Why does everyone hate gnome 3 so much? I viewed it as an upgrade. Windows 8 doesn't look that bad either. Unity seems a little clunkier than gnome3, but still quite usable.
I don't know about vastly, but yes there is significantly less gun crime in Europe. Not just that, less violent crime in general. But you are mistaken in saying Europe has banned guns. It hasn't. That leaves many other potential sources of our violence problem. Long working hours, wealth inequality, urban sprawl etc. The violence is concentrated in our cities though which isn't at all intuitive as poverty is at least as common in our rural areas. If you neglect our cities the violence is on par with other developed nations. I am hopeful that the study about lead and violence is accurate and we just have to wait a decade or so to watch the tail end of that effect taper off. It makes sense it would be worse here because of how much more we rely on automobiles for transportation.
If you own the mill you can make yourself a firearm without consulting the ATF as is mentioned in the summary. 3d mills are considerably more expensive than 3d printers which is the only reason this story is a story at all.
The UK has the most stringent gun laws in the EU (though Germany is close) and even there you may own rifles and shotguns. Belgians and the Czechs have very active firearm cultures that are not related to hunting. I know Switzerland is not a member, but they are in the region and they also have such a culture. The remaining states mostly have hunting related firearm cultures from what I have read.
These turrets count I think. Israel has at times said they are keeping a man in the loop, but the technology doesn't require it, and at times they have said they are in "see-shoot" mode. This is essentially indiscriminate area denial that is easier to turn off than mines. It does have the computer vision and targeting aspects of a killer robot, just not the path finding and obstacle avoidance parts.
Leaf owners in Arizona are finding that they have lost up to a third of the range in less than a year due to the hot conditions. Even in ideal climates they lose 20% of their range a year. That is how LiPo works. I agree that 270miles is a range suitable for most, but by the end of 5 years you will be down to 88 in a nice climate, and the battery replacement is going for about $8k for the leaf which is a much smaller battery pack than the tesla's.
Also a note about calling a car with a 900lb battery pack a roadster.... don't. I want my electric powered miata/mgb/lotus as a daily driver as much as anyone, but the batteries simply aren't there yet. If the wealthy want to have them as a toy that is great, but tricking normal people who need a car that just works into getting one is dishonest.
Using their numbers, we would have to introduce security measures that made passwords 1000000% more difficult to obtain, than they currently are, in order to put credentials on par with mules in terms of value. Having N mules available and N+1 passwords available, the amount of crime would be no less than if we had N*10^6 passwords available. They do not mention why we cannot remove the ability for a money owner (mule) to initiate large unrepudiable transactions. They indicated this was usually via western union or moneygram. What harm would we do society by removing those methods? Security is very hard. I don't believe we can make credentials even close to 1000000% more secure, and if we do not, we will only drive up the price of those credentials by an insignificant amount.
Not even just an ide, emacs is "a great OS with a terrible text editor attached" I don't know anyone who just uses vi anymore either. Most use vim. I use add-ons for autocomplete in C++ to vim. Only thing I miss is an integrated debugger, I find clewn to be kind of unwieldy.
Does someone know if there are add-ons for vim that will parse your header hierarchy and create temporary ctags files when you open a Makefile? Or a gdb integrator that is at least a little bit less painful than using gdb? I would like a visual studio style ide for linux if I could get one.
Apple didn't pay their dues, considering the way the samsung case went in the UK they probably don't lobby/bribe anywhere in europe. Not that I think the case had merit, just that if they had paid they would have won. No one has ever been maimed by a 5.5v fan have they? Whatever manufacturer did pay, looked at the differences between their product and apple's, and found the difference between the two that was easiest to use, then lobbied/bribed the regulators to regulate that difference in their favor. It happens a lot.[needs citation] Any power we give the government, is a power the corporations can buy. People should just start voting for whichever candidate got the fewest campaign contributions, probably wouldn't fix anything, but it would be interesting.
The glider pilots in the DFW area refer to the plowed black-earth fields east of Dallas as "Texas brick lifters" in what I have been told is only mild exaggeration. So apparently heat island effects are not relegated to urban areas.
They won't use an EMP or anything, they will just buy and install a GPS jammer on their trucks. The Tracck will call home but it will have no idea where it is. Truckers already use them in various parts of the world to bypass rules about how many miles they can drive in a day. This came to/. attention some time back when driving by airports was causing airliners to make hands on landings rather than automated ones on a regular basis.
