There's something like 20,000 gun control laws in the USA. You have federal law, state law, city and county laws.
Trust me, alot depends on where you are at.
For example, any US citizen who can legally own firearms can just as legally carry a concealed weapon in Vermont and Alaska, no permit needed. In New York, you need a permit to even own a gun. In Washington DC, handguns are illegal period unless it's a departmental weapon for a police officer or issued weapon from the US Military.
Of course, 'gun control' measures are questioned when people point out things like the differences in crime rates between the two: Vermont: 113.5 per 100,000 violent crime rate(year 2000) New York: 553.9 Washington DC(the epitome of gun control): 1,507.9
Now, I can transport Long-Guns on the airlines in a proper box or case with the proper forms filled out. Pistols are harder to move about, but it's still legally possible. Note, there are also various laws on carrying weapons on your person, the Right to Carry and the rights about transporting firearms in your vehicle from State to State.
Actually, I've followed the exact same rules for flying with everything from fully automatic weapons to handguns & rifles. As for 'forms' there is exactly one where I am: An affedavit that the firearm is unloaded.
Locked hard case, unloaded. Ammunition in original container or one that holds the rounds individually. Basically you're fine as long as they aren't just loose in the container.
Experiences may vary depending upon airport, state and city laws, and experience of the representatives therein. Sometimes you can run into trouble because the agents(baggage agents, TSA screener, airport police, etc...) don't know the laws.
Simple enough, Michael Moore passed the NICS check that the bank conducted. "National Instant Criminal Background Check System".
Basically all the information has already been collected. When somebody has a disabling condition such as a felony, violent misdemenor, remanded by a judge into a mental institution, warrent for arrest, or certain kinds of restraining order, it's entered into the database and varying amounts of trouble occurs if you attempt to purchase one.
You see, us gunnies don't feel the need for new gun laws, because the ones we already have aren't being enforced. It's a felony for a felon to even attempt to purchase a firearm, yet they're denied all the time and 99.9% of the time the police don't arrest him.
Oh, and the 'gun' was a shotgun, pretty much the most unregulated firearm going.
I'd tend to say that the vast majority of 'athiests' are of the first sort. There is a vast difference between those who are more or less indifferent to the existance of god and those who reject that existance. Kinda like those 'christians' who only step into a church for a wedding and maybe easter.
Newdow(One of the ones suing over the 'under god' part of the pledge) is one of the ones that reject, and are crusaders on the part of atheism. Him, I'd say turns atheism into religion.
The problem is that the radiator was, frankly speaking, designed for cooler climates and to be moving while under the sort of load the AC places on the engine. If the vehicle isn't moving, it's not getting much circulation around the radiator.
You could probably fix the problem with a bigger fan for it.
Makes me wonder why you wouldn't use dry ice. You'd need a bit of insulation to make sure the water doesn't freeze, but the lower temperature would allow you to get by with much less weight.
"In 23 minutes and 12 seconds a tsunami of height 13.6 meters will hit blah blah blah...". Actually it is the core idea.
Tsunamis not caused by weather. They are generally sparked off by earthquakes, which we cannot predict reliably. However, once one is sparked off and we know the nature of the event(what kind of earthquake, magnitude, location) we can predict the tsunami once we crunch the numbers. However, this takes time.
Tsunamis are basically shock waves. They travel at 500-1000 kilometers an hour while in the deep ocean. That means that you are going to have much less than an hour in most situations. If you're talking over an hour of travel time you're talking about a minor tsunami for anything less than a huge asteroid hit. Near shore it slows down to 'dozens of kilometers' as it builds into a huge wave.
Seconds count in this situation. We're talking sirens annoncing the need to take immediate shelter, or travel inland/out to ocean. The most dangerous area is the coast region. If you're far enough out to sea, the wave can be handled, if you even notice it. Coastal mega-hotels need to be built strong enough to take the wave, though I'd see evacuating all of the ocean side and lower level rooms.
20 minutes can save a huge number of lives, though. A moderatly healthy person should be able to walk at least a mile and a half in that time. It's also the sort of situation where you're likely better off walking than trying to take your car. So many other people will be trying to drive, panicing, that accidents and traffic will slow you to a stop.
