The problem with their thinking is that tablet sales are outselling PC sales because everyone already has a PC and due to the power of modern hardware, you don't need a new PC every three years. Most people don't have a tablet and if they do have one, the hardware is improving so fast that they'll want to buy a new one after a couple of years.
Bingo. Make it so that the Metro interface can be completely disabled in the options menu and after it is disabled Windows looks exactly like Windows 7 and I'd consider it. It really seems like Microsoft is on an "every other release" cycle where XP was great, Vista was shit, Win 7 was great, Win 8 is shit, etc.
First off, "well regulated" when referring to the military means "well trained / disciplined" not "highly controlled by the government". You can look up the definition in older dictionaries and see for yourself. Secondly, even the Supreme Court has explained that the first half of the amendment was explaining why we need the right to bear arms, not placing restrictions upon who can bare arms. Lastly, while each State has their own definitions for a state militia, the US Constitution specifies all able-bodied men up to 45 years old (older if they have previous military experience) are the militia.
This is exactly why rights should never be up for a vote, because most people can't be bothered to learn what they are talking about.
but when you weigh that against the 40,000 or so gun deaths every year, it's not worth it.
First off, about 30,000 of those are suicides. Studies have repeatedly shown that gun ownership has no impact on suicide rates. Secondly, the US has roughly 315 MILLION people in it. About 3.5 times as many people die in car accidents in the US each year as are killed with a gun (that even includes self-defense shootings in that number).
You have to be really into guns to think it's worthwhile to have a friend die in order to have your guns, and most people aren't really into guns that much.
You have to be really immature to think your emotions invalidate peoples right to self-defense. Even the most anti-gun groups have admitted that there are (low end) 10 times as many cases of guns being used for self-defense each year as there are murders involving guns. The facts simply do not support your purely emotion based argument.
If someone kills my friend with a gun, how is it the responsibility of millions of people who didn't commit the murder? Why should almost half the adults in the US be punished for a crime that they didn't commit?
Exactly. I was going to make the same argument, so I'm glad someone else did to save me having to do the math (I really should just save a template for situations like this). We have decades of data showing that the number of people who legally own a gun and use it to commit a crime is (statistically speaking) zero. We also have plenty of data showing that gun owners are actually less likely to commit a crime and are less likely to shoot the wrong person than police in a defensive situation. It always amazes me that Slashdot is supposed to be filled with intelligent people who use facts to derive conclusions, yet so many want to use nothing but emotion when the issue of guns comes up.
FYI, you can already go to any FFL (gun shop) and ask them to do a background check when performing a private sale. Anyone selling to a person that they don't know would be wise to do this. The problem people have with your idea of banning private sales is that the only way to enforce it is for the government to track every gun and every gun owner. Quite using scare tactics when you don't even know the existing laws.
Yeah, those plastic bullets don't show up on metal detectors. Wait, you mean it still fires regular lead / copper bullets? Well fuck, there goes the "it's undetectable" scare tactic.
No, their official problem with the gun is that it lacks rifling in the barrel, thus making it fall into the category of "any other weapon", which is restricted under the National Firearms Act of 1934. The gun still would show up in a metal detector (metal firing pin and metal bullets).
You mean where homicides have fallen by over 50% in twenty years and all other crimes are down by 50% over the same time period? That "violence rate"? Even the most anti-gun news groups have been forced to admit that the whole "we have a violence epidemic!" headline is a load of bullshit. Just read the news from the past week or two and you'll see almost every news group running a story about government reports showing how much crime has fallen in the US.
Except for the fact that the NRA gets very little money from gun manufacturers. Where they get their money from is millions of Americans writing checks so that the NRA will represent them in Washington.
It's not a state law, it's a Federal law. Like I said, they may have given him a ticket and threatened him, but police do that without any legal standing all the time.
Uh, no. There is no law against owning a car without having it registered, having license plates, or having a drivers license as long as it stays on private property. The police may have given him a ticket, but it was a bogus ticket.
Most states don't require you to register guns. Those that do would require you to register a homemade gun anyways, so I'm not sure what your point is.
