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Nice nickname you got there. Wonder where the inspiration came from. Achem, now, on to the commentary!

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Good people are being killed today, with the regular guns, that the bad guys are taking away from them and then shooting them with it.

Here's the problem with your argument: You're demanding absolute reliability, which is an impossible standard even for the guns that exist today. If it misfires, jams, or any one of a handful of other failure conditions, it's a liability. Yet these risks have been accepted because the benefits outweigh the risks.

And that's where you went horribly wrong in your line of thinking: You didn't stop and consider that the goal wasn't perfection, and impossible goal even with futuristic technology from the year 2999. What you need to consider is whether the change reduces risk and/or improves the utility of the device.

Let's say out of 1000 times an officer draws his or her weapon, they have it taken from them by force 20 times and used against them. Now let's say we have a device that's 99.99% effective in eliminating that risk, but can fail and render the gun inoperative 1 out of every 1000 times the officer tries to use the weapon. Do we use the device?

Of course we do. We've reduced the risk from 2% to 0.1%. I understand the emotional need behind you wanting it to be as reliable as possible and the idea of a device that could prevent you from using it at a critical moment is fear-inducing, but statistically, it's far more likely to save a life than cost one.

These wheels aren't like your normal car wheels. The very thin atmosphere means that the soil is more like lunar soil than Earth soil. Atmospheric erosion tends to smooth out sand particulate so it has a rounder shape -- it is less sharp. Lunar soil is incredibly corrosive. Think of all the problems our troops had operating in Iraq with their equipment, now multiply that by a hundred. It's like walking on microscopic needles. Martian soil isn't quite as bad, thanks to having had an atmosphere at one point, and retains a minimal one now, but it's still inhospitable.

The rover was designed with multiple wheel-sets to operate independently, and the wheels themselves designed to wear somewhat more gracefully in the face of these obstacles. But yes, they're going to look ugly fast.

... As apparently North America is part of the European Union? :/

It's quite common as well for doctors to tell patients to shove it. I have a diagnosis of both ADHD and Asperger's (btw, that's not what they're calling it now) and getting medication is exceptionally difficult, especially for anxiety. You don't mention this, but anxiety has such a high comorbidity with ASD that it's practically unheard of to find someone without it. The reason for this is those drug-seeking parents and young adults who want mind-enhancing drugs or their precious little snowflake to stop tearing the house apart and just veg out in front of the television. Parenting, lulz -- Disney raises our kids today.

So it's not that I disagree with your assessment, but a clinical diagnosis, confirmed with neurological testing, is highly effective at screening out those segments of the population. And while it is a problem, it is still uncommon -- most people who present with ADHD or ASD symptoms have a bona-fide medical condition. Only a small fraction of patients are trying to abuse the system. Unfortunately, just as with pain medication, the political fallout and disinformation spread by well-meaning but lacking any medical certification people such as yourself only contribute to the problem of real patients, with real problems, getting help.

On a different note; I don't think this German IT firm is seeking autistic workers because they're better. They're seeking them because they're vulnerable adults without the capacity to protect themselves from exploitative labor practices. And programming, contract work -- much of our field is exploitative in nature and one must be assertive, sometimes even aggressive, in pushing back. I've had to teach my aspie friends how to assert themselves on this sort of thing, because they genuinely can't see it. They are generally very trusting people; They don't see ulterior motives. It's part of the condition -- they're so intellectual they take everything at face value or literally.

In this field... it's a recipe for disaster. Contrary to what this firm and many of the general public believe: IT is not a cash cow, nor is it glamorous work. Working with computers is emotionally draining, and long hours can be physically demanding. That attention to detail that's so sought after may be great for programming, but it's absolutely horrid when you have a team of people all like that; There's a reason we all have different skillsets and personalities -- too much of any one thing on a team leaves critical weaknesses in thinking that can lead to disaster.

... Like paying back your government loans instead of yelling "Too big to fail! ahahahaaha..." and running to some tropical island to take daily wealth showers and drink out of gold-lined cups. :/ They should be commended... it's a decidedly unamerican approach to business. Fiscal responsibility? It's like an F-word in Congress.

So if sub-domain.domain.com writes an original content, domain.com should never mention it even if domain.com is an aggregator of the type of news that sub-domain wrote content for?

Would it be better if the sub-domain just spun off and you never even knew there was a relationship?

is percona not cool anymore?

If you don't mind paying taxes, then why not simply abolish taxation and then you can voluntarily donate your money to the government?

If you derive a direct benefit from them, why don't you continue to pay your taxes (voluntarily) and let those of us who receive little to no benefit from them not pay them, instead of condoning violence to force people to pay for things that you want?

Good! Just renounce your citizenship in the US/Canada/UK/etc. and get a passport and citizenship in a place that actually -wants- you like Paraguay, The Dominican Republic, St. Kitts or Dominica, generally just takes some $$$$$ and/or time depending on what you want. Get a citizenship in one place, live in another and incorporate your business in a good jurisdiction with minimal regulations and next to no taxes and you can have a better life and never pay income tax again!

Of course a large corporation like Google is going to continue investing in the UK and the rest of western Europe no matter how silly their tax policies are. Corporations have a responsibility to turn a profit for their shareholders and walking away from a jurisdiction that might be slightly less profitable, but still profitable is certainly not in the best interests of Google's shareholders.

Okay. We don't want criminals to get guns - I think we can all agree on that. So let's pass laws against criminals getting guns, because clearly criminals care about breaking the law?

Criminals, by definition, don't give two solid fucks about breaking laws. More laws and mandatory sentencing is not the deterrent people like to think it is. Criminals especially don't give a crap about gun laws if they are part of a criminal enterprise, like selling drugs in poor inner-cities, where assault and murder are tools to be used for maintaining territory and product; because if they get caught, the penalty for assault and murder are far higher than that felony-C weapons charge. Maryland and Illinois have some of the most strict gun control laws on the books, yet Chicago and Baltimore rule the roost in drug-related violence.

Oh, and not doing the assault or murder carries the same or worse penalty for these criminals, and organized crime syndicates (whether talking about the "mob" or drug traffickers) are a lot less dainty about their capital punishment than government is.

And the millions of guns that already exist, including collectors' pieces and artifacts of history that were manufactured in the 1800's - are we to just ban those because they don't meet up with these short-sighted and badly-conceived regulations?

Does this mean I will have to buy special gloves that have my fingerprints on them?

And does this mean that if my wife wants (or, more importantly, needs) to grab and use "my" gun that she'll also need gloves with my fingerprints on them, and I'll need a way to emulate her fingerprints?

This is all entirely nonsense. The bill is a stealth approach to making guns cost more, akin to those feckless plans to tax ammo at 1000% in order to attempt to change human behavior among psychopaths and dedicated criminals.

I am entirely for gun manufacturers making and offering such guns to those who want them if they think there's a market and they want to serve that market. Requiring such is complete BS.

Potatoes are grown using commercial fertilizers. Fertilizer contains Potassium to promote leaf growth, which promotes bigger, healthier potatoes. Potassium naturally has a radioactive isotope, K40. There will be some uptake of K40 in each potato.

Here is a paper about theorizing that the lung cancer caused by smoking, is mostly caused by radioactive phosphates taken up by the tobacco plant due to heavy use of phosphate-rich fertilizers used to make bigger tobacco leafs, which also happen to contain Lead-210 and Polonium-210. These radioactive heavy metals build up in the soil over years of fertilizer use.