Problem is not all idea and concepts can be condensed to less than 10 words.
I am my worst editor. I tend to drone on and on. But if I'm ruthless with myself, I find I can boil even complex thoughts into a sticky note. Or an index card.
You have to know your audience. Scholars don't mind long writing. Most people, however, aren't scholars.. and I've found that outside of nerd and tech and academic cultures, most people are just not interested in learning. Sad but true. Or maybe it's *thinking* they're not interested in? Hm.
Congrats, 1100 ad naseum, youv'e gone from biting sarcasm to name-calling troll in the span of a few posts.
Feel better now? Will you rest better knowing you're not even worth the mod points to mod down?
We get it, you hate this, you intensely hate it, this gun thing, and to see someone so blatantly side-step ridiculous laws and inescapable Streisand-effect really, but really gets your goat.
But you know what? Keep at it like that, you'll only die of ulcers.
So, yes, the framers were definitely aware of automatic high-rate cartridge-based weapons of mass destruction. They ordered a bunch of them.
OK, 2nd amendment, written 1791, right?
Automatic and semi automatic mean one thing: You derive power from the discharging round to drive the action to load the next round. Either straight blowback, or long recoil, or short recoil, or a gas tap. But you must drive the action with the power from the discharge. Cranks don't count as automatic, levers don't count, double-action revolvers don't count, single-action revolvers don't count.
Now go back and read your post.
A Maxim is automatic, but it's way after the 2nd was written.
A Gatling isn't automatic. The energy to operate it comes from a crank, or a motor, or a hydraulic drive. No drive = no shoot, no matter how many rounds you have.
A Belton isn't automatic.. in fact, there are none left. Even moreso, there are no records of any been sold or delivered, contrary to what you wrote.
The Puckle, had to be cranked by hand. How does that make it automatic?
In fact, the Government turned down the Winchester lever-loading repeater for reasons which I still can't fathom, in favor of single-shot breechloaders. The Government didn't get a repeating rifle until what.. the Sharps? And didn't get a really good one till 1903... and their first autoloading rifle was the M1 in 1936. At least they had an autoloading pistol in 1911.
You seem hell bent on showing that the people who wrote the 2nd knew about weapons that simply didn't exist when they wrote it. Why is that?
You seem to forget that at the point of writing, automatic guns were already available
Um... no. Not even close. Not even metallic cartridges were available. It was all glorious bore-fouling lead balls, with bore-fouling black powder pushing those bore-fouling lead balls down the barrel.
If you know of some, please, link us to them because I would love to see them. (not being sarcastic. I'd love to see 18th-century autoloading firearms.)
Cannon, grenades, etc already pre-dated the Mayflower, so.. yeah. But autoloaders are a distinctly 19-th century thing.
..always in a constant state of construction. Been here almost 20 years, and it's still all fucked up in places from Miami to at least West Palm Beach. I avoid it as much as I can.
I should know better than to feed an obvious troll, but..
Are you related to slashdot_is_fake? Similar cute names with underscores, joined around the same time, only posted a little bit, and seems to only rise to the defense of Alex Jones.
Thank you for illuminating the rest of us and letting us know with whom you'd like to be counted. Now we know, and knowing's half the battle.
So.. are you from Glorious Russian Troll Factory #2?
Let's see you turn red and sputter s'more. It's totes adorbs when you lose it like that!
Maybe so, but I believe we should have a law that Critical Internet Platforms such as Google Search, Facebook, Twitter, Uber, AirBnb, Netflix, etc. Do not have the right and may not permanently ban a natural person nor suspend for an extended period from their platform. In the 21st century: These platforms are as critical as other utilities like Electricity or Gas
Um.. what? Que?! What the what?
None of those "Critical Internet Platforms" are life-sustaining. Life went on just fine before them, and it'll go on going when they're a dim memory.
Without electricity and / or gas, people freeze in cold climates, and some can seriously overheat and die in hot weather. Without them, people can't cook unless they use wood or whatnot. That is critical. Internet luxuries aren't.
Can't stream on Netflix? No sweat, I gots tons more of ink and paint in dvd / bd. Can't google? Ohhhh booooo hoo... there are others, like duck duck go. Can't uber? Call a cab. Twitter? WTF is so critical about Twitter? I'll give you a hint: Twitter is 12 years old, and I still don't use it. Am I missing out?
To argue that a handful of new-money riffraff are Critical Infrastructure.. I honestly can't think of what your agenda is, other than maybe being a stockholder.
