Explosive decompression is a relatively rare occurrence on airplanes excepting major trauma such as a bomb - what typically happens (and would almost certainly happen from any gunfire short of full-auto) is rapid decompression, which, while a problem, results only in mild lung damage, if any at all. Electronics damage, that may have been a problem (I think pilot bulkheads were reinforced even BEFORE 9/11), unless the shooter is carrying JHP (which I always do), which have pretty much zero penetrating power, minimizing collateral damage.
As to the hijackers being able to carry guns on the plane, most US state statutes require permanent resident status before granting CCW licenses (and many require full American citizenship since 9/11), and so that would have disqualified all 19 confirmed hijackers off the bat, even before background checks, as (I recall hearing, anyway) they were all on temporary visas.
About 2-3% of the American population legally carries concealed (2% of the population in issuing states hold valid permits, while the three states that allow CC without a permit are estimated to be about 6-8%), so it's not unreasonable to expect 2-3 people on each one of those planes would have been carrying. Pre-9/11, five people trying to keep an eye on 70 people who are all focused on them, 2-3 of whom are easing weapons out of holsters, might have stood a chance, though I'd bet on the CCers. And post-9/11, as soon as someone takes action, a very large portion of passengers would fight back as soon as someone had the hijackers attention - I'd bet against the terrorists every single time, at that point. Even without firearms, now I'd probably give passengers 50/50 odds.
Guns have their place, primarily in rural areas where animals with natural offensive features (claws, teeth, horns, etc.) are a danger to humans and livestock, and where people have to work by themselves and could face those dangers alone.
There are less than 150 animal-related deaths in the US every year. There are about 14,000 murders in the US every year. In the UK, where firearms are for all intents and purposes illegal, the murder rate is still significant, typically around 1,000 per year (about 1/3 the US rate, per capita). As Lazarus Long said, "By the data to date, there is only one animal in the Galaxy dangerous to man — man himself."
In urban environments, where living close to others with a diversity of attitudes and customs is common and likely to increase tensions? Not so much.
In my opinion, this is the single biggest lack in firearms legislation - there is no anger-management requirement beyond being able to sit through an eight-hour class. The problem with legislating that, of course, is that there is a very strong chance that the Bradys of the world would write the legislation so that no one could pass, just as the South did with literacy tests at the end of the 19th century and first half of the 20th.
Because if one person out of 800 had been armed on those planes, someone might have been willing to fight back, instead of being afraid of box cutters. And if one person in those classrooms on VT's campus had been armed, Cho may have been stopped as he went around executing people cowering helplessly and defenseless.
Sorry if the idea of self-defense is outside your set of references.
Ultimately, do we really want to trust someone who thinks that the police will keep him perfectly safe from criminals and nutjobs that pull things like 9/11 and Virginia Tech?
Argue all you want that guns are more trouble than they are worth, but if you think they're worthless, I'd like to meet you in a dark alley for a perfectly legitimate exchange of my iPhone 5 prototype for $2K in cash.
Except that stolen guns often don't travel far. My friend had his home broken into when he was at work, and several handguns and a couple of rifles were stolen. He reported it, of course. . . seven years later, the Cincinnati PD called him, saying they'd found his rifles (not the pistols) when they took out a crack house, maybe 15 miles from where they had been stolen. If he hadn't reported them stolen, he probably would have had a LOT of explaining to do.
I greatly second Pauling's General Chemistry - it is by far the most accessible genchem text I have ever seen (and I have seen many). As a bonus, the paperback is only $15 or so.
Since those legal hurdles were resolved, Aspen Water has been growing, distributing fresh water systems to militaries around the world and in humanitarian crises.
I tend to switch back and forth between ATI and Nvidia every upgrade - not that I do it on purpose, I just seem to upgrade whenever one or the other has the better-performing ~$250 card at the time (X1650, 8800GT, 5770 were the last couple). I have never had a "driver problem" with any game until Rage - which still didn't work after AMD pushed a hotfix, id Software issued their only two patches before they abandoned the game for dead, and still didn't work despite five months of AMD updates when I tried it out of curiosity in March.
