Wrong. Less guns means guns only in the hands of lawbreakers. If someone is hell-bent on murder and they're just going to kill themselves anyway after they've been backed into a corner by the cops, do you really think they give a rat's ass about violating some stupid gun law by illegally possessing a firearm?
They might not, but if they do not know how to get a gun in the first place, that is all that is needed to stop them.
And more likely, if they don't have a gun they can sit and fondle every day, the idea to go out and shoot a lot of people with that gun might not enter their head in the first place. Less exposure does mean less urge to action.
Of course it will never be made impossible to get a gun, but just making it harder will help. This is not a binary, and these issues do not exist in a vaccuum.
Do you seriously think that outlawing guns will be any more successful than outlawing drugs or outlawing booze?
Of course. Drugs and booze provide immediate pleasure, and thus are highly sought after. Guns do not.
Let's see, 90 people per year killed by lightning, 14.24 people per 100000 inhabitants killed by firearms times about 300 million inhabitants makes for about 42000 deaths per year.
You know, "500 times higher" is a strange definition of "lower".
Because that's how accurate the measurements are, not the theory.
"99% accuracy" does not mean "1% error". It simply means that's how sure we can be that it's correct. The remaining 1% is unknown. If there was a known, repeatable 1% error, that would be big news because the theory would then be known to be wrong. To find said error would, however, require a measurement that was more like 99.9% accurate.
Validated to 1% is validated to 1%. Welcome to how science works. Pretty much every single theory out there is validated to some percentage, limited by the presicion of our measurements.
MOND is, as its name implies, a Newtonian theory of gravity, which means it predicts no frame dragging at all. As such, this experiments shows it to be incorrect, just like Newtonian gravity. This is expected.
What it would affect is alternate theories of gravity that are equivalent to general relativity but reduce to MOND instead of Newtonian gravity in the non-relativistic limit. I understand TeVeS is one such theory, but I don't know what its predictions of frame dragging are.
Of course it wasn't effective, because it didn't limit anybody's ability to get a gun, it just said where you can and can't carry it.
I don't know about you, but I'd prefer lowering the probability that I'd ever be in a shootout at all, rather than bringing my own gun to it. And whether you like it or not, less guns means less shootouts.
Tonya is his wife, who tells him that Einstein is the greatest mind in physics. Olga is some other woman he talks to later, most likely his mistress. The storytelling is somewhat terse and it's not all that easy to pick up on these things, granted.
Participation in the Darfur media circus IS exactly EVIL.
On what planet does this statement make any kind of sense? You're really going to have to back up that reasoning if you want anyone to take you at all seriously.
They have a mountain of data from logging all their users, definitly a tool for the future Big Brothers of the world.
Yes, and in much the same fashion, the US is guilty of massive genocide because it has an arsenal of nuclear weapons, definitely a tool for the future nuclear holocaust.
That section still talks about key revocation and not disabling a device entirely. But that is not really interesting anyway.
The host and drive revocation lists are for revoking software players and computer drives, not hardware players. Granted, revoking a computer drive is still pretty drastic, but it can't be used to revoke a stand-alone player. I don't think they'd dare actually use it, but who knows?
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Not a single scientist is forgetting that. Why are you accusing them of this?
Yeah, those arguments might make sense, if the rest of the world outside the US wasn't one huge counter-example.
The US has lots of guns, and it has lots of fun crime. Most other developed countries have less guns, and also less gun crime.
Good thing you can just shout "correlation is not causation!" and keep playing with your guns, huh?
Wrong. Less guns means guns only in the hands of lawbreakers. If someone is hell-bent on murder and they're just going to kill themselves anyway after they've been backed into a corner by the cops, do you really think they give a rat's ass about violating some stupid gun law by illegally possessing a firearm?
They might not, but if they do not know how to get a gun in the first place, that is all that is needed to stop them.
And more likely, if they don't have a gun they can sit and fondle every day, the idea to go out and shoot a lot of people with that gun might not enter their head in the first place. Less exposure does mean less urge to action.
