So you are saying that because it's not perfect under the current system, it couldn't get worse? The US at least trys/pretends to respect free speech, human rights, rule of law, etc. Some of these countries don't even bother to do that.
... This meant, for example, that the legal definition of the inch in the US became 2.56 cm....
2.54 cm
If you're going to make a claim like that, you might want to spare thirty seconds to check out the actual web sites.
US Site: No picture scaling
UK Site: Picture scales to hide the bottom of the page. I had to turn my monitor on its side, making it 1920 pixels tall, in order to get the notice to appear.
I really don't understand how some people think they can get away with such obvious lies on the internet. Do they really think that not a single person will bother to check?
following the links above I have to scroll *farther* to see the bottom of the page on the US site. damage control, geo-location or ???
Probably most of us don't have one in the garage, but argon is very important in MIG / TIG welders, and how much other stuff is made with one of these?
yes, I know you are joking, but manifest destiny was BOTH north AND west. Google "54-40 or fight" for example.
And in other news, the Asus Transformer Prime is 4x as fast as the Cray.
It's much more impressive to compare a common toy of today to a serious workhorse of yesterday.
AIUI, you assume wrong. The horse's terminal velocity is considerably higer (and considerably more terminal) than that of the mouse.
and thus you strengthen his point. The mouse wins with conservative estimates. The mouse wins by more when you take into account more detailed explanations.
Maybe he should have said "even if you assume..."
Of course, the cons scrapped the gun registry, which was the *other* law that got changed as a result of that event.
I believe it was the long gun registry that got scrapped. i.e. rifles and shotguns. Regulations on restricted weapons and hand guns were not changed. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Firearms_Registry) Long guns are just not the weapon of choice for your average massacre.
It's unlikely that a would-be assassin will learning the art of medical implant hacking in assassin school on the off chance that he'll one day have a target who just happens to have such an implant.
many implants are expensive, and I suspect there is a strong correlation, at least in some countries, between "has more money/power than average" and "more likely to have implants". Therefore, you are learning an attack against a group that self-selects to be a more tempting target, for either extortion or assassination.
Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue. - Seneca
