Oh how very insightful of you. Let's bring race into this.
Let's talk about all the inner city black on black murders while we're talking race, because that's by far the majority of gun violence in the US. And guess what? They're not using rifles or "assault weapons" for any of it. They're using handguns. And it is directly a result of this idiot "war on drugs" where 100% of the casualties of war are American citizens.
So we levy a tax on "violent" video games, which will prevent another massacre... how?
This is purely a partisan beltway hackathon against a large bloc of donators to the Democratic Party. I'm surprised he didn't throw violent movies in there too just to squeeze the "leftist Hollywood elite."
As fun as ranting on the internet is, I don't think you will find one rational person (and I'm using a very wide definition of rational) arguing that owning fully automatic weapons is necessary for anyone but the military or it's assigns; which would account for the extreme lack of calls to repeal the National Firearms Act of 1934 which heavily restricted them. Talking about "Gatling guns in the basement" is on the same hyperbolic order of talking about personal ownership of nuclear weapons under the 2nd Amendment, and it doesn't do anything but weaken your argument and make you appear to be an anti-gun nut, or ignorant of what the conversation is actually about.
Oh, and thanks for the extremely broad insulting generalizations about a couple cultures, because it's an odd phenomenon when hundreds of millions of people all act and think exactly the same way. I imagine that you're mostly trolling, but whatever.
True or False: a bean bag round to the chest is less lethal than 16 pellets that are ballistically the same as.380 rounds. Because that's what a 2 3/4 inch shell with 01 Buckshot from a.12 gauge effectively is.
You can buy a.12 gauge shotgun, and 00 or 01 Buck load which will pretty much kill anyone from any sporting goods store. However, non-lethal bean-bag rounds that police use for crowd control are "law enforcement only" and cannot be purchased by the average citizen.
Clearly the law is set up for me to kill an invader and have the coroner take him away to a morgue rather than just to subdue him and wait for the police to haul him away to a jail.
You do realize that the people who wrote that line, and submitted it to the States for ratification, which it was; just got done fighting a war for independence from another country that started as a tax revolt, right?
It's a matter of amperage. You can find 12v to 5v down-step voltage converters for really cheap (like $2-$3) that would work - get a "speed charger" for a smartphone that plugs into what used to be called a cigarette lighter and strip the plastics off of it and wire it off of something like the change tray light that only works if the ignition is on. Those "speed chargers" usually offer up 1A of current at 5v - perfect for the RPi and 1-2 things plugged into it. And, they are usually cheaper than building your own without even factoring in the time to design it, order parts, solder together, etc.
Existing USB ports may only offer about 500mA of current, which isn't enough to properly power a Raspberry Pi. Something off of a car stereo that is meant for using with a flash-based storage device in read-only mode may be even less, like 250mA, which is a third of what you need.
Anybody remember a building in Oklahoma City that had the face of it blown off, and over a hundred people died without a single bullet being fired?
McVeigh spent more on the truck rental than he did the homemade explosives inside of it. Do we need more laws making it illegal to blow up buildings occupied by the Federal Government?
if it was legal for an average citizen to get half of those, I would rather do that than hollow point bullets. However, many of those are "law enforcement only".
It will make the current models much more desirable, because they are reliable and don't compromise function with fucktarded.
What a great idea - take a perfectly working tool and screw it up by adding a bunch of expensive electronic bullshit that won't make two shits of a difference in the end.
Don't use USB. Use the integrated I2C bus, and this thing. It's cheaper, doesn't suck power through the already limited USB on the RPi, and gives you 10 location updates per second in exactly the form you're looking for.
I'm using one to build a vehicle management system for my rock crawler project. The platform is a 2nd generation Toyota 4Runner, which has a double-din dash opening that currently houses a broken CD player / tape deck combo.
It will house a 7" touchscreen display driven by the RPi, which will accept bluetooth A2DP audio (already have that working) and forward it to an amplifier, use a 3-axis gyro / accelerometer module to give vehicle positional and attitude data represented as a gimbaled graphic on the display, offline GPS navigation, and a "digital switchboard" for vehicle accessories like differential lockers, on-board air compressor, lights, etc. through an electrical relay control module.
Way more functional than your average in-dash navigation touchscreen thing from the car audio manufacturers, at half the price.
Except that they do care what it looks like, thus the X1 Carbon and the soon-to-be ThinkPad Helix.
Oh, and they moved to a Chiclet keyboard with the 30-series notebooks back in May. Every ThinkPad now has a keyboard that is practically identical to Apple's, except with some bad design choices (Print Screen key between right ctrl and alt, grey Fn labels on black plastic keys that you can't see, etc.)
