Actually, as I understand it, that particular piece of legislation was filled with enough equations to conceal the fact that it defined pi as NINE, not three....
We have a website that changed the definition of "mass shooting" so they could claim we had one almost every day. Using the standard FBI definition, we've had one every other month or so.
Note that "mass shooting" on that website would count one person wounding himself with a firearm, then getting killed by police officers who accidently injured three more people in the process of "stopping this attack" as a "mass shooting".
Oh, and gun control won't help. Unless you're got the kind of magic that can make 300+ million firearms just poof out of existence. Hell, you can't even do a buyback of those guns. Takings Clause of the Constitution would require that you pay fair market value (or a reasonable facsmile), which would require a budget in the $500B range, even if everyone cooperated (and they won't. Australia's buyback only got 1/4 to 1/3 of their firearms, based on their government's own estimates of the number of firearms in circulation - and we're less likely to go along than the Aussies were - gun culture, don'cha know?)....
Hell an old fashioned ICBM is a hypersonic missile if you use it as one, and they have better nowadays. If you don't actually need to traverse a continent, you have the fuel to come all the way down at full power.
ICBM's are solid-fueled in general. So, no, you won't be coming in "at full power".
Never mind the fact that if you launch an ICBM, every other nuclear power will see a first strike attempt, and launch counterstrikes. Won't that be fun? You sink a cruiser with an ICBM, and everyone else lays waste to your country with nuclear weapons. Great trade-off, eh?
Death by terrorism falls bellow death by ex-boyfriend/girlfriend.
This.
It should be also noted that 9/11 caused fewer deaths that year than the flu did.
San Bernadino is hardly even visible as a statistical blip. It wasn't even the majority of murders that particular day in the USA, much less something so significant that we should get our panties in a twist about it.
Want to really annoy Daesh? Try ignoring the whole "terrorism" thing, and treat this as just another murder investigation. Being treated as common criminals is much worse than any official acknowledgement of those clowns....
Not that I know of. We moved here when my inlaws died.
Walking through the neighborhood, I see people of all colors (asiatic, black hispanic, white) and ages (people with infant children, people with teenage children, people old enough to have great-grandchildren).
Never particularly noticed whether they all thought the same about any particular issues. They're at least pretty evenly split D/R based on election results....
Nope. Pro-nuke. No interest in thorium reactors at all. We have plenty of uranium (thousands of years worth, at least, even if ALL power was nuclear) and workable designs for uranium reacters - we don't need thorium for anything other dealing with the people who wet themselves whenever they hear the word "nuclear"....
To expand on that idea, how about we automatically enlist all gun owners in the National Guard, with all attendant requirements?
Have you ever read the Militia Act? Everyone, not just gun owners, are automatically members of the Militia, unless they're enlisted in the Military (which would include the National Guard).
So your suggestion is superfluous, really. It's been that way since the country was founded....
Australia used to have the same problem, but a conservative government managed to introduce gun restricts at the cost of the next election, and gun violence and accidents dropped sharply.
It should be noted that the number of guns that the "mandatory buy-back" took off the streets was ~1/4 - 1/3 the number of guns in the possession of aussie civilians. So most of the Aussie gun owners didn't obey the law and still own their guns....
Yeah, if you ignore the FBI definition of "mass shooting", which requires four or more dead, as opposed to "four or more injured" used by the site in question.
And even the FBI definition is questionable, since the guy DOING the shooting can count as one of the dead - so stopping a shooter can change a regular "shooting" into a "mass shooting".
But, what the hell, as long as we can redefine things to make our point, I'm now declaring a definition of "mass shooting": If 100,000 or more people are killed in a single day, there has been a mass shooting".
So why are we wasting our time talking about fantasies like "mass shootings", when none of them have ever happened?
Oh, and for the record, there were, if today was typical, more people killed in traffic accidents in CA than were killed in the incident we're discussing. About twice as many, in fact.
But The President is already calling for new gun control laws.
And I'm expecting to hear within the next couple of days that this could have been prevented if we'd not stripped the Feds of the authority to do mass surveillance on the US population...
The problem is that any "crawler"/"lift" would be limited to maybe 300km/h speeds optimistically, and as result take a month to reach GEO.
Let's see...a month at 300km/hr takes you 216000 km. Do you really think GEO is almost as far away as the moon? Or are you just arithmetically challenged?
Hint: at 300 km/hr, GEO is about five days away....
Umm, Force is NOT the same as Energy. And while your second paragraph is correct (other than the part that equates mass (universal) with weight (purely local to the planet, in this case)), it's correct in spite of you confusing force and energy....
Does the phrase "Great Depression" mean anything to you? That one took WW2 to work its way out of the economy.
Interestingly, WW2 brought us the GI Bill and the notion that pretty much anyone could go to college. Before that, it was the upper class and the very best of the commoners.
As to "food prices are way up", there are about as many indications that "real" (adjusted for inflation) food prices are down as up. Just depends on what you're buying...
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Actually, as I understand it, that particular piece of legislation was filled with enough equations to conceal the fact that it defined pi as NINE, not three....
And it has nothing to do with Hillary saying she wants to take them, right?
Umm, no.
We have a website that changed the definition of "mass shooting" so they could claim we had one almost every day. Using the standard FBI definition, we've had one every other month or so.
