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20% more powerful is one generation ahead? Mandoble, this really makes me wonder if the mindset you take towards gaming is a sensible one.
Power has never ensured the immediate success of a console anyway.
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21. Posted:
20% more powerful is one generation ahead? Mandoble, this really makes me wonder if the mindset you take towards gaming is a sensible one.
22. Posted:
I wonder if this rumor has any base in it? Because if it does, the Wii U:s GPU (HD 4850) is actually better in most aspects than Xbox 720 (HD 6670)
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23. Posted:
Faron wrote:
The hilarious thing is, this is technically true. At least power wise.
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24. Posted:
shingi_70 wrote:
First off, they aren't "cheap" by some standards. Secondly, you don't know the price of the Wii U. Third, the Wii U probably won't have the same install base because it has Nintendo franchises as well.
Fourth, the PS2 was successful but less powerful than the Xbox. The PS1 was weaker than the N64 but was more successful.
Lastly, it's not luck good sir. The Wii had a great business model that WORKED. Nintendo intended to expand their audiences and were successful in doing so. Success is rarely based purely on luck; wise decisions also play a role in a lot of success.
It's also foolish to slap pointless trolling in an attempted serious argument
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25. Posted:
1.by what standard they aren't cheap. by the time the wii u launches those two will be considerably cheaper.
2. of course i don't know the price but simple logic would but it in the $300-$400 range.
3. By install base i mean people using it and the debs already developing for it. not to mention the plethora of games avaible.
4. lets be honest just because you have a plan doesn't mean its going to catch on. products like webos, the playbooks, and zune are great examples of that.
also using the power argument is somewhat poor when you consider there's no way to tally up the power of a system. and i never said power was a factor for the wii. the won off of competitive pricing and a unique thing. also power doesn't matter when your format sucks. as powerful the cube and n64 was they were both killed by a horrible format.
also you have to look at the facts the wii u is being launched more like a gamecube or dreamcast.
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26. Posted:
@shingi-70: "Simple logic" can't be applied, seeing what happened to the 3DS. They may choose to go either way, even if it means selling at a loss. And Nintendo is a proficient gaming company, that rivals along the other significantly major two. Excellent innovation accompanied with a brilliant marketing plan is sure success from them.
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GameLord08 wrote:
Read well, 20% more powerfull GPU (than expected one for WiiU), and six times the power of CPU (than current XBoX). Hope you can differentiate between GPU and CPU, right? Now if WiiU is overally 1.2 times faster than current 360, this seems to be way behind than being six times as powerfull. And yes, six times the power of a 360 is really close to the power of current gaming PCs (not counting RAM).
28. Posted:
Mandoble wrote:
How is 6670 hd 20% more effective than 4870 HD? If i've understood correctly, Wii U is the one with better GPU.
29. Posted:
shingi_70 wrote:
Sure the Gamecube came in 3rd, but the N64 was hardly "killed" it was still a commercial success and is one of the few systems that gamers don't mind going back and playing (actually nearly all Nintendo gaming consoles have that love).
Also I don't see how the Wii U is being launched like the Gamecube and Dreamcast. Both systems were simply promoted as more powerful systems (or faster) than the current competition. The Wii U is promoted similarly to the Wii, this time to hardcore gamers, a revolution to gaming.
Mandoble wrote:
You seriously aren't reading the article correct if you're saying that the Wii U is overal 1.2 times faster (which is not the correct term) than the current 360. The article stated that the next XBox will be 6 times more powerful than the 360 and 20% more powerful than the Wii U. Meaning that the Wii U is 5 times more powerful than the 360. Read the articles you post correctly before you make trolling arguments like this.
30. Posted:
I honestly couldn't care less. What is it that the best PC's can do now that the HD consoles can't? Just graphics. That is all that the next Xbox is going to have over the Wii U while the Wii U will have it's new controller and all the experiences that will bring to the table. If you care so much about graphics, just get a PC.
