable to the current situation, depending on A) who wins, B) how quickly, and C) just how far said government is willing to go to preserve itself.
More importantly, the harm to the NK power holders is obvious, which is exactly why those power holders do what they can to keep western influence out of their country.
I think what they are getting at is that criminals have access to X passwords and Y mules, where Y is significantly less than X. Lets say they have 10,000 passwords for every mule that they have, and each mule will perform 10 transactions before they are caught out (or catch on, depending). That means you could reduce the number of leaked/grabbed/cracked passwords by 99% and still have the exact same amount of financial crime; and none of those numbers seem all that far outside of the realm of possibility to me.
But that is about overall crime and statistics. You can still lower your risk of being a victim by choosing strong passwords, keeping a clean pc, etc.
They could dump a bunch of cheap consumer goods on the public, connect everyone to the internet, make sure everyone is fat and happy. Then, after that is the situation for... oh 2 years, they could make real demands from the NK government. A well fed, well informed population who is used to having what they want is not going to stand for going back to the way things were, not abruptly at least.
He's trying to show how corrupt and incompetent the LAPD is, them shoot up random citizens because they are driving a similarly shaped and colored (not, not the same make, model, or color - just similar) is doing a pretty good job of it. As for him being a dead man walking... yep, but then, he knew that when he started out, said as much in his 'manifesto'. If the guy hadn't started killing the families of those involved I might almost have a modicum of pity for him... instead now I just pity the innocent people who are getting caught in the crossfire by both Dorner and the LAPD.
They fired their weapons without identifying their target. Where I come from, they teach 12 year olds not to do that the first night of hunters safety. Firing your weapon unprovoked at anyone should automatically land a cop a suspension, even if they think they're maybe shooting at someone dangerous.
To be fair, he claims to have access to shoulder launched air to ground missiles. The fact that less than a week ago he went through check in procedures at a naval base but never went through the check out procedures certainly gets my imagination going... especially if I were a helicopter pilot assigned to look for him. Though I of course understand that gaining access to the armory isn't the same as gaining entrance to the base.
If all you use your phone for is to call people why not buy a dumb phone or a feature phone? I'm not trying to troll here... honestly asking. Personally, my phone is used to send/receive emails, manage my calendar, play games, read the news, look up random bar trivia, create a WiFi hotspot for my laptop, pay for purchases, video chat with family, take and share pictures of my daughter, etc, etc, etc...
Most likely I would be just fine with either an iPhone or Android, but there are a few features that are unique to Android that I use and I just don't like the Apple walled garden, so I stick with Android.
There was a comment a couple days ago quoting someone who said "all that's left in physics is the fifth decimal place" or something similar, the same is true for evolutionary science. What's cool is that you can teach it that way.
First decimal: Evolution is how diversity on earth came to be, it's organisms changing from one generation to the next until they are different species. (A lot of people knew that much before Darwin even came along).
Second decimal: Evolution is powered by natural selection; organisms that are successful are more likely to have offspring. (Basically what Darwin came up with, along with a few other naturalists of his day)
Third decimal: Sexual selection, gender wars, kin selection (a bunch of stuff Darwin came up with to some extent but wasn't to sure about)
Fourth decimal: Genetics (if Darwin knew about genetics he would rage at the heavens questioning how people could still not accept his theory)
Fifth decimal: Horizontal gene transfer, latent retrovirus DNA, gene regulation (stuff we are just beginning to understand the importance of)
The problem occurs when all you learn about is the first decimal, then say to yourself "but God did it" and ignore the rest or "but what about his aspect!?" and assume that your objection isn't resolved at a deeper level than you currently understand.
Evolution is an excellent theory and it absolutely can and does make testable, reliable predictions about change in a population of short lived organisms... it's been done so many times that there are elementary schools that do experiments with fruit flies showing exactly what you suggest is impossible. And that's to say nothing about things like long term e.coli. experiments which produced the exact mutations that the researchers expected (which surprised exactly no one involved) before the e.coli. evolved a couple previously unseen mutations that were much, much more interesting to study.
Actually, we don't do much directed broadcasts so even that is a stretch. Less than a couple dozen directed transmissions so far that would actually be detectable when they reached their destination. Only one of those has reached its destination, and even if there happened to be aliens living there (which seems even less likely given what we've learned about the star since then) we wouldn't have heard a response back yet.
Having a whole bunch of radio signals emanating from your planet is like saying "rob me! rape me! kill me!" to any wandering castoffs from alien civilization.
It's more like saying that while penniless and surrounded by mountains of gold. Anyone capable of interstellar travel has easier access to anything we have to offer than invading a planet and boosting it up from the surface (more likely the bigger factor). There's more usable metal in the trojan asteroids around Jupiter than all that humanity has dug up in its history. More water in the cometary halo and various moons than could conceivably be cost efficient to boost into orbit from the Earth's surface. And that ignores all the hundreds of thousands (if not hundreds of millions) of uninhabited systems which most likely have a similar level of resources.
Now, the serial killers and flesh fetishists you have a point. Wonder if anyone has written some sci-fi where humanity makes contact with the lowest, poorest, stupidest, backwards redneck the aliens have to offer.
We could build floating habitats in Venus's atmosphere though. There are elevations where the temperature is pleasant, the pressure is basically 1 atmosphere, and the wind would carry you around the planet in a matter of a few days. And you can use a breathable mix of gas for you lifting gas, since there doesn't need to be a significant pressure differential between the inside and out any holes would only leak at the rate of diffusion. 50 miles up in the Venusian atmosphere is the most pleasant place off earth for human life in the entire solar system: you could walk outside with some modified scuba gear and a rubber trench coat.
I suspect you'd end up with huge networks of corporations, each one owning part of one or more of the others. No central control point, no obvious way to determine who is actually calling the shots in any particular part of the network. AKA, you'd have organizations just as large, but each individual corporation would put itself in the lowest possible tax bracket. Oh, and also much harder to hold anyone accountable should something go wrong.
Then you make the legal punishments just as strong for running your economy destabilizing large company incompetently. And I assure you, if your company is doing something on a large enough scale to destabilize the economy and the CEO and board don't know about it, they are not running the company competently.
The secret service absolutely does use magazines that would be banned by this legislation (unless you think they load 7 round magazines in their submachine guns) and the only reason their weapons aren't banned by this law is because they are already banned by earlier ones. MP5s, P90s, SR-16s, Mk11s... this is not the tack to take when responding to this line of argument.
The correct line IMO is this: Those agents are all background checked, mentally evaluated, and properly trained. They also have a legitimate use case for those weapons; that of defending a high risk target against an organized and well armed attack. To use the obligatory car analogy, trying to compare the Secret Service to placing armed guards in every school in America (or every home in America) is like arguing that drag racers are really fast, so we should all drive dragsters everywhere we go.