Honestly, the internet can go fuck itself and I wouldn't miss it. I would be inconvenienced, but life would go back to the late 80's way of doing things.....and what' so bad about that?
But technically this would be closer to Fascism, where private businesses and government work hand in hand, without actual consideration of the people.
By some definitions we are already in a facist state.
It's probably due to trolling. IMDB is the same, certain movies are heavily trolled, e.g. Black Panther.
It's the same everywhere, just about. For a good decade now, if not more, I've felt forums and comments are nothing but a wasteland.. why I waste my time in/. I'll never know.. but I do know this: I've quit reading and posting in *all* the forums of things I like / liked./. is the last one I've not retreated from.
Note the total lack of the biggest tech story in months, if not all year: the deplatforming of Alex Jones. How totally outrageous it is for Slashdot not to run any story about it
Did *you* submit a story about it? No? STFU.
Did *you* upvote any that were submitted in the Firehose? No? Then STFU.
Slashdot, like any other media company, publishes what it wants, not what *you* want.
The First doesn't apply to anything BUT the government. People forget that.
AFAIK, Jones still has his website. He still has a microphone. That he's not on Facetwat and apple podcasts.. boohoo, cry me a river. He still has a way to express himself, his website.
And by the by, when the message is screechy and paranoidy and gives all sorts of impressions of mental unstableness, youbetcha people are gonna mod it down, turn it down, turn it off, pull the plug, change the channel, stop the camera, stop the press, do whatever to mute it. That's not censorship, that's people trying to retain a semblance of sanity by controlling the screeching noises reaching their brains.
Maybe if the message were presented less horror-show it'd find a wider audience, no? Pro tip: If it reads like the front page of The Enquirer, you're doing it wrong.
We live in a scary time, reminiscent of the run-up to nazi Germany.
Loves rallies? Check. (and I don't mean WRC.....)
Fans the flames of racial division to fire up their base? Check.
Tars and feathers anyone who dares speak against him? Check.
Thinks he should have final, unfettered control over everything? Check.
Dismisses anything he disagrees with as Fake News? Check.
Who am I speaking of? Hitler or Trump? Or both?
Your point, I'm sad to say, is lost. The current person in the white house reminds *me* of nazi Germany.
You're trying to equate the left with Nazi Germany, but that's not how it looks to me. The right is the one that seems like it's stolen the playbook from 1930's Germany,
Mod me down, whatever.. you think conservatives are the only ones having their speech supressed? Look around, read/. political comments at -1. Try it. It feels like there are two warring factions in/. right now. Perfectly valid points on both sides get modded as -oblivion, Troll.
Whatever. Bring it on. This country will burn no matter who wins, it's destined for a desconstruction and rebuilding. It's inevitable. It's just a matter of time.
Yeah. Now you really can't trust what you're shown, or what your e-books tell you.
It's a conspiracy nut's dream come true, and to the sane ones, this will be a total fucking nightmare, these next few decades.
If the Industrial Revolutions were a nightmare for most, and the post-war world a nightmare again, those will seem like rosy times, I think. What's coming is bound to be absolutely frightening. Post-truth. Post-reason. Ugh.
....I, too, have developed a distaste of what has been done with capitaslim. I'm an early X.
Yes, people must make things, and sell things. Fine. Do it. But do it with a sense of fairness. What I see reminds me of warfare, not a competition. Honestly -- it's shank your competitor before he does you in first. It could instead be like a race, or a ball game, but no.. it's WAR.
But for fuck's sake, nothing's made here (broadly speaking) anymore, a very few people are raking in the profit$ -- those who own the companies which have their shit manufactured overseas, and those who own the stores that sell it.
they've been making rockets for decades, not as impressive, that's the point.
Then why didn't you say it, instead of going off on that nuclear hell tangent?
As for not impressive, I beg to differ. The "legacy" rocket guys got us the Saturn V.
Call me when Space X does that. And... keep in mind Saturn and its engines were pretty-much hand-crafted, hand-fitted, designed with slipsticks and paper and pencil. Now, which one seems more impressive?
If we have World War III that ends civilization, it'll be first and foremost their products, the missiles, dishing out the nuclear hell.
Cuts both ways, that old saw of yours. Those Boeings that take vacationers, businesspeople and haul all that freight were born out of jets of war. The B-47 and 52 gave them the experience to make the 707 and its military cousin the KC-135.
Besides.. so what? I fail to see the point of your point. That missile and aircraft makers also make tools of war besides tools of exploration and commerce? The line between the two is so wispy it may not even be there at all.
