They have mostly been taking the easy approach of cutting highly visible services to show how painful the cuts are instead of cutting actual waste and bloat.
So many people don't understand this; that there are so many laws that you can't possibly understand. Just about everyone is guilty if the Feds dig deep enough.
How much do we have to blame ourselves, as a nation, for saying through our actions that it's OK to solve problems with violence?
We don't like murders so we put them to death.* We don't like traitors so we put them to death.* We don;t like rapists so we put them to death.* We don't like serious misconduct by solders. There are 14 capital offenses in the US military.** We don't like terrorism suspects so we kill them with drone strikes. We don't like the actions of a country, so we invade them.
Aren't we sending a message in real life, versus a fictional portrayal in movies or video games, that it's OK to kill people that you're fed up with?
* varies by jurisdiction ** some only during a time of war, not sure if wars undeclared by Congress count
Politicians have to look like they're doing SOMETHING if they want to get re-elected. It doesn't matter so much how effective legislation is as long as they tried.
Banning video games, hi-cap mags or mean-looking black rifles won't stop those bent on violence from hurting others.
Agreed, but I think you're leaving bulling off the list.
I don't think we've seen any "popular jock" kids as perpetrators. I think the perps have a low "stake in conformity" coupled with unaddressed mental health issues.
Agreed, but to amplify, these mass shooting are not very common, but grab a lot of headline space. Bruce Schnider writes extensively on the topic of "security theater", which is what the majority of the legislation boils down to.
The media definitely has played a role in the recent mass shootings. I've heard it said that modern terrorism didn't happen until after the advent of mass media. I believe that the media is making poor choices "glamorizing" these events, but it's about impossible to craft a law stopping is and still maintain a free press.
I don't think that any agency that determines who receives a fine or how much a fine will be should directly benefit from said fine. It should usually go to the next higher levels' coffers. e.g., the Police department shouldn't directly receive the money from a fine, it should go into the city's general fund. Seizures and forfeitures especially should never go to the issuing agency. This practice is plagued with abuse.
Too much vendor documentation is geared to lawyers, CYA and is needlessly verbose.
Many web sites tell you what it really took to get something going versus how it's supposed to work.
I read a lot of bad documentation. Remember English class where you took a few 3x5 note cards and padded it out to a five page paper? I've read too much vendor documentation that looks just like this. No economy of words.
I once "inherited" a cheap couch that was designed to cut through some foam padding after minimal use and become uncomfortable. I say it was intentional because it would take forethought and malice design a couch with metal wires against foam that would obviously fail in this fashion.
I stopped paying attention to "best seller" status after I learned that one can have a best seller without a consumer ever buying a single book. It seems that it's based off wholesale sales not retail sales, so the whole thing is something of a sham to begin with.
Muskets WERE the military weapon of the day, just like the M-16/M4 are today. Civilians can own the non-automatic AR-15.
I find it hard to believe that the 2d amendment is about letting governmental entities beyond the Federal government keep arms in the middle of a document about individual rights. There's also that pesky, "the right of the people to keep and bear arms" thing.
As applied today, I think the proper reading of the 2d amendment "well regulated" part is that the National Guard should be providing training and marksmanship classed to any citizen willing to arm themselves with a military caliber rifle and show up. In times of emergency these volunteers could be called up to supplement the National Guard.
It's important because, if you don't know the difference, you probably don't know what you are talking about. You may have a (strong) opinion on the subject, but it's not likely to be an informed opinion. Do you take the opinion of people who call a computer case the "CPU" seriously?
I'm not opposed to a manufacturer making a model with extra high-tech safeties for people who don't know how to use guns and/or have kids they don't want to educate on firearms safety but I wouldn't personally buy one and I'm 100% against making anything like this mandatory.
Everyone on/. knows that technology can fail. It will just add to the weight/cost/complexity of the weapon and reduce reliability. Batteries die at the worst time, etc. Simple is best and dead-ass simple is better. "It's not how it works, it's how well if fails."
