I would like to see documented cases where an otherwise-innocent civilian with no connection to the military, to law enforcement, or to private security needed more than ten rounds, or was harmed for running out of ammunition over ten rounds... == Not to go all Godwin on you, but I'm sure there are plenty of cases in Nazi Germany, Russia, China, etc. And that ties in better with the Second Amendment better than self defense arguments anyway.
Yeah. I can see how if you were committing an act of genocide that you might need more than 10 bullets. Good point. There are going to be a lot of Jews/Niggers/Spics/Homos to kill, after all.
On the first day of the new Congress, I intend to introduce a bill stopping the sale, transfer, importation and manufacturing of assault weapons as well as large ammunition magazines, strips and drums that hold more than 10 rounds.
and I think that many of the congresspersons and lobbyists who wouldn't know DA from SA if their life depended on it are completely unqualified to legislate on issues upon which other people's lives do depend.
The lives at risk are the victims of gun nuts.
Who gives a fuck what the correct acronym is. The point is how many fucking bullets you fucking gun nuts want to put in your fucking guns: or in other words, how many children you can kill in a single burst.
"Taking" an imaginary profit from an imaginary sale is not "stealing".
how would you feel if everybody was jumping the turnstiles but you were the only one paying for the subway? you'd feel like a fool and so your willingness to pay is decreased. same thing here.
In the subway, one you get past the gate, you get the same service. If you use warez, you have no support, no tax deductions, and are at constant risk of auditing. Anyone who wants bootleg copies of MS Office or Adobe CS6 can get the torrent in an hour. Yet Microsoft and Adobe make billions from selling the same software. So, clearly no one is discouraged from buying it. In fact both MS and Adobe encourage piracy of their software in poorer countries to lock out cheaper or free alternatives, planning to move in later when there's a profit to be made.
Everyone in China. You can pay 2 years salary for CS6, or get the same thing from a guy on the corner (often in an official Adobe box) for one or two day's salary.
Or, if you don't want the box, just one DVD in a plastic bag for about $1.
When someone breaks into your house or shop do you want to recover the full value of the property he stole or the price he received for his stolen goods --- mere pennies on the dollar at best? If he gives your stuff away, what then?
Total non sequitur. No one broke into anywhere or took anything from anyone.
Any idiot that SENDS AN EMAIL from his corporate account discussing a fraud, using whatever phrases, deserves to get caught. What the fuck does "Off the books" mean if not "DON'T WRITE ANYTHING DOWN".
Summarily banning child protecting, emergency-aleviating technology, not to mention the tools with which we coordinate the rest of our lives, is truly bad form and will bite the employer more often than they know.
The same load of wank I hear whenever people make excuses for why they NEED to have their phones on in a cinema. I believe every mobile phone has a redirect that can send phone messages directly to any other number. You have a phone on your desk?
And "child protecting"? Right. If you are Jack Bauer and your daughter has been kidnapped again and you have 43 minutes to rescue her.
that being said, the worse field for archaic measurement is graphic design, where fonts are measured in points, with 12 points per pica, 72.72 points in an inch (but exactly 72 for post-script). line height is measured in agate... you get the idea. Add to this paper measurement, letter being 8,5x11 inches in north america but 15cm x 30 cm in Europe.
"Agate"? Are you doing typesetting in the 19th century?
I've been doing DTP for 20 years. Never heard or seen an "agate" used. I just use points for everything. Postscript points: 1/72 inch, no one use the older definition (unless maybe some hot metal boutique press).
Text size in points, leading in points, page size in points. Gives me a nice spec in integers. Eg: page 396x612, margins l 48, t 77, r 54, b 66, text 12/15. (Occasionally spec text in half points.) Gives me a layout with exact alignment on a 1 pt resolution grid. Only the final pagesize matters to the printer; so I can give that in mm if necessary. I send them a PDF with cropmarks so they can measure that in whatever units they like.
The "point size" of a font is a pretty arbitrary measure anyway. It should be set by the font designer as the minimum linespacing it can be set without overlap; but often that is not what it is in practice. So I just adjust by eye in 1-pt increments till it looks right. The page sizes you mention are just the common sizes for business documents, actual books have no relation to that. The printer orders paper in huge rolls that are cut to whatever size is required. Any size at all, though the are a few dozen that have traditional names, usually specced in inches. But in this century, you just give the size in mm.
For now, this is the one case where I am happy that an American company (Adobe) has set a standard and is just ignoring the rest of the world. There are proposed metric replacements for the point, but the problem is that the millimetre, 1/25 inch, is too coarse, and micrometres are much too fine. I'd really hate it if I had to use decimal spec instead of integers. Probably, sometime next century, we'll be using 1/10 mm units instead, as long as someone can think of a catchy name.
