Oh I understand how they work, but I do them for reasons other than keeping myself from getting sick, though that's a side affect. Studies have shown that even flu shots which are not properly targeted, do usually help to lower the severity of the sickness and help it to not last as long, reducing the chances of transmitting the virus to others. I get the shot in the hope I will be less likely to carry home the flu and pass it on to the member of my family who would have their life put at risk if they get it.
BTW... You really should regularly scan any PC you expect to keep secure. It may seem to be overkill to you, but it's really hard to know somebody didn't connect up something and infect it sometime in the past. Unless of course it has NO external connections, keyboard or display, in which case you might consider just turning it off..
Great CPU's and chipsets to match, so-so video cards..
AMD does must fine if you ask me, but they are NOT Intel who along with Micro$oft have colluded to keep each other on top of their prospective heaps. Yea, Intel keeps them alive on purpose, but don't sell AMD short, they can and have been doing solid work in spite of their reputation for being second best.
Personally I love AMD's CPU and chipset offerings for PCs. They are usually cheaper at the same performance point and are a great value. Yes, they are pushing the limits of the technology, running hotter and faster than Intel offerings, but for your average PC it doesn't matter. AMD CPU's rock along just fine and as long as you don't aggressively over clock, usually last long enough to go obsolete before they die.
Now the video hardware is a different story. They are still the cheaper for the same performance so they have great value, but for some reason their offerings are not as well supported and stable as ATI, so I generally find myself happier with that vendor. Like the CPUs, you can over clock the hardware and not kill it if you are not aggressive, but it seems the firmware/drivers/software isn't nearly as stable as it could be.
so can we make chickens and pigs that don't get the flu? cause i'm sick of getting the flu (pun intended)
Well.. Get your flu shot sicko, it works for me.... I haven't had a serious case of the flu for about 5 years and I figure it's because I get the shot every year for medical reasons (a member of my immediate family takes immune suppressants).
to the complaints that this pig will kill us all because it doesn't have something and there hasn't been enough testing of how not eating a specific protein and...
I find this and all the hoopla about GMO's pretty entertaining. On one hand we are worried sick that GMO that produces extra things will kill us and in this case we are worried that something being missing will do the same.
All this fear is unfounded if you consider how protein is actually metabolized. What really matters is that the protein gets decomposed by your digestive tract into individual amino acids. So unless there is some kind of amino acid not in the provided protein, it doesn't really matter what the protein is, your body will just break it down into it's parts in order to use it anyway.
No, I'm still not convinced that 3 phase is that common in single family residences in Sweden. Certainly the available appliances are two phase based on a quick online survey and don't require 3 phase power to run and all the residential power panels I could find pictures of from Sweden where decidedly 2 phase configurations. I couldn't find any 3 phase residential appliances on sale in Sweden or any indication that they are available.
What may be true is that most people live in high density residential buildings where three phase power makes a bit more sense, but what they would be seeing at the wall would be essentially the same as what's provided by a simple 2 phase system. So you may be using 2 of 3 phases in some apartment building, but a single family residence is likely going to be 2 phase, if that.
Balancing power between the phases is indeed an issue, but one that is easily managed by the power company by simply rotating which phase they use when wiring up various locations and get things mostly in balance. This is what they do in the states and it works fairly well.
However, if the power company is worried about costs, 3 phase is a LOT more expensive to provide, especially in remote locations. 3 Phase takes 4 wires, where two phase only requires 2 and wire costs money. Then there is the cost of a power meter. Two phase meters are fairly simple affairs to install and use where three phase metering is a lot more expensive. 3 phase service is expensive to provide and has no value in a residential setting and despite what you are claiming, I'm not convinced yet you are correct..
However, I'd love to see a picture of the breaker box you have if you really think it's 3 phase...
At this point can we trust VW when they say "it's OK, we're fine, nothing bad happened"?
I'm inclined to think no.
Maybe it's true, maybe it's not. But this isn't something which you can just take them at their word without verifying... they've already lost credibility, which means they don't get it back just by telling us it's all OK.
VW's problem was NOx emissions and not CO2 emissions. However, your suspecting the VW is up to no good still seems to be true.
This is really a thinly veiled attempt at spinning up good PR. While they are not lying, they are trying to mislead folks about the situation, both to quell the descent in the owner's ranks and prop up the stock price. My guess is that they know some really bad news is getting ready to hit, so they cooked up this story to try and keep the "true believers" in the fold when it does.
