How will this deter someone intent on trying to sneak something onboard a flight? Answer: it won't. Just like gun free zones prevent people from becoming victims. Someone intent on doing harm will ignore this law like they ignore the others. This law is a movie law, it dates back to Die Hard and the "invisible" glock. Schumer is a moron who thinks he knows what is best for you.
It's violence. Tighter gun laws disarm people who would only use a gun to save their lives. Some of the tightest "gun laws" in the US are in Chicago. I hear it's pretty save to walk the streets there.:) Thinking that outlawing something is going to get rid of it is foolish. I didn't work for alcohol, it's not working for drugs, and it won't work for guns. All it does is disarms law biding citizens. The last time I checked, law biding citizens weren't commiting these crimes. If you want the real stats, go here: http://www.nij.gov/topics/crime/gun-violence/welcome.htm . This article talks about an AR15, which is almost never used in a crime. In fact rifles in general account for something like only 2% of firearms homicides. http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-2010/tables/10tbl20.xls
So please, before the feel good "more gun laws == less gun violence" take a look at some numbers. The problem is crime, not guns, and that's a human problem. Victim disarmament does nothing to prevent the crime, other than skewing the odds greatly in favor of the criminal.
The pipe/nail is called a zipgun and is "illegal" in some states. If you google, you'll find John Moses Brownings workshop. It's pretty basic and he developed the 1911 from scratch there. With CNC's it's not hard to make a real firearm and with the AR, the only thing with "paper" or background check is the lower receiver. I know tons of people who have "rolled' their own, and have done it legally. Heck, an AK47 can be made with hand tools and a hydraulic press.
There are already polymer lower receivers out there. http://www.lw15.com/ is one. I prefer to machine my lower receivers out of an 80% completed block of aluminium. I'm not seeing why everyone is up in arms (punny) over this.:) It's legal to make your own firearm.
As a non-native Californian living in the PRK. I'm still amazed at the rights the state takes away from parents in the name of "It's for the children." Work permit from the school?!? As a parent of 3 teens, I'm the work permit, grades slip, work stops. Done. Just because some parents are slackers, the state tries to impose the "proper" way to raise children with rules and regulations often written by bureaucrats and legislators that have no children. My kids know the rules and know what's allowed, I do not need the STATE telling me how to raise them. This is a great ruling, the legislator here needs to get back to the basics and get off their social agenda. 60 cents a gallon gas tax and you need an offroad vehicle to drive down most major roads here.:)
Oh, what a glorious way to waste tax dollars. First design a system, then require everyone to get on board with it. Price it through the roof and have a single vendor for all the gear. So some volunteer fire dept in Iowa that is on a shoestring budget has to spend thousands to upgrade radios. It will take years if it ever gets off the ground. This is _WHY_ amateur radio works, government has too many silos and too many important people that will push their system. Been there seen that, still paying the price.:(
They reduced the timers to below the minimums to increase revenue. Most famous intersection is Aero Drive and Murphy Canyon, that one was raking in $$$ for the city.
I think the crooks running the city of San Diego originated this. They had the redlight cameras shut down in 2001 for doing it. They put them at intersections where there was a high percentage of people that would pay the tickets and not at "Dangerous" intersections. Then they tweaked the timing on the lights and started raking in the dough. Read about it here.
Does this mean that Travolta and Algore get to own Hybrid jets? Or are they going to get special air pooling fast lanes??:) We need to shrink our carbon footprint so they can have their huge one. Preach to me, then bebop around the country in your private planes??? sheesh..
Concealed makes every crazy think twice about what they're doing. Let's see, crowd of people, which ones are packing? Check out Florida with concealed carry laws, for awhile, it was and I am sure still is the out of towners who are targets, as there is less risk of them carrying. Not knowing if your intended victim is armed or not is a good deterrent to victimizing them. Criminals go for the weak/easily overpowered, if they think you might fight back, they'll go for someone else.
If telco's and isp's start examining every packet to apply QOS to it, doesn't that exempt them from being a Common Carrier? The Common Carrier exemption they get is from not examining the traffic and just routing it. If they start looking at packets to apply prefered treatment to traffic, then they are no longer just routing. I would think they would loose their common carrier status and be liable for traffic traversing their networks.
