Not really. My goal at target competition is not to hone my skills to shoot people - I shoot paper because its FUN and I enjoy it. There are tons of competitive shooters who don't hunt, and don't intend on shooting anyone. Other people play golf, I poke holes in paper.
I love your link. I actually saw a Virginia license plate on a car here in Richmond (on Main Street, near Harrison) that read, "GOATSE". I kid you not. In fact, go here and see that it's taken. Some of the more apropos plate designs would be "Drive Smart", "Natural Bridge", and perhaps "Animal Lover".
Isn't Jet-A more like kerosene (or #1 fuel oil)? This PDF calls Jet-A "Aviation kerosene", as do several other pages, and shows Jet-A composition as mostly C9-C16, which matches kerosene as shown here. Diesel, or #2 fuel oil is mostly C11-C20, and is therefore heavier than kerosene and has a much higher flash point (58C vs 38C for kero). Diesel has a slighty higher energy content/unit volume that kero, too (see this).
What ever happened to "nothing ventured, noting gained?", "once more into the breach", and all that? Have we totally lost our sense of adventure and that some things are worth CHOOSING to risk one's life for? If I could be carry enough supplies for a month of exploration on Mars and the opportunity of a quick death, I'd go on a 1 way trip.
Since when does public opinion get to decide what an intrepid explorer gets to volunteer for?
Thank you, also, for your reasoned reply. I disagree with your contention that "A gun is PRINCIPALLY a weapon". A gun is principally a chunk of well-formed metal. It can make a very effective weapon, and is often used as a weapon, but it is not by its nature a weapon sitting quietly on a table. As I said before, the definition of weapon seems to include a precondition of use, not mere existence.
As far as the analogy with P2P goes, I agree that knives make a much less debatable and contentious choice.
Thank you for your reasoned reply. I looked up weapon since we seem to disagree on its definition. According to MW, a weapon is, "something (as a club, knife, or gun) used to injure, defeat, or destroy", and according to dictrionary.com, "An instrument of attack or defense in combat, as a gun, missile, or sword". According to these definitions anything can be a weapon when USED to attack, injure, defeat, or destroy. This is of course close to the common definition of a weapon. I guess the critical difference is that an object must be put to use to injure, etc to be a weapon - otherwise it's a tool, ashtray, whatever. Your comments " Guns are still essentially weapons" and "Likewise, in competitive shooting, guns are still being used as weapons, but you're competing at who's better at using the weapon" hinge on the notion that an object has the immutable characteristic of either being a weapon or not. I say a gun isn't a weapon until fired at a living thing. When fired at paper, it's a tool, plain and simple.
By your own logic all art, toys, sports and associated equipment are not 'useful' and therefore should be able to be outlawed. Try to take a golfer's clubs from him - they'll show you a new use for golf clubs (they are CLUBS, after all). Just because something isn't 'useful' (whatever that means), doesn't mean it should be outlawed. My free speech isn't always 'useful', but you'd better not try to outlaw it.
You've heard of skeet shooting, sporting clays, target competition, and literally dozens of other forms of non-killing competition [nrahq.org], including programs for the disabled, right? Have a look at the calendar [nrahq.org] - there might be a match near you so you can see first hand what shooting sports are all about. Remember those funny-looking guys in the Olympics with rifles and skis? I don't remember any murders committed by biatheletes recently.
It torques me greatly when self-proclaimed experts on firearm usage declare that there are no non-killing uses for guns. It is quite challenging to be able to accurately poke pencil-sized holes in a target at 50 yds with a pistol or 300+ yds with a rifle.
Just for curiosity, which are the non-murdering uses for a gun?
You've heard of skeet shooting, sporting clays, target competition, and literally dozens of other forms of non-killing competition, including programs for the disabled, right? Have a look at the calendar - there might be a match near you so you can see first hand what shooting sports are all about. Remember those funny-looking guys in the Olympics with rifles and skis? I don't remember any murders committed by biatheletes recently.