I thought the big deal was all the NOx they were releasing was way above normal.
As I recall, you are indeed correct... With high compression ratios needed for diesel the NOx omissions go way high and have to be dealt with... VW admitted their engine management software was changing the air/fuel mixture to reduce NOx emissions when it was being tested, which killed performance and fuel economy, but then when not under test, went with the best performance settings.
Seriously, 3 phase is useless in a home unless you wish to run "industrial" equipment which is wired to accept it. If you are running industrial equipment in your house and think it's worth the cost of buying three phase electrical service over renting/buying/building actual industrial space, power to you... Quite literally... In the long term it seems better to just go get some industrial space and pass on rewiring your house, but that's just me I guess.
On your situation, there was a reason your device came with two power plugs.... 1200 VA is 10+ amps and most house wiring is breakered at 15 amps. What you really needed was a 15A 220 connection, especially if pulling one plug was enough to shut down the mining operation.
I'm pretty sure that even in Sweden you only get 2 phase power by default, you just get it at twice the voltage and at 50 cycles. Truly 3-phase power is unnecessary unless you are running industrial machines with highly reactive loads and adds significant logistical issues because you have to keep the 3 phases in order or that motor will turn the wrong way. Don't be fooled by the number of conductors in the wall outlet, because usually they throw in a couple of extra wires for "common" and "Safety ground". Here in the states, modern dryer receptacles have 4 contacts (Phase 1, Phase 2, common and ground) while many older receptacles have three (Phase 1, Phase 2, Common/Ground). Both are two phase, not three. Technically though, the device just runs on 1 phase by combining the two which are 180 degrees out of phase.
I seriously doubt three phase is common in a residence and that they use 2 phase (at most) even in Sweden. The logistics of keeping three wires in the right order would be just too expensive and having three phase doesn't buy you anything but complexity and having to pull one more wire to a lot of places. I could be wrong, but if I am there is something seriously wrong with Sweden's electrical engineering experts...
The only reason I can figure you'd want/need to go 3 phase is if you are trying to run an 3 phase motor, or really needed lots of power for something like a server farm... Maybe he purchased a huge air compressor or arc welder? Obviously there was something industrial going on.
I'm not sure how you would be able to use enough power in your average residence to make 3 phase power desirable over the normal 2 phase. Even a modest server farm doesn't require it...
That is a very scary line of logic. Scary, because it just might work. Now I'll be up all night wondering how many DUI hit-and-runs have successfully gotten away with just that.
I know of at least one. Creamed my truck which was parked in a driveway because he was too drunk to realize it was the wrong driveway. He was *always* drinking and I'm positive he "got away" with the DUI by just heading home. He got caught though because his taillight got busted and the pieces he left in my driveway matched exactly to the hole in his.
Then there was the David Cassidy episode where he hit a delivery truck and just continued on home. The driver got his plate, said he looked and smelled drunk and the police came and got him. No DUI charge. No prosecutor in his right mind would go for that charge unless they had a confession, a blood test or something...
If you have enough practice evading DUI convictions after accidents that you have a system, I feel like the nanny state couldn't be all that bad if it keeps someone like you from driving.
Um.... You are reading a bit too much between the lines... Personally, I don't drink, haven't in decades and don't plan to change that. Ditto with drugs and other intoxicants beyond sugar and caffeine. I've never been pulled over on suspicion of DUI and never have been subjected to even a field sobriety test or been asked to blow into the machine.
The A-10 isn't quite so old, having been introduced in 1977, but it too is uniquely successful at its job, with no practical replacement in sight.
Then follows a rant about how the A-10 should be kept in service....
I'm not going to debate the effectiveness of the A-10 at close air support, it was a great platform and served the guys on the ground well. We all morn it's loss. HOWEVER.... There are good reasons for the A-10's demise..
Aircraft wear out. Airframes suffer from work hardening as they flex in flight and eventually they will start to fail. The more flexible the airframe, the quicker it wears out. The A-10 is a pretty flexible airframe and close air support requires a lot of varying loads on the airframe. You are pulling lots of G's to roll onto a target, then again to pull out of a strafing run. Carrying weapons on hard points makes it worse. Dropping gravity bombs, especially if you are lofting them (a hard pull up just before you release the weapon) puts a lot of stress on the airframe. Doing close air support well involves all of these things and more.
