You fail to understand how rediculous our government has become with regards to targets and statistics. I'd be interested in seeing the percentage of violent crime that led to death in the UK and US, that would be more indicative of the impact of guns. Obviously you would have to adjust the statistics so they were counting the same kinds of crime as violent first.
From that link you gave:
Principles that Obama supports on gun issues:
* Ban the sale or transfer of all forms of semi-automatic weapons.
* Increase state restrictions on the purchase and possession of firearms.
* Require manufacturers to provide child-safety locks with firearms.
Seems pretty sensible to me. What reason can you have for owning a semi-automatic weapon? You can't say "to fight the government" as if you really had to, you'd be fucked regardless (how many more hundred billion than you do they spend on "defense"?). Not to mention the probability of a gun being used to intentionally, or worse accidentally, kill someone is far higher than you having to fight the army.
Yeah, that's why I said I wasn't sure it was a good idea. It would be useful though if you were signed up to those things. Maybe if they were all excluded by default but you could include the private parts of sites that you had subscriptions to.
They've become slightly more tricky about it now. It uses Javascript to hide all the comments so even the cached copy doesn't work. Unless you use NoScript of course:).
I'm not sure this would be a good idea but Google could offer a service where webmasters can register a key with their domains and then when the Google crawler comes along it could sign something with that key to ask for "protected" content. That way services you have to sign up for could still be indexed. Assuming you're willing to hand all your data over to Google of course, but nobody seems to have a problem with that at the moment.
By default all versions of Windows since 3.0 use swapping. You can shut it off if you don't like it.
When I tried that with XP it wasn't happy, I kept getting warnings and certain applications wouldn't load. I've no idea why this happens as paging should be transparent but hey, it's Windows.
The really ridiculous thing about GM is that we've been manipulating crops through selective breeding for absolutely ages. We've also been bombarding seeds with radiation for quite some time.
I would rather have someone making changes based on the best knowledge available to them at the time on what those changes might do, instead of using radiation which might cause really bad changes that we don't even know about. It's a no brainer! The hysteria surrounding GM is just absurd. It's just a refinement of what we're already doing and might actually be safer than current practices.
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You fail to understand how rediculous our government has become with regards to targets and statistics. I'd be interested in seeing the percentage of violent crime that led to death in the UK and US, that would be more indicative of the impact of guns. Obviously you would have to adjust the statistics so they were counting the same kinds of crime as violent first.
From that link you gave:
Seems pretty sensible to me. What reason can you have for owning a semi-automatic weapon? You can't say "to fight the government" as if you really had to, you'd be fucked regardless (how many more hundred billion than you do they spend on "defense"?). Not to mention the probability of a gun being used to intentionally, or worse accidentally, kill someone is far higher than you having to fight the army.
I heard the antidote virus is in a hidden directory on the Duke Nukem Forever cd.
Hear, hear! They keep trying to dismantle the house of lords though. Or at least neuter it. We need guys like them who are in it for the long term.
OMG, the feeling of utter stupidity washing over me right now! I can't believe I didn't notice that!
Yeah, that's why I said I wasn't sure it was a good idea. It would be useful though if you were signed up to those things. Maybe if they were all excluded by default but you could include the private parts of sites that you had subscriptions to.
They've become slightly more tricky about it now. It uses Javascript to hide all the comments so even the cached copy doesn't work. Unless you use NoScript of course :).
I'm not sure this would be a good idea but Google could offer a service where webmasters can register a key with their domains and then when the Google crawler comes along it could sign something with that key to ask for "protected" content. That way services you have to sign up for could still be indexed. Assuming you're willing to hand all your data over to Google of course, but nobody seems to have a problem with that at the moment.
When I tried that with XP it wasn't happy, I kept getting warnings and certain applications wouldn't load. I've no idea why this happens as paging should be transparent but hey, it's Windows.
The really ridiculous thing about GM is that we've been manipulating crops through selective breeding for absolutely ages. We've also been bombarding seeds with radiation for quite some time.
I would rather have someone making changes based on the best knowledge available to them at the time on what those changes might do, instead of using radiation which might cause really bad changes that we don't even know about. It's a no brainer! The hysteria surrounding GM is just absurd. It's just a refinement of what we're already doing and might actually be safer than current practices.