Not necessarily I grew up in rural Alaska, where guns were used as defense against wild animals, e.g. bears. The primary use of a gun was to scare the animal off. Actually pointing at the animal an firing was a last resort, since wounding the animal tends to make it much more aggressive. Now, the primary design goal for a car is transportation, while the primary design goal for most firearms is to injure or kill, so you are still correct in most cases, but many weapons are designed mainly for target practice or other applications as well, e.g. administering tranquilizer darts or beanbag rounds. It's just not as cut and dried as we'd like to think.
"you are considered to be spying and can be fucked by the police".
I'm unclear on the actual laws in this case... are the police required to use lube or not?
And that is exactly why what used to be part of your backyard is now part of OUR backyard -- you Canadian pussies didn't defend your backyard with firearms against a-hole USians taking it away from you!
Civil disobedience, although it may be ethical behavior, is still illegal -- one except the possible consequences when one deliberately engages in unlawful acts.
Absolutely, if it's illegal to fire a gun within city limits, than all law enforcement personnel should not be allowed to carry guns within city limits, because discharging them would be illegal! The ethics of emergencies dictate that sometimes it is ok to break a rule to prevent a larger harm, i.e. how many people are actually issued speeding tickers while rushing their wife to the hospital to deliver a baby?
There is a HUGE difference between hovering over your own roof, and hovering over my underage daughters. I'm glad charges were dismissed against this guy, but we need to come up with less dangerous methods of disabling drones. Hint: a broadband amplifier on a CB radio coupled with a directional antenna would jam the controls for just about any RC device out there. (Any RF engineers want to point out the flaws in this theory? The standard RC channels are in the middle of the CB radio band, but WiFi isn't.)
Why would a reasonable person feel threatened by a drone? You do know people have succeeded in firing drone-attached handguns, don't you? Given that you can't tell when it's hovering whether or not it's armed, feeling threatened seems VERY reasonable, doesn't it?
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/21/...
Ephedrine from Ephedra plant (or Ma Huang, if you're Chinese) is exactly as effective as pseudoephedrine, and anybody can grow it in their own garden... why is there a market for the chemically synthesized version in the first place? IIRC, the only difference between ephedrine and pseudoephedrine is that one is a right-handed and the other is left-handed molecule, meaning both good be used for manufacturing meth... makes me wonder when Walter White is going to take up gardening...
Only we to stop this from happening is to make companies 100% financially responsible for all loses predicated by their lost data. We need those laws passed now, and then make an example out of the next one, hopefully driving them into bankruptcy.
Methinks someone is confusing downwind with upwind... downwind is the direction the wind is blowing towards, upwind is the direction the wind is blowing from. The downwind guy is gonna get piss all over him!
That was a thought I had as well, that this provides further evidence that we are actually living in a simulation instead of a "real" universe. I've heard the theory that the universe is not 3D but actually a holographic projection of a 2 dimensional universe, but in that case it seems like there would still be propagation delays for communication of information. My previous belief that we are living in a simulation was based on my being told that positions in space and time are inherently quantized; in a "real" universe, shouldn't everything be analog, i.e. infinitely variable? Of course, I'm not sure about the proof of quantization either.
Does this mean faster than light communication is actually possible? Maybe the best way to connect with extraterrestrial intelligence is to figure out how faster than light communication works, then make a call. What do you have to do to pair the particles to begin with?
It 3 dimensional, therefore inverse cube, not inverse square. But agreed, losses are phenomenal over even short distance with an omnidirectional point source. an array of transmitters in the ceiling would be slightly more efficient, but in that case, why not use infrared transmitters and photovoltaics? Or, here's a twist: use sunlight?
Not to mention the flying cars and hoverboards! Seriously, we've had 30 years to work on this... where is my fricken' hoverboard (the liquid-nitrogen cooled superconducting magnet on a specialized track doesn't count!)
If you have to use a highly directional transmitter and receiver, might as well use an infrared laser beam. If you're making it omnidirectional, than power drops off as the cube of distance, so extremely inefficient. I'm not seeing an up side here.
My theory is that business schools now teach all MBA students that employees are fungible assets, that is, replaceable parts, therefore replacing a highly experienced yet highly paid employee with a no-nothing contract employee make perfect business sense -- your headcount remains the same, but your cost plummet. Obviously same headcount means same level of service, right?
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"You can have my shovel when you pry it from my cold, dead hands"... and use it to bury me, please.
"Shovels don't kill people, people kill people... people with assault shovels!"
