Pretty much this for *alas* you unfortunately never really own your property but basically lease it from the government so people who come into a lot of money always go and get the biggest house they can afford but forget that they have to pay property taxes on that multi-million dollar mansion.

I do have to say though, in my opinion, that if you're going to invest your money somewhere the best place to put your money into is property, not multi-million dollar homes but acres upon acres, for land rarely ever loses value but usually appreciates value because of the limited supply whereas a swimming pool of cash just inflates and loses value.

I'm not really sure what conceal carry course you took but my course taught me to rapidly fire at minimum two to three rounds center mass at the assailant, possibly more until the threat has ceased. This is where semi-automatic weapons really shine with a magazine capacity typically anywhere from 12 to 18 rounds depending on the cartridge, though for just one assailant a revolver can do just fine. Also anyone carrying a weapon for self-defense should carry JHP rounds as opposed to FMJ rounds which will fully penetrate straight through doing relatively minimum damage and possibly hitting something else.

A reasonable and balanced view?! Go watch more CNN and MSNBC, citizen.

On a less satirical and more serious note I think most gun owners share your viewpoint and in fact some of the things you mentioned are some the most fundamental rules of handling firearms.

I really think there needs to be more education about respecting and handling firearms, perhaps something along the lines of those horrific DMV classes, but unfortunately our society has stigmatized gun ownership so bad to the point that outreach at any level is politically incorrect and nobody wants to talk about it and instead would prefer dangerous Orwellian legislation over enlightening life saving education. The closest I've seen to any kind of education outreach is the local sheriff's department handing out free cable locks and pamphlets on how it is a felony crime to leave an operational firearm where it can be accessed by minor, which is a nice effort but clearly not enough; we need stuff like those PSA magazine advertisements and TV commercials like the ones that advocate against smoking.

I've never understood this mentality but I'm thinking people with this mentality are so brainwashed into believing guns are inherently evil that they actually confuse law abiding gun owners with gun toting criminals who are cowards that use their weapons to assert power and instill fear.

For anyone who isn't a criminal carrying a firearm is a huge responsibility and the consequences of having to use it are monumental both legally and dealing with the fact that you killed someone (not all people who get shot die but usually they do), in fact it can be a huge risk to even carry it legally because of all these weird Gun-Free Zone laws (my state in particular being terrible).

Lets put lawful carry in another light; a mother has to walk to and from work every night in a dark city full of meth heads and rapists that will do anything to get their next fix and she has had a couple close calls so she applies for a conceal carry permit and now she carries a Smith & Wesson .38 Special. Is that mother now automatically a coward because she has a equalizing means of self defense now, or would it be preferable for her to not be a "coward" right in the morgue and her kids in the foster care system?

Or what about the woman that receives death threats from her former boyfriend? Is she a coward for wanting to defend herself against someone much bigger and stronger than her?

Legal concealed carriers are not cowards, and open carriers (where legal) are probably even less so.

I guess I should have said a caring friendly neighborhood cop but at the time I was thinking Andy Griffith to be an analogous example of what I was thinking.

Interestingly I actually live near Mount Airy (aka Mayberry, however there is no actual Mayberry) and I can't really say much for the cops in Mount Airy but I've had run-ins with the local county sheriff's department and the state troopers stationed there and in both encounters the officers seem to have something of a condescending superiority complex, but I do want to say though that Sheriff Graham Atkinson himself is a super nice guy and from personal experience always makes himself available to residents. I've always had really great encounters with cops in nearby Winston-Salem which is located just a couple counties away. Some of the smaller communities in between I don't particularly trust the small town cops because if you get in a car accident or something the officer will always take the side of the local resident.

In one particular case I took a picture from my porch of a car accident literally in front of my house and the officer got in my face and yelled at me that he was going to arrest me and confiscate my expensive camera and when politely and calmly asked him about relevant statutes prohibiting my activity it made him even angrier and louder.
I was rather shook up and asked the EFF for help, or at least some advice, but they told me that since I was intimidated into complying with the officer's demands and never asked him if I was under arrest I had no basis for a complaint and they couldn't help me (I can at least say that is where my deep interest in law and the legal processes began).
That being said I really would prefer the Joe Friday type cop from Dragnet because at least those cops in that show had the utmost respect for the law let alone knowing the law like the back of their hands.

