Comment Re:He tried patenting it... (Score 1) 986
You're giving 100 to 1 odds? On anything? How much can you cover?
You're giving 100 to 1 odds? On anything? How much can you cover?
Most of the hype and publicity over gun control is the mass events, which are rare.
Guns are designed to be weapons. Water heaters are not.
The 60 or so (not 30 -- that's just form the explosions) deaths per year from a benign appliance that's in every home and workplace show that anything can go wrong.
I assure you that once you buy a water heater there are a lot fewer legal controls over what you do with it than your firearm or your car. The manufacture of commercially built water heaters is highly regulated for safety, as it is with commercially built firearms. The plumbing industry is fairly well regulated, as is any role that requires carrying a firearm as part of the job description. Still, accidents happen in both areas.
Crippling the connection or interfering with another customer's connection are probably both against your ToS. It's free Wifi. It's not really made to torrent over or to earn your whole damn living over. It's there so you can check email and surf a bit during the normal amount of time you'd be consuming the retail space's goods and services.
Yes, yes. Every little mom and pop outlet on the corner should hire someone to provide you with your free perk while you sip your $1.50 Americana the next three hours.
You forgot Ada, a child of Pascal.
Not the AC, but I'd say Ada should live on in descendants. It should be split into the eight or so complete programming languages that they bundled together when the committee made it. One or two of them might be a nice tool.
I haven't watched the presentation but I'd heard about some of this. I have a few questions to clear up.
Will the Java server handle all our Ruby custom facts?
Will it handle our ERB templates?
Will it actually be Java or like PuppetDB will it actually be Clojure?
Will it have Jetty in front of it like PuppetDB and take 30 seconds or more to restart and listen on a port vs. restarting Apache in 2 seconds with the puppetmaster Rack application behind it?
What specifically does it buy me over daemontools, upstart, or OpenInit, though? There are other things that are big improvements over sysVinit.
Human rights don't work that way. The US Constitution is very carefully worded, especially regarding where it says "person" or "people" and where it says "citizen" or "citizens".
Here's the Fourth Amendment:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
That doesn't say "citizens". It says "The right of the people".
If I'm going for maximum intimidation a Saiga 12 or Thompson 1927 A1 works really well. For handguns, it's difficult to beat the Desert Eagle Mark 19
The stadiums are built and owned by the teams and/or the communities in which they play.
The NFL is a league made up of teams, and does not own the teams or the assets of the teams. Think of it as a trade group for professional football teams.
I think I still have a copy of that whole office suite.
The complaints have always been that MS caters too much to old software and that it continually requires more powerful hardware just to run the OS.
They are starting to buck this hardware trend at the 1 GiB barrier (for the OS!). They finally dropped support for some old, buggy 16-bit DOS and Windows programs that third party developers wrote by bypassing any documented API, too. Most of the software ever written for Windows still runs on Windows, though.
If you want to see what you're asking for, take a look at the 8 desktop vs. 8 RT fiasco when MS told people it was all Windows but it didn't run the same software. Don't ask for that.
Better yet, don't use a spindle for this stuff at all. Get a cheap SSD. Yes, it's write-limited. If you're only using it for temporary files and the page file then there's no long-term data to lose and it's a hell of a lot faster.
If you're on a gaming rig with a whole lot of memory, the page file doesn't need to be 2 to 3 times the size of RAM, either. With 16 or 32 GiB of RAM and only running the OS, one game, a voice app or such, and a game library app (Steam, Origin, etc) then you only need a page file for stuff that's proactively paging. Set it to 4 GiB and forget it.
Also, 7 and 8 handle dynamic page file sizing better than XP so it's not as much a concern to have a fixed-size one on a spinning disk as it used to be. It may still help if you pick the optimal size, though.
I hope you, your grandmother, and your nephew never have to find out for sure. Further, if so I hope your grandmother and two-year-old nephew aren't trying to fire a
Most people in a quick-response situation will be able to handle the bat more accurately than the pistol. There's more you can do with it than a full swing, too, including jabbing at the eyes, throat, or groin with the end of it, strangling with it, tripping, twisting body parts with it as extra leverage in grappling, and short swings which are less powerful but quicker. A bat can take you off your feet pretty quickly, can break the forearm you're using to wield the pistol, and can be pretty damn deadly once you're down.
Inside of arm's reach a pistol can be a disaster as it can be turned on you even while it's in your own hand, by twisting the wrist around. At that range you're probably wielding it with one hand, which make you more easily disarmed and less likely to hit a target that is able to impact you and change where the muzzle points.
If you actually get a good, solid hit with a
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