M16 is select fire, Rock and roll. M4 only has 3 round burst.
No. The Marines redesigned the M16 for burst in the 90s. Most M16s and M4s are burst, a few of each are full-auto and are only issued to very specialized troops.
In what world can owning a car be compared to owning a gun? Quick reminder: one is designed to go from one place to another, the other is designed to kill other people.
No. At Boy Scout summer camp we used guns designed for putting holes in pieces of paper and breaking pieces of clay. Check out the Olympics, you will find guns used for similar things. Shooting is a sport, that it the most common usage of firearms.
No. They can also be designed or used for putting holes in pieces of paper, knocking over or pinging metal plates, breaking pieces of clay, etc. Shooting is also a sport. Given that slashdot seems to be on a current events theme I'll add that shooting is an Olympic Sport.
And talk to a lawyer specializing in employment law regarding remedies and responses to inappropriate actions. Messing with someone's vacation days may be illegal. You don't want your remedies creating more opportunities to get sued.
Note that caveat at the end of the statement: "unless such recordings interfere with police activity". If you are the person being interviewed, searched, etc then actions taken to film the interaction may be considered to be such "interference". Again, that word "bystander" was probably very carefully chosen to distinguish between those involved in the interaction and those not.
Police are supposed to have the same rights as citizens. They are just more highly trained in the area of law enforcement. Citizens and police should be held to the same standards of conduct. In Florida for instance a police officer out of his jurisdiction has the same rights as a citizen to make arrests. They can hold the suspect until the sheriff arrives to take the person into custody. When the case gets to trial you have to show up. If you break the law during the arrest you can be sued as well.
That is not quite right. Law enforcement has special authority to conduct pre-emptive and other active/offensive operations within their jurisdiction, and to use equipment/weapons unavailable to civilians during these operations. Law enforcement is not held to the same standard as civilians, they are held to a higher standard because of their expertise, training, equipment, etc. For example the interpretation of "appropriate response" in the context of self defense is more narrow for law enforcement than for civilians.
How about we just remove the rights of Corporate Media from reporting, instead of Citizens? Corporations aren't People.
The controversial "Citizens United" US Supreme Court decision says exactly that. My understanding is that the court did *not* say that "corporations are people" and that this phrase was spin from the opponents of the decision. I believe the court said two things. One: that groups of people have the same speech rights as an individual person, the nature of that group (company, union, special interest, etc) is irrelevant. Two: that media corporations have no special speech rights, all organizations have the same speech rights. Well, that was my understanding from skimming the decision. Perhaps I missed something. If you think I missed something I'd prefer a reference to the decision, not what some talking head on TV said, what some political blogger said, etc. I don't trust these to accurately report a supreme court decision any more than I expect them to accurately report on technical/computer issues.
The order makes a lot of sense. But I wonder why anyone thought reporters had special rights. Freedom of the press means they can print what they want, but when they're on the scene the press pass doesn't mean anything.
The press pass, press ID, etc is merely a courtesy extended to the press in some jurisdictions. It does allow some members of the press into areas a civilian would normally not be allowed. Again, a courtesy, often subject to the needs of the person on the scene who is in charge.
What if someone finds a way, *GULP*, to root iOS devices like they do with those Android phones!?! They'll be able to install pirated iOS apps!
Rooting an iOS device requires some effort, some risk. Not much but it doesn't take much to deter people from going that route. In contrast on many Android devices rooting is unnecessary, just going into settings and allowing apps from "unknown sources".
iPad sales up 84%. Wow. They already controlled the tablet market, and basically doubled sales year-over-year?
You can't look at iPad sales in isolation. You have to also look at how the tablet market has grown year-over-year. For example if the tablet market is growing at a faster rate then Apple would be "falling behind". That is what happened with respect to personal computers back in the day. Apple had a huge share of the early adopters but as the rest of the population entered the personal computer market they chose IBM compatibles. Apple sold more computer each year as their market shrunk. With google and amazon selling tablets at cost a similar pattern may emerge.
Riverside CA is viable. It has a University of California campus and good computer science, engineering and bio programs (probably others as well). It's location is convenient for recreation. The mountains are about 1-1.5 hours away, so is the beach, so is the desert. There are nice communities with housing at a small fraction of the cost of LA and Orange County (OC). A lot of very talented and skilled people working in LA and OC actually live in Riverside or one of its neighboring towns. If you were to open shop in one of the industrial/research parks next to the UC campus you will have access to students and many industry veterans currently working in LA/OC but living in/near Riverside who would love to ditch the long commute.
Cars are not fly by wire systems; they are mechanical (with some hydraulic support via "power steering", but even when the power steering fails the car can be controlled via the mechanical wheel).
And before fly-by-wire aviation joysticks worked in a similar mechanical/hydraulic manner.
