If they can get to the place there are no legal guns, then there is no legal need for ammunition sales to the public. The guns will never go away, but ammunition has the problem of both being expendable and degradable.
Not a meaningful issue. The guy who sells you the illegal fully-automatic weapon can sell you the ammo for it, which he got in the same place he got the gun - from some government's arsenal.
they also know that the most reasonable way to pay $15/hr while still turning a fat profit would be to cut executive pay proportionally.
Assuming, for the sake of argument, that McDonald's were a monolithic corporation instead of a bunch of franchises...
Assuming that current staff is all making $7 per hour, and we wish to pay them$15 per hour, with the money coming from executive pay...
There are 14000+ McD's in the USA. Assuming half a dozen people working any given hour of an 18 hour day, then you'll need an extra $276K per store per year, or $3.8B for all McDonald's in the USA.
Reducing the pay of McDonald's executives enough to come up with that $3.8B would pretty much require that the top 3000 or so executives were all making $1M+. If you really believe that McDonald's has that many millionaires at corporate HQ, you're more delusional than usual....
A nation of 1.4 billion people, with a gdp of $8 trillion, the largest nation in the world
I assume you're labeling them "largest in the world" because of their population, since the US GDP is almost twice that high, and even Canada is physically larger...
Ummm, because it's a bit tricky to turn transuranic elements back into uranium before their reinterment?
Most nuclear waste is NOT transuranic. MOST of it has a half life measured in years, not centuries.
Store the stuff a hundred years, and 90%+ of the radioactive waste is no longer radioactive, and the rest can be stored that much easier (what with not being nearly so radioactive and all).
Well, how about juvenile suicide? ten times as prevalent as measles, even with the spike (30x as prevalent in normal years)
Or automobile safety - about 30x as many kids die in cars accidents than from measles.
Hell, "natural causes" account for 200x as many deaths as measles...
So yeah, there are more important things to worry about than measles.
Though if we want to solve the measles problem, it's really pretty simple - don't allow people into the country unless they come from a place where measles are no more widespread than here.
Yeah, that would mean cutting off immigration (and casual visits) from most of the Third World and a good chunk of the Second, but it would pretty much eliminate measles as an issue here.
Alas, not many of them seem to be "getting what they deserve".
The "spike to triple the normal levels" was a spike from 60 deaths per year to 175 deaths per year, which makes it almost 1/3 of 1% of juvenile deaths in the USA (and almost 1/10th the rate of suicide among juveniles).
Frankly, we have more important things to worry about.
...when he starts out by saying that the NSA spying on US Citizens is all reasonable and proper, since they don't actually read your emails or listen to your phone calls.
I can envision a scenario where some ISPs start charging, netflix doesn't pay, and people start dropping to very basic plans because netflix was most of what they used.
I'd be in that group of people.
Netflix is the only thing that really requires high bandwidth that I do. Downloading files, even large ones, can run overnight for all I care, so absent the realtime requirements of Netflix, I'd drop back to the cheapest plan my ISP provides, or switch to the cheapest plan the other half of the duopoly offers, whichever is cheaper....
Ah yes, the culture of "zing". It's much more important to catch a politician (or more likely, one of his staff) in a typo than to pay attention to the substance of what he's written.
If either the pol or one of his staff is semi-literate, why should anyone take him seriously?
The Soviets started fighting Japan as fast as they could
No.
Stalin stalled as long as he could about attacking Japan (we started nagging about it right after VE Day), but suddenly changed his plans when Hiroshima was destroyed. He ordered an attack with whatever was available as soon as possible so he'd have some justification for an occupation role in Japan (Uncle Joe wanted to divide Japan the way Germany wa divided).
Then the Nagasaki bomb was dropped. Shortly after, the Russians crossed the border into Manchuria to beat up on already beaten Japanese troops.
Then Japan surrendered.
