Wow, the politicians will do everything short of the one act that would actually make a difference. Of course, repealing the 2nd ammendment and banning firearms would be death at the polls (and elsewhere, probably). So we get crap like this for the sake of appearances. Such courage.
You're right, it would make a difference. Go look at what's happening in Darfur to people who don't own firearms. They're being hacked to death with dull machetes.
And you're right, it would be death at the polls and elsewhere, as those with the ability and inclination to ignore the laws shot anyone who didn't vote for their candidate like it was waythef**kbackwhen before the secret ballot was enforced. It'd also be death elsewhere as these people, holding the power of life and death over their fellow men, let that power go to their head.
And yes, this stuff *is* crap, for it trades more than a little liberty for not even the guise of security.
Why would the MIB want you to *stop* developing a weapon that they'd find useful?
The MIBs would show up at your doorstep bearing a check with more zeroes than you can count, if you finish the device and grant them exclusive use of the resulting IP.
I should point out that for sufficiently violent values of "fighting back" it *does* solve the problem of bullies. I'll recommend a Serbu Super Shorty and Remington Buckhammers... and a Breachersgrip if you love your metacarpals. (Note that this requires both a concealed weapon permit and a separate permit for owning the NFA weapon!)
Why? Beating the shit out of someone is considered a "forcible felony" and can result in permanent injury or death. It's not my place to decide that somebody should die for such a thing, but it's not my place to die for such a thing either.
...but weaponized strangelets spring to mind. Whether they have to be added to standard matter at sufficient temperature is moot; one could just lob 'em into the sun and wait a few months for them to get there. Or not, if you've got a particle accelerator of sufficient power.
Pardon me while I leech the opinions and data provided by smart people, but damage is done by lead crushing tissue. It matters very little how much tissue is crushed in the first two inches of penetration in jello (representing penetration of skin) but very much how big of a hole you can make in either the brain or a large, blood-bearing organ which will serve to deprive the brain of oxygen. 5.56 NATO is terribly messy with a sufficiently long barrel to impart velocities on the bullet sufficient to cause fragmentation and resulting huge, gaping wounds. Problem is, the M4's barrel is slightly too short to impart these velocities, resulting in a tiny ice-pick like wound channel, which increases slightly at the point which tumbling occurs and the bullet moves to traveling tail-first through a squishy target.
If I can impart a single lesson, *energy transfer is nuts*. It is only damage caused directly or indirectly to the central nervous system that can cause incapacitation.
Now replace "slavery" in the above quote with "racism". Making racism illegal didn't advance racial equality one bit. And it only became illegal after the average joe citizen had already decided it was generally immoral. But when the government made racism illegal, we lost some of our freedoms.
I call BS on the first half, and for the second half: consider how many people *gained* freedoms at the expense of losing the freedom to express a very vile form of evil.
Two questions really need addressing: GPS accuracy and "Oh Shit" moments.
Oh Shit moments are when you're in a small convertible with a large pickup behind you in a one-lane road. The pickup is doing twice the speed limit. You can't accelerate fast enough anyway (personal experience) to avoid an accident even without this.
GPS accuracy: Not as much of a problem now, but if this system doesn't give you the benefit of the doubt, it could slow you down to 25 every time you hit an intersection with a smaller street. If the person following you is driving an old car without this system, you're about to get slammed in the ass-end.
The sound is only annoying with constant exposure, and the only way someone is going to be constantly exposed is if they're loitering around outside the store. It will have no effect on people who are legitimate customers entering or leaving the store. No one, regardless of age, should be loitering outside this guy's store. And if there's a simply way to encourage a group not to loiter, especially when the loiterers are pretty much exclusively composed of that group, then I say "go for it!"
Bullshit. You can hear this stuff well enough, and it feels like your bones are resonating and your teeth are going to shake loose, one pane of safety glass isn't going to do squat about it.
All loiterers are teens =! all teens are loiterers.
So much for taking obnoxious cell-phone calls outside. Are they going to put on a 90-second loop of 1812 inside when schmucks start talking really loud on their cellphone inside the restauraunt?
Frankly, I'm pretty sure that this is turning my stomach (though that may be the pizza from last night) -- in the course of my high school career, I developed a very high pain threshold because every day of every week of every... I had a monster, killer splitting headache by the time I got home due to the countless TVs left on, tuned to a blank station.
This strikes me as somewhere between sadistic and evil and I think this is going to backfire long-run -- if your future customers associate your shop with pain now, they'll go elsewhere later.
If you consider Quake2 as the first game to really make it while introducing proper mouselook to the masses, yes it is. Duke3D had it, but it was wonkky enough to make me seasick so it never got used. Quake2 gave you the ability to do much more with it than anything prior, even Quake, where it was not really needed and played by the best gamers I know with pure keyboard.
First, these aren't wind powered sensors that transmit over wi-fi -- they're wind-powered sensors that detect a wi-fi node nearby.
There's a big difference in power levels there.
The first sounds really nifty, and with lower-power radio systems would be really cool. The second sounds like something ThinkGeek will have on clearance in about two years.
No. Thanks to the 14th Amendment, most (all? IANAL) Constitutional restrictions on the federal government also apply to state and local government. That is why a school teacher paid from local property taxes in Podunk, Idaho is bound by First Amendment freedom of religion restrictions. And the Peoples' Republic of Berkeley can't outlaw firearms (Second Amendment).
Actually, they can and they do. Anyone seen the latest ballotinitiative?
What point is there in keeping the country safe from foreigners if it is not safe from itself? At least the foreigners have to cross an ocean before they commit atrocities.