85.99 KM in one Hour. Or about 54.43 mph average for an hour. If you follow the link to the easy racers site, it show's what is known as a streamliner HPV. Those things are fast, 80% of your power on a bike is used to overcome wind drag. If you cut your drag to close to nothing, you gain quite a bit of speed.
You haven't tried a highracer. Not awkward at all, fits in standard bike racks, and well, is very practical. Use one on a daily basis. Very fast bike, even use it on club rides. Of course, it's usually me with 10 or more uprights being pulled along at 25 or so on the flats.:)
I commute 20 miles to work. 1 big hill in the middle, and I do it in about an hour on a Bacchetta Corsa. I've done centuries and double centuries on this bike. No pain, just tired legs at the end. This is a very practical recumbent bike, and has the rider very Aero. My record pace to work is 59 minutes(all green lights), most the time I'm at about 1:05 as I usually hit a few lights. It takes 30 minutes to drive the same route, so for 1 hour more a day I get excercise. Easy to carry stuff with a "brain bag" that goes on the back of the seat and is out of the airstream. Hydration goes behind the seat too. Great setup for commuting, and I'm on average 2-3mph faster than my upright bike.
2 weeks ago at Hellyer velodrome Freddy was "getting too old for this" and now he sets a new record. This is a 1 hour record. Hitting mid 50's on a diamond frame bike takes a good hill. The drafting bicycle speed record is somewhere around 150mph. The non-drafting, pedal up to speed record no tailwind, no hills is at 82mph in a similar bike that Freddy used. Recumbents.com , Battel Mountain have info on the top speed runs. Freddy did something like 76mph last year. These bikes are more HPV's as they are fully faired. Aerodynamics and power are a cool combination.
For the street, one of the best performing recumbents are the Bacchetta's. Bacchetta has been giving a good showing around the country for the past few years. They did the Hotter-N-Hell century as a team (drafting) in 3:56 passing the bicycle race that was part of the event. John Schlitter won the Race Across Florida on a Bacchetta this year, and Bacchetta took 1,3-5 overall. They were used for a 3rd place finish last year in the Race Across America 4 man team. They also had a rider up to third this year before he dnf'd. Cycling News Results with Jim Kern in 3rd on a Bacchetta . Later this month, there will be quite a few recumbent and HPV teams competing in the Race Across Oregon including a 4 man team, and 2 man team from Bacchetta.
Of course, to give credit where credit is due. One of the slickest bikes out there is the Velokraft NoCom low racer bike. This bike is more track/pure race oriented, and is quite fast.
If you want to increase your cycling speed by a few mph. Check out a recumbent. For more info, there's the wildly popular recumbent site Bentrider Online which has a very informative forum section.
I live 18.6 miles from work via bike. It takes me about an hour to ride in, or if I want, I can take the trolley which takes about the same amount of time. On a good day it will take 30 minutes to drive, but on most days I'm looking at being parked on I8, I94, or SR52 for around 45 minutes. Oh, this includes a 10 minute walk to the parking lot to get to my car vs my bike locker right outside the door of the building. So basically, I'm spending an extra 30 minutes each way getting a workout, or reading on the Trolley. It's quite a bit cheaper and better for my health.
I commute to work 3-4 days a week, 19 miles one way. Takes about 60-75 minutes. Get a nice late 80's early 90's lightweight road bike and just ride. On a flat once you're in shape, maintaining 20+mph isn't that hard. With the E-Bike, you won't get in shape, and you'll have guys like me passing you uphill and laughing. I've buried E-bikes on my road bike. Usually on a bit of an incline, and who knows, batteries may have been dead on the thing, but they weren't keeping up, that's for sure.
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How will this deter someone intent on trying to sneak something onboard a flight? Answer: it won't. Just like gun free zones prevent people from becoming victims. Someone intent on doing harm will ignore this law like they ignore the others. This law is a movie law, it dates back to Die Hard and the "invisible" glock. Schumer is a moron who thinks he knows what is best for you.
