No -- if you put a 5.56 round into a.223 chambered weapon, you run the risk of blowing up the weapon. The chamber specs are different.
The bullet is the same diameter (.224"), but the chamber is different, which means it is dangerous to interchange them -- and incorrect to state that they are the same, which is why I called you on it.
Citing Wikipedia as an authoritative source on anything firearm related destroys your credibility, btw, as does all the other errors you made in your post.
Citing a "physicsforum" article as authoritative on what US Soldiers do overseas (I've spent time carrying an M4 over there, just fyi -- I speak from experience, not an internet forum) also destroys your credibility.
There's no such thing as "Nato.223" -- and it normally fragments, creating multiple wound channels, rather than tumbling. The proper name for the spec is 5.56 NATO.
No Soldier, Sailor, or Marine I've ever known "picks up an AK-47" to use.
There is absolutely no advantage to using an AK-47 over an M4 or M16 -- in fact there are significant disadvantages. Logistics is one -- where are you going to get ammunition for your battlefield pickup AK? Are you going to pick up some old left-over 1970's ammo the bad guys use? Ball ammo that doesn't fragment like XM-193 does, nor penetrate like M855 or SS109 does? Also, the legal jeopardy a person who did that unnecessarily would put themselves in would be an issue as well.
The M4 actually has a dust cover -- wonder why? It's so that dirt and sand don't get in the action. The AK has none of that -- and will certainly fail if it has sand and dirt dumped into it. Either weapon will fail if dirt and sand get into the action.
The weight of the bullet has very little to do with the performance of the bullet against the human body -- trust me, you'd far rather be hit by an old 7.62x39 ball round than a modern XM193, SS109, or 77 grain TAP round in 5.56 (any of which will cut right through IIIA body armor, while 7.62x39 will not).
And btw -- there's no such thing as "Nato 223" -- the spec is 5.56x45 NATO, and there is a significant difference between.223 and 5.56 -- such that firing 5.56 ammo from a weapon chambered in.223 may result in the weapon failing. The diameter of the bullet is the same (.224"), but the chamber specifications are different.
Ironically, you posted that people get outside their comfort zone, then you posted outside your realm of knowledge. The one thing you did get right is that.22LR is not generally considered adequate for a self-defense round.
As an authorizing official at my last command, there's a bit more to your purchases than just going to your local Target or Office Depot. Those purchases are supposed to be vetted in advance by your AO, then verified and signed off afterwards, then audited monthly with your supply officer or equivalent. It's really not equivalent to a petty cash setup.
Google does have a "featured apps" section. I'm not sure how they determine what gets featured, but it does exist.
Uploading the binary is as simple as filling out a web form -- just fill in the details, select the binary, and hit submit.
Google does require you to sign your binaries. It's a simple process, it can be done either from the plugin in Eclipse or manually.
Google does vet the app store, just not the same way as Apple does theirs. When you upload an app, you have to verify that you've complied with their TOS for applications, and if you violate it they can remove the app as well as your dev account if they so choose. They've removed a few apps and made a few accessible only in certain countries or on certain carriers.
I like Mark Murphy's subscription format as well -- you get all of them for one fee plus updates for as long as you keep the subscription.
They're also great books, and they're how I learned.
I got news for you...while I will not go into any more detail than this, while I was in the Air Force I worked on a system for three years for the Strategic Air Command that would automatically launch all of our ICBMs if the chain of command was ever knocked out. As far as I know that system or its successor is still operational (I've been out of the military for 29 years).
I am always amazed that the world has managed to avoid a nuclear war...
You're lying.
Sorry, if you had the clearance to deal with sort of thing, you would know you can't ever discuss it publicly.
Does Galileo offer any advantages for Android development yet?
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Not that I completely disagree with you, but a couple of points...
The GUI tools in Eclipse don't work at all for Android, and DroidDraw, while a cool toy, can't handle anything more complex than a textview and a couple of buttons.