What you talk about might make sense about the time we get laser rifles. They'll have a power source anyway.
I think modern firearms are actually very safe. People are stupid or do stupid things.
I'm using a AMD E-350 as a home server on Fedora 17. It's not a gaming rig but it has plenty of power for DHCP/DNS/File server and can run a Windows 7 VM via KVM. CPU's are so fast these days that even a low-end/low-power offering is fast enough for many jobs. I'm glad to see Intel offering 8GB of RAM on Atom as the older systems could only support 4GB. That's what pushed me to the AMD Bobcat/Zacate platform.
I figure it's saving me about half of the electricity versus running a older Intel PC as a server. Plus the Asus E35M1-M has decent onboard video, USB3 and plenty of STAT3 ports
I'll believe that when when we have built-in end-to-end encryption off all Internet traffic by default, get rid of mandatory (CALEA) backdoors in telecomm equipment and get equal privacy for electronic communications.
We used to have this thing called DIN (German equivalent to SAE) style car stereos. For years, all (or at least most) cars came with DIN sized stereos that could be fairly easily replaced with newer models. Then Detroit decided that there was money to be made selling (over priced, proprietary) car audio systems (e.g.,Bose) and they mostly did away with the DIN standard in favor of their proprietary offerings and generally made life hell for those that wished to upgrade to a 3d party stereo.
If it hadn't been for AMD's 64 bit extensions, we'd all be running Itanium servers right now. AMD forced Intel to release a 64bit x86. If AMD hadn't, all of the effort that is being put into Intel's current 64bit chips would have go into Itanium and it would be a very strong platform. The alternative, PAE, sucked.
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They have mostly been taking the easy approach of cutting highly visible services to show how painful the cuts are instead of cutting actual waste and bloat.
I don't think you need "Laser sintering". I think a MIG (wire-feed) welder is awfully close.
"I'm behind 14 proxies"
Your latency must suck.
So many people don't understand this; that there are so many laws that you can't possibly understand. Just about everyone is guilty if the Feds dig deep enough.
How much do we have to blame ourselves, as a nation, for saying through our actions that it's OK to solve problems with violence?
We don't like murders so we put them to death.*
We don't like traitors so we put them to death.*
We don;t like rapists so we put them to death.*
We don't like serious misconduct by solders. There are 14 capital offenses in the US military.**
We don't like terrorism suspects so we kill them with drone strikes.
We don't like the actions of a country, so we invade them.
Aren't we sending a message in real life, versus a fictional portrayal in movies or video games, that it's OK to kill people that you're fed up with?
* varies by jurisdiction
** some only during a time of war, not sure if wars undeclared by Congress count
Politicians have to look like they're doing SOMETHING if they want to get re-elected. It doesn't matter so much how effective legislation is as long as they tried.
Banning video games, hi-cap mags or mean-looking black rifles won't stop those bent on violence from hurting others.
Agreed, but I think you're leaving bulling off the list.
I don't think we've seen any "popular jock" kids as perpetrators. I think the perps have a low "stake in conformity" coupled with unaddressed mental health issues.
Agreed, but to amplify, these mass shooting are not very common, but grab a lot of headline space. Bruce Schnider writes extensively on the topic of "security theater", which is what the majority of the legislation boils down to.
The media definitely has played a role in the recent mass shootings. I've heard it said that modern terrorism didn't happen until after the advent of mass media. I believe that the media is making poor choices "glamorizing" these events, but it's about impossible to craft a law stopping is and still maintain a free press.
I don't think that any agency that determines who receives a fine or how much a fine will be should directly benefit from said fine. It should usually go to the next higher levels' coffers. e.g., the Police department shouldn't directly receive the money from a fine, it should go into the city's general fund. Seizures and forfeitures especially should never go to the issuing agency. This practice is plagued with abuse.
Too much vendor documentation is geared to lawyers, CYA and is needlessly verbose.
