There is no constitutional right to defend
yourself with your gun. The 2nd amendment says
"right
to keep and bear arms", not access them quickly.
If you live in that rough a neighbourhood, keep
a crowbar by your door or something. Guns suck in close
quarters anyway, and unless you have illegal
ammo you risk shooting through a wall
and hitting a family member.
When I say gun locker, I mean steel safe bolted to the wall or with
a huge concrete block in the bottom. Thus the need
for subsidies.
And that ruling against the ban on cheap guns
shows how twisted the justice system is. A flintlock
musket, which is the arms people had when the
2nd amendment was written, cost the modern day
equivalent of around $1000. There is a right to keep
and bear arms, not a right to be able to purchase one.
No, the only rational argument for
owning a gun is hunting or target shooting IMO.
In the close quarters of a house, a crowbar
does the same job of self defense (unless you keep the gun on you at all times).
I agree, the rules for storage is where the US should introduce new legislation ASAP. Make it mandatory to keep your guns locked away, unloaded, and set up a program where for one year the government covers half the cost for anyone buying a gun locker (reasonably priced and conforming to some specification). I'd bet that the total benefit of such a program to society would be larger than the costs in a year or two.
To provide some statistics: this paper found that in the 12 US states with laws regarding safe storage of guns at that time, there were 23% fewer unintentional shooting deaths among children under 15, and this finding was statistically significant.
They're just on the sides of the roads. But almost all multiple-lane (and by that I mean >1 lane going in each direction) roads here have good streetlights and central+side barriers.
For $300 you should get this instead. They give A LOT more light than any stock lights, no matter how shiny your reflector is. Of course, you should have decent low beams for when you meet traffic, but when you're talking high beams, go for some nice leds that you'll never have to replace. (I'm not affiliated with linked product, I just like them.)
My car has a temperature reading in the console display, next to the current radio station and time of day. When the temperature is between +3 C and -3 C, the temperature reading blinks slowly. It is noticable enough that you see it, but not disturbing. Safety features such as this is one of the things that should be standardized across all cars (like child seat mounting points are) IMHO.
We have a similar thing in Norway, and it's not a problem with the snowplows. We just make them a lot taller, about 5 feet I think. They actually serve a dual purpose, as they also show the snowplows where the road is. They are the best solution to this problem, bar none. (Yes, it has actually happened after a major snowfall that snowplows have misjudged where the road is going and gone of straight into the middle of a field.)
0 being "kind of cold", aka freezing point of water, is very useful. Before I left home this morning, I had a glance at the thermometer, and it read +3 C. Since we've had snow for a few weeks now, above 0 equals "it is slippery outside". No need to remember that "slippery roads" happen at around 32 degrees, it happens at around 0 degrees.
Not to mention that your 0 F ="very cold" is extremely arbitrary. -10 F and +10 F are also "very cold".
Also, Windows protects your investment in expansive proprietary applications. Say, if you buy Matlab, you know you're going to keep it for a few years in your Windows, because Windows 7 has a 10 year life cycle. If you purchase one of these things for Linux, it'll break within 6 months when the developers change ABIs, move libraries around, or do any other of those thoughtful acts they always do.
This is pure FUD. My local university uses Matlab extensively on both Windows, Mac and Linux. If Matlab on Linux was a PITA and no-one was using it, I don't think they would keep paying $$$ for the license.
Similarly, at work I am using several expensive proprietary Linux applications on a bleeding-edge distro (ArchLinux), without a hitch. My colleagues are using the same on various other (new and old) distros. Off the top of my head, there's Matlab, Maple, Intel's fortran compiler, PGI's fortran compiler, 3D plotting software Tec360, and NIST Refprop.
or I've ran Common Lisp code from 1998 without a problem
(...)
Of course, you're talking software for John Doe, not some weird C code for wavelets or genetic programming.
And allow me to say puh-lease, 1996? The NIST still sells Fortran code which was mainly written in the 70s. There are mountains of Cobol around at banks and the BLS. Hell, the Linux kernel has stuff older than 1996.
I agree on Python et al. though, exemplified by the current situation on ArchLinux, where `python` = Python 3, and you have to convert the hashbang in almost, but not quite, every script you get from someone else.
Please, I'm excited to hear your mathematical argument in favor of AGW.
And perhaps counter this one:
Assuming temperature is a monotonically increasing function of CO2 in the atmosphere, you cannot construct a Lyapunov function. Thus the system is unstable, and we are fucked anyway.
You want bleeding edge software, use a bleeding
edge distro! Official E17 packages
for Archlinux have been 0-2 days behind
upstream for the last 10 preview releases. Those install in about one minute.