The A-10 was literally worn out and we couldn't keep flying them safely. There where not enough airframes left with life left to keep the A-10 flying in sufficient numbers to be useful. Yes, we could build more airframes, but the manufacturing line has long since been shut down and the tooling gone so building new aircraft would be costly. So we literally used the A-10's up, wore them out, flew the wings off of them and didn't choose to build more.
The reason why we didn't build more is largely political and partly practical. The military had planned the F35 as the close air support platform of the future. That's where the money went. You can argue the rightness or wrongness of that decision if you want, but if you look at the situation as it unfolded, with the planned replacement the F-35 behind schedule, sucking up *all* the spare change the pentagon could find in the couch cushions and the airframe of the A-10's in service totally warn out, it's not surprising they decided to ground it. They couldn't afford to buy new A-10's and the ones they had where no longer serviceable.
In no particular order: Stop lying, stop fleeing the scene of an accident, don't attempt to talk the computer out of what it has recorded...
Not that I know first hand... However.... There actually is a good reason to leave sometimes. Most of the time, if you have been drinking, it's actually in your best interest to leave if you can. Go home, go to the nearest bar, go the local store buy and drink, a lot, and make sure you either have witnesses you where drinking AFTER the accident or make sure they don't catch you for a couple of hours by going home. But leave the scene and go drinking.
The legal costs for a DUI and leaving the accident are usually about the same, but the INSURRANCE costs are NOT and it's not likely to get your license taken away. If you have a creditable story that you left the scene and when drinking, there is no way they will try the DUI case because they cannot prove what your BAC was when you where behind the wheel so all you will get is leaving the scene charge. This may not be significant for the first DUI, but for second and third offenses, it very well may be.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not RECOMMENDING folks do this, only pointing out that there is sometimes a huge financial incentive for leaving the scene of that accident, especially if you are drunk and already have a DUI or two.
That's going to be a LOT of E-mail from that semi-auto rifle we take to the range to play Rambo with. You can shoot a lot of rounds with one of those even if it's not fully-automatic.... Then there is the whole "wrap the transmitter in tinfoil" thing....
This is one of the reasons I'm happy to keep on paying whatever it costs to repair my increasingly-clanky old SUV. At least it's not spying on me; it's actually mine.
Man, I don't know.. That 67 VW Beetle is *really* looking warn around the edges and even though I'm REALLY sure it's not spying on me or recording any crash information, it's getting really tiresome keeping that beast on the road. Not to mention it will never have AC in the summer much less a defogger when it's cold... There comes a point when being a Luddite is just too inconvenient even for an luddite...
Well, in that case I suggest you wake up to the reality on the ground today. There are bad folks out there, poverty or not.
We live in a world where mass shootings are a reality and it's been this way for decades. I don't see that changing in the future, and no amount of welfare, law passing or hand wringing is going to change the reality. There are bad people in the world, crazy killers, hardened terrorists and more, and there is no law you can pass that will prevent them from being successful in their quest to acquire arms and kill innocent non-combatant bystanders.
We need to realize the truth here and deal with reality and stop this foolish emotional based reactionary garbage. It's time to start realizing that the primary responsibility for our own security rests with each individual being ready and able to defend their own, unencumbered by stupid laws that create "gun free zones" or prevent law abiding citizens from carrying firearms if they decide to.
I got it and I agree... I'm simply appealing to the "law of the land" argument in an effort to make inroads into liberal "Let's have gun control" thinkers
minds and thinking. I'm saying, "Sorry there, the 2nd amendment which is part of the enshrined Bill of Rights which is the legal basis of this country's very existence says you cannot just disarm the citizens of the country because it is a fundamental right." I'm saying exactly what you are, that the right to arms is intrinsic as is the right to self defense, and I'm appealing to the rule of law as a principle that must guide any proposed solution the liberals come up with in their efforts to deal with violence. I'm saying emotion and feeling does not trump the citizens rights.
Your choice I guess, but allowing law abiding citizens to carry concealed is cost free and enhances security. If you want to provide armed guards, all the better. You want to make the location appear to not be a "soft target" so the shooters will move on to easier pickings... That's great, but it's expensive and doesn't really solve the problem, it just shifts it to some other location.
