Because the mindset is, that it's ok to feel good, but it's bad (and should be illegal) to feel TOO good. It's also ok to have fun, but it's definitely not ok to have TOO much fun (and it should be illegal). It's ok to make money, but it's not ok to make TOO much money (and it should be illegal, unless the proper entities are being bribed).
And the definition of "TOO X" is "more X than me at this moment".
I think that was parent's point, but it's not just prescription drugs, it's anything with medicine whether it be bandaging wounds, setting bones, taking xrays, pulling teeth, etc. All highly regulated. Practicing medicine in a plain sense is in fact illegal. If I try to do it, I can be arrested/fined. Also, nobody seems to notice or care that much, which is odd because in so many other industries, people are quick to point out market manipulation and monopolies.
I'm not interested in overclocking, but in the past when I wanted to test my cooling, I've just opened a terminal, started bc (arbitrary-precision calculator program), set the decimal points to 1000000000000 and then entered "2/7" or something. I suppose this is just stressing the ALU?
How do these tiny cameras work, considering the diffraction limits? I'm wondering how they even get an image. With a 1mm diameter sensor, you are asking for, I presume, hundreds of lines per mm in 'on-the-film' resolution in order to achieve even a very low-resolution image. How are you going to achieve hundreds of lines per mm of resolution with a micro-lens that is well within diffraction territory?
This thing is 1mm in diameter. For a 'normal' angle of view, that would give it a focal length of 1mm. At f/2, that's a.5mm aperture..5mm is about the size of a pinhole for a large-format pinhole camera, so diffraction is definitely in effect.
Our computers are orders of magnitude faster than they were decades ago. Why should our programs be orders of magnitude more bloated? In fact, it seems quite a coincidence that applications STILL take several seconds before launching....why not 30 seconds or 1/30th of a second? The answer is that if it launched in 30s, the programmer would realize that's unacceptable, and if it launched in 1/30th of a second, the programmer would bloat the application until it no longer did.
At work, I use a variety of online applications, GUI Java applications, and of course *soft productivity software, But the fastest and most downright blazing piece of software that I use on a daily basis is the '80s vintage IBM 3270-based framework that runs our factory.
It's amazing how much computing has advanced without improving.
If a company gave me $30,000 raise, that raise would be subject to income taxes, and might even kick me into a higher tax bracket. So say it's really 20K. Then when I go spend that 20K on things for myself, I pay taxes again, so the value is further reduced. So the company is only really giving me a <$20,000 in services or goods while spending $30,000 of its cash all the same. On the other hand, the company can offer more value to the employees while giving less to the government by offering perks. Hence company-provided laptops, smart phones, gym memberships, ping-pong tables, daycare, spa memberships, massages, and even cars. A hackerspace can be written off. Giving employees enough money to build or start their own hackerspace....well, the company wouldn't cough up that much extra salary.
I'm skeptical of perks because I'm usually of the attitude that I would rather have the money and then go spend it on whatever I want, and I don't want to hang around at work playing pingpong, but the fact is that from a gross perspective employees will will get more in perks than they will in money, and the government will get less.
I agree. I guess I just don't see what's so offensive about this. It's not like they forced anyone to use this app. What harm could this app possibly cause anyone? I agree that it seems a bit strange to me, but anyone who would purchase this app can be assumed to be interested in using it. If nobody wants it, and there really are no gay people that are interested in using this kind of thing, then nobody will buy it. It's just not a problem to be fixed. If there ARE people out there who are interested in a "Gay Cure" app, then why wouldn't you want them to have access to it? If you oppose this app you are basically saying "All people with gay tendencies should stay gay, they should be gay and they should like it, because if they did otherwise would crush my worldviews/conflict with the ax I have to grind". I thought that the open minded and undiscriminatory attidude would be to let people be free to explore their sexuality on their own. That IS the goal of the "sexual freedom/equality" crowd, right? Or is their agenda something else (blanket pro-gaydom)?
