First off, because most of us don't have milling machines. Second, because we can. Third, because most of the world doesn't have such things as legally unregulated uppers or trigger assemblies.
I disagree about the Glock window decal... That tells a certain percentage of burglars "hey, I have guns in my house... come steal them." Yeah, they could be in a safe, but that safe might not be bolted down, or they might not be in a safe because safes are expensive. So do without the decal.
Totally agree with the camera though. Another option is to realize that if you're that concerned about your stuff, your life is probably pretty miserable. Keep a good itemized list with pictures and serial numbers, make sure your insurance company has a copy of that list and your coverage is sufficient, and go on about your business. Maybe sell some of it and get out more.
It's likely that it does... by datable I mean "interested in an actual relationship (not just sex), low drama, low maintenance, mature and smart enough to hold an intelligent conversation and not just prattle on about what so-and-so said on facebook." Those type of girls can be found anywhere... usually behind the counter at the local Starbucks, or working at the grocery store, or wherever. It takes time to get to know them, and you have to show that you actually care about them and are somehow different from the other 200 guys trying to get their attention - usually that involves talking to them and not just telling them they're hot.
Unless they're all working for the same few companies... I worked at Microsoft for several years, and my group was easily 50% H1B workers, and probably closer to 60-70% in reality. So, when we're talking about local statistics and the local effect of companies hiring, we need to look at the local H1B population for relevance. H1Bs might make up a tiny percentage of the national population, but at the local level it's a very significant percentage, especially in Bellevue/Redmond/Kirkland and parts of Seattle.
I suspect this isn't so bad for American men as the OP lets on. Consider the effect of H1Bs on these numbers... I live in Seattle; all the large tech companies here (and even a lot of the smaller ones) hire a disproportionate number of H1B holders, most from India. Most Indians aren't after American women, they either come here with a wife already, or their family back in India arranges a marriage, they fly home for a few weeks and come back married.
I know plenty of single girls, and I've never had a problem finding a date. It does require leaving work at work and going out to places where other single people congregate, and it helps to not be a total jackass, but I don't think we're really anywhere near as unbalanced as this would lead one to believe.
Perhaps it's you who ought to learn to drive... The textbook response to a stuck accelerator is:
1) Shift to neutral (or simply push in clutch) 2) If you have the ability to kill engine without locking steering, do so. 3) Coast to shoulder of roadway or other clear area, then shut off car if not already done.
The only reason many people have started to move #2 to the #3 spot is because so many people lack the presence of mind in an emergency to not lock their steering.
Accidental and unexpected loss of power can happen for any number of reasons, and frequently does. It's a situation that EVERY driver should be prepared for, and in fact should practice for. I would love to see it as a standard part of driver testing, in fact; come to freeway speed (60+mph) on a closed course and kill engine power. Driver must be able to navigate and stop safely with no power assistance.
I realize this will probably never actually be a part of driver testing, but the ignition switch is far from being the only, or even the most frequent, cause of a loss of power while driving. I firmly believe any driver who wrecks because they weren't able to handle this situation should permanently lose their license and receive a citation for reckless driving, as well as criminal charges if they cause injury to another driver.
"If you can't do that, you shouldn't be driving" could work, the only reason it doesn't is because we enforce the wrong things in our driving laws. Instead of a focus on actually removing unsafe drivers from our roadways (or teaching them how to drive), we focus on speed laws because they're easier to enforce (and make money from). Excessive speed can be unsafe, but there are many situations where exceeding the speed limit is not unsafe, and a few where it may actually be the safest option. At the same time, in most places "following too closely" citations are almost never given, despite that being far more dangerous than speeding while maintaining a safe following distance.
False - there are indeed times when I want to kill my engine while driving, and times I've intentionally done so. I'm perfectly capable of steering a vehicle without power assistance, even though it's a pain in the ass (I've done it with a Blue Bird All American RE when the engine died on a freeway- not fun, but possible). In the case of a runaway engine, I'd rather kill the engine than pop it into neutral and risk blowing the engine when it over-revs. Rev limiters can't be relied upon to prevent engine damage, and your statement about brakes being more than adequate to overcome the engine is false for many (but certainly not all) vehicles. I've had to move a bus with the brakes fully applied - with a high torque diesel engine, it's very much possible. In my car, I could shift to 5th and jump on the brakes and most likely be able to stall the engine, sure - but I'd rather just shut off the engine, pull onto the shoulder and stop gracefully, and I don't need power anything to do that.