Why would this thing be connected to a network? When it is providing assistance to a platoon which is within immediate distance, there is no need for a network. I mean, sure it could be on a network if it were operating completely by itself, but do you really think the Army is going to risk its high tech toys falling into enemy hands?
Drones, on the other hand, could possibly be hacked. But I hope they are using some strong authentication system between drone and operator, e.g. 2048 bit DSA. Standard methods do not work on someone on the other side of a lot of guns.
I know when it was written, 1992. By then, all decent FORTRAN compilers were fast enough that addition was not a problem. And even if you wanted to use such code for speed purposes, directly comparing a float to 0.0 is bad practise. IF ( ABS(Z(I)).LT. EPS ) THEN where EPS is the machine precision is the proper way to do it.
Interesting. I haven't experienced any hardware problems, but then again hardware problems are typically randomly distributed among devices, I may just have been lucky with mine.
I have an AMD APU (E-350) on my netbook running Linux.
Went with the open source driver, since
the only benefit of the closed one was video acceleration.
(Videos I watch on my media senter with 50" screen, not my 12"screen).
Or we knew that flashing DD-WRT instead of the PoS Cisco firmware would remove the problem within one hour of the device arriving at our domiciles. (I bought a Linksys WRT160NL just a month ago, works perfectly fine with a proper firmware. Current uptime 29 days.)
Maybe, for a CMOS sensor with a rolling shutter and a long enough shutter time, you could theoretically capture some time-varying EM radiation. You can see the rolling shutter causing the "jello-cam" effect on videos shot on e.g. mobile phones. But it would only be a few cycles (ten at best, the camera doesn't use a rolling shutter anymore for very long exposures), and my guess is that thermal noise is much larger.
An interesting counter-argument is that we could, by chance, be one of the first civilizations to achieve the technological level we are currently at. Given what we know (or think we know) about the history of star formation in the universe, e.g. that the early stars going nova are the primary source of heavier elements (required for fission, hell, even for semiconductors), this is not unreasonable.
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There is no constitutional right to defend yourself with your gun. The 2nd amendment says "right to keep and bear arms", not access them quickly. If you live in that rough a neighbourhood, keep a crowbar by your door or something. Guns suck in close quarters anyway, and unless you have illegal ammo you risk shooting through a wall and hitting a family member.
When I say gun locker, I mean steel safe bolted to the wall or with a huge concrete block in the bottom. Thus the need for subsidies.
And that ruling against the ban on cheap guns shows how twisted the justice system is. A flintlock musket, which is the arms people had when the 2nd amendment was written, cost the modern day equivalent of around $1000. There is a right to keep and bear arms, not a right to be able to purchase one.
No, the only rational argument for owning a gun is hunting or target shooting IMO. In the close quarters of a house, a crowbar does the same job of self defense (unless you keep the gun on you at all times).
I agree, the rules for storage is where the US should introduce new legislation ASAP. Make it mandatory to keep your guns locked away, unloaded, and set up a program where for one year the government covers half the cost for anyone buying a gun locker (reasonably priced and conforming to some specification). I'd bet that the total benefit of such a program to society would be larger than the costs in a year or two.
To provide some statistics: this paper found that in the 12 US states with laws regarding safe storage of guns at that time, there were 23% fewer unintentional shooting deaths among children under 15, and this finding was statistically significant.
They're just on the sides of the roads. But almost all multiple-lane (and by that I mean >1 lane going in each direction) roads here have good streetlights and central+side barriers.
For $300 you should get this instead. They give A LOT more light than any stock lights, no matter how shiny your reflector is. Of course, you should have decent low beams for when you meet traffic, but when you're talking high beams, go for some nice leds that you'll never have to replace. (I'm not affiliated with linked product, I just like them.)
My car has a temperature reading in the console display, next to the current radio station and time of day. When the temperature is between +3 C and -3 C, the temperature reading blinks slowly. It is noticable enough that you see it, but not disturbing. Safety features such as this is one of the things that should be standardized across all cars (like child seat mounting points are) IMHO.
We have a similar thing in Norway, and it's not a problem with the snowplows. We just make them a lot taller, about 5 feet I think. They actually serve a dual purpose, as they also show the snowplows where the road is. They are the best solution to this problem, bar none. (Yes, it has actually happened after a major snowfall that snowplows have misjudged where the road is going and gone of straight into the middle of a field.)
0 being "kind of cold", aka freezing point of water, is very useful. Before I left home this morning, I had a glance at the thermometer, and it read +3 C. Since we've had snow for a few weeks now, above 0 equals "it is slippery outside". No need to remember that "slippery roads" happen at around 32 degrees, it happens at around 0 degrees.