I just don't understand the mentality of "I am offended that Apple would provide the community at large the opportunity to purchase something that nobody could possibly be interested in because I will not allow the possibility that there might be someone interested in this sort of thing. On top of that, I will actively work to get this app removed so that nobody is able to use it". If you ask me the greater bigots are not the creators of the app, it's the 140,000 who went out of their way to have it removed just because it offended their own delicate sensibilities.
"Oh yes, because it's written in that holy book from an ancient goat-herders culture that we somehow think still applies to live in a world that is so radically different."
Understandable knee-jerk, but all lifetime of biblical study finds all kinds of condemnation of homosexuality, all kinds of condemnation of adultery, all kinds of condemnation of fornication, but the only scrap of anti-polygamy I can find in the bible is one line in Timothy where it is recommended that an ideal church leader "should only have one wife".
If our laws really were based on judeo-christian morals, we would have more support for polygamy than for homosexuals; the opposite is the case.
People are just spoiled by integrated circuit scaling, and get bored with regular technologies that don't get exponentially cheaper and better. I'm here to tell you that we will never see some great giant leap in solar cell performance or price like some people expect.There is limited room for improvement in solar cell efficiency because currently available cells output close to the theoretical limit that is possible for a solar cell to output (same order of magnitude at least). Even if you doubled the areal efficiency of solar cells (which is theoretically impossible for many cells, since they already output >1/2 the theoretical max), so what? It's only a factor of 2. People are used to factors of 2 every 18 months, but they are never going to see it with solar cells. Crystalline silicon cells aren't going to achieve a factor of 2 EVER. The only frontier left is $/Watt instead of Watts/area, and given the materials and processing involved I can't see solar cells getting much cheaper, at least not orders of magnitude cheaper. Integrated circuits got cheaper because they got smaller which uses less materials and leads to higher yields; guess what, you can't really make solar cells smaller...
It IS pretty much impossible, but that's not going to stop people from perpetuating the wive's tale for decades to come.
I actually have seen Magnetic Force Microscopy used as a tech demo to image the bits on a floppy disk. I asked the process owner if it could be used to extract data, and he just rolled his eyes. He said that besides the issues with modern hard drives having bits that are orders of magnitude smaller both in size and in magnetization, it's just impractical to extract any data, which should be obvious since it takes like 10 minutes to image a handful of bits. A handful of bits that could mean anything, and be anywhere on the disk platter, and anywhere in the file system, and which could represent erased or scrambled or encypted data anyway. I think the idea that you could go beyond even that and divine what bits were written "UNDER" the current ones is just fantasy. I have heard rumors that NSA has made purchases of a large quantity of scanning probe microscopes for this purpose, but they could have just been buying some for testing...manufacturing volume for scanning probe microscopes is such that an order of a half-dozen of them would be an overwhelmingly large order.
I agree completely, and I wish people would catch onto this already.
A corporation's only drive, and reason for existing, is to increase its profits. Any services, offers, or goods that a corporation provides to you, are only provided if it increases the profits of that corporation, never because the corporation wants to actually help you out. Corporations never, ever do anything because they like you, or because you are a nice person. If they say that they care about you, it's only so that they can maintain a good company image which again, leads to more profit for them. All dealings with a corporation have to be put in the perspective that there is only one thing that matters, ultimately...the bottom line. Failure to understand this makes you a sucker, and corporations love suckers.
In a similar way, the main motivating factor of government is to increase its sphere and scope of its authority, power and influence. That's it. Everything it does, it does in the quest for more power and authority. Any supposed benefits to you only exist if they help the ultimate goal of increasing government's role in your life, and increasing the size, authority, scope, and power of the government. The government never, ever does anything because it likes your or wants to protect you the way your parents might, for example.
