Make a folder with all the shortcuts you want, name it Start. You can split it up in to subfolders if you want. Add the toolbar to your taskbar. Now you don't have to deal with that POS metro start page.
If I'd been drinking I'd have spit coffee all over the keyboard. I do believe that charms is one of the most unreliable chunks of interface I've seen in recent OS.
Come on charms, come out, you can do it.. There you are.
Yes, but instead of 1 $4000 computer that is still the same old slow computer that no one writes software for running at some god forsakenly slow speed that no accessories, add-ons or parts, you can have 16. Lets say your $250 computer has a replacement cycle of 3 years, pretty common number. That means the 16 $250 you will buy instead will be spread out over 48 years.
In some applications it makes sense for the expensive computer, in industry you don't want to switch stuff out every other day of the week. In 10-20 years the same controller/computer might be useful. On your home computer trying to watch Youtube in 8D, your 20 year old computer, no so much.
When I was a teen our NES club made our own controller t-shirts with Puff Paint. I was just way ahead of the hip curve. I think they call that the way too geeky curve.
The most effective way to kill 20(,000) children is the big brother state.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_famine Out of a total population of approximately 22 million, somewhere between 240,000 and 3,500,000 people died from starvation or hunger-related illnesses
What about communications in an uncontrolled spin? Can you radiate enough power omnidirectionally to establish communications with the ground, or other sat? I would assume that directional communications would be the preferred method. That said, I am ignorant of the methods small sats use for communication.
Anyone can build anything, the question is, will it work when it gets there.
Space is a totally alien environment from habitable earth. It's like being in the desert Antarctic and the inside of a nuclear reactor at the same time. If you're in the sun it's very hot and out of the sun it is very cold. There no atmosphere and whatever particles are around can contain high energies. Many substances stable at atmospheric pressure become volatile. Special lubricants have to be used to avoid all kinds of issues with evaporation, freezing, or sticking. Solar flares can fry you.
Any leaks or evaporation from the satellite can cause it to spin out of control. Any control system failure is fatal. You don't get to test the unit in zero gravity before hand. Your solar and power storage have to deal with all the above issues. Oh, if your components get hot, they have to radiate the heat away, no convection to do the work for you.
"(My 21-year-old unemployed little brother owns an M-16, for God's sake.)"
You are full of shit and I am here to debunk you.
Automatic rifle - fully automatic, will fire all the rounds in one trigger pull. Considered a class 3 weapon. Requires a background check, a tax stamp, and a certificate from local law enforcement to purchase. You will spend more then $10,000US to purchase one. Your brother probably owns a semi-automatic AR-15.
You are also unaware of how muzzle loaders work. The black powder is far more dangerous then the rifle itself. Some nut going off and throwing black powder pipe bombs would also have a deadly effect.
I'm pretty sure the mass murder rate has been pretty consistent from the time before video games up till now. If that's the case, it's really more likely that the effect we are seeing is the effect of most mass murderers are while, male, and not from exceptionally poor families. Which means they are more likely to have the financial means to afford technology like computers and game consoles.
"The only reason to be against science is if you know you're wrong and you're afraid that other people will find out." I am against unbiased science, the problem we have here is that this is a human study where biases from the studier, the studied, and the groups financing the study can lead to wildly different conclusions from the thermodynamic truth. If there is a effect of violent video games it is very small, which means the sample sizes have to be huge and the study times long.
The conspiracy theory nut voice inside my head came up with this theory...
"The events on 12/14/12 in America and China were the results of manchurian candidates being activated by their respective governments in order to avoid public scrutiny on some measure of important public policy or occurrence that happened at that time. With the medias sole focus on the events, what the governments want ignored will quietly slide past the mainstream."
The other voices tell me that is not likely to be the case.
The Browning BAR is a gas-operated, semi-automatic rifle produced by the Browning Arms Company first in Belgium and later in Japan. The rifle loads from a box magazine detachable from a hinged floor plate
If close range is less then 3 feet, then yes a hunting rifle is impractical. Other then that, most solders are trained to use their rifles at ranges up to point blank. You only use your pistol as a weapon of last resort. Hitting people in the head is hard, even at close range. Hitting someone with a.30 cal hollow point just about anywhere in their center of mass is not so hard. The energy difference between a rifle and handgun can be quite large, velocities are much higher.
There are already laws stating if you make a gun available to a minor, you are legally responsible.
Lets reverse this. How about if I steal your car and kill someone it's your fault too? Doesn't make any sense either. When another person of adult age steals something it is wholly their own responsibility.
Do remember he murdered his mom, yes with a gun, but it could have just as easily been with a knife. All he had to do then was take her key chain and open the safe. Shit, they could have been locked up and he just used the key to open it.
