Thank you for actually being a good Senator, that introduces good bills that create or change laws that help out the average US Citizen. I'm glad I voted for you the last time you were on the ballot, and if I still lived in Oregon I'd vote for you again.
And I'm saying that if the barrel is laying on the table, and the frame is laying on the table, and you have a cotton swab covered in solvent inside the slide in your hand, it is pretty obvious that it isn't fucking loaded, and that it's impossible for it to fire anything.
The rule to treat a gun as if it's always loaded is a very good rule to follow, if you haven't already field stripped the thing. If the gun is in fucking parts on a cleaning mat, I'm pretty sure you can count on it not being loaded. Stop being a pedantic fuckwad.
I agree that proper safety training is a must, and makes the indicator somewhat superfluous. However, it costs nothing to have it there, and if it saves even one life from a careless accident, it's worth it. Why would you argue against having such a simple feature if it adds nothing to the manufacturing cost?
And you talk as if you could wave a magic wand and cause every gun in the world to disappear at once. Guns are a reality, and have been for 400 years. Criminals don't give two fucks about so-called gun control laws, because THEY ARE CRIMINALS. If they get guns, I want a gun too so I can make it a fair fight.
And if I get a gun, you bet your ass that I'm going to learn to store and use it properly, and safely.
Except that the technology for automatic one-pull-multiple-shots does exist. In lots of designs, all over the world. Owning one in the US takes nothing more than filling out ATF form 4, paying a $200 tax, and getting the sign-off of a law enforcement officer of record (Sheriff, District Attorney, Judge). You can even skip the last part if you establish a legal trust to be the legal owner of the automatic weapon, with yourself as a trustee; but there's some financial rules that also apply.
Therefore, what is described in the above post is a semi-automatic weapon, which is what everyone in the world also calls the mechanism activated by pulling a trigger, which fires the in-battery round, cycles the action, and loads another round from the magazine into the chamber. This style of weapon is present in rifles, pistols, and shotguns.
The difference? The Marlin has a vertical magazine, rather than a rotary magazine that fits flush into the receiver. Legally, an "assault weapon" is a largely a cosmetic definition.
In fact, if you do even one day of actual defense training, one of the exercises you do is shooting with a two-handed grip in the "A" stance, then shooting left handed "side stance" and then right handed "side stance".
This simple exercise would be impossible with some kind of electronic garbage that prevents firing based on grip signature. Also, I'd rather not have to worry about if the batteries are dead if I need the gun.
Here's what we need: a 1911-style grip safety, and a Walther PPK-style indicator pin that pops out close to the rear sight if a round is in the chamber. Those two things are remarkably effective, and cost practically nothing. Oh, and they've been around for decades.
And because you've never encountered it, that means it could never happen, right?
Anecdote != data.
Oh, and there are plenty of shotguns that carry more than 3 rounds, which can be bought at many sporting goods stores. The 3 round limit is usually a hunting regulation.
Yeah, let's see. We can have a centrifuge cascade and work with somewhat commonly available yellowcake Uranium, or we can build the same centrifuge cascade with an input that is non-naturally occurring material that will kill you (reactor waste), and the output of the cascade has to be handled in a robotic trench due to massively radioactive daughter products that have half-lives measured in minutes and seconds, and emits gamma radiation as it fissions.
Wait, fixing the root of the problem rather than the symptom?
HERACY!
This is what people don't understand. For every homicidal lunatic that goes and shoots up a school, there are thousands of responsible gun owners that are in danger of losing their rights because of knee-jerk reactions that do nothing to solve the problem.
How about we identify and cure the psychosis that causes someone to want to shoot up a school, rather than attempt to restrict the tool they use to shoot up a school?
How about better identification and treatment of mental illness that causes people to want to kill children? That sounds like an actual solution to the problem, rather than a band-aid on cancer.
Enacting stronger gun laws after there's already 200M+ guns out there isn't going to help, unless you repeal the 2nd Amendment and start taking guns back.
You can completely forbid the sale of guns unless you pass 17 background checks and 27 psychological evaluations, and there will still be 200M guns in the US that can be stolen / borrowed / lost.
Criminals don't give a single solitary fuck about whatever felony weapons beef you're going to stack on top of the multiple counts of capital murder that is going to send them to a gurney with a series of injections. After all, if they gave a fuck about the law, they wouldn't be murdering people, which carries a much heavier penalty than any gun charge.
Glad to see that some things on Slashdot never change. Unfortunately, it's the things that we wish would change that don't, and the things that we wish didn't change that do.