Weapons makers favor blowback, too. The profits are very high in weapons making, because a lot of negotiations can be secret.
Sorry, I laugh every time I hear this. The entire weapons industry is making 1/10 of what McDonalds makes. That's an entire market sector vs. one fast food chain.
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Wow, the politicians will do everything short of the one act that would actually make a difference. Of course, repealing the 2nd ammendment and banning firearms would be death at the polls (and elsewhere, probably). So we get crap like this for the sake of appearances. Such courage. You're right, it would make a difference. Go look at what's happening in Darfur to people who don't own firearms. They're being hacked to death with dull machetes. And you're right, it would be death at the polls and elsewhere, as those with the ability and inclination to ignore the laws shot anyone who didn't vote for their candidate like it was waythef**kbackwhen before the secret ballot was enforced. It'd also be death elsewhere as these people, holding the power of life and death over their fellow men, let that power go to their head. And yes, this stuff *is* crap, for it trades more than a little liberty for not even the guise of security.
no, no, no, no, no.
Their parents did not provide the guns. Many were obtained on the black market.
I probably bought one of your CDs.
Thank you.
Why would the MIB want you to *stop* developing a weapon that they'd find useful?
The MIBs would show up at your doorstep bearing a check with more zeroes than you can count, if you finish the device and grant them exclusive use of the resulting IP.
And I quote: "Sharing is Caring, Fuck the RIAA!"
It ain't transhumanism until I can make a pun about the "USB human interface device" driver.
I should point out that for sufficiently violent values of "fighting back" it *does* solve the problem of bullies. I'll recommend a Serbu Super Shorty and Remington Buckhammers... and a Breachersgrip if you love your metacarpals. (Note that this requires both a concealed weapon permit and a separate permit for owning the NFA weapon!)
Why? Beating the shit out of someone is considered a "forcible felony" and can result in permanent injury or death. It's not my place to decide that somebody should die for such a thing, but it's not my place to die for such a thing either.
Actually, I've heard an interesting quote attributed to him. This really deserves its own story, but I'll start small.
You misspelled "9th circuis court of appeals".
...but weaponized strangelets spring to mind. Whether they have to be added to standard matter at sufficient temperature is moot; one could just lob 'em into the sun and wait a few months for them to get there. Or not, if you've got a particle accelerator of sufficient power.
Pardon me while I leech the opinions and data provided by smart people, but damage is done by lead crushing tissue. It matters very little how much tissue is crushed in the first two inches of penetration in jello (representing penetration of skin) but very much how big of a hole you can make in either the brain or a large, blood-bearing organ which will serve to deprive the brain of oxygen. 5.56 NATO is terribly messy with a sufficiently long barrel to impart velocities on the bullet sufficient to cause fragmentation and resulting huge, gaping wounds. Problem is, the M4's barrel is slightly too short to impart these velocities, resulting in a tiny ice-pick like wound channel, which increases slightly at the point which tumbling occurs and the bullet moves to traveling tail-first through a squishy target.
If I can impart a single lesson, *energy transfer is nuts*. It is only damage caused directly or indirectly to the central nervous system that can cause incapacitation.
http://www.theboxotruth.com/
http://www.serbu.com/shorty.htm
I call BS on the first half, and for the second half: consider how many people *gained* freedoms at the expense of losing the freedom to express a very vile form of evil.
Two questions really need addressing: GPS accuracy and "Oh Shit" moments.
Oh Shit moments are when you're in a small convertible with a large pickup behind you in a one-lane road. The pickup is doing twice the speed limit. You can't accelerate fast enough anyway (personal experience) to avoid an accident even without this.
GPS accuracy: Not as much of a problem now, but if this system doesn't give you the benefit of the doubt, it could slow you down to 25 every time you hit an intersection with a smaller street. If the person following you is driving an old car without this system, you're about to get slammed in the ass-end.
First time I ever did this, and it's for good reason. Can anyone spare a +1 Insightful?
So much for taking obnoxious cell-phone calls outside. Are they going to put on a 90-second loop of 1812 inside when schmucks start talking really loud on their cellphone inside the restauraunt?
Frankly, I'm pretty sure that this is turning my stomach (though that may be the pizza from last night) -- in the course of my high school career, I developed a very high pain threshold because every day of every week of every... I had a monster, killer splitting headache by the time I got home due to the countless TVs left on, tuned to a blank station.
This strikes me as somewhere between sadistic and evil and I think this is going to backfire long-run -- if your future customers associate your shop with pain now, they'll go elsewhere later.
If you consider Quake2 as the first game to really make it while introducing proper mouselook to the masses, yes it is. Duke3D had it, but it was wonkky enough to make me seasick so it never got used. Quake2 gave you the ability to do much more with it than anything prior, even Quake, where it was not really needed and played by the best gamers I know with pure keyboard.
50% of the population can't support the other 50% in prison.
First, these aren't wind powered sensors that transmit over wi-fi -- they're wind-powered sensors that detect a wi-fi node nearby. There's a big difference in power levels there. The first sounds really nifty, and with lower-power radio systems would be really cool. The second sounds like something ThinkGeek will have on clearance in about two years.
actually, the 'pressure' of the vacuum can be described as the rate of virtual particles appearing and disappearing.
Actually, they can and they do. Anyone seen the latest ballot initiative?
Vores Øl beat them to it and licensed under the CC license. I wonder if Nestle has any derivative 'code' in their recipe?
What point is there in keeping the country safe from foreigners if it is not safe from itself? At least the foreigners have to cross an ocean before they commit atrocities.