Look, nothing is going to stop a determined and intelligent shooter from attacking a soft target and causing a lot of carnage. But the ONLY way you stop a shooting in progress is to confront the shooter(s) with deadly force. The sooner you can confront them, the sooner you can stop the carnage. If a prospective victim happens to be armed and chooses to attempt to defend themselves, there is a reasonable chance the shooting can be disrupted and a great chance that this will save lives.
I say, Let the law abiding people defend themselves, let them carry fire arms. It's not a perfect solution, but it will help reduce body counts in mass shootings.
So based on the chance that somebody who is trying to do right may make a mistake in judgment in the midst of a mass shooting you would condemn ALL the victims the crazy murderer might be able to shoot? That's stupid.
Personally, I'd be willing to take my chances with somebody who was trying to stop the shooter over the guy intent on creating as much carnage as possible. Yea, I might still get shot by mistake, but that's a lot less likely than getting shot on purpose by some crazy with a gun.
I'd bet you would welcome the intervention of a good guy with a gun if you and your associates where being systematically shot down by some crazy. You know you would...
By the time the police arrive, the shooting is likely over if there is an armed citizen there who engages the shooter. If the citizen is unable to stop the shooter, they will likely be shot anyway so what does it matter? Shoot the guy with the gun who is shooting multiple people...
Not to mention that the police have a 50/50 chance of getting it right by just tossing a coin, but I'd be willing to bet they'd do better than 90% given their training and the likely actions of a law abiding citizen verses the crazed mass murder when confronted with a uniform and a badge behind the gun.
Your little hypothetical is really a canard. Think about it and you will realize that on average, the odds are better for victims if somebody has a gun and tries to help before the police can respond... When bad things are happening and you are forced to play a game you didn't choose where you are betting your life, you play the odds...
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Oh I understand how they work, but I do them for reasons other than keeping myself from getting sick, though that's a side affect. Studies have shown that even flu shots which are not properly targeted, do usually help to lower the severity of the sickness and help it to not last as long, reducing the chances of transmitting the virus to others. I get the shot in the hope I will be less likely to carry home the flu and pass it on to the member of my family who would have their life put at risk if they get it.
BTW... You really should regularly scan any PC you expect to keep secure. It may seem to be overkill to you, but it's really hard to know somebody didn't connect up something and infect it sometime in the past. Unless of course it has NO external connections, keyboard or display, in which case you might consider just turning it off..
Great CPU's and chipsets to match, so-so video cards..
AMD does must fine if you ask me, but they are NOT Intel who along with Micro$oft have colluded to keep each other on top of their prospective heaps. Yea, Intel keeps them alive on purpose, but don't sell AMD short, they can and have been doing solid work in spite of their reputation for being second best.
Personally I love AMD's CPU and chipset offerings for PCs. They are usually cheaper at the same performance point and are a great value. Yes, they are pushing the limits of the technology, running hotter and faster than Intel offerings, but for your average PC it doesn't matter. AMD CPU's rock along just fine and as long as you don't aggressively over clock, usually last long enough to go obsolete before they die.
Now the video hardware is a different story. They are still the cheaper for the same performance so they have great value, but for some reason their offerings are not as well supported and stable as ATI, so I generally find myself happier with that vendor. Like the CPUs, you can over clock the hardware and not kill it if you are not aggressive, but it seems the firmware/drivers/software isn't nearly as stable as it could be.
so can we make chickens and pigs that don't get the flu? cause i'm sick of getting the flu (pun intended)
Well.. Get your flu shot sicko, it works for me.... I haven't had a serious case of the flu for about 5 years and I figure it's because I get the shot every year for medical reasons (a member of my immediate family takes immune suppressants).
to the complaints that this pig will kill us all because it doesn't have something and there hasn't been enough testing of how not eating a specific protein and ...
I find this and all the hoopla about GMO's pretty entertaining. On one hand we are worried sick that GMO that produces extra things will kill us and in this case we are worried that something being missing will do the same.
All this fear is unfounded if you consider how protein is actually metabolized. What really matters is that the protein gets decomposed by your digestive tract into individual amino acids. So unless there is some kind of amino acid not in the provided protein, it doesn't really matter what the protein is, your body will just break it down into it's parts in order to use it anyway.