How about the ability to turn to "off" to stop an engine affected by a stuck accelerator? Until the start button has a toggle or push button next to it to stop the engine, I don't want one anywhere near my car. And, when I say a button to stop the car, I mean a real kill switch that will ground out the ignition coil(s) or shut off the fuel pump or something similar, or for a diesel shut a fuel solenoid so the engine WILL die.
If I lose power steering or braking I just have to steer or brake harder - ok, it sucks, but if you can't do that you shouldn't be driving. But then, I'm a firm believer that somewhere around 30% of the people on the road should have their licenses taken because they're either physically or mentally unfit to be in control of a vehicle.
RIght... still sounding a lot like Dow Constantine.
For those who don't know or care enough to look it up, he's the County Executive in King County, WA (contains Seattle, Redmond, and a whole lot of places that aren't Seattle or Redmond). He was recently pushing for higher sales tax and $60/vehicle annual license fee increase to continue subsidizing the ridiculously cheap bus routes that mostly serve Seattle and Redmond. Also a fan of toll roads (upwards of $5 to cross a bridge) and other shenanigans.
The biggest reasons I hate it are 1) The "real name" policy and 2) The fact I'm basically forced to use it if I want to use any of the Goog's other services as a signed-in user (YouTube, gmail, etc.).
The fact that I think it's utterly pointless shite is besides the point - I think the same of Twitter but don't wish it death. I don't have any need or want to interact with it, therefore its existence doesn't bother me. The Goog on the other hand has other things unrelated to G+ which I/do/ wish to use, without being forced to use G+. Hence, I wish death to G+.
I expect by the time I die, McDonald's workers in the US will be able to become millionaires pretty quickly. Zimbabwe is full of millionaires, if you're talking Zim dollars. Of course, they burn their currency in the street to stay warm because it's cheaper than newspaper.
To be fair, give me an M1 Garand and I can empty a couple clips in 2 minutes. Same with my SKS. On my AR, each mag will hold 3 clips of ammo, so I guess I could go through 3 clips without ever changing the mag. But, most of my ammo wasn't shipped that way and I'm sure as heck not gonna waste my time reloading the clips I have. Those little clip-to-mag adapters are annoying to deal with, usually easier to just load the single rounds.
I wonder if the clips work better in cold climates, where people are more likely to be wearing cumbersome gloves?
Aren't you the little expert... How is sunlight not relevant? Ever heard of "Seasonal Affective Disorder," aka seasonal depression? It happens to a lot of people I know (I live in the Seattle area, where we get about 9 months of grey-and-drizzly every year), myself included. Y'know what helps me snap out of it? Getting to a place with sun, even if just for a weekend now and then. Often that's simply heading east over the mountains for the weekend, or even a business trip down to California or Texas for a few days. All that to say, there's definite merit to getting enough sun, or good strong natural-ish light in its place (such as some of the daylight spectrum LED lights, etc).
Practically free? What world do you live in? Employee cost, opportunity cost - those resources aren't free at all. You either have to hire people to sift through all that crap, or you have to hire people to write code to sift through all that crap. Both of those are expensive as hell, for something that doesn't benefit the company at all. There's simply no reason to do it, and a cost of millions of dollars.
Do you honestly think they'd waste the resources to go hunting through the hotmail accounts of people who they didn't think (with good cause) were stealing from them?
Most likely this started with them searching the corp email account of the guy sending the stuff, and when they saw it going "to: suspect@hotmail.com" they followed the rabbit trail.
They don't seem to be mining emails for advertising content or other such, this was a very limited scope (and most likely completely manual) investigation due to what they found in an internal employee's mail.
An IM platform that hardly makes any money and, at the end of the day, is just an IM platform, gets bought for $19B, and then a promising startup doing something technologically new, exciting and different that hasn't been done 100 times before is only worth $2B, to the same buyer?
The only thing that makes sense is that said buyer is buying end users, without caring so much about the companies or technology. That, after all, is the only thing really valuable about WhatsApp - lots of people whose data can be sold and who can be marketed to.
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First off, because most of us don't have milling machines. Second, because we can. Third, because most of the world doesn't have such things as legally unregulated uppers or trigger assemblies.
I disagree about the Glock window decal... That tells a certain percentage of burglars "hey, I have guns in my house... come steal them." Yeah, they could be in a safe, but that safe might not be bolted down, or they might not be in a safe because safes are expensive. So do without the decal.