It's easier to just type the xml in by hand.
Also, the NDK they just released is extremely limited right now.
Just my opinion, and I do have an application in the market, is that Android is really still in Beta. I like it, and I think it will be great in time, but it's still kind of a pain to develop for.
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I've been using one as my cell phone for about 5 months now (I bought pretty much the day they announced the dev phone), and it works fine. I guess there may be some apps in the market I can't access, but I don't know of any specific ones. I think the consensus among developers is that there's not much point in using the DRM right now.
I'm curious about your statement. Are you saying that most police forces are capable of cracking TrueCrypt, or are you saying that most police forces have no problem torturing it out of someone?
If the former, I think you're mistaken. TrueCrypt should be fairly secure against cryptanalysis. Of course, there's no way to know for certain, I suppose, but it's generally highly regarded. If the latter, I guess it depends on the motivation of the torturee -- torture doesn't guarantee a confession, you know.
Amazing how people love to spout even when they obviously won't even bother to read about a situation. At least read the news -- your assertions have no basis in fact, and everybody, including the special prosecutor, knows it. Libby was a convenient wrap-up to a failed investigation of a non-event so the special prosecutor could say he did something.
Except for the fact that your "fetus" will someday (absent your decision to murder him, or a miscarriage) become a human, even by your logic. An animal never will, so there's really no comparison between the two. The pro-life debate is really a debate on when life begins, and even a large percentage of the pro-abortion faction in this country still thinks that abortion is only legal in the first trimester (shocking to me once I started actually running into people who said that, but it seems a very common belief from my experience) for this reason. It's a whole lot harder for people who try to retain some sense of conscience to justify killing an 8 month old "fetus" who has identifiable features, a heartbeat, toes, eyes, etc, than it is a 3 day old "blob of tissue" in the name of science.
Does anyone actually look at their keyboard?? I can't remember the last time I even saw mine! Anyone who seriously uses a computer should be able to touch type, and I don't remember the last time I used an "email shortcut" key or anything like that. In all honesty, I can't even tell you what that key does in Linux at the moment -- I've never pressed it or any of the keys in that row. They're just detritus that I completely ignore. It sounds like your idea would be a neat toy, or maybe a training aide for someone who doesn't know emacs (though the tab key works pretty well to find the command you're looking for once you hit meta), but for a serious user I simply can't see any value added whatsoever. A keyboard is a simple tool designed to do a simple job -- input characters to the operating system. You start going beyond that and in my opinion, you wind up decreasing its usefulness.
Perhaps you should read your links a bit more closely. They actually say the opposite of what you're saying -- a store detective MUST have probable cause to detain you, and neither link even mentions a door alarm going off being probable cause (it isn't). The first link you post lays out in great detail what defines probable cause and what steps must be taken in order to detain someone.
A citizen's arrest is really only justified when a person has observed another committing a crime(talking about misdemeanors, which shoplifting typically qualifies for) -- a buzz from a notoriously unreliable system on the way out the door would likely not hold up as PC in court by itself, thus anyone who wanted to use that as a basis for a citizen's arrest would be liable to be sued for false arrest if they turned out to be wrong. The other comments in the links about physically restraining a person would only complicate things by adding assault charges to the mix -- attempting to put handcuffs on someone for walking out of a store would be a very dumb move by a private security person.
Not the policeman -- the store manager or whoever made you wait for the police. I suspect the police officer allowed you to leave as soon as he arrived -- I doubt he did anything wrong; from your description of the event he didn't even search you. Police are typically well trained to avoid this -- I guess you could say it's an occupational hazard for them to be sued for false arrest even when they've done nothing wrong.
The wiki definition of False Arrest, is interesting in its definition of the tort of False Arrest being normally charged against private security firms and store security officers for precisely the circumstances you describe.
