but they tried it in gunpoweder and it workd just fine.
But they did not try using taggants in gunpower in bullets being fired from guns. Many inexperienced reloaders have lost fingers, thumbs, and their lives by improperly reloading ammunition.
What method can be used to insure that the distribution of taggants is uniform between batches of smokless powder? What method can be used to make sure that the process of shipping does not cause the taggants to unevenly distribute in one container of smokeless powder?
If a mixture assumes a 1% taggant content and through the process of settling the taggants constitute 5%, a bullet might not have enough kinetic energy to clear the barrel of a firearm. In and of itself, that's no big deal, but when the next bullet, with the proper mixture, is fired the barrel of that gun is going to explode in someone's face.
I'm sorry if you don't like it, but fuck you. I'm not willing to take that chance with my life.
the NRA, is, surpisingly, not you and me, nor even most US gun manufacturers, but rather its mainly funded by foreign owned cheap gun maunfacturers.
Where is your proof of this? It doesn't even pass the giggle test. The NRA has approximately 3 million members in the US. At $35 per year, those people provide $105 million in operational revenue, PER YEAR. How much money do you think that the NRA has? The NRA tends to conserve for 3 years and spend a bundle during big election years.
The more expensive (mainly US + european based) manufacturers are not big NRA supporters since they would prefer to see the fixed costs of gun ownership rise a bit, so that the differential costs of their higher quality weapons are not as noticable.
Glock, Beretta, Taurus, Smith & Wesson, Magnum Research, HK, are all served by the efforts of the NRA. Every one of those companies make pistols that were effected by the gun ban of 1994. They all stand to make a bundle, if the NRA can get it repealed.
In fact the better gun manufacturers are solidly behind legistlation to improve handgun safety since anything that would make people have to go out an buy new and higher quality guns is good for them
The only "better" manufacture to get on board was Smith & Wesson. They did so, not because of a desire to make "safer" guns, but as a way to get immunity from liability lawsuits. Makers of quality firearms don't need such legislation, because their guns are already safe. The people who spend money on guns already know this. Glock puts their guns through stress tests that even the US military does not.
If a gun is safe to use after being frozen in a block of ice, or submerged in salt water, it'll work just fine after being in a desk drawer.
unfortunately the quality gun makers dont have the clout the NRA has.
So, you do understand. The few hundred, or thousand people who own those companies aren't as powerful as the 3 million people in the NRA.
As it is police dont even track ballistics and shell casings across juristiction boundaries. THe homeland defense hysteria may finally cure this with a central database. Which is a great worry to 2nd amendment people. And of course to the NRA.
The problem is not with a centralized database of all ballistic information on bullets recovered from crime scenes, the problem is with a ballistic fingerprint database that will include every gun sold in the US. It is a backdoor way to get universal registration, which all 2nd amendment advocates with a sense of history are against.
Maybe you should try a debate about Perl or Ruby, because you have no chance in a debate on guns.
When I used to sell Macs, I had an older gentleman come into the store to look at a PowerMac 6500 and he liked the specs and the price, but it was a little too tall to fit into the cabinet that he had designed.
He asked if he could take a saw and cut it "right about here", as he pointed to the bottom of the empty 5.25" drive bay above the CD-ROM.
I pleaded with the man to not even consider such a thing. Finally what won him over was when I turned the machine around and showed him that if he did hack it up, he'd remove the DB-15 monitor connection.
LK
That is why it is called the THEORY of relativity.
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It is still a theory, it is not a law. In fact it will likely never become the law of relativity. At extremely small scale, general relativity breaks down. This is why quantum mechanics came about. One day, someone will hopefully develop a unified theory that will make general relativity, special relativity and quantum mechanics obsolete.
I used to think that it was a way for content providors to extort money out of their customers, until I worked at an unnamed Satellite TV company's call center.
Now I see why there is no a la carte.
