If I remember corretly, in california it's only illegal to have a scanner in the car if you're using it during a crime. Otherwise it's fine. This is how some other state laws are worded as well.
And you know what? As the population grows, the masses will welcome these automated devices. Why? Because they will be touted as "express lines." Ooooh now there's a concept. Don't like the wait in line? Here's a special line if you want to release all your personal information. This is happening in supermarkets in the form of discounts. People like discounts. People also don't like waiting in line when things could be "much quicker and more convenient" when a machine is involved. This won't happen in bars though.
Take for instance in England. Great example of what I'm talking about. Instead of toll booths, to make everything "more convenient", they'll just track where you're going! Saves money on building toll booths and paying people, plus it saves YOUR time. How could you resist? Wouldn't want to create any jobs and waste money on human assets would we.
Also, the theory of wounding for the.223 that you state is very true. The theory is that at high velocities (2700 fps and higher) the bullet will "tumble" and on hitting a target, it will cause multiple wound channels due to the round being unstable and splitting in two or more pieces (including the jacket on the bullet creating another smaller wound channel).
It's just causing unneeded suffering which is unlawful.
I remember reading that 17% of gun shots wounds are fatal. I think this was a civilian statistic though. Not related exactly but kinda interesting. Who knows what sample of the population they used to determine this though.. they could have included all the accidental foot shootings from hunters, and all the intentional head shots from suicides for all I know.
It's like the myth about how.50 cal can only be used against material, and not combatants. Even people in the military to this day think that it's not okay to engage humans with the.50, but instead to "shoot their canteens or weapons out of their hands..oops I accidently killed him!" This is a myth, we can engage any combatant with a.50.
A Capt of Marines recently told me that the.50 cal myth came from when the brass in Vietnam said told Marines and/or soldiers in a particular AO (area of operations) not to engage VC or NVA with the.50 due to ammo resupply issues, and to engage them with M16s, etc.
This was purely to save ammo in one instance. Not due to any international law.
Also, in the Hague convention is where you'd find anything close to regulating ammo used on combatants. Such as "weapons that cause unneeded suffering" such as "exploding bullets."
You've probably seen movies where they use rockets to clear out bunkers. What's the difference in bombing a bunker with an A-10 and firing a rocket in it? Does this make any sense to regulate the use of rockets on personal?
I'd also like to mention that I'd like snopes.com to investigate this;)
Seemed to work fine, I passed the background check ofcourse and I'm getting it in 10 days. Anyway, I can't believe geeks buy this political nonsense people are dishing out these days.
Please protect the 2nd amendment. I can't believe people are actually rallying to 'infringe' upon it, as they say in the constitution. Without the 2nd, what happens to the 1st and 3rd and all the rest if the government doesn't deem those good.
Also, the only people gun legislation hurts are those that are law abiding citizens. Do you think criminals really care about gun laws? nope, but in a sense they do. Which state do you think a criminal would rather enact violent crimes... in a state where law abiding citizens can easily get guns or in a state where law abiding citizens have a hard time getting them and concealed carry permits? Yep you guessed it. If you're living in one of these states, then a gun that someone else owns may be protecting you! How is that possible? The state of Texas which has just brought back legal concealed carry has seen a decrease in violent crime by 6% while most other states have been ~4%. So while you may not want to have a gun, it's still in your benefit to let other law abiding respectful citizens have them. Remember, the only people who get concealed carry permits from the police are those who are upstanding citizens.
The million mom march has a web page and their propoganda that says whatever the 2nd amendment says it's 'irrelevant.' I'm really sorry how mislead they are. They've probably had sons or known other children of parents who have been killed by a gun before and they go and think that guns are bad. Well I'm sorry but inanimate objects can not possess these traits of 'evil.' Guns are tools. That's it. Concealed carry and the 2nd amendment will not end all crime as we know it, but I can say that you will be sorry some time in the future after you've so earnestly wanted to get rid of one of the people's most empowering rights of America.