For this to even remotely succeed, at least two generations of kids need to grow up with the metric system (or at least have it along side imperial). Then, when they enter the workforce, metric will seep into common usage.
Meanwhile, what of the generations of existing trades that rely on imperial? I.E. Carpentry, plumbing etc... It isn't just a simple matter of teaching metric either. All these industries and their supporting industries must switch or provide parallel measures (of course, the old timers will stick to imperial in that case, since it's there too). That's very, very, very expensive both in material and time.
And yet, somehow, the other 180 countries in the world managed to do it.
In Australia, it was in the 1970s. A few years of "soft" conversions, where you just have to give a metric equivalent, then "hard" conversions where various official weights and measures go to solely metric, "rounded" quantities (e.g. 25 mm instead of 25.4 mm to replace one inch; 100 km/hr instead of 60 mph. Once weather reports stopped giving Fahrenheit equivalents supermarkets and butchers etc all started using kilos there was a burst of resentment but people got over it. The building trade went to mm early on. Rulers still often have inches on one side, but are needed less and less.
But Mexicans already know how to use use metric, so I guess you'll probably go metric about the same time you change your official language to Spanish.
He did make over $400,000 in profits. It's hard to argue he didn't take that money from theaters that were paying for the rights to show the movie
Actually, it's very easy. He paid for entry to the cinemas. He never took a cent from the cinemas. He didn't prevent them from showing the movie. No one contemplating going to a cinema would stay at home and watch a lousy cam rip instead if you imply he reduced their market. Though if the movies were complete crap maybe some downloaded it as a preview and decided to skip it. But in that case, they probably would have just gone to another film and the cinemas still sold the same number of tickets on average.
He made more than $400,000 in profits from his illegal wiretapping.
I don't see that figure, or any figure, in TFA.
Otherwise you use the words "Illegal wiretapping", "criminal theft". Makes him sound really evil. But I didn't see those words in TFA either. Though I don't doubt the *AAs would use them. Did you just make them up?
I don't see how anyone could make more than pocket change distributing movies online. Who'd pay? You can get them free in a minute if you want. Especially since it sounds like he was making cam rips in cinemas. I wouldn't watch a cam rip if you paid me, let alone pay for the privilege. Cam rips are basically free advertising for the film, they can't substitute for it to anyone. Especially now, in the age of hi res big screens, they look like complete crap.
All Samsung "smart" TVs that I saw had YouTube apps (2011-2012). I'm not sure why you had to type in anything.
Silly me, I used the browser to go to the website. Didn't notice anything that looked like a Youtube app on the screen, but it was the first time I've ever used such a thing and the manual was totally void of help. Anyway, presumably you'd still need to type if you want to search for specific videos.
I could make my threat credible with a phillips screwdriver. Or a claw hammer. What's your point?
Such a threat would prove you were unbalanced. I'd keep my distance, certainly. But I wouldn't be in immediate fear of death, as I could whip out my Swiss Army knife with a Phillips screwdriver head to defend myself.
Just how many school massacres have been carried out with a Phillips screwdriver anyway?
Roughly one-third of murders in the U.S. are carried out without a firearm. If you think lack of a firearm means that someone cannot make a credible threat to kill you, you are a fool; if you think mere ownership of a firearm means someone is a threat, you are also a fool.
But all you gun nuts want guns so you can make your threats credible.
Yes. Exactly this. If you read the constitution and the words of our forefathers about it one of the fundamental reasons behind gun ownership being a right in the USA is to allow citizens to FORCE the government to listen. It's to ensure the citizens have a voice and a means to ensure that voice is not only heard, but acted on
Complete bullshit. Privately owned guns have never been used to "make the government listen" to anything. And if they had, that would be basically executing a coup. You have ELECTIONS that "make the government listen".
Where were gun owners ensuring the right to vote of women, blacks, etc? (Aside from those standing at the polls wearing white hoods to warn the blacks away.)
What a great strategy to disarm your opposition so you can oppress with no fear of retribution!
Every journalist should be prepared to back up his stories by facing those he "oppresses" by writing (completely truthful) stories about them in a high noon shootout. How cowardly to try to escape "retribution" from upstanding gun owners by hiding behind armed guards.
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I would like to see documented cases where an otherwise-innocent civilian with no connection to the military, to law enforcement, or to private security needed more than ten rounds, or was harmed for running out of ammunition over ten rounds...
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Not to go all Godwin on you, but I'm sure there are plenty of cases in Nazi Germany, Russia, China, etc. And that ties in better with the Second Amendment better than self defense arguments anyway.
Yeah. I can see how if you were committing an act of genocide that you might need more than 10 bullets. Good point. There are going to be a lot of Jews/Niggers/Spics/Homos to kill, after all.
Maybe we should allow Senator Feinstein to ban 30 round "clips," thus protecting the sale of 20 and 30 round magazines.