There are too many alternatives that are much more effective
The idea is that you can take someone who steals and rehabilitate them -- or at least make them work so hard for so long that they will never want to do it again. Take away the incentive to steal -- make them work 18 hours a day until they've paid off that PC they stole (forced restitution -- you get your property back plus whatever fee the court decides is just) and they'll hopefully decide it's not worth the effort to steal again. This doesn't have much of an effect when you're talking about someone who commits a violent crime -- there is no restitution for a rape or murder. And that guy who "in the heat of passion" shoots his wife has serious issues in my opinion. Maybe he'll never kill anyone again, but how do you know that? He's proven himself capable of taking another person's life in a situation that doesn't warrant it.
The Uzi fires from an open bolt. Also, it(and most handguns/subguns) are blowback operated, that is, the recoil controls the action and gas has nothing to do with it. Just makes it a bit simpler -- the Uzi is well known for being one of the easiest and most reliable submachine guns to use.
So it shouldn't be the judges decision, I do agree, but Bush is saying it should be up to him, by pushing a Constitutional Amendment to enforce his religious view!
Perhaps I missed something, but last time I checked, doesn't a Constitutional amendment require a 2/3 vote in Congress and confirmation by 2/3's of the states? You don't think the president can simply decide one day "I think I'm going to amend the constitution", do you? Come on -- don't be stupid. The President believes strongly that there should be an amendment, so he suggests it -- then it's up to the PEOPLE of the US, not him, to decide whether they want to "enforce his religious view", as you put it (which, IIRC the house decided they would not do). That's the democratic process -- we (or our elected representatives) get to decide -- not just one person.
It's not like he came out with an executive order banning gay marriage for goodness' sake -- if he'd done that then maybe you'd have a point.
If you're trying to keep yourself out of trouble, you need to report it IMMEDIATELY. If you fail to do so, you are an accessory to the crime -- don't delay, call the police NOW.
Ordinarily I refuse to even read AC's, however in this case since some IDIOT modded you up, I feel the need to respond.
You are obviously NOT a police officer. First of all, I've never heard an officer refer to him/herself as a "cop." Secondly, your advice is complete BS. DO NOT EVER tamper with evidence!!! The second you start moving stuff around you've very likely destroyed whatever case the DA may have had, and you've certainly destroyed whatever civil case you may have had.
Call the police, follow their advice. Not some AC "cop" from slashdot.
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No -- if you put a 5.56 round into a .223 chambered weapon, you run the risk of blowing up the weapon. The chamber specs are different.
The bullet is the same diameter (.224"), but the chamber is different, which means it is dangerous to interchange them -- and incorrect to state that they are the same, which is why I called you on it.
Citing Wikipedia as an authoritative source on anything firearm related destroys your credibility, btw, as does all the other errors you made in your post.
Citing a "physicsforum" article as authoritative on what US Soldiers do overseas (I've spent time carrying an M4 over there, just fyi -- I speak from experience, not an internet forum) also destroys your credibility.
FAIL.
There's no such thing as "Nato .223" -- and it normally fragments, creating multiple wound channels, rather than tumbling. The proper name for the spec is 5.56 NATO.
Fail.
No Soldier, Sailor, or Marine I've ever known "picks up an AK-47" to use.
There is absolutely no advantage to using an AK-47 over an M4 or M16 -- in fact there are significant disadvantages. Logistics is one -- where are you going to get ammunition for your battlefield pickup AK? Are you going to pick up some old left-over 1970's ammo the bad guys use? Ball ammo that doesn't fragment like XM-193 does, nor penetrate like M855 or SS109 does? Also, the legal jeopardy a person who did that unnecessarily would put themselves in would be an issue as well.
The M4 actually has a dust cover -- wonder why? It's so that dirt and sand don't get in the action. The AK has none of that -- and will certainly fail if it has sand and dirt dumped into it. Either weapon will fail if dirt and sand get into the action.
The weight of the bullet has very little to do with the performance of the bullet against the human body -- trust me, you'd far rather be hit by an old 7.62x39 ball round than a modern XM193, SS109, or 77 grain TAP round in 5.56 (any of which will cut right through IIIA body armor, while 7.62x39 will not).