From what I've heard and read, pretty rare for a non-swat unit. I've worn IIIA/w IV inserts. It is heavy and hot. To the point that it's a fight to get officers to wear them.
In the interests of getting officers to wear them(and because they're cheaper), most only wear levelII or III. It's like arguing about pistol/size caliber for self defense. "The small gun with you is far more effective than the handcannon back home". IE it doesn't matter what it is if you don't have it on you when you need it.
If you don't want to take the survey, click on the other option. It leads to essays and pictures that explain my point of view. Just because the questions make you think doesn't mean that you have to insult me. Yes, I am a member of the NRA. And I think you need to check yourself for prejudices. Hayseed? I'm a city boy.
annually takes the lives of 17 children by gunfire for every ONE lost in the other 96.5% of the planetary population? Even if your statistic were true, I have to ask: Do you consider it better for a child to be beaten to death with a club than shot? Just to elaborate, I make no distinction by method. I consider such a death equally tragic, whether it be by gun, knife, club, or any other method. As for the statistic, I think it's likely to include the old 'child is anyone under 21' statistic, combined with cherry picking the countries for the other '96.5%' statistic. You know, not including africa for one. Finally, I firmly believe that the best way to prevent child gun deaths is education. Education on proper handling and storage. The good old 'don't touch, tell an adult' for kids.
twisted view of human life and justice You deduced this, apparantly from just seeing the survey, not even browsing the essays? Is it twisted to want to see the attempted murderer dead, instead of his intended victim? Is it justice to let a rapist conduct his business without opposition? Is it twisted to consider human life so valuable that it's worth defending?
Oh, I won't argue that it could be a contributer to polar bear's extinction in the wild. It's just that I feel certain that until something more severe happens there will still be enclaves of polar bears.
I won't argue that people shouldn't keep an eye on it, or that nothing should necessarily be done. Like somebody else posted, there might be ways to plant buoys/rest spots. And yeah, they're very good swimmers, not much to improve on there without some sacrifices on other fronts.
I'm fully aware that evolution tends to refine and eliminate species. I remember that occasionally there is an explosion of new species, most of which die off very quickly(over half of them in a few thousand years). Then it gradually slopes off until you get to today, where you're down to a few per year, instead of hundreds.
What I haven't seen is any sort of explanation for the 'explosion'. The creationists might of had an arguement if they had an explanation for that, but if they do I haven't heard it. It's part of the reason that I say that evolution is a observation of current events, not an explanation of how life began.
And no, I don't go 'hurrah' at the deaths of animals that aren't trying to eat me.;)
What always gets me is why so many 'greens' seem to want stasis. This and that change are always 'A threat to...'. I love when I hear about placements of artificial reefs, reforestation, bird nests, etc. Improvements in habitat.
And modern low profile body armor is already effective against 99% of the firearms criminals use around here.
To wit: Handguns. Next up Shotguns. level II or even III isn't going to protect you if they're packing slugs, but can be of great benefit against buckshot. Heck, the number of crooks who try to use birdshot is suprising! Criminals rarely use rifles. So called 'assault weapons' are the rarest of all. Of course, I hear a good amount of confiscations, but not usage.
Meanwhile, over in the desert we have to worry about rifle fire, explosives, etc...
Like what's been said, it's not like the stuff can only be offered to one. It's more likely to become an evolution of kevlar. The military buys a bunch of it, and the cops start buying it, and it ends up becoming cheaper for both.
Not extinction and re-evolution, but swings in population levels can be quite severe even in 'undisturbed' nature.
Like another poster mentioned, unless this gets much, much worse natural selection will simply start choosing bears better at swimming, or that find an alternate method for moving.
From my understanding from reading reports, you're probably selling them at a profit, for the raw per-unit cost of the car(the cost to produce 1 more car in the factory), it's just that the big three have huge overheads that add up to better than a $1000 per car.
I read that the overhead from pensions and benefits for retired workers from GM is something like $800 per car sold. Worse, it's a static cost, so if you sell less cars, it goes up. If you can sell more cars, it'd go down, but competition from companies without those costs make it difficult.
I'll admit that in this I come from a biased viewpoint as my parents never screened films based on rating
My parents weren't so rich that I got to go to the movie theater much before I had my own job, but my parents did the exact same thing. They considered me and my brother very mature for our ages. I had a permission slip filed with the local video rental place allowing me to rent R rated movies. Thus, I never needed to worry about the rating. I was just told to stay away from the horrors.
