if you live longer and longer with a handgun in your vincinity, the probability to die from a handgun inflicted wound increases more and more, either by suicide or by homicide by an acquintance or family member. (At least that's what the data from the CDC seem to suggest.)
Hmm, depending on how you define "in your vicinity", I've lived with more than one handgun in my vicinity for my entire life.
And don't know ANYONE who has died of a handgun inflicted wound. Not even sure I know anyone who has been shot (with a handgun or otherwise), since the retired soldiers I know (including my father) don't ever talk about that sort of thing.
Yes, yes, it's anecdotal evidence. I'm quite aware of that. Alas, not much else to go on, when someone is trying to tell you that the proximate cause for about one quarter of one percent of all deaths is a major threat to our society....
As a 63 year old, life spent in IT, I fear e-books: DRM, can't share, they will be very selective about texts [blockbusters, crowd pleasers], 'book' can be removed remotely etc. etc.
I use an old Sony eReader & Calibre. No DRM (I remove it with Calibre if necessary), I can email the eBook to a friend as needed, there is NO way for the seller to "remover remotely" my eBooks.
Availability of texts is highly variable of course, but that's becoming much less of an issue as time passes.
If they would stop locking ebooks down and instead just produce ePubs or whatnot, you could use whatever reader you wanted.
Shameless plug - Calibre is an Open Source eBook manager for Windows/Linux/OSX that can, among other things, convert your eBooks to ePub (or any other standard format)....
I would assume the police officer looking down through your window is sitting in the passenger seat of the vehicle, and not driving the car at all, and you are not in the leftmost lane.
So the simple solution to this problem (problem being cops in extra-tall SUV's looking for texters) is to drive in the left-lane when you want to text?
Hmm, you have to get into the fast lane to text without being ticketed...I can't see ANY potential problems with that....
This Senate rule can be reversed using the same process that put it in place. If there is ever any value in allowing procedural delays in a Senate confirmation process, then this rule will be reversed fairly soon.
Nonsense!
The only way this rule can be reversed is if the majority Party wants to reverse it. And the majority Party has NO NEED to reverse it - if they need procedural delays, they don't need a Filibuster to get them...
It was a mistake, however, on the Part of the Dems, though, because, by and by, the Republicans WILL get control of the Senate.
And the Republicans will have no more reason to grant the Dems more power as the minority than the Reps had as a minority, now do they?
Had people all worked into a frenzy that power plants and other equipment wouldn't work on 1/1/00.
Things wouldn't have worked if they didn't fix them.
The OP didn't say that Y2K was a non-event. But one of the reasons it was a non-event was because of the attention it got in the news. That encouraged people not to ignore the issue.
Healthcare.gov did NOT get that sort of news coverage, and the result was a non-functional service with a tax penalty associated with not using the service...
And yes, I think that if the media had been reporting on Healthcare.gov the way they reported on Y2K, we'd probably have a working system in place, instead of what we have....
Why is that "reasonable"? Shouldn't they be focusing their resources of groups/nations that present some threat to us?
The military definition of "threat" is based entirely on the CAPABILITIES of a nation/group, NOT on their intentions (stated or otherwise).
In other words, EVERY other nation represents a "military threat" of one degree or another (yah, Somalia is a "threat" - a minute one, but not non-zero)....
With the tax credits available, the break-even point against the next-best vehicle (the Honda Insight) as just a bit over two years
So, it's a good deal if other people pay for a good sized chunk of the costs of an EV? Makes sense. Getting other people to pay for your stuff always makes them cheaper....
For a few million dollars you could (or will be able to ) deploy a large swarm of drones that can disable or destroy naval targets costing orders of magnitude more than your drone force.
People who don't know any better have been saying this (for the equivalent weapons of the period) for the past century.
Hasn't worked out that way yet, and it's unlikely that it'll work out that way in the future.
I'd like to point out that they are also showing a lot of young people (mostly men) that a meal doesn't have to contain meat.
Alternatively, they're providing a boost to fast-food joints local to the military bases.
It is quote possible that these men will eat less meat (on average) during their lifetimes, influencing their families' consumption, and so on.