Well, according to Feinstein it's legal to hunt humans as long as you use a 30 round magazine. So who knows, the homdemade gun murder loophole might exist after all.
The republicans are in a pickle. If they support 3D gun printing, they hurt gun manufacturers, which is what they really are supporting ($$$$).
Gun manufacturers rarely donate money and what they do is peanuts compared to what non-gun related businesses throw around.
Yes, but the majority of Americans don't get their news from anything but the big TV news stations. If they refuse to cover it, most Americans will never know about it.
Because it's government employees in charge of punishing / filing charges against other government employees. It's the same reason why police officers who commit crimes rarely are punished (they normally just get a two week unpaid vacation as the worst punishment) - because it's the police (Internal Affairs) in charge of investigating and punishing the police. It's also the same reason why the Attorney General's office decided not to charge the Attorney General with contempt of Congress over his refusal to provide documents on Fast and Furious.
We need a civilian operated organization in charge of investigating criminal behavior by the government, because clearly letting the government police themselves doesn't work.
But Steam (which yes, I own some games on) still has the fatal flaw of all DRM which means that they can take away your ability to play the games you paid for at any time they way. Since DRM means that you're only renting a game, the only games I buy with DRM are ones that are on sale for ridiculously low prices (such as $5 or less). I refuse to pay full price for something I don't own.
Check out Good Old Games (gog.com). They're all DRM free and that's where almost all of my game purchases are anymore, because I despise companies punishing people for buying their product.
Yes, but given your attitude you sound like the kind of person who sees someone doing 80 in a 65 mph zone and you want to go 68 and say "Fuck them!" and pull into the left lane forcing them to hit the brakes while you take two minutes to slowly pass the person that was in front of you. If you can see someone in the left lane is driving faster than you are, you wait for them to pass before getting over to pass the person in front of you.
That all depends on your transmission. Air resistance, gear ratios, etc are all factors that determine the rpm - and that's all that really matters is the rpm. I can do 80 mph and beat the EPA highway ratings on my car by about 3 mpg, as long as it's a fairly steady mph.
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The problem with their thinking is that tablet sales are outselling PC sales because everyone already has a PC and due to the power of modern hardware, you don't need a new PC every three years. Most people don't have a tablet and if they do have one, the hardware is improving so fast that they'll want to buy a new one after a couple of years.
Bingo. Make it so that the Metro interface can be completely disabled in the options menu and after it is disabled Windows looks exactly like Windows 7 and I'd consider it. It really seems like Microsoft is on an "every other release" cycle where XP was great, Vista was shit, Win 7 was great, Win 8 is shit, etc.
Except Nixon was a saint compared to Obama.
First off, "well regulated" when referring to the military means "well trained / disciplined" not "highly controlled by the government". You can look up the definition in older dictionaries and see for yourself. Secondly, even the Supreme Court has explained that the first half of the amendment was explaining why we need the right to bear arms, not placing restrictions upon who can bare arms. Lastly, while each State has their own definitions for a state militia, the US Constitution specifies all able-bodied men up to 45 years old (older if they have previous military experience) are the militia.
This is exactly why rights should never be up for a vote, because most people can't be bothered to learn what they are talking about.
but when you weigh that against the 40,000 or so gun deaths every year, it's not worth it.
First off, about 30,000 of those are suicides. Studies have repeatedly shown that gun ownership has no impact on suicide rates. Secondly, the US has roughly 315 MILLION people in it. About 3.5 times as many people die in car accidents in the US each year as are killed with a gun (that even includes self-defense shootings in that number).
You have to be really into guns to think it's worthwhile to have a friend die in order to have your guns, and most people aren't really into guns that much.
You have to be really immature to think your emotions invalidate peoples right to self-defense. Even the most anti-gun groups have admitted that there are (low end) 10 times as many cases of guns being used for self-defense each year as there are murders involving guns. The facts simply do not support your purely emotion based argument.
If someone kills my friend with a gun, how is it the responsibility of millions of people who didn't commit the murder? Why should almost half the adults in the US be punished for a crime that they didn't commit?