As for artistic, important films being rated R, well, a common theme for life, what's considered 'important', involves sex and/or violence. The very things people want to shelter their kids from.
Of course, the rating system is limited, actually more limited than the game rating system that was so critized over the hot coffee mod. On the other hand, most people can tell by the descriptions, title, and artwork(movie posters) what a movie is about. I think that a major limitation might be the lack of something between PG13 and R. R is 17 and over, four years over PG13. If you created a "R15", movies like the matrix would probably end up in there. Maybe even some of the war movies like Saving Private Ryan.
Of course, the whole rating system is 'parental or adult supervision'. Showing SPR in a class that explains what's going on is very different from them just going and watching it themselves.
States that have privatized the investigation of welfare fraud find that it costs more
Did they sell it as a contract, paying a set amount, or as a bounty system? I'd set it up as a bounty system where the company is awarded for each case of fraud caught & stopped.
As for the health care system, I feel that it's suffering from the same symptoms as Lockheed and Boeing. Consumers are too insulated from costs on the whole. I've read studies that say that half the cost of a procedure is paperwork.
Yes, but considered as a research investment by the government, the generation of patents that will eventually run out and desired services such as cargo & personel transport to orbit.
Agree 100% on the shuttle, and the ISS might be salvagable, if we were to either accept a loss of safety or get off our buts and build a proper escape vehicle to allow enough people up there to do the maintenance and get some research done.
My idea is to have a permanent space station built on the tinker toy model. Individual modules might not be permanent, but you launch new modules as needed, then assemble into the station. Number 1 priority would be research into reusability and recycling. Modules would be designed to be strippable to be re-purposed.
I'd look into having a solar furnace/forge to change materials into something usefull, if only as extra shielding.
The idea is that it costs enough to get stuff up there, so we're leaving it there unless we have a need to bring it back, such as people or experiments needing examination back on earth.
Hydroponics should be easy, you have the solar, and the traditional fertilizer is going to be produced.
That was a commercial venture letter/package delivery service that worked.
The problem was getting a universal and affordable service into the smaller areas. Where somebody in Podunk town, NY could send a letter to Podunk town, CA for a reasonable price.
G tends to sell well because it's a way to shut up small children.
Doesn't mean that it doesn't make the theater money. And that's all that matters. I was thinking as I hit the submit button, but a limitation of G movies is that they restrict too much. Many storylines just can't be fitted into a G film. This tends to limit the amount of the "adults without children" crowd you're going to get. And they're the richest group.
PG/PG-13 tends to be very dependent on the film. Some parents care intensely if a film is PG-13, others don't care at all. Again it's usually up to the film at this rating where it ends up selling.
Agreed, this is where you can get some real storytelling done.
R rated films tend to make up the vast majority of films showing
Not in my area. PG/PG13 are the majority. A quick rundown of my local theater(8 screens): 1 G 2 PG 4 PG-13 1 R
Normally, we'll have 2 R's, I'll admit. Some time ago they had Jarhead and Doom up at the same time. You might have more in your area. Past topics are hard to come up, but Moviefone's upcoming release schedule for non-limited release films stacks up as: 1 PG 5 PG-13 2 R(January) 1 NR(Late December release, assumed R)
Perhaps this would show that "comtemporary community standards" aren't exactly what many people want to think they are.
"Contemporary community standards" are different for children and adults. MPAA ratings are obstinately solely for children, it's assumed that adults can determine whether a movie is appropriate for themselves.
Awards tend to go to films with impact, and that's one of the things that you sometimes need to have adult situations in.
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There's something like 20,000 gun control laws in the USA. You have federal law, state law, city and county laws.
Trust me, alot depends on where you are at.
For example, any US citizen who can legally own firearms can just as legally carry a concealed weapon in Vermont and Alaska, no permit needed. In New York, you need a permit to even own a gun. In Washington DC, handguns are illegal period unless it's a departmental weapon for a police officer or issued weapon from the US Military.
