Strict gun laws in the UK didn't prevent that one guy from going on a rampage for half a day and killing and injuring a whole bunch of people, including police.
Of course there will always be edge cases, but the facts speak for themselves -
USA Gun Deaths per 100,000 (2011): 10.3
UK Gun Deaths per 100,000 (2011): 0.25
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
Seriously, the patrolmen don't have guns? What if someone shoots at them?
Due to strict gun control in the UK, very few criminals have guns, so police officers almost never have the risk of confronting an armed perpetrator. The criminals in the UK who *do* have guns are not petty thieves who are robbing pharmacies for narcotics.
Even better for Al Queda as they don't have to be close to the damn airport to not only kill lots of people but shut it down for a day or two.
Don't be ridiculous. Grannies carrying tubes of toothpaste through airport security (along with their husbands' penknives on their key rings) are a MUCH bigger threat to which billions of dollars of security largesse must be directed.
Planes are faster, cheaper, and safer for passenger traffic at that distance.
As fossil fuels become more and more expensive, the price of air travel is going to go up. Way up.
Makes sense to being looking at other options today, assuming they'd roll out in 50 - 75 years.
I'm perfectly OK with the tradeoff though of having the car drive on sunny days and then have a manual operation mode when a blizzard crops up.
How DARE you be OK with this. This is Slashdot, where the edge use-case wins, EVERY time. Now take your ID and go home.
Here, jokes are most likely to be enjoyed, encountered, and/or modded up to +5 Funny if they are repetitive, predictable, expected, tiresome memes.
In Soviet Russia, joke tell you!
I guess you mean morons such as Harvard linguist Steven Pinker.
Well, Anonymous Coward, I don't know the gentleman in question, but if he says "I could care less" to indicate that in fact he *couldn't* care less about a topic, then yes, Mr. Pinker is a moron.
"I could care less" is the most common phrase indicating sarcasm in English.
Only amongst morons.
Unlike the post above, I do think it will happen in my lifetime though.
"Tea. Earl Grey. Hot."
Agreed. I have an iPad and an Android smartphone, and I am thinking of dumping the smartphone for the dumbest of dumb phones, which can only make phone calls and send SMS - and only needs to be charged once a week
As we know, it never succeeded, but this was the design with the BlackBerry PlayBook. The PlayBook tablet was wirelessly 'twinned' with a much smaller phone. It was pretty cool when it was all working.
the cable companies would be able to save money by erecting Aereo-style antenna arrays for their cable feeds
This is how 'cablevision' used to work. They'd put up a big antenna that could pull down signals you couldn't and then distribute the signal around a town, for a fee.
I guess you can call crossing the street in a crosswalk safe. Some people do get run over and killed but most come out OK. Not as safe as simply not walking around lots of cars. But safer than jaywalking.
I guess you can call walking across a field safe. Some people do get hit by meteoroids and killed, but most come out OK.
There I fixed that for you.
Where X miles is some unit that has no relationship to the actual amount of driving you do.
Yeah, but this is Slashdot, where perfect is the enemy of good, and the edge use-case wins every time.
fortune: cpu time/usefulness ratio too high -- core dumped.
