That's the point. Google is a global entity, and such being the case, it's asinine for them to police what is appropriate because the very idea of "society in general" at the global scale is itself a non sequitur.
The middle finger might be vaguely offensive to we westerners, but maybe it's a symbol of welcome to some tribe in the Amazon! Conversely, the A-OK sign is fine and dandy here, but in Greece and Brazil, not so much. In many Arab countries, it's a threatening gesture. In SCUBA language, it's equivalent to "status normal", but in some South American countries it's a symbol for the anus / "you're a faggot". Likewise with the thumbs up--basically equivalent to "up-yours" in Iran, but generally a very positive sign elsewhere.
Say your profile picture is of you at the beech, relaxing on a lounge, showing the bottom of your sandals/feet to the camera. To a westerner, we wouldn't think twice about it, but that's highly offensive in more than a couple cultures.
Now that's a campaign promise the members of S.K.I. (Serial Killers International) can really stand behind, you know, as they watch the life drain from your eyes, and also the thirty-seven stab wounds.
Indeed, if you ever get a chance look up close at a Ferrari F40, it has paint, but just barely enough to make it look Ferrari red from a distance.
The paint is thin and nearly translucent as it is opaque, so it adds the least possible weight. You can see the carbon fiber/nomex/kevlar weave right through it; it's also notoriously easy to scuff, and difficult to polish. The paint job wouldn't be close to acceptable on a factory Kia, but people paid for what is basically a street legal thoroughbred race machine, and shaving a few pounds of paint off makes it go faster, you know.
And the VC were known for rigging grenades to young children after they routed a village, so that when they reached up to an American soldier, the grenade would go off. Talk about demoralizing: there were a few who had to make the judgement: shoot the kid, who you can't communicate with or warn, or possibly let the kid be blown up along with one of your buddies.
It's pretty hard to combat someone willing to sink that low, no matter your arsenal.
Plainly, the high tech toys are there to make sure we kill more of the bad guys than they do of us, and that we kill fewer of the 'good guys' than might be possible without really sticking our butts into it... And by that metric, the toys do their job. The only way these sort can 'defeat' us is by exploiting our rules of engagement, and desire to be at least half-way diplomatically correct... Defeat us militarily? Haha.
A lot of wars the US has been involved in follow that same disparity in willingness to do awful shit. If we were willing to step down to the level of our enemies, the US could simultaneously take on the better part of the developed world for a good while, and not be too stressed by it. It's good for everyone that this is not their disposition.
I'm a motorcycle rider as well; what I meant to convey, and failed at doing so, is the idea of the retarded rider which hangs out in a car/trucks/van's blind spot for no good reason. There are circumstances, especially with larger vehicles, where the driver can technically do everything right, including checking blind spots, properly indicating, and still not see a rider. That, in my mind would be an accident, or perhaps negligence on part of the rider.
Face it, as much as some of us riders try to do everything right, I've also seen some mighty stupid things. I've personally seen several close calls where a rider changes lanes right into a driver's blind spot--after I saw that driver indicate--and in the times I've seen this, I'm pretty sure I also saw the driver's head turn to check the blind spot. So, there's one example, but that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Yes, yes, collision is the word that insurance adjusters like to use in the context of car wrecks...more broadly descriptive and all of the things you mentioned. However, the vapid personalities we call newscasters often say "drunk driving accident", or "accidentally drove through a storefront" etc. While you may prefer 'collision', you have to admit that 'accident' is very often misapplied.
Still, I can't think of any one person who has been arrested because of an event which truly happened accidentally, in the, random-acts-of-pain connotation of the word. If they're arrested, it's usually because they've done something negligently, and yes, you can also do something negligently or recklessly even if there was no intent behind the act.
I agree, however for cannons the precautions are like any gun, and they're a lot simpler than the driver's rule book. 1) treat all guns like they're loaded, 2) never let the muzzle cover something you aren't willing to obliterate, 3) stay off the trigger until it's time to fire, 4) be sure of your target and of what is beyond it.
Everyone involved surely imagined they had a good enough backstop or they wouldn't have proceeded, but we don't know the totality of circumstances involved. It might be that they anticipated a ricochet possibility and constructed a backstop (or used an existing one) to accommodate that possibility, but the projectile still managed to escape.