Of course, 'gun control' measures are questioned when people point out things like the differences in crime rates between the two:
Vermont: 113.5 per 100,000 violent crime rate(year 2000)
New York: 553.9
Washington DC(the epitome of gun control): 1,507.9
Now, I can transport Long-Guns on the airlines in a proper box or case with the proper forms filled out. Pistols are harder to move about, but it's still legally possible. Note, there are also various laws on carrying weapons on your person, the Right to Carry and the rights about transporting firearms in your vehicle from State to State.
Actually, I've followed the exact same rules for flying with everything from fully automatic weapons to handguns & rifles. As for 'forms' there is exactly one where I am: An affedavit that the firearm is unloaded.
Locked hard case, unloaded. Ammunition in original container or one that holds the rounds individually. Basically you're fine as long as they aren't just loose in the container.
Experiences may vary depending upon airport, state and city laws, and experience of the representatives therein. Sometimes you can run into trouble because the agents(baggage agents, TSA screener, airport police, etc...) don't know the laws.
Simple enough, Michael Moore passed the NICS check that the bank conducted. "National Instant Criminal Background Check System".
Basically all the information has already been collected. When somebody has a disabling condition such as a felony, violent misdemenor, remanded by a judge into a mental institution, warrent for arrest, or certain kinds of restraining order, it's entered into the database and varying amounts of trouble occurs if you attempt to purchase one.
You see, us gunnies don't feel the need for new gun laws, because the ones we already have aren't being enforced. It's a felony for a felon to even attempt to purchase a firearm, yet they're denied all the time and 99.9% of the time the police don't arrest him.
Oh, and the 'gun' was a shotgun, pretty much the most unregulated firearm going.
I'd tend to say that the vast majority of 'athiests' are of the first sort. There is a vast difference between those who are more or less indifferent to the existance of god and those who reject that existance. Kinda like those 'christians' who only step into a church for a wedding and maybe easter.
Newdow(One of the ones suing over the 'under god' part of the pledge) is one of the ones that reject, and are crusaders on the part of atheism. Him, I'd say turns atheism into religion.
The problem is that the radiator was, frankly speaking, designed for cooler climates and to be moving while under the sort of load the AC places on the engine. If the vehicle isn't moving, it's not getting much circulation around the radiator.
You could probably fix the problem with a bigger fan for it.
Makes me wonder why you wouldn't use dry ice. You'd need a bit of insulation to make sure the water doesn't freeze, but the lower temperature would allow you to get by with much less weight.
"In 23 minutes and 12 seconds a tsunami of height 13.6 meters will hit blah blah blah...".
Actually it is the core idea.
Tsunamis not caused by weather. They are generally sparked off by earthquakes, which we cannot predict reliably. However, once one is sparked off and we know the nature of the event(what kind of earthquake, magnitude, location) we can predict the tsunami once we crunch the numbers. However, this takes time.
Tsunamis are basically shock waves. They travel at 500-1000 kilometers an hour while in the deep ocean. That means that you are going to have much less than an hour in most situations. If you're talking over an hour of travel time you're talking about a minor tsunami for anything less than a huge asteroid hit. Near shore it slows down to 'dozens of kilometers' as it builds into a huge wave.
Seconds count in this situation. We're talking sirens annoncing the need to take immediate shelter, or travel inland/out to ocean. The most dangerous area is the coast region. If you're far enough out to sea, the wave can be handled, if you even notice it. Coastal mega-hotels need to be built strong enough to take the wave, though I'd see evacuating all of the ocean side and lower level rooms.
20 minutes can save a huge number of lives, though. A moderatly healthy person should be able to walk at least a mile and a half in that time. It's also the sort of situation where you're likely better off walking than trying to take your car. So many other people will be trying to drive, panicing, that accidents and traffic will slow you to a stop.
From what I've heard and read, pretty rare for a non-swat unit. I've worn IIIA/w IV inserts. It is heavy and hot. To the point that it's a fight to get officers to wear them.
In the interests of getting officers to wear them(and because they're cheaper), most only wear levelII or III. It's like arguing about pistol/size caliber for self defense. "The small gun with you is far more effective than the handcannon back home". IE it doesn't matter what it is if you don't have it on you when you need it.