Persecution by the police isn't exclusive to any one race. I'm about as white as white can get but yet I fear the police as well and despite my highest regard for the law I've had a couple run-ins with them because there are just some cops that love to strut that authority and tell people what to do regardless of the legality rather than protect people with the humility that they serve the public interests. In fact I've gotten to the point where I've learned resistance is futile and there is no sense in trying to even communicate with officers beyond acknowledging their commands regardless of your rights; you can have your day in court if you can afford competent defense otherwise be prepared to forever lose whatever it is they want to take from you be it your; time, person, property or effects.

That being said I believe there is a bigger problem with the prevailing ghestopo mentality of law enforcement in this country who ironically have no respect for the law but unfortunately it's being chalked up as White vs. Black racism rather than the bigger issue that it really is that affects everyone.

Now I have met some really nice and understanding officers; state troopers, actual sheriffs (as opposed to sheriff's deputy) and city cops but unfortunately they were far and few in between; the Andy Griffith type cop is becoming a minority in this day and age.

If it's anything like The Fly I'm going to need a barf bag.

I'd like to further add to that by mentioning some technical details; audio CDs even to this day conform to a standard known as Red Book Audio published by Philips and Sony (Unfortunately I cannot reference it because it requires an expensive license AFAIK) in which audio is encoded in a lossless uncompressed PCM format at a sample rate of 44 KHz. So clearly audio discs themselves are no slouch when it comes to audio quality so if vinyl sounds better it must have something to do with the original mastering as you mentioned.

Because then Mozilla will go through all that effort to implement PPAPI but then Google will change PPAPI on a whim and it will break all the plugins on Firefox and people will ignorantly blame Mozilla, and then Mozilla will have to put all that effort into updating to the latest random revision of PPAPI only to rinse and repeat.

This probably has more to do with TLER than anything because consumer drives are designed with the expectation they'll be run as a single isolated disk whereas enterprise disks are typically expected to be part of some RAID array running in tandem with other disks the RAID controller can use to correct errors, so while an enterprise and consumer drive might share the same physical hardware the firmware for enterprise drives can differ significantly in the way they handle error recovery.

Do you not have a GPU driver that can rotate the display or do you mean they're physically locked in landscape?

Don't get me wrong I love science and the idea of space exploration but unfortuantely I believe a lot of the early innovation in space exploration was just political chest pounding grandstanding with the Soviet Union. With the Soviet Union gone the U.S. hasn't been really been fearful of looking inferior to a rival nation capable of destroying the planet let alone our own country.

While it is fortunate that the constant threat of total, and possibly nuclear, war is gone unfortunately it also has had the consequence of resulting in less attention to the space program. It is rather unfortunate that war is the biggest cause of major innovation, for example; I really don't believe we would be where we are today technologically had it not been for the two World Wars which brought with it all kinds of innovation as a side effect of an escalating arms race between powers but the cost was that those wars ended millions of lives.

Not that this is directly relevant but your comment made me think about something interesting; in Arizona in the Phoenix valley during the summer the water coming in underground pipes heats up so much before it even gets to the house that you don't even need a hot water heater. I have family in Arizona and used to live there; Arizona is hot.

Are you forgetting the fabrication size? For example a 130nm CPU clocked at 3 GHz will be much much slower than a 14nm CPU clocked at the same 3 GHz frequency and it will be a lot cooler too. The reason for this is because the transistors in the CPU are much closer therefore there is less resistance (and consequently less heat) for the electricity traveling between them.

They're probably flashlights designed to be mounted onto weapons that put out incredible recoil. A lot of cheap flashlights will break somehow on the first shot because the forces involved are just massive so building a flashlight that can withstand these forces and be reliable takes some quality materials and engineering.

Though to be honest I still can't imagine even the finest built flashlight being worth $1000 but it's not out of character for our government to like to overpay for everything.