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nickcarney wrote:
well deep integration with Windows 8 and windows phone is one. Apps being cross compatible between all of the platforms is great for developers. Alot of content deals that will bring in non gamers. I already have a tablet picking up another one later this year and other than a few tasks I can't see the need for a limited tablet use for the non gaming uses they showed. I
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32. Posted:
How about we discuss this stuff when we... you know, receive some actual information?
Just for you.
33. Posted:
Viewtiful_Joe wrote:
Speculation is fun to argue about
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34. Posted:
So no new Xbox in 2012. Also, this somehow amused me:
Delmas (from MS) also commented on the Wii U, which has already been confirmed to be coming this year. He says that Microsoft isn't looking to counter the Wii U directly.
"If we wanted to counter Nintendo, we would have to be in a position to release something immediately, and that is not at all the case," Delmas said. "We're not here to counter Nintendo and they're not here to fight the other manufacturers. Nintendo has put itself in a different cycle. It's going forward to its own rhythm, with success as we have seen with the Wii, and now it's their turn to present their innovation."
"Now it's their turn to present the innovation". It's like they openly admit that they're just waiting for Nintendo to do the base work by bringing new technology, and then rush to the market copying them.
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I don't understand how if Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony all put out a system, the technologically weakest one is automatically a console generation older regardless of what time it was released. That doesn't really make sense to me. If we're going to speak logically, we could say that MAYBE (as this is all just simple speculation based on a 100% lack of verifiable fact) the Wii U will have the least horsepower of the next generation. That MIGHT be fair. But those 3 systems will be the next generation of systems until one is launched, at which point all three (released or otherwise) become current-generation. The PlayStation 3 and XBox 360 are at this moment current generation systems. At this moment the Nintendo Wii is also a current generation system. The previous generation systems are the XBox, the PlayStation 2, and the GameCube. Simply having the title of XBox or PlayStation attached onto your system doesn't make you newer or (as most people would like you to think) sent back from the future to support the gaming habits of the past. Commercially available XBoxes and PlayStations aren't "NEXT generation," and that's not something that's going to change with the 720 and the 4.
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37. Posted:
shingi_70 wrote:
PS3s are running for $250 now. I doubt they'll be considerably cheaper than $300-400. Plus you're comparing a new product to products that have been out for years now.
Again, Wii U has Nintendo franchises. Nothing to worry about there.
It's also about marketing and technique rather than simply luck. Sure not all products are successful, I still don't think it's sheer dumb luck that they succeed. You'd make Apple disappointed if you tried to argue that to them.
I don't grasp the idea of the Wii U's format "sucking" since we know very little of it. Power is a factor in some cases like the quality of games that are possible, though it isn't absolutely necessary for the best for some people.
Also, what do you mean it's going to be launched like a Gamecube or Dreamcast?
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38. Posted:
@bro2dragons: May the gaming gods bless you for that paragraph.
39. Posted:
bro2dragons wrote:
I couldn't have put it any better. Next-gen is an oxymoron within itself
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40. Posted:
Well that's obvious. The whole generation is just either fanboys bull or a funny little joke.
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In camera and other stories
|Westall, Robert.
New York: Scholastic, 1995
Annotation:Five tales of psychological suspense and the possible supernatural, featuring such characters as a satanic baby and a man who may have turned himself into a cat.
Subjects :
- Horror fiction.
- Fiction
- Supernatural
- Fiction.
- Horror
- Occultism
- Horror tales, English
- Short stories
- Short stories.
- Horror stories
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State & Provincial Reading List :
- South Carolina Young Adult Book Award; Nominee 1997-1997 South Carolina
Reading Measurement Programs:
Scholastic (New York:) 1994.
Accelerated Reader
Lexile, MetaMetrics, Inc.
Reading Counts-Scholastic
Scholastic (New York:) 1993.
