This story isn't about forcing everyone to have the technology
I take it you missed this sentence from TFS: Last week, a Massachusetts congressman submitted a bill that would require all U.S. handgun manufacturers to include smart gun technology in their weapons.
And then there's this one from a couple months back: SB 293, authored by Sen. Mark DeSaulnier, D-Concord, would ban all guns without owner-authorized technology from retail sale in California 18 months after the state attorney general deems such technology to be readily available.
It's not hard to find cases of cops who got shot with their own gun.
Hmm, quick check of the FBI's statistics of such things...
3 police officers were killed with their own weapons in 2011.
Another 60 were killed by firearms not their own.
And about 200 more were shot (but not killed), with no breakdown as to whose weapon did the injury.
And a couple thousand more were "assaulted" with firearms, but not actually injured. I'm not even sure what that means, unless it's the count of officers who got shot in the body-armour.
So, it doesn't really look like that big a problem....
This is the equivalent of a car with a steering wheel that has fingerprint sensors on it, at the 9 and 3 o'clock positions. If it is unable to read valid fingerprints, the engine stops and the steering wheel locks in place.
So, how do you actually start this car? Both hands on the wheel pretty much leaves the ignition key untouchable...
I was well aware as a child that if I touched my father's guns (without his immediate supervision & permission), any injury the guns might cause would pale in comparison with what awaited me when my father found out.
Just so.
Teach the kids gun safety, basic marksmanship, and establish clearly that they'll be WISHING that all they'd done is kill a couple dozen people if you ever catch them playing with a gun....
An assault weapon is a semiautomatic rifle that is specifically named in the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban, or has a certain combination of cosmetic features specifically identified in the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban.
Not necessarily. Go to the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban (or the newer one, if you prefer), and you'll find a list of rifles that CANNOT be considered "assault weapons". If you take one of those rifles and add the cosmetic features you mentioned, they're still NOT assault weapons.
An assault-style rifle is... is what?
Some people are starting to realize that an increasingly large chunk of the population knows that an "assault weapon" is essentially a scary-looking rifle that is functionally the same as any other rifle. So a new label - "assault-style rifle" goes on trial....
BTW, Canada's murder rate went DOWN after we stopped executing people. Just sayin.
Murder rates in the USA have been declining for 30-40 years. Death Penalty is possible in some States, not in others. The rate of decline seems pretty consistent whether it's a death penalty State or no.
So, while I generally disapprove of the death penalty, there's not really much indication that lack of it lowers murder rates...
Since it's easy, I checked this one. Texas, in 2011, had a murder rate of 4.4 per 100,000 people, making it #23. Note that CA, IL, PA are all rather higher.
Note also that LA is the real #1 in murders per capita.
I will therefore assume that the rest of your #1's are probably incorrect as well...
obviously the patient doesnt even have a weight problem but simply falls outside the threshold of an archaic measure like BMI.
Wilt "the Stilt" Chamberlain had a BMI in the 27-29+ range while he was playing pro basketball. Which is hardly "obese", but is more than high enough for a doctor to tell you to lose weight.
Never mind that he looked thin in spite of his weight....
He's retired now after 16 years in the SEALs and gets basically nothing. No pension, no help with job placement in the civilian world, he can't put what he did on a resume, and the medical treatment for chronic injuries for vets is a joke.
And if he's stayed in another four+ years, he'd have a pension (pension starts at 50% base pay at 20 years, goes up to 75% at 30 years) and full medical. Your point?
Why is the metric system not natural? It makes for nice even numbers on road signs, instead of the common 35mph and 55mph, you have 50km/hr and 100km/hr.
Considering that 35/55 mph aren't especially close to 50/100 km/hr (35 mph ~ 56 km/h, 55 mph ~ 88 km/h), this piece of "logic" is as specious as any I've seen in this duscussion.
To be fair, "making it impossible to predict weather patterns on the East Coast", to me at least, made it sound like GOES-14 was not nearly as ready to take over for GOES-13 as you are saying it is.
True enough. There's no doubt that TFS just screams "we're all gonna die, Die, DIE!"
Which is, alas, all too common these days. Sensationalism FTW....
Lucky you. Last time the subject came up for me (long time ago, I admit), it wasn't a private sale, it was from a dealer. And he required a dealer in my home state to transfer the gun to me....
How do you know that the Navy wasn't just dumping into your chow?
Due to an injury I suffered once, I was unable to do do my normal job for a couple weeks. During the period, I was detailed as a cook's assistant (which pissed the cook off no end, since he had no more use for a one-armed man than the engineering dept did) - the food came from commercial sources (yeah, we used the same canned foods that you buy in grocery stores, just in job lots), and didn't include any special ingredients (unless you count the occasional bit of cook-spit....)
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I take it you missed this sentence from TFS: Last week, a Massachusetts congressman submitted a bill that would require all U.S. handgun manufacturers to include smart gun technology in their weapons.
