you are ticketed for speeding because someone somewhere has deemed that speed unsafe to yourself and/or others in that location.
Or because the cop in question needs a few more tickets issued to make his quota.
Or perhaps the area is a "speed trap".
If ALL speedlimits were based on safety requirements ONLY, there's not be all that much speeding. As witnessed by the fact that virtually everyone speeds, and yet the carnage level on the roads is mostly based on the alcohol content of the drivers. Or the features on their phones....
However, there really aren't a lot of good reasons to accept people doing things while driving that increase the inherent risk several times over. If you passed your test, you know how to pull over somewhere safe for maybe 20 seconds to check a map or reconfigure your sat-nav, and you really ought to know how dangerous it is to unnecessarily take your hands off the wheel, your eyes off the road, or your mind off your driving. The fact that some people can pass their test apparently without knowing these things is why sometimes laws are needed to correct that oversight by revoking their licence.
I read a different version of this tale earlier today. In that version, it mentioned that the driver in question was stuck in a traffic jam and not actually moving.
In fact, short of being a tech demo for something that might eventually be mature, it isn't entirely clear what this system can do that any of the better regarded WWII-era light cannon(retrofitted with modern targeting systems) couldn't...
What it can do is not run out of ammo.
CIWS has 1550 rounds in its magazine - about 20 seconds of fire. At which point you'd better be praying that the other side doesn't have anymore missiles to toss at you, since you can't reload a CIWS quickly....
He's saying that we should run background checks on gun purchasers and limit the number of bullets that can be fired without reloading to a number higher than THE standard service rifle during WWII.
Did you know that there were standard issue WW2 individual weapons that used 15 round magazines? And 30 round magazines? And 50 round magazines?
Didn't think so.
Placing limits on the 2nd amendment isn't abolishing it.
Which parts of "shall not be infringed" do you have a hard time with?
Note that the First Amendment only has a prohibition against Congress passing laws restricting....
knowing that some of your family is no longer spending the rest of their miserable lives in one of NK's versions of a Stalinist death/labor camp.
This isn't as big an issue as you might think, since DPRK tends to lock up the whole family rather than an individual. I understand that three generations of the family is considered "normal".
Even if the US wanted a war with North Korea this would not be the time. A war like that takes months of planning and logistics if it's going to go well.
There are offices in the Pentagon devoted to making and updating warplans. Continuously.
If you are under the mistaken belief that DPRK is a country we've never developed plans to invade, you need to wake up and smell the coffee....
Another interesting untested oddity is that it may or may not be possible for say Bill Clinton to run again. It all depends on if they see the rule as two terms ever or just two consecutive terms.
From the 22nd Amendment: "No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice".
Nope, looks like he can't run again...
Good try, though.
Note also that the 20th Amendment pretty much covers the case of someone not qualified to run for President winning the election - he gets an "attaboy!", and his VP gets to be President. If neither Pres-elect nor VP-elect meets the requirements, then Congress gets to decide....
In other words, if Clinton chooses to run again, his VP candidate will be President, and Clinton will be back in Arkansas (or New York, or wherever he lives these days).
Which most likely means that the Democrats would never nominate him, unless they thought that his VP candidate was (a) unelectable, and (b) the guy they really wanted. And since the Republicans would not fail to point this out every chance they got, (b) wouldn't be enough to override (a), and Bill wouldn't get to run as a Democrat.
Take the 2nd amendment. At the time one of the best weapons was a cannon, basically no repeating rifles, or revolvers were generally available.
Umm, no.
Look up "Ferguson Rifle" sometime. Flintlock repeating rifle, used in the American Revolution by...the British. Colonel Ferguson's Regiment, specifically.
It had its issues, but was probably the most effective pre-caplock repeater, and might have been enough to give the Brit Regulars a fairly dramatic edge over the Colonial Army, if it had gone into general issue.
Or not. The British dropped the weapon like a hot rock after Ferguson was killed, so we'll never really know.
No, light can most certainly escape from 1 G. Gravity IS the curvature of space. The Event Horizon is the point at which escape velocity = c.