Reading Counts-Scholastic
Reviews :
Hazel Rochman (Booklist, Aug. 1993 (Vol. 89, No. 22))
Even in his most realistic World War II stories, the late Robert Westall was a master at revealing disorder beneath conventional pieties. In this entertaining collection of five scary short stories, the supernatural is just on the edge of conscious control, a wildness that can barely be contained. Sometimes the confrontation is overexplained: "the prisoner of life" fights "the frenzied flood of desire and delusion." But the best tales dramatize the battle inside one person, usually a woman who is trying to free herself from an overbearing father and/or a wimpy husband. The title story is a clever mystery about a policewoman who is as sexy as she is smart. The longest story begins with a bride knowing that she's walking down the aisle into the trap of a bad marriage. She finds the strength to free herself when she believes that she's possessed by a kindly ghost; but with an astonishing twist, the story reveals that the ghost was a vicious character and that her strength and creativity have come from herself. Westall shows in all these selections that it's the power of the imagination that both sets the ghosts free and keeps them at bay. Category: Older Readers. 1993, Scholastic, $13.95. Gr. 7-12.
(PUBLISHER: Scholastic (New York:), PUBLISHED: 1993.)
Kirkus (Kirkus Reviews, 1993)
A part of O. Henry, a dash of Oscar Wilde, and all Westall: five stories that give ample evidence of a lifetime of careful character study and craftsmanship. Though billed as dealing with the uncanny, none of these is overtly occult, horrific, or fantastic, but all stretch the imagination. In the title story, film found in a 50-year-old camera leads to the scene of a supposed half-century-ago crime, only to reveal heartbreak instead. A martinet of a records clerk is asked to register the baby of "Beelzebub"--but only in the clerk's unsuspectedly ripe imagination. "Henry Marlborough," a beguiling presence from the past, leads an intellectually stifled young woman to independence, even though the romantic figure she imagines is nothing like the real Henry. Through all these tales runs a theme of possibility, of nothing being quite what it seems. The settings are English, as are the social milieu and some of the phrasing, but that shouldn't deter readers who respond to the characters' charm and the expressiveness of the writing. 1993, Scholastic, $13.95. © 1993 Kirkus Reviews/VNU eMedia, Inc. All rights reserved.
(PUBLISHER: Scholastic (New York:), PUBLISHED: 1993.)
Publication Details:
New York: Scholastic, 1995
Media Type: Language Material
152 p. ;
PZ7.W51953 (Fic)
New York: Scholastic, 1994
Media Type: Language Material
152 p. ;
PZ7.W51953 ([Fic])
Reprint. Originally published 1993.
New York: Scholastic, 1993
Media Type: Language Material
152 p. ;
PZ7.W51953 ([Fic])

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From the July 15 edition of Fox News' The Five:
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Conservative activist David Keene, who finished serving a two-year term as National Rifle Association president in May, will join The Washington Times as opinion editor. The conservative newspaper has often provided a platform for opponents of stronger gun laws and for the promotion of the NRA.
In April, after a Senate proposal to expand background checks on gun sales was blocked by a predominately Republican coalition of senators, the Times editorial board fawned over the NRA, which was credited with influencing the legislation's defeat.
According to the Times, the failure of the proposal was, "a decisive victory for the National Rifle Association (NRA), which led the fight to protect the rights of all." The April 18 editorial also employed the right-wing media canard that family members of victims of the December 14, 2012, massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School who supported expanded background checks were used as "props" by the Obama administration "to make a political argument." The April 18 Times opinion page also featured an op-ed that began, "I don't believe the families of the victims from the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn., deserve a vote."
Keene, an irregular contributor to the Times opinion page, has also used the Times to promote the interests of the NRA. In a March 27 op-ed, the then-NRA president complained about a racial discrimination lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) against Bass Pro Shops over the allegation that the hunting and fishing supply company engaged in a pattern of racially discriminatory hiring practices. Beyond misleading on the substance of the lawsuit -- Keene wrongfully described it as an attempt by the EEOC to force Bass Pro Shops to hire felons -- at no point did Keene mention the NRA's business relationship with Bass Pro Shops, which includes a collaborative effort to open a 10,000-square foot firearms museum.
