I'm sorry to hear you've had a bad experience with the law. I'm sure it's affacted your view on police officers negatively.
If you want to go back to being required to keep arms and ammunition and keep them in operable condition and know how to hit something with them, I am all for that. I will see you at the range. I expect to get a good laugh out of you.
Seems to work relatively well for Switzerland. Why don't you do that in the US, instead of the free-for-all you have now?
You should be careful in your assumptions. I may not live in a country that is nearly as gun-happy as the US, but I have shot (mostly rifles) for years and won a few prices here and there. I have plenty of friends who are hunters, including my ex-girlfriend and her entire family.
I know my way around guns, safety etc. etc. Admittedly, most of them have been bolt-action rifles and not handguns, but then again I don't live in a country where people get borderline sexually excited by a Colt 1911.
And the reason a criminal may decide to rape and kill an entire family? Why, that would be the society of escalated violence that you live in, which has at least partially been created by the widespread ownership of guns. Other factors include cutbacks on education leading to a widespread gang culture and a penal system that serves only to punish mercilessly instead of rehabilitating. The very worst example of this is the death penalty.
Thus, criminals figure they may as well go whole hog. After all, what does a couple of murder charges matter when you're already going to go down for 30 years for a violent home invasion?
Besides, how is your piddly little handgun going to do stop a group of aggressive thugs who are most likely armed as well and probably have at least one of your loved ones at gun- or knifepoint? Home invasions are generally conducted by groups of criminals, not individuals. Can you keep 4 or 5 people at gunpoint for an extended period of time until help arrives or you figure out a solution.
This ain't The Hobbit, those thugs aren't going to turn to stone the moment the sun rises. You've pulled a gun on them and escalated the situation. You've basically ensured that at least one person dies, and it's probably going to be you. Congratulations on turning a bad situation even worse.
Cops are trained professionals who receive regular firearms practice and are specifically trained in the art of diffusing heated situations. I know the media likes to paint a picture of inefficient and corrupt cops, but those are a tiny tiny minority. The vast majority are highly professional and held to a much higher standard than the average citizen, and for good reason.
Calling the cops on someone who is threatening to hurt you is not a threat of violence, nor is it a threat of intimidation. Calling the cops is an action of protecting myself, not attacking my attacker.
Civilians are not required to receive any firearms practice before owning a gun, nor do they receive any training in diffusing difficult situations. This is the reason gun ownership should be monitored and regulated. Your very own precious second amendment specifically states "a well-regulated militia". How in the world is a random collection of random civilian Americans, most without any formal firearms training at all, in any way a well-regulated militia?
I see it all the time, people on car enthusiast boards yammering about decatting their rides in the mistaken belief that it will "free up the exhaust". Modern cars with modern catalytic converters are designed to run with them, the engine management etc. is tuned for it, so you get basically no benefit at all. All it does it make the exhaust a bit louder (which is also illegal above a certain limit).
On a dedicated drag car with a huge engine and custom tune, you may see some benefit, but those are illegal for road use for a reason.
Even worse are the monster douchebags with diesel cars and trucks, who remove particulate filters and install "smoke tunes" to make as much black smoke as possible. There's nothing like have a shot of concentrated lung cancer blasted right at my goddamn face. If people want a car that's smelly, noisy and smokey, they should buy an old car instead of fucking up a new one.
Obama's obviously not the messiah that some people made him up to be, but he's nowhere near Bush in damage dealt to both the US and foreign relations. If you think Obama is the most harmful US president of the last 20 year, you must have been in a coma or just horribly ignorant.
It's true that a lot of the badness enacted by Bush still hasn't been removed by Obama. This is down to political maneuvering of course, but also down to a republican-dominated house hell-bent on screwing over every single Obama initiative for idiotic party line reasons.
He's still politician and politicians are dirty by nature. But in both elections, he has been the least bad candidate with an actual chance of winning by far.
This really shouldn't be an issue. Traffic law states that if you are in the intersection when the light turns red, you must exit the intersection as quickly as possible. It ALSO states that you cannot enter an intersection before it is cleared. Therefore, left turners who are unable to turn left before the light changes must leave the intersection before any other traffic from any direction enters it.
It's one of those simple basic rules that almost everyone ignores and intersections tend to suck because of it. I've seen plenty of people stuck in the middle of busy intersections because of it.
There is the Scandinavian Peninsula, which is what you are referring to, but that is a purely geographical term and is distinct from Scandinavia proper.
The cultural/linguistic region Scandinavia consists of Norway, Sweden and Denmark, because we share common culture, history, politics and linguistic roots. If you know even the slightest bit of history, disregarding Denmark as part of Scandinavia is quite ignorant.