When I lived in Portland, I tried ClearWire because the price was awesome, and my DSL sucked the big one. The only place I could get reception was if I held the modem above my head in the back yard, with it plugged into a 30' extension cord. And that was in one of their most built out markets.
Yeah, I'm sure that a web poll has the same statistical integrity as an actual polling company like Gallup. I'm sure everyone only voted once, and that it was a poll with a sampling that is indicative of the current electorate.
I believe the way it works, is that someone is credentialed to be a diplomat by a government, and then those credentials are accepted, signed, and affixed with an official seal by the leader of a foreign government to which they are to have diplomatic relations.
Very unlikely that the Queen's government will accept any paperwork for Mr. Assange at this point.
What's funny, is that it has the same 2560 pixel horizontal resolution as the Apple Cinema Display, with only 1080 pixels vertically, where the Apple has 1440. They are the same price.
Apple is selling a display with 25% more pixels for the same price, and in an aspect ratio that's good for EDITING movies, rather than watching them. Well done, LG!
Here's the difference though: you can only receive one phone call at a time - everyone else gets a busy signal. Thus, the technology acts as a spam filter already. You can take the phone off the hook, or dial out and no incoming calls get through (without something like call waiting).
With email or text messages, you can receive hundreds of thousands simultaneously, and there is nothing you can do about it until it's already been accepted and working against your mailbox size limit (and bandwidth limit), unless the carrier does something about it before you see it. And it's not one person dialing another person, it's one person hitting a button and millions of messages are sent to millions of people.
If there was something along the lines of a Do Not Call list that had legal teeth, then that would be one thing, but there's not. Also, there's nothing to prevent offshore operations from spamming the crap out of people, because there's no prohibitive international calling fees.
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Dear Senator Wyden,
Thank you for actually being a good Senator, that introduces good bills that create or change laws that help out the average US Citizen. I'm glad I voted for you the last time you were on the ballot, and if I still lived in Oregon I'd vote for you again.
And I'm saying that if the barrel is laying on the table, and the frame is laying on the table, and you have a cotton swab covered in solvent inside the slide in your hand, it is pretty obvious that it isn't fucking loaded, and that it's impossible for it to fire anything.
The rule to treat a gun as if it's always loaded is a very good rule to follow, if you haven't already field stripped the thing. If the gun is in fucking parts on a cleaning mat, I'm pretty sure you can count on it not being loaded. Stop being a pedantic fuckwad.
I agree that proper safety training is a must, and makes the indicator somewhat superfluous. However, it costs nothing to have it there, and if it saves even one life from a careless accident, it's worth it. Why would you argue against having such a simple feature if it adds nothing to the manufacturing cost?
And you talk as if you could wave a magic wand and cause every gun in the world to disappear at once. Guns are a reality, and have been for 400 years. Criminals don't give two fucks about so-called gun control laws, because THEY ARE CRIMINALS. If they get guns, I want a gun too so I can make it a fair fight.
And if I get a gun, you bet your ass that I'm going to learn to store and use it properly, and safely.
Except that the technology for automatic one-pull-multiple-shots does exist. In lots of designs, all over the world. Owning one in the US takes nothing more than filling out ATF form 4, paying a $200 tax, and getting the sign-off of a law enforcement officer of record (Sheriff, District Attorney, Judge). You can even skip the last part if you establish a legal trust to be the legal owner of the automatic weapon, with yourself as a trustee; but there's some financial rules that also apply.
Therefore, what is described in the above post is a semi-automatic weapon, which is what everyone in the world also calls the mechanism activated by pulling a trigger, which fires the in-battery round, cycles the action, and loads another round from the magazine into the chamber. This style of weapon is present in rifles, pistols, and shotguns.
Marlin .22 LR semiautomatic rifle + 10 round magazine = Assault Weapon under the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban.
Ruger .22 LR semiautomatic rifle + 10 round magazine = NOT an Assault Weapon under the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban.
The difference? The Marlin has a vertical magazine, rather than a rotary magazine that fits flush into the receiver. Legally, an "assault weapon" is a largely a cosmetic definition.
It worked out pretty good for Libya, and is on it's way to working out in Syria...
In fact, if you do even one day of actual defense training, one of the exercises you do is shooting with a two-handed grip in the "A" stance, then shooting left handed "side stance" and then right handed "side stance".
This simple exercise would be impossible with some kind of electronic garbage that prevents firing based on grip signature. Also, I'd rather not have to worry about if the batteries are dead if I need the gun.