Ofcourse you've also heard the phrase, 'take guns away from the people and only criminals will have them.' This is pretty true except they're forgetting that the government will also have them, whether or not there is a distinction between politicians and criminals is up for you to decide though ofcourse hehe. Anyhow, if the goverment decides maybe that it's in the 'best interest' of the U.S. and that 'national security' is at risk and they need to maybe search everyone's houses in the state or something like that, it would be a lot easier for them if they knew they were going in to people's houses and tearing them up and disrupting people's live if they knew that most people couldn't protect themselves huh? Well I'd rather the government, god forbid that they should ever decide to do such a thing, would think twice for their own safety before they did such a thing. The 2nd amendment is more about empowering the people so that the government can't bully them around, and I do not want to live in a country where people are 'subjects.'
Here in california it's getting pretty bad though.
I like to watch star wars when I'm washing my ass out in the sink. I have the TV positioned just outside the door so I can pick poo and watch TV too, ( hehe that rhymed ). I'm happy about the dvd thing too cause I like the playstation and picking me butt at the same time too.. which means I won't have to drag the playstation, tv, AND vcr,.. just the tv and playstation and I'll be able to watch it through the play station while i pick poo. Cool stuff!
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come on guys.. it's the weekly world news. their business is putting out far fetched stories like this, it's not a late april fools joke from a respectable publisher, it's just a story from a news source that puts out some pretty strange shit.
moral: whether or not a story is true, ALWAYS check out the publishers of the story
it's common sense really, i sure don't believe anything any bloke tells me
Perl 6, nicknamed Topaz is the one that is going to be rewritten with C++. Go to Perl.com and you can find a good realaudio thingy of the person who is writing the core of it and he talks about what's going to be in it and why C++, etc.
I'm in the middle of compiling source now.. actually it's compiling the programs/ now so I'm almost done. anyhow, X now comes with libGL and libfreetype and stuff.. does this mean I should uninstall those libs?
As it said, this is not the holy grail DRI X 4.0 implementation yet obviously... and it still can't even take advantage of all of the card because of this. I just tried it out and the GL is slower the utah glx with X 3.3.3.1 ( nVidia's previous dynamic X server ). That was ok because I ditched 3.3.3.1 because licq would crash on a threading problem. So I started this up, but licq crashes even though it's supposedly 3.3.5. I can't work without licq unfortunately.... I'm running the regular 3.3.5 bin from xfree86.org now which is ok but I can't seem to get any of the ttf patches working with it ( i miss 3.3.3.1 only because nvidia's was patched to use ttf ). The new nvidia X bin isn't patched for ttf this time is it?
X 4.0 is basically the answer to all our 3d needs... glad to see that they got some more funding recently.
... because they knew it was all being broadcast on the NBC Nightly News.
The civil rights movement trying to bringing about racial equality used these tactics too.. The only way they could get the government to do something was to provoke the police and white mobs in the south. The freedom riders whom sought for better treatment on the interstate buses are a perfect example. Mobs came on to the buses, kicked people's heads in and torched another bus. The government took a little more action to stop the violence after these incidents. I don't see any real changes happening though solely because police officers used tear gas generously. it's more for pr now.
I was listening to the radio and one commentator said how easy it would be to discredit all the protestors in seattle by simply hiring a few skinheads to disrupt the protests which would mean that the police would come in and whatnot and no one's message would really be heard. Is this the start of a new trend? I don't know what happened down there but that comment is pretty unfortunate.
I'm not sure which to think actually, if rioting or peaceful protests help more. I tend to think that rioting and violence brings about a immediate coverage but basically no change unless you take over the organization you're protesting against. Peaceful protest on the other hand actually get a message out rather than people seeing that people are mad for some reason... but a lot of people are anti-authority just by nature these days and their 'opinion' about an organization might be swayed simply because other people don't like them.
But who would you rather have protesting against an organization.. a bunch of idiots, or those who actually know the issues?
How many of you are tired of ISPs just shutting people down because they've gotten threatened by someone else ( whether it be with a lawsuit or whatever just hollow threats ). I think there needs to be something done about this, like something that says that internet providers can not be liable for their customer's content. Ok.. so are landlords responsible for everything that goes on in a apartment ? No... and neither are ISPs. Sure, a landlord has to report any injustices seen, just as any other person, just like an ISP. An ISP can not possibly monitor clients content. All this shouldn't even come into consideration though.. the ISP should just say 'No sorry, not untill we're ordered by a court to do so.' If an ISP did this, I would be impressed and I would use their services over others. AOL sickens me with their giving away client's information at the bat of an eye. Getting back to the liability thing with ISPs.. I thought I remember hearing a trial about that where they were figuring out whether or not a ISP is liable for the content it's clients upload. What was the outcome ? I'll do a quick search for it, I know it was on/.