It's violence. Tighter gun laws disarm people who would only use a gun to save their lives. Some of the tightest "gun laws" in the US are in Chicago. I hear it's pretty save to walk the streets there. :) Thinking that outlawing something is going to get rid of it is foolish. I didn't work for alcohol, it's not working for drugs, and it won't work for guns. All it does is disarms law biding citizens. The last time I checked, law biding citizens weren't commiting these crimes. If you want the real stats, go here: http://www.nij.gov/topics/crime/gun-violence/welcome.htm . This article talks about an AR15, which is almost never used in a crime. In fact rifles in general account for something like only 2% of firearms homicides. http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-2010/tables/10tbl20.xls
So please, before the feel good "more gun laws == less gun violence" take a look at some numbers.
The problem is crime, not guns, and that's a human problem. Victim disarmament does nothing to prevent the crime, other than skewing the odds greatly in favor of the criminal.
The pipe/nail is called a zipgun and is "illegal" in some states. If you google, you'll find John Moses Brownings workshop. It's pretty basic and he developed the 1911 from scratch there. With CNC's it's not hard to make a real firearm and with the AR, the only thing with "paper" or background check is the lower receiver. I know tons of people who have "rolled' their own, and have done it legally. Heck, an AK47 can be made with hand tools and a hydraulic press.
There are already polymer lower receivers out there. http://www.lw15.com/ is one. I prefer to machine my lower receivers out of an 80% completed block of aluminium. I'm not seeing why everyone is up in arms (punny) over this. :) It's legal to make your own firearm.
Bring back the Astro City Rocket slide!
As a non-native Californian living in the PRK. I'm still amazed at the rights the state takes away from parents in the name of "It's for the children." Work permit from the school?!? As a parent of 3 teens, I'm the work permit, grades slip, work stops. Done. Just because some parents are slackers, the state tries to impose the "proper" way to raise children with rules and regulations often written by bureaucrats and legislators that have no children. My kids know the rules and know what's allowed, I do not need the STATE telling me how to raise them. This is a great ruling, the legislator here needs to get back to the basics and get off their social agenda. 60 cents a gallon gas tax and you need an offroad vehicle to drive down most major roads here. :)
You sometimes wonder if this should be a part time gig for these guys. :( Yea!, my tax dollars at work. :(
Oh, what a glorious way to waste tax dollars. First design a system, then require everyone to get on board with it. Price it through the roof and have a single vendor for all the gear. So some volunteer fire dept in Iowa that is on a shoestring budget has to spend thousands to upgrade radios. It will take years if it ever gets off the ground. This is _WHY_ amateur radio works, government has too many silos and too many important people that will push their system. Been there seen that, still paying the price. :(
They reduced the timers to below the minimums to increase revenue. Most famous intersection is Aero Drive and Murphy Canyon, that one was raking in $$$ for the city.
I think the crooks running the city of San Diego originated this. They had the redlight cameras shut down in 2001 for doing it. They put them at intersections where there was a high percentage of people that would pay the tickets and not at "Dangerous" intersections. Then they tweaked the timing on the lights and started raking in the dough. Read about it here.
You should've opted out of verizon. To think I was debating switching to them as they seem to have the best coverage. Not now....
Does this mean that Travolta and Algore get to own Hybrid jets? Or are they going to get special air pooling fast lanes?? :) We need to shrink our carbon footprint so they can have their huge one. Preach to me, then bebop around the country in your private planes??? sheesh..
Concealed makes every crazy think twice about what they're doing. Let's see, crowd of people, which ones are packing? Check out Florida with concealed carry laws, for awhile, it was and I am sure still is the out of towners who are targets, as there is less risk of them carrying. Not knowing if your intended victim is armed or not is a good deterrent to victimizing them. Criminals go for the weak/easily overpowered, if they think you might fight back, they'll go for someone else.
If telco's and isp's start examining every packet to apply QOS to it, doesn't that exempt them from being a Common Carrier? The Common Carrier exemption they get is from not examining the traffic and just routing it. If they start looking at packets to apply prefered treatment to traffic, then they are no longer just routing. I would think they would loose their common carrier status and be liable for traffic traversing their networks.