...as in.. I'd turn the last page in the book after being up all night reading it, seeing the first rays of light from the sun, and going "...oh...shit... did it again."
Christine. Firestarter. How Much For Just The Planet. The Final Nexus. Rage. Roadwork. Just a small list of books that did this to me. And these were on paper, not some as-of-then-not-yet-invented mobile device.
If it wasn't a book hangover, then it was a video hangover. TAPS playing HBO at 2:30? Yea, i'd be watching it, with school next day.. drag my ass into the classroom looking like x.x or @.@ or -.-
It has nothing to do with the 'net. It has to do with not having the discipline to PUT IT DOWN.
Soon the US could be building gas guzzlers nobody outside the US wants to buy...and then when gas prices go back up, nobody inside the US will want to buy them either...remember how awesome it was last time that happened around the OPEC oil crisis? #MAGA!
It could be argued that this is the case, right now. Dear Leader says we buy Europe's cars and that he doesn't want to see BMWs in New York, but he's misplacing the blame - the reason for the imbalance isn't some brutal Euro-tax on our cars, it's simply our cars still being huge, heavy, inefficient and ill-suited for life in europe.
Do WE make anything like a BMW? Or an Alfa Guilia? (small-ish, light-ish, rear-drive, fun to drive) No, we don't... the closest we have are Camaro, Mustang, Challenger / Charger.. none of which exactly adapt well to Europe.
We'll never be big in Europe. Not as long we keep building exclusively for our roads and not theirs.
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Problem is not all idea and concepts can be condensed to less than 10 words.
I am my worst editor. I tend to drone on and on. But if I'm ruthless with myself, I find I can boil even complex thoughts into a sticky note. Or an index card.
You have to know your audience. Scholars don't mind long writing. Most people, however, aren't scholars.. and I've found that outside of nerd and tech and academic cultures, most people are just not interested in learning. Sad but true. Or maybe it's *thinking* they're not interested in? Hm.
Short titles.
Concise expressions of ideas.
Not using 30 words when maybe 6 will do.
That's how you avoid Information Overload and Volatility.
Congrats, 1100 ad naseum, youv'e gone from biting sarcasm to name-calling troll in the span of a few posts.
Feel better now? Will you rest better knowing you're not even worth the mod points to mod down?
We get it, you hate this, you intensely hate it, this gun thing, and to see someone so blatantly side-step ridiculous laws and inescapable Streisand-effect really, but really gets your goat.
But you know what? Keep at it like that, you'll only die of ulcers.
The answer to that question (and many others) is in the FAQ:
Wait. One. Minute. You're telling me that flat-earthers believe the earth is flat but the *other* planets are round?
That's it. I've lost *all* hope for humanity.
I imagined the flat-earthers thought the other planets were also flat disks... what.. I can't even... *zzzzzt* x.x
Wow. Just. wow.
So, yes, the framers were definitely aware of automatic high-rate cartridge-based weapons of mass destruction. They ordered a bunch of them.
OK, 2nd amendment, written 1791, right?
Automatic and semi automatic mean one thing: You derive power from the discharging round to drive the action to load the next round. Either straight blowback, or long recoil, or short recoil, or a gas tap. But you must drive the action with the power from the discharge. Cranks don't count as automatic, levers don't count, double-action revolvers don't count, single-action revolvers don't count.
Now go back and read your post.
A Maxim is automatic, but it's way after the 2nd was written.
A Gatling isn't automatic. The energy to operate it comes from a crank, or a motor, or a hydraulic drive. No drive = no shoot, no matter how many rounds you have.
A Belton isn't automatic.. in fact, there are none left. Even moreso, there are no records of any been sold or delivered, contrary to what you wrote.
The Puckle, had to be cranked by hand. How does that make it automatic?
In fact, the Government turned down the Winchester lever-loading repeater for reasons which I still can't fathom, in favor of single-shot breechloaders. The Government didn't get a repeating rifle until what.. the Sharps? And didn't get a really good one till 1903... and their first autoloading rifle was the M1 in 1936. At least they had an autoloading pistol in 1911.
You seem hell bent on showing that the people who wrote the 2nd knew about weapons that simply didn't exist when they wrote it. Why is that?
You seem to forget that at the point of writing, automatic guns were already available
Um... no. Not even close. Not even metallic cartridges were available. It was all glorious bore-fouling lead balls, with bore-fouling black powder pushing those bore-fouling lead balls down the barrel.
If you know of some, please, link us to them because I would love to see them. (not being sarcastic. I'd love to see 18th-century autoloading firearms.)