Keene, in his capacity as NRA president, often used interviews with Times senior opinion editor Emily Miller to promote his organization's message. Miller authors a blog about guns for the newspaper and is a frequent guest on the National Rifle Association's news programming. The 2011 recipient of the NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund Harlon B. Carter - George S. Knight Freedom Fund Award, Miller also is a source of misinformation about gun violence. (She is reportedly "THRILLED about [her] new boss.")
Commenting on the acquittal of George Zimmerman on charges that he unlawfully killed Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, National Rifle Association board member Ted Nugent labeled Martin a "dope smoking, racist gangsta wannabe" who was "responsible for his bad decisions and standard modus operendi of always taking the violent route."
In a July 14 column for conservative news website Rare, Nugent also claimed that the decision to prosecute Zimmerman was wrongfully influenced by "the race-baiting industry [that] saw an opportunity to further the racist careers of Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, the Black Panthers":
Based on all evidence available to them, the professional law enforcement officers did not hold George Zimmerman on charges later that night. They saw it for what it was: cut and dried self-defense.
And so it was for a few weeks until the race-baiting industry saw an opportunity to further the racist careers of Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, the Black Panthers. President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder, et al, who then swept down on the Florida community refusing to admit that the 17-year-old dope smoking, racist gangsta wannabe Trayvon Martin was at all responsible for his bad decisions and standard modus operendi of always taking the violent route.
Media figures are falsely claiming that Florida's controversial "Stand Your Ground" self-defense law played no role in the trial of George Zimmerman for the killing of Trayvon Martin.
In the wake of Zimmerman's March 2012 killing of Martin, media attention turned to the role of Florida's "Stand Your Ground" (also known as "Shoot First" or "Kill at Will" statute). That law allows a person who believes his life or safety is in danger to use deadly force in self-defense without being required to retreat as long as they are not engaged in illegality and are attacked in a place they have a right to be.The law also allows for a defendant to seek an expedited pretrial hearing on those grounds, and grants people who kill in self-defense immunity from civil lawsuits.
The statute was drafted with the help of the National Rifle Association. After Florida passed the law in 2005, it was adopted as model legislation by the American Legislative Exchange Council and nearly two dozen states passed similar legislation. Such laws have been found to increase the rate of homicide and have a racially disproportionate impact on black victims.
After Zimmerman was found not guilty of murder in the death of Martin, gun violence prevention advocates again highlighted the role of Florida's self-defense law. But some in the media, due to a misunderstanding of the statute's breadth, have falsely claimed that the law played no role in the trial.
On the July 15 edition of CNN's New Day, co-hosts Chris Cuomo and Kate Bolduan agreed that the law played no role in the case.
In fact, Florida's self-defense laws set the framework by which Zimmerman was tried, setting the standard by which the jury would have to determine if Martin's death resulted from the justifiable use of force. Indeed, the jury instructions in the case specifically mention that "If George Zimmerman was not engaged in an unlawful activity and was attacked in anyplace where he had a right to be, he had no duty to retreat and had the right to stand his ground" and use deadly force.
Zombie Industries, a firearms target company that produces "life-sized; three-dimensional tactical mannequins that 'bleed' when you shoot them," has released a new target -- "Al" -- that is presumably inspired by MSNBC host Rev. Al Sharpton.
[Zombie Industries, accessed 7/9/13]
Sharpton, who hosts PoliticsNation, has been an outspoken proponent of gun violence prevention laws and has frequently commented on the killing of Trayvon Martin.
In May, Sharpton called a Zombie Industries' exhibition of a target that resembled President Obama at the National Rifle Association's annual meeting a "stunning, offensive display." The NRA asked Zombie Industries to remove the target from its display, although it is still available for purchase on the Zombie Industries website.
