You can get a fuel cell generator, 1kw for about $5000. Of course you get get a gasoline generator of that power for $350. The technology is there, you just don't want to pay for it.
It's only potentially dangerous. There's nothing inherently dangerous about it.
Shooting is a much less dangerous sport than any number of sports. In american football, soccer, rugby, or any contact sport, it's guaranteed that someone will get injured, by the very nature of the sport.
Like many potentially dangerous things, as long as everyone follows basic safety rules, then there is little chance of injury. I'd feel a hell of a lot more comfortable at a gun range than at a ski slope or skydiving.
The sonic boom is. unfortunately for snipers, at the muzzle. The velocity of the round is highest at the muzzle, and drops from there. You are correct in that it is pointless to try to silence a supersonic round.
All of that is newspeak. Just because you found other examples doesn't change anything. Properly those things are called "stabbings and drownings". "Choking death" I guess isn't as bad.
The alternate words tend to take emphasis off of the actions of people, and put the emphasis on the object itself. It wasn't some kid who jumped off a 100 foot cliff into the ocean to his death, it was a "sea death".
It's all an attempt to undermine personal responsibility, and remove blame from people and offload it onto inanimate objects. It's an agenda to remove freedom, by removing responsibility for one's actions.
also important in the training is that guns are not toys(this is the part that the two kids didn't obviously understand),
Had their parents taught them responsible gun handling, this probably would have not happened. This is why I strongly disagree with your assertion that no one under 18 should have any access to guns.
They will get access to them if they want it bad enough, they might as well learn to respect them for the potentially deadly force they can be.
Get kids shooting in constructive, supervised programs that teach them proper respect. I've been shooting since I was 8, and I never once thought about going out and taking potshots at passing cars. I knew the power and responsibility a gun represents.
c) going to address the much wider issue of the availibility of guns to people?
Guns are used for recreation, just like video games. I see people here talking about personal responsibility, and how stupid it is to blame an inanimate thing for the actions of someone, and yet many of those people are sending their little "ban guns" agenda in the same breath.
Might I refer you to the "No sense of humor" syndrome.
"No sense of humor syndrome" (noun) Often, when someone replies to a post regarding some random topic, he will fail to notice that the poster has deliberately make a mistake, in the name of humor. Cynics may use this as proof that many people fail to realize that other people are actually pretty sharp.
I didn't notice they were any louder than a normal computer, if that means anything. The ones I have seen were all modded to hell too, so I don't know what they sound like with stock components.
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Well, it took a strain, but I managed to get the reference as well. 2010: Andromeda Two wasn't it?;)
I'm an idiot, aren't I?:)
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A couple of the guys I know already have Shuttle systems they bring to LAN parties, those are one handed deals. They aren't low end either, usually they have some of the best hardware of all the attendees.
The DMCA can't be enforced either, not in any meaningful way. Neither can laws that prohibit drug use in your own home. It doesn't stop the police and corporations from using such laws to get rid of people they don't like for whatever reason, or to silence speech that may harm them.
Actually, I crammed before the 5wpm test and passed. I did very little studying of CW except the night before the test. That was when it was still multiple choice though, so maybe now that it's fill-in-the-blank it may be harder to do.
I don't really operate anymore, I played around with it a little, then moved and never put my antennas back up when I moved. I guess I'll set them up some day.
Maybe they want to hire people that are interested in reading about Bruce Schneier's work. After all, that generally means that you aren't some MCSE that only cares about programming in VB or Java or some other worthless language.
I played a 2D bridge constructor years and years ago. Basically you just designed it looking at a side view, and it's understood that the other side is identical, and they are firmly attached somehow.
I guess since it's not medeling anything fancy like resonance or wind profile, the interconnections between the two halves don't matter as much. It seemed pretty accurate, it was surprisingly hard to build a bridge that didn't collapse under its own weight.
Shareholders are the absolute last people to get money when a company goes under. All debt is paid first, all lawyers and bankruptcy fees are paid, etc. Then if there are any leftovers, the shareholders get their scraps. In other words, they rarely get anything at all.
While $23 million is peanuts to MS, it makes you wonder why they would even bother settling this, it's not like Be had the resources to fight them in court.
Any car should be repaired by a competent mechanic who performs preventative maintenence or repairs as necessary to avoid breakdowns.
Riiight! Like that's ever going to happen.
When most people buy a car, they are buying an appliance. They could care less about repairing it. It should just "work". Fill up the gas tank, turn the key, and away we go. So, until we have cars that are self repairing and maintaining out of the box, we are going to have problems.
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You can get a fuel cell generator, 1kw for about $5000. Of course you get get a gasoline generator of that power for $350. The technology is there, you just don't want to pay for it.
It's only potentially dangerous. There's nothing inherently dangerous about it.
Shooting is a much less dangerous sport than any number of sports. In american football, soccer, rugby, or any contact sport, it's guaranteed that someone will get injured, by the very nature of the sport.