Cannon, grenades, etc already pre-dated the Mayflower, so.. yeah. But autoloaders are a distinctly 19-th century thing.
..always in a constant state of construction. Been here almost 20 years, and it's still all fucked up in places from Miami to at least West Palm Beach. I avoid it as much as I can.
I should know better than to feed an obvious troll, but..
Are you related to slashdot_is_fake? Similar cute names with underscores, joined around the same time, only posted a little bit, and seems to only rise to the defense of Alex Jones.
Thank you for illuminating the rest of us and letting us know with whom you'd like to be counted. Now we know, and knowing's half the battle.
So.. are you from Glorious Russian Troll Factory #2?
Let's see you turn red and sputter s'more. It's totes adorbs when you lose it like that!
Maybe so, but I believe we should have a law that Critical Internet Platforms such as Google Search, Facebook, Twitter, Uber, AirBnb, Netflix, etc.
Do not have the right and may not permanently ban a natural person nor suspend for an extended period from their platform.
In the 21st century: These platforms are as critical as other utilities like Electricity or Gas
Um.. what? Que?! What the what?
None of those "Critical Internet Platforms" are life-sustaining. Life went on just fine before them, and it'll go on going when they're a dim memory.
Without electricity and / or gas, people freeze in cold climates, and some can seriously overheat and die in hot weather. Without them, people can't cook unless they use wood or whatnot. That is critical. Internet luxuries aren't.
Can't stream on Netflix? No sweat, I gots tons more of ink and paint in dvd / bd. Can't google? Ohhhh booooo hoo... there are others, like duck duck go. Can't uber? Call a cab. Twitter? WTF is so critical about Twitter? I'll give you a hint: Twitter is 12 years old, and I still don't use it. Am I missing out?
To argue that a handful of new-money riffraff are Critical Infrastructure.. I honestly can't think of what your agenda is, other than maybe being a stockholder.
Honestly, the internet can go fuck itself and I wouldn't miss it. I would be inconvenienced, but life would go back to the late 80's way of doing things... ..and what' so bad about that?
Ignore the people pushing such silly, historically ignorant propaganda.
Meh, I was comparing what I observe with what the definitions of faciscm are in wiki. Some match all the checkboxes one by one.
If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, what are the chances it is actually a duck?
But technically this would be closer to Fascism, where private businesses and government work hand in hand, without actual consideration of the people.
By some definitions we are already in a facist state.
It's probably due to trolling. IMDB is the same, certain movies are heavily trolled, e.g. Black Panther.
It's the same everywhere, just about. For a good decade now, if not more, I've felt forums and comments are nothing but a wasteland.. why I waste my time in /. I'll never know.. but I do know this: I've quit reading and posting in *all* the forums of things I like / liked. /. is the last one I've not retreated from.
Netflix didn't consider the fact the user stopped the video after 15 minutes and has no way to indicate they didn't like the movie
There are thumbs down / up buttons. I use them liberally.
I fail to see how someone "has no way to indicate they didn't like the movie"
Note the total lack of the biggest tech story in months, if not all year: the deplatforming of Alex Jones. How totally outrageous it is for Slashdot not to run any story about it
Did *you* submit a story about it? No? STFU.
Did *you* upvote any that were submitted in the Firehose? No? Then STFU.
Slashdot, like any other media company, publishes what it wants, not what *you* want.
The First doesn't apply to anything BUT the government. People forget that.
AFAIK, Jones still has his website. He still has a microphone. That he's not on Facetwat and apple podcasts.. boohoo, cry me a river. He still has a way to express himself, his website.
And by the by, when the message is screechy and paranoidy and gives all sorts of impressions of mental unstableness, youbetcha people are gonna mod it down, turn it down, turn it off, pull the plug, change the channel, stop the camera, stop the press, do whatever to mute it. That's not censorship, that's people trying to retain a semblance of sanity by controlling the screeching noises reaching their brains.
Maybe if the message were presented less horror-show it'd find a wider audience, no? Pro tip: If it reads like the front page of The Enquirer, you're doing it wrong.
We live in a scary time, reminiscent of the run-up to nazi Germany.
Loves rallies? Check. (and I don't mean WRC.....)
Fans the flames of racial division to fire up their base? Check.
Tars and feathers anyone who dares speak against him? Check.
Thinks he should have final, unfettered control over everything? Check.
Dismisses anything he disagrees with as Fake News? Check.
Who am I speaking of? Hitler or Trump? Or both?
