Mental issues was the trigger but availablilty of guns was an amplifier. He would not have been able to kill as many if he had been using a knife, and the chinese woman surely would have been able to kill more than 22 if she had guns. It was reported that he finally took his own life because police were moving in on him so how fast he could kill determined how many died. Guns did not cause this but they made it worse. Aurora was not caused by guns but they made it worse, Virginia Tech was not causeed by guns but they made it worse. Many people have a hard on for guns and treat them like toys. A gun is a tool, ask any rancher or farmer, its a neccesity not a form of recreation. If people treated a gun as a tool instead of a toy maybe these events would not happen so often. Anyone that shoots a gun for pleasure treats it as a toy and that is frightening.

Only if you ignore station cash multiplier days like THIS FRIDAY (3x deal). you talk about $$$ like its a constant conversion between it and SC when in reality few people that i know buy station cash when its not on sale.

Or pay $60 up front? If you assume both of those costs you could unlock every weapon in this game in a month or 2.

Its misleading saying a new weapon is $6.00. In reality it is 600 "station cash". This sounds like a moot point since most of the time 600 station cash costs $6.00 to buy but nobody I know that plays buys station cash when there isnt a deal going on. This friday (the 21st) Sony is doing a 3x station cash day, there is also a wal mart deal where you can buy a $15 card for 2k station cash, combine those and you have 6k station cash for $15. Now look at how much that weapon costs, $1.50 for a new gun on a free to play game that activly competes with games that cost $60 is not such a big deal. Also worth noting that the most expensive weapon in the game is 700 SC or 1000 certs so its not like finding the few weapons that you want for your infantry, plus 1-2 for vehicles is a big deal. Spend $15 on this game this friday and you will be content with weapon unlocks for a long while. Probably till the next 3x sale.

Refuel and reposition will probably not need to be run at the same time. I imagine, as others have, the refuel capability may be difficult and will have to be designed into the satellite in the first place. For sats that need to be repositioned but cannot be refueled this robot could give them a boost, thereby saving it some much needed fuel for later maneuvers. (Say the robot was passing a sat without the capability to be refueled on its way to another customer, owner of the robot can offer owner of the sat a boost for some cost, then move on). I think the real use for this technology will be realized if we are ever able to park a icy asteroid in orbit, then fuel is already up there and just needs to be distributed. This is just preparing a tech for a later use.

We can, we just choose not to.

FWIW you left expenses out of your equations. It should be Revenue - Fine - Expenses = Profit. Granted the expenses are probably small for a simple app.

I'm torn. I agree issues like the one you cited are a reason to require oversight in order to protect both doctors and patients. But this is more than apps for tablets and phones, this is about regulating medical software. I may be wrong but I think medical equipment that is currently regulated is a boxed deal, hardware with embedded software, all tested as one item. If the hardware is not controlled anymore issues could arise with approving software for medical use, unless they say App X only approved to be used on an iPad... but I may be missing something, this is not my field.

The problem is understanding the spirit of a law that was written too long ago to ask the person what they were thinking. Lawmakers are not required to explain the spirit of the law when they write it, only the legal text itself. In particular, this has caused misunderstandings with the framers of our constitution on bill of rights. Just looking at the first and second amendments we start having issues with separation of church and state (not called out in the legal text but from outside material we know it weighed heavily on the minds of the authors) and a right to bear arms (legal text calls this out but spirit of the amendment is unclear if its for a state militia or self defense/prevention of government tyranny). The only thing that has saved us as a nation up to this point has been an independent and thoughtful Supreme Court (federal appeals courts as well). They have the ability to adjust laws based on the intention/spirit of it. Just make sure they stay as non-political as possible and we stand a chance.

I halfway agree with you since a lot of people on this site have never heard of it. However, generally the people that play DOTA just sound out the acronym, they almost never refer to it as Defense of the Ancients. So in effect the name of the game is just DOTA, what it stands for is meaningless. Similar to how people use the word radar not realizing that it originally meant RAdio Detection And Ranging. To each his own though, I never liked the game anyway.

Right now AT&T can say that people using 3GB are super users that use WAY more data than the normal person, but that number is going to go up in the future as people start watching more video on their phones (netflix, Sling, HBOGO, etc.). If they try and fight this same fight a few years from now they will have to set their limits much higher since that is going to be the 'norm' and not just the super user. By setting their limits to 3GB now, when people start using more data later they can start hitting them with the overages and say "hey, this is what you signed up for, not our fault". Its evil but still a logical strategy. Fighting this fight now they only have to deal with pissing off the super user, fighting later they piss off everyone.

You don't know what you're talking about. My daughter was allergic to breastmilk, a fairly minor reaction at first but caused her to gain weight slowly. After switching to formula she was able to sleep longer, gained more weight and became a much happier baby. It also made my wife and I more sane since we could get a little sleep and didn't have a screaming infant at all hours.

I don't think so. If this were just the big guy vs. the little guy absolutely, but it is the old big guy vs. the new big guy so you can bet your ass that google and friends will be watching this issue like a hawk and we all know google has money to burn when it comes to this issue.

Everybody is for sale. The size of the bribe has to do with how much they already agree with what you are asking for. In this case the dems are at the top of the list because it is taking more to convince them to betray the people that voted them in. The reps would probably go along with it anyway to "support small business" and only require a token donation.

You can't call it a tie because statistics determine the margin of error to be greater than the vote difference. It makes much more sense to say the winner cannot be determined. A tie means they had the same number of votes and that is extremely unlikely.