Yeah, because what's interpreted one way today could be interpreted another tomorrow. So... good sig.

Seems to me all they'd need to do is match up address books to make a reasonable guess as to which old and new accounts are whom. Not much different from what Facebook and LinkedIn already do, albeit for "who knows whom". Same principle, tho.

I believe this study came out of Florida after concealed carry became legal there; you can probably find it easily enough -- the gist was that tho lawful carrying of weapons had greatly increased, there were NO resulting cases of either escalations or shootings.

There have been at least a few cases of SWAT operations against people who've committed the 'crime' of owning too many animals.

I think that's an insighful interpretation, yep. Going into my Useful Quotes file. :)

I agree (tho Philip is right about the definition of "well-regulated"). And it occurs to me that were the 2nd Amendment allowed full scope and force, a great deal of what the ACLU decries and has moved to defend against would never have happened in the first place.

Which to my mind throws their ACLU's entire premise into a suspect light; how can you have civil liberties if you're prohibited from defending those liberties, and must rely on others to do so for you? (Not can, but must.)

Line judges in R/C pylon races wear helmets or hard hats.

Pilots usually do not, however -- the risks are not large enough to justify them. That said, this situation shows us that they are not zero.

Just saying. Every one of those things you listed, my mother thinks is an advantage, not a drawback.

proprietary interface - she knows that to get something that really works, she just goes to the Apple store. There's never any "driver" or compatibility issues. She gets a straight answer from someone she trusts.

designed to sync through itunes only. Yep. She loves that. Nice and simple, and again, one easy path to getting what she wants.

she doesn't use Outlook or Google apps (whe wouldn't know a google app if it came up and introduced itself). She doesn't want complexity layered on top of her nice simple interface just to make someone else's life easier.

excessive control over apps - well "excessive" is a judgemental term, but she's happy there's next-to-no malicious apps for the iPhone compared to other vendors offerings. She knows she's not that technical, and she likes that the people who do know techy stuff are helping her against these malicious apps.

clumsy UI - well, simple anyway. Simple is good. Simple is easy to understand, and she likes easy to understand.

I'd be willing to bet there are more people in this world who are on a technical level with my mother, than with you or I; which is why Apple have maintained these "drawbacks" - because they're advantages.

Simon.

Have a banana.

A polygon with many sides gives you a good approximation of the are of the circle. To get the exact area, you make the number of sides infinite. As the number of sides approaches infinity, the area of the circle approaches the exact value of pi*r^2. Welcome to the first week of Calculus I: infinite limits. I'm not a mathematician by trade, but I don't see any conceptual way to get to pi*r^2 without an infinite limit of some kind. If you know a definition of calculus that amounts to something other than breaking stuff down into an infinite number of infinitely-tiny bits, if like to know what it is.

Correction. The length of each side of the square is 2R. The square encloses the circle.

And you'd need to make sure you didn't live below the 5th floor. I'd imagine from a ground floor bedroom it would simply be annoying.

When I try and explain the concept to people who have never done an assessment before I use the example of Godzilla; Severity is Catastrophic, Likelihood is Never.

What's the point of being super rich if you're not richer than someone else? And without consumers, how do they continue to make wealth?

A general without an army is just a guy in a funny suit. You can't be 'rich' without others being 'poor'.