And btw -- there's no such thing as "Nato 223" -- the spec is 5.56x45 NATO, and there is a significant difference between .223 and 5.56 -- such that firing 5.56 ammo from a weapon chambered in .223 may result in the weapon failing. The diameter of the bullet is the same (.224"), but the chamber specifications are different.
Ironically, you posted that people get outside their comfort zone, then you posted outside your realm of knowledge. .22LR is not generally considered adequate for a self-defense round.
The one thing you did get right is that
As an authorizing official at my last command, there's a bit more to your purchases than just going to your local Target or Office Depot. Those purchases are supposed to be vetted in advance by your AO, then verified and signed off afterwards, then audited monthly with your supply officer or equivalent. It's really not equivalent to a petty cash setup.
Tmobile will unlock your phone for you once you've had your account with them for 90 days.
Just a few nits to pick:
Google does have a "featured apps" section. I'm not sure how they determine what gets featured, but it does exist.
Uploading the binary is as simple as filling out a web form -- just fill in the details, select the binary, and hit submit.
Google does require you to sign your binaries. It's a simple process, it can be done either from the plugin in Eclipse or manually.
Google does vet the app store, just not the same way as Apple does theirs. When you upload an app, you have to verify that you've complied with their TOS for applications, and if you violate it they can remove the app as well as your dev account if they so choose. They've removed a few apps and made a few accessible only in certain countries or on certain carriers.
I like Mark Murphy's subscription format as well -- you get all of them for one fee plus updates for as long as you keep the subscription. They're also great books, and they're how I learned.
I got news for you...while I will not go into any more detail than this, while I was in the Air Force I worked on a system for three years for the Strategic Air Command that would automatically launch all of our ICBMs if the chain of command was ever knocked out. As far as I know that system or its successor is still operational (I've been out of the military for 29 years). I am always amazed that the world has managed to avoid a nuclear war...
You're lying. Sorry, if you had the clearance to deal with sort of thing, you would know you can't ever discuss it publicly.
Go to sourceforge, find a project that you have an interest in, and send a note to the developer to see if he could use the help.
Be honest about your skill level and intentions...
Does Galileo offer any advantages for Android development yet?
Not that I completely disagree with you, but a couple of points... The GUI tools in Eclipse don't work at all for Android, and DroidDraw, while a cool toy, can't handle anything more complex than a textview and a couple of buttons. It's easier to just type the xml in by hand. Also, the NDK they just released is extremely limited right now. Just my opinion, and I do have an application in the market, is that Android is really still in Beta. I like it, and I think it will be great in time, but it's still kind of a pain to develop for.
I've been using one as my cell phone for about 5 months now (I bought pretty much the day they announced the dev phone), and it works fine. I guess there may be some apps in the market I can't access, but I don't know of any specific ones. I think the consensus among developers is that there's not much point in using the DRM right now.
I'm curious about your statement. Are you saying that most police forces are capable of cracking TrueCrypt, or are you saying that most police forces have no problem torturing it out of someone?
If the former, I think you're mistaken. TrueCrypt should be fairly secure against cryptanalysis. Of course, there's no way to know for certain, I suppose, but it's generally highly regarded. If the latter, I guess it depends on the motivation of the torturee -- torture doesn't guarantee a confession, you know.
Amazing how people love to spout even when they obviously won't even bother to read about a situation. At least read the news -- your assertions have no basis in fact, and everybody, including the special prosecutor, knows it. Libby was a convenient wrap-up to a failed investigation of a non-event so the special prosecutor could say he did something.