Their only failing might be the "and of what is beyond it" part of rule 4, and that's why it's usually advisable to test high-energy devices completely out of any optimistic range.
I bet there will be an out of court settlement if it ever goes that far, though.
What people get arrested for is negligence. Accidents, not so much.
If you're driving drunk and you get in a wreck, you were not involved in an accident because you were not exercising a standard of care that the law requires; namely, not driving whilst intoxicated. If you're texting and run over a class full of kindergartners crossing the street to the park, same thing. If you're excessively speeding and wreck, ditto. None of these are accidents, because accidents are by definition unforeseen, and most often, unpreventable.
Hitting a deer might be an accident. Colliding with a motorcycle rider who was stupidly riding in your blind spot might be an accident. A truck driver having a heart attack, dying at the wheel and dumping the toxic contents of his truck into a pristine mountain river is an accident.
Accidents usually involve some amount of civil liability, even if people are maimed or killed. Negligence involves criminal liability. Two different things. Y'all need to stop using 'accident' incorrectly. I once again propose a new word: neglident.
I remember when a megabyte of RAM cost about $150, so I don't feel too bad about what a $150 video card will do these days. That's about where the sweet spot is, unless you really need to push very high resolution displays.
Well, suppose one of these sites wants to broadcast something over a radio link. Now suppose that the transmission was also intercepted and decoded by those damned criminal Tau Cetians, who then pirate your uber-cute cat video to the little grey guys who hang out at HD 10307, where it becomes a instant sensation with eleventy-billion views. It's possible, I guess.
I'm an American, and even considering the millions of potentially mentally unstable people, criminals and so forth, I feel plenty safe amongst my armed peers. In fact if some dude straps a piece on and openly carries it down the sidewalk, I'm inclined to trust that person more than (a) the police or (b) the military.
Anyway, if you've had your life threatened, isn't it kind of too late to jump through what is bound to be a several month bureaucratic nightmare, in hope of some method of self-defense? Anyway, good luck if you're an average peon with a legitimate and urgent need, those rules exist only for the aristocracy.
No, if you shoot a gang member, you go and unceremoniously dump his corpse out in the desert like the rabid dog he is, much like they'd do to you. No police. No court. No giving up your identity. Just like them. If the shooting happens in a place not likely to finger you or your family, you leave it right there to rot just the same. Are the cartels going to hire a CSI squad to hunt down forensic evidence?
You know, after the first few death squads get plucked off, word would spread and they're going to be demoralized and at least a teensy bit less willing to engage in that activity. They're not holy soldiers like the people in the middle east, they're mercenaries; their religion is money, and once it becomes less profitable and, um, less of a healthy occupation... Well, who knows.
What's an alternative...any alternative? If things continue to get worse, soon the only solution will be to impose martial law, suspend civil law, and any pretense of civil rights along with it--and send hundreds of thousands of troops door to do to root out cartel activity, and pray the soldiers don't get turned by the cartels.
Teach Jose, Pablo, Elizabeth and Dulce that it's either going to be them or the bad guys, and let 'em figure it out.
Preventing guns and munitions from flowing to Mexico would have a much more significant impact.
I'll probably be flamed, but the need is to do exactly the opposite, frankly. If every Jose and Pablo, Elizabeth and Dulce in town had a gun of their own to defend themselves and their families, the mob wouldn't be so overwhelmingly powerful.
Yeah, there would be more bodies in the short term, but the good people always vastly outnumber the scuzz of the world (yeah, even in Mexico) and might have a fighting chance defending themselves--or at least anonymously picking off a few of the cartel members who apparently have no problem rolling through towns in convoys.
If the Zetas have one hundredth of the power, intelligence, connections that some people make them out to be, they could certainly make all of the guns, rockets and bombs they might ever want or need, in house. Face it, once the cat is out of the bag, he's out in a big big way. Look at something like a STEN, Sterling, Suomi KP/-31 PPSh 41, or hell, even an UZI... Give a lone, moderately intelligent person with machining experience enough time, he could figure out a way to make a reasonably functional replica of any of the above. They're basically bits of stamped metal and a tube. What could a freaking cartel do?