I didn't think it was actually AMD's fault in October, and I still don't, now.
Some of us have. Everyone wants to know why I didn't buy Skyrim, despite putting up with Fallout 3's/New Vegas' problems - and it's because of how Bethesda handled the clusterfuck that was the Rage launch.
And that's another reason why many developers switch to consoles. Because you cannot predict what configuration the user has. It's not only videocards, it's motherboards, processors, RAM... All kinds of bugs. My own PC reboots from time to time, I have no way of knowing why that happens. And notebooks are even worse.
Passing the handling of hardware related bugs to developers is stupid. In that case videogames would support only specific system configurations and refuse to run on a different hardware. Do you want that?
Since the developers can't even make their games run correctly on consoles, I think it's fair to blame the problem on them.
And is your problem with mystery reboots from Windows automatically updating? Fix that here.
Regardless of how you feel about their products, it HAS been nice knowing ATI - considering how bad Nvidia's price-gouging is now, think how bad it would be without ATI.
Ah, but for email to work, you had to have someone collect emails on a list first. Plus, email didn't provide photos to help you put faces to names of your sometimes 40+ classmates.
And when Facebook started, it wasn't the huge data-mining operation it is now. Likes, statuses, apps , locations - none of those existed when Facebook started. It was your college, and your current classes (your previous semesters were archived but available), and a few photos. Hell, I remember classmates laughing when they added the two-word drop-down menu statuses, about how much the FBI was paying to know when "Jim is 'sleeping,'" "Jim is 'at work,'" and "Jim is 'in class.'"
The original business idea (ignoring the hot-or-not-style one night programming project origin) was to get people together that were in the same classes at their respective universities, but didn't know each other. That way, they could talk about tests, ask each other questions, that kind of thing. It was a great idea - and then they completely removed that option when they realized that only 10% of their user base was using that option, and the rest were just using it to stalk the hotties in their classes.
But it's also gotten people to stop caring about health-care reform, because now health care is "fixed," though it's nothing more than a band-aid on a hemorrhaging stump. As far as democrats are concerned, the poor people have been saved, and the only reason they EVER bring up PPACA anymore is to point out that Obama fathered it, and that he is amazing.
Meanwhile, my insurance is 30% higher than it was two years ago, and provides me no more benefit than it did before - except that if I decide to drop it, and put that money into a savings account for a "rainy day," I get pretty much that entire savings taxed away anyhow.
It's of dubious usefulness. Inevitably, several groups will cite this paper for its synthetic route when making something more complicated based on this structure, but the chances that this exact molecule will be used for anything are very slim - simple multicyclic polyaromatics have been done to death and have crappy efficiency as solar cells (too narrow of an absorption cross-section), and don't really see much use for anything beyond building blocks for other, more interesting, molecules. It may turn out, when all is said and done, that chaining this molecule together for an organic solar cell might be useful, but getting reproducible polymerization at just a couple or a few of the reactively-similar sites will be a bitch, and arguably be more impressive than this particular synthesis.
Of course, it might turn out that randomly polymerizing each one of them gives a more interesting absorption cross-section, making it more useful as a solar cell, but that's pretty unlikely.
I'm assuming the OP's problem with a USB keypad is that it requires a cable or dongle.
Or else he doesn't like a keypad that slides around everywhere, since the portable ones weigh less than a mouse's sneeze. That's why I stopped using mine, it was just as much of a hassle as using the Fn keypad.
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Soooo, any idea what they mean by "50% more colours"?
It means they let someone with a marketing degree write a blurb about technology.
Explosive decompression is a relatively rare occurrence on airplanes excepting major trauma such as a bomb - what typically happens (and would almost certainly happen from any gunfire short of full-auto) is rapid decompression, which, while a problem, results only in mild lung damage, if any at all. Electronics damage, that may have been a problem (I think pilot bulkheads were reinforced even BEFORE 9/11), unless the shooter is carrying JHP (which I always do), which have pretty much zero penetrating power, minimizing collateral damage.