Here's what we need: a 1911-style grip safety, and a Walther PPK-style indicator pin that pops out close to the rear sight if a round is in the chamber. Those two things are remarkably effective, and cost practically nothing. Oh, and they've been around for decades.
If you're a pedant, sure. However, you can verify it's not loaded if you have disassembled it, ass.
And because you've never encountered it, that means it could never happen, right?
Anecdote != data.
Oh, and there are plenty of shotguns that carry more than 3 rounds, which can be bought at many sporting goods stores. The 3 round limit is usually a hunting regulation.
Yeah, let's see. We can have a centrifuge cascade and work with somewhat commonly available yellowcake Uranium, or we can build the same centrifuge cascade with an input that is non-naturally occurring material that will kill you (reactor waste), and the output of the cascade has to be handled in a robotic trench due to massively radioactive daughter products that have half-lives measured in minutes and seconds, and emits gamma radiation as it fissions.
I think I know which I'd pick.
Wait, fixing the root of the problem rather than the symptom?
HERACY!
This is what people don't understand. For every homicidal lunatic that goes and shoots up a school, there are thousands of responsible gun owners that are in danger of losing their rights because of knee-jerk reactions that do nothing to solve the problem.
How about we identify and cure the psychosis that causes someone to want to shoot up a school, rather than attempt to restrict the tool they use to shoot up a school?
Vests made out of dynamite are illegal everywhere. Yet, people still die from suicide bombers.
How can this possibly be? Bombs are illegal!
In China, it is forbidden for private citizens to own firearms, for the most part. Yet, this guy went and carved up 22 people at an elementary school today with a knife. Do we need knife control laws now too?
How about better identification and treatment of mental illness that causes people to want to kill children? That sounds like an actual solution to the problem, rather than a band-aid on cancer.
Enacting stronger gun laws after there's already 200M+ guns out there isn't going to help, unless you repeal the 2nd Amendment and start taking guns back.
You can completely forbid the sale of guns unless you pass 17 background checks and 27 psychological evaluations, and there will still be 200M guns in the US that can be stolen / borrowed / lost.
Criminals don't give a single solitary fuck about whatever felony weapons beef you're going to stack on top of the multiple counts of capital murder that is going to send them to a gurney with a series of injections. After all, if they gave a fuck about the law, they wouldn't be murdering people, which carries a much heavier penalty than any gun charge.
One typo, two pedantic responses.
Glad to see that some things on Slashdot never change. Unfortunately, it's the things that we wish would change that don't, and the things that we wish didn't change that do.
Jack Bauer will never let CTU... err... NCTC get shut down!
I was thinking the same thing. Did someone jam the breaks, or swerve out of the way?
When I lived in Portland, I tried ClearWire because the price was awesome, and my DSL sucked the big one. The only place I could get reception was if I held the modem above my head in the back yard, with it plugged into a 30' extension cord. And that was in one of their most built out markets.
Yeah, I sent it back.
Yeah, I'm sure that a web poll has the same statistical integrity as an actual polling company like Gallup. I'm sure everyone only voted once, and that it was a poll with a sampling that is indicative of the current electorate.
I believe the way it works, is that someone is credentialed to be a diplomat by a government, and then those credentials are accepted, signed, and affixed with an official seal by the leader of a foreign government to which they are to have diplomatic relations.
Very unlikely that the Queen's government will accept any paperwork for Mr. Assange at this point.
No, I think they were being purposeful. This product is a complete waste.
Note: most MSRP on the Cinema Display is $999, but it doesn't take a lot of effort to find it for the $799 that the above post states.
What's funny, is that it has the same 2560 pixel horizontal resolution as the Apple Cinema Display, with only 1080 pixels vertically, where the Apple has 1440. They are the same price.
Apple is selling a display with 25% more pixels for the same price, and in an aspect ratio that's good for EDITING movies, rather than watching them. Well done, LG!
Here's the difference though: you can only receive one phone call at a time - everyone else gets a busy signal. Thus, the technology acts as a spam filter already. You can take the phone off the hook, or dial out and no incoming calls get through (without something like call waiting).
With email or text messages, you can receive hundreds of thousands simultaneously, and there is nothing you can do about it until it's already been accepted and working against your mailbox size limit (and bandwidth limit), unless the carrier does something about it before you see it. And it's not one person dialing another person, it's one person hitting a button and millions of messages are sent to millions of people.
If there was something along the lines of a Do Not Call list that had legal teeth, then that would be one thing, but there's not. Also, there's nothing to prevent offshore operations from spamming the crap out of people, because there's no prohibitive international calling fees.