The mandate to hold liability, while it has its reasons, induced insurance companies to roll all of their risk into the price of liability, so that those who only pay liability are in fact shouldering part of the cost of the risk of those with full coverage. I don't have a better answer, I'm just saying its not perfect.
I will go ahead of the AC won't. During the depression progressives froze wages, business responded by offering incentives like health care and dental to work around the wage freeze when recruiting talented workers. It became an expected benefit, and then a codified one.
A student in the middle of a business venture would be quite lucky to have a few hundred available. I know I didn't. The disadvantage poverty creates within civil law is insurmountable unless the potential damages are sufficiently juicy to draw in a shark willing to work with no fee. I wouldn't have signed sure, but expecting him to be able to be able to afford a lawyer is unreasonable.
Now you are right though, all he can do having already stepped outside the law, is get even (hopefully without harming the other student's privacy), or lick his wounds.
I suspect this is a troll, but in case it isn't. The reason people are outraged at this, is the 7round restriction, not the new penalties, or background checks. No one makes 7 round magazines today, even for low capacity handguns. Various sports will have to change their rules, manufacturers will have to re-tool, and small business owners will go under as they are stuck with shelves of items they cannot legally sell, all so he can say he "did something". Bravo on the background checks, new penalties are redundant if we would sentence sanely to begin with.
How is this news for nerds? Nerds seem to feel strongly one way or the other about gun control, but so does everyone else. As long as we are here, is an 8 round revolver exempted as it does not have a magazine? It is almost like they knocked off the extra three rounds just to make manufacturers re-tool. Even "low-capacity" single stacks like 1911 handguns typically have 8 in a full size. This will probably streamline background checks since they have to do one for every ammo purchase, which seems like the only silver lining, but its a single-state check so not terribly useful.
All firearms which fire more than one bullet when the trigger is depressed can only be purchased by non law enforcement if they were manufactured prior to 1986 *and* the class 3 forms and background checks have been done. Doing the class 3 forms won't let you get a newer full auto, and just because its old doesn't mean you don't need the paperwork.
People complain about the amount of misinformation, but it would help if the laws weren't so complicated. Get rid of the NFA, suppressors are just hearing protection, full-autos are a novelty that would loose their appeal if they were easy to get, and short barrelled rifles and shotguns aren't significantly more deadly than any other firearm.
You only have to have a manufacturing license if you wish to transfer the created firearm to another party. You can make any firearm you want as long as it does not fall under the NFA (can not be easily modified to fire more than one bullet per trigger pull, is not intentionally quieted, etc.), and you do not give it to anyone else. There is a large market in 80% complete receivers. You buy a piece of metal then bend and drill it a bit with a vice and drill press and you have an AK receiver. Order the rest online with no checks. You can also get almost finished aluminium blanks for AR receivers and mill them as you said.
You are correct in saying that most bad things people can do with a firearm are illegal. Making a firearm isn't a bad thing. Make as many as you like, just don't kill people with them.
Does arguing with cops work in the Netherlands? I didn't see any the one time I was there. I got the impression they weren't all that necessary, speeding was enforced by cameras and I suspect pickpocketing and bike theft are just kind of accepted as they would be too hard to prevent. Here in TX the police are nervous at every stop as they might really get shot. Staying in the car and moving slowly, speaking politely though not obsequeously, and just generally not being a jerk, results in a verabal warning more often than not. Anything other than that will result in a ticket for whatever it was you were doing to get noticed. As a side note, if you tell the officer there is a loaded firearm in your car and where it is, they are said to calm down and be more generous. The same with a handgun permit, if you show it (and you must), and explain where you have the firearm or that you do not have one with you, they seem to be more likely to give a warning as well. I suspect this is because a person who is telling them where their weapons are is deemed less likely to kill them.
even using the highest estimate of F-22 cost I could find we'd need to give them 44 F-22s. Raise rates on mass mailers perhaps? The only reason I check my mail anymore is to get information the government wants me to know about, car registration, voter registration, jury duty etc. If I could give an email address to uncle sam, I would be more than happy to do away with my mail address. Let it die.
Historically in England, the middle class was the power wielding wealthy merchant class, and the upper class were the peerage, people with titles and hereditry land. Everyone else was lower class, or "common". In the US there has never been a solid definition of middle class, but one that is concise and reasonable is the following. The middle class own and use tools. The upper class hire people to use tools to fix their house and property, the lower class cannot afford to own tools or fix their house or property. It is a generalization and thus not 100% accurate, but it is still useful I think.
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Why does everyone hate gnome 3 so much? I viewed it as an upgrade. Windows 8 doesn't look that bad either. Unity seems a little clunkier than gnome3, but still quite usable.