Your point, I'm sad to say, is lost. The current person in the white house reminds *me* of nazi Germany.
You're trying to equate the left with Nazi Germany, but that's not how it looks to me. The right is the one that seems like it's stolen the playbook from 1930's Germany,
Mod me down, whatever.. you think conservatives are the only ones having their speech supressed? Look around, read /. political comments at -1. Try it. It feels like there are two warring factions in /. right now. Perfectly valid points on both sides get modded as -oblivion, Troll.
Whatever. Bring it on. This country will burn no matter who wins, it's destined for a desconstruction and rebuilding. It's inevitable. It's just a matter of time.
If they're concerned about moral and ethical issues why the hell do they work for Google?
I guess they love the kind of FlavorAid they serve at Google's cafeterias.
When I hear "Bubble Car" I think of the wonderful, mad, mad mad cars Japan built in their economic bubble.
The 90's Rx-7. The 90's Supra. The Autozam AZ1. The Mitsu 3000GT.
*sniff* Ahh, the good old days.
Yeah. Now you really can't trust what you're shown, or what your e-books tell you.
It's a conspiracy nut's dream come true, and to the sane ones, this will be a total fucking nightmare, these next few decades.
If the Industrial Revolutions were a nightmare for most, and the post-war world a nightmare again, those will seem like rosy times, I think. What's coming is bound to be absolutely frightening. Post-truth. Post-reason. Ugh.
....I, too, have developed a distaste of what has been done with capitaslim. I'm an early X.
Yes, people must make things, and sell things. Fine. Do it. But do it with a sense of fairness. What I see reminds me of warfare, not a competition. Honestly -- it's shank your competitor before he does you in first. It could instead be like a race, or a ball game, but no.. it's WAR.
But for fuck's sake, nothing's made here (broadly speaking) anymore, a very few people are raking in the profit$ -- those who own the companies which have their shit manufactured overseas, and those who own the stores that sell it.
.
they've been making rockets for decades, not as impressive, that's the point.
Then why didn't you say it, instead of going off on that nuclear hell tangent?
As for not impressive, I beg to differ. The "legacy" rocket guys got us the Saturn V.
Call me when Space X does that. And... keep in mind Saturn and its engines were pretty-much hand-crafted, hand-fitted, designed with slipsticks and paper and pencil. Now, which one seems more impressive?
If we have World War III that ends civilization, it'll be first and foremost their products, the missiles, dishing out the nuclear hell.
Cuts both ways, that old saw of yours. Those Boeings that take vacationers, businesspeople and haul all that freight were born out of jets of war. The B-47 and 52 gave them the experience to make the 707 and its military cousin the KC-135.
Besides.. so what? I fail to see the point of your point. That missile and aircraft makers also make tools of war besides tools of exploration and commerce? The line between the two is so wispy it may not even be there at all.
...as in.. I'd turn the last page in the book after being up all night reading it, seeing the first rays of light from the sun, and going "...oh...shit... did it again."
Christine. Firestarter. How Much For Just The Planet. The Final Nexus. Rage. Roadwork. Just a small list of books that did this to me. And these were on paper, not some as-of-then-not-yet-invented mobile device.
If it wasn't a book hangover, then it was a video hangover. TAPS playing HBO at 2:30? Yea, i'd be watching it, with school next day.. drag my ass into the classroom looking like x.x or @.@ or -.-
It has nothing to do with the 'net. It has to do with not having the discipline to PUT IT DOWN.
Soon the US could be building gas guzzlers nobody outside the US wants to buy...and then when gas prices go back up, nobody inside the US will want to buy them either...remember how awesome it was last time that happened around the OPEC oil crisis? #MAGA!
It could be argued that this is the case, right now. Dear Leader says we buy Europe's cars and that he doesn't want to see BMWs in New York, but he's misplacing the blame - the reason for the imbalance isn't some brutal Euro-tax on our cars, it's simply our cars still being huge, heavy, inefficient and ill-suited for life in europe.
Do WE make anything like a BMW? Or an Alfa Guilia? (small-ish, light-ish, rear-drive, fun to drive) No, we don't... the closest we have are Camaro, Mustang, Challenger / Charger.. none of which exactly adapt well to Europe.
We'll never be big in Europe. Not as long we keep building exclusively for our roads and not theirs.
No, the parent post had many sentences, all of them wrong.
But that's OK. I see the trend in slashdot as of late. Mod down the posts debunking the moonbats and other conspiracy nuts.
Carry on.
Amazing. Every sentence in your post is 100% demonstrably wrong.