Can you imagine the force required to control a car via a joystick if you had to keep it mechanical?
Having once driven a non-power steering late 60s Ford pickup truck I can imagine. I don't think the issue is one of the amount of force, rather one of granularity. The wheel has an advantage in that it is moving in a circular path and would seem to be able to travel a longer distance, possibly offering finer control.
If you then made it a completely drive by wire system, you just added a bunch of complexity and failure modes to what should be a ubiquitous and (fairly) inexpensive object.
That is pretty much the same argument made against fly-by-wire in aircraft back in the day.
Mars is closer to the asteroid belt and would make a more practical outpost for mining and processing operations. 1/3 the gravity of earth aids such operations that need to be ground based rather than orbital. Plus without a biosphere to protect such processing can be "dirtier".
... You could look to build a colony that can produce basics - water, air, staple food, rocket fuel, energy - locally, but they'll be doing it using equipment shipped from Earth, that will need spares etc from Earth, and they'd still need a whole bunch of enabling material shipped out...
Initially. However societies tend to eventually want to produce critical necessities themselves. Such equipment will eventually probably be made locally. To avoid such pressures two regions must be part of the same society, such as regions within the same country. Full peers in the social and political sense with their counterparts on earth.
With low air pressure, little in the way of concentrated water/oxygen, no arable soil, cold weather, weak sunlight, and limited natural ores and minerals--can any Martian colony ever be anything other than a constant resource sink for its earth-bound sponsor?
Actually there is a lot of water, oxygen, minerals, etc "nearby" in asteroids. Once we get to the point where we can build a Mars colony we should be able to harvest the asteroids for what is needed.
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With all of their assets in the bank, they could do more R&D or they can start absorbing other companies.
Apple can do both R&D and acquisition. And they can do it with cash, they don't even need to go into debt. They have over $US110 billion in cash.
M16 is select fire, Rock and roll. M4 only has 3 round burst.
No. The Marines redesigned the M16 for burst in the 90s. Most M16s and M4s are burst, a few of each are full-auto and are only issued to very specialized troops.
Guns owned by private owners mostly kill or hurt innocent animals or people.
You are mistaken. Target shooting (paper, clay pigeons, metal plates, etc) is far more common.
In what world can owning a car be compared to owning a gun? Quick reminder: one is designed to go from one place to another, the other is designed to kill other people.
No. At Boy Scout summer camp we used guns designed for putting holes in pieces of paper and breaking pieces of clay. Check out the Olympics, you will find guns used for similar things. Shooting is a sport, that it the most common usage of firearms.
A gun is designed to kill other things ...
No. They can also be designed or used for putting holes in pieces of paper, knocking over or pinging metal plates, breaking pieces of clay, etc. Shooting is also a sport. Given that slashdot seems to be on a current events theme I'll add that shooting is an Olympic Sport.
The NRA is 4.3 million Americans who care enough about their rights to put their hard-earned money to work (via dues) protecting those rights.
No, money is not the key to the NRA's success. Its success is due to the fact that its members are highly likely to vote.
The true currency of politics is votes. Money is just a tool to attempt to persuade voters.
And talk to a lawyer specializing in employment law regarding remedies and responses to inappropriate actions. Messing with someone's vacation days may be illegal. You don't want your remedies creating more opportunities to get sued.
Note that caveat at the end of the statement: "unless such recordings interfere with police activity". If you are the person being interviewed, searched, etc then actions taken to film the interaction may be considered to be such "interference". Again, that word "bystander" was probably very carefully chosen to distinguish between those involved in the interaction and those not.
Police are supposed to have the same rights as citizens. They are just more highly trained in the area of law enforcement. Citizens and police should be held to the same standards of conduct. In Florida for instance a police officer out of his jurisdiction has the same rights as a citizen to make arrests. They can hold the suspect until the sheriff arrives to take the person into custody. When the case gets to trial you have to show up. If you break the law during the arrest you can be sued as well.
That is not quite right. Law enforcement has special authority to conduct pre-emptive and other active/offensive operations within their jurisdiction, and to use equipment/weapons unavailable to civilians during these operations. Law enforcement is not held to the same standard as civilians, they are held to a higher standard because of their expertise, training, equipment, etc. For example the interpretation of "appropriate response" in the context of self defense is more narrow for law enforcement than for civilians.
How about we just remove the rights of Corporate Media from reporting, instead of Citizens? Corporations aren't People.
The controversial "Citizens United" US Supreme Court decision says exactly that. My understanding is that the court did *not* say that "corporations are people" and that this phrase was spin from the opponents of the decision. I believe the court said two things. One: that groups of people have the same speech rights as an individual person, the nature of that group (company, union, special interest, etc) is irrelevant. Two: that media corporations have no special speech rights, all organizations have the same speech rights. Well, that was my understanding from skimming the decision. Perhaps I missed something. If you think I missed something I'd prefer a reference to the decision, not what some talking head on TV said, what some political blogger said, etc. I don't trust these to accurately report a supreme court decision any more than I expect them to accurately report on technical/computer issues.