I don't know about other people, but I live right next to the telco switch basically, and I get the speed as advertised ( 1.5mbit/128K ). Can't wait untill 5 years time when we'll be able to put to use all that fiber pacbell is laying around here. Ofcourse I probably won't live here then... and I might have to deal with bellsouth which I would not look forward to at all.
I downloaded the executable last night to read the README to see if they had got support for Mesa in. This would have enabled me to play it under my tnt with hardware acceleration ( well, a tiny bit of hw acceleration ) a long with other people running g200s and g400s etc. It said he's still planning to support it and it still only supports 3dfx. Oh well, I'll just wait a while till that happens.
For those of you out there using a TNT2 or a G400 or G200, just point the r_GlDriver thing or whatever it was to your/usr/X11/lib/libGL.so or whatever client library you're using for glx. S'what I do here. Running it on a pii 266.. i remember when my computer was a decent box. when more than 3 people come in view, boom, man it's slow.
on a similar related note.. I heard nVidia actually updated their resource manager so it's mostly ported to 2.2 linux kernels. ( Last one supposedly didn't even work on 2.0 which it was coded against ). Anyone try this out ?
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Good stuff on that forum if you search. There is a LOT of shiznit to be read in the archives.
If I remember corretly, in california it's only illegal to have a scanner in the car if you're using it during a crime. Otherwise it's fine. This is how some other state laws are worded as well.
And you know what? As the population grows, the masses will welcome these automated devices. Why? Because they will be touted as "express lines." Ooooh now there's a concept. Don't like the wait in line? Here's a special line if you want to release all your personal information. This is happening in supermarkets in the form of discounts. People like discounts. People also don't like waiting in line when things could be "much quicker and more convenient" when a machine is involved. This won't happen in bars though.
Take for instance in England. Great example of what I'm talking about. Instead of toll booths, to make everything "more convenient", they'll just track where you're going! Saves money on building toll booths and paying people, plus it saves YOUR time. How could you resist? Wouldn't want to create any jobs and waste money on human assets would we.
It's the .223 or 5.56mm caliber.
.223 that you state is very true. The theory is that at high velocities (2700 fps and higher) the bullet will "tumble" and on hitting a target, it will cause multiple wound channels due to the round being unstable and splitting in two or more pieces (including the jacket on the bullet creating another smaller wound channel).
Also, the theory of wounding for the
It was very common during the "Vietnam era" to shoot dogs and have a Army SF medic-in-training to learn how to patch them up.
This was the preferred method to learn how to fix small arms wounds.
Many said it was invaluable experience (along with the ER experience at different hospitals) before going in to combat.
There's no problem with wounding people.
It's just causing unneeded suffering which is unlawful.
I remember reading that 17% of gun shots wounds are fatal. I think this was a civilian statistic though. Not related exactly but kinda interesting. Who knows what sample of the population they used to determine this though.. they could have included all the accidental foot shootings from hunters, and all the intentional head shots from suicides for all I know.
We also use the AT-4.
All infantry (03 field) are taught the use of this weapons. The SMAW however is only formally taught to 0351 (infantry assault man).
It's like the myth about how .50 cal can only be used against material, and not combatants. Even people in the military to this day think that it's not okay to engage humans with the .50, but instead to "shoot their canteens or weapons out of their hands..oops I accidently killed him!" This is a myth, we can engage any combatant with a .50.
.50 cal myth came from when the brass in Vietnam said told Marines and/or soldiers in a particular AO (area of operations) not to engage VC or NVA with the .50 due to ammo resupply issues, and to engage them with M16s, etc.
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A Capt of Marines recently told me that the
This was purely to save ammo in one instance. Not due to any international law.