Not to mention that your 0 F ="very cold" is extremely arbitrary. -10 F and +10 F are also "very cold".
Also, Windows protects your investment in expansive proprietary applications. Say, if you buy Matlab, you know you're going to keep it for a few years in your Windows, because Windows 7 has a 10 year life cycle. If you purchase one of these things for Linux, it'll break within 6 months when the developers change ABIs, move libraries around, or do any other of those thoughtful acts they always do.
This is pure FUD. My local university uses Matlab extensively on both Windows, Mac and Linux. If Matlab on Linux was a PITA and no-one was using it, I don't think they would keep paying $$$ for the license.
Similarly, at work I am using several expensive proprietary Linux applications on a bleeding-edge distro (ArchLinux), without a hitch. My colleagues are using the same on various other (new and old) distros. Off the top of my head, there's Matlab, Maple, Intel's fortran compiler, PGI's fortran compiler, 3D plotting software Tec360, and NIST Refprop.
or I've ran Common Lisp code from 1998 without a problem
(...)
Of course, you're talking software for John Doe, not some weird C code for wavelets or genetic programming.
And allow me to say puh-lease, 1996? The NIST still sells Fortran code which was mainly written in the 70s. There are mountains of Cobol around at banks and the BLS. Hell, the Linux kernel has stuff older than 1996.
I agree on Python et al. though, exemplified by the current situation on ArchLinux, where `python` = Python 3, and you have to convert the hashbang in almost, but not quite, every script you get from someone else.
Why should the US convert? Here's why: graph.
Please, I'm excited to hear your mathematical argument in favor of AGW.
And perhaps counter this one:
Assuming temperature is a monotonically increasing function of CO2 in the atmosphere, you cannot construct a Lyapunov function. Thus the system is unstable, and we are fucked anyway.
You want bleeding edge software, use a bleeding edge distro! Official E17 packages for Archlinux have been 0-2 days behind upstream for the last 10 preview releases. Those install in about one minute.
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Why would this thing be connected to a network? When it is providing assistance to a platoon which is within immediate distance, there is no need for a network. I mean, sure it could be on a network if it were operating completely by itself, but do you really think the Army is going to risk its high tech toys falling into enemy hands?
Drones, on the other hand, could possibly be hacked. But I hope they are using some strong authentication system between drone and operator, e.g. 2048 bit DSA. Standard methods do not work on someone on the other side of a lot of guns.
I know when it was written, 1992. By then, all decent FORTRAN compilers were fast enough that addition was not a problem. And even if you wanted to use such code for speed purposes, directly comparing a float to 0.0 is bad practise. IF ( ABS(Z(I)) .LT. EPS ) THEN where EPS is the machine precision is the proper way to do it.
/. ate the spaces.
But you really don't see any problem in using a GOTO to avoid adding zero to the result?...
A snippet from the Linux kernel which goes the other way:
/*
* The EFI specification says that boot service code won't be called
* after ExitBootServices(). This is, in fact, a lie.
*/
That's on par with the code I had the displeasure of encountering at work yesterday (simplified a little for brevity):
.EQ. 0 ) THEN
RES=0.0
DO 100 I=1,10
IF ( Z(I)
GOTO 100
END IF
RES=RES+Z(I)
100 CONTINUE
Interesting. I haven't experienced any hardware problems, but then again hardware problems are typically randomly distributed among devices, I may just have been lucky with mine.
I have an AMD APU (E-350) on my netbook running Linux. Went with the open source driver, since the only benefit of the closed one was video acceleration. (Videos I watch on my media senter with 50" screen, not my 12"screen).
Or we knew that flashing DD-WRT instead of the PoS Cisco firmware would remove the problem within one hour of the device arriving at our domiciles. (I bought a Linksys WRT160NL just a month ago, works perfectly fine with a proper firmware. Current uptime 29 days.)
Maybe, for a CMOS sensor with a rolling shutter and a long enough shutter time, you could theoretically capture some time-varying EM radiation. You can see the rolling shutter causing the "jello-cam" effect on videos shot on e.g. mobile phones. But it would only be a few cycles (ten at best, the camera doesn't use a rolling shutter anymore for very long exposures), and my guess is that thermal noise is much larger.
TL;DR: NO.
An interesting counter-argument is that we could, by chance, be one of the first civilizations to achieve the technological level we are currently at. Given what we know (or think we know) about the history of star formation in the universe, e.g. that the early stars going nova are the primary source of heavier elements (required for fission, hell, even for semiconductors), this is not unreasonable.