Maybe you should read what she actually said and not the headline some idiot put on it here.
http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=28d0c499-28ec-42a7-902d-ebf318d46d02
and I think that many of the congresspersons and lobbyists who wouldn't know DA from SA if their life depended on it are completely unqualified to legislate on issues upon which other people's lives do depend.
The lives at risk are the victims of gun nuts.
Who gives a fuck what the correct acronym is. The point is how many fucking bullets you fucking gun nuts want to put in your fucking guns: or in other words, how many children you can kill in a single burst.
The current serious proposal being debated in Washington is to mint a trillion dollar platinum coin.
"Being debated"? By some twats on websites. Not by the actual administration. Name anyone in the White House who advocates it.
Duh. if the network IS AVAILABLE of course it will be installed. The cost is negligible if you do it with the other services.
This is just some bureaucrats trying to take credit for something that's already happening.
The solution? Repeal absolutely ALL the income taxes,
I've got 5 mod points burning a hole in my pocket, and I so much wanted to give some to you, but there doesn't seem to be a "-5 idiotic" option.
And how would you get back into the school the next day?
of COURSE something was taken.
"Taking" an imaginary profit from an imaginary sale is not "stealing".
how would you feel if everybody was jumping the turnstiles but you were the only one paying for the subway? you'd feel like a fool and so your willingness to pay is decreased. same thing here.
In the subway, one you get past the gate, you get the same service. If you use warez, you have no support, no tax deductions, and are at constant risk of auditing. Anyone who wants bootleg copies of MS Office or Adobe CS6 can get the torrent in an hour. Yet Microsoft and Adobe make billions from selling the same software. So, clearly no one is discouraged from buying it. In fact both MS and Adobe encourage piracy of their software in poorer countries to lock out cheaper or free alternatives, planning to move in later when there's a profit to be made.
Everyone in China. You can pay 2 years salary for CS6, or get the same thing from a guy on the corner (often in an official Adobe box) for one or two day's salary.
Or, if you don't want the box, just one DVD in a plastic bag for about $1.
Anyway. Who BUYs pirated software? His clients should be fined for stupidity.
The FBI did. Same way they pretend to be 12 year old girls in chatrooms and invite guys to meet them.
In this case it was pretty specialised stuff, not cracked copies of Photoshop.
When someone breaks into your house or shop do you want to recover the full value of the property he stole or the price he received for his stolen goods --- mere pennies on the dollar at best? If he gives your stuff away, what then?
Total non sequitur. No one broke into anywhere or took anything from anyone.
Any idiot that SENDS AN EMAIL from his corporate account discussing a fraud, using whatever phrases, deserves to get caught. What the fuck does "Off the books" mean if not "DON'T WRITE ANYTHING DOWN".
Summarily banning child protecting, emergency-aleviating technology, not to mention the tools with which we coordinate the rest of our lives, is truly bad form and will bite the employer more often than they know.
The same load of wank I hear whenever people make excuses for why they NEED to have their phones on in a cinema. I believe every mobile phone has a redirect that can send phone messages directly to any other number. You have a phone on your desk?
And "child protecting"? Right. If you are Jack Bauer and your daughter has been kidnapped again and you have 43 minutes to rescue her.
that being said, the worse field for archaic measurement is graphic design, where fonts are measured in points, with 12 points per pica, 72.72 points in an inch (but exactly 72 for post-script). line height is measured in agate... you get the idea. Add to this paper measurement, letter being 8,5x11 inches in north america but 15cm x 30 cm in Europe.
"Agate"? Are you doing typesetting in the 19th century?
I've been doing DTP for 20 years. Never heard or seen an "agate" used. I just use points for everything. Postscript points: 1/72 inch, no one use the older definition (unless maybe some hot metal boutique press).
Text size in points, leading in points, page size in points. Gives me a nice spec in integers. Eg: page 396x612, margins l 48, t 77, r 54, b 66, text 12/15. (Occasionally spec text in half points.) Gives me a layout with exact alignment on a 1 pt resolution grid. Only the final pagesize matters to the printer; so I can give that in mm if necessary. I send them a PDF with cropmarks so they can measure that in whatever units they like.
The "point size" of a font is a pretty arbitrary measure anyway. It should be set by the font designer as the minimum linespacing it can be set without overlap; but often that is not what it is in practice. So I just adjust by eye in 1-pt increments till it looks right. The page sizes you mention are just the common sizes for business documents, actual books have no relation to that. The printer orders paper in huge rolls that are cut to whatever size is required. Any size at all, though the are a few dozen that have traditional names, usually specced in inches. But in this century, you just give the size in mm.
For now, this is the one case where I am happy that an American company (Adobe) has set a standard and is just ignoring the rest of the world. There are proposed metric replacements for the point, but the problem is that the millimetre, 1/25 inch, is too coarse, and micrometres are much too fine. I'd really hate it if I had to use decimal spec instead of integers. Probably, sometime next century, we'll be using 1/10 mm units instead, as long as someone can think of a catchy name.