The most difficult part developing a firearm/system from scratch might be creating reasonably resilient and functional shell casings and primers--but if you've got tens of millions of dollars and operate underground you could certainly figure out the metallurgy and chemistry in short oder, and make or buy any of the machinery you'd need for your own backyard, black market arms boutique.
Thing is, modern slaughtering techniques extract blood much more efficiently then slitting animal's throat and letting it drain while its heart still beats.
Modern slaughter techniques often still involve letting the heart pump blood out of the jugular and carotid arteries, but the animal's brain is incapacitated/destroyed with a pneumatic captive bolt device beforehand.
According to halal and Kashrut, however, the animal must be conscious at the point it's bleed out. If it's not conscious, it's effectively dead... And since Islam also forbids the eating of carrion, that's unacceptable to them. A silly line to draw, if you ask me, but that's what their faith says.
The difference between.30-06 M1 ball and surplus 7.62x54r is a muzzle velocity of about 50-100fps for a bullet of comparable weight, out of a barrel of comparable length, with the very slight edge going to.30-06..30-06 and 7.62x54r is the apt comparison, as each was designed originally for bolt action service rifles, and each was later adopted to various machine gun applications.
Also, by the time 7.62x51 NATO was adopted, each of the above cartridges had already been in service for about a half century.
Funny enough, it doesn't matter whether the rifle in question is a 1903 Springfield or a Remington, Browning, Savage, hunting rifle or battle rifle, owners usually refer to their their rifles as "mah thirty-aught-six"
"even the ban on cannabis isn't quite working", he says.
Anyone who wants it can get it. Anyone, anywhere, and at virtually any time. And it "isn't quite working?" Prohibition 2.0 has been and continues to be a failure of monumental proportions, and at what cost?
That Epic 23e hybrid boat is pretty exciting, never heard of it before now. I'd guess the big fuel advantage is that you simply don't need a huge displacement engine to get the low-speed torque that is needed for wake-boarding, where prolonged top-end speed is less of a consideration.
Without copyright and patents, all writings and inventions are automatically public domain.
See, you've gone wrong on your second sentence. Not too long ago in our recent history, many artists, authors, composers, inventors and so on primarily earned their living through a concept known as patronage. An aristocrat would commission such an an artist for a particular occasion, and so artists were able to eat. Sometimes this relationship lasted a lifetime.
Sometimes, this aristocrat made this work available for others to enjoy; namely other aristocrats--as a way to flaunt their wealth... You can be sure most regular peon of the time didn't get to directly enjoy these things.
As for trade secrets, there's a thing called reverse engineering. If you make a novel product you want to sell to people, you can be guaranteed that other people will eventually figure out how it works, and soon after that they'll figure out how to make their own, and soon enough, at least one such person will go into competition with you... Even something as complicated and microscopic as a CPU transistor will fall to this.
Trade secrets are only practical for limited production items, of which YOU can retain complete control and ownership.
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."
In other words: invent something useful, or write something compelling, and in exchange for it eventually becoming public domain, we'll give you time-limited, exclusive rights to use it and make profit however you best see fit.
Social welfare is given because you're either incapable of working, or as a (ideally) short term cash infusion to sustain families who are in between employment.
Copyrights and Patents, as described in the progress clause are given in exchange for creation. IN EXCHANGE. If you insist in calling this a government welfare program, then you have to realize that ultimately, the recipients of welfare are in fact The People, you know--society as a whole. "general Welfare" in the preamble to the Constitution, and in the taxing and spending clause of the same? Yeah, those founding fathers were a bunch of dumbfuckers, weren't they?
Not only that, most studios rent cameras and equipment from their own shell corporations; by taking advantage of some weirdness in the tax code, they make even the most successful show look like a dismal failure...on paper...it probably works out that your camera is completely free, minus tax lawyer fees.
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That's the point. Google is a global entity, and such being the case, it's asinine for them to police what is appropriate because the very idea of "society in general" at the global scale is itself a non sequitur.