Escape speed is SQRT(2rg), where r is the radius and g is local gravity at that radius.
Which means that for escape speed = c and g = 9.8 m/s^2, r is somewhere around 177 light days.
Mass required to produce 1g at 177 light days is somewhere in the low trillions of solar masses.
So you'd need a honking big black hole (probably bigger than currently exists), but not an impossibly huge one.
Note that, if you're really bored, it's possible to guesstimate the event horizon of the Universe. Lot of guesswork (hundreds of billions of galaxies, hundreds of billions of stars per, average mass per star, effects of Dark Matter, that sort of thing) involved of course. Last time I tried to guesstimate, using midddle-of-the-road assumptions (which are probably wrong, since this was 30 years ago), the event horizon matched up pretty well with the age of the Universe - ~15 billion lightyears....
She couldn't do what she really wanted to with the gun industry, so she sets her sites on video games.
More likely, not enough campaign contributions from the Gaming Industry, so this is just another way of reminding them that they need to pay off the Democrats too...
It's almost as if she saw the idiocy that NRA talking heads were spewing about video games and "culture of violence" post Newtown, and decided that in the interests of equality both sides of the political spectrum must look equally stupid.
This wasn't needed to make both sides look equally stupid.
For the record, her "assault weapon ban" included the Ruger Mini-14 on both the BANNED list and the EXEMPT list. If it had a black plastic stock straight from the manufacturer, it was banned, but if it was originally sold with a walnut stock, it was exempt.
Note that I own a mini-14 that came from the gunshop with a walnut stock. I replaced that stock with a synthetic stock with pistol grip (because the original stock was just too damned short for me) nearly 20 years ago. So, 30 round magazine + pistol grip + muzzle-brake (another aftermarket - I liked the front sight that came on the brake), but SPECIFICALLY EXEMPTED BY LAW from ever being considered an "assault weapon". And it's functionally identical to a Colt Bushmaster, which is apparently the most evil weapon ever conceived by the mind of man....
Plus there was the language banning the 1832 Colt Revolving Shotgun (black powder, percussion cap, frontloaded, four shots, and such a bitch to reload that even a double-barrel is more dangerous)....
NOTE: the Colt revolving shotgun was not mentioned by name, but is included under "any shotgun using a revolver mechanism"....
Guns in the hands of the mentally unbalanced seems to be the most ignored issue, why?
Because putting someone on the "No 2nd Amendment for you!" list because he/she is depressed (or something similar) will discourage people who are depressed (or something similar) from seeking treatment.
And it must be remembered that the overwhelming majority of mentally unbalanced people haven't actually gone on a murder spree.
Tarring everyone in a group for the behaviour of one person might be seen as vaguely discriminatory, after all....
The ironic thing is that these same people were probably all wound up about a tiny rule stating that the president has to be born in the US
Umm, no.
There is NO Connstitutional requirement that the President must be born in the USA.
What there is is a rule that he/she be a "natural born citizen".
Note that if EITHER of your parents are American citizens ("natural born" or "naturalized", whichever), then you are a "natural born" citizen (even if you were born on a spacecraft halfway between the Earth and Mars).
Much less in Kenya (even if that's where Obama was born)....
It should be noted that Truman wasn't even aware that the Manhattan Project existed until after he was sworn in as President after FDR's death (which shows just how secret FDR thought the Bomb needed to be - don't even tell the VP).
They may not be as technically sophisticated as their neighbor, they may not have the weapons technology available to the U.S., but they have weapons and personell in quantity. Technically, they have one of the largest armies in the world, with over a million active and eight million reserve. A conflict with NK could drag on for years.
Dropping back 60 years, pretty much everything you said above was true, except the part about not having the weapons technology of the USA (they were using Soviet tech then, which in terms of tanks/artillery/infantry/aircraft was as good as or better than the comparable gear the Amis were using at the time).
The NK Army lasted about six months before it was driven back to the Chinese border and the PLA bailed them out....
Y'know, for all I live in the part of the US that's supposed to be full of those eviiil war-mongering Conservative/Repugs, I've never met anyone who admitted to "hating Iran".
