ahhh I see what people are doing, they're pulling the whole pedantic word game. Let's clear the air, then. The full legal term is "assault weapon" when it's a semi-automatic rifle that is not select-fire (or full-automatic). Now that we have that part out of the way, we can be back to a constructive conversation.
There is no such thing as a "semi-automatic assault rifle".
I own a couple, and it's entirely real. An "assault rifle" is an unofficial term for a scary-looking (military in design) carbine rifle with more magazine loading capabilities. I should not have to say the next part, but...the difference between semi-automatic and full-automatic is in trigger interaction. If you pull the trigger and hold it back on a semi-automatic, it fires one round and loads the next round. A full-automatic does the same, except continues to fire the next and repeats said action. Note that military M16 has select-fire which can choose between semi-automatic, 3 round burst, & full-automatic.
What good is buying a gun for protection if nobody knows you are armed?
Possibly to... protect ones self? Concealed weapon? A weapon is a benign object, it is the person that wields it that can either use it as a weapon of good or evil. Of course you knew this, and I'm just reiterating it to make a point...
John 3:16 god gave his only son to be killed so you if you just believed he had a son then you'd be allowed into heaven... You're quoting a book with that in it...
No, this should be labeled "Funny", not "Insightful"!
The way it worked before tazers existed was the police came and removed the person. I see tazers as a (theoretically) less-destructive gun. Would they pull a pistol on her, and shoot her in the leg? It won't kill her, and it'd maker her move!
I know you're just being a pedantic ass right now, but obviously "copies of " means items of something that are mass-produced. (thus, copied) Androids are only copycats of i in certain aspects. They're far from being anywhere near full copies of iPhones.
I'm thinking it's more like people with 10 year old honda civics complaining about wall the yuppies with their BMW cars, but at the same time making hack kits to fit the rims,etc, from those BMW onto their cars...
running a nuclear power plant and having a place to stick the remains that get pulled out of there, for thousands of years is like a Mad Magazine style of idea. Fighting against that is far from anti-science, it's more like "WTF are you thinking?!". Nuclear power plants are not being fought against, it's the slug that comes out of it being put into barrel and put into a government-run facility that needs to be maintained and/or quarantined for the entire decomposition cycle.
Believe me, Android is not going to ever get to the point of being competition for Windows. When it comes to the Enterprise customer, something with a track record is definitely needed. Especially when it comes to SOX compliancy, much less compatibility. That's just the tip of it.
I've heard that a lot, but every time I've had a Susan B Anthony in my pocket I've never had a problem differentiating it from a quarter since the weight is different. I also have a tendency to look at my money...
Im guessing you didn't read the GP. In America, people don't change unless it's less painful to change. I'm American, I know this from our history just over the last century.
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ahhh I see what people are doing, they're pulling the whole pedantic word game. Let's clear the air, then.
The full legal term is "assault weapon" when it's a semi-automatic rifle that is not select-fire (or full-automatic).
Now that we have that part out of the way, we can be back to a constructive conversation.
There is no such thing as a "semi-automatic assault rifle".
I own a couple, and it's entirely real.
An "assault rifle" is an unofficial term for a scary-looking (military in design) carbine rifle with more magazine loading capabilities.
I should not have to say the next part, but...the difference between semi-automatic and full-automatic is in trigger interaction. If you pull the trigger and hold it back on a semi-automatic, it fires one round and loads the next round. A full-automatic does the same, except continues to fire the next and repeats said action.
Note that military M16 has select-fire which can choose between semi-automatic, 3 round burst, & full-automatic.
What good is buying a gun for protection if nobody knows you are armed?
Possibly to... protect ones self? Concealed weapon?
A weapon is a benign object, it is the person that wields it that can either use it as a weapon of good or evil. Of course you knew this, and I'm just reiterating it to make a point...
If he typed it on an iPad, it would have auto-corrected.
Is software hardware now?
If you don't want it light weight and thinner than the average laptop, it's obviously not in your niche market....
Wow... seriously? You said that?
Nuh UH! Surface sucks and Macbook Pro is awesome, so there!
*shakes head* lol
That cadillac sure is ugly but the Surface isn't an ugly tablet.
Obviously, that's a subjective statement. Especially since I'd stay as far away from the Surface even if it was made by Linus Torvalds, himself.
Some things are better left unsaid, and just known in silence...
John 3:16 god gave his only son to be killed so you if you just believed he had a son then you'd be allowed into heaven...
You're quoting a book with that in it...
Don't believe the per-capita numbers.
I have a quarter of the guns in America, so the numbers are skewed.
Didn't work with myspace, don't think it'd work with any other site.
No, this should be labeled "Funny", not "Insightful"!
The way it worked before tazers existed was the police came and removed the person. I see tazers as a (theoretically) less-destructive gun. Would they pull a pistol on her, and shoot her in the leg? It won't kill her, and it'd maker her move!
Odd, I just changed mine a month ago.
I know you're just being a pedantic ass right now, but obviously "copies of " means items of something that are mass-produced. (thus, copied)
Androids are only copycats of i in certain aspects. They're far from being anywhere near full copies of iPhones.
I'm thinking it's more like people with 10 year old honda civics complaining about wall the yuppies with their BMW cars, but at the same time making hack kits to fit the rims,etc, from those BMW onto their cars...
There not being a beginning is about as believable as some guy making everything suddenly.
running a nuclear power plant and having a place to stick the remains that get pulled out of there, for thousands of years is like a Mad Magazine style of idea.
Fighting against that is far from anti-science, it's more like "WTF are you thinking?!". Nuclear power plants are not being fought against, it's the slug that comes out of it being put into barrel and put into a government-run facility that needs to be maintained and/or quarantined for the entire decomposition cycle.
So what your saying essentially is.. ehhh, our kids will figure it out.
Believe me, Android is not going to ever get to the point of being competition for Windows. When it comes to the Enterprise customer, something with a track record is definitely needed. Especially when it comes to SOX compliancy, much less compatibility. That's just the tip of it.
s/dollar bills/dollar coins/g
Not a terribly hard concept...
83 cents = 3 quarters, 1 nickel, 3 pennies
instead of
4 20-cent pieces and 3 pennies.
Same number of coins...
Why is that hard?
Coins are an afterthought, no worries there.
I've heard that a lot, but every time I've had a Susan B Anthony in my pocket I've never had a problem differentiating it from a quarter since the weight is different. I also have a tendency to look at my money...
Im guessing you didn't read the GP. In America, people don't change unless it's less painful to change.
I'm American, I know this from our history just over the last century.