Of course it will never be made impossible to get a gun, but just making it harder will help. This is not a binary, and these issues do not exist in a vaccuum.
Do you seriously think that outlawing guns will be any more successful than outlawing drugs or outlawing booze?
Of course. Drugs and booze provide immediate pleasure, and thus are highly sought after. Guns do not.
Nice little strawman you've got there. What are you going to do with him?
Let's see, 90 people per year killed by lightning, 14.24 people per 100000 inhabitants killed by firearms times about 300 million inhabitants makes for about 42000 deaths per year.
You know, "500 times higher" is a strange definition of "lower".
Of course he can - if he couldn't, those $1000 speaker cables would have been a total waste!
Because that's how accurate the measurements are, not the theory.
"99% accuracy" does not mean "1% error". It simply means that's how sure we can be that it's correct. The remaining 1% is unknown. If there was a known, repeatable 1% error, that would be big news because the theory would then be known to be wrong. To find said error would, however, require a measurement that was more like 99.9% accurate.
Validated to 1% is validated to 1%. Welcome to how science works. Pretty much every single theory out there is validated to some percentage, limited by the presicion of our measurements.
I'm just a student, but here's what I gather:
MOND is, as its name implies, a Newtonian theory of gravity, which means it predicts no frame dragging at all. As such, this experiments shows it to be incorrect, just like Newtonian gravity. This is expected.
What it would affect is alternate theories of gravity that are equivalent to general relativity but reduce to MOND instead of Newtonian gravity in the non-relativistic limit. I understand TeVeS is one such theory, but I don't know what its predictions of frame dragging are.
Of course it wasn't effective, because it didn't limit anybody's ability to get a gun, it just said where you can and can't carry it.
I don't know about you, but I'd prefer lowering the probability that I'd ever be in a shootout at all, rather than bringing my own gun to it. And whether you like it or not, less guns means less shootouts.
Good thing that DNS is at least run as a free market, or we'd really be in trouble!
Hey I know what would be funny! Let's respond to someone complaing about acronyms using, wait for it, this is the clever part, lots of acronyms!
It'll be so funny!
They're going, oh well, we're not gonna be doing this anyway, you can take over the internet for us?
I'll wait until you grow up a bit. Most people do grow out of that stage sooner or later.
It is *by definition* impossibile to grant freedom to people and restrict it at the same time.
The world sure is a simple place when you're young, huh?
Sorry to break it to you, but the efficiency of photosynthesis sucks horribly. We're doing far, far better with our silicon cells.
Tonya is his wife, who tells him that Einstein is the greatest mind in physics. Olga is some other woman he talks to later, most likely his mistress. The storytelling is somewhat terse and it's not all that easy to pick up on these things, granted.
Intervention will only serve to widen the war to a regional or global conflict instead of a local one.
Too bad this statement is pure conjecture and has nothing at all backing it up. Kind of makes your argument fall apart.
Wait, never mind. I read your other posts, and you are raving lunatic. Carry on.
Participation in the Darfur media circus IS exactly EVIL.
On what planet does this statement make any kind of sense? You're really going to have to back up that reasoning if you want anyone to take you at all seriously.
PS: I hope you don't own a knife or gun, or else you're a murderer!
They have a mountain of data from logging all their users, definitly a tool for the future Big Brothers of the world.
Yes, and in much the same fashion, the US is guilty of massive genocide because it has an arsenal of nuclear weapons, definitely a tool for the future nuclear holocaust.
That's the least of your worries, really, because debuggers exist.
Even so, getting obfuscated partial keys out of register dumps is *not* easy to do, even less so if you want to do it reliably and reproducably.
That section still talks about key revocation and not disabling a device entirely. But that is not really interesting anyway.
The host and drive revocation lists are for revoking software players and computer drives, not hardware players. Granted, revoking a computer drive is still pretty drastic, but it can't be used to revoke a stand-alone player. I don't think they'd dare actually use it, but who knows?