Also, in the Hague convention is where you'd find anything close to regulating ammo used on combatants. Such as "weapons that cause unneeded suffering" such as "exploding bullets."
You've probably seen movies where they use rockets to clear out bunkers. What's the difference in bombing a bunker with an A-10 and firing a rocket in it? Does this make any sense to regulate the use of rockets on personal?
I'd also like to mention that I'd like snopes.com to investigate this
Seemed to work fine, I passed the background check ofcourse and I'm getting it in 10 days. Anyway, I can't believe geeks buy this political nonsense people are dishing out these days.
Please protect the 2nd amendment. I can't believe people are actually rallying to 'infringe' upon it, as they say in the constitution. Without the 2nd, what happens to the 1st and 3rd and all the rest if the government doesn't deem those good.
Also, the only people gun legislation hurts are those that are law abiding citizens. Do you think criminals really care about gun laws? nope, but in a sense they do. Which state do you think a criminal would rather enact violent crimes... in a state where law abiding citizens can easily get guns or in a state where law abiding citizens have a hard time getting them and concealed carry permits? Yep you guessed it. If you're living in one of these states, then a gun that someone else owns may be protecting you! How is that possible? The state of Texas which has just brought back legal concealed carry has seen a decrease in violent crime by 6% while most other states have been ~4%. So while you may not want to have a gun, it's still in your benefit to let other law abiding respectful citizens have them. Remember, the only people who get concealed carry permits from the police are those who are upstanding citizens.
The million mom march has a web page and their propoganda that says whatever the 2nd amendment says it's 'irrelevant.' I'm really sorry how mislead they are. They've probably had sons or known other children of parents who have been killed by a gun before and they go and think that guns are bad. Well I'm sorry but inanimate objects can not possess these traits of 'evil.' Guns are tools. That's it. Concealed carry and the 2nd amendment will not end all crime as we know it, but I can say that you will be sorry some time in the future after you've so earnestly wanted to get rid of one of the people's most empowering rights of America.
Ofcourse you've also heard the phrase, 'take guns away from the people and only criminals will have them.' This is pretty true except they're forgetting that the government will also have them, whether or not there is a distinction between politicians and criminals is up for you to decide though ofcourse hehe. Anyhow, if the goverment decides maybe that it's in the 'best interest' of the U.S. and that 'national security' is at risk and they need to maybe search everyone's houses in the state or something like that, it would be a lot easier for them if they knew they were going in to people's houses and tearing them up and disrupting people's live if they knew that most people couldn't protect themselves huh? Well I'd rather the government, god forbid that they should ever decide to do such a thing, would think twice for their own safety before they did such a thing. The 2nd amendment is more about empowering the people so that the government can't bully them around, and I do not want to live in a country where people are 'subjects.'
Here in california it's getting pretty bad though.
I like to watch star wars when I'm washing my ass out in the sink. I have the TV positioned just outside the door so I can pick poo and watch TV too, ( hehe that rhymed ). I'm happy about the dvd thing too cause I like the playstation and picking me butt at the same time too.. which means I won't have to drag the playstation, tv, AND vcr,.. just the tv and playstation and I'll be able to watch it through the play station while i pick poo. Cool stuff!
come on guys.. it's the weekly world news. their business is putting out far fetched stories like this, it's not a late april fools joke from a respectable publisher, it's just a story from a news source that puts out some pretty strange shit.
moral: whether or not a story is true, ALWAYS check out the publishers of the story
it's common sense really, i sure don't believe anything any bloke tells me
Yes I speak playstation and I ate a banana too. it said unto me that i should roll some rocks down a neanderthal and spout off over some ice cream.
I LIKE TO EAT POOPY
Perl 6, nicknamed Topaz is the one that is going to be rewritten with C++. Go to Perl.com and you can find a good realaudio thingy of the person who is writing the core of it and he talks about what's going to be in it and why C++, etc.
I'm in the middle of compiling source now.. actually it's compiling the programs/ now so I'm almost done.
anyhow, X now comes with libGL and libfreetype and stuff.. does this mean I should uninstall those libs?
