I've got a 18 month old 6core AMD processor and a $150 dollar Amd graphics card and games run just fine for the most part. There are a couple of places where if I turn all goodies all the way up on one or two where I might notice, but that's more the older graphics card and running things on the other two ( all 3 are 27", 1920x1080) monitors. There is a reasons the AMD and Intell are focusing more and more on power efficiency these days.

Mycroft

It's not faith to agree that the mostly likely explanation based on the evidence is the most likely explanation.

Mycroft

Blind faith is the antithesis of science, and recent studies (with actual brain scans) show indoctrinating children with it actually damages the cognitive functions related to critical and logical function.

Mycroft

Science requires no such thing.
Sounds like you're hinting at the god of the gaps fallacy.

Mycroft.

I've seen universal battery extenders. basically just batteries with a USB power only port on them and a way to recharge themselves.

Mycroft

It was stated as more, not more per capita, if something other than what was said was meant it should have been stated that way.
  Also I had just replied to someone deliberately giving totals that make knife crime look worse in the US when the per capita numbers show the opposite.

Mycroft

The second amendment is no more defined by the technology of the time than the first.
      The first does say press, the second only says arms, this is a close to reference technology as either gets.
In the first they clearly meant the recorded word, in the second they meant "every arm of the soldier, however terrible".

Mycroft

Mycroft

Apparently it is hard to understand. It's seems a lot of people mistakenly believe it's a limit or excuse to limit the second rather than a singularly important reason and encouragement it is. These same people also seem to fail to understand the meaning of militia (every able bodied free man of sound mind), or of arms ("Every sword of the soldier, however terrible").

Mycroft

Probably false assumptions: 1) That 100% of the US army (or an effectively high enough percentage so as to make no difference) will side against their own.
2) That small arms and guerrilla tactics are useless against a better armed army, history says otherwise.
3) That none(or effectively none) of this superior armament would wind up captured or otherwise in the possession or use of the citizens (we dropped single use handguns into occupied France durring WWII with instructions on how use them to do just that) .

Mycroft

Mycroft

Look into the history a bit more. A militia is the people, and well regulated means well trained. And arms is 'every arm of the soldier, however terrible'.

Mycroft

Arms refers to every arm of the soldier however terrible according to the founding fathers. It most assuredly includes fire arms, as well as clubs spears swords and so on.

Mycroft.

And LESS than a quarter the population.

Mycroft

But not less violence, what is your malfunction that you can't understand that? Are people killed by guns the only ones killed? Is every other death and assault somehow not real to you? Or are you just trolling?

Mycroft

Wrong, the issue is violence and crime, if you reduce one avenue is it not logical (and supported by evidence) that others will be used?

Mycroft