I've heard smart but naive people puzzle over why the government maintains the current income tax system when it could switch out to any number of revenue-neutral taxation schemes that would be much more efficient. There is no need to be puzzled, though, the answer is obvious...the current system of taxation aids the government's ultimate goal of extending the scope of its authority and influence. I have heard smart but naive people wonder why the government doesn't cut taxes to help the economy instead of 'stimulus' efforts that go to special interests, when it's pretty clear that lower taxes stimulate an economy. There is no need to puzzle, though, if you simply have the proper perspective on government and what it is. I have heard smart but naive people puzzle endlessly over why marijuana is illegal even though it's relatively harmless. I have heard smart but naive people wonder why we don't use alternate voting systems that are provably more efficient. It doesn't matter the issue, right, left, any aspect of government all of a sudden makes sense once you realize that the status quo is the way it is because it causes an increase in the size, scope, and authority of the government.
It seems that most adult people, at least all but the most naive, understand that corporations' main motivating factor is to increase profits; many of those same people haven't put the government in the same realistic perspective.
PS2 was the last actual games console, IMO. Since then, nobody has made an actual games console. The instant 'consoles' started practically requiring internet connections and firmware updates, they stopped being game consoles, and became something else. The console is dead. Long live the console!
Your hypothetical crowd of 250,000 scenario is interesting, but it will never happen for the same reason that the real crowd of 300 million citizens is not doing anything...the High Noon effect. You will never get 250,000 people to act in concert.
There are 300 million people in the US, correct for age and physical capability and you have tens of millions of able-bodied, decent, hardworking Americans, who feel that they are powerless against the few hundred politicians that are selling this country out. Why don't they do anything? Because they don't see themselves as a mass of people.
It's this same effect that allows a few lightly armed prison guards to corral and torture hundreds of POWs. I was reading the book Ghost Soldiers and it struck me over and over while the POWs were being marched overland by the Japanese that if the POWs would just act in concert, they would be 50+ men for each prison guard. They couldn't possibly lose. But they don't act in concert. Every now and then one POW tries to do something and gets killed or tortured for it, and nobody wants to be that guy. It's the same thing with the millions of Americans versus the few hundred politicians that are selling out the USA. Nobody wants to be that One Guy, because any One Guy who tries to effect any change will 1) fail due to lack of support 2) have his life ruined, for no benefit (see 1). How do you mobilize the millions? I guess you need a leader to mobilize them; I dunno. It's interesting to think about.
Men don't have feelings, and women are always victims. Men are always perpetrators and aggressors and have no emotions, no emotional needs, and of course cannot be harmed emotionally. If you were properly socialized you would have absorbed this dogma by now.
Examples:
Woman sees man undressed in his own home: man gets arrested for indecent exposure (woman is the victim) Man sees woman undressed in her own home: man gets arrested for voyeurism (woman is the victim) Woman (of age) has sex with her father: man gets arrested for incest (woman is the victim) Man emotionally baits woman by appealing to her basic emotional needs then uses that emotional leverage to get money:Woman is being exploited Woman emotionally baits man by appealing to his basic emotional needs then uses that emotional leverage to get money:Woman is being exploited Female baby has genital parts removed by parents for cosmetic/tradition/superstition reasons: Illegal, woman is considered mutilated and worthy of sympathy (victim) Male baby has genital parts removed by parents for cosmetic/tradition/superstition reasons: Legal and encouraged, he should be like it, or at least live with it, and certainly not insinuate he has been harmed in any way.
I suggest you work on understanding this type of 'equality', and learn to absorb it and perpetuate it. Arguing for the rights of men or for their emotional needs to be protected or for them to have equal social protections and legal standings is not something that will make you popular in our society. Men are not encouraged to think freely or to question this system of equality.
""Go try to buy yourself enough fertilizer to blow up a building and see how successful you are""
I do, yearly, buy thousands of gallons of fertilizer, which I would assume is enough to blow up many buildings. I also know dozens of people personally that also buy fertilizer, sometimes in much larger quantities. In case you didn't know, fertilizer is used in farming, it's cheap, fungible, and whether it's tracked by the government or not is completely irrelevant because it's about as available in farm country as just about anything.
Airline rules vary, but typically the gun has to be in a case 'designed for holding firearms' and it must be locked.
Get that? It must be locked. NORMAL checked luggage not only doesn't have to be locked, it's not allowed to be locked (so TSA can rifle through it as they please and steal your shit).