I get your point, but Windows 7 and above handles Advanced Format drives natively. It's only Windows XP and back that have issues with them, and it's likely that an OS that old will be running on old hardware as well, negating the performance impact.
All current Linux partitioning tools (fdisk, cfdisk, parted etc.) will behave correctly on these Advanced Format drives as long as you align your partitions to MiB instead of cylinders. You may lose a few KiB of "empty space" between partitions, but does it really matter on a 2+ TB drive?
At the same time, the shaken system is absolutely horrible for the environment, causing a huge number of old cars to be scrapped or shipped halfway around the world, and new vehicles to be built and sold for no reason at all.
My Peugeot is 12 years old, absolutely ancient by Japanese standards. Everything works perfectly, it has no rust at all, has only ever needed basic maintenance and it's cosmetically fine inside and out. Still rides comfortably and tackles corners with confidence, just like the day rolled out of the factory. I will admit that I need to change a non-maintenance part soon, the speedo sometimes drops to zero while I'm driving. It's a ~$50 part and takes about an hour to replace.
By keeping my car on the road instead of replacing it, I may be using a bit more gas than if I drove a new car, but I'm free of car loans and the environment is free of the enormous amount of pollution created by the production of a new car. I fully expect it to last another 10 years and 200K km easily with basic maintenance.
The shaken system is institutional planned obsolescence and a terrible idea. Why bother making cars that can last 20 years when most of your customers buy a new car every 3 years anyway? You see it in every single Japanese car with a couple of years on them. The paint is thin and vulnerable to chipping, the panel joins rust and parts are ridiculously expensive.
I've always been told that French cars were crap, but let me tell you that my 12 year old Peugeot is miles and miles ahead of anything Japanese I've ever driven.
I am an expert driver. Trying to limit me to the lowest common denominator is stupid and wrong.
Look at that. Just look at how wrong you are.
Even if you were right (which you are not, with a >99.9% certainty), let's say you can handle driving with no speed limits. Your car is in perfect condition, you run high-performance tires, you're wide awake, alert and focused, and you refuse to be distracted by your cellphone etc. while driving.
So hypothetically, you and your car can handle the speed. How about the guy behind you? He's stressed, about to be late for a meeting, and he's just had a set of brand new $50 tires put on his car.
Let's say you can handle an upcoming sweeping corner at 85mph, but the guy behind you doesn't know much about cars, so he's thinking "I'll just follow that guy in front of me". Suddenly, he's upside down in a ditch, wondering what went wrong. I don't trust 99.9% of drivers to react correctly in an emergency, such as entering a corner at a too high rate of speed.
Being a good driver is not about how fast you can drive, even if immature idiots think so. It's about knowing which speed is appropriate for a given road. Said speed can be much slower than the posted speed limit, depending on conditions and traffic.
Are you pissed because someone is in front of you while you're wanting to go faster than traffic? Well fuck you. You can wait until they complete their pass, or until the road opens up into enough lanes that you can safely overtake. Different people have different speeds they're comfortable at, and terrorizing people because they want to drive slower than you do is dickery of the highest order.
Hell no, I'm very much against self-driving cars. The very reason people seem to clamor for them is because the average driver doesn't give a shit about driving and thus constantly breaks the speed limit while driving distracted. This is a societal problem that needs to be solved by a change of mindset, not the introduction of even more technology to take responsibility away from us like children.
I used to call myself a geek proudly. No more. Now I just like tech because it's fascinating, not because I think it'll solve all the world's problems.
I see reality, and part of that is that a large segment of the population has collectively decided to not give a shit about traffic laws. This needs to change though better education, stricter licensing requirements, less cameras everywhere and more actual police officers being highly visible and helpful in public (another can of worms right there).
The best thing I can do is to set a good example, so that's what I do.
I wouldn't normally use that particular brand of argumentation, but in this particular case, anyone who doesn't believe in vaccination or is a proponent of circumcision is actually insane.
There is absolutely no sound reasoning for their arguments, they're all based on hear-say and old superstitions.
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Well, perhaps. Sounds like you're getting mad, and I don't want to get shot.
I'm sorry to hear you've had a bad experience with the law. I'm sure it's affacted your view on police officers negatively.
If you want to go back to being required to keep arms and ammunition and keep them in operable condition and know how to hit something with them, I am all for that. I will see you at the range. I expect to get a good laugh out of you.
Seems to work relatively well for Switzerland. Why don't you do that in the US, instead of the free-for-all you have now?
You should be careful in your assumptions. I may not live in a country that is nearly as gun-happy as the US, but I have shot (mostly rifles) for years and won a few prices here and there. I have plenty of friends who are hunters, including my ex-girlfriend and her entire family.