Or even cared much about Iran one way or another.
however iran is similar to america in many ways.
This, however, I agree with completely. Only real differences I've seen are the assholes we have in government aren't the same as the assholes they have in government.
Note, for the record, that I'm biased on the subject - one of my oncologists and the doctor who did my bone-marrow transplant are Iranian immigrants....
Both very mountainous, but NK has a standing army of around one million, and is much better armed.
Note that the last time we fought in Korea, the NK Army had better tanks than we had at first (it took a while to get anything better than WW2 Shermans to Korea, and even then, the M-26 was only marginally better than the T34/85 the NK's were using), comparable artillery and small arms (arguably the SKS was worse/better than the M1, depending on whether you thought range was more important than ammo resupply or not), and a fuckton more men.
We still kicked them back to the Chinese border in six months, without even bothering to fully mobilize.
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Or because the cop in question needs a few more tickets issued to make his quota.
Or perhaps the area is a "speed trap".
If ALL speedlimits were based on safety requirements ONLY, there's not be all that much speeding. As witnessed by the fact that virtually everyone speeds, and yet the carnage level on the roads is mostly based on the alcohol content of the drivers. Or the features on their phones....
I read a different version of this tale earlier today. In that version, it mentioned that the driver in question was stuck in a traffic jam and not actually moving.
What it can do is not run out of ammo.
CIWS has 1550 rounds in its magazine - about 20 seconds of fire. At which point you'd better be praying that the other side doesn't have anymore missiles to toss at you, since you can't reload a CIWS quickly....
Did you know that there were standard issue WW2 individual weapons that used 15 round magazines? And 30 round magazines? And 50 round magazines?
Didn't think so.
Which parts of "shall not be infringed" do you have a hard time with?
Note that the First Amendment only has a prohibition against Congress passing laws restricting....
Which would probably be non-existent if DPRK went away - only reason we're there is to keep the DPRK from successfully attacking the RoK.
Bet on it, if Korea were unified, our troops would be out of there in a couple years.
This isn't as big an issue as you might think, since DPRK tends to lock up the whole family rather than an individual. I understand that three generations of the family is considered "normal".
There are offices in the Pentagon devoted to making and updating warplans. Continuously.
If you are under the mistaken belief that DPRK is a country we've never developed plans to invade, you need to wake up and smell the coffee....
From the 22nd Amendment: "No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice".
Nope, looks like he can't run again...
Good try, though.
Note also that the 20th Amendment pretty much covers the case of someone not qualified to run for President winning the election - he gets an "attaboy!", and his VP gets to be President. If neither Pres-elect nor VP-elect meets the requirements, then Congress gets to decide....
In other words, if Clinton chooses to run again, his VP candidate will be President, and Clinton will be back in Arkansas (or New York, or wherever he lives these days).
Which most likely means that the Democrats would never nominate him, unless they thought that his VP candidate was (a) unelectable, and (b) the guy they really wanted. And since the Republicans would not fail to point this out every chance they got, (b) wouldn't be enough to override (a), and Bill wouldn't get to run as a Democrat.
Umm, no.
Look up "Ferguson Rifle" sometime. Flintlock repeating rifle, used in the American Revolution by...the British. Colonel Ferguson's Regiment, specifically.
It had its issues, but was probably the most effective pre-caplock repeater, and might have been enough to give the Brit Regulars a fairly dramatic edge over the Colonial Army, if it had gone into general issue.
Or not. The British dropped the weapon like a hot rock after Ferguson was killed, so we'll never really know.
Escape speed is SQRT(2rg), where r is the radius and g is local gravity at that radius.
Which means that for escape speed = c and g = 9.8 m/s^2, r is somewhere around 177 light days.
Mass required to produce 1g at 177 light days is somewhere in the low trillions of solar masses.
So you'd need a honking big black hole (probably bigger than currently exists), but not an impossibly huge one.
