An assault rifle by definition has selectable fire, e.g. the ability to go fully automatic. And are already illegal (except for the government and certain gun manufacturers). The federal permit is required to own guns with barrels shorter than 16" that are not a handguns.
What the recent proposed legislation wants to ban is things that merely look like assault rifles as the OP said.
but that impairment never reaches a level equivalent to that of a 0.8 bac.
I think you misplaced a zero there, you're dead at 0.4.
Personally, I'm of the opinion that all driving while intoxicated laws are inappropriate. Either you're driving recklessly or not. If you are, go to jail. If not, go home and sleep it off.
The point is to prevent people from risking other people's lives by driving impared. Most people who start driving aren't likely to stop driving if they realize they are impared. This is one instance where you can't afford an ex post facto situation. That usually results in someone else getting injured and it isn't fair to subject other people to that risk. Personal liberty I think they call it.
I'm all for marijuana being legal and regulated though. Like alcohol and cigarettes, plenty of people use it in moderation and are no detriment to anyone.
Because people actually know that AF1 is a Boeing plane. No average american flies on helicopters so they don't know what they are but thousands fly on airliners every day.
That aside, I think the biggest thing they need is a 787 or 777, which are big planes if you've been in one (I have been in both).
The theory behind the novel coffee cup is the same one used by rockets to draw fuel into their engines while flying through weightless conditions in space, Pettit said
Umm...don't they use pumps? Big, fast ones that can drain swimming pools quickly and such? I don't think rockets are designed to run on capillary action.
why is this better than a standard air-to-air intercooler? Seems like it would be worse because this still mixes the air somewhat.
My car has an air-to-air intercooler that doesn't mix the air streams but very effectively exchanges the heat. All you really need is a fan to keep the air moving and you're done, no silly wheels or compressors involved.
I understand completely and can't comprehend why you don't: you like it because it benefits you, they don't like it because it is a detriment to them. Its pretty obvious that with negligible energy savings and a lot of inconvenience/effort that DST needs to be put to a nationwide vote and let the majority decide.
At 250 GB per month a continuously utilized connection would have to be limited to 768kbit total to avoid crossing the cap. That really sucks. If you're only downloading for the 5 hours you're not at work you're fine, but if you want to seed torrents for others and stream internet radio it is risky. I guess that's their point.
If your DVD player stops working, do you expect that your DVDs will work in another DVD player? Yes you do.
If the download is priced and sold as a rental then limiting it to one machine with a single re-download is reasonable. If they sold you a video (like paying $15 for a DVD download) you should be able to keep that as long as you want and play it wherever you want.
One has to wonder what "framework" they are talking about. Doe they mean a container format that could be accepted by any device? Say by way of WiFi, USB, Firewire or some new connection? Do they mean networking all the devices in the home (TV, PC, PMP, game console) to stream between? Or do they mean DRM? Or some combination of these?
There are several ways to do this and they aren't forthcoming about which they intend to establish. Of course we expect them to jump to the DRM/"secure" connection conclusion but that may not be the case. Wait and see I guess.
Other than the lack of a separate cable provider, what more choice do you expect? Cable, DSL, satellite, dialup. The only other options are fibre (low existence in the US period) and Wifi (slow). Of course, everyone wants to absolute fastest connection for free but it isn't realistic. If you want something on par in terms of speed, get a DSL line from someone else and stop complaining. The only way anything will ever happen is if comcast loses customers.
Aka stop buying the things they're fighting over. If no one cared about their oil, their diamonds, their minerals or whatever there'd be nothing to kill each other over except food, water and liberty. If they don't have money from us to buy guns they'll have significantly less problems. But Western nations aren't willing to stop buying these things (yet).
Except that you're dramatically reducing the amount of available solar energy by encasing the thing in plastic or glass, in an already relatively low gain system.
Great video, when the narrator said "drop the turbojet propulsion" I was expecting an engine or two to fall out. Seems like a bit of a waste to drag around a couple of turbojets once you're past mach 2 but that may be the most fuel efficient way to get up to mach 2. That video didn't say anything about PDE propulsion though, it only mentioned scramjet power. Where the hell did fox get the idea it is PDE?