Or the young men, in reaction, will eat more meat later in life to make up for that disgusting period in their lives when they were treated like common soldiers are usually treated in peacetime, and forced to eat Vegan to boot....
Everyone* should be given the due process of law and the right to a proper defense.
Absolutely.
BLOCKQUOTE>*Well, I say everyone, there are exceptions, but those should be so far outside of normal that they stand out and you can list them in a very short list.
Absolutely not. No exceptions, no "lists".
Once you start making lists of the kind of people who don't deserve due process, you find yourself adding to those lists pretty regularly. Till everyone is on them....
What I'm saying is that there could have even been more shootings without gun free zones.
Easy experiment. Note that only a small fraction of the country is part of a "gun-free zone". Compare mass-shootings within that small fraction to the mass-shootings in the much larger fraction.
What, as a percentage of the country, mass-shootings are much more common in gun-free zones than not? How could that be???
Making a gun is relatively easy compared to making your own gunpowder
Says someone who has never made either.
Making either gunpowder or smokeless powder is dangerous. You could easily kill yourself being careless while doing so.
That said, it's not really all that hard - don't make a spark and/or use the usual handling precautions for nitric and sulfuric acid, and you're golden.
As to primers, it should be noted that they were mass-produced with 1850's technology - it's just not that difficult, if you know how.
I think he means if you leave the device at home and use the car without it your insurance is void.
I think he means that the Insurance Company ASSUMES that if the device doesn't show you commuting, that you've left the device home while you used your car.
It still took the USA 2 years and a cowardly attack on Pearl Harbour to pull their fingers and start getting involved.
Umm, no.
The USA was selling war material (planes, tanks, etc.) to the UK as early as 1940. In violation of its own Neutrality Laws and international standards of neutrality.
The USA took over the garrisoning of Iceland from the UK before Pearl Harbor, allowing the British troops who had been stationed there to be sent to Africa (which reinforcements helped keep Egypt from falling to the Axis).
The USA was actually fighting the Germans BEFORE Pearl Harbor - look up USS Reuben James sometime, and pay close attention to dates.
What the USA was not, before Pearl Harbor, was AT WAR. Alas, we didn't have a Mutual Defense Treaty with China, Poland, France, or the UK. Just as the UK & France didn't go to war against Japan just because the Japanese were being dicks in China, we didn't go to war against Japan just because the Germans were being dicks in Poland....
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About 2.2 km/s to put it into an orbit that will reach Earth.
And it was launched with a rocket that had been developed as an ICBM.
Oddly enough, Redstone (suborbital Mercury flights) was an IRBM, Atlas (orbital Mercury flights) was an ICBM, and Titan (Gemini launches) was an ICBM.
Hmm, depending on how you define "in your vicinity", I've lived with more than one handgun in my vicinity for my entire life.
And don't know ANYONE who has died of a handgun inflicted wound. Not even sure I know anyone who has been shot (with a handgun or otherwise), since the retired soldiers I know (including my father) don't ever talk about that sort of thing.
Yes, yes, it's anecdotal evidence. I'm quite aware of that. Alas, not much else to go on, when someone is trying to tell you that the proximate cause for about one quarter of one percent of all deaths is a major threat to our society....
This could have been said truthfully most years in the last 250 or so. Certainly, it would have been true if said in 1865....
I use an old Sony eReader & Calibre. No DRM (I remove it with Calibre if necessary), I can email the eBook to a friend as needed, there is NO way for the seller to "remover remotely" my eBooks.
Availability of texts is highly variable of course, but that's becoming much less of an issue as time passes.
Oh, and I'm 54, and an IT pro as well...
Shameless plug - Calibre is an Open Source eBook manager for Windows/Linux/OSX that can, among other things, convert your eBooks to ePub (or any other standard format)....
So the simple solution to this problem (problem being cops in extra-tall SUV's looking for texters) is to drive in the left-lane when you want to text?
Hmm, you have to get into the fast lane to text without being ticketed...I can't see ANY potential problems with that....
By Clarke Orbit, I assume you mean an equatorial geosynchronous orbit?
If so, it is only in Earth's shadow for a short time twice a year (at the equinoxes).
Nonsense!
The only way this rule can be reversed is if the majority Party wants to reverse it. And the majority Party has NO NEED to reverse it - if they need procedural delays, they don't need a Filibuster to get them...