You don't have to give up ruggedness or functionality to have good design. The X1 Carbon shows that. Instead of using the same metal "roll cage" that all ThinkPads have used, they made one of carbon fiber. They got rid of the massive vertical docking connector that adds at least a centimeter to the device's Z-height, because you can use USB 3 now. It could use a better power connector though - the X1 Carbon's connector is a square of metal that sticks into the power port at least 7mm - if someone trips on that cord your beautiful thin and light notebook is flying to the floor.
On that T400, the plastic shell may be cheap, but the magnesium roll cage that houses all the components is not. Plastics can be replaced quite easily.
We have thousands of those T400s in my company, and they are solid workhorse laptops. Same with the T410 and T420.
I was once talking to a law enforcement officer at a gun range, who was commenting on my Sig Sauer P229. He said that his department's decision when it came time to select the weapon they were going to use came down to that Sig P229 and a Glock 23. They chose the Glock because it was accurate, drop dead reliable, and lightweight. The Sig, in contrast, was accurate and drop dead reliable.
I love my P229, but I could see why someone would want the composite frame of a Glock if it was strapped to their hip all day long.
That's a wonderful idea. Too bad that our cash registers in our stores still have to traverse our network to get to the credit card processor. Thus, we might as well do the transaction ourselves and save a few cents each on a couple billion credit card swipes.
Democrats love to bring up this popularity contest voting statistic for Congress, but the Indiana 4th doesn't give two shakes of a rat's ass how many votes the Democratic candidate in the California 23rd won by.
That's not how Congress is elected. Just because Candidates in California, New York, Illinois, Florida, and Pennsylvania run up the score in their metropolitan districts doesn't dictate how Oklahoma wants to be represented.
I'm afraid there's a massive technical difference between hitting a chunk of metal flying in a purely ballistic path at 50 m/sec, and a cruise missile that is flying low to the terrain (line of sight issues that completely fuck a weapon based on focused light), and able to change heading and altitude while flying at 250 m/sec.
Also, just like previous ABM systems, they can be overwhelmed with quantity. So you can shoot down 100 incoming warheads per minute? We'll just build a launcher that can throw 150 per minute and you're still fucked 50 times over.
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The whole premise is ridiculous. This is like taxing Loony Tunes cartoon DVDs because someone dropped an anvil on a bunch of coyotes.
So you're saying that without the influence of religion, we would have had 10% less war. Thanks for proving his point.
Oh how very insightful of you. Let's bring race into this.
Let's talk about all the inner city black on black murders while we're talking race, because that's by far the majority of gun violence in the US. And guess what? They're not using rifles or "assault weapons" for any of it. They're using handguns. And it is directly a result of this idiot "war on drugs" where 100% of the casualties of war are American citizens.
So we levy a tax on "violent" video games, which will prevent another massacre... how?
This is purely a partisan beltway hackathon against a large bloc of donators to the Democratic Party. I'm surprised he didn't throw violent movies in there too just to squeeze the "leftist Hollywood elite."
And if it was halved, you'd be saying "Yeah, now it's only two times higher than Europe, instead of four."
Isn't improvement good anymore? Please go be smug somewhere else.
As fun as ranting on the internet is, I don't think you will find one rational person (and I'm using a very wide definition of rational) arguing that owning fully automatic weapons is necessary for anyone but the military or it's assigns; which would account for the extreme lack of calls to repeal the National Firearms Act of 1934 which heavily restricted them. Talking about "Gatling guns in the basement" is on the same hyperbolic order of talking about personal ownership of nuclear weapons under the 2nd Amendment, and it doesn't do anything but weaken your argument and make you appear to be an anti-gun nut, or ignorant of what the conversation is actually about.
Oh, and thanks for the extremely broad insulting generalizations about a couple cultures, because it's an odd phenomenon when hundreds of millions of people all act and think exactly the same way. I imagine that you're mostly trolling, but whatever.
True or False: a bean bag round to the chest is less lethal than 16 pellets that are ballistically the same as .380 rounds. Because that's what a 2 3/4 inch shell with 01 Buckshot from a .12 gauge effectively is.
The one I love the best:
You can buy a .12 gauge shotgun, and 00 or 01 Buck load which will pretty much kill anyone from any sporting goods store. However, non-lethal bean-bag rounds that police use for crowd control are "law enforcement only" and cannot be purchased by the average citizen.
Clearly the law is set up for me to kill an invader and have the coroner take him away to a morgue rather than just to subdue him and wait for the police to haul him away to a jail.
You do realize that the people who wrote that line, and submitted it to the States for ratification, which it was; just got done fighting a war for independence from another country that started as a tax revolt, right?
And if you had a clue, you'd know that none of the weapons being discussed ANYWHERE in the wake of Newtown are even capable of burst fire.
You lose on being informed in even the slightest way.
It's a matter of amperage. You can find 12v to 5v down-step voltage converters for really cheap (like $2-$3) that would work - get a "speed charger" for a smartphone that plugs into what used to be called a cigarette lighter and strip the plastics off of it and wire it off of something like the change tray light that only works if the ignition is on. Those "speed chargers" usually offer up 1A of current at 5v - perfect for the RPi and 1-2 things plugged into it. And, they are usually cheaper than building your own without even factoring in the time to design it, order parts, solder together, etc.