Solo6,
If you don't want to take the survey, click on the other option. It leads to essays and pictures that explain my point of view. Just because the questions make you think doesn't mean that you have to insult me. Yes, I am a member of the NRA. And I think you need to check yourself for prejudices. Hayseed? I'm a city boy.
annually takes the lives of 17 children by gunfire for every ONE lost in the other 96.5% of the planetary population?
Even if your statistic were true, I have to ask: Do you consider it better for a child to be beaten to death with a club than shot? Just to elaborate, I make no distinction by method. I consider such a death equally tragic, whether it be by gun, knife, club, or any other method.
As for the statistic, I think it's likely to include the old 'child is anyone under 21' statistic, combined with cherry picking the countries for the other '96.5%' statistic. You know, not including africa for one.
Finally, I firmly believe that the best way to prevent child gun deaths is education. Education on proper handling and storage. The good old 'don't touch, tell an adult' for kids.
twisted view of human life and justice
You deduced this, apparantly from just seeing the survey, not even browsing the essays? Is it twisted to want to see the attempted murderer dead, instead of his intended victim? Is it justice to let a rapist conduct his business without opposition? Is it twisted to consider human life so valuable that it's worth defending?
I suggest you read the site.
Oh, I won't argue that it could be a contributer to polar bear's extinction in the wild. It's just that I feel certain that until something more severe happens there will still be enclaves of polar bears.
;)
...'. I love when I hear about placements of artificial reefs, reforestation, bird nests, etc. Improvements in habitat.
I won't argue that people shouldn't keep an eye on it, or that nothing should necessarily be done. Like somebody else posted, there might be ways to plant buoys/rest spots. And yeah, they're very good swimmers, not much to improve on there without some sacrifices on other fronts.
I'm fully aware that evolution tends to refine and eliminate species. I remember that occasionally there is an explosion of new species, most of which die off very quickly(over half of them in a few thousand years). Then it gradually slopes off until you get to today, where you're down to a few per year, instead of hundreds.
What I haven't seen is any sort of explanation for the 'explosion'. The creationists might of had an arguement if they had an explanation for that, but if they do I haven't heard it. It's part of the reason that I say that evolution is a observation of current events, not an explanation of how life began.
And no, I don't go 'hurrah' at the deaths of animals that aren't trying to eat me.
What always gets me is why so many 'greens' seem to want stasis. This and that change are always 'A threat to
That and it's even quieter than 'silenced' firearms, which are still fairly loud.
I've seen some tricks done with things like buckets of sand, where the arrow will penetrate completely through, while bullets are stopped.
No need for a km...
I've found that about a foot and a half works quite well, at least on handgun bullets
Might need a meter or two for high power rifle, though.
And modern low profile body armor is already effective against 99% of the firearms criminals use around here.
To wit: Handguns.
Next up Shotguns. level II or even III isn't going to protect you if they're packing slugs, but can be of great benefit against buckshot. Heck, the number of crooks who try to use birdshot is suprising!
Criminals rarely use rifles. So called 'assault weapons' are the rarest of all. Of course, I hear a good amount of confiscations, but not usage.
Meanwhile, over in the desert we have to worry about rifle fire, explosives, etc...
Like what's been said, it's not like the stuff can only be offered to one. It's more likely to become an evolution of kevlar. The military buys a bunch of it, and the cops start buying it, and it ends up becoming cheaper for both.
It all depends on how many generations you get with that 100 years. Fruit flys, for example, can evolve quite a bit during that period.
Still, there's a difference between 'a more difficult swim' and an 'impossible swim'.
Loss of habitat will result in more deaths, until the population reaches a stable level for the new amount of land/food etc.
Not extinction and re-evolution, but swings in population levels can be quite severe even in 'undisturbed' nature.
Like another poster mentioned, unless this gets much, much worse natural selection will simply start choosing bears better at swimming, or that find an alternate method for moving.
Turn the system around. Mount the mass driver on the ground and shoot the projectiles at a target/pad on the payload.
Have the payload be a rocket, and launch it off the mass driver, getting that 1000g head start.
From my understanding from reading reports, you're probably selling them at a profit, for the raw per-unit cost of the car(the cost to produce 1 more car in the factory), it's just that the big three have huge overheads that add up to better than a $1000 per car.
I read that the overhead from pensions and benefits for retired workers from GM is something like $800 per car sold. Worse, it's a static cost, so if you sell less cars, it goes up. If you can sell more cars, it'd go down, but competition from companies without those costs make it difficult.