85.99 KM in one Hour. Or about 54.43 mph average for an hour. If you follow the link to the easy racers site, it show's what is known as a streamliner HPV. Those things are fast, 80% of your power on a bike is used to overcome wind drag. If you cut your drag to close to nothing, you gain quite a bit of speed.
You haven't tried a highracer. Not awkward at all, fits in standard bike racks, and well, is very practical. Use one on a daily basis. Very fast bike, even use it on club rides. Of course, it's usually me with 10 or more uprights being pulled along at 25 or so on the flats. :)
I commute 20 miles to work. 1 big hill in the middle, and I do it in about an hour on a Bacchetta Corsa. I've done centuries and double centuries on this bike. No pain, just tired legs at the end. This is a very practical recumbent bike, and has the rider very Aero. My record pace to work is 59 minutes(all green lights), most the time I'm at about 1:05 as I usually hit a few lights. It takes 30 minutes to drive the same route, so for 1 hour more a day I get excercise. Easy to carry stuff with a "brain bag" that goes on the back of the seat and is out of the airstream. Hydration goes behind the seat too.
Great setup for commuting, and I'm on average 2-3mph faster than my upright bike.
2 weeks ago at Hellyer velodrome Freddy was "getting too old for this" and now he sets a new record. This is a 1 hour record. Hitting mid 50's on a diamond frame bike takes a good hill. The drafting bicycle speed record is somewhere around 150mph. The non-drafting, pedal up to speed record no tailwind, no hills is at 82mph in a similar bike that Freddy used. Recumbents.com , Battel Mountain have info on the top speed runs. Freddy did something like 76mph last year. These bikes are more HPV's as they are fully faired. Aerodynamics and power are a cool combination.
For the street, one of the best performing recumbents are the Bacchetta's. Bacchetta has been giving a good showing around the country for the past few years. They did the Hotter-N-Hell century as a team (drafting) in 3:56 passing the bicycle race that was part of the event. John Schlitter won the Race Across Florida on a Bacchetta this year, and Bacchetta took 1,3-5 overall. They were used for a 3rd place finish last year in the Race Across America 4 man team. They also had a rider up to third this year before he dnf'd. Cycling News Results with Jim Kern in 3rd on a Bacchetta . Later this month, there will be quite a few recumbent and HPV teams competing in the Race Across Oregon including a 4 man team, and 2 man team from Bacchetta.
Of course, to give credit where credit is due. One of the slickest bikes out there is the Velokraft NoCom low racer bike. This bike is more track/pure race oriented, and is quite fast.
If you want to increase your cycling speed by a few mph. Check out a recumbent. For more info, there's the wildly popular recumbent site Bentrider Online which has a very informative forum section.
first post! Hope she wins.
We were negotiating with the Pentagon; We had a blue screen of death, when you're holding the moon for ransom, you value stability in an application.
We can all be supervillians like Steve.
Yes, but the Navy has a web front end to it, which doctors love. :)
I live 18.6 miles from work via bike. It takes me about an hour to ride in, or if I want, I can take the trolley which takes about the same amount of time. On a good day it will take 30 minutes to drive, but on most days I'm looking at being parked on I8, I94, or SR52 for around 45 minutes. Oh, this includes a 10 minute walk to the parking lot to get to my car vs my bike locker right outside the door of the building. So basically, I'm spending an extra 30 minutes each way getting a workout, or reading on the Trolley. It's quite a bit cheaper and better for my health.
I commute to work 3-4 days a week, 19 miles one way. Takes about 60-75 minutes. Get a nice late 80's early 90's lightweight road bike and just ride. On a flat once you're in shape, maintaining 20+mph isn't that hard. With the E-Bike, you won't get in shape, and you'll have guys like me passing you uphill and laughing. I've buried E-bikes on my road bike. Usually on a bit of an incline, and who knows, batteries may have been dead on the thing, but they weren't keeping up, that's for sure.
A true linux specialist would have his name referenced in the source code that comes with any distribution, or have @debian.org in one of his/her many email addresses!! :)