I don't know about vastly, but yes there is significantly less gun crime in Europe. Not just that, less violent crime in general. But you are mistaken in saying Europe has banned guns. It hasn't. That leaves many other potential sources of our violence problem. Long working hours, wealth inequality, urban sprawl etc. The violence is concentrated in our cities though which isn't at all intuitive as poverty is at least as common in our rural areas. If you neglect our cities the violence is on par with other developed nations. I am hopeful that the study about lead and violence is accurate and we just have to wait a decade or so to watch the tail end of that effect taper off. It makes sense it would be worse here because of how much more we rely on automobiles for transportation.
If you own the mill you can make yourself a firearm without consulting the ATF as is mentioned in the summary. 3d mills are considerably more expensive than 3d printers which is the only reason this story is a story at all.
The UK has the most stringent gun laws in the EU (though Germany is close) and even there you may own rifles and shotguns. Belgians and the Czechs have very active firearm cultures that are not related to hunting. I know Switzerland is not a member, but they are in the region and they also have such a culture. The remaining states mostly have hunting related firearm cultures from what I have read.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_RCWS
These turrets count I think. Israel has at times said they are keeping a man in the loop, but the technology doesn't require it, and at times they have said they are in
"see-shoot" mode. This is essentially indiscriminate area denial that is easier to turn off than mines. It does have the computer vision and targeting aspects of a killer robot, just not the path finding and obstacle avoidance parts.
Leaf owners in Arizona are finding that they have lost up to a third of the range in less than a year due to the hot conditions. Even in ideal climates they lose 20% of their range a year. That is how LiPo works. I agree that 270miles is a range suitable for most, but by the end of 5 years you will be down to 88 in a nice climate, and the battery replacement is going for about $8k for the leaf which is a much smaller battery pack than the tesla's.
Also a note about calling a car with a 900lb battery pack a roadster.... don't. I want my electric powered miata/mgb/lotus as a daily driver as much as anyone, but the batteries simply aren't there yet. If the wealthy want to have them as a toy that is great, but tricking normal people who need a car that just works into getting one is dishonest.
Using their numbers, we would have to introduce security measures that made passwords 1000000% more difficult to obtain, than they currently are, in order to put credentials on par with mules in terms of value. Having N mules available and N+1 passwords available, the amount of crime would be no less than if we had N*10^6 passwords available. They do not mention why we cannot remove the ability for a money owner (mule) to initiate large unrepudiable transactions. They indicated this was usually via western union or moneygram. What harm would we do society by removing those methods? Security is very hard. I don't believe we can make credentials even close to 1000000% more secure, and if we do not, we will only drive up the price of those credentials by an insignificant amount.
Not even just an ide, emacs is "a great OS with a terrible text editor attached" I don't know anyone who just uses vi anymore either. Most use vim. I use add-ons for autocomplete in C++ to vim. Only thing I miss is an integrated debugger, I find clewn to be kind of unwieldy.
Does someone know if there are add-ons for vim that will parse your header hierarchy and create temporary ctags files when you open a Makefile? Or a gdb integrator that is at least a little bit less painful than using gdb? I would like a visual studio style ide for linux if I could get one.
Apple didn't pay their dues, considering the way the samsung case went in the UK they probably don't lobby/bribe anywhere in europe. Not that I think the case had merit, just that if they had paid they would have won. No one has ever been maimed by a 5.5v fan have they? Whatever manufacturer did pay, looked at the differences between their product and apple's, and found the difference between the two that was easiest to use, then lobbied/bribed the regulators to regulate that difference in their favor. It happens a lot.[needs citation] Any power we give the government, is a power the corporations can buy. People should just start voting for whichever candidate got the fewest campaign contributions, probably wouldn't fix anything, but it would be interesting.
The glider pilots in the DFW area refer to the plowed black-earth fields east of Dallas as "Texas brick lifters" in what I have been told is only mild exaggeration. So apparently heat island effects are not relegated to urban areas.
They won't use an EMP or anything, they will just buy and install a GPS jammer on their trucks. The Tracck will call home but it will have no idea where it is. Truckers already use them in various parts of the world to bypass rules about how many miles they can drive in a day. This came to /. attention some time back when driving by airports was causing airliners to make hands on landings rather than automated ones on a regular basis.
The mandate to hold liability, while it has its reasons, induced insurance companies to roll all of their risk into the price of liability, so that those who only pay liability are in fact shouldering part of the cost of the risk of those with full coverage. I don't have a better answer, I'm just saying its not perfect.