Note that "mass shooting" on that website would count one person wounding himself with a firearm, then getting killed by police officers who accidently injured three more people in the process of "stopping this attack" as a "mass shooting".
Oh, and gun control won't help. Unless you're got the kind of magic that can make 300+ million firearms just poof out of existence. Hell, you can't even do a buyback of those guns. Takings Clause of the Constitution would require that you pay fair market value (or a reasonable facsmile), which would require a budget in the $500B range, even if everyone cooperated (and they won't. Australia's buyback only got 1/4 to 1/3 of their firearms, based on their government's own estimates of the number of firearms in circulation - and we're less likely to go along than the Aussies were - gun culture, don'cha know?)....
ICBM's are solid-fueled in general. So, no, you won't be coming in "at full power".
Never mind the fact that if you launch an ICBM, every other nuclear power will see a first strike attempt, and launch counterstrikes. Won't that be fun? You sink a cruiser with an ICBM, and everyone else lays waste to your country with nuclear weapons. Great trade-off, eh?
Since the President has no power to either raise or reduce taxes, she's just blowing smoke.
This.
It should be also noted that 9/11 caused fewer deaths that year than the flu did.
San Bernadino is hardly even visible as a statistical blip. It wasn't even the majority of murders that particular day in the USA, much less something so significant that we should get our panties in a twist about it.
Want to really annoy Daesh? Try ignoring the whole "terrorism" thing, and treat this as just another murder investigation. Being treated as common criminals is much worse than any official acknowledgement of those clowns....
Not that I know of. We moved here when my inlaws died.
Walking through the neighborhood, I see people of all colors (asiatic, black hispanic, white) and ages (people with infant children, people with teenage children, people old enough to have great-grandchildren).
Never particularly noticed whether they all thought the same about any particular issues. They're at least pretty evenly split D/R based on election results....
Editors? We don't need no stinking editors!
I trust my neighbors to not go on a shooting rampage. Or run me down with their SUV either.
And I live in a place where it's pretty much guaranteed that everyone within a mile owns gun(s).
Now, do I trust YOUR neighbor? Well, no so much as I do my own, but prolly more than you might expect.
Seriously, I'm not sure I've ever been anywhere that people were quite that paranoid. Though you wouldn't know that from the news, would you?
You seem to be implying you can buy a gun without an ID check. You can't, of course, unless you buy it from a private individual....
We staged a two-door hardtop car? I'm confused as to why we would do that to Iran.
Or did you mean "coup"? No, the "é" isn't part of that word, though it does show you can use unicode, I suppose....
Have you ever read the Militia Act? Everyone, not just gun owners, are automatically members of the Militia, unless they're enlisted in the Military (which would include the National Guard).
So your suggestion is superfluous, really. It's been that way since the country was founded....
Yes, but it leaves you half as likely to be unable to buy food/gas/whatever as a result of a successful attack.
It should be noted that the number of guns that the "mandatory buy-back" took off the streets was ~1/4 - 1/3 the number of guns in the possession of aussie civilians. So most of the Aussie gun owners didn't obey the law and still own their guns....
Yeah, if you ignore the FBI definition of "mass shooting", which requires four or more dead, as opposed to "four or more injured" used by the site in question.
And even the FBI definition is questionable, since the guy DOING the shooting can count as one of the dead - so stopping a shooter can change a regular "shooting" into a "mass shooting".
But, what the hell, as long as we can redefine things to make our point, I'm now declaring a definition of "mass shooting": If 100,000 or more people are killed in a single day, there has been a mass shooting".
So why are we wasting our time talking about fantasies like "mass shootings", when none of them have ever happened?
Oh, and for the record, there were, if today was typical, more people killed in traffic accidents in CA than were killed in the incident we're discussing. About twice as many, in fact.
So, we have no idea who did it or why.
But The President is already calling for new gun control laws.
And I'm expecting to hear within the next couple of days that this could have been prevented if we'd not stripped the Feds of the authority to do mass surveillance on the US population...
Damn, wish my house was that high up...
Note that New Orleans is below Sea Level.
Let's see...a month at 300km/hr takes you 216000 km. Do you really think GEO is almost as far away as the moon? Or are you just arithmetically challenged?
Hint: at 300 km/hr, GEO is about five days away....
Umm, Force is NOT the same as Energy. And while your second paragraph is correct (other than the part that equates mass (universal) with weight (purely local to the planet, in this case)), it's correct in spite of you confusing force and energy....
Neither Putin nor any other Russian has ever set foot on Mars, so they have no claim whatsoever to it.
Does the phrase "Great Depression" mean anything to you? That one took WW2 to work its way out of the economy.
Interestingly, WW2 brought us the GI Bill and the notion that pretty much anyone could go to college. Before that, it was the upper class and the very best of the commoners.
As to "food prices are way up", there are about as many indications that "real" (adjusted for inflation) food prices are down as up. Just depends on what you're buying...
Rain. May the full might of the grammar nazis rain down upon you....
And I figure "now" means 2015. Since we won't know much about how things are in 2075 for another 60 years....
Yeah, the last time we had trench warfare, it was no big deal. Only 17 million dead, 20 million or so wounded.