It torques me greatly when self-proclaimed experts on firearm usage declare that there are no non-killing uses for guns. It is quite challenging to be able to accurately poke pencil-sized holes in a target at 50 yds with a pistol or 300+ yds with a rifle.
My wife came across a reference to a guinea in a book she was reading. I looked it up, and it turns out that a guinea was 21 shillings, where a pound was 20 shillings. Supposedly guineas were a popular unit of measure in auctions where the price to the buyer was measured in guineas and the seller was paid in the same number of pounds with the auctioneer keeping the difference. Interesting.
I find the old English currency system fascinating, but at the same time bewildering.
The near-field (proximity) ones are like an air core transformer and rely on magnetic field induction. UHF tags are far field - they really do rely on the E field to power them vs the H field for proximity tags. EPCGlobalInc.com has some fairly good PDFs on the technology.
And it would be nice if people stopped clouding the issue with abortion arguments.
For many of us, that's impossible - we see life beginning at conception, and the destruction of a fetus as at best abortion, and at worst murder.
I've never understood how a thinking individual could believe that life begins anywhere else but conception. As medicine advances, the age at which fetuses are viable keeps going down. Doesn't it make sense to 'take the limit' of that function and declare that life happens when a unique genetic entity is produced?
It is the only clearly-delineated point in the continuum of embryotic development that makes sense to use as the reference point for 'life'.
Actually Princess Leia said it to Governor Tarkin just before he demonstrated the power of the death star, but that's ok - it a joke! Here's a transcript.
...until we have ISO 14443 readers on our PCs to validate online purchases? Having a crypto-enabled card would help cut down on online fraud by guaranteeing "card present", no?
I want to see credit cards with 4 little buttony things on them - maybe labeled 1-4 or different colors. (Not necessarily real pushbuttons - that'd be too expensive and fragile. Conductive pads would be enough). Every time the card is used you have to enter your PIN on the card - 1-2-1-3 or red-red-green-blue or whatever. That info would be used by the crypto processor to create a signed validation from the card. The old "something you have + something you know" routine, right?
You don't seem to have read the spec - this is more about how air core transformers work than radio. These ISO 14443 cards use inductive coupling to power the card, not RF field strength. From this ISO 14443 overview:
ISO 14443-2 was published on July 1, 2001. This standard describes the
characteristics of power transfer (based on
inductive coupling) and communication
between the PICC and PCD. Power is transferred to the card using a frequency modulated [magnetic]
field at 13.56 MHz +/- 7kHz.
Having a crypto processor on board (especially the exponentiator) requires way more power than can typically be delivered by RF field strength (far field tags vs near field tags). EPC tags are RF field powered, and can be read from several meters away. Magnetically coupled tags can only be read from a few cm.
The API makes it easy for peripherals and other devices embedding GNU/Linux system software to act in the USB "device" (slave) role. The drivers implementing and using that API combine to make a useful driver framework for Linux systems that implement USB peripherals.
My system consists of a dedicated Tripp-Lite 2400W inverter and 6 honkin' 90A/h SLA AGM batteries for the sump pump. It runs my 1/2 HP pump for days. The inverter has a load sense feature that works just fine with the pump, so it's not putting out full voltage all the time (saves battery charge).
...has ever flooded, or even smells damp, Don't do it!!! Use overhead cable trays or even run the wires up between floor joists. You don't want to ever mix wires and water, even if they're low voltage. It makes an unholy mess. I wouldn't have anything within 3 feet of the floor, if possible. Mount your rack servers on the walls, not sitting on the floor. Ditto for monitors, etc and especially UPS's! Speaking of UPS's, give your sump pump priority over keeping your servers running.
Good luck - my installation barely survived the floods caused by Hurricane Gaston (the stupid slideshow says Frances, but it was Gaston.)
I'd go farther and require every law that Congress passes to be subjected to an automatic constitutionality test before it becomes law. If any portion is declared unconstitutional, the whole law gets sent back to congress until they understand their bounds.
This would also help break laws into logical chunks instead of several unrelated laws being lumped together to guarantee passage, and help slow the rate at which Congress spews BS laws.
Automatic review of 10% of all existing laws per year would keep them busy justifying previous laws instead of writing useless new ones.