The order makes a lot of sense. But I wonder why anyone thought reporters had special rights. Freedom of the press means they can print what they want, but when they're on the scene the press pass doesn't mean anything.
The press pass, press ID, etc is merely a courtesy extended to the press in some jurisdictions. It does allow some members of the press into areas a civilian would normally not be allowed. Again, a courtesy, often subject to the needs of the person on the scene who is in charge.
A bystander has the same right to take photographs or make recordings as a member of the media
Emphasize "bystander". If the officer is trying to interview you, search you, etc then you are not a bystander.
What if someone finds a way, *GULP*, to root iOS devices like they do with those Android phones!?! They'll be able to install pirated iOS apps!
Rooting an iOS device requires some effort, some risk. Not much but it doesn't take much to deter people from going that route. In contrast on many Android devices rooting is unnecessary, just going into settings and allowing apps from "unknown sources".
iPad sales up 84%. Wow. They already controlled the tablet market, and basically doubled sales year-over-year?
You can't look at iPad sales in isolation. You have to also look at how the tablet market has grown year-over-year. For example if the tablet market is growing at a faster rate then Apple would be "falling behind". That is what happened with respect to personal computers back in the day. Apple had a huge share of the early adopters but as the rest of the population entered the personal computer market they chose IBM compatibles. Apple sold more computer each year as their market shrunk. With google and amazon selling tablets at cost a similar pattern may emerge.
But, but, but, it's a MAC! We don't GET malware!
Because the system is designed to fend off malware perhaps? ;-)
Designed to fend off malware. Why would you need this on a Mac?
Because of users. When the year of the Linux desktop arrives Linux will need to do the same thing. :-)
Riverside CA is viable. It has a University of California campus and good computer science, engineering and bio programs (probably others as well). It's location is convenient for recreation. The mountains are about 1-1.5 hours away, so is the beach, so is the desert. There are nice communities with housing at a small fraction of the cost of LA and Orange County (OC). A lot of very talented and skilled people working in LA and OC actually live in Riverside or one of its neighboring towns. If you were to open shop in one of the industrial/research parks next to the UC campus you will have access to students and many industry veterans currently working in LA/OC but living in/near Riverside who would love to ditch the long commute.
Cars are not fly by wire systems; they are mechanical (with some hydraulic support via "power steering", but even when the power steering fails the car can be controlled via the mechanical wheel).
And before fly-by-wire aviation joysticks worked in a similar mechanical/hydraulic manner.
Can you imagine the force required to control a car via a joystick if you had to keep it mechanical?
Having once driven a non-power steering late 60s Ford pickup truck I can imagine. I don't think the issue is one of the amount of force, rather one of granularity. The wheel has an advantage in that it is moving in a circular path and would seem to be able to travel a longer distance, possibly offering finer control.
If you then made it a completely drive by wire system, you just added a bunch of complexity and failure modes to what should be a ubiquitous and (fairly) inexpensive object.
That is pretty much the same argument made against fly-by-wire in aircraft back in the day.
only because charitable donations are tax-deductible
Not really. Charity and philanthropy in the US pre-dates the income tax.
Cosmic rays are not electromagnetic radiation, the word "ray" in the term is a bit of a misnomer. Cosmic rays are actually particles or nuclei.
With no magnetic fields the cosmic rays / radiation will probably keep the surface quite sterile.
Well there are the "non-edible parts of the plants" mentioned in the Q&A. Some sort of "paper" manufacture seems plausible.
At which point, what is Mars for?
Mars is closer to the asteroid belt and would make a more practical outpost for mining and processing operations. 1/3 the gravity of earth aids such operations that need to be ground based rather than orbital. Plus without a biosphere to protect such processing can be "dirtier".
... You could look to build a colony that can produce basics - water, air, staple food, rocket fuel, energy - locally, but they'll be doing it using equipment shipped from Earth, that will need spares etc from Earth, and they'd still need a whole bunch of enabling material shipped out ...
Initially. However societies tend to eventually want to produce critical necessities themselves. Such equipment will eventually probably be made locally. To avoid such pressures two regions must be part of the same society, such as regions within the same country. Full peers in the social and political sense with their counterparts on earth.
With low air pressure, little in the way of concentrated water/oxygen, no arable soil, cold weather, weak sunlight, and limited natural ores and minerals--can any Martian colony ever be anything other than a constant resource sink for its earth-bound sponsor?
Actually there is a lot of water, oxygen, minerals, etc "nearby" in asteroids. Once we get to the point where we can build a Mars colony we should be able to harvest the asteroids for what is needed.