It was a mistake, however, on the Part of the Dems, though, because, by and by, the Republicans WILL get control of the Senate.
And the Republicans will have no more reason to grant the Dems more power as the minority than the Reps had as a minority, now do they?
Things wouldn't have worked if they didn't fix them.
The OP didn't say that Y2K was a non-event. But one of the reasons it was a non-event was because of the attention it got in the news. That encouraged people not to ignore the issue.
Healthcare.gov did NOT get that sort of news coverage, and the result was a non-functional service with a tax penalty associated with not using the service...
And yes, I think that if the media had been reporting on Healthcare.gov the way they reported on Y2K, we'd probably have a working system in place, instead of what we have....
NO, it's not.
Learning from others mistakes is the ideal.
Next best is learning from your own mistakes.
What most people do, instead, is not learn from mistakes at all....
Not the NSA's job. We have other TLAs for handling that sort of thing....
The military definition of "threat" is based entirely on the CAPABILITIES of a nation/group, NOT on their intentions (stated or otherwise).
In other words, EVERY other nation represents a "military threat" of one degree or another (yah, Somalia is a "threat" - a minute one, but not non-zero)....
Article 3, Section 3 of the US Constitution. Learn it, love it, live it.
In other words, no, the members of the NSA are NOT guilty of treason.
So, it's a good deal if other people pay for a good sized chunk of the costs of an EV? Makes sense. Getting other people to pay for your stuff always makes them cheaper....
People who don't know any better have been saying this (for the equivalent weapons of the period) for the past century.
Hasn't worked out that way yet, and it's unlikely that it'll work out that way in the future.
Alternatively, they're providing a boost to fast-food joints local to the military bases.
Or the young men, in reaction, will eat more meat later in life to make up for that disgusting period in their lives when they were treated like common soldiers are usually treated in peacetime, and forced to eat Vegan to boot....
Umm, mules are sterile (mostly). They don't interbreed with anything.
Perhaps you meant "horses and donkeys"? Which is where mules come from....
Absolutely.
BLOCKQUOTE>*Well, I say everyone, there are exceptions, but those should be so far outside of normal that they stand out and you can list them in a very short list.
Absolutely not. No exceptions, no "lists".
Once you start making lists of the kind of people who don't deserve due process, you find yourself adding to those lists pretty regularly. Till everyone is on them....
Easy experiment. Note that only a small fraction of the country is part of a "gun-free zone". Compare mass-shootings within that small fraction to the mass-shootings in the much larger fraction.
What, as a percentage of the country, mass-shootings are much more common in gun-free zones than not? How could that be???
Says someone who has never made either.
Making either gunpowder or smokeless powder is dangerous. You could easily kill yourself being careless while doing so.
That said, it's not really all that hard - don't make a spark and/or use the usual handling precautions for nitric and sulfuric acid, and you're golden.
As to primers, it should be noted that they were mass-produced with 1850's technology - it's just not that difficult, if you know how.
I think he means that the Insurance Company ASSUMES that if the device doesn't show you commuting, that you've left the device home while you used your car.
This is the essence of Russian Literature. It's about IDEAS, not CHARACTERS. The characters exist only to show the ideas.
Most detractors of Rand have no idea that her literary tradition is not the standard English tradition of tell a story about a character...
Umm, no.
The USA was selling war material (planes, tanks, etc.) to the UK as early as 1940. In violation of its own Neutrality Laws and international standards of neutrality.
The USA took over the garrisoning of Iceland from the UK before Pearl Harbor, allowing the British troops who had been stationed there to be sent to Africa (which reinforcements helped keep Egypt from falling to the Axis).
The USA was actually fighting the Germans BEFORE Pearl Harbor - look up USS Reuben James sometime, and pay close attention to dates.
What the USA was not, before Pearl Harbor, was AT WAR. Alas, we didn't have a Mutual Defense Treaty with China, Poland, France, or the UK. Just as the UK & France didn't go to war against Japan just because the Japanese were being dicks in China, we didn't go to war against Japan just because the Germans were being dicks in Poland....
No, but as time passes, the definition of "conservative" changes.
Ditto the definition of "liberal".