Sure it did.. in males committing suicides by firearms. Interesting to note though that overall male suicides didn't go down, the means simply changed.

This may surprise you, but even _before_ the australian firearms laws were introduced, our firearm casualties were minuscule compared to the US and other countries.

All restricting firearms to the level that has been done has effectively done is reduce the number of people who know how to safely handle them.

This is a pretty nasty cycle of "The industry uses x product, we should teach them with x product" then when it comes to those students being in a position of power later on of since they know that product, they are more likely to choose it, enforcing the selection even more.

With a _per year_ cost of over $500k, you could hire a couple full time developers to work on gimp to better suit your needs and still come out ahead.

Best of all, since quite a few universities will be in this situation, you wouldn't even have to front the entirety of the cost yourselves, band together to share expenses lessening the overall cost to you all.

This is a perfect opportunity to break free of adobe in creative circles.

That would actually be wrong, if you want 16 bits per channel you just use any of the in development source of the last six months or so. As a bonus the whole thing is then accelerated by gpu also.

I have an eos 6d, and even _with_ a 16-bit per colour build of gimp, I find I almost never use it. Why? I process the raw files to my liking using ufraw first and only minor minor touchups are done in gimp if ever./p

Already the case where I live in Australia. There is a severe aversion to anything that could be remotely dangerous here. You can't even buy "shopgoods fireworks" (under 40 grams) without public liability insurance, having done several courses and acquiring multiple different licenses.

First up you have your fireworks contractor license, $330 a year. Want the ability to import fireworks (even those tiny under 40 gram ones) $300 a year. Want to be able to store fireworks? $35 per year under 100kg, $300 for over. Want to be able to transport fireworks? $92 per year per vehicle you want to use.

Have even one roman candle? (only using that as an example as it's one of the only sort I know from silly youtube videos) that'll be $44,000 and six months jail time thankyou very much.

From the article linked.

You're off on the memory bandwidth by a fair chunk, check this out.

Haven't checked your other numbers though. On my machine with dual channel ddr-1333 I get about 16gb/sec, and l1 cache is about 60gb/sec

in the same way, a persons concept of what is human can be arbitrary. Fair enough if people have a general consensus and align (just like with morals), but this need not be the case.

People are free to ascribe any meaning to any series of characters they like, we have differing languages for a reason. A series of letters does not have inherent meaning, even the characters themselves can be anything at all, it does not matter.

Is there any particular reason the character 'c' _must_ be shaped the way it is?

Depends on how you define human of course. Are 'people' 2000 years ago 'human', 10k years? 800k? This is the problem with saying morals are an inherent human property, what people consider to be human is just as arbitrary as the morals you try to place on it.

But apparently I can fly there using a normal plane that travels to airports?

Anywhere there is enough population density to have an airport, there is enough to have a fast rail system.

If they are not arbitrary (in this case dependent on situation, of which any situation can arise) then they are set properties, if they are set properties and properties of humans, then any person not having those set properties would not be human yes?

Well, would you care to define what it is to be human then? Even though morals can provide a survival benefit, to say that it is then an inherent human property is to label those without those morals as not human, which I imagine many would take issue with.

Yep, progress you say? You need criteria for that. Is mars good or bad? Without criteria, without a wanted purpose, you can make no judgements.

Those criteria can be arbitrary, and then so too can be the judgements.

Deciding the cause of something is a little different from making a normative evaluation of whether something is good or bad.

One involves only what occurred, the other involves making a judgement about whether it's good or bad.

Morals are completely devoid from reality. The universe doesn't give a crap about us, the wheels just keep on turning. What can happen does happen. Good and evil are simply a human construct, and an arbitrary one at that like most.

Well "Those that are better at surviving are better at surviving" Does seem a bit of a tautology though :P .