Your paying alot for it then. My static IP is $12 a year.
I'll admit that in this I come from a biased viewpoint as my parents never screened films based on rating
My parents weren't so rich that I got to go to the movie theater much before I had my own job, but my parents did the exact same thing. They considered me and my brother very mature for our ages. I had a permission slip filed with the local video rental place allowing me to rent R rated movies. Thus, I never needed to worry about the rating. I was just told to stay away from the horrors.
As for artistic, important films being rated R, well, a common theme for life, what's considered 'important', involves sex and/or violence. The very things people want to shelter their kids from.
Of course, the rating system is limited, actually more limited than the game rating system that was so critized over the hot coffee mod. On the other hand, most people can tell by the descriptions, title, and artwork(movie posters) what a movie is about. I think that a major limitation might be the lack of something between PG13 and R. R is 17 and over, four years over PG13. If you created a "R15", movies like the matrix would probably end up in there. Maybe even some of the war movies like Saving Private Ryan.
Of course, the whole rating system is 'parental or adult supervision'. Showing SPR in a class that explains what's going on is very different from them just going and watching it themselves.
States that have privatized the investigation of welfare fraud find that it costs more
Did they sell it as a contract, paying a set amount, or as a bounty system? I'd set it up as a bounty system where the company is awarded for each case of fraud caught & stopped.
As for the health care system, I feel that it's suffering from the same symptoms as Lockheed and Boeing. Consumers are too insulated from costs on the whole. I've read studies that say that half the cost of a procedure is paperwork.
Yes, but considered as a research investment by the government, the generation of patents that will eventually run out and desired services such as cargo & personel transport to orbit.
The government can afford to take the long view.
Agree 100% on the shuttle, and the ISS might be salvagable, if we were to either accept a loss of safety or get off our buts and build a proper escape vehicle to allow enough people up there to do the maintenance and get some research done.
My idea is to have a permanent space station built on the tinker toy model. Individual modules might not be permanent, but you launch new modules as needed, then assemble into the station. Number 1 priority would be research into reusability and recycling. Modules would be designed to be strippable to be re-purposed.
I'd look into having a solar furnace/forge to change materials into something usefull, if only as extra shielding.
The idea is that it costs enough to get stuff up there, so we're leaving it there unless we have a need to bring it back, such as people or experiments needing examination back on earth.
Hydroponics should be easy, you have the solar, and the traditional fertilizer is going to be produced.
Ever heard of the "Pony Express"?
That was a commercial venture letter/package delivery service that worked.
The problem was getting a universal and affordable service into the smaller areas. Where somebody in Podunk town, NY could send a letter to Podunk town, CA for a reasonable price.
G tends to sell well because it's a way to shut up small children.
Doesn't mean that it doesn't make the theater money. And that's all that matters. I was thinking as I hit the submit button, but a limitation of G movies is that they restrict too much. Many storylines just can't be fitted into a G film. This tends to limit the amount of the "adults without children" crowd you're going to get. And they're the richest group.
PG/PG-13 tends to be very dependent on the film. Some parents care intensely if a film is PG-13, others don't care at all. Again it's usually up to the film at this rating where it ends up selling.
Agreed, this is where you can get some real storytelling done.
R rated films tend to make up the vast majority of films showing
Not in my area. PG/PG13 are the majority. A quick rundown of my local theater(8 screens):
1 G
2 PG
4 PG-13
1 R
Normally, we'll have 2 R's, I'll admit. Some time ago they had Jarhead and Doom up at the same time.
You might have more in your area. Past topics are hard to come up, but Moviefone's upcoming release schedule for non-limited release films stacks up as:
1 PG
5 PG-13
2 R(January)
1 NR(Late December release, assumed R)
Perhaps this would show that "comtemporary community standards" aren't exactly what many people want to think they are.
"Contemporary community standards" are different for children and adults. MPAA ratings are obstinately solely for children, it's assumed that adults can determine whether a movie is appropriate for themselves.
Awards tend to go to films with impact, and that's one of the things that you sometimes need to have adult situations in.
Dupe. See NASA Seeks Help Carrying Cargo Into Space
I still think it's a good thing that might end up saving money if it's done right.