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by shpxnvz 12y ago
For what it's worth I just put an Ubuntu 14.04 nightly on my Nvidia Optimus laptop, and contrary to previous versions the dual-GPU setup Just Works (including choosing which GPU using the Nvidia utilities) after selecting the latest bi
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by shpxnvz 12y ago
That's two crimes committed with NFA weapons in the 80 years since the NFA has existed. One committed by an active duty police officer and the other by a former police officer. And to the previous poster I'll add that production
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by shpxnvz 13y ago
Let's not forget that in neither case is it 'free'. The public foots the bill in both cases.
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by shpxnvz 13y ago
Not to mention that LittleMachineShop sells complete proven CNC rigs for about the same price with no risk, and which are obviously much more rigid as well.
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by shpxnvz 13y ago
No, he clearly did not mean regulation. He said demand, as a customer may do, rather than coerce by force, as a government must do.
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by shpxnvz 13y ago
And yet mob justice is exactly what we have in US, though sometimes with a legislative session's worth of delay. A constitutional republic protects against mob justice through individual guarantees of property and liberty, and further
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by shpxnvz 13y ago
> And you keep on not voting, and then wonder why your government doesn't represent you. Yet everyone else does vote and then wonders why their government doesn't represent them. What exactly makes that a better choice?
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by shpxnvz 13y ago
> When the state has access to nukes and the populace doesn't, how can this statement not technically be true? It seems like the ability literally wipe cities off the face of the earth means that you have the permanent upper hand, i
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by shpxnvz 13y ago
> Is your assumption true? No, it's not true. The state has vastly inferior power compared to the populace at large, at least in the U.S. However, the state is able to, in most cases, choose when and how it engages it's enemi
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by shpxnvz 13y ago
> Now I build tools to do real reputation analysis, and fight the very things I used to do. I'm like Darth Vader in the last few moments of his life... Really this just reads like you figured out a way to get paid to play both sides
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by shpxnvz 13y ago
Seems to me more like you leaving your door open and then trying to have someone arrested for looking through your doorway. If someone physically circumvents your door in order to see what's inside there's a difference in culpabil
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by shpxnvz 13y ago
> Fortunately we have a legal system that, to some degree, does. A large body of decisions in trial and appellate courts at both the state and federal level, up to and including the SCOTUS provide plenty of evidence that this is not the
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by shpxnvz 13y ago
> What blew me away was that he genuinely did not think that the NSA would interpret the term "relevant" as broadly as humanly possible. What makes you think he genuinely thought that? My (admittedly limited) experience with s
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by shpxnvz 13y ago
While you probably already know this, others may not: there is an organization called the Oath Keepers which is comprised of current and former uniformed members of military and civil services who affirm what you've stated - that the o
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by shpxnvz 13y ago
The local police basically failed, but a few years ago the county sheriffs took over. Whereas, as a youngster I had numerous bad encounters with local authorities, now the sheriffs wave to me when I drive through town and I see them with t
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by shpxnvz 13y ago
I think this was meant in reply to the comment about NFA weapons and crime. If so, yeah, I find that particularly interesting too. It also fits with the published data showing that police officers commit violent crimes at a significantly h
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by shpxnvz 13y ago
His is the only second case I'm aware of since 1934 of a legally owned NFA weapon being used in the commission of a crime. I'd strongly disagree with the claim that two criminal incidents in 79 years is sufficient reason to put a
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by shpxnvz 13y ago
In the cases I've seen state first hand, state law regarding NFA items usually just provides a blanket exemption for legal ownership so long as the item was procured in compliance with NFA procedures. In those states, so long as the NF
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by shpxnvz 13y ago
Note that the NFA branch has a rule change out for public comment that would include removing the CLEO signature requirements for individuals. It's expected to go into effect sometime next year if I remember correctly. Of course, since
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by shpxnvz 13y ago
I think that your interpretation of the report is incorrect. What that report shows is that fatal accidents are more likely on roads that have higher speed limits, which is quite a different thing from saying higher speeds caused the accid
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by shpxnvz 13y ago
And it appears to use futures that are part of Scala core (which Akka now uses as well) so I'm not sure how much this can be said to be Akka-ness anyway.
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by shpxnvz 13y ago
When you said "you're ridiculous" you attacked the poster rather than the opinion, which made that part of your comment ad-hominem. That statement, juxtaposed with your complaint immediately following about being subject to t
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by shpxnvz 13y ago
I don't think it's incorrect, which is why I brought up the commerce clause in the first place (with Filburn in mind). I agree, to congress everything is commerce. It's just such a farce that it would strain credulity if
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by shpxnvz 13y ago
> Where in the Constitution is Congress authorized to make laws regarding the practice of religion? The Commerce Clause, of course! I imagine they would argue that money donated to churches would otherwise be used to purchase goods and
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by shpxnvz 13y ago
I'd say the War on Terror has a lot in common with the War on Drugs. Neither have concrete achievable goals, neither has a well defined "enemy" and both tap into deep-seated fears of the voting public. Those characteristics
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by shpxnvz 13y ago
But not if the number of same-sex competitors increases by the same amount.
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by shpxnvz 13y ago
There is plenty of information about the law but I can find very little specific information about the actual incident besides a news report stating that "police believe it was fired straight up within a mile of Shannon's home.&qu
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by shpxnvz 13y ago
Did you recover the bullet? Measurements of the bullet would hint at the cartridge used, which would let us calculate how and where the round was fired. There are certainly cartridges in production that carry dramatically more kinetic ener
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by shpxnvz 13y ago
Oh yes, of course. I've never heard "shooting in the air" used to describe shooting directly at a building, though, so I was making an assumption there.
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by shpxnvz 13y ago
The ballistics calculations don't lie. For this story you heard... what cartridge was used? What bullet weight? What muzzle velocity? Where was the gun pointed? Do you have any actual information to share?

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