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Not really. My goal at target competition is not to hone my skills to shoot people - I shoot paper because its FUN and I enjoy it. There are tons of competitive shooters who don't hunt, and don't intend on shooting anyone. Other people play golf, I poke holes in paper.
I love your link. I actually saw a Virginia license plate on a car here in Richmond (on Main Street, near Harrison) that read, "GOATSE". I kid you not. In fact, go here and see that it's taken. Some of the more apropos plate designs would be "Drive Smart", "Natural Bridge", and perhaps "Animal Lover".
Isn't Jet-A more like kerosene (or #1 fuel oil)? This PDF calls Jet-A "Aviation kerosene", as do several other pages, and shows Jet-A composition as mostly C9-C16, which matches kerosene as shown here. Diesel, or #2 fuel oil is mostly C11-C20, and is therefore heavier than kerosene and has a much higher flash point (58C vs 38C for kero). Diesel has a slighty higher energy content/unit volume that kero, too (see this).
Amen!
What ever happened to "nothing ventured, noting gained?", "once more into the breach", and all that? Have we totally lost our sense of adventure and that some things are worth CHOOSING to risk one's life for? If I could be carry enough supplies for a month of exploration on Mars and the opportunity of a quick death, I'd go on a 1 way trip.
Since when does public opinion get to decide what an intrepid explorer gets to volunteer for?
Thank you, also, for your reasoned reply. I disagree with your contention that "A gun is PRINCIPALLY a weapon". A gun is principally a chunk of well-formed metal. It can make a very effective weapon, and is often used as a weapon, but it is not by its nature a weapon sitting quietly on a table. As I said before, the definition of weapon seems to include a precondition of use, not mere existence.
As far as the analogy with P2P goes, I agree that knives make a much less debatable and contentious choice.
Thank you for your reasoned reply. I looked up weapon since we seem to disagree on its definition. According to MW, a weapon is, "something (as a club, knife, or gun) used to injure, defeat, or destroy", and according to dictrionary.com, "An instrument of attack or defense in combat, as a gun, missile, or sword". According to these definitions anything can be a weapon when USED to attack, injure, defeat, or destroy. This is of course close to the common definition of a weapon. I guess the critical difference is that an object must be put to use to injure, etc to be a weapon - otherwise it's a tool, ashtray, whatever. Your comments " Guns are still essentially weapons" and "Likewise, in competitive shooting, guns are still being used as weapons, but you're competing at who's better at using the weapon" hinge on the notion that an object has the immutable characteristic of either being a weapon or not. I say a gun isn't a weapon until fired at a living thing. When fired at paper, it's a tool, plain and simple.
By your own logic all art, toys, sports and associated equipment are not 'useful' and therefore should be able to be outlawed. Try to take a golfer's clubs from him - they'll show you a new use for golf clubs (they are CLUBS, after all). Just because something isn't 'useful' (whatever that means), doesn't mean it should be outlawed. My free speech isn't always 'useful', but you'd better not try to outlaw it.
In this O'Reilly article, they correctly state the 1x data rate as 2.5 Gbit/sec, not 2.5 GByte/sec.
That's the same as a 64 bit wide 78 MHz parallel interface - not that impressive.
In this O'Reilly article, they correctly state the 1x data rate as 2.5 Gbit/sec, not 2.5 GByte/sec.
That's the same as a 64 bit 78 MHz parallel interface - not that impressive.
You've heard of skeet shooting, sporting clays, target competition, and literally dozens of other forms of non-killing competition [nrahq.org], including programs for the disabled, right? Have a look at the calendar [nrahq.org] - there might be a match near you so you can see first hand what shooting sports are all about. Remember those funny-looking guys in the Olympics with rifles and skis? I don't remember any murders committed by biatheletes recently. It torques me greatly when self-proclaimed experts on firearm usage declare that there are no non-killing uses for guns. It is quite challenging to be able to accurately poke pencil-sized holes in a target at 50 yds with a pistol or 300+ yds with a rifle.
Just for curiosity, which are the non-murdering uses for a gun?