It would raise rates all over the place. People who think that they'll get a better deal by only paying for one channel will quintuple call volume at call centers. By calling in several times per day to change programming.
HBO in the morning, ABC in the afternoon, NBC at night, HBO again the next morning. Rinse, repeat.
In order to keep the call center staffed, companies will need to increase the number of operators on the line at any given time. People don't work for free. And the effect of a la carte will be instant. Meaning overtime for countless employees. That is a higher cost. Higher operational costs equal higher consumer costs. Those cheap bastards who are trying to get over on the system will cause everyone else's prices to skyrocket.
Fewer and fewer people vote because most of the time they feel they are having to choose "the evil of two lessers".
True, if I had it my way I would have voted for a Buchanan/Keyes ticket. Unfortunately their campaigns died in the primary. It was pure idiocy to put Dole up against Clinton, but given those two choices; I had to vote for Dole.
So that they can offer unbelieveably cheap CPUs to China for several years. If it's cheaper to buy them from the west, they will. If their economy is dependant upon the west, they are less likely to start a war.
Black, White, Yellow or Red all people in the world just want to make a little green.
BTW just because he isn't a card carrying member of the Christian Coalition and doesn't invite Trent Lott over for tea doesn't make him any less of a Republican or any less of a conservative.
He is for gun control and againt the overturn of Roe v. Wade. He is no conservative. We call him a R.I.N.O. (Republican In Name Only).
I happen to have much respect Senator McCain because he is willing to stand up for what he believes in rather than slavishly sticking to whatever the party platform of the week is.
I have respect fo John McCain because of his record of military service. He could have taken the easy way out and gotten out of (a north vietnamese military) jail by confessing to crimes that he was innocent of and leaving his men behind. The fact that he refused for several long years proves to me that he has integrity, but his beliefs are not those of the republican base. This is why he isn't president.
How, by asking? Begging? Offering him money? Sexual favors? Care to explain?
but if he draws a gun on me, he can take everything he likes
How about your life. What if the burglar decides to take your life. After all if he's a two time loser, your identification can be enough to put him away for life. If he kills you, you can't pick him out of a lineup.
, and I'll let my insurance company sort it out.
Would you mind keeping my contact information around? If that burglar decides to separate your brain from your skull, your girlfriend will be single and have a boatload of tax free insurance cash to spend on the right man.
What if he wants to take your Girlfriend's virtue?
Will your insurance give that back to her?
My life, and that of my GF who lives with me is indefenitly more valuable.
Having a gun is the best way to protect your life and the life of the woman you (presumably) love.
Second: Why do people think it is necessary to have a gun in their home for defensive purposes? Do you intend to actually fire that gun at a potential burglar? You'll probably be sued for it, especially in the USA.
Not in my state. Here in Pennsylvania, if there is an intruder in your home, you may legally use lethal force to remove him/her.
I, my local DA, and local PD would have no problem with me putting a.45 Winchester into your chest for breaking into my home.
In many other states it is perfectly legal to use lethal force to stop the commission of a felony.
More importantly, the fact that you have a gun can be enough to dissuade a burglar from picking your home.
Kennesaw GA has a law that mandates that every home contain a firearm, consequently there has not been a burglary there in nearly 20 years.
The gun control act of 1968 makes it illegal to buy a firearm in a state of which you are not a resident. So, once again, this will have no effect on the ILLEGAL firearms, but will really hurt the law abiding citizens.
"Smart Guns" are more expensive to manufacture and less desired by the target market.
Less margin per firearm, and less of them sold will financially cripple gun makers. This is about an end run around the second amendment. Both the left and the right are afraid to put a serious challenge to the second amendment before the supreme court. Both sides have too much to lose by risking that.
You'd treat it in the same way as an unlicensed driver who insists on driving their kids around, I suppose.
No, you'd treat it the same way as a parent who leaves an unlocked liquor cabinet where their kids can access it. As long as they are otherwise good parents and no one gets hurt, you stay out of their business.