Like many potentially dangerous things, as long as everyone follows basic safety rules, then there is little chance of injury. I'd feel a hell of a lot more comfortable at a gun range than at a ski slope or skydiving.
That's acceptable. At least it implies an action by someone. More accurate would be homicide though.
The sonic boom is. unfortunately for snipers, at the muzzle. The velocity of the round is highest at the muzzle, and drops from there. You are correct in that it is pointless to try to silence a supersonic round.
All of that is newspeak. Just because you found other examples doesn't change anything. Properly those things are called "stabbings and drownings". "Choking death" I guess isn't as bad.
The alternate words tend to take emphasis off of the actions of people, and put the emphasis on the object itself. It wasn't some kid who jumped off a 100 foot cliff into the ocean to his death, it was a "sea death".
It's all an attempt to undermine personal responsibility, and remove blame from people and offload it onto inanimate objects. It's an agenda to remove freedom, by removing responsibility for one's actions.
also important in the training is that guns are not toys(this is the part that the two kids didn't obviously understand),
Had their parents taught them responsible gun handling, this probably would have not happened. This is why I strongly disagree with your assertion that no one under 18 should have any access to guns.
They will get access to them if they want it bad enough, they might as well learn to respect them for the potentially deadly force they can be.
Get kids shooting in constructive, supervised programs that teach them proper respect. I've been shooting since I was 8, and I never once thought about going out and taking potshots at passing cars. I knew the power and responsibility a gun represents.
c) going to address the much wider issue of the availibility of guns to people?
Guns are used for recreation, just like video games. I see people here talking about personal responsibility, and how stupid it is to blame an inanimate thing for the actions of someone, and yet many of those people are sending their little "ban guns" agenda in the same breath.
Don't you all see the hypocrisy?
WTF is a "gun death"? How can a gun die? It's not even alive!
What's next? Pool Deaths? Ocean Deaths? Knife Deaths? Food Deaths?
Control the language, and you control the thoughts. Don't buy into their newspeak.
Might I refer you to the "No sense of humor" syndrome.
"No sense of humor syndrome" (noun) Often, when someone replies to a post regarding some random topic, he will fail to notice that the poster has deliberately make a mistake, in the name of humor. Cynics may use this as proof that many people fail to realize that other people are actually pretty sharp.
I didn't notice they were any louder than a normal computer, if that means anything. The ones I have seen were all modded to hell too, so I don't know what they sound like with stock components.
Well, it took a strain, but I managed to get the reference as well. 2010: Andromeda Two wasn't it? ;)
:)
I'm an idiot, aren't I?
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A couple of the guys I know already have Shuttle systems they bring to LAN parties, those are one handed deals. They aren't low end either, usually they have some of the best hardware of all the attendees.
The DMCA can't be enforced either, not in any meaningful way. Neither can laws that prohibit drug use in your own home. It doesn't stop the police and corporations from using such laws to get rid of people they don't like for whatever reason, or to silence speech that may harm them.
Actually, I crammed before the 5wpm test and passed. I did very little studying of CW except the night before the test. That was when it was still multiple choice though, so maybe now that it's fill-in-the-blank it may be harder to do.
I don't really operate anymore, I played around with it a little, then moved and never put my antennas back up when I moved. I guess I'll set them up some day.
Maybe they want to hire people that are interested in reading about Bruce Schneier's work. After all, that generally means that you aren't some MCSE that only cares about programming in VB or Java or some other worthless language.
I played a 2D bridge constructor years and years ago. Basically you just designed it looking at a side view, and it's understood that the other side is identical, and they are firmly attached somehow.
I guess since it's not medeling anything fancy like resonance or wind profile, the interconnections between the two halves don't matter as much. It seemed pretty accurate, it was surprisingly hard to build a bridge that didn't collapse under its own weight.
Heh, that's what I get for only quickly glancing over the press release (it's not really an article).
There is nothing wrong with him looking around the public spaces on the internet for chinks.
.cn is a good place to look.
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Who said anything about shareholders?
Shareholders are the absolute last people to get money when a company goes under. All debt is paid first, all lawyers and bankruptcy fees are paid, etc. Then if there are any leftovers, the shareholders get their scraps. In other words, they rarely get anything at all.
Yeah, but it's pretty standard boilerplate in a settlement that the settling party admits no wrongdoing.
It's mostly to keep it from being used against them later in court, when other people sue them for the same type of thing.
While $23 million is peanuts to MS, it makes you wonder why they would even bother settling this, it's not like Be had the resources to fight them in court.
"Why you shouldn't use OOP for anything important."
Any car should be repaired by a competent mechanic who performs preventative maintenence or repairs as necessary to avoid breakdowns.
Riiight! Like that's ever going to happen.
When most people buy a car, they are buying an appliance. They could care less about repairing it. It should just "work". Fill up the gas tank, turn the key, and away we go. So, until we have cars that are self repairing and maintaining out of the box, we are going to have problems.
(See how stupid that sounds now?)
Also, if all the energy in a hurricane were converted to matter, how much would it weigh?
A few kilograms, max.