According to the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics for 2009 there are 254,212,610 registered passenger vehicles. Auto accidents: '...each year, approximately 2,000 die from their injuries. ' [NHTSA]
The estimated total number of guns held by civilians in the United States is 270,000,000 [gunpolicy.org] The 3,385 firearms-related deaths for age group 0-19 years breaks down to: [year: 1999]
214 unintentional
1,078 suicides
1,990 homicides
83 for which the intent could not be determined
20 due to legal intervention
Of the total firearms-related deaths:
73 were of children under five years old
416 were children 5-14 years old
2,896 were 15-19 years old
Even if we reduced all non-minority crime to 0 we'd still have more crime then most other places in the world.
Instead we'll spend more money on fighting crime, banning guns and drugs, and incarcerating people then we will on improving peoples lives. And we will wonder why we have high murder rates.
Improve racial equality, education, and income in the U.S.
The vast majority of murders in the U.S. are cause by and against minorities. The unfortunate answer for the person at hand, is there is no easy answer without taking so much liberty from the citizens that were at a much higher risk of being assaulted and killed by are own government.
No gun is any more or less deadly then any other. A person who can load a single shot fast can kill you just as dead.
>Plus, if you do a total ban on certain weapons, you have the moral authority to do whatever the fuck you want.
Also, no tolerance types of bans tend to increase the lethality of crime. 'Oh shit, I'll get the death penalty if I commit 1 murder, I might as well shoot as many as I can and see if I get away'.
The U.S. has a problem with poverty and lack of education by race that causes our high murder numbers. The 'White' murder rate is somewhere between.5 and.3. We are still suffering from the legacy of slavery and racism in the U.S. and will have a higher murder rate because of it even if guns disappeared tomorrow.
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Make a folder with all the shortcuts you want, name it Start. You can split it up in to subfolders if you want. Add the toolbar to your taskbar. Now you don't have to deal with that POS metro start page.
If I'd been drinking I'd have spit coffee all over the keyboard. I do believe that charms is one of the most unreliable chunks of interface I've seen in recent OS.
Come on charms, come out, you can do it.. There you are.
Yes, but instead of 1 $4000 computer that is still the same old slow computer that no one writes software for running at some god forsakenly slow speed that no accessories, add-ons or parts, you can have 16. Lets say your $250 computer has a replacement cycle of 3 years, pretty common number. That means the 16 $250 you will buy instead will be spread out over 48 years.
In some applications it makes sense for the expensive computer, in industry you don't want to switch stuff out every other day of the week. In 10-20 years the same controller/computer might be useful. On your home computer trying to watch Youtube in 8D, your 20 year old computer, no so much.
Do you see anything in the stores that isn't cheap plastic crap? When was the last time you saw a TV in a wooden cabinet?
As cheap plastic becomes the norm, I foresee more of this in the geek counterculture
http://forum.kizzume.com/technology-computers/wooden-and-steampunk-computer-cases-t1504.html
It would not surprise me if there is a market for high tech disguised as historical devices out there.
When I was a teen our NES club made our own controller t-shirts with Puff Paint. I was just way ahead of the hip curve. I think they call that the way too geeky curve.
Being that his computer already knows the signature of his server, it would show up very quickly.
The most effective way to kill 20(,000) children is the big brother state.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_famine
Out of a total population of approximately 22 million, somewhere between 240,000 and 3,500,000 people died from starvation or hunger-related illnesses
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_North_Korea#Internment_camps_for_political_prisoners
Kwan-li-so No. 12 was closed down following a defeated riot in 1987 where around 5,000 prisoners were killed
Saying 'won't prevent these tragedies from happening' is the understatement of the 20th century.
is not intentionally quieted, etc.), and you do not give it to anyone else. .
You may also make silencers as long as they are not used with a gun. I use mine on an air compressor; it's like magic for the quiet.
used.. or even usable on a gun. Anything even close to a suppressor can get you more attention from the ATF then you'd ever want.
What about communications in an uncontrolled spin? Can you radiate enough power omnidirectionally to establish communications with the ground, or other sat? I would assume that directional communications would be the preferred method. That said, I am ignorant of the methods small sats use for communication.
Anyone can build anything, the question is, will it work when it gets there.
Space is a totally alien environment from habitable earth. It's like being in the desert Antarctic and the inside of a nuclear reactor at the same time. If you're in the sun it's very hot and out of the sun it is very cold. There no atmosphere and whatever particles are around can contain high energies. Many substances stable at atmospheric pressure become volatile. Special lubricants have to be used to avoid all kinds of issues with evaporation, freezing, or sticking. Solar flares can fry you.
Any leaks or evaporation from the satellite can cause it to spin out of control. Any control system failure is fatal. You don't get to test the unit in zero gravity before hand. Your solar and power storage have to deal with all the above issues. Oh, if your components get hot, they have to radiate the heat away, no convection to do the work for you.
"(My 21-year-old unemployed little brother owns an M-16, for God's sake.)"
You are full of shit and I am here to debunk you.
Automatic rifle - fully automatic, will fire all the rounds in one trigger pull. Considered a class 3 weapon. Requires a background check, a tax stamp, and a certificate from local law enforcement to purchase. You will spend more then $10,000US to purchase one. Your brother probably owns a semi-automatic AR-15.
