Not usually. The majority of his articles are damn good. He's one of my favorite writers here since Kat left for the UK site. But this article was just nonsense.

35' (10.6 m)

Mmmhmmm.

Fuk ya?

Cell phones are radio-emitting devices. I'm talking about electronic devices with their radios turned off. Just random EMF noise from the electronics themselves. Very different, much weaker, thing.

*Thrice. And if you miss with a gun thrice...well, I can't see how that'd be much help, either.

That was my first thought.

Dammit! Time to try some FTL maths...I'll be back in a few centuries (that's yesterday to you folks).

Theirs*

LOVED REBOOT :)

I actually really like Revolution. Some of the plot you have to suspend disbelief for, but it's still really good IMHO :)

But the Mayans wouldn't have been in the Aussie timezone, so we still have a chance to explode :P .

Sources, please? Gun-related deaths in nations with strict gun control laws are much less than in the US. Other violent crime rates are comparable to the US. Where are you getting this information that they've gone up?

Who said it would happen at midnight? We've still got all day to explode/implode/zombify/burn/freeze.......

I'm just saying, you shouldn't make claims about things without looking into them first.

...first, look up the definition of "evolution". Then look up "evolutionary programming". It does, in fact, evolve. I've built such evolving systems myself.

Less efficient means less likely to kill.

It's not splitting hairs. How do you account for the "dramatic" difference when the main relevant variable is gun control laws? If they don't help, what's making the difference here?

Math. The US rape rate is about 3x (not 4x) the Germany rate. Again, not close at all to the 8-fold or 36-fold differences in gun deaths.

You mean where the US rate is only 3x the UK rate, which is a far cry from the 8 to 36x of gun deaths?