Many web sites tell you what it really took to get something going versus how it's supposed to work.
I read a lot of bad documentation. Remember English class where you took a few 3x5 note cards and padded it out to a five page paper? I've read too much vendor documentation that looks just like this. No economy of words.
I once "inherited" a cheap couch that was designed to cut through some foam padding after minimal use and become uncomfortable. I say it was intentional because it would take forethought and malice design a couch with metal wires against foam that would obviously fail in this fashion.
I stopped paying attention to "best seller" status after I learned that one can have a best seller without a consumer ever buying a single book. It seems that it's based off wholesale sales not retail sales, so the whole thing is something of a sham to begin with.
Muskets WERE the military weapon of the day, just like the M-16/M4 are today. Civilians can own the non-automatic AR-15.
I find it hard to believe that the 2d amendment is about letting governmental entities beyond the Federal government keep arms in the middle of a document about individual rights. There's also that pesky, "the right of the people to keep and bear arms" thing.
As applied today, I think the proper reading of the 2d amendment "well regulated" part is that the National Guard should be providing training and marksmanship classed to any citizen willing to arm themselves with a military caliber rifle and show up. In times of emergency these volunteers could be called up to supplement the National Guard.
"Also you can still get 30 round magazines at the normal $15.00 each price."
Link please!
The operative theory is "deterrence."
It's important because, if you don't know the difference, you probably don't know what you are talking about. You may have a (strong) opinion on the subject, but it's not likely to be an informed opinion. Do you take the opinion of people who call a computer case the "CPU" seriously?
I'm not opposed to a manufacturer making a model with extra high-tech safeties for people who don't know how to use guns and/or have kids they don't want to educate on firearms safety but I wouldn't personally buy one and I'm 100% against making anything like this mandatory.
Everyone on /. knows that technology can fail. It will just add to the weight/cost/complexity of the weapon and reduce reliability. Batteries die at the worst time, etc. Simple is best and dead-ass simple is better. "It's not how it works, it's how well if fails."
What you talk about might make sense about the time we get laser rifles. They'll have a power source anyway.
I think modern firearms are actually very safe. People are stupid or do stupid things.
I'm using a AMD E-350 as a home server on Fedora 17. It's not a gaming rig but it has plenty of power for DHCP/DNS/File server and can run a Windows 7 VM via KVM. CPU's are so fast these days that even a low-end/low-power offering is fast enough for many jobs. I'm glad to see Intel offering 8GB of RAM on Atom as the older systems could only support 4GB. That's what pushed me to the AMD Bobcat/Zacate platform.
I figure it's saving me about half of the electricity versus running a older Intel PC as a server. Plus the Asus E35M1-M has decent onboard video, USB3 and plenty of STAT3 ports
How much did Hastings have to pay for all 200,000 followers to see the post? Don't only like 10% of your followers see the post unless you pay?
There have got to be some really impressive-looking passwords that have a hash collision with common dictionary words.
The thought of this amuses me to no end.
I'll believe that when when we have built-in end-to-end encryption off all Internet traffic by default, get rid of mandatory (CALEA) backdoors in telecomm equipment and get equal privacy for electronic communications.
We used to have this thing called DIN (German equivalent to SAE) style car stereos. For years, all (or at least most) cars came with DIN sized stereos that could be fairly easily replaced with newer models. Then Detroit decided that there was money to be made selling (over priced, proprietary) car audio systems (e.g.,Bose) and they mostly did away with the DIN standard in favor of their proprietary offerings and generally made life hell for those that wished to upgrade to a 3d party stereo.
Surprisingly to whom? I do not find it surprising at all that the gaming industry feeds into the military/industrial complex.
If it hadn't been for AMD's 64 bit extensions, we'd all be running Itanium servers right now. AMD forced Intel to release a 64bit x86. If AMD hadn't, all of the effort that is being put into Intel's current 64bit chips would have go into Itanium and it would be a very strong platform. The alternative, PAE, sucked.