If they are not good parents, if they have never taught their kids right from wrong or anything about personal responsibility, you hold them accountable for the misdeeds of their children.
One does not need a driver's license to operate a car on private property, only on public roads.
I think that many people would support the idea, if the same policy were applied to guns. Own whatever you want on your own property, but to take that firearm with you in public you have to be licensed.
you find that the author is explaining that small towns in the western US that allow people to walk the streets with guns did not have an alarming number of handgun deaths in the early 1990s like New York and LA had because of their laws.
What about states in the east like Pennsylvania and Florida? In each of those states violent crime decreased (or in the case of Florida, certain types of violent crime still increased but at a lower rate than they had before the concealed carry laws were reformed) after they passed reformed concealed carry laws.
I was granted a carry permit in Pennsylvania when I was 21. One funny thing is that when you have a permit and learn the proper way to conceal a firearm, it makes it much easier to tell when someone else is carrying. I'm a fairly large man, I am over 6 feet tall and weigh 205 pounds. I can conceal a Glock 21 under a T shirt. If you're 5'6" and weigh 150 pounds, you should find a smaller pistol to carry. Problem is that some people don't think that much into it.
I was accused of "stealing" a static IP from an ISP. At the time I was using a Mac and it was soon after Open Transport was released and stable. I signed up for ISDN service with a providor. In the TCP/IP control panel you could manually enter an IP address. I did this, to see what would happen, surprisingly every time I connected, I was given that IP address.
I was accused of stealing the static IP because I didn't pay the extra charge for the priveledge of a static IP. If someone misconfigures their hardware, if they respond to every request, be it for a static IP, DHCP address assignment or blowjobs, it is not stealing to take from them.
"I love OS X from a feeling point of view. But from capability and readiness, I still don't rate it ready for me, I'm sorry to say. The experimental side of me is losing out because I don't have as much time with my startup company."
OS X is very nice OS, but it's not Apple's silver bullet.
For God's sake Darwin was an ordained minister in the Church of England. Though he had trouble reconciling his findings with his religious beliefs; then, just as now it is possible to reconcile natural selection with creation.
WHY IS IT SO FUCKING HARD TO CONSIDER THE POSSIBILITY THAT GOD USED EVOLUTION AS A PART OF CREATION???????
Damned Jesus freaks. Jesus used parables to make his points. Why isn't the Biblical story of creation a parable as well?
Not valid for purposes of comparison. You can't compare the performance of an Athlon XP running a program written to run on any kx86 chip to a G4 running a program written in assembler specifically for AltiVec.
I have many issues with Apple, especially now that Jobs is back at the helm, but I don't fault them on this one.
Maybe they could have found a more diplomatic way to handle this, but they didn't. This guy can't be held to the terms of the contract because he's a minor. Why do you think that so many businesses won't hire minors? Becuse they can't be held to any contracts.
"By signing this agreement, you are agree not to divulge any of the personal information of our clients/customers including, but not limited to Names, Addresses, Social Security numbers, Credit Card numbers, or the nature of the service that we provide them."
There is a flipside to every law, or principle of law, that provides protection for someone. For example, in Ohio utility companies can't require your social security number, so many businesses have simply chosen not to do business in Ohio.
You don't have to let the police into your house without a search warrant, but when they have a search warrant they might even be able to subject you to a strip search.
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but they tried it in gunpoweder and it workd just fine.
But they did not try using taggants in gunpower in bullets being fired from guns. Many inexperienced reloaders have lost fingers, thumbs, and their lives by improperly reloading ammunition.
What method can be used to insure that the distribution of taggants is uniform between batches of smokless powder? What method can be used to make sure that the process of shipping does not cause the taggants to unevenly distribute in one container of smokeless powder?