I will go ahead of the AC won't. During the depression progressives froze wages, business responded by offering incentives like health care and dental to work around the wage freeze when recruiting talented workers. It became an expected benefit, and then a codified one.
A student in the middle of a business venture would be quite lucky to have a few hundred available. I know I didn't. The disadvantage poverty creates within civil law is insurmountable unless the potential damages are sufficiently juicy to draw in a shark willing to work with no fee. I wouldn't have signed sure, but expecting him to be able to be able to afford a lawyer is unreasonable.
Now you are right though, all he can do having already stepped outside the law, is get even (hopefully without harming the other student's privacy), or lick his wounds.
I agree with him. Most libertarians would too I think, though I am not one.
Actually, rampage killers typically create meticulous plans over time, they don't cool off, they build pressure.
I suspect this is a troll, but in case it isn't. The reason people are outraged at this, is the 7round restriction, not the new penalties, or background checks. No one makes 7 round magazines today, even for low capacity handguns. Various sports will have to change their rules, manufacturers will have to re-tool, and small business owners will go under as they are stuck with shelves of items they cannot legally sell, all so he can say he "did something". Bravo on the background checks, new penalties are redundant if we would sentence sanely to begin with.
How is this news for nerds? Nerds seem to feel strongly one way or the other about gun control, but so does everyone else.
As long as we are here, is an 8 round revolver exempted as it does not have a magazine? It is almost like they knocked off the extra three rounds just to make manufacturers re-tool. Even "low-capacity" single stacks like 1911 handguns typically have 8 in a full size. This will probably streamline background checks since they have to do one for every ammo purchase, which seems like the only silver lining, but its a single-state check so not terribly useful.
All firearms which fire more than one bullet when the trigger is depressed can only be purchased by non law enforcement if they were manufactured prior to 1986 *and* the class 3 forms and background checks have been done. Doing the class 3 forms won't let you get a newer full auto, and just because its old doesn't mean you don't need the paperwork.
People complain about the amount of misinformation, but it would help if the laws weren't so complicated. Get rid of the NFA, suppressors are just hearing protection, full-autos are a novelty that would loose their appeal if they were easy to get, and short barrelled rifles and shotguns aren't significantly more deadly than any other firearm.
You only have to have a manufacturing license if you wish to transfer the created firearm to another party. You can make any firearm you want as long as it does not fall under the NFA (can not be easily modified to fire more than one bullet per trigger pull, is not intentionally quieted, etc.), and you do not give it to anyone else. There is a large market in 80% complete receivers. You buy a piece of metal then bend and drill it a bit with a vice and drill press and you have an AK receiver. Order the rest online with no checks. You can also get almost finished aluminium blanks for AR receivers and mill them as you said.
You are correct in saying that most bad things people can do with a firearm are illegal. Making a firearm isn't a bad thing. Make as many as you like, just don't kill people with them.
You shouldn't believe him, he is lying.
Does arguing with cops work in the Netherlands? I didn't see any the one time I was there. I got the impression they weren't all that necessary, speeding was enforced by cameras and I suspect pickpocketing and bike theft are just kind of accepted as they would be too hard to prevent. Here in TX the police are nervous at every stop as they might really get shot. Staying in the car and moving slowly, speaking politely though not obsequeously, and just generally not being a jerk, results in a verabal warning more often than not. Anything other than that will result in a ticket for whatever it was you were doing to get noticed. As a side note, if you tell the officer there is a loaded firearm in your car and where it is, they are said to calm down and be more generous. The same with a handgun permit, if you show it (and you must), and explain where you have the firearm or that you do not have one with you, they seem to be more likely to give a warning as well. I suspect this is because a person who is telling them where their weapons are is deemed less likely to kill them.
even using the highest estimate of F-22 cost I could find we'd need to give them 44 F-22s. Raise rates on mass mailers perhaps? The only reason I check my mail anymore is to get information the government wants me to know about, car registration, voter registration, jury duty etc. If I could give an email address to uncle sam, I would be more than happy to do away with my mail address. Let it die.
In my experience the difference between psychopaths and the rest of us is not in how we behave, but in how we feel afterwards.
Historically in England, the middle class was the power wielding wealthy merchant class, and the upper class were the peerage, people with titles and hereditry land. Everyone else was lower class, or "common". In the US there has never been a solid definition of middle class, but one that is concise and reasonable is the following. The middle class own and use tools. The upper class hire people to use tools to fix their house and property, the lower class cannot afford to own tools or fix their house or property. It is a generalization and thus not 100% accurate, but it is still useful I think.