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As it said, this is not the holy grail DRI X 4.0 implementation yet obviously... and it still can't even take advantage of all of the card because of this. I just tried it out and the GL is slower the utah glx with X 3.3.3.1 ( nVidia's previous dynamic X server ). That was ok because I ditched 3.3.3.1 because licq would crash on a threading problem. So I started this up, but licq crashes even though it's supposedly 3.3.5. I can't work without licq unfortunately.... I'm running the regular 3.3.5 bin from xfree86.org now which is ok but I can't seem to get any of the ttf patches working with it ( i miss 3.3.3.1 only because nvidia's was patched to use ttf ). The new nvidia X bin isn't patched for ttf this time is it?
... glad to see that they got some more funding recently.
X 4.0 is basically the answer to all our 3d needs
... because they knew it was all being broadcast on the NBC Nightly News.
The civil rights movement trying to bringing about racial equality used these tactics too.. The only way they could get the government to do something was to provoke the police and white mobs in the south. The freedom riders whom sought for better treatment on the interstate buses are a perfect example. Mobs came on to the buses, kicked people's heads in and torched another bus. The government took a little more action to stop the violence after these incidents. I don't see any real changes happening though solely because police officers used tear gas generously. it's more for pr now.
I was listening to the radio and one commentator said how easy it would be to discredit all the protestors in seattle by simply hiring a few skinheads to disrupt the protests which would mean that the police would come in and whatnot and no one's message would really be heard. Is this the start of a new trend? I don't know what happened down there but that comment is pretty unfortunate.
I'm not sure which to think actually, if rioting or peaceful protests help more. I tend to think that rioting and violence brings about a immediate coverage but basically no change unless you take over the organization you're protesting against. Peaceful protest on the other hand actually get a message out rather than people seeing that people are mad for some reason... but a lot of people are anti-authority just by nature these days and their 'opinion' about an organization might be swayed simply because other people don't like them.
But who would you rather have protesting against an organization.. a bunch of idiots, or those who actually know the issues?
Ah yeah. Heres some related articles:
This one ponders why ISPs have no back bone
This one asks whether or not ISPs are liable for content
Heres a British ruling on the previous ( which I can't say I agree to )
How many of you are tired of ISPs just shutting people down because they've gotten threatened by someone else ( whether it be with a lawsuit or whatever just hollow threats ). I think there needs to be something done about this, like something that says that internet providers can not be liable for their customer's content. Ok.. so are landlords responsible for everything that goes on in a apartment ? No... and neither are ISPs. Sure, a landlord has to report any injustices seen, just as any other person, just like an ISP. An ISP can not possibly monitor clients content. All this shouldn't even come into consideration though.. the ISP should just say 'No sorry, not untill we're ordered by a court to do so.' If an ISP did this, I would be impressed and I would use their services over others. AOL sickens me with their giving away client's information at the bat of an eye. Getting back to the liability thing with ISPs.. I thought I remember hearing a trial about that where they were figuring out whether or not a ISP is liable for the content it's clients upload. What was the outcome ? I'll do a quick search for it, I know it was on /.
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I don't know about other people, but I live right next to the telco switch basically, and I get the speed as advertised ( 1.5mbit/128K ). Can't wait untill 5 years time when we'll be able to put to use all that fiber pacbell is laying around here. Ofcourse I probably won't live here then... and I might have to deal with bellsouth which I would not look forward to at all.
I downloaded the executable last night to read the README to see if they had got support for Mesa in. This would have enabled me to play it under my tnt with hardware acceleration ( well, a tiny bit of hw acceleration ) a long with other people running g200s and g400s etc. It said he's still planning to support it and it still only supports 3dfx. Oh well, I'll just wait a while till that happens.
For those of you out there using a TNT2 or a G400 or G200, just point the r_GlDriver thing or whatever it was to your /usr/X11/lib/libGL.so or whatever client library you're using for glx. S'what I do here. Running it on a pii 266 .. i remember when my computer was a decent box. when more than 3 people come in view, boom, man it's slow.
on a similar related note.. I heard nVidia actually updated their resource manager so it's mostly ported to 2.2 linux kernels. ( Last one supposedly didn't even work on 2.0 which it was coded against ). Anyone try this out ?
no shit. the client could look like a ftp client if it wanted. i'm saying the concept is very similar.