You've heard of skeet shooting, sporting clays, target competition, and literally dozens of other forms of non-killing competition, including programs for the disabled, right? Have a look at the calendar - there might be a match near you so you can see first hand what shooting sports are all about. Remember those funny-looking guys in the Olympics with rifles and skis? I don't remember any murders committed by biatheletes recently.
It torques me greatly when self-proclaimed experts on firearm usage declare that there are no non-killing uses for guns. It is quite challenging to be able to accurately poke pencil-sized holes in a target at 50 yds with a pistol or 300+ yds with a rifle.
My wife came across a reference to a guinea in a book she was reading. I looked it up, and it turns out that a guinea was 21 shillings, where a pound was 20 shillings. Supposedly guineas were a popular unit of measure in auctions where the price to the buyer was measured in guineas and the seller was paid in the same number of pounds with the auctioneer keeping the difference. Interesting.
I find the old English currency system fascinating, but at the same time bewildering.
And it would be nice if people stopped clouding the issue with abortion arguments.
For many of us, that's impossible - we see life beginning at conception, and the destruction of a fetus as at best abortion, and at worst murder.
I've never understood how a thinking individual could believe that life begins anywhere else but conception. As medicine advances, the age at which fetuses are viable keeps going down. Doesn't it make sense to 'take the limit' of that function and declare that life happens when a unique genetic entity is produced?
It is the only clearly-delineated point in the continuum of embryotic development that makes sense to use as the reference point for 'life'.
...until we have ISO 14443 readers on our PCs to validate online purchases? Having a crypto-enabled card would help cut down on online fraud by guaranteeing "card present", no?
I want to see credit cards with 4 little buttony things on them - maybe labeled 1-4 or different colors. (Not necessarily real pushbuttons - that'd be too expensive and fragile. Conductive pads would be enough). Every time the card is used you have to enter your PIN on the card - 1-2-1-3 or red-red-green-blue or whatever. That info would be used by the crypto processor to create a signed validation from the card. The old "something you have + something you know" routine, right?
You don't seem to have read the spec - this is more about how air core transformers work than radio. These ISO 14443 cards use inductive coupling to power the card, not RF field strength. From this ISO 14443 overview:Having a crypto processor on board (especially the exponentiator) requires way more power than can typically be delivered by RF field strength (far field tags vs near field tags). EPC tags are RF field powered, and can be read from several meters away. Magnetically coupled tags can only be read from a few cm.
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"The more you tighten your grip, Darth Gates, the more systems will slip through your fingers."
I read that - I had assumed that slave mode controllers were available as PCI cards and that he could slap one in and go. I guess not.
...the gadget device driver and API. From the linked page:
My system consists of a dedicated Tripp-Lite 2400W inverter and 6 honkin' 90A/h SLA AGM batteries for the sump pump. It runs my 1/2 HP pump for days. The inverter has a load sense feature that works just fine with the pump, so it's not putting out full voltage all the time (saves battery charge).
...has ever flooded, or even smells damp, Don't do it!!! Use overhead cable trays or even run the wires up between floor joists. You don't want to ever mix wires and water, even if they're low voltage. It makes an unholy mess. I wouldn't have anything within 3 feet of the floor, if possible. Mount your rack servers on the walls, not sitting on the floor. Ditto for monitors, etc and especially UPS's! Speaking of UPS's, give your sump pump priority over keeping your servers running.
Good luck - my installation barely survived the floods caused by Hurricane Gaston (the stupid slideshow says Frances, but it was Gaston.)
Let's not bring abortion into this!
I'd go farther and require every law that Congress passes to be subjected to an automatic constitutionality test before it becomes law. If any portion is declared unconstitutional, the whole law gets sent back to congress until they understand their bounds.
This would also help break laws into logical chunks instead of several unrelated laws being lumped together to guarantee passage, and help slow the rate at which Congress spews BS laws.
Automatic review of 10% of all existing laws per year would keep them busy justifying previous laws instead of writing useless new ones.
My brother and I are sports-minded geeks if you count huntin' and fishin'.