As to the hijackers being able to carry guns on the plane, most US state statutes require permanent resident status before granting CCW licenses (and many require full American citizenship since 9/11), and so that would have disqualified all 19 confirmed hijackers off the bat, even before background checks, as (I recall hearing, anyway) they were all on temporary visas.
About 2-3% of the American population legally carries concealed (2% of the population in issuing states hold valid permits, while the three states that allow CC without a permit are estimated to be about 6-8%), so it's not unreasonable to expect 2-3 people on each one of those planes would have been carrying. Pre-9/11, five people trying to keep an eye on 70 people who are all focused on them, 2-3 of whom are easing weapons out of holsters, might have stood a chance, though I'd bet on the CCers. And post-9/11, as soon as someone takes action, a very large portion of passengers would fight back as soon as someone had the hijackers attention - I'd bet against the terrorists every single time, at that point. Even without firearms, now I'd probably give passengers 50/50 odds.
Guns have their place, primarily in rural areas where animals with natural offensive features (claws, teeth, horns, etc.) are a danger to humans and livestock, and where people have to work by themselves and could face those dangers alone.
There are less than 150 animal-related deaths in the US every year. There are about 14,000 murders in the US every year. In the UK, where firearms are for all intents and purposes illegal, the murder rate is still significant, typically around 1,000 per year (about 1/3 the US rate, per capita). As Lazarus Long said, "By the data to date, there is only one animal in the Galaxy dangerous to man — man himself."
In urban environments, where living close to others with a diversity of attitudes and customs is common and likely to increase tensions? Not so much.
In my opinion, this is the single biggest lack in firearms legislation - there is no anger-management requirement beyond being able to sit through an eight-hour class. The problem with legislating that, of course, is that there is a very strong chance that the Bradys of the world would write the legislation so that no one could pass, just as the South did with literacy tests at the end of the 19th century and first half of the 20th.
Because if one person out of 800 had been armed on those planes, someone might have been willing to fight back, instead of being afraid of box cutters. And if one person in those classrooms on VT's campus had been armed, Cho may have been stopped as he went around executing people cowering helplessly and defenseless.
Sorry if the idea of self-defense is outside your set of references.
Ultimately, do we really want to trust someone who thinks that the police will keep him perfectly safe from criminals and nutjobs that pull things like 9/11 and Virginia Tech?
Argue all you want that guns are more trouble than they are worth, but if you think they're worthless, I'd like to meet you in a dark alley for a perfectly legitimate exchange of my iPhone 5 prototype for $2K in cash.
Except that stolen guns often don't travel far. My friend had his home broken into when he was at work, and several handguns and a couple of rifles were stolen. He reported it, of course. . . seven years later, the Cincinnati PD called him, saying they'd found his rifles (not the pistols) when they took out a crack house, maybe 15 miles from where they had been stolen. If he hadn't reported them stolen, he probably would have had a LOT of explaining to do.
How do you keep it from using virtual memory? It drives me fucking nuts on my HTPC.
Well, besides uninstalling, which I am about to do.
I greatly second Pauling's General Chemistry - it is by far the most accessible genchem text I have ever seen (and I have seen many). As a bonus, the paperback is only $15 or so.
Could, and does. FTFA:
Since those legal hurdles were resolved, Aspen Water has been growing, distributing fresh water systems to militaries around the world and in humanitarian crises.
Along with waiting for new and high-quality cellular companies and cable companies, don't hold your breath.
I tend to switch back and forth between ATI and Nvidia every upgrade - not that I do it on purpose, I just seem to upgrade whenever one or the other has the better-performing ~$250 card at the time (X1650, 8800GT, 5770 were the last couple). I have never had a "driver problem" with any game until Rage - which still didn't work after AMD pushed a hotfix, id Software issued their only two patches before they abandoned the game for dead, and still didn't work despite five months of AMD updates when I tried it out of curiosity in March.