Exactly. I was going to make the same argument, so I'm glad someone else did to save me having to do the math (I really should just save a template for situations like this). We have decades of data showing that the number of people who legally own a gun and use it to commit a crime is (statistically speaking) zero. We also have plenty of data showing that gun owners are actually less likely to commit a crime and are less likely to shoot the wrong person than police in a defensive situation. It always amazes me that Slashdot is supposed to be filled with intelligent people who use facts to derive conclusions, yet so many want to use nothing but emotion when the issue of guns comes up.
FYI, you can already go to any FFL (gun shop) and ask them to do a background check when performing a private sale. Anyone selling to a person that they don't know would be wise to do this. The problem people have with your idea of banning private sales is that the only way to enforce it is for the government to track every gun and every gun owner. Quite using scare tactics when you don't even know the existing laws.
Yeah, those plastic bullets don't show up on metal detectors. Wait, you mean it still fires regular lead / copper bullets? Well fuck, there goes the "it's undetectable" scare tactic.
No, their official problem with the gun is that it lacks rifling in the barrel, thus making it fall into the category of "any other weapon", which is restricted under the National Firearms Act of 1934. The gun still would show up in a metal detector (metal firing pin and metal bullets).
You mean where homicides have fallen by over 50% in twenty years and all other crimes are down by 50% over the same time period? That "violence rate"? Even the most anti-gun news groups have been forced to admit that the whole "we have a violence epidemic!" headline is a load of bullshit. Just read the news from the past week or two and you'll see almost every news group running a story about government reports showing how much crime has fallen in the US.
NRA is a marketing arm of gun manufacturers.
Except for the fact that the NRA gets very little money from gun manufacturers. Where they get their money from is millions of Americans writing checks so that the NRA will represent them in Washington.
More facts, less emotion.
It's not a state law, it's a Federal law. Like I said, they may have given him a ticket and threatened him, but police do that without any legal standing all the time.
Uh, no. There is no law against owning a car without having it registered, having license plates, or having a drivers license as long as it stays on private property. The police may have given him a ticket, but it was a bogus ticket.
Most states don't require you to register guns. Those that do would require you to register a homemade gun anyways, so I'm not sure what your point is.
Well, according to Feinstein it's legal to hunt humans as long as you use a 30 round magazine. So who knows, the homdemade gun murder loophole might exist after all.
The republicans are in a pickle. If they support 3D gun printing, they hurt gun manufacturers, which is what they really are supporting ($$$$). Gun manufacturers rarely donate money and what they do is peanuts compared to what non-gun related businesses throw around.
Yes, but the majority of Americans don't get their news from anything but the big TV news stations. If they refuse to cover it, most Americans will never know about it.
We need a civilian operated organization in charge of investigating criminal behavior by the government, because clearly letting the government police themselves doesn't work.
But Steam (which yes, I own some games on) still has the fatal flaw of all DRM which means that they can take away your ability to play the games you paid for at any time they way. Since DRM means that you're only renting a game, the only games I buy with DRM are ones that are on sale for ridiculously low prices (such as $5 or less). I refuse to pay full price for something I don't own.
Check out Good Old Games (gog.com). They're all DRM free and that's where almost all of my game purchases are anymore, because I despise companies punishing people for buying their product.
Yes, but given your attitude you sound like the kind of person who sees someone doing 80 in a 65 mph zone and you want to go 68 and say "Fuck them!" and pull into the left lane forcing them to hit the brakes while you take two minutes to slowly pass the person that was in front of you. If you can see someone in the left lane is driving faster than you are, you wait for them to pass before getting over to pass the person in front of you.
When did anyone mention driving aggressively? You fabricated that yourself to justify your slow driving.
Just a note - my grandfather willingly gave up his license when he was 94, but even in his late 80's he'd complain about slow people on the road.
That all depends on your transmission. Air resistance, gear ratios, etc are all factors that determine the rpm - and that's all that really matters is the rpm. I can do 80 mph and beat the EPA highway ratings on my car by about 3 mpg, as long as it's a fairly steady mph.