And then there's this one from a couple months back: SB 293, authored by Sen. Mark DeSaulnier, D-Concord, would ban all guns without owner-authorized technology from retail sale in California 18 months after the state attorney general deems such technology to be readily available.
Hmm, quick check of the FBI's statistics of such things...
3 police officers were killed with their own weapons in 2011.
Another 60 were killed by firearms not their own.
And about 200 more were shot (but not killed), with no breakdown as to whose weapon did the injury.
And a couple thousand more were "assaulted" with firearms, but not actually injured. I'm not even sure what that means, unless it's the count of officers who got shot in the body-armour.
So, it doesn't really look like that big a problem....
Whyever would we limit ourselves to Curiosity's shielding? It's not like Curiosity was alive or anything?
No, technically it has to be "selective fire" (which means semi-auto of full-auto at the flick of a switch.
If you mean something else, then please provide an example.
A) the constitution, by design, can be changed.
Yep. Sure can. Feel free to get the required votes and change it, if you can.
Never read the Militia Act, did you? Hint: YOU are a member of the militia. And technically have a legal requirement to own a suitable firearm.
Can you say National Marches? Sure you can...might want to check on what they use there....
So, how do you actually start this car? Both hands on the wheel pretty much leaves the ignition key untouchable...
Just so.
Teach the kids gun safety, basic marksmanship, and establish clearly that they'll be WISHING that all they'd done is kill a couple dozen people if you ever catch them playing with a gun....
Not necessarily. Go to the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban (or the newer one, if you prefer), and you'll find a list of rifles that CANNOT be considered "assault weapons". If you take one of those rifles and add the cosmetic features you mentioned, they're still NOT assault weapons.
Some people are starting to realize that an increasingly large chunk of the population knows that an "assault weapon" is essentially a scary-looking rifle that is functionally the same as any other rifle. So a new label - "assault-style rifle" goes on trial....
Gawd, yes! I HATE dealing with autocomplete on a phone....
You can do Shorthand? I'm impressed that you bothered to learn it, what with ubiquitous computers these days.
Not sure what shorthand has to do with disk encryption, though.
Or did you mean "steganography"?
I can accept "at least". But only triple?! Our solar system should provide sufficient resources for at least 1000x our current population.
Or were you restricting us to living on planets?
Murder rates in the USA have been declining for 30-40 years. Death Penalty is possible in some States, not in others. The rate of decline seems pretty consistent whether it's a death penalty State or no.
So, while I generally disapprove of the death penalty, there's not really much indication that lack of it lowers murder rates...
Since it's easy, I checked this one. Texas, in 2011, had a murder rate of 4.4 per 100,000 people, making it #23. Note that CA, IL, PA are all rather higher.
Note also that LA is the real #1 in murders per capita.
I will therefore assume that the rest of your #1's are probably incorrect as well...
In my experience, very few people make a rational, conscious decision EVER.
And you can prove that, I assume?
12 posts made under that UID, all in this thread, all defending PETA -> sockpuppet.
Wilt "the Stilt" Chamberlain had a BMI in the 27-29+ range while he was playing pro basketball. Which is hardly "obese", but is more than high enough for a doctor to tell you to lose weight.
Never mind that he looked thin in spite of his weight....
And if he's stayed in another four+ years, he'd have a pension (pension starts at 50% base pay at 20 years, goes up to 75% at 30 years) and full medical. Your point?
Considering that 35/55 mph aren't especially close to 50/100 km/hr (35 mph ~ 56 km/h, 55 mph ~ 88 km/h), this piece of "logic" is as specious as any I've seen in this duscussion.
quite possibly.
We certainly don't have any backups on-orbit if one of the operational GOES sats goes down, having just activated the last of the backups.
Not even sure we have anything in the planning stages yet, much less under construction and/or scheduled to be launched.
Which doesn't excuse a "we won't be able to forecast hurricanes because GOES-13 failed!!!" headline....
True enough. There's no doubt that TFS just screams "we're all gonna die, Die, DIE!"
Which is, alas, all too common these days. Sensationalism FTW....
Didn't read even TFS, I see.
They've already activated the back-up satellite (GOES-14), which has been in orbit waiting for this for four years now (launched in 2009).
Lucky you. Last time the subject came up for me (long time ago, I admit), it wasn't a private sale, it was from a dealer. And he required a dealer in my home state to transfer the gun to me....
Due to an injury I suffered once, I was unable to do do my normal job for a couple weeks. During the period, I was detailed as a cook's assistant (which pissed the cook off no end, since he had no more use for a one-armed man than the engineering dept did) - the food came from commercial sources (yeah, we used the same canned foods that you buy in grocery stores, just in job lots), and didn't include any special ingredients (unless you count the occasional bit of cook-spit....)