If a mixture assumes a 1% taggant content and through the process of settling the taggants constitute 5%, a bullet might not have enough kinetic energy to clear the barrel of a firearm. In and of itself, that's no big deal, but when the next bullet, with the proper mixture, is fired the barrel of that gun is going to explode in someone's face.
I'm sorry if you don't like it, but fuck you. I'm not willing to take that chance with my life.
the NRA, is, surpisingly, not you and me, nor even most US gun manufacturers, but rather its mainly funded by foreign owned cheap gun maunfacturers.
Where is your proof of this? It doesn't even pass the giggle test. The NRA has approximately 3 million members in the US. At $35 per year, those people provide $105 million in operational revenue, PER YEAR. How much money do you think that the NRA has? The NRA tends to conserve for 3 years and spend a bundle during big election years.
The more expensive (mainly US + european based) manufacturers are not big NRA supporters since they would prefer to see the fixed costs of gun ownership rise a bit, so that the differential costs of their higher quality weapons are not as noticable.
Glock, Beretta, Taurus, Smith & Wesson, Magnum Research, HK, are all served by the efforts of the NRA. Every one of those companies make pistols that were effected by the gun ban of 1994. They all stand to make a bundle, if the NRA can get it repealed.
In fact the better gun manufacturers are solidly behind legistlation to improve handgun safety since anything that would make people have to go out an buy new and higher quality guns is good for them
The only "better" manufacture to get on board was Smith & Wesson. They did so, not because of a desire to make "safer" guns, but as a way to get immunity from liability lawsuits. Makers of quality firearms don't need such legislation, because their guns are already safe. The people who spend money on guns already know this. Glock puts their guns through stress tests that even the US military does not.
If a gun is safe to use after being frozen in a block of ice, or submerged in salt water, it'll work just fine after being in a desk drawer.
unfortunately the quality gun makers dont have the clout the NRA has.
So, you do understand. The few hundred, or thousand people who own those companies aren't as powerful as the 3 million people in the NRA.
As it is police dont even track ballistics and shell casings across juristiction boundaries. THe homeland defense hysteria may finally cure this with a central database. Which is a great worry to 2nd amendment people. And of course to the NRA.
The problem is not with a centralized database of all ballistic information on bullets recovered from crime scenes, the problem is with a ballistic fingerprint database that will include every gun sold in the US. It is a backdoor way to get universal registration, which all 2nd amendment advocates with a sense of history are against.
Maybe you should try a debate about Perl or Ruby, because you have no chance in a debate on guns.
LK
When I used to sell Macs, I had an older gentleman come into the store to look at a PowerMac 6500 and he liked the specs and the price, but it was a little too tall to fit into the cabinet that he had designed.
He asked if he could take a saw and cut it "right about here", as he pointed to the bottom of the empty 5.25" drive bay above the CD-ROM.
I pleaded with the man to not even consider such a thing. Finally what won him over was when I turned the machine around and showed him that if he did hack it up, he'd remove the DB-15 monitor connection.
LK
It is still a theory, it is not a law. In fact it will likely never become the law of relativity. At extremely small scale, general relativity breaks down. This is why quantum mechanics came about. One day, someone will hopefully develop a unified theory that will make general relativity, special relativity and quantum mechanics obsolete.
LK
memory is of the hospital in which I was born. I have heard of people who claim to remember before they were born.
LK
Want to switch it to something else? Another month's fee. And it's *ADDED*. Channels get removed at the end of the billing period, too.
So in order to serve a few skinflints, everyone else who wants to remove a channel will have to pay extra?
LK
I used to think that it was a way for content providors to extort money out of their customers, until I worked at an unnamed Satellite TV company's call center.
Now I see why there is no a la carte.
It would raise rates all over the place. People who think that they'll get a better deal by only paying for one channel will quintuple call volume at call centers. By calling in several times per day to change programming.
HBO in the morning, ABC in the afternoon, NBC at night, HBO again the next morning. Rinse, repeat.