No, I'm still not convinced that 3 phase is that common in single family residences in Sweden. Certainly the available appliances are two phase based on a quick online survey and don't require 3 phase power to run and all the residential power panels I could find pictures of from Sweden where decidedly 2 phase configurations. I couldn't find any 3 phase residential appliances on sale in Sweden or any indication that they are available.
What may be true is that most people live in high density residential buildings where three phase power makes a bit more sense, but what they would be seeing at the wall would be essentially the same as what's provided by a simple 2 phase system. So you may be using 2 of 3 phases in some apartment building, but a single family residence is likely going to be 2 phase, if that.
Balancing power between the phases is indeed an issue, but one that is easily managed by the power company by simply rotating which phase they use when wiring up various locations and get things mostly in balance. This is what they do in the states and it works fairly well.
However, if the power company is worried about costs, 3 phase is a LOT more expensive to provide, especially in remote locations. 3 Phase takes 4 wires, where two phase only requires 2 and wire costs money. Then there is the cost of a power meter. Two phase meters are fairly simple affairs to install and use where three phase metering is a lot more expensive. 3 phase service is expensive to provide and has no value in a residential setting and despite what you are claiming, I'm not convinced yet you are correct..
However, I'd love to see a picture of the breaker box you have if you really think it's 3 phase...
Hey, it's about PR you know.. Got to prop up that stock price and quell the grumbling of the owners..
Sadly, it's a bit too obvious to work all that well...
At this point can we trust VW when they say "it's OK, we're fine, nothing bad happened"?
I'm inclined to think no.
Maybe it's true, maybe it's not. But this isn't something which you can just take them at their word without verifying ... they've already lost credibility, which means they don't get it back just by telling us it's all OK.
VW's problem was NOx emissions and not CO2 emissions. However, your suspecting the VW is up to no good still seems to be true.
This is really a thinly veiled attempt at spinning up good PR. While they are not lying, they are trying to mislead folks about the situation, both to quell the descent in the owner's ranks and prop up the stock price. My guess is that they know some really bad news is getting ready to hit, so they cooked up this story to try and keep the "true believers" in the fold when it does.
Yea, but in the quest for GOOD PR and the propensity of your average person to not understand the difference between CO2 and NOx emissions.
Time to sell VW short... They are grasping for any PR straw they can find so this has got to be really bad..
I thought the big deal was all the NOx they were releasing was way above normal.
As I recall, you are indeed correct... With high compression ratios needed for diesel the NOx omissions go way high and have to be dealt with... VW admitted their engine management software was changing the air/fuel mixture to reduce NOx emissions when it was being tested, which killed performance and fuel economy, but then when not under test, went with the best performance settings.
Seriously, 3 phase is useless in a home unless you wish to run "industrial" equipment which is wired to accept it. If you are running industrial equipment in your house and think it's worth the cost of buying three phase electrical service over renting/buying/building actual industrial space, power to you... Quite literally... In the long term it seems better to just go get some industrial space and pass on rewiring your house, but that's just me I guess.
On your situation, there was a reason your device came with two power plugs.... 1200 VA is 10+ amps and most house wiring is breakered at 15 amps. What you really needed was a 15A 220 connection, especially if pulling one plug was enough to shut down the mining operation.
I'm pretty sure that even in Sweden you only get 2 phase power by default, you just get it at twice the voltage and at 50 cycles. Truly 3-phase power is unnecessary unless you are running industrial machines with highly reactive loads and adds significant logistical issues because you have to keep the 3 phases in order or that motor will turn the wrong way. Don't be fooled by the number of conductors in the wall outlet, because usually they throw in a couple of extra wires for "common" and "Safety ground". Here in the states, modern dryer receptacles have 4 contacts (Phase 1, Phase 2, common and ground) while many older receptacles have three (Phase 1, Phase 2, Common/Ground). Both are two phase, not three. Technically though, the device just runs on 1 phase by combining the two which are 180 degrees out of phase.
I seriously doubt three phase is common in a residence and that they use 2 phase (at most) even in Sweden. The logistics of keeping three wires in the right order would be just too expensive and having three phase doesn't buy you anything but complexity and having to pull one more wire to a lot of places. I could be wrong, but if I am there is something seriously wrong with Sweden's electrical engineering experts...
