The second amendment is not there to allow you to protect yourself from another person, it is there to allow you to protect yourself from that government with it's standing army and militarized police force.
"owning a gun is more of a threat to the gun owner and his family" - This is patently false.
As someone who has spent a lot of time with swords, knives and staves, no. I would much rather have a pistol.
Harmless, round shaft? Not on an epee. It has a V cross-section and I can split your flesh with a fast dragging slash which will arrive a lot sooner than the sword will. As for your example of epee vs sword, there's a rather famous duel fought over that exact claim. The fencer slashed the hell out of the sabre bearer. It's the man, not the particular weapon.
There's no safe place to stab someone either.
As for range and projectile lethality, you are correct. The grenade however, has no place in this discussion. It's not defensive at all.
Remember, Reno said she couldn't remember who made the claims. The person in charge of that horrid fiasco couldn't even recall who made the claims. Zero credibility.
One ton of feathers, regardless if dropped one at a time, will smother and crush you. If it doesn't fall in a pile? Wonderful. Now you have forty-thousand square miles of fiber to clean up.
It is incumbent upon those who propose a technology to downplay the dangers. It is incumbent upon everyone else to point our their flawed logic.
Moving along 4 dimensions with smooth analog controls is nicer than 2, and using something other than a mouse.
Might be true if that was how it worked. Even with keyboard control, you get three dimensional movement and a mouse gives analogue. What is this 4th dimension you can control, time? Not in a multi-player game unless you're talking about clipping, which isn't really control so much as an approved cheat on output timing.
I only use the keyboard for macro level actions like popping an inventory or map. Otherwise I use a customizable controller and customizable, multi-button mouse in tandem and I will guarantee that I can maneuver in 3D as well as you.
Posting AC isn't *the* answer, only a part. Here on/. we frequently see ACs post with an appeal to authority, claiming national publication, having designed some new, cool and super-advanced kernel, etc. Those would need to be filtered out as well. I myself have referenced some personal project. Those too. Even the language used would have to be examined to remove certain subtext.
Allow me to substitute some words. Having technical skills doesn't necessarily mean that someone is smart, especially when it comes naturally to them. Someone without natural technical skills and are able to apply their intellect to gain them are very intelligent, however. But a lot of technicians out there don't have to think about it much. - And yes, it's nice. In both venues.
From Wiki, "fluctuation (or quantum fluctuation or vacuum fluctuation) is the temporary change in the amount of energy in a point in space,[1] as explained in Werner Heisenberg's uncertainty principle."
You'll note that change is time, and energy and space are explicitly mentioned.
Indeed. I recall listening to a theoretical mathematician claim that time travel was mathematically possible. Just take a disc of infinite mass and spin it at the speed of light, then travel around it in the opposite direction at the speed of light. Simple, right?
Not so. Some believe it has a finite age. This could be overturned in a moment with discovery. For instance, by coming to understand the reason some quasars associated with galaxies have red shifts far greater than their associates.
*If* is always foremost. *If* time came into being. Math describes reality, it does not a thing more in terms of reality. Just because one can imagine something and then craft math to describe said imagining in no way means what is described is real. That's a big part of the recursion mentioned, many math people seem to believe that the math creates the reality.
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Mobs are raised by words. Mobs do not utilize the judicial system. Words can kill with some immediacy.
The second amendment is not there to allow you to protect yourself from another person, it is there to allow you to protect yourself from that government with it's standing army and militarized police force.
"owning a gun is more of a threat to the gun owner and his family" - This is patently false.
As someone who has spent a lot of time with swords, knives and staves, no. I would much rather have a pistol.
Harmless, round shaft? Not on an epee. It has a V cross-section and I can split your flesh with a fast dragging slash which will arrive a lot sooner than the sword will. As for your example of epee vs sword, there's a rather famous duel fought over that exact claim. The fencer slashed the hell out of the sabre bearer. It's the man, not the particular weapon.
There's no safe place to stab someone either.
As for range and projectile lethality, you are correct. The grenade however, has no place in this discussion. It's not defensive at all.
Remember, Reno said she couldn't remember who made the claims. The person in charge of that horrid fiasco couldn't even recall who made the claims. Zero credibility.
One ton of feathers, regardless if dropped one at a time, will smother and crush you. If it doesn't fall in a pile? Wonderful. Now you have forty-thousand square miles of fiber to clean up.
It is incumbent upon those who propose a technology to downplay the dangers. It is incumbent upon everyone else to point our their flawed logic.
What's needed is a technology to blur the camera's picture.
Anyone answering a question of this nature online is being foolish. AC, moniker or not.
IRS tax policy has nothing to do with computer usefulness. It's office equipment, not simply PCs.
Oh please. His point was simply to snark.
Do you have any teeth left at all after your knee impacted your chin?
Moving along 4 dimensions with smooth analog controls is nicer than 2, and using something other than a mouse.
Might be true if that was how it worked. Even with keyboard control, you get three dimensional movement and a mouse gives analogue. What is this 4th dimension you can control, time? Not in a multi-player game unless you're talking about clipping, which isn't really control so much as an approved cheat on output timing.
I only use the keyboard for macro level actions like popping an inventory or map. Otherwise I use a customizable controller and customizable, multi-button mouse in tandem and I will guarantee that I can maneuver in 3D as well as you.
On the lighter side, auto-lock is for pussies.
Academia is business as well, therefore....
There's a big damned difference between predicting that there might or will be a bombing and naming an individual culprit.
Posting AC isn't *the* answer, only a part. Here on /. we frequently see ACs post with an appeal to authority, claiming national publication, having designed some new, cool and super-advanced kernel, etc. Those would need to be filtered out as well. I myself have referenced some personal project. Those too. Even the language used would have to be examined to remove certain subtext.
Unreadable? How sad you have a comprehensive system so primitive.
Same intolerant crap.
It was a joke, not a serious comment.
Allow me to substitute some words. Having technical skills doesn't necessarily mean that someone is smart, especially when it comes naturally to them. Someone without natural technical skills and are able to apply their intellect to gain them are very intelligent, however. But a lot of technicians out there don't have to think about it much. - And yes, it's nice. In both venues.
"I think you are confusing wisdom for intelligence." An artificial separation.
It is a theory only in terms of parlor conversation, in terms of Theory or hypothesis, not so much. In terms of reality, no support whatsoever.
From Wiki, "fluctuation (or quantum fluctuation or vacuum fluctuation) is the temporary change in the amount of energy in a point in space,[1] as explained in Werner Heisenberg's uncertainty principle."
You'll note that change is time, and energy and space are explicitly mentioned.
Indeed. I recall listening to a theoretical mathematician claim that time travel was mathematically possible. Just take a disc of infinite mass and spin it at the speed of light, then travel around it in the opposite direction at the speed of light. Simple, right?
Not so. Some believe it has a finite age. This could be overturned in a moment with discovery. For instance, by coming to understand the reason some quasars associated with galaxies have red shifts far greater than their associates.
Like everything, some parts yes, some parts no.
*If* is always foremost. *If* time came into being. Math describes reality, it does not a thing more in terms of reality. Just because one can imagine something and then craft math to describe said imagining in no way means what is described is real. That's a big part of the recursion mentioned, many math people seem to believe that the math creates the reality.