So if you want to be able to lock your checked baggage, just fly with a gun. Not only will you be able to lock your gun case, you will be REQUIRED to do so, and anything else you can fit in that gun case can be locked too. I used to know a guy who claimed to always fly with a starter pistol (legal in many jurisdictions) just so he could check a lockable case.
This sounds similar to Kodak's failure to understand how quickly and universally digital imaging would catch on. In the late 20th century they were consolidating their production lines and coming up with ever-smaller film formats because they imagined that the market for film would explode in the developing world countries. They couldn't imagine that digital cameras would become cheap (or free, with cellphone) and that everyone would have a PC to take advantage of digital images. Thus Kodak completely missed the boat on digital cameras, being swamped by Asian invasion, and their film manufacturing business, instead of becoming more scalable and more flexible, became the opposite--geared toward massive production for demand that is no longer there.
I wish these governments would apply all the resources they spend on supressing the EVIDENCE of child abuse, on supressing the abuse itself. Instead, posession of the evidence of the crime seems to be considered the crime itself. I have to wonder what caused this state of affairs to arise and why we don't have rules criminalizing the posession of evidence of other wrongdoing.
6. A mature maple tree can have a mass of 1 ton or more (dry biomass, after removing the water), yet it starts from a seed that weighs less than 1 gram. Which of the following processes contributes the most to this huge increase in biomass? Circle the correct answer. (A) absorption of mineral substances from the soil via the roots (B) absorption of organic substances from the soil via the roots (C) incorporation of CO2 gas from the atmosphere into molecules by green leaves (D) incorporation of H2O from the soil into molecules by green leaves (E) absorption of solar radiation into the leaf
Key phrase: "dry biomass, after removing the water"
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Because the mindset is, that it's ok to feel good, but it's bad (and should be illegal) to feel TOO good. It's also ok to have fun, but it's definitely not ok to have TOO much fun (and it should be illegal). It's ok to make money, but it's not ok to make TOO much money (and it should be illegal, unless the proper entities are being bribed).
And the definition of "TOO X" is "more X than me at this moment".
I think that was parent's point, but it's not just prescription drugs, it's anything with medicine whether it be bandaging wounds, setting bones, taking xrays, pulling teeth, etc. All highly regulated. Practicing medicine in a plain sense is in fact illegal. If I try to do it, I can be arrested/fined. Also, nobody seems to notice or care that much, which is odd because in so many other industries, people are quick to point out market manipulation and monopolies.
Just make a soundproof wall; put some microphones on one side and speakers on the other.
(you'd have to use some basic amplification, otherwise it would work both ways and the speakers would work like mics and vice versa).
I'm not interested in overclocking, but in the past when I wanted to test my cooling, I've just opened a terminal, started bc (arbitrary-precision calculator program), set the decimal points to 1000000000000 and then entered "2/7" or something. I suppose this is just stressing the ALU?
How do these tiny cameras work, considering the diffraction limits? I'm wondering how they even get an image. With a 1mm diameter sensor, you are asking for, I presume, hundreds of lines per mm in 'on-the-film' resolution in order to achieve even a very low-resolution image. How are you going to achieve hundreds of lines per mm of resolution with a micro-lens that is well within diffraction territory?
.5mm aperture. .5mm is about the size of a pinhole for a large-format pinhole camera, so diffraction is definitely in effect.
This thing is 1mm in diameter. For a 'normal' angle of view, that would give it a focal length of 1mm. At f/2, that's a
Our computers are orders of magnitude faster than they were decades ago. Why should our programs be orders of magnitude more bloated? In fact, it seems quite a coincidence that applications STILL take several seconds before launching....why not 30 seconds or 1/30th of a second? The answer is that if it launched in 30s, the programmer would realize that's unacceptable, and if it launched in 1/30th of a second, the programmer would bloat the application until it no longer did.
At work, I use a variety of online applications, GUI Java applications, and of course *soft productivity software, But the fastest and most downright blazing piece of software that I use on a daily basis is the '80s vintage IBM 3270-based framework that runs our factory.