And when Stalin said he wanted to station troops in Japan, MacArthur (who was effectively Shogun at the time) told him to pound sand....
the US sank it and then pretended that they forgot where they sank it so that they didn't have to give it back and have the Soviets study it.
Had nothing to do with "giving it back".
The USA and USSR had an agreement during the War that they would share in the spoils of war (like this submarine), and the USA didn't want to turn two of them over to the USSR (because the USSR didn't enter the war against Japan until after the Nagasaki bombing, but more importantly because we didn't want the USSR to get any "free" technology transfers). The USSR was a land power and not a sea power, we wanted to keep things that way....
we have a large number of Americans who proudly wear their mathematical ignorance as a badge of honor.
And we have at least an equally large number who proudly wear their illiteracy as a badge of honor.
Many here on/.
How many people don't know the difference between loose/lose, there/they're/their, wait/weight (no, this one's not from/., saw it elsewhere on the web this AM), etc.?
About 500 Delta 4-Heavy rockets would suffice to do the job.
Umm, no.
A Delta 4-heavy can't put 60-80 tons into anything other than Low Earth Orbit. And things in LEO do eventually come back down unless you give them a boost now and then....
I was thinking of shooting Sol with them, but I fear we'd fuck up somewhere and it'll phoenix out of the star all ISON-like, if the rocket doesn't blow up en launchpad first.
For reference, it takes less deltaV to reach Alpha Centauri than Sol.
In the past, governments routinely used horrific tortures like breaking on the wheel for relatively minor crimes, or even just political disagreements, even though the tortured was part of the torturer's "tribe".
I suspect that the phrase "pour encourager les autres" applies....
The only natural "resource" the Moon has is being most of the way out of the Earth's gravity well. If there had been anything of value (once the cost of getting to it and shipping it back had been subtracted) there would be permanent Moon bases already
You don't need to ship things down to Earth from Luna for them to have value. There is evidence of water ice on the Moon. Add energy, you turn that into H2/O2 rocket fuel. near the top of the gravity well.
Large interplanetary spacecraft would be much easier to operate if the fuel/reaction mass came from the moon, rather than being lifted from Earth.
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Never been to Columbia, I take it? You think the Cartels there buy their guns from gunshops in the USA?
You know where the police stations are wherever you live?
I'm impressed. Really. I've lived in dozens of cities/towns/countryside over the years, and I've NEVER known where a police station was.
Not a meaningful issue. The guy who sells you the illegal fully-automatic weapon can sell you the ammo for it, which he got in the same place he got the gun - from some government's arsenal.
Assuming, for the sake of argument, that McDonald's were a monolithic corporation instead of a bunch of franchises...
Assuming that current staff is all making $7 per hour, and we wish to pay them$15 per hour, with the money coming from executive pay...
There are 14000+ McD's in the USA. Assuming half a dozen people working any given hour of an 18 hour day, then you'll need an extra $276K per store per year, or $3.8B for all McDonald's in the USA.
Reducing the pay of McDonald's executives enough to come up with that $3.8B would pretty much require that the top 3000 or so executives were all making $1M+. If you really believe that McDonald's has that many millionaires at corporate HQ, you're more delusional than usual....
I assume you're labeling them "largest in the world" because of their population, since the US GDP is almost twice that high, and even Canada is physically larger...
We've read recently that the NSA types are becoming disaffected by their jobs.
So letting them play WoW on company time will help with that, eh?
What country does that? Certainly not the USA. Our defense budget is about 5% of GDP.
If you want to find something that adds up to 10% of GDP, you have to look at social programs...
Most nuclear waste is NOT transuranic. MOST of it has a half life measured in years, not centuries.
Store the stuff a hundred years, and 90%+ of the radioactive waste is no longer radioactive, and the rest can be stored that much easier (what with not being nearly so radioactive and all).
Well, how about juvenile suicide? ten times as prevalent as measles, even with the spike (30x as prevalent in normal years)
Or automobile safety - about 30x as many kids die in cars accidents than from measles.