In order to keep the call center staffed, companies will need to increase the number of operators on the line at any given time. People don't work for free. And the effect of a la carte will be instant. Meaning overtime for countless employees. That is a higher cost. Higher operational costs equal higher consumer costs. Those cheap bastards who are trying to get over on the system will cause everyone else's prices to skyrocket.
LK
Fewer and fewer people vote because most of the time they feel they are having to choose "the evil of two lessers".
True, if I had it my way I would have voted for a Buchanan/Keyes ticket. Unfortunately their campaigns died in the primary. It was pure idiocy to put Dole up against Clinton, but given those two choices; I had to vote for Dole.
LK
So that they can offer unbelieveably cheap CPUs to China for several years. If it's cheaper to buy them from the west, they will. If their economy is dependant upon the west, they are less likely to start a war.
Black, White, Yellow or Red all people in the world just want to make a little green.
Other than the US, Red China is the closest thing the rest of the world has to a superpower.
Do you think that Britian, or the whole EU for that matter could stop China from rolling over that entire continent? Answer, No.
BTW just because he isn't a card carrying member of the Christian Coalition and doesn't invite Trent Lott over for tea doesn't make him any less of a Republican or any less of a conservative.
He is for gun control and againt the overturn of Roe v. Wade. He is no conservative. We call him a R.I.N.O. (Republican In Name Only).
I happen to have much respect Senator McCain because he is willing to stand up for what he believes in rather than slavishly sticking to whatever the party platform of the week is.
I have respect fo John McCain because of his record of military service. He could have taken the easy way out and gotten out of (a north vietnamese military) jail by confessing to crimes that he was innocent of and leaving his men behind. The fact that he refused for several long years proves to me that he has integrity, but his beliefs are not those of the republican base. This is why he isn't president.
LK
The consumer Macs even had IDE back in 1996 (when I got a Performa 6300)
Your 6300 came with an IDE hard drive, but the CD-ROM was SCSI. It had onboard SCSI and IDE. That 25 pin connector in the back was a SCSI port.
LK
I will try to get him out,
How, by asking? Begging? Offering him money? Sexual favors? Care to explain?
but if he draws a gun on me, he can take everything he likes
How about your life. What if the burglar decides to take your life. After all if he's a two time loser, your identification can be enough to put him away for life. If he kills you, you can't pick him out of a lineup.
, and I'll let my insurance company sort it out.
Would you mind keeping my contact information around? If that burglar decides to separate your brain from your skull, your girlfriend will be single and have a boatload of tax free insurance cash to spend on the right man.
What if he wants to take your Girlfriend's virtue?
Will your insurance give that back to her?
My life, and that of my GF who lives with me is indefenitly more valuable.
Having a gun is the best way to protect your life and the life of the woman you (presumably) love.
Second: Why do people think it is necessary to have a gun in their home for defensive purposes? Do you intend to actually fire that gun at a potential burglar? You'll probably be sued for it, especially in the USA.
.45 Winchester into your chest for breaking into my home.
Not in my state. Here in Pennsylvania, if there is an intruder in your home, you may legally use lethal force to remove him/her.
I, my local DA, and local PD would have no problem with me putting a
In many other states it is perfectly legal to use lethal force to stop the commission of a felony.
More importantly, the fact that you have a gun can be enough to dissuade a burglar from picking your home.
Kennesaw GA has a law that mandates that every home contain a firearm, consequently there has not been a burglary there in nearly 20 years.
LK
The gun control act of 1968 makes it illegal to buy a firearm in a state of which you are not a resident. So, once again, this will have no effect on the ILLEGAL firearms, but will really hurt the law abiding citizens.
LK
This is about bankrupting gun manufacturers.
"Smart Guns" are more expensive to manufacture and less desired by the target market.
Less margin per firearm, and less of them sold will financially cripple gun makers. This is about an end run around the second amendment. Both the left and the right are afraid to put a serious challenge to the second amendment before the supreme court. Both sides have too much to lose by risking that.