I didn't think it was actually AMD's fault in October, and I still don't, now.
Some of us have. Everyone wants to know why I didn't buy Skyrim, despite putting up with Fallout 3's/New Vegas' problems - and it's because of how Bethesda handled the clusterfuck that was the Rage launch.
And that's another reason why many developers switch to consoles. Because you cannot predict what configuration the user has. It's not only videocards, it's motherboards, processors, RAM... All kinds of bugs. My own PC reboots from time to time, I have no way of knowing why that happens. And notebooks are even worse.
Passing the handling of hardware related bugs to developers is stupid. In that case videogames would support only specific system configurations and refuse to run on a different hardware. Do you want that?
Since the developers can't even make their games run correctly on consoles, I think it's fair to blame the problem on them.
And is your problem with mystery reboots from Windows automatically updating? Fix that here.
+1, Depressing.
Regardless of how you feel about their products, it HAS been nice knowing ATI - considering how bad Nvidia's price-gouging is now, think how bad it would be without ATI.
Ah, but for email to work, you had to have someone collect emails on a list first. Plus, email didn't provide photos to help you put faces to names of your sometimes 40+ classmates.
And when Facebook started, it wasn't the huge data-mining operation it is now. Likes, statuses, apps , locations - none of those existed when Facebook started. It was your college, and your current classes (your previous semesters were archived but available), and a few photos. Hell, I remember classmates laughing when they added the two-word drop-down menu statuses, about how much the FBI was paying to know when "Jim is 'sleeping,'" "Jim is 'at work,'" and "Jim is 'in class.'"
The original business idea (ignoring the hot-or-not-style one night programming project origin) was to get people together that were in the same classes at their respective universities, but didn't know each other. That way, they could talk about tests, ask each other questions, that kind of thing. It was a great idea - and then they completely removed that option when they realized that only 10% of their user base was using that option, and the rest were just using it to stalk the hotties in their classes.
But it's also gotten people to stop caring about health-care reform, because now health care is "fixed," though it's nothing more than a band-aid on a hemorrhaging stump. As far as democrats are concerned, the poor people have been saved, and the only reason they EVER bring up PPACA anymore is to point out that Obama fathered it, and that he is amazing.
Meanwhile, my insurance is 30% higher than it was two years ago, and provides me no more benefit than it did before - except that if I decide to drop it, and put that money into a savings account for a "rainy day," I get pretty much that entire savings taxed away anyhow.
Nuts to Barbara Bain, give me my Adrienne Barbeaubot!
But your post, at least, would have been mildly amusing, unlike his.
Don't make stupid jokes. It's that simple. Comedians know it. Amateurs should as well.
Tell that to Jeff Dunham.
So spend $500 on a new PC to save $40/year on electricity?
It's of dubious usefulness. Inevitably, several groups will cite this paper for its synthetic route when making something more complicated based on this structure, but the chances that this exact molecule will be used for anything are very slim - simple multicyclic polyaromatics have been done to death and have crappy efficiency as solar cells (too narrow of an absorption cross-section), and don't really see much use for anything beyond building blocks for other, more interesting, molecules. It may turn out, when all is said and done, that chaining this molecule together for an organic solar cell might be useful, but getting reproducible polymerization at just a couple or a few of the reactively-similar sites will be a bitch, and arguably be more impressive than this particular synthesis.
Of course, it might turn out that randomly polymerizing each one of them gives a more interesting absorption cross-section, making it more useful as a solar cell, but that's pretty unlikely.
Including the study that determined that 85% figure.
Or even just having a more positive life (laughing, not stressing out) lowers your blood pressure and keeps you from stroking out.
external bluetooth or usb numeric keypad
I'm assuming the OP's problem with a USB keypad is that it requires a cable or dongle.
Or else he doesn't like a keypad that slides around everywhere, since the portable ones weigh less than a mouse's sneeze. That's why I stopped using mine, it was just as much of a hassle as using the Fn keypad.