The middle finger might be vaguely offensive to we westerners, but maybe it's a symbol of welcome to some tribe in the Amazon! Conversely, the A-OK sign is fine and dandy here, but in Greece and Brazil, not so much. In many Arab countries, it's a threatening gesture. In SCUBA language, it's equivalent to "status normal", but in some South American countries it's a symbol for the anus / "you're a faggot". Likewise with the thumbs up--basically equivalent to "up-yours" in Iran, but generally a very positive sign elsewhere.
Say your profile picture is of you at the beech, relaxing on a lounge, showing the bottom of your sandals/feet to the camera. To a westerner, we wouldn't think twice about it, but that's highly offensive in more than a couple cultures.
In other words, if you are the small man, you are fucked.
I'd say it thus: Don't be a cunt to those who swing a big dick, for you may live to regret it.
Thanks! I have a few domains on Godaddy up for expiration in the new year that I've been meaning to transfer over to namecheap anyway.
So, what you're saying is kill all humans?
Now that's a campaign promise the members of S.K.I. (Serial Killers International) can really stand behind, you know, as they watch the life drain from your eyes, and also the thirty-seven stab wounds.
Indeed, if you ever get a chance look up close at a Ferrari F40, it has paint, but just barely enough to make it look Ferrari red from a distance.
The paint is thin and nearly translucent as it is opaque, so it adds the least possible weight. You can see the carbon fiber/nomex/kevlar weave right through it; it's also notoriously easy to scuff, and difficult to polish. The paint job wouldn't be close to acceptable on a factory Kia, but people paid for what is basically a street legal thoroughbred race machine, and shaving a few pounds of paint off makes it go faster, you know.
And the VC were known for rigging grenades to young children after they routed a village, so that when they reached up to an American soldier, the grenade would go off. Talk about demoralizing: there were a few who had to make the judgement: shoot the kid, who you can't communicate with or warn, or possibly let the kid be blown up along with one of your buddies.
It's pretty hard to combat someone willing to sink that low, no matter your arsenal.
Plainly, the high tech toys are there to make sure we kill more of the bad guys than they do of us, and that we kill fewer of the 'good guys' than might be possible without really sticking our butts into it... And by that metric, the toys do their job. The only way these sort can 'defeat' us is by exploiting our rules of engagement, and desire to be at least half-way diplomatically correct... Defeat us militarily? Haha.
A lot of wars the US has been involved in follow that same disparity in willingness to do awful shit. If we were willing to step down to the level of our enemies, the US could simultaneously take on the better part of the developed world for a good while, and not be too stressed by it. It's good for everyone that this is not their disposition.
I'm a rider as well, and replied to the first guy to bring this up... I don't want to be redundant, so look up the thread a bit.
I'm a motorcycle rider as well; what I meant to convey, and failed at doing so, is the idea of the retarded rider which hangs out in a car/trucks/van's blind spot for no good reason. There are circumstances, especially with larger vehicles, where the driver can technically do everything right, including checking blind spots, properly indicating, and still not see a rider. That, in my mind would be an accident, or perhaps negligence on part of the rider.
Face it, as much as some of us riders try to do everything right, I've also seen some mighty stupid things. I've personally seen several close calls where a rider changes lanes right into a driver's blind spot--after I saw that driver indicate--and in the times I've seen this, I'm pretty sure I also saw the driver's head turn to check the blind spot. So, there's one example, but that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Yes, yes, collision is the word that insurance adjusters like to use in the context of car wrecks...more broadly descriptive and all of the things you mentioned. However, the vapid personalities we call newscasters often say "drunk driving accident", or "accidentally drove through a storefront" etc. While you may prefer 'collision', you have to admit that 'accident' is very often misapplied.
Still, I can't think of any one person who has been arrested because of an event which truly happened accidentally, in the, random-acts-of-pain connotation of the word. If they're arrested, it's usually because they've done something negligently, and yes, you can also do something negligently or recklessly even if there was no intent behind the act.
I agree, however for cannons the precautions are like any gun, and they're a lot simpler than the driver's rule book. 1) treat all guns like they're loaded, 2) never let the muzzle cover something you aren't willing to obliterate, 3) stay off the trigger until it's time to fire, 4) be sure of your target and of what is beyond it.
Everyone involved surely imagined they had a good enough backstop or they wouldn't have proceeded, but we don't know the totality of circumstances involved. It might be that they anticipated a ricochet possibility and constructed a backstop (or used an existing one) to accommodate that possibility, but the projectile still managed to escape.
