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  1. You cannot control an entire country and its people with tanks, jets, battleships and drones or any of these things. A fighter jet, tank, drone, battleship or whatever cannot stand on street corners. And enforce “no assembly” edicts. A fighter jet cannot kick down your door at 3AM and search your house for contraband. None of these things can maintain the needed police state to completely subjugate and enslave the people of a nation. Those weapons are for decimating, flattening and glassing large areas and many people at once and fighting other state militaries. The government does not want to kill all of its people and blow up its own infrastructure. These are the very things they need to be tyrannical assholes in the first place. If they decided to turn everything outside of Washington D.C. into glowing green glass they would be the absolute rulers of a big, worthless, radioactive pile of shit. Police are needed to maintain a police state, boots on the ground. And no matter how many police you have on the ground they will always be vastly outnumbered by civilians which is why in a police state it is vital that your police have automatic weapons while the people have nothing but their limp dicks. BUT when every random pedestrian could have a Glock in their waistband and every random homeowner an AR-15 all of that goes out the fucking window because now the police are out numbered and face the reality of bullets coming back at them. If you want living examples of this look at every insurgency that the U.S. military has tried to destroy. They’re all still kicking with nothing but AK-47s, pick up trucks and improvised explosives because these big scary military monsters you keep alluding to are all but fucking useless for dealing with them. --The above quoted from an anonymous source on the internet--

  2. Wrong approach on Ask Slashdot: Best Option For a Touring Band With Mobile Data? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I have been touring the U.S. and worldwide for 23 years. I have never had a problem with data caps on a tour bus from the major providers (Senators, Roberts Brothers, Hemphill, etc...) Additionally, most tours get a high bandwidth connection in each venue, and use a touring wifi system from road-wifi.com (I think they also do North American licensed walkie talkies so you can kill 2 birds with one stone.) Finally, most hotels have free/included wifi, so you only actually use the bus wifi on submarine rides.

  3. It will also require a change in law on There Is a Point At Which It Will Make Economical Sense To Defect From the Electrical Grid (qz.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In many municipalities, being grid connected is required for occupancy. In fact there have been a number of stories of governments condemning "off grid" homes even though the home had all the amenities that a grid connected home has.

  4. Re:I still don't 'get' realistic war simulations. on Two Studies Suggesting a Link Between Violent Video Games, Real-Life Behavior Have Been Retracted (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    John Wick kill Count graphic: http://imgur.com/gallery/xAzze...

  5. Clearly, you fail to comprehend the difference between what is right, and what is law. TransAm Trucking morally shouldn't have fired the driver for violating their rules, and should have allowed an exception for the unusual circumstances, that would have been right. But not doing so, while morally corrupt, was not illegal. During the infancy of this country slavery was legal. That did not make it moral or right. Eventually The Constitution was amended to rectify that wrong. Correct the wrongs the proper way. Get state and federal legislators to pass a law that protects employees from being fired if they do things that are necessary to protect their life. A parallel. In many states, it is legal for a person with CHP/HCP to carry a handgun on their person. Many businesses have a policy of not allowing that at work. Every year, dozens of people are fired for defending their life with a legally carried handgun, because the carrying was in contravention to company policy. Typically happens with convenience store workers, pizza delivery people, and Uber drivers. Numerous legal precedence of firing someone for defending their own life.

  6. Re:uh yeah... on Google X Worked An Older Employee Until He Was Hospitalized, Then Laid Him Off (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    As Gorsuch said in his dissent: "And there’s simply no law anyone has pointed us to giving employees the right to operate their vehicles in ways their employers forbid. Maybe the Department would like such a law, maybe someday Congress will adorn our federal statute books with such a law. But it isn’t there yet. And it isn’t our job to write one — or to allow the Department to write one in Congress’s place." He is being lambasted for not being compassionate, but compassion is not the job of the court. The job of the court is to interpret what the law says, not what it SHOULD say. Full ruling here: https://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/...

  7. Disturbance in the force on Iconic Star Wars Actress Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 (people.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I felt a great disturbance in the force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happned

  8. Re:Of course... on Green Party Calls For Recount, Wants To Push For Open-Source Voting Machines (nbcnewyork.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Stein has no legal standing for a recount in Michigan: "A candidate for an office canvassed by the board of state canvassers or is the office of representative in Congress, state representative, or state senator for a district located wholly within 1 county may petition for a recount of the votes. The petition must allege that the candidate is “aggrieved on account of fraud or mistake in the canvass of the votes by the inspectors of election or the returns.” " Mich. Comp. Laws 168.879(1). Since Stein has no chance of winning, from a legal perspective, she can not be "aggrieved." Hillary is the only candidate that would be "aggrieved" if there are irregularities in the vote, and thus, she is the only one who can petition for a recount. Republican legal teams are already drafting motions for injunctions due to standing.

  9. Re:One trusted model per hundred years. Model 1911 on New Smart Guns Will Have Fingerprint Readers (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Correction, the M-1911 was ADOPTED by the U.S. army in 1911, it was designed and built in 1907, and went through several years of rigorous testing before being adopted by the army.

  10. FTA: "Then, the plan is to fly to the New Glenn "before the end of this decade," according to Bezos." "this decade" implies by 2020, or within the next 4 years, NOT "in a decade"

  11. Re:How big will the explosion be? on Jeff Bezos Unveils the Design of Blue Origin's Future Orbital Rocket -- New Glenn (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    FTA: "Then, the plan is to fly to the New Glenn "before the end of this decade," according to Bezos." "this decade" implies by 2020, or within the next 4 years, NOT "in a decade"

  12. "BlackBerry has had to replaced their official Facebook App..." Methinks the new editors doth edit too little. "All your base are belong to us?"

  13. This is a known medical condition :SMACSS Social Media Assisted Career Suicide Syndrome. Researchers are still searching for a cure!

  14. Emergency Services on Ask Slashdot: Do You Still Have a Pager? Do You Find It Useful? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Many emergency services such as fire departments, Offices of emergency management, etc still use RF pagers. The system is part of or tied in with the dispatch system. By removing third parties in the communication signal chain, the pager systems provide latency free, and high availability for dispatch systems. They also work well for emergency services because they are geographically limited by the pager transmission antenna coverage. which usually coincides with the emergency services coverage area. For the OP's situation there are usually two options: a local RF network, or satellite pager systems. The local networks may or may not have better coverage, just depends on your local pager provider. Sat pagers tend to have nationwide coverage, but reception is limited by access to the sky. Those choices may or may not be suitable for your needs. RB

  15. Re:hobbyist stingrays? on The IRS Has Stingray Devices (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Harris (the maker of Stingrays) will not sell them to "civilians" Additionally there is Federal law (Electronic Communications Privacy Act) that forbids an un-authorized person from listening on cellular phone calls. There is a "sort of" hack: Info on this youtube video from DEFCON 18: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  16. Print Screen on Gmail Messages Can Now Self-Destruct · · Score: 2

    Um... "Print Screen" or "Screen Capture" kinda makes the whole premise of this pointless.