The only reason I can figure you'd want/need to go 3 phase is if you are trying to run an 3 phase motor, or really needed lots of power for something like a server farm... Maybe he purchased a huge air compressor or arc welder? Obviously there was something industrial going on.
I'm not sure how you would be able to use enough power in your average residence to make 3 phase power desirable over the normal 2 phase. Even a modest server farm doesn't require it...
That is a very scary line of logic. Scary, because it just might work. Now I'll be up all night wondering how many DUI hit-and-runs have successfully gotten away with just that.
I know of at least one. Creamed my truck which was parked in a driveway because he was too drunk to realize it was the wrong driveway. He was *always* drinking and I'm positive he "got away" with the DUI by just heading home. He got caught though because his taillight got busted and the pieces he left in my driveway matched exactly to the hole in his. Then there was the David Cassidy episode where he hit a delivery truck and just continued on home. The driver got his plate, said he looked and smelled drunk and the police came and got him. No DUI charge. No prosecutor in his right mind would go for that charge unless they had a confession, a blood test or something...
If you have enough practice evading DUI convictions after accidents that you have a system, I feel like the nanny state couldn't be all that bad if it keeps someone like you from driving.
Um.... You are reading a bit too much between the lines... Personally, I don't drink, haven't in decades and don't plan to change that. Ditto with drugs and other intoxicants beyond sugar and caffeine. I've never been pulled over on suspicion of DUI and never have been subjected to even a field sobriety test or been asked to blow into the machine.
So, I don't drink and drive... Never have.
The A-10 isn't quite so old, having been introduced in 1977, but it too is uniquely successful at its job, with no practical replacement in sight.
Then follows a rant about how the A-10 should be kept in service....
I'm not going to debate the effectiveness of the A-10 at close air support, it was a great platform and served the guys on the ground well. We all morn it's loss. HOWEVER.... There are good reasons for the A-10's demise..
Aircraft wear out. Airframes suffer from work hardening as they flex in flight and eventually they will start to fail. The more flexible the airframe, the quicker it wears out. The A-10 is a pretty flexible airframe and close air support requires a lot of varying loads on the airframe. You are pulling lots of G's to roll onto a target, then again to pull out of a strafing run. Carrying weapons on hard points makes it worse. Dropping gravity bombs, especially if you are lofting them (a hard pull up just before you release the weapon) puts a lot of stress on the airframe. Doing close air support well involves all of these things and more.
The A-10 was literally worn out and we couldn't keep flying them safely. There where not enough airframes left with life left to keep the A-10 flying in sufficient numbers to be useful. Yes, we could build more airframes, but the manufacturing line has long since been shut down and the tooling gone so building new aircraft would be costly. So we literally used the A-10's up, wore them out, flew the wings off of them and didn't choose to build more.
The reason why we didn't build more is largely political and partly practical. The military had planned the F35 as the close air support platform of the future. That's where the money went. You can argue the rightness or wrongness of that decision if you want, but if you look at the situation as it unfolded, with the planned replacement the F-35 behind schedule, sucking up *all* the spare change the pentagon could find in the couch cushions and the airframe of the A-10's in service totally warn out, it's not surprising they decided to ground it. They couldn't afford to buy new A-10's and the ones they had where no longer serviceable.
And I don't disagree with you. I'm just pointing out that there are reasons folks choose to do this sometimes.
STOP DIGGING YOURSELF A DEEPER HOLE.
In no particular order: Stop lying, stop fleeing the scene of an accident, don't attempt to talk the computer out of what it has recorded ...
Not that I know first hand... However.... There actually is a good reason to leave sometimes. Most of the time, if you have been drinking, it's actually in your best interest to leave if you can. Go home, go to the nearest bar, go the local store buy and drink, a lot, and make sure you either have witnesses you where drinking AFTER the accident or make sure they don't catch you for a couple of hours by going home. But leave the scene and go drinking.
The legal costs for a DUI and leaving the accident are usually about the same, but the INSURRANCE costs are NOT and it's not likely to get your license taken away. If you have a creditable story that you left the scene and when drinking, there is no way they will try the DUI case because they cannot prove what your BAC was when you where behind the wheel so all you will get is leaving the scene charge. This may not be significant for the first DUI, but for second and third offenses, it very well may be.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not RECOMMENDING folks do this, only pointing out that there is sometimes a huge financial incentive for leaving the scene of that accident, especially if you are drunk and already have a DUI or two.