Their only failing might be the "and of what is beyond it" part of rule 4, and that's why it's usually advisable to test high-energy devices completely out of any optimistic range.
I bet there will be an out of court settlement if it ever goes that far, though.
What people get arrested for is negligence. Accidents, not so much.
If you're driving drunk and you get in a wreck, you were not involved in an accident because you were not exercising a standard of care that the law requires; namely, not driving whilst intoxicated. If you're texting and run over a class full of kindergartners crossing the street to the park, same thing. If you're excessively speeding and wreck, ditto. None of these are accidents, because accidents are by definition unforeseen, and most often, unpreventable.
Hitting a deer might be an accident. Colliding with a motorcycle rider who was stupidly riding in your blind spot might be an accident. A truck driver having a heart attack, dying at the wheel and dumping the toxic contents of his truck into a pristine mountain river is an accident.
Accidents usually involve some amount of civil liability, even if people are maimed or killed. Negligence involves criminal liability. Two different things. Y'all need to stop using 'accident' incorrectly. I once again propose a new word: neglident.
I remember when a megabyte of RAM cost about $150, so I don't feel too bad about what a $150 video card will do these days. That's about where the sweet spot is, unless you really need to push very high resolution displays.
Well, suppose one of these sites wants to broadcast something over a radio link. Now suppose that the transmission was also intercepted and decoded by those damned criminal Tau Cetians, who then pirate your uber-cute cat video to the little grey guys who hang out at HD 10307, where it becomes a instant sensation with eleventy-billion views. It's possible, I guess.
I'm an American, and even considering the millions of potentially mentally unstable people, criminals and so forth, I feel plenty safe amongst my armed peers. In fact if some dude straps a piece on and openly carries it down the sidewalk, I'm inclined to trust that person more than (a) the police or (b) the military.
Anyway, if you've had your life threatened, isn't it kind of too late to jump through what is bound to be a several month bureaucratic nightmare, in hope of some method of self-defense? Anyway, good luck if you're an average peon with a legitimate and urgent need, those rules exist only for the aristocracy.
Get a pack of these things. I believe that I found mine at home and garden show--and it's just a damned nice little invention.
No, if you shoot a gang member, you go and unceremoniously dump his corpse out in the desert like the rabid dog he is, much like they'd do to you. No police. No court. No giving up your identity. Just like them. If the shooting happens in a place not likely to finger you or your family, you leave it right there to rot just the same. Are the cartels going to hire a CSI squad to hunt down forensic evidence?
You know, after the first few death squads get plucked off, word would spread and they're going to be demoralized and at least a teensy bit less willing to engage in that activity. They're not holy soldiers like the people in the middle east, they're mercenaries; their religion is money, and once it becomes less profitable and, um, less of a healthy occupation... Well, who knows.
What's an alternative...any alternative? If things continue to get worse, soon the only solution will be to impose martial law, suspend civil law, and any pretense of civil rights along with it--and send hundreds of thousands of troops door to do to root out cartel activity, and pray the soldiers don't get turned by the cartels.
Teach Jose, Pablo, Elizabeth and Dulce that it's either going to be them or the bad guys, and let 'em figure it out.
Preventing guns and munitions from flowing to Mexico would have a much more significant impact.
I'll probably be flamed, but the need is to do exactly the opposite, frankly. If every Jose and Pablo, Elizabeth and Dulce in town had a gun of their own to defend themselves and their families, the mob wouldn't be so overwhelmingly powerful.
Yeah, there would be more bodies in the short term, but the good people always vastly outnumber the scuzz of the world (yeah, even in Mexico) and might have a fighting chance defending themselves--or at least anonymously picking off a few of the cartel members who apparently have no problem rolling through towns in convoys.
If the Zetas have one hundredth of the power, intelligence, connections that some people make them out to be, they could certainly make all of the guns, rockets and bombs they might ever want or need, in house. Face it, once the cat is out of the bag, he's out in a big big way. Look at something like a STEN, Sterling, Suomi KP/-31 PPSh 41, or hell, even an UZI... Give a lone, moderately intelligent person with machining experience enough time, he could figure out a way to make a reasonably functional replica of any of the above. They're basically bits of stamped metal and a tube. What could a freaking cartel do?