Existing USB ports may only offer about 500mA of current, which isn't enough to properly power a Raspberry Pi. Something off of a car stereo that is meant for using with a flash-based storage device in read-only mode may be even less, like 250mA, which is a third of what you need.
Anybody remember a building in Oklahoma City that had the face of it blown off, and over a hundred people died without a single bullet being fired?
McVeigh spent more on the truck rental than he did the homemade explosives inside of it. Do we need more laws making it illegal to blow up buildings occupied by the Federal Government?
and that if it's not coming soon, we don't need guns to stop it.
This is true; but you never need a gun right up until the point where you do. Then it's too late.
if it was legal for an average citizen to get half of those, I would rather do that than hollow point bullets. However, many of those are "law enforcement only".
True, but I think he's looking for something that doesn't knock over half the city to do it.
It will.
It will make the current models much more desirable, because they are reliable and don't compromise function with fucktarded.
What a great idea - take a perfectly working tool and screw it up by adding a bunch of expensive electronic bullshit that won't make two shits of a difference in the end.
Don't use USB. Use the integrated I2C bus, and this thing. It's cheaper, doesn't suck power through the already limited USB on the RPi, and gives you 10 location updates per second in exactly the form you're looking for.
I'm using one to build a vehicle management system for my rock crawler project. The platform is a 2nd generation Toyota 4Runner, which has a double-din dash opening that currently houses a broken CD player / tape deck combo.
It will house a 7" touchscreen display driven by the RPi, which will accept bluetooth A2DP audio (already have that working) and forward it to an amplifier, use a 3-axis gyro / accelerometer module to give vehicle positional and attitude data represented as a gimbaled graphic on the display, offline GPS navigation, and a "digital switchboard" for vehicle accessories like differential lockers, on-board air compressor, lights, etc. through an electrical relay control module.
Way more functional than your average in-dash navigation touchscreen thing from the car audio manufacturers, at half the price.
And this is exactly what Lenovo is doing.
They have the X1 Carbon. They have the T430u.
They still have the T530 and W530.
All are ThinkPads.
Except that they do care what it looks like, thus the X1 Carbon and the soon-to-be ThinkPad Helix.
Oh, and they moved to a Chiclet keyboard with the 30-series notebooks back in May. Every ThinkPad now has a keyboard that is practically identical to Apple's, except with some bad design choices (Print Screen key between right ctrl and alt, grey Fn labels on black plastic keys that you can't see, etc.)
You don't have to give up ruggedness or functionality to have good design. The X1 Carbon shows that. Instead of using the same metal "roll cage" that all ThinkPads have used, they made one of carbon fiber. They got rid of the massive vertical docking connector that adds at least a centimeter to the device's Z-height, because you can use USB 3 now. It could use a better power connector though - the X1 Carbon's connector is a square of metal that sticks into the power port at least 7mm - if someone trips on that cord your beautiful thin and light notebook is flying to the floor.
On that T400, the plastic shell may be cheap, but the magnesium roll cage that houses all the components is not. Plastics can be replaced quite easily.
We have thousands of those T400s in my company, and they are solid workhorse laptops. Same with the T410 and T420.
I was once talking to a law enforcement officer at a gun range, who was commenting on my Sig Sauer P229. He said that his department's decision when it came time to select the weapon they were going to use came down to that Sig P229 and a Glock 23. They chose the Glock because it was accurate, drop dead reliable, and lightweight. The Sig, in contrast, was accurate and drop dead reliable.
I love my P229, but I could see why someone would want the composite frame of a Glock if it was strapped to their hip all day long.
That's a wonderful idea. Too bad that our cash registers in our stores still have to traverse our network to get to the credit card processor. Thus, we might as well do the transaction ourselves and save a few cents each on a couple billion credit card swipes.
Democrats love to bring up this popularity contest voting statistic for Congress, but the Indiana 4th doesn't give two shakes of a rat's ass how many votes the Democratic candidate in the California 23rd won by.
That's not how Congress is elected. Just because Candidates in California, New York, Illinois, Florida, and Pennsylvania run up the score in their metropolitan districts doesn't dictate how Oklahoma wants to be represented.
I'm afraid there's a massive technical difference between hitting a chunk of metal flying in a purely ballistic path at 50 m/sec, and a cruise missile that is flying low to the terrain (line of sight issues that completely fuck a weapon based on focused light), and able to change heading and altitude while flying at 250 m/sec.
Also, just like previous ABM systems, they can be overwhelmed with quantity. So you can shoot down 100 incoming warheads per minute? We'll just build a launcher that can throw 150 per minute and you're still fucked 50 times over.