European rate is more around 1/100k if you don't count ex-Soviet Union (esp Russia). Which isn't the Western European Liberal gun grabbing place you love to hate.

Belarus 5.1
Bulgaria 1.9
Czech Republic 1.0
Hungary 1.3
Poland. . 1.2
Moldova 6.5
Romania 1.7
Russia 9.2
Slovakia 1.4
Ukraine 4.3
Denmark 0.8
Estonia 5.0
Finland 1.6
Greenland 19.4 (not sure what that's about).
Iceland 0.3
Ireland 1.2
Latvia 4.7
Lithuania 6.7
Norway 2.2 ( If one discounts the single anomalous terrorist attack of 2011, the homicide rate in Norway falls to 0.6)
Sweden 0.7
United Kingdom 1.0
Albania 5.0
Andorra 1.3
Bosnia and Herzegovina 1.3
Croatia 1.2
Greece 1.7
Italy 0.9
Kosovo 3.6
Malta 2.8
Montenegro 2.7
Portugal 1.2
San Marino 0.7
Serbia 1.2
Slovenia 0.7
Spain 0.8
Macedonia 1.4
Austria 0.9
Belgium 1.6
France 1.0
Germany 0.8
Liechtenstein 0.0
Luxembourg 0.8
Monaco 0.0
Netherlands 0.9
Switzerland 0.6

It would be even lower if you throw out warsaw pact and yugoslavia, which again, are not really what you are talking about. Most major Western European countries are 1/5th the murder rate of US or less.

Because the militarization of police in the US.

Meh...dont' care. Microsoft Office, that's something that a user uses.

What is this, the 20th century?

On the other hand, due to my work environment, I need a law passed that would make it a crime for people to annoy me in person.

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You forgot the in-state tuition prices for college.

Descant? You recommend storing it with some medieval music? "A descant is a form of medieval music in which one singer sang a fixed melody, and others accompanied with improvisations.". Perhaps you meant dessicant?

Based on the "choices" we've had over the lasts several decades, I've concluded that the whole thing is rigged just like professional wrestling, and it deserves no more of my attention that that does. Nothing else can explain the farce that's been going on when it comes to the people who are chosen to lead this country.

Sounds like a lot of these climate change folks don't like any solution that doesn't include more central control of everything...with them at the controls...

Domesday? Is the King doing a census? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...

I love Geany. There's a windows port as well, if people aren't aware of it.

They're also awesome. Think of them like the AVR or PIC with more.. everything. More RAM. More ROM. More IO. More interfaces, both type and quantity. More Hz. Same price, they work with GCC.

I've been getting STM32s from china for cheaper than the basic AVRs on an arduino (not sure how, as even qty 1000 is like 4x the price on digikey, but they work like the real thing, so who knows?!).

I used to love AVRs, but whenever I go back to them now, they seem so limited. the ARM MCUs have a bit of a learning curve, but it's so worth it. With GCC and libopencm3, it's an entirely open source setup. The nucleo boards are dirt cheap arduino-ish things, to get started on, with integrated programmer & debugger.

There's really no reason to use 8bit MCUs anymore, unless you're making a $0.40 gadget, and need to squeeze out that last nickel.

That's a myth. Asbestos based linings were never banned, and still exist.

I learned that a couple years ago. I swore it was banned too, but it isn't the case.

There are roughly 8.7 Wales to an Oklahoma.