Totally agree with the camera though. Another option is to realize that if you're that concerned about your stuff, your life is probably pretty miserable. Keep a good itemized list with pictures and serial numbers, make sure your insurance company has a copy of that list and your coverage is sufficient, and go on about your business. Maybe sell some of it and get out more.
It's likely that it does... by datable I mean "interested in an actual relationship (not just sex), low drama, low maintenance, mature and smart enough to hold an intelligent conversation and not just prattle on about what so-and-so said on facebook." Those type of girls can be found anywhere... usually behind the counter at the local Starbucks, or working at the grocery store, or wherever. It takes time to get to know them, and you have to show that you actually care about them and are somehow different from the other 200 guys trying to get their attention - usually that involves talking to them and not just telling them they're hot.
And if half of that 9% are H1Bs, it's really "9% more jackasses, of which 4.5% are potentially serious competition."
Unless they're all working for the same few companies... I worked at Microsoft for several years, and my group was easily 50% H1B workers, and probably closer to 60-70% in reality. So, when we're talking about local statistics and the local effect of companies hiring, we need to look at the local H1B population for relevance. H1Bs might make up a tiny percentage of the national population, but at the local level it's a very significant percentage, especially in Bellevue/Redmond/Kirkland and parts of Seattle.
I suspect this isn't so bad for American men as the OP lets on. Consider the effect of H1Bs on these numbers... I live in Seattle; all the large tech companies here (and even a lot of the smaller ones) hire a disproportionate number of H1B holders, most from India. Most Indians aren't after American women, they either come here with a wife already, or their family back in India arranges a marriage, they fly home for a few weeks and come back married.
I know plenty of single girls, and I've never had a problem finding a date. It does require leaving work at work and going out to places where other single people congregate, and it helps to not be a total jackass, but I don't think we're really anywhere near as unbalanced as this would lead one to believe.
It sure as hell did on my first bike...
Perhaps it's you who ought to learn to drive... The textbook response to a stuck accelerator is:
1) Shift to neutral (or simply push in clutch)
2) If you have the ability to kill engine without locking steering, do so.
3) Coast to shoulder of roadway or other clear area, then shut off car if not already done.
The only reason many people have started to move #2 to the #3 spot is because so many people lack the presence of mind in an emergency to not lock their steering.
Accidental and unexpected loss of power can happen for any number of reasons, and frequently does. It's a situation that EVERY driver should be prepared for, and in fact should practice for. I would love to see it as a standard part of driver testing, in fact; come to freeway speed (60+mph) on a closed course and kill engine power. Driver must be able to navigate and stop safely with no power assistance.
I realize this will probably never actually be a part of driver testing, but the ignition switch is far from being the only, or even the most frequent, cause of a loss of power while driving. I firmly believe any driver who wrecks because they weren't able to handle this situation should permanently lose their license and receive a citation for reckless driving, as well as criminal charges if they cause injury to another driver.
"If you can't do that, you shouldn't be driving" could work, the only reason it doesn't is because we enforce the wrong things in our driving laws. Instead of a focus on actually removing unsafe drivers from our roadways (or teaching them how to drive), we focus on speed laws because they're easier to enforce (and make money from). Excessive speed can be unsafe, but there are many situations where exceeding the speed limit is not unsafe, and a few where it may actually be the safest option. At the same time, in most places "following too closely" citations are almost never given, despite that being far more dangerous than speeding while maintaining a safe following distance.
False - there are indeed times when I want to kill my engine while driving, and times I've intentionally done so. I'm perfectly capable of steering a vehicle without power assistance, even though it's a pain in the ass (I've done it with a Blue Bird All American RE when the engine died on a freeway- not fun, but possible). In the case of a runaway engine, I'd rather kill the engine than pop it into neutral and risk blowing the engine when it over-revs. Rev limiters can't be relied upon to prevent engine damage, and your statement about brakes being more than adequate to overcome the engine is false for many (but certainly not all) vehicles. I've had to move a bus with the brakes fully applied - with a high torque diesel engine, it's very much possible. In my car, I could shift to 5th and jump on the brakes and most likely be able to stall the engine, sure - but I'd rather just shut off the engine, pull onto the shoulder and stop gracefully, and I don't need power anything to do that.