You are also unaware of how muzzle loaders work. The black powder is far more dangerous then the rifle itself. Some nut going off and throwing black powder pipe bombs would also have a deadly effect.
I'm pretty sure the mass murder rate has been pretty consistent from the time before video games up till now. If that's the case, it's really more likely that the effect we are seeing is the effect of most mass murderers are while, male, and not from exceptionally poor families. Which means they are more likely to have the financial means to afford technology like computers and game consoles.
"The only reason to be against science is if you know you're wrong and you're afraid that other people will find out."
I am against unbiased science, the problem we have here is that this is a human study where biases from the studier, the studied, and the groups financing the study can lead to wildly different conclusions from the thermodynamic truth. If there is a effect of violent video games it is very small, which means the sample sizes have to be huge and the study times long.
...because the media will make you famous posthumously.
If you want to end atrocities, get rid of governments.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091015102513AAVklLq
Event's like this are terrible, but they are nothing compared to rulers with guns, tanks, and men willing to follow orders.
You're being rather daft. The poor kids were murdered by pistols. Banning any kind of rifle is useless in just this case.
The conspiracy theory nut voice inside my head came up with this theory...
"The events on 12/14/12 in America and China were the results of manchurian candidates being activated by their respective governments in order to avoid public scrutiny on some measure of important public policy or occurrence that happened at that time. With the medias sole focus on the events, what the governments want ignored will quietly slide past the mainstream."
The other voices tell me that is not likely to be the case.
"The hunting rifle isn't semiautomatic and unwieldy."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browning_BAR
The Browning BAR is a gas-operated, semi-automatic rifle produced by the Browning Arms Company first in Belgium and later in Japan. The rifle loads from a box magazine detachable from a hinged floor plate
If close range is less then 3 feet, then yes a hunting rifle is impractical. Other then that, most solders are trained to use their rifles at ranges up to point blank. You only use your pistol as a weapon of last resort. Hitting people in the head is hard, even at close range. Hitting someone with a .30 cal hollow point just about anywhere in their center of mass is not so hard. The energy difference between a rifle and handgun can be quite large, velocities are much higher.
You're right, guns are the most dangerous mass murder tool. Thank god the psyco's haven't figured out there are other means of killing people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Land_fire
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2003/05/14/loc_mahoney.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dupont_Plaza_Hotel_arson#Fire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childers_Palace_Fire
There are already laws stating if you make a gun available to a minor, you are legally responsible.
Lets reverse this. How about if I steal your car and kill someone it's your fault too? Doesn't make any sense either. When another person of adult age steals something it is wholly their own responsibility.
Do remember he murdered his mom, yes with a gun, but it could have just as easily been with a knife. All he had to do then was take her key chain and open the safe. Shit, they could have been locked up and he just used the key to open it.
A quick google-fu gave me these numbers:
According to the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics for 2009 there are 254,212,610 registered passenger vehicles.
Auto accidents: '...each year, approximately 2,000 die from their injuries. ' [NHTSA]
The estimated total number of guns held by civilians in the United States is 270,000,000 [gunpolicy.org]
The 3,385 firearms-related deaths for age group 0-19 years breaks down to: [year: 1999]
214 unintentional
1,078 suicides
1,990 homicides
83 for which the intent could not be determined
20 due to legal intervention
Of the total firearms-related deaths:
73 were of children under five years old
416 were children 5-14 years old
2,896 were 15-19 years old
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelagibacter_ubique
One of the largest influences in reducing crime in the U.S. is racial equality and reducing poverty for minorities.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_crime_in_the_United_States
Even if we reduced all non-minority crime to 0 we'd still have more crime then most other places in the world.
Instead we'll spend more money on fighting crime, banning guns and drugs, and incarcerating people then we will on improving peoples lives. And we will wonder why we have high murder rates.
Improve racial equality, education, and income in the U.S.
The vast majority of murders in the U.S. are cause by and against minorities. The unfortunate answer for the person at hand, is there is no easy answer without taking so much liberty from the citizens that were at a much higher risk of being assaulted and killed by are own government.
Maybe, but not buying my magic rock will affect gun crime never too!
>caused a gun ban to be enacted on everything but single-shot long guns.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman
No gun is any more or less deadly then any other. A person who can load a single shot fast can kill you just as dead.
>Plus, if you do a total ban on certain weapons, you have the moral authority
to do whatever the fuck you want.
Also, no tolerance types of bans tend to increase the lethality of crime. 'Oh shit, I'll get the death penalty if I commit 1 murder, I might as well shoot as many as I can and see if I get away'.
There have been a good number of school mass killings with knives in China and Japan. Look it up.
Also look at this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_crime_in_the_United_States
The U.S. has a problem with poverty and lack of education by race that causes our high murder numbers. The 'White' murder rate is somewhere between .5 and .3. We are still suffering from the legacy of slavery and racism in the U.S. and will have a higher murder rate because of it even if guns disappeared tomorrow.