Too bad you're locked in to their service or people might actually buy it, that's enough bandwidth to do a lot of things. I'd love to be able to stream pandora while driving but I'm not going to subscribe to yet another service at X dollars a month just to be able to do it.
Now, if you could connect your cell phone to your car and use it instead, that would be great.
The current builds haven't had the UI reworked any yet, I'm assuming because they're trying to work from the ground up and get the code base right instead of the top down. From the build that I've seen they did add one fancy feature to windows explorer, that same tag-based organization that applies to music can be used in pictures. So you don't have to organize everything into folders and try to make sense of the file names for it to be coherent, you just tag images and it groups them into albums by the tags. It sounds along the lines of a databased setup to me so that may be the direction they're heading, even if they aren't doing it this time around.
Since statutory is the only thing these two cases have in common, that's all you can compare. I didn't see the actual number of songs or copies in the article so I can't compute the statutory ratios.
Funny how when the actual distribution is known, the damages become "excessive."
You won't, since Rambus is just a patent troll company; they don't make products. Even though they don't make parts that are available to the consumer, they still make products, like the memory in the PS3: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XDR_DRAM
If you can do both, so much the better. Like in the circuits example you mentioned; as an aerospace engineering student I never learned it. The professor was terrible at teaching a bunch of non-EE majors how a circuit works because he was trying to teach us circuits math, not circuits. He never taught us what a circuit was for. Giving someone a circuit diagram and saying "solve for this" isn't very productive, especially when your students are more than capable of applying the concepts to their own discipline.
I think the general attitude of "well you're probably not going to use this so we'll just teach you how to solve problems with it instead" is pointless and destructive to the engineering education. I'd love to be able to really get circuits, to get what I thought I paid for but I'm having to teach it to myself now, my job demands it.
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An assault rifle by definition has selectable fire, e.g. the ability to go fully automatic. And are already illegal (except for the government and certain gun manufacturers). The federal permit is required to own guns with barrels shorter than 16" that are not a handguns. What the recent proposed legislation wants to ban is things that merely look like assault rifles as the OP said.
Perhaps you mean this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Rights_Amendment ?
You're going to need to cite proof of this because I can't find anything on the tubes about an "Equal Opportunity Amendment."
but that impairment never reaches a level equivalent to that of a 0.8 bac.
I think you misplaced a zero there, you're dead at 0.4.
Personally, I'm of the opinion that all driving while intoxicated laws are inappropriate. Either you're driving recklessly or not. If you are, go to jail. If not, go home and sleep it off.
The point is to prevent people from risking other people's lives by driving impared. Most people who start driving aren't likely to stop driving if they realize they are impared. This is one instance where you can't afford an ex post facto situation. That usually results in someone else getting injured and it isn't fair to subject other people to that risk. Personal liberty I think they call it.
I'm all for marijuana being legal and regulated though. Like alcohol and cigarettes, plenty of people use it in moderation and are no detriment to anyone.
Because people actually know that AF1 is a Boeing plane. No average american flies on helicopters so they don't know what they are but thousands fly on airliners every day.
That aside, I think the biggest thing they need is a 787 or 777, which are big planes if you've been in one (I have been in both).
The theory behind the novel coffee cup is the same one used by rockets to draw fuel into their engines while flying through weightless conditions in space, Pettit said
Umm...don't they use pumps? Big, fast ones that can drain swimming pools quickly and such? I don't think rockets are designed to run on capillary action.
why is this better than a standard air-to-air intercooler? Seems like it would be worse because this still mixes the air somewhat.
My car has an air-to-air intercooler that doesn't mix the air streams but very effectively exchanges the heat. All you really need is a fan to keep the air moving and you're done, no silly wheels or compressors involved.
I understand completely and can't comprehend why you don't: you like it because it benefits you, they don't like it because it is a detriment to them. Its pretty obvious that with negligible energy savings and a lot of inconvenience/effort that DST needs to be put to a nationwide vote and let the majority decide.
