Comment Re:what happens... (Score 2) 464
when the batteries run out of juice and you need to use the "smart gun".
If you survive, you get criticized for not properly maintaining your weapon.
when the batteries run out of juice and you need to use the "smart gun".
If you survive, you get criticized for not properly maintaining your weapon.
Seriously - you do realize that the military, is made of people, most of whom care deeply about the Constitution. You must hold these men and women in utter contempt if think that they will automatically follow orders to gun down their brothers, fathers, children and cousins.
They might be "brothers, fathers, children and cousins", but they'll also be "terrorists".
We're not talking about a scenario where The Government will wake up tomorrow and just decide to ruthlessly subjugate its citizens. If the time comes when The Government feels that it needs to use force on its own citizens, you can be absolutely certain that there will be a non-trivial number of people willing to fight on the side of that government. They may not entirely agree with the actions of that government, but they will rationalize them with things like, "desperate times call for desperate measures".
Long gone are the days when the worst you would see was a Happy Meal and some action figures.
I see the effort to purge the Star Wars Holiday Special from our cultural memory is coming along nicely.
Why don't we turn the "NASA faked the moon landings" conspiracy theory on it's head and convince the tinfoil-hat community NASA has secretly sent astronauts to Mars?
Yeah, that debunking has been well-debunked too... violent crime has been decreasing in all first world countries, and using other countries as a control shows that Australia's violent crime is higher than it should be.
[Citation needed]
If a wizard suddenly made it impossible for guns to exist in America; they could not pass across any border, the ones inside the country simply turned into nothingness, do you think the rates of assault and murder would instantly go down?
Yes, I do think that getting rid of the easiest at-a-distance point-and-click method of murder would result in lower murder rates.
Call me crazy...
Or do you think someone can commit mass murder on this scale with knives and baseball bats?
(You're forgetting that this hypothetical world contains one or more people capable of wielding reality-bending magic.)
The NMA (National Magic Association) was right all along; the banning of magic for self defense was just the beginning. People resorted to using guns and murder is still an issue. And now people like you want to ban guns, too? When will this madness end?!
The only thing that can stop a bad guy who memorized Fireball is a good guy who memorized Fireball.
Remember "Hide the Decline"? That's when bona fide "scientists" came across an inconvenient truth.
Actually... Clearing up misconceptions regarding 'hide the decline'. I've linked to the "Basic" explanation, but there Intermediate and Advanced explanations that go into more detail.
Climate change deniers are scientists too.
It'd be more accurate to say that there are climate change deniers who are scientists. But then that's still not a very convincing argument, since "scientist" covers quite a lot of topics, many of which aren't directly related to climate.
You are ignoring how other countries have benefitted from our pollution.
So, wait... In your world, it's OK for the cable guy to shit all over your carpet simply because he's hooking you up that service you ordered?
I sense a great disturbance in the Force, as though millions of independent-minded correct-thinking Slashdotters crying out in confusion about what opinion they're supposed to have about Donald Trump...
It's not difficult to argue that, even if you agree that something needs to be done, Trump's support for action doesn't make up for his deficiencies in... every other regard. I'm not going to hire someone to get rid of cockroaches in my building if it sounds like he's going to burn down the building in the process.
I just looked back at digg.com for the first time in a couple years from when it flamed out heroically on it's 2.0 launch. It's not horrible now, there doesn't appear to be too much drama on their front page. Looks like delicio.us Just a abc/cbs style repost of yesterdays "hot web news"
I'm being nitpicky, but it was actually their v4 release that drove everyone away. It was sold two years later for a mere $500k.
Not from The Onion, but there's Literally Unbelievable. It's a bit more focused, though, posting funny examples of people on Facebook mistaking Onion articles for real news.
OK, so... it seems there was something broken about my Firefox profile. I realized I was able to play videos on my laptop install of Firefox. After renaming the profile directory on my desktop and letting Firefox recreate it, I was able to watch YouTube videos again.
What OS are you using? I'm using it on Windows.
Windows 7 64-bit.
You enabled MSE via the about:config page, yes?
Yepper. The only thing that wasn't enabled by default was WebM, which I did enable.
I wondered if maybe AdBlock Plus and/or Ghostery were causing a problem so I disabled both of them (through the Add-on Manager), but Firefox still wouldn't play anything else...
I enabled MSE in Firefox in the previous version, and the HTML5 YT videos seemed to work fine except 1080/60p videos, which stuttered a lot. As of v37, that seems to have also been fixed. YMMV, but it's A-OK for me.
Doesn't seem to work for me. Sort of.
The "introductory" video on Achievement Hunter's Let's Play YouTube channel plays using the the HTML5 player, but nothing else seems to work.
On the eighth day, God created FORTRAN.
