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Comment Re:Hey Tim (Score 2) 274

My point with the drug use was to highlight that stopping the flow of illegal products to a market where they are desired is impossible. Lets take Mexico for instance they have very restrictive gun laws and yet they have a much higher homicide rates 5x the US rate, the drug cartels are armed to the teeth, it's not the laws it's the culture. Switzerland has a 6x lower murder rate then the US and every adult is issued an assault rifle when they turn 18. Russia which has fairly strict gun ownership requirements has 6 million guns legally registered and estimates there are 12 million illegal weapons, they have nearly double the homicide rate as the US. In areas where lawlessness is tolerated and celebrated you will have higher murder rates. Eliminating guns from this world or completely from any country is naive and will not change the problem. If a stranger's life is not valued in a society, the taking of a life is inconsequential to the criminal.

Comment Re:Perfect Solution Fallacy (Score 1) 107

So what you are saying is that the American population should be happy they are being bent over and raped in the ass with a 10" dick because they could be getting raped with a 14" dick. If you don't want to be fucked in the ass it doesn't matter if it is a 10" or 14" dick you are stilling being ass raped.

The simple truth is that this bill supports the invasion of privacy under the guise of keeping America safe, it doesn't matter how complicated it is, privacy is being invaded.

Comment Re:Hurray for Japan (Score 5, Insightful) 274

Mexico has a tight restriction on guns yet their murder rate is 23.7, Switzerland where every adult over 18 is issued a true assault rifle has a murder rate of 0.7. It is not the gun laws that cause problems it is the culture. Lets stop punishing the people that do the right thing based on delusions and the desire to control the population.

Comment Re:Hey Tim (Score 2) 274

Guns are illegal in Mexico and they have boarder control yet the bad guys get guns, cocaine is illegal in the US yet addicts still get cocaine, even prisons with very high security can't stop contraband from coming in. Unless you think the answer is tighter control of law abiding citizens then prisons have over prisoners there is no way to stop criminals from committing crimes.

Submission + - Major Tech Companies Refusing To Abide By Unwarranted Gag Orders (redstate.com)

HighAndDry writes: The low level griping about law enforcement subpoenas requesting user information and instructing companies to not tell the subjects of the subpoenas has burst into full fledged rebellion.

Now Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, and Google have joined Yahoo in saying they will notify anyone whose accounts are the subject of an investigative diploma unless they receive a judicial gag order.

As citizens rely more and more on technology to communicate and store personal information, the abusive use of investigative subpoenas has become endemic. Often investigators request enormous amounts of information and bully ISPs, etc., into keeping quiet about the subpoena denying the subject the opportunity to challenge the request in court.

Submission + - BMW Engineered Its i3 REx Electric Car Just To Satisfy CA Bureaucrats

cartechboy writes: BMW is known for building "ultimate driving machines," but its electric cars are a whole new ball game. The new i3 electric car is the most efficient battery-powered car sold in the U.S.--but its optional range extender turns out to have been designed with one audience in mind: California bureaucrats in Sacramento. To get the i3 REx to qualify as the world's first "BEVx," BMW only lets the range extender turn on when the battery is exhausted--and it only carries 1.9 gallons of gas, giving less than 80 miles more on top of the battery's 81 miles. The design tactics worked: CA gives the i3 REx its top purchase rebate of $2,500, which no other plug-in car with an engine can boast. But at what cost to the actual driving experience?

Submission + - Why BMW Engineered Its i3 REx Electric Car Just To Satisfy CA Bureaucrats

cartechboy writes: BMW is known for building "ultimate driving machines," but its electric cars are a whole new ball game. The new i3 electric car is the most efficient battery-powered car sold in the U.S.--but its optional range extender turns out to have been designed with one audience in mind: California bureaucrats in Sacramento. To get the i3 REx to qualify as the world's first "BEVx," BMW only lets the range extender turn on when the battery is exhausted--and it only carries 1.9 gallons of gas, giving less than 80 miles more on top of the battery's 81 miles. The design tactics worked: CA gives the i3 REx its top purchase rebate of $2,500, which no other plug-in car with an engine can boast. But at what cost to the actual driving experience?

Submission + - For the First Time Ever, the FAA is Trying to Fine a Drone Hobbyist (vice.com)

Jason Koebler writes: For the first time ever, the Federal Aviation Administration is trying to fine a hobby drone operator, a development that threatens to throw the whole hobby into disarray if the agency successfully levies the fine. While the FAA has explicitly said it doesn’t want anyone flying drones commercially, it has never issued similar suggestions about hobby flight, which is why it has been just fine for some guy to fly a drone above a tornado, but illegal, in the FAA’s eyes, for a journalist to do the same.

That has changed, according to the agency. A spokesperson for the FAA told me that the agency “has proposed a civil penalty against an individual in New York City. The operator, who is a hobbyist, flew a drone carelessly or recklessly and violated air traffic rules as well. He ran the drone into a couple of buildings and it crash-landed 20 feet from a person.”

Comment Re:Gun nuts (Score 1) 1374

If you wish to live in community that heavily regulates firearms, then band together and do so - nothing restricts a locality/city/region from banning the things of their own initiative (see also Chicago, D.C, New York City, etc.) However, please do not try to impose such things across the whole nation. There is no "reasonable" restriction in the eyes of those who wish to promulgate these laws, save for complete abolition.

Chicago and DC's gun ban laws have been struck down by the supreme court. The 10th amendment stops states and cities from enacting laws that violate the constitution. If people wanted to create a community with no guns they would need to do it on private land, violation would be a civil matter.

Comment Re:Efficiency? (Score 1) 234

If the system is in balance at 75mph a 20mph headwind will have you depleting your charge at 55mph. It's probably not a worry for daily commutes but for long trips it would be a worry. I would want the balance point to be at 90mph which would require about a 50% increase in power if I used it for long drives.

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