Hell, "natural causes" account for 200x as many deaths as measles...
So yeah, there are more important things to worry about than measles.
Though if we want to solve the measles problem, it's really pretty simple - don't allow people into the country unless they come from a place where measles are no more widespread than here.
Yeah, that would mean cutting off immigration (and casual visits) from most of the Third World and a good chunk of the Second, but it would pretty much eliminate measles as an issue here.
Alas, not many of them seem to be "getting what they deserve".
The "spike to triple the normal levels" was a spike from 60 deaths per year to 175 deaths per year, which makes it almost 1/3 of 1% of juvenile deaths in the USA (and almost 1/10th the rate of suicide among juveniles).
Frankly, we have more important things to worry about.
He meant "US law" when he said "law". The NSA is not bound by US law outside the USA.
Which is pretty much true of EVERY spy agency in the world, if you (properly) substitute "country of origin" for "US"....
...when he starts out by saying that the NSA spying on US Citizens is all reasonable and proper, since they don't actually read your emails or listen to your phone calls.
It should, perhaps, be noted that "military personnel" is pretty much synonymous with "young men, both from our country and their country".
In WW2, "military personnel" accounted for one American in eight. For Germany it was nearly one in three.
Just curious - how do you know the motives of the thieves? Don't believe I've seen any interviews with them where motive was discussed...
I'd be in that group of people.
Netflix is the only thing that really requires high bandwidth that I do. Downloading files, even large ones, can run overnight for all I care, so absent the realtime requirements of Netflix, I'd drop back to the cheapest plan my ISP provides, or switch to the cheapest plan the other half of the duopoly offers, whichever is cheaper....
If either the pol or one of his staff is semi-literate, why should anyone take him seriously?
No.
Stalin stalled as long as he could about attacking Japan (we started nagging about it right after VE Day), but suddenly changed his plans when Hiroshima was destroyed. He ordered an attack with whatever was available as soon as possible so he'd have some justification for an occupation role in Japan (Uncle Joe wanted to divide Japan the way Germany wa divided).
Then the Nagasaki bomb was dropped. Shortly after, the Russians crossed the border into Manchuria to beat up on already beaten Japanese troops.
Then Japan surrendered.
And when Stalin said he wanted to station troops in Japan, MacArthur (who was effectively Shogun at the time) told him to pound sand....
Had nothing to do with "giving it back".
The USA and USSR had an agreement during the War that they would share in the spoils of war (like this submarine), and the USA didn't want to turn two of them over to the USSR (because the USSR didn't enter the war against Japan until after the Nagasaki bombing, but more importantly because we didn't want the USSR to get any "free" technology transfers). The USSR was a land power and not a sea power, we wanted to keep things that way....
And we have at least an equally large number who proudly wear their illiteracy as a badge of honor.
Many here on /.
How many people don't know the difference between loose/lose, there/they're/their, wait/weight (no, this one's not from /., saw it elsewhere on the web this AM), etc.?
What about them? They're no longer part of the population, so irrelevant to any discussion dividing the population into groups.
Umm, no.
A Delta 4-heavy can't put 60-80 tons into anything other than Low Earth Orbit. And things in LEO do eventually come back down unless you give them a boost now and then....
For reference, it takes less deltaV to reach Alpha Centauri than Sol.
Catching up pretty quickly???
Hmm, first satellite to first unmanned lunar lander (USA): 5 years.
Also USA, first satellite to first manned lunar lander: 12 years.
First satellite to first unmanned lunar lander (China): 43 years.
China is catching up, but it's not doing it quickly - it's doing it at a glacial pace....
I suspect that the phrase "pour encourager les autres" applies....
You don't need to ship things down to Earth from Luna for them to have value. There is evidence of water ice on the Moon. Add energy, you turn that into H2/O2 rocket fuel. near the top of the gravity well.
Large interplanetary spacecraft would be much easier to operate if the fuel/reaction mass came from the moon, rather than being lifted from Earth.