Not necessarily I grew up in rural Alaska, where guns were used as defense against wild animals, e.g. bears. The primary use of a gun was to scare the animal off. Actually pointing at the animal an firing was a last resort, since wounding the animal tends to make it much more aggressive. Now, the primary design goal for a car is transportation, while the primary design goal for most firearms is to injure or kill, so you are still correct in most cases, but many weapons are designed mainly for target practice or other applications as well, e.g. administering tranquilizer darts or beanbag rounds. It's just not as cut and dried as we'd like to think.
Drones can easily carry GoPro cameras with 4K resolution now... just sayin'.
"you are considered to be spying and can be fucked by the police".
I'm unclear on the actual laws in this case... are the police required to use lube or not?
And that is exactly why what used to be part of your backyard is now part of OUR backyard -- you Canadian pussies didn't defend your backyard with firearms against a-hole USians taking it away from you!
Civil disobedience, although it may be ethical behavior, is still illegal -- one except the possible consequences when one deliberately engages in unlawful acts.
Absolutely, if it's illegal to fire a gun within city limits, than all law enforcement personnel should not be allowed to carry guns within city limits, because discharging them would be illegal! The ethics of emergencies dictate that sometimes it is ok to break a rule to prevent a larger harm, i.e. how many people are actually issued speeding tickers while rushing their wife to the hospital to deliver a baby?
More expensive drones are designed to automatically return to the launch point if they lose signal, not crash on their own.
There is a HUGE difference between hovering over your own roof, and hovering over my underage daughters. I'm glad charges were dismissed against this guy, but we need to come up with less dangerous methods of disabling drones. Hint: a broadband amplifier on a CB radio coupled with a directional antenna would jam the controls for just about any RC device out there. (Any RF engineers want to point out the flaws in this theory? The standard RC channels are in the middle of the CB radio band, but WiFi isn't.)
Why would a reasonable person feel threatened by a drone? You do know people have succeeded in firing drone-attached handguns, don't you? Given that you can't tell when it's hovering whether or not it's armed, feeling threatened seems VERY reasonable, doesn't it? http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/21/...
Ephedrine from Ephedra plant (or Ma Huang, if you're Chinese) is exactly as effective as pseudoephedrine, and anybody can grow it in their own garden... why is there a market for the chemically synthesized version in the first place? IIRC, the only difference between ephedrine and pseudoephedrine is that one is a right-handed and the other is left-handed molecule, meaning both good be used for manufacturing meth... makes me wonder when Walter White is going to take up gardening...
All the great new drugs are tested on mice first... some of those mice are like, totally trippin' man... know what I mean?
After 60 years, we've turned around and decided discredited Russian biologist Trofim Lysenko was actually right??
Does the Linux version only cost $50 because of no Microsoft tax?
Only we to stop this from happening is to make companies 100% financially responsible for all loses predicated by their lost data. We need those laws passed now, and then make an example out of the next one, hopefully driving them into bankruptcy.
Methinks someone is confusing downwind with upwind... downwind is the direction the wind is blowing towards, upwind is the direction the wind is blowing from. The downwind guy is gonna get piss all over him!
This just in: Schrödinger's cat found dead!
That was a thought I had as well, that this provides further evidence that we are actually living in a simulation instead of a "real" universe. I've heard the theory that the universe is not 3D but actually a holographic projection of a 2 dimensional universe, but in that case it seems like there would still be propagation delays for communication of information. My previous belief that we are living in a simulation was based on my being told that positions in space and time are inherently quantized; in a "real" universe, shouldn't everything be analog, i.e. infinitely variable? Of course, I'm not sure about the proof of quantization either.
Does this mean faster than light communication is actually possible? Maybe the best way to connect with extraterrestrial intelligence is to figure out how faster than light communication works, then make a call. What do you have to do to pair the particles to begin with?
It 3 dimensional, therefore inverse cube, not inverse square. But agreed, losses are phenomenal over even short distance with an omnidirectional point source. an array of transmitters in the ceiling would be slightly more efficient, but in that case, why not use infrared transmitters and photovoltaics? Or, here's a twist: use sunlight?
Not to mention the flying cars and hoverboards! Seriously, we've had 30 years to work on this... where is my fricken' hoverboard (the liquid-nitrogen cooled superconducting magnet on a specialized track doesn't count!)
If you have to use a highly directional transmitter and receiver, might as well use an infrared laser beam. If you're making it omnidirectional, than power drops off as the cube of distance, so extremely inefficient. I'm not seeing an up side here.
What percentage of the energy in sunlight striking the Earth do you think gets wasted?
And every dog with 10 blocks is howling!
My theory is that business schools now teach all MBA students that employees are fungible assets, that is, replaceable parts, therefore replacing a highly experienced yet highly paid employee with a no-nothing contract employee make perfect business sense -- your headcount remains the same, but your cost plummet. Obviously same headcount means same level of service, right?