How about the ability to turn to "off" to stop an engine affected by a stuck accelerator? Until the start button has a toggle or push button next to it to stop the engine, I don't want one anywhere near my car. And, when I say a button to stop the car, I mean a real kill switch that will ground out the ignition coil(s) or shut off the fuel pump or something similar, or for a diesel shut a fuel solenoid so the engine WILL die.
If I lose power steering or braking I just have to steer or brake harder - ok, it sucks, but if you can't do that you shouldn't be driving. But then, I'm a firm believer that somewhere around 30% of the people on the road should have their licenses taken because they're either physically or mentally unfit to be in control of a vehicle.
RIght... still sounding a lot like Dow Constantine.
For those who don't know or care enough to look it up, he's the County Executive in King County, WA (contains Seattle, Redmond, and a whole lot of places that aren't Seattle or Redmond). He was recently pushing for higher sales tax and $60/vehicle annual license fee increase to continue subsidizing the ridiculously cheap bus routes that mostly serve Seattle and Redmond. Also a fan of toll roads (upwards of $5 to cross a bridge) and other shenanigans.
The biggest reasons I hate it are 1) The "real name" policy and 2) The fact I'm basically forced to use it if I want to use any of the Goog's other services as a signed-in user (YouTube, gmail, etc.).
The fact that I think it's utterly pointless shite is besides the point - I think the same of Twitter but don't wish it death. I don't have any need or want to interact with it, therefore its existence doesn't bother me. The Goog on the other hand has other things unrelated to G+ which I /do/ wish to use, without being forced to use G+. Hence, I wish death to G+.
HTH.
'd like to charge you $100 per mile to drive on my roads.
Who are you, Dow Constantine?
Can it die now?
I expect by the time I die, McDonald's workers in the US will be able to become millionaires pretty quickly. Zimbabwe is full of millionaires, if you're talking Zim dollars. Of course, they burn their currency in the street to stay warm because it's cheaper than newspaper.
To be fair, give me an M1 Garand and I can empty a couple clips in 2 minutes. Same with my SKS. On my AR, each mag will hold 3 clips of ammo, so I guess I could go through 3 clips without ever changing the mag. But, most of my ammo wasn't shipped that way and I'm sure as heck not gonna waste my time reloading the clips I have. Those little clip-to-mag adapters are annoying to deal with, usually easier to just load the single rounds.
I wonder if the clips work better in cold climates, where people are more likely to be wearing cumbersome gloves?
And Steve Ballmer retired.
When I think "tech firm" in this context I don't think Facebook or Google so much as companies like Cisco and Juniper.
Aren't you the little expert... How is sunlight not relevant? Ever heard of "Seasonal Affective Disorder," aka seasonal depression? It happens to a lot of people I know (I live in the Seattle area, where we get about 9 months of grey-and-drizzly every year), myself included. Y'know what helps me snap out of it? Getting to a place with sun, even if just for a weekend now and then. Often that's simply heading east over the mountains for the weekend, or even a business trip down to California or Texas for a few days. All that to say, there's definite merit to getting enough sun, or good strong natural-ish light in its place (such as some of the daylight spectrum LED lights, etc).
Practically free? What world do you live in? Employee cost, opportunity cost - those resources aren't free at all. You either have to hire people to sift through all that crap, or you have to hire people to write code to sift through all that crap. Both of those are expensive as hell, for something that doesn't benefit the company at all. There's simply no reason to do it, and a cost of millions of dollars.
Do you honestly think they'd waste the resources to go hunting through the hotmail accounts of people who they didn't think (with good cause) were stealing from them?
Most likely this started with them searching the corp email account of the guy sending the stuff, and when they saw it going "to: suspect@hotmail.com" they followed the rabbit trail.
They don't seem to be mining emails for advertising content or other such, this was a very limited scope (and most likely completely manual) investigation due to what they found in an internal employee's mail.
You may have misunderstood - I think they're wretched bastards and I have no sympathy for them. I just think they're justified in their paranoia.
Just because they're paranoid doesn't mean we aren't out to get them.
An IM platform that hardly makes any money and, at the end of the day, is just an IM platform, gets bought for $19B, and then a promising startup doing something technologically new, exciting and different that hasn't been done 100 times before is only worth $2B, to the same buyer?
The only thing that makes sense is that said buyer is buying end users, without caring so much about the companies or technology. That, after all, is the only thing really valuable about WhatsApp - lots of people whose data can be sold and who can be marketed to.