Assad is our enemy. He has always been our enemy. ISIS are our friends.
ISIS are our enemies. They have always been our enemies. Assad is our friend.
Yah. When we started attacking ISIS (ISIL, IS, whatever), my first thought was "we're helping the rebels fight Assad, and we're helping Assad fight the rebels" (for varying values of "rebel"), since anything we do to ISIS helps Assad and allows him to bring more force to bear on the other rebels that we're helping....
With government, you can complain on Constitutional grounds if they infringe your rights.
Interesting...
Just read a news article this AM about the NSA working to develop a "map of the internet", with every device using the internet at any given moment mapped as to both virtual and physical location.
Looks like it'll be tough, but the only real problem I see is going to be making the "map" usable once they acquire the information...
Good luck on getting that sort of thing killed on Constitutional grounds....
Unlike for civilians, there are open statistics for police officers being shot with their own firearms. In fact, the percent is 5% of officers shot are shot with their own weapon. One in twenty.
It might be worth noting that your 5% figure actually translates to THREE officers shot with their own weapon in 2011 (from the FBI report). Out of 780K police officers. So, in any given year, about 0.0004% of police are killed with their own weapon....
One? Are you joking? According to CDCâ(TM)s WISQARS, there are about 14,000-19,000 nonfatal injuries stemming from accidental shootings per year in the U.S.
Of course, my comment was about men shooting their penises off, in response to GP's comment about same.
And there are NOT 14K-19K shot-off-penises per annum in the USA.
Or do you think the "liberal media" is covering up the hundreds of thousands of people who use guns to prevent themselves from being stabbed in our (incredibly safe) country every day?
So, I gather that you think that the "liberal media" is covering up the hundreds of thousands of people who shoot themselves accidently in our (incredibly safe) country every day?
Because, face it, that doesn't actually happen all that often either. Note that the average is somewhere around 600 fatalities per year in a nation of 330 million. Which puts accidental shootings way below traffic deaths (33000 per year) as a problem to worry about.
Yet Another Responsible Gun Owner Shoots His Own Penis
At least five American men have shot off their penises since 2010.
Note that this new "smart" gun won't save you from doing this.
Note also that an average of one such accident per year in a land of 300+ million makes it less common than being struck by lightning. So when we get that lightning problem under control, I can turn my attention to the "shooting my own penis off" problem....
With the obvious exception of U-235, mining something doesn't actually make it disappear. It'll still be around in a landfill somewhere, if it whatever it was made into wasn't recycled.
So, no, we're not going to run out of raw materials unless our population keeps growing exponentially. And the best projections have it peaking in the 10-12B range, then declining back to lower than it is now (note that, absent immigration, the USA and western Europe are already experiencing a population decline).
On the other hand, our industrial society has been based on the assumption of an ever-increasing population (as an obvious example, Social Security assumes more children than elderly, an increasingly shaky assumption). We're going to have to make some changes by and by, when population goes into a semi-permanent decline.
one of the retired Essex-class aircraft carriers was referred to as a "hero ship" at least once.
That would probably have been Lexington (not CV-3, the Essex with the same name), which was built in 14 months. An impressive feat at the best of times, and that wasn't the best of times....
and govt funded a scheme to distribute that energy where it's needed, then we can all live on free energy (ie at home at least).
It's not free if you're paying for the government to fund a scheme to distribute that energy. The cost is moderately well hidden, but it's far from free....
My French came out. English isn't my first language.
In that case, my apologies, since your English is considerably better than my French (I can just about handle "je ne parle Francais" without mistakenly putting a Spanish conjugation in).
Hmm, 62K seizures in 13 years across the entire nation...
So, a bit fewer than 5K per year nationwide. Which is considerably lower than your chance of getting killed in an auto accident (about 33K per year).
So, while it's pretty clearly corrupt and of questionable Constitutionality, it's not so prevalent as to make it something to really worry about if I have seven times as much chance of being killed in an auto accident (or twice as much chance of being murdered).
Note that I am not endorsing this sort of behaviour by police/judges/feds. Merely pointing out that TFA is aiming to be rather more alarmist than reality requires....
Especially in the US, a lot of these kinds of incidents end with the person getting a gun, going back to the office and wiping out those that have wronged them.
I take it that these kinds of incident are vanishingly rare, then?
Or is it just that your definition of "a lot" is pretty much the same as "almost noone"?
Because, when all is said and done, the kind of shooting you describe is rare enough to make national news.
Which is not actually the same thing as "common"....
but the serious accidents caused by texting whilst driving happen when the car is moving at a significant pace.
Yep.
On the other hand, there's not that much evidence that there are millions of such accidents every year.
And if there were a million such accidents a year, that would mean that you have maybe a 1% chance of being in such an accident annually. And there aren't a million such accidents a year.
SpaceX is already in the process of man-rating Dragon. NASA is, apparently, perfectly willing to let SpaceX run through the man-rating checklists as long as NASA doesn't have to pay for it.
The "exciting choice" will be available as early as 2016.
The "safe choice" is unlikely to be available this side of 2020, given Boeing's previous performance.
Note, of course, that availability of Boeing's product is entirely predicated on the Feds continuing to shower money on them - they don't do "speculative". On the other hand, SpaceX will man-rate Dragon whether whichever choice is made....
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Yah. When we started attacking ISIS (ISIL, IS, whatever), my first thought was "we're helping the rebels fight Assad, and we're helping Assad fight the rebels" (for varying values of "rebel"), since anything we do to ISIS helps Assad and allows him to bring more force to bear on the other rebels that we're helping....