At 250 GB per month a continuously utilized connection would have to be limited to 768kbit total to avoid crossing the cap. That really sucks. If you're only downloading for the 5 hours you're not at work you're fine, but if you want to seed torrents for others and stream internet radio it is risky. I guess that's their point.
Nor will the (new or current) Nvidia drivers work with my 7900GT and Win7. Great! I can continue not using the newest version of Windows.
If your DVD player stops working, do you expect that your DVDs will work in another DVD player? Yes you do.
If the download is priced and sold as a rental then limiting it to one machine with a single re-download is reasonable. If they sold you a video (like paying $15 for a DVD download) you should be able to keep that as long as you want and play it wherever you want.
Here, I'll save everyone even more money: Xvid / OGG
No pesky mp3 licensing fees.
One has to wonder what "framework" they are talking about. Doe they mean a container format that could be accepted by any device? Say by way of WiFi, USB, Firewire or some new connection? Do they mean networking all the devices in the home (TV, PC, PMP, game console) to stream between? Or do they mean DRM? Or some combination of these? There are several ways to do this and they aren't forthcoming about which they intend to establish. Of course we expect them to jump to the DRM/"secure" connection conclusion but that may not be the case. Wait and see I guess.
Other than the lack of a separate cable provider, what more choice do you expect? Cable, DSL, satellite, dialup. The only other options are fibre (low existence in the US period) and Wifi (slow). Of course, everyone wants to absolute fastest connection for free but it isn't realistic. If you want something on par in terms of speed, get a DSL line from someone else and stop complaining. The only way anything will ever happen is if comcast loses customers.
Aka stop buying the things they're fighting over. If no one cared about their oil, their diamonds, their minerals or whatever there'd be nothing to kill each other over except food, water and liberty. If they don't have money from us to buy guns they'll have significantly less problems. But Western nations aren't willing to stop buying these things (yet).
Except that you're dramatically reducing the amount of available solar energy by encasing the thing in plastic or glass, in an already relatively low gain system.
Great video, when the narrator said "drop the turbojet propulsion" I was expecting an engine or two to fall out. Seems like a bit of a waste to drag around a couple of turbojets once you're past mach 2 but that may be the most fuel efficient way to get up to mach 2. That video didn't say anything about PDE propulsion though, it only mentioned scramjet power. Where the hell did fox get the idea it is PDE?
Too bad you're locked in to their service or people might actually buy it, that's enough bandwidth to do a lot of things. I'd love to be able to stream pandora while driving but I'm not going to subscribe to yet another service at X dollars a month just to be able to do it.
Now, if you could connect your cell phone to your car and use it instead, that would be great.
Fuck everybody else, I want what I want when I want it. It doesn't matter that if everyone drove smaller vehicles we'd all be able to see just fine.
The current builds haven't had the UI reworked any yet, I'm assuming because they're trying to work from the ground up and get the code base right instead of the top down. From the build that I've seen they did add one fancy feature to windows explorer, that same tag-based organization that applies to music can be used in pictures. So you don't have to organize everything into folders and try to make sense of the file names for it to be coherent, you just tag images and it groups them into albums by the tags. It sounds along the lines of a databased setup to me so that may be the direction they're heading, even if they aren't doing it this time around.
Since statutory is the only thing these two cases have in common, that's all you can compare. I didn't see the actual number of songs or copies in the article so I can't compute the statutory ratios.
Funny how when the actual distribution is known, the damages become "excessive."
anywhere they have buried power lines. Not common at all in the US but many places do it.
If you can do both, so much the better. Like in the circuits example you mentioned; as an aerospace engineering student I never learned it. The professor was terrible at teaching a bunch of non-EE majors how a circuit works because he was trying to teach us circuits math, not circuits. He never taught us what a circuit was for. Giving someone a circuit diagram and saying "solve for this" isn't very productive, especially when your students are more than capable of applying the concepts to their own discipline.
I think the general attitude of "well you're probably not going to use this so we'll just teach you how to solve problems with it instead" is pointless and destructive to the engineering education. I'd love to be able to really get circuits, to get what I thought I paid for but I'm having to teach it to myself now, my job demands it.