Just my 2 cents, but it says for the security of the state, not the country. The idea being to keep the federal government in check, not the protection of the country as a whole. While I agree that your idea would work, I don't think it fits with the 2nd amendments intended purpose.
What's happening now doesn't fit with it's purpose either but there you go. There are no more injuns to defend from and the federal government just flat out cannot be kept in check by an armed populace unless the intention is for battle with government which just no.
yes, and while i agree people are bad at diagnosing risk, there are other factors that contribute to our perception of relative danger.
such as the ability of us to fight back or otherwise react to a developing situation, or the scale of potential harm.
air travel is safer than driving.
yet air travel is far far more tightly regulated and controlled in terms of safety, both because as a passenger theres very little we can do in event of a accident, and because the number of people exposed to harm in any one event. car mishaps are also more survivable than aircraft, even if the aircraft relative rate of mishaps is lower. ie, more likely to walk away from a car mishap than airliner.
you mention a mass drug overdose (or possible poisoning by the sound). again, that's far more survivable than a gunshot wound.
again, while the odds of firearm involvement are lower, the odds of irrecoverable harm when they are involved, is far higher.
we can even consider this on things as simple as the idea of locking our doors at night.
its all a part of risk management and preventive caution.
It's really quite interesting how much output you can get from very little power, if you choose your speaker drivers and cabinet design carefully. Even a basic bass-reflex design can get to 105+dB with the right drivers and a tiny 10W amp.
For transmission line type designs, folded horns and so on, you can hit 110+dB with just a single watt, however those cabinets tend to take up a lot of space.
I'm working on a DIY bluetooth speaker, which will probably use either the brilliant little Dayton RS100 4" full range driver, or some inexpensive car speakers of some kind. I'm debating whether to use a 2x15W amp, or two 25W mono amps. The ones I'm looking at are available on Ebay for around $2.50, which is just completely ridiculously cheap.
All they need to do is not make any mistakes; that's easy.
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So what's your excuse?
Here's another take on it.....
Perhaps if there wasn't such outrageous social inequality and we had ethical governments and financial institutions, perhaps these people wouldn't be depressed.
Perhaps it is people who have no problems with things like
This is actually kind of interesting, because maybe they've actually discovered a scientific way of differentiating assholes from human beings.
Please re-read the very first sentence to my original comment and this time pay attention to how I've defined the set of people I'm referring to.
You are making an argument against something I'm not saying. I am talking about a specific subset; you are applying my subset observations to the top-level set above the subset I'm talking about, and then criticizing my subset comments for not being appropriate to the top-level set. My comments weren't intended to apply to the top-level set of "all people who care about injustice". I, myself, am in that top-level set.
Oh the irony as I'm typing this taking a dump. What could go wrong?
You could be out of toilet paper.
Likely laptop development has reached it's limit, they all look alike.
But this does look like a SurfaceBook but without the very cool, carry friendly hinge that the latter has.
I actually thought they dropped support for it a few years ago and that there were people complaining back then - maybe I'm thinking of Windows 95/98, though.
I'm surprised that people even think that Firefox should be building for Windows XP. Chrome and IE are able to build much more optimized browsers partly due to dropping the old.
1) I love datasets. If I decide later that I want to, say, check how long it usually takes me to drive from Point A to Point B, or see if I noticed an earthquake on a particular day or really bloody anything I think up later, I want the data.
2) I like being able to look up things about my past. E.g., a coworker says "Oh, hey, I don't see you signed in on July 6th - do you know why?" I can go back and see "Oh yeah, I was sick then" or "I was in, but I was in a rush because of A and B and forgot to sign in" or "Oh yeah, I took a day of vacation then, did the vacation registration not go through?"
3) Sometimes my memory isn't great. It's great to have an "artificial memory" that never forgets
4) The inevitable "He said" / "she said" argument. You have proof right on-hand. Prove it to yourself first, and if you're right, prove it to the other person.
5) Contextualizing the past. Why do people take pictures or videos of major events? To remember and revisit them later. Why not have as much data as you can for those past events?
6) Rescue. If your phone logs everything to the cloud, and you have it set up so that friends or family members can access it in an emergency, it makes it a lot more likely that you'll be found.
7) Crime. I used to be on Google Latitude, but there was a couple month period in which I was using a phone in which it wasn't enabled, and during that period I was a victim of a crime in a place I wasn't familiar with. It was extreme difficult for me to find the location where it occurred. Full logging would not only have recorded the location, but also all of the details to prove its existence.
And on and on and on.
What I don't understand is why so many of you are afraid of logging yourselves. What the heck are you doing that you're so terrified of governments hacking into your data and stealing it?
Then let private industry provide the funds for research. Or if the University wants to patent it and license it then they shouldn't take federal grants in the first place.
if the money comes from all of us the research should benefit all of us equally.
There would have been plenty of muzzle flash to easily identify what room the shooter was firing from. The estimates I've seen put him at about 1100 feet from the crowd. That's easily within range for a marksman with a decent rifle.
I haven't tried to find the answers to this yet, but have read that police first arrived at the room door 12 minutes after the start of the shooting, and yet didn't breech the door for nearly 75 minutes. Why was that?...had he already shot himself?...had the shooting stopped?...were they waiting to clear adjacent rooms? As with many investigations, we'll learn more as all of this unfolds, but in the meantime we'll hear lots of speculation from the media to keep the revenue stream hot.
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A good web browser that works on a Mac Quadra with a 68040 and MacOS 8.
Which doesn't change the fact that a 73% increase to a very small number is still a very small number. Small enough that the increase could simply be due to Russian businesses taking advantage of an opportunity few others can.
There are medical uses for devices like this too. Some people with memory problems (particularly the elderly) find it helpful to wear a camera that takes a photo every few minutes. Then if they can't remember if they did X, they can review the photos.
Of course most people just want to spam Facebook. One of the examples they give is baby photos... If anything, we should be discouraging parents from putting their children's entire childhoods online.
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