The most difficult part developing a firearm/system from scratch might be creating reasonably resilient and functional shell casings and primers--but if you've got tens of millions of dollars and operate underground you could certainly figure out the metallurgy and chemistry in short oder, and make or buy any of the machinery you'd need for your own backyard, black market arms boutique.
Hell, look at what some guys are doing in a basement, in Pakistan...hand making milled copies of Beretta 92s.
Thing is, modern slaughtering techniques extract blood much more efficiently then slitting animal's throat and letting it drain while its heart still beats.
Modern slaughter techniques often still involve letting the heart pump blood out of the jugular and carotid arteries, but the animal's brain is incapacitated/destroyed with a pneumatic captive bolt device beforehand.
According to halal and Kashrut, however, the animal must be conscious at the point it's bleed out. If it's not conscious, it's effectively dead... And since Islam also forbids the eating of carrion, that's unacceptable to them. A silly line to draw, if you ask me, but that's what their faith says.
The difference between .30-06 M1 ball and surplus 7.62x54r is a muzzle velocity of about 50-100fps for a bullet of comparable weight, out of a barrel of comparable length, with the very slight edge going to .30-06. .30-06 and 7.62x54r is the apt comparison, as each was designed originally for bolt action service rifles, and each was later adopted to various machine gun applications.
Also, by the time 7.62x51 NATO was adopted, each of the above cartridges had already been in service for about a half century.
Funny enough, it doesn't matter whether the rifle in question is a 1903 Springfield or a Remington, Browning, Savage, hunting rifle or battle rifle, owners usually refer to their their rifles as "mah thirty-aught-six"
Hey now, doncha know...when packing a dwarf in your suitcase is outlawed, only outlaws will pack dwarves in their suitcases.
"even the ban on cannabis isn't quite working", he says.
Anyone who wants it can get it. Anyone, anywhere, and at virtually any time. And it "isn't quite working?" Prohibition 2.0 has been and continues to be a failure of monumental proportions, and at what cost?
That Epic 23e hybrid boat is pretty exciting, never heard of it before now. I'd guess the big fuel advantage is that you simply don't need a huge displacement engine to get the low-speed torque that is needed for wake-boarding, where prolonged top-end speed is less of a consideration.
Without copyright and patents, all writings and inventions are automatically public domain.
See, you've gone wrong on your second sentence. Not too long ago in our recent history, many artists, authors, composers, inventors and so on primarily earned their living through a concept known as patronage. An aristocrat would commission such an an artist for a particular occasion, and so artists were able to eat. Sometimes this relationship lasted a lifetime.
Sometimes, this aristocrat made this work available for others to enjoy; namely other aristocrats--as a way to flaunt their wealth... You can be sure most regular peon of the time didn't get to directly enjoy these things.
As for trade secrets, there's a thing called reverse engineering. If you make a novel product you want to sell to people, you can be guaranteed that other people will eventually figure out how it works, and soon after that they'll figure out how to make their own, and soon enough, at least one such person will go into competition with you... Even something as complicated and microscopic as a CPU transistor will fall to this.
Trade secrets are only practical for limited production items, of which YOU can retain complete control and ownership.
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."
In other words: invent something useful, or write something compelling, and in exchange for it eventually becoming public domain, we'll give you time-limited, exclusive rights to use it and make profit however you best see fit.
Social welfare is given because you're either incapable of working, or as a (ideally) short term cash infusion to sustain families who are in between employment.
Copyrights and Patents, as described in the progress clause are given in exchange for creation. IN EXCHANGE. If you insist in calling this a government welfare program, then you have to realize that ultimately, the recipients of welfare are in fact The People, you know--society as a whole. "general Welfare" in the preamble to the Constitution, and in the taxing and spending clause of the same? Yeah, those founding fathers were a bunch of dumbfuckers, weren't they?
Most productions rent them.
Not only that, most studios rent cameras and equipment from their own shell corporations; by taking advantage of some weirdness in the tax code, they make even the most successful show look like a dismal failure...on paper...it probably works out that your camera is completely free, minus tax lawyer fees.