It's amazing how much computing has advanced without improving.
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If a company gave me $30,000 raise, that raise would be subject to income taxes, and might even kick me into a higher tax bracket. So say it's really 20K. Then when I go spend that 20K on things for myself, I pay taxes again, so the value is further reduced. So the company is only really giving me a <$20,000 in services or goods while spending $30,000 of its cash all the same. On the other hand, the company can offer more value to the employees while giving less to the government by offering perks. Hence company-provided laptops, smart phones, gym memberships, ping-pong tables, daycare, spa memberships, massages, and even cars. A hackerspace can be written off. Giving employees enough money to build or start their own hackerspace....well, the company wouldn't cough up that much extra salary.
I'm skeptical of perks because I'm usually of the attitude that I would rather have the money and then go spend it on whatever I want, and I don't want to hang around at work playing pingpong, but the fact is that from a gross perspective employees will will get more in perks than they will in money, and the government will get less.
Yes, but the police don't know the law, they just enforce it.
I agree. I guess I just don't see what's so offensive about this. It's not like they forced anyone to use this app. What harm could this app possibly cause anyone? I agree that it seems a bit strange to me, but anyone who would purchase this app can be assumed to be interested in using it. If nobody wants it, and there really are no gay people that are interested in using this kind of thing, then nobody will buy it. It's just not a problem to be fixed. If there ARE people out there who are interested in a "Gay Cure" app, then why wouldn't you want them to have access to it? If you oppose this app you are basically saying "All people with gay tendencies should stay gay, they should be gay and they should like it, because if they did otherwise would crush my worldviews/conflict with the ax I have to grind". I thought that the open minded and undiscriminatory attidude would be to let people be free to explore their sexuality on their own. That IS the goal of the "sexual freedom/equality" crowd, right? Or is their agenda something else (blanket pro-gaydom)?
I just don't understand the mentality of "I am offended that Apple would provide the community at large the opportunity to purchase something that nobody could possibly be interested in because I will not allow the possibility that there might be someone interested in this sort of thing. On top of that, I will actively work to get this app removed so that nobody is able to use it". If you ask me the greater bigots are not the creators of the app, it's the 140,000 who went out of their way to have it removed just because it offended their own delicate sensibilities.
What is this $99 android tablet of which you speak? Pics or it doesn't exist.
"Oh yes, because it's written in that holy book from an ancient goat-herders culture that we somehow think still applies to live in a world that is so radically different."
Understandable knee-jerk, but all lifetime of biblical study finds all kinds of condemnation of homosexuality, all kinds of condemnation of adultery, all kinds of condemnation of fornication, but the only scrap of anti-polygamy I can find in the bible is one line in Timothy where it is recommended that an ideal church leader "should only have one wife".
If our laws really were based on judeo-christian morals, we would have more support for polygamy than for homosexuals; the opposite is the case.
People are just spoiled by integrated circuit scaling, and get bored with regular technologies that don't get exponentially cheaper and better. I'm here to tell you that we will never see some great giant leap in solar cell performance or price like some people expect.There is limited room for improvement in solar cell efficiency because currently available cells output close to the theoretical limit that is possible for a solar cell to output (same order of magnitude at least). Even if you doubled the areal efficiency of solar cells (which is theoretically impossible for many cells, since they already output >1/2 the theoretical max), so what? It's only a factor of 2. People are used to factors of 2 every 18 months, but they are never going to see it with solar cells. Crystalline silicon cells aren't going to achieve a factor of 2 EVER. The only frontier left is $/Watt instead of Watts/area, and given the materials and processing involved I can't see solar cells getting much cheaper, at least not orders of magnitude cheaper. Integrated circuits got cheaper because they got smaller which uses less materials and leads to higher yields; guess what, you can't really make solar cells smaller...
It IS pretty much impossible, but that's not going to stop people from perpetuating the wive's tale for decades to come.