Note that, if you're really bored, it's possible to guesstimate the event horizon of the Universe. Lot of guesswork (hundreds of billions of galaxies, hundreds of billions of stars per, average mass per star, effects of Dark Matter, that sort of thing) involved of course. Last time I tried to guesstimate, using midddle-of-the-road assumptions (which are probably wrong, since this was 30 years ago), the event horizon matched up pretty well with the age of the Universe - ~15 billion lightyears....
And the one that proposed and pushed through the last Assault Weapon Ban.
And proposed the current one, for that matter.
More likely, not enough campaign contributions from the Gaming Industry, so this is just another way of reminding them that they need to pay off the Democrats too...
This wasn't needed to make both sides look equally stupid.
For the record, her "assault weapon ban" included the Ruger Mini-14 on both the BANNED list and the EXEMPT list. If it had a black plastic stock straight from the manufacturer, it was banned, but if it was originally sold with a walnut stock, it was exempt.
Note that I own a mini-14 that came from the gunshop with a walnut stock. I replaced that stock with a synthetic stock with pistol grip (because the original stock was just too damned short for me) nearly 20 years ago. So, 30 round magazine + pistol grip + muzzle-brake (another aftermarket - I liked the front sight that came on the brake), but SPECIFICALLY EXEMPTED BY LAW from ever being considered an "assault weapon". And it's functionally identical to a Colt Bushmaster, which is apparently the most evil weapon ever conceived by the mind of man....
Plus there was the language banning the 1832 Colt Revolving Shotgun (black powder, percussion cap, frontloaded, four shots, and such a bitch to reload that even a double-barrel is more dangerous)....
NOTE: the Colt revolving shotgun was not mentioned by name, but is included under "any shotgun using a revolver mechanism"....
Because putting someone on the "No 2nd Amendment for you!" list because he/she is depressed (or something similar) will discourage people who are depressed (or something similar) from seeking treatment.
And it must be remembered that the overwhelming majority of mentally unbalanced people haven't actually gone on a murder spree.
Tarring everyone in a group for the behaviour of one person might be seen as vaguely discriminatory, after all....
Umm, no.
There is NO Connstitutional requirement that the President must be born in the USA.
What there is is a rule that he/she be a "natural born citizen".
Note that if EITHER of your parents are American citizens ("natural born" or "naturalized", whichever), then you are a "natural born" citizen (even if you were born on a spacecraft halfway between the Earth and Mars).
Much less in Kenya (even if that's where Obama was born)....
One of the High Schools I attended had an indoor range for our pistol and rifle teams.
And yes, firearms safety training was part of the curriculum...
Distilled water. Not tap-water.
So, what law have they broken?
Or has noone ever explained to you that "tax avoidance" is NOT a crime?
50 million without health insurance, you mean?
Hard as it is to believe, you can get healthcare without health insurance....
Nah, we don't really care about apathy all that much...
Dropping back 60 years, pretty much everything you said above was true, except the part about not having the weapons technology of the USA (they were using Soviet tech then, which in terms of tanks/artillery/infantry/aircraft was as good as or better than the comparable gear the Amis were using at the time).
The NK Army lasted about six months before it was driven back to the Chinese border and the PLA bailed them out....
Except possibly Vietnam. Which country was invaded by China in 1979.
Admittedly, that was while Vietnam was still a Soviet puppet, and the Chinese disliked the Soviets at least as much as we did....
Y'know, for all I live in the part of the US that's supposed to be full of those eviiil war-mongering Conservative/Repugs, I've never met anyone who admitted to "hating Iran".
Or even cared much about Iran one way or another.
This, however, I agree with completely. Only real differences I've seen are the assholes we have in government aren't the same as the assholes they have in government.
Note, for the record, that I'm biased on the subject - one of my oncologists and the doctor who did my bone-marrow transplant are Iranian immigrants....
Note that the last time we fought in Korea, the NK Army had better tanks than we had at first (it took a while to get anything better than WW2 Shermans to Korea, and even then, the M-26 was only marginally better than the T34/85 the NK's were using), comparable artillery and small arms (arguably the SKS was worse/better than the M1, depending on whether you thought range was more important than ammo resupply or not), and a fuckton more men.
We still kicked them back to the Chinese border in six months, without even bothering to fully mobilize.