I know my way around guns, safety etc. etc. Admittedly, most of them have been bolt-action rifles and not handguns, but then again I don't live in a country where people get borderline sexually excited by a Colt 1911.
"Full of shit" right back at ya.
And the reason a criminal may decide to rape and kill an entire family? Why, that would be the society of escalated violence that you live in, which has at least partially been created by the widespread ownership of guns. Other factors include cutbacks on education leading to a widespread gang culture and a penal system that serves only to punish mercilessly instead of rehabilitating. The very worst example of this is the death penalty.
Thus, criminals figure they may as well go whole hog. After all, what does a couple of murder charges matter when you're already going to go down for 30 years for a violent home invasion?
Besides, how is your piddly little handgun going to do stop a group of aggressive thugs who are most likely armed as well and probably have at least one of your loved ones at gun- or knifepoint? Home invasions are generally conducted by groups of criminals, not individuals. Can you keep 4 or 5 people at gunpoint for an extended period of time until help arrives or you figure out a solution.
This ain't The Hobbit, those thugs aren't going to turn to stone the moment the sun rises. You've pulled a gun on them and escalated the situation. You've basically ensured that at least one person dies, and it's probably going to be you. Congratulations on turning a bad situation even worse.
Cops are trained professionals who receive regular firearms practice and are specifically trained in the art of diffusing heated situations. I know the media likes to paint a picture of inefficient and corrupt cops, but those are a tiny tiny minority. The vast majority are highly professional and held to a much higher standard than the average citizen, and for good reason.
Calling the cops on someone who is threatening to hurt you is not a threat of violence, nor is it a threat of intimidation. Calling the cops is an action of protecting myself, not attacking my attacker.
Civilians are not required to receive any firearms practice before owning a gun, nor do they receive any training in diffusing difficult situations. This is the reason gun ownership should be monitored and regulated. Your very own precious second amendment specifically states "a well-regulated militia". How in the world is a random collection of random civilian Americans, most without any formal firearms training at all, in any way a well-regulated militia?
I see it all the time, people on car enthusiast boards yammering about decatting their rides in the mistaken belief that it will "free up the exhaust". Modern cars with modern catalytic converters are designed to run with them, the engine management etc. is tuned for it, so you get basically no benefit at all. All it does it make the exhaust a bit louder (which is also illegal above a certain limit).
On a dedicated drag car with a huge engine and custom tune, you may see some benefit, but those are illegal for road use for a reason.
Even worse are the monster douchebags with diesel cars and trucks, who remove particulate filters and install "smoke tunes" to make as much black smoke as possible. There's nothing like have a shot of concentrated lung cancer blasted right at my goddamn face. If people want a car that's smelly, noisy and smokey, they should buy an old car instead of fucking up a new one.
Come back when you know what the hell you're talking about.
Hint: LPs are analog, hence they are neither 16bit nor 24bit nor any other bitrate. They're analog.
I simply dope up, gulp cough syrup with codeine, and stay away from people as much as possible.
So pretty much just business as usual?
Oh please, spare me the retoric.
Obama's obviously not the messiah that some people made him up to be, but he's nowhere near Bush in damage dealt to both the US and foreign relations. If you think Obama is the most harmful US president of the last 20 year, you must have been in a coma or just horribly ignorant.
It's true that a lot of the badness enacted by Bush still hasn't been removed by Obama. This is down to political maneuvering of course, but also down to a republican-dominated house hell-bent on screwing over every single Obama initiative for idiotic party line reasons.
He's still politician and politicians are dirty by nature. But in both elections, he has been the least bad candidate with an actual chance of winning by far.
Commie in chief? Really?
Really?
Come back when you can tell the difference between actual communism and "I disagree with some of his viewpoints".
This really shouldn't be an issue. Traffic law states that if you are in the intersection when the light turns red, you must exit the intersection as quickly as possible. It ALSO states that you cannot enter an intersection before it is cleared. Therefore, left turners who are unable to turn left before the light changes must leave the intersection before any other traffic from any direction enters it.
It's one of those simple basic rules that almost everyone ignores and intersections tend to suck because of it. I've seen plenty of people stuck in the middle of busy intersections because of it.
There is the Scandinavian Peninsula, which is what you are referring to, but that is a purely geographical term and is distinct from Scandinavia proper.
The cultural/linguistic region Scandinavia consists of Norway, Sweden and Denmark, because we share common culture, history, politics and linguistic roots. If you know even the slightest bit of history, disregarding Denmark as part of Scandinavia is quite ignorant.
I get your point, but Windows 7 and above handles Advanced Format drives natively. It's only Windows XP and back that have issues with them, and it's likely that an OS that old will be running on old hardware as well, negating the performance impact.