LK
You'd treat it in the same way as an unlicensed driver who insists on driving their kids around, I suppose.
No, you'd treat it the same way as a parent who leaves an unlocked liquor cabinet where their kids can access it. As long as they are otherwise good parents and no one gets hurt, you stay out of their business.
If they are not good parents, if they have never taught their kids right from wrong or anything about personal responsibility, you hold them accountable for the misdeeds of their children.
If someone refuses? Do you take his guns or his kids away?
One does not need a driver's license to operate a car on private property, only on public roads.
I think that many people would support the idea, if the same policy were applied to guns. Own whatever you want on your own property, but to take that firearm with you in public you have to be licensed.
you find that the author is explaining that small towns in the western US that allow people to walk the streets with guns did not have an alarming number of handgun deaths in the early 1990s like New York and LA had because of their laws.
What about states in the east like Pennsylvania and Florida? In each of those states violent crime decreased (or in the case of Florida, certain types of violent crime still increased but at a lower rate than they had before the concealed carry laws were reformed) after they passed reformed concealed carry laws.
I was granted a carry permit in Pennsylvania when I was 21. One funny thing is that when you have a permit and learn the proper way to conceal a firearm, it makes it much easier to tell when someone else is carrying. I'm a fairly large man, I am over 6 feet tall and weigh 205 pounds. I can conceal a Glock 21 under a T shirt. If you're 5'6" and weigh 150 pounds, you should find a smaller pistol to carry. Problem is that some people don't think that much into it.
I was accused of "stealing" a static IP from an ISP. At the time I was using a Mac and it was soon after Open Transport was released and stable. I signed up for ISDN service with a providor. In the TCP/IP control panel you could manually enter an IP address. I did this, to see what would happen, surprisingly every time I connected, I was given that IP address.
I was accused of stealing the static IP because I didn't pay the extra charge for the priveledge of a static IP. If someone misconfigures their hardware, if they respond to every request, be it for a static IP, DHCP address assignment or blowjobs, it is not stealing to take from them.
From the mouth of Woz himself regarding OS X
"I love OS X from a feeling point of view. But from capability and readiness, I still don't rate it ready for me, I'm sorry to say. The experimental side of me is losing out because I don't have as much time with my startup company."
OS X is very nice OS, but it's not Apple's silver bullet.
I don't think the problem is that they rely on their Holy books, they rely on what other people tell them about the books.
BTW, a more accurate tranlsation is "Thou shalt not murder."
For God's sake Darwin was an ordained minister in the Church of England. Though he had trouble reconciling his findings with his religious beliefs; then, just as now it is possible to reconcile natural selection with creation.
WHY IS IT SO FUCKING HARD TO CONSIDER THE POSSIBILITY THAT GOD USED EVOLUTION AS A PART OF CREATION???????
Damned Jesus freaks. Jesus used parables to make his points. Why isn't the Biblical story of creation a parable as well?
Not valid for purposes of comparison. You can't compare the performance of an Athlon XP running a program written to run on any kx86 chip to a G4 running a program written in assembler specifically for AltiVec.
I have many issues with Apple, especially now that Jobs is back at the helm, but I don't fault them on this one.
Maybe they could have found a more diplomatic way to handle this, but they didn't. This guy can't be held to the terms of the contract because he's a minor. Why do you think that so many businesses won't hire minors? Becuse they can't be held to any contracts.
"By signing this agreement, you are agree not to divulge any of the personal information of our clients/customers including, but not limited to Names, Addresses, Social Security numbers, Credit Card numbers, or the nature of the service that we provide them."
There is a flipside to every law, or principle of law, that provides protection for someone. For example, in Ohio utility companies can't require your social security number, so many businesses have simply chosen not to do business in Ohio.
You don't have to let the police into your house without a search warrant, but when they have a search warrant they might even be able to subject you to a strip search.