Interesting...
Just read a news article this AM about the NSA working to develop a "map of the internet", with every device using the internet at any given moment mapped as to both virtual and physical location.
Looks like it'll be tough, but the only real problem I see is going to be making the "map" usable once they acquire the information...
Good luck on getting that sort of thing killed on Constitutional grounds....
More like eight times....
Of course, my comment was about men shooting their penises off, in response to GP's comment about same.
And there are NOT 14K-19K shot-off-penises per annum in the USA.
So, I gather that you think that the "liberal media" is covering up the hundreds of thousands of people who shoot themselves accidently in our (incredibly safe) country every day?
Because, face it, that doesn't actually happen all that often either. Note that the average is somewhere around 600 fatalities per year in a nation of 330 million. Which puts accidental shootings way below traffic deaths (33000 per year) as a problem to worry about.
Note that this new "smart" gun won't save you from doing this.
Note also that an average of one such accident per year in a land of 300+ million makes it less common than being struck by lightning. So when we get that lightning problem under control, I can turn my attention to the "shooting my own penis off" problem....
This one will insist on checking your fingerprints first.
As soon as the Police and Military adopt these guns,I'll start considering doing so.
Until then, my old-fashioned guns will have to suffice.
Ah, but the true purpose of TFA is to convince the several States to make use of this company mandatory for all drivers - guaranteed income stream!!!
With the obvious exception of U-235, mining something doesn't actually make it disappear. It'll still be around in a landfill somewhere, if it whatever it was made into wasn't recycled.
So, no, we're not going to run out of raw materials unless our population keeps growing exponentially. And the best projections have it peaking in the 10-12B range, then declining back to lower than it is now (note that, absent immigration, the USA and western Europe are already experiencing a population decline).
On the other hand, our industrial society has been based on the assumption of an ever-increasing population (as an obvious example, Social Security assumes more children than elderly, an increasingly shaky assumption). We're going to have to make some changes by and by, when population goes into a semi-permanent decline.
That was "flamebait"???
Looked more like an attempt at humour from where I was sitting.
That would probably have been Lexington (not CV-3, the Essex with the same name), which was built in 14 months. An impressive feat at the best of times, and that wasn't the best of times....
It's not free if you're paying for the government to fund a scheme to distribute that energy. The cost is moderately well hidden, but it's far from free....
In that case, my apologies, since your English is considerably better than my French (I can just about handle "je ne parle Francais" without mistakenly putting a Spanish conjugation in).
Hmm, 62K seizures in 13 years across the entire nation...
So, a bit fewer than 5K per year nationwide. Which is considerably lower than your chance of getting killed in an auto accident (about 33K per year).
So, while it's pretty clearly corrupt and of questionable Constitutionality, it's not so prevalent as to make it something to really worry about if I have seven times as much chance of being killed in an auto accident (or twice as much chance of being murdered).
Note that I am not endorsing this sort of behaviour by police/judges/feds. Merely pointing out that TFA is aiming to be rather more alarmist than reality requires....
I take it that these kinds of incident are vanishingly rare, then?
Or is it just that your definition of "a lot" is pretty much the same as "almost noone"?
Because, when all is said and done, the kind of shooting you describe is rare enough to make national news.
Which is not actually the same thing as "common"....
You missed conception? I'm assuming it was a timing issue, though you might have other fertility problems. I suggest a specialist...
Or is it a misconception that you missed conception?
LIfe expectancy at birth doesn't really apply to many slashdotters - not many of us are under one year of age.
Well, I'd count the Holocaust as a more severe violation of human rights of an entire people. But that's just me.
If you're looking for duration, though, I'd tend to look toward Apartheid first.
Closer to home (if you're an Ami, anyway), the treatment of the natives during the 19th century, perhaps.
See, it's not all that hard to find examples of things that make a trade embargo look pretty penny-ante.
Or are you one of those people that think that not trading with someone is evil in and of itself?
...she now goes back to her regular full-time, tenured professor job in New York?
It was, perhaps, silly to dump her for 30-year-old activities.
It was also, perhaps, silly to lie about that sort of thing (assuming she was actively communicating with the one in jail for armed robbery).
Nonetheless, it's not like it really hurts her - she's back being a college professor already (ain't tenure great?)....
Yep.
On the other hand, there's not that much evidence that there are millions of such accidents every year.
And if there were a million such accidents a year, that would mean that you have maybe a 1% chance of being in such an accident annually. And there aren't a million such accidents a year.
Annoying? You bet! Potentially deadly? Surely is!
Likely? Not hardly....
Didn't we see an article recently (like this AM for me) discussing lack of reproducability in studies?
And not as in "noone bothered to reproduce our study", but "we couldn't even reproduce our own study when someone paid us to"....
SpaceX is already in the process of man-rating Dragon. NASA is, apparently, perfectly willing to let SpaceX run through the man-rating checklists as long as NASA doesn't have to pay for it.
The US has a murder/homicide rate about ten times less than Venezuela, which is also "firearms-free"....
The murder rate has far more to do with cultural issues than with availability of weapons of any particular type.
Well, this may help:
The "exciting choice" will be available as early as 2016.
The "safe choice" is unlikely to be available this side of 2020, given Boeing's previous performance.
Note, of course, that availability of Boeing's product is entirely predicated on the Feds continuing to shower money on them - they don't do "speculative". On the other hand, SpaceX will man-rate Dragon whether whichever choice is made....