All current Linux partitioning tools (fdisk, cfdisk, parted etc.) will behave correctly on these Advanced Format drives as long as you align your partitions to MiB instead of cylinders. You may lose a few KiB of "empty space" between partitions, but does it really matter on a 2+ TB drive?
As long as you don't attempt to apply bilinear/trilinear filtering, Kwin's compositing even works reasonably well in pure software mode.
Alt+Shift+F12, I believe. Works pretty damn well for me. Screw Gnome.
At the same time, the shaken system is absolutely horrible for the environment, causing a huge number of old cars to be scrapped or shipped halfway around the world, and new vehicles to be built and sold for no reason at all.
My Peugeot is 12 years old, absolutely ancient by Japanese standards. Everything works perfectly, it has no rust at all, has only ever needed basic maintenance and it's cosmetically fine inside and out. Still rides comfortably and tackles corners with confidence, just like the day rolled out of the factory. I will admit that I need to change a non-maintenance part soon, the speedo sometimes drops to zero while I'm driving. It's a ~$50 part and takes about an hour to replace.
By keeping my car on the road instead of replacing it, I may be using a bit more gas than if I drove a new car, but I'm free of car loans and the environment is free of the enormous amount of pollution created by the production of a new car. I fully expect it to last another 10 years and 200K km easily with basic maintenance.
The shaken system is institutional planned obsolescence and a terrible idea. Why bother making cars that can last 20 years when most of your customers buy a new car every 3 years anyway? You see it in every single Japanese car with a couple of years on them. The paint is thin and vulnerable to chipping, the panel joins rust and parts are ridiculously expensive.
I've always been told that French cars were crap, but let me tell you that my 12 year old Peugeot is miles and miles ahead of anything Japanese I've ever driven.
It's much simpler than that.
Americans have this odd tendency to confuse Denmark and the Netherlands, for whatever reason. Happens all the time.
You need to get yourself a pair of 2D glasses. You can make them yourself from two sets of 3D glasses, or you can buy a pair instead:
http://www.2d-glasses.com/
I am an expert driver. Trying to limit me to the lowest common denominator is stupid and wrong.
Look at that. Just look at how wrong you are.
Even if you were right (which you are not, with a >99.9% certainty), let's say you can handle driving with no speed limits. Your car is in perfect condition, you run high-performance tires, you're wide awake, alert and focused, and you refuse to be distracted by your cellphone etc. while driving.
So hypothetically, you and your car can handle the speed. How about the guy behind you? He's stressed, about to be late for a meeting, and he's just had a set of brand new $50 tires put on his car.
Let's say you can handle an upcoming sweeping corner at 85mph, but the guy behind you doesn't know much about cars, so he's thinking "I'll just follow that guy in front of me". Suddenly, he's upside down in a ditch, wondering what went wrong. I don't trust 99.9% of drivers to react correctly in an emergency, such as entering a corner at a too high rate of speed.
Being a good driver is not about how fast you can drive, even if immature idiots think so. It's about knowing which speed is appropriate for a given road. Said speed can be much slower than the posted speed limit, depending on conditions and traffic.
Are you pissed because someone is in front of you while you're wanting to go faster than traffic? Well fuck you. You can wait until they complete their pass, or until the road opens up into enough lanes that you can safely overtake. Different people have different speeds they're comfortable at, and terrorizing people because they want to drive slower than you do is dickery of the highest order.
Take a chill pill, dude.
It's called "not living in a naive dreamworld".
Hell no, I'm very much against self-driving cars. The very reason people seem to clamor for them is because the average driver doesn't give a shit about driving and thus constantly breaks the speed limit while driving distracted. This is a societal problem that needs to be solved by a change of mindset, not the introduction of even more technology to take responsibility away from us like children.
I used to call myself a geek proudly. No more. Now I just like tech because it's fascinating, not because I think it'll solve all the world's problems.
I see reality, and part of that is that a large segment of the population has collectively decided to not give a shit about traffic laws. This needs to change though better education, stricter licensing requirements, less cameras everywhere and more actual police officers being highly visible and helpful in public (another can of worms right there).
The best thing I can do is to set a good example, so that's what I do.
Well then, people should be driving the speed limit and not an arbitrary speed over because they feel entitled to break the law.
I fail to see the problem.
I stand partially corrected, the base model fourth-generation (94 to 04) had less than 150hp in the base model, what the hell Ford?
That is both embarrassing to the Mustang nameplate and to me as an automotive enthusiast.
I wouldn't normally use that particular brand of argumentation, but in this particular case, anyone who doesn't believe in vaccination or is a proponent of circumcision is actually insane.
There is absolutely no sound reasoning for their arguments, they're all based on hear-say and old superstitions.