"It would seem to me that things have moved well past the point where the weapons that can still be legally obtained by private citizens are going to be of real practical significance in any insurrection."
OK, did you forget all about Vietnam and Iraq 2.0?
So is just about every other scientific concept that produces verifiable real-world predictions.
To say "Just a theory" is to not understand what a theory is. Theories are well-supported by observable evidence. Your clear implication is that as "just a theory", macroevolution is just what a couple of people happen to have decided to believe. That is very much not the case.
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I think that many Californians and many Americans would agree with you.
Sure, you could readily lift the F1 car off the ground. I'm absolutely certain that it would immediately start tumbling out of control, and have a lot of Bad Things happening.
I think you're absolutely right about the engine running poorly inverted.
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Maybe in California. In America, they're perfectly legal.
Friction is proportional to the normal force applied. If you increase the force applied downwards through the contact patch, you can increase the allowable side load on the contact patch.
You can imagine that the tires get "stickier" as downforce increases, although that's not exactly what's happening.
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I'm not sure why they'd be thinking of the costumers, but I am pretty sure that the CUSTOMERS got hosed by the DRM requirements, not the development costs (development was already done, and was pretty trivial).
Physicists never have to get their numbers right, because they don't actually have to build stuff that works in the real world. They just write more papers.
As long as I get to say "Hmm, that doesn't seem like a very good deal..." and opt out. That'd be just fine with me.
But I can't, so I'll be just as entitled to my bite at the apple as the Baby Boomers. Unfortunately, they are making all the rules, and they're going to break the system before I get a crack at it, so I'm screwed.
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Do you seriously think that the US Military will have less of a morale problem suppressing American dissidents than they had in Vietnam?
"Basic firearms are not a prerequisite for managing that in this day and age"
Good. Then you won't mind if I keep and bear mine.
"It would seem to me that things have moved well past the point where the weapons that can still be legally obtained by private citizens are going to be of real practical significance in any insurrection."
OK, did you forget all about Vietnam and Iraq 2.0?
I thought Bryan Singer did a pretty good job with X-Men, so it's possible that he pulled Superman back out of the fire.
Although, Superman returning from Krypton does not sound like a good start...
We'll see. Maybe it won't suck.
"It's always a safe bet to go with what you know is most likely to be true."
Huh?
I think you're awfully confused.
"And it IS just a theory."
So is just about every other scientific concept that produces verifiable real-world predictions.
To say "Just a theory" is to not understand what a theory is. Theories are well-supported by observable evidence. Your clear implication is that as "just a theory", macroevolution is just what a couple of people happen to have decided to believe. That is very much not the case.
I think that many Californians and many Americans would agree with you.
Sure, you could readily lift the F1 car off the ground. I'm absolutely certain that it would immediately start tumbling out of control, and have a lot of Bad Things happening.
I think you're absolutely right about the engine running poorly inverted.
Maybe in California. In America, they're perfectly legal.
Friction is proportional to the normal force applied. If you increase the force applied downwards through the contact patch, you can increase the allowable side load on the contact patch.
You can imagine that the tires get "stickier" as downforce increases, although that's not exactly what's happening.
Which of the guns were "illegal"?
If you can't understand why harming animals for your own pleasure is wrong, we have no basis for a rational discussion.
I think you've slipped a decimal place there, buddy, unless you've hooked your hard drives up to some kind of bad-ass angle grinder.
And if you did, and it works, I'm seriously impressed.
I'm not sure why they'd be thinking of the costumers, but I am pretty sure that the CUSTOMERS got hosed by the DRM requirements, not the development costs (development was already done, and was pretty trivial).
But I don't know how it is on your planet.
"72000 RPM drive"
Wow. Really? You've got a blast shield around that thing, right?
So why were Macs supported, and then they stopped?
If Tivo doesn't want my business, that's just fine. They just need to state that clearly.
I've heard rumors that you're a pederast. Is that true?
Wow. Are you ever wrong. I'm not even going to bother with this...go read some books and get back to me.
Do the Frustrated Online Daters work for the Department of Redundancy Department?
Uh, yeah?
Morality isn't a popularity contest.
Physicists never have to get their numbers right, because they don't actually have to build stuff that works in the real world. They just write more papers.
Bring it, physics mothabitches!
Blind obedience is a rotten idea. "I was just following orders" is never an excuse. If somebody tells you to do something bad, don't do it.
Very simple.
What's stopping you? More to the point, what does Google's enterprise take away from you?
What's wrong with more of both?
You're absolutely right. For the good of Mother Earth, you should kill yourself.
As long as I get to say "Hmm, that doesn't seem like a very good deal..." and opt out. That'd be just fine with me.
But I can't, so I'll be just as entitled to my bite at the apple as the Baby Boomers. Unfortunately, they are making all the rules, and they're going to break the system before I get a crack at it, so I'm screwed.