I actually have seen Magnetic Force Microscopy used as a tech demo to image the bits on a floppy disk. I asked the process owner if it could be used to extract data, and he just rolled his eyes. He said that besides the issues with modern hard drives having bits that are orders of magnitude smaller both in size and in magnetization, it's just impractical to extract any data, which should be obvious since it takes like 10 minutes to image a handful of bits. A handful of bits that could mean anything, and be anywhere on the disk platter, and anywhere in the file system, and which could represent erased or scrambled or encypted data anyway. I think the idea that you could go beyond even that and divine what bits were written "UNDER" the current ones is just fantasy. I have heard rumors that NSA has made purchases of a large quantity of scanning probe microscopes for this purpose, but they could have just been buying some for testing...manufacturing volume for scanning probe microscopes is such that an order of a half-dozen of them would be an overwhelmingly large order.
I agree completely, and I wish people would catch onto this already.
A corporation's only drive, and reason for existing, is to increase its profits. Any services, offers, or goods that a corporation provides to you, are only provided if it increases the profits of that corporation, never because the corporation wants to actually help you out. Corporations never, ever do anything because they like you, or because you are a nice person. If they say that they care about you, it's only so that they can maintain a good company image which again, leads to more profit for them. All dealings with a corporation have to be put in the perspective that there is only one thing that matters, ultimately...the bottom line. Failure to understand this makes you a sucker, and corporations love suckers.
In a similar way, the main motivating factor of government is to increase its sphere and scope of its authority, power and influence. That's it. Everything it does, it does in the quest for more power and authority. Any supposed benefits to you only exist if they help the ultimate goal of increasing government's role in your life, and increasing the size, authority, scope, and power of the government. The government never, ever does anything because it likes your or wants to protect you the way your parents might, for example.
I've heard smart but naive people puzzle over why the government maintains the current income tax system when it could switch out to any number of revenue-neutral taxation schemes that would be much more efficient. There is no need to be puzzled, though, the answer is obvious...the current system of taxation aids the government's ultimate goal of extending the scope of its authority and influence. I have heard smart but naive people wonder why the government doesn't cut taxes to help the economy instead of 'stimulus' efforts that go to special interests, when it's pretty clear that lower taxes stimulate an economy. There is no need to puzzle, though, if you simply have the proper perspective on government and what it is. I have heard smart but naive people puzzle endlessly over why marijuana is illegal even though it's relatively harmless. I have heard smart but naive people wonder why we don't use alternate voting systems that are provably more efficient. It doesn't matter the issue, right, left, any aspect of government all of a sudden makes sense once you realize that the status quo is the way it is because it causes an increase in the size, scope, and authority of the government.
It seems that most adult people, at least all but the most naive, understand that corporations' main motivating factor is to increase profits; many of those same people haven't put the government in the same realistic perspective.
PS2 was the last actual games console, IMO. Since then, nobody has made an actual games console. The instant 'consoles' started practically requiring internet connections and firmware updates, they stopped being game consoles, and became something else. The console is dead. Long live the console!
Your hypothetical crowd of 250,000 scenario is interesting, but it will never happen for the same reason that the real crowd of 300 million citizens is not doing anything...the High Noon effect. You will never get 250,000 people to act in concert.
There are 300 million people in the US, correct for age and physical capability and you have tens of millions of able-bodied, decent, hardworking Americans, who feel that they are powerless against the few hundred politicians that are selling this country out. Why don't they do anything? Because they don't see themselves as a mass of people.
It's this same effect that allows a few lightly armed prison guards to corral and torture hundreds of POWs. I was reading the book Ghost Soldiers and it struck me over and over while the POWs were being marched overland by the Japanese that if the POWs would just act in concert, they would be 50+ men for each prison guard. They couldn't possibly lose. But they don't act in concert. Every now and then one POW tries to do something and gets killed or tortured for it, and nobody wants to be that guy. It's the same thing with the millions of Americans versus the few hundred politicians that are selling out the USA. Nobody wants to be that One Guy, because any One Guy who tries to effect any change will 1) fail due to lack of support 2) have his life ruined, for no benefit (see 1). How do you mobilize the millions? I guess you need a leader to mobilize them; I dunno. It's interesting to think about.