Except for the fact that your "fetus" will someday (absent your decision to murder him, or a miscarriage) become a human, even by your logic. An animal never will, so there's really no comparison between the two. The pro-life debate is really a debate on when life begins, and even a large percentage of the pro-abortion faction in this country still thinks that abortion is only legal in the first trimester (shocking to me once I started actually running into people who said that, but it seems a very common belief from my experience) for this reason. It's a whole lot harder for people who try to retain some sense of conscience to justify killing an 8 month old "fetus" who has identifiable features, a heartbeat, toes, eyes, etc, than it is a 3 day old "blob of tissue" in the name of science.
That's pretty good! Though the military makes sure I stay in pretty decent shape. :)
Does anyone actually look at their keyboard?? I can't remember the last time I even saw mine! Anyone who seriously uses a computer should be able to touch type, and I don't remember the last time I used an "email shortcut" key or anything like that. In all honesty, I can't even tell you what that key does in Linux at the moment -- I've never pressed it or any of the keys in that row. They're just detritus that I completely ignore. It sounds like your idea would be a neat toy, or maybe a training aide for someone who doesn't know emacs (though the tab key works pretty well to find the command you're looking for once you hit meta), but for a serious user I simply can't see any value added whatsoever. A keyboard is a simple tool designed to do a simple job -- input characters to the operating system. You start going beyond that and in my opinion, you wind up decreasing its usefulness.
A citizen's arrest is really only justified when a person has observed another committing a crime(talking about misdemeanors, which shoplifting typically qualifies for) -- a buzz from a notoriously unreliable system on the way out the door would likely not hold up as PC in court by itself, thus anyone who wanted to use that as a basis for a citizen's arrest would be liable to be sued for false arrest if they turned out to be wrong. The other comments in the links about physically restraining a person would only complicate things by adding assault charges to the mix -- attempting to put handcuffs on someone for walking out of a store would be a very dumb move by a private security person.
The wiki definition of False Arrest, is interesting in its definition of the tort of False Arrest being normally charged against private security firms and store security officers for precisely the circumstances you describe.
The idea is that you can take someone who steals and rehabilitate them -- or at least make them work so hard for so long that they will never want to do it again. Take away the incentive to steal -- make them work 18 hours a day until they've paid off that PC they stole (forced restitution -- you get your property back plus whatever fee the court decides is just) and they'll hopefully decide it's not worth the effort to steal again. This doesn't have much of an effect when you're talking about someone who commits a violent crime -- there is no restitution for a rape or murder. And that guy who "in the heat of passion" shoots his wife has serious issues in my opinion. Maybe he'll never kill anyone again, but how do you know that? He's proven himself capable of taking another person's life in a situation that doesn't warrant it.
After reading this, it hit me that a large number of readers probably won't even get the joke...
The Uzi fires from an open bolt. Also, it(and most handguns/subguns) are blowback operated, that is, the recoil controls the action and gas has nothing to do with it. Just makes it a bit simpler -- the Uzi is well known for being one of the easiest and most reliable submachine guns to use.
Perhaps I missed something, but last time I checked, doesn't a Constitutional amendment require a 2/3 vote in Congress and confirmation by 2/3's of the states? You don't think the president can simply decide one day "I think I'm going to amend the constitution", do you? Come on -- don't be stupid. The President believes strongly that there should be an amendment, so he suggests it -- then it's up to the PEOPLE of the US, not him, to decide whether they want to "enforce his religious view", as you put it (which, IIRC the house decided they would not do). That's the democratic process -- we (or our elected representatives) get to decide -- not just one person.
It's not like he came out with an executive order banning gay marriage for goodness' sake -- if he'd done that then maybe you'd have a point.
If you're trying to keep yourself out of trouble, you need to report it IMMEDIATELY. If you fail to do so, you are an accessory to the crime -- don't delay, call the police NOW.
You are obviously NOT a police officer. First of all, I've never heard an officer refer to him/herself as a "cop." Secondly, your advice is complete BS. DO NOT EVER tamper with evidence!!! The second you start moving stuff around you've very likely destroyed whatever case the DA may have had, and you've certainly destroyed whatever civil case you may have had.
Call the police, follow their advice. Not some AC "cop" from slashdot.