For this to even remotely succeed, at least two generations of kids need to grow up with the metric system (or at least have it along side imperial). Then, when they enter the workforce, metric will seep into common usage.
Meanwhile, what of the generations of existing trades that rely on imperial? I.E. Carpentry, plumbing etc... It isn't just a simple matter of teaching metric either. All these industries and their supporting industries must switch or provide parallel measures (of course, the old timers will stick to imperial in that case, since it's there too). That's very, very, very expensive both in material and time.
And yet, somehow, the other 180 countries in the world managed to do it.
In Australia, it was in the 1970s. A few years of "soft" conversions, where you just have to give a metric equivalent, then "hard" conversions where various official weights and measures go to solely metric, "rounded" quantities (e.g. 25 mm instead of 25.4 mm to replace one inch; 100 km/hr instead of 60 mph. Once weather reports stopped giving Fahrenheit equivalents supermarkets and butchers etc all started using kilos there was a burst of resentment but people got over it. The building trade went to mm early on. Rulers still often have inches on one side, but are needed less and less.
But Mexicans already know how to use use metric, so I guess you'll probably go metric about the same time you change your official language to Spanish.
Right. And now the Metric system itself is from the US? Who writes this stuff.
Yes, you have to take care not to confuse the American kilometer with the similarly named International kilometre, for instance.
He did make over $400,000 in profits. It's hard to argue he didn't take that money from theaters that were paying for the rights to show the movie
Actually, it's very easy. He paid for entry to the cinemas. He never took a cent from the cinemas. He didn't prevent them from showing the movie. No one contemplating going to a cinema would stay at home and watch a lousy cam rip instead if you imply he reduced their market. Though if the movies were complete crap maybe some downloaded it as a preview and decided to skip it. But in that case, they probably would have just gone to another film and the cinemas still sold the same number of tickets on average.
He made more than $400,000 in profits from his illegal wiretapping.
I don't see that figure, or any figure, in TFA.
Otherwise you use the words "Illegal wiretapping", "criminal theft". Makes him sound really evil. But I didn't see those words in TFA either. Though I don't doubt the *AAs would use them. Did you just make them up?
I don't see how anyone could make more than pocket change distributing movies online. Who'd pay? You can get them free in a minute if you want. Especially since it sounds like he was making cam rips in cinemas. I wouldn't watch a cam rip if you paid me, let alone pay for the privilege. Cam rips are basically free advertising for the film, they can't substitute for it to anyone. Especially now, in the age of hi res big screens, they look like complete crap.
All Samsung "smart" TVs that I saw had YouTube apps (2011-2012). I'm not sure why you had to type in anything.
Silly me, I used the browser to go to the website. Didn't notice anything that looked like a Youtube app on the screen, but it was the first time I've ever used such a thing and the manual was totally void of help. Anyway, presumably you'd still need to type if you want to search for specific videos.
I could make my threat credible with a phillips screwdriver. Or a claw hammer. What's your point?
Such a threat would prove you were unbalanced. I'd keep my distance, certainly. But I wouldn't be in immediate fear of death, as I could whip out my Swiss Army knife with a Phillips screwdriver head to defend myself.
Just how many school massacres have been carried out with a Phillips screwdriver anyway?
In their December 15th editorial they called for an assault weapons ban.
I think that advocates banning guns.
Banning assault rifles is not "banning guns" in general.
Roughly one-third of murders in the U.S. are carried out without a firearm. If you think lack of a firearm means that someone cannot make a credible threat to kill you, you are a fool; if you think mere ownership of a firearm means someone is a threat, you are also a fool.
But all you gun nuts want guns so you can make your threats credible.
Yes. Exactly this. If you read the constitution and the words of our forefathers about it one of the fundamental reasons behind gun ownership being a right in the USA is to allow citizens to FORCE the government to listen. It's to ensure the citizens have a voice and a means to ensure that voice is not only heard, but acted on
Complete bullshit. Privately owned guns have never been used to "make the government listen" to anything. And if they had, that would be basically executing a coup. You have ELECTIONS that "make the government listen".
Where were gun owners ensuring the right to vote of women, blacks, etc? (Aside from those standing at the polls wearing white hoods to warn the blacks away.)
It always baffles me that those in favor of banning guns are the very ones that use them.
Where did the newspaper advocate banning guns? All they did was publish a list of owners.
What a great strategy to disarm your opposition so you can oppress with no fear of retribution!
Every journalist should be prepared to back up his stories by facing those he "oppresses" by writing (completely truthful) stories about them in a high noon shootout. How cowardly to try to escape "retribution" from upstanding gun owners by hiding behind armed guards.