Men don't have feelings, and women are always victims. Men are always perpetrators and aggressors and have no emotions, no emotional needs, and of course cannot be harmed emotionally. If you were properly socialized you would have absorbed this dogma by now.
Examples:
Woman sees man undressed in his own home: man gets arrested for indecent exposure (woman is the victim)
Man sees woman undressed in her own home: man gets arrested for voyeurism (woman is the victim)
Woman (of age) has sex with her father: man gets arrested for incest (woman is the victim)
Man emotionally baits woman by appealing to her basic emotional needs then uses that emotional leverage to get money:Woman is being exploited
Woman emotionally baits man by appealing to his basic emotional needs then uses that emotional leverage to get money:Woman is being exploited
Female baby has genital parts removed by parents for cosmetic/tradition/superstition reasons: Illegal, woman is considered mutilated and worthy of sympathy (victim)
Male baby has genital parts removed by parents for cosmetic/tradition/superstition reasons: Legal and encouraged, he should be like it, or at least live with it, and certainly not insinuate he has been harmed in any way.
I suggest you work on understanding this type of 'equality', and learn to absorb it and perpetuate it. Arguing for the rights of men or for their emotional needs to be protected or for them to have equal social protections and legal standings is not something that will make you popular in our society. Men are not encouraged to think freely or to question this system of equality.
""Go try to buy yourself enough fertilizer to blow up a building and see how successful you are""
I do, yearly, buy thousands of gallons of fertilizer, which I would assume is enough to blow up many buildings. I also know dozens of people personally that also buy fertilizer, sometimes in much larger quantities. In case you didn't know, fertilizer is used in farming, it's cheap, fungible, and whether it's tracked by the government or not is completely irrelevant because it's about as available in farm country as just about anything.
Airline rules vary, but typically the gun has to be in a case 'designed for holding firearms' and it must be locked.
Get that? It must be locked. NORMAL checked luggage not only doesn't have to be locked, it's not allowed to be locked (so TSA can rifle through it as they please and steal your shit).
So if you want to be able to lock your checked baggage, just fly with a gun. Not only will you be able to lock your gun case, you will be REQUIRED to do so, and anything else you can fit in that gun case can be locked too. I used to know a guy who claimed to always fly with a starter pistol (legal in many jurisdictions) just so he could check a lockable case.
IANAL YMMV
This sounds similar to Kodak's failure to understand how quickly and universally digital imaging would catch on. In the late 20th century they were consolidating their production lines and coming up with ever-smaller film formats because they imagined that the market for film would explode in the developing world countries. They couldn't imagine that digital cameras would become cheap (or free, with cellphone) and that everyone would have a PC to take advantage of digital images. Thus Kodak completely missed the boat on digital cameras, being swamped by Asian invasion, and their film manufacturing business, instead of becoming more scalable and more flexible, became the opposite--geared toward massive production for demand that is no longer there.
Physicist flatter themselves that such is the case, but the reality is a bit different.
http://xkcd.com/793/
I wish these governments would apply all the resources they spend on supressing the EVIDENCE of child abuse, on supressing the abuse itself. Instead, posession of the evidence of the crime seems to be considered the crime itself. I have to wonder what caused this state of affairs to arise and why we don't have rules criminalizing the posession of evidence of other wrongdoing.
6. A mature maple tree can have a mass of 1 ton or more (dry biomass, after
removing the water), yet it starts from a seed that weighs less than 1 gram. Which
of the following processes contributes the most to this huge increase in biomass?
Circle the correct answer.
(A) absorption of mineral substances from the soil via the roots
(B) absorption of organic substances from the soil via the roots
(C) incorporation of CO2 gas from the atmosphere into molecules by green leaves
(D) incorporation of H2O from the soil into molecules by green leaves
(E) absorption of solar radiation into the leaf
Key phrase: "dry biomass, after removing the water"
Please mod parent up for truthiness.