That's going to be a LOT of E-mail from that semi-auto rifle we take to the range to play Rambo with. You can shoot a lot of rounds with one of those even if it's not fully-automatic.... Then there is the whole "wrap the transmitter in tinfoil" thing....
This is one of the reasons I'm happy to keep on paying whatever it costs to repair my increasingly-clanky old SUV. At least it's not spying on me; it's actually mine.
Man, I don't know.. That 67 VW Beetle is *really* looking warn around the edges and even though I'm REALLY sure it's not spying on me or recording any crash information, it's getting really tiresome keeping that beast on the road. Not to mention it will never have AC in the summer much less a defogger when it's cold... There comes a point when being a Luddite is just too inconvenient even for an luddite...
But but but... she broke the law!
Shud-up! You are MY CAR and you don't turn your owner in....
Well, in that case I suggest you wake up to the reality on the ground today. There are bad folks out there, poverty or not.
We live in a world where mass shootings are a reality and it's been this way for decades. I don't see that changing in the future, and no amount of welfare, law passing or hand wringing is going to change the reality. There are bad people in the world, crazy killers, hardened terrorists and more, and there is no law you can pass that will prevent them from being successful in their quest to acquire arms and kill innocent non-combatant bystanders.
We need to realize the truth here and deal with reality and stop this foolish emotional based reactionary garbage. It's time to start realizing that the primary responsibility for our own security rests with each individual being ready and able to defend their own, unencumbered by stupid laws that create "gun free zones" or prevent law abiding citizens from carrying firearms if they decide to.
I got it and I agree... I'm simply appealing to the "law of the land" argument in an effort to make inroads into liberal "Let's have gun control" thinkers minds and thinking. I'm saying, "Sorry there, the 2nd amendment which is part of the enshrined Bill of Rights which is the legal basis of this country's very existence says you cannot just disarm the citizens of the country because it is a fundamental right." I'm saying exactly what you are, that the right to arms is intrinsic as is the right to self defense, and I'm appealing to the rule of law as a principle that must guide any proposed solution the liberals come up with in their efforts to deal with violence. I'm saying emotion and feeling does not trump the citizens rights.
Your choice I guess, but allowing law abiding citizens to carry concealed is cost free and enhances security. If you want to provide armed guards, all the better. You want to make the location appear to not be a "soft target" so the shooters will move on to easier pickings... That's great, but it's expensive and doesn't really solve the problem, it just shifts it to some other location.
Look, nothing is going to stop a determined and intelligent shooter from attacking a soft target and causing a lot of carnage. But the ONLY way you stop a shooting in progress is to confront the shooter(s) with deadly force. The sooner you can confront them, the sooner you can stop the carnage. If a prospective victim happens to be armed and chooses to attempt to defend themselves, there is a reasonable chance the shooting can be disrupted and a great chance that this will save lives.
I say, Let the law abiding people defend themselves, let them carry fire arms. It's not a perfect solution, but it will help reduce body counts in mass shootings.
So based on the chance that somebody who is trying to do right may make a mistake in judgment in the midst of a mass shooting you would condemn ALL the victims the crazy murderer might be able to shoot? That's stupid.
Personally, I'd be willing to take my chances with somebody who was trying to stop the shooter over the guy intent on creating as much carnage as possible. Yea, I might still get shot by mistake, but that's a lot less likely than getting shot on purpose by some crazy with a gun.
I'd bet you would welcome the intervention of a good guy with a gun if you and your associates where being systematically shot down by some crazy. You know you would...
By the time the police arrive, the shooting is likely over if there is an armed citizen there who engages the shooter. If the citizen is unable to stop the shooter, they will likely be shot anyway so what does it matter? Shoot the guy with the gun who is shooting multiple people...
Not to mention that the police have a 50/50 chance of getting it right by just tossing a coin, but I'd be willing to bet they'd do better than 90% given their training and the likely actions of a law abiding citizen verses the crazed mass murder when confronted with a uniform and a badge behind the gun.
Your little hypothetical is really a canard. Think about it and you will realize that on average, the odds are better for victims if somebody has a gun and tries to help before the police can respond... When bad things are happening and you are forced to play a game you didn't choose where you are betting your life, you play the odds...