A description of the target on Zombie Industries' website describes how "Poor Al he was a Sharp guy" was attacked by zombies while he "complained about complete nonsense" to a truck driver who offered him a ride:
... as Al complained about complete nonsense, when all of a sudden a rotten, maggot infested face appeared from above the cab of the truck. The trucker slammed the brakes and jolted the wheel, causing the truck to tip over and its contents sprawled over the countryside. Both the driver and poor Al were still stuck in the cab when they saw them coming... nowhere to run, no one to call, they shook in fear and poor Al even cried... but sadly within minutes it was over. Once their screams for help were silenced, they were now one of them... the brainless ones.
Zombie Industries has engendered controversy for other zombie target designs. As noted by Think Progress, the company sold an "ex-girlfriend" mannequin that bled when shot and currently offers a zombie target in the likeness of a "gun control lobbyist." Zombie Industries is reportedly advertising the lobbyist target with an image that includes a photograph of Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence President Dan Gross and gun violence prevention advocate Colin Goddard, who was shot four times in the Virginia Tech massacre.
Internet radio host Adam Kokesh, who obtained notoriety this year for organizing armed marches with the goal of overthrowing the federal government, appeared on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' radio show to revive his call for protestors who wish to "end the federal government" to march on Washington, D.C., on Independence Day 2014.
From the July 8 edition of The Alex Jones Show:
In May, Kokesh cancelled plans for a similar July 4 armed march on Washington, and instead called on his supporters to organize marches at state capitols nationwide in order to effectuate an "orderly dissolution of the federal government."
Kokesh has since reinstated his original plans, hoping that a "critical mass" of protesters will allow him to organize a march from nearby Northern Virginia into Washington, D.C., on July 4, 2014.
Kokesh laid out plans for the 2014 march, stating, "It's time to plant the flag for next year and Alex, I know a lot of people in your audience will join us in this, and I hope you will endorse it too, because it's going to happen with or without me now. We invite anybody to join us who for whatever reason wants to end the fed entirely, to join us on Independence Day of next year." According to Kokesh, the route would be the same as the tabled 2013 march, with plans to pass by the United States Capitol, the Supreme Court and the White House.
Washington Times senior opinion editor Emily Miller compared proposals to tax firearms for the benefit of victims of gun violence to poll taxes, which were used to deny African-Americans the right to vote.
Miller, who writes a gun blog for the Times, is the latest conservative commentator to compare the processes involved in gun ownership to racial discrimination.
Poll taxes are prohibited by the Twenty-fourth Amendment and have been found to violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by the Supreme Court.
Most commercial firearms and ammunition sales are already subject to an excise tax which funds conservation programs. Recently, a number of states have proposed levying additional taxes on firearm and ammunition sales in order to set aside money for victims of gun violence, fund mental health initiatives and pay for the implementation of firearm licensing programs.
From the June 27 edition of the National Rifle Association News' Cam & Company:
MILLER: Chicago passed a law this year that adds a 25 dollar tax to firearm sales in Chicago, and obviously that's meant to discourage people to buy guns. Puts them out of range or reach for some people, cost wise.
Well now it's about eight states that are following suit with ideas of taxing ammo and guns as high as 50 percent in Maryland on ammo and in Connecticut on ammo. Massachusetts has a tax on guns and ammo in its main bill that is going through the legislature at pretty rapid speed on gun control. So Congressman Graves in the House, Sam Graves, has a bill that would eliminate the ability of these states and jurisdictions to basically tax your Second Amendment, which is pretty much a poll tax.
So his bill would say that Congress has authority under its ability to regulate interstate commerce, because guns and ammo are manufactured and sent interstate, that Congress can intervene and say you can't add taxes onto them, these states and cities. So that has been introduced and will go through the Judiciary Committee and I think that is a really positive move for Congress to do because it is -- I can't believe it will be held up in court that you can tax guns and ammo, you can tax the Second Amendment. I mean I'm sure these things will be eventually taken to court and I would bet they get overturned.
Gary Kleck, a Florida State University criminologist who is the source of a debunked claim that critics say dramatically exaggerated the frequency of defensive gun use, recently served on a committee tasked by the federal government with creating a potential research agenda focusing on ways to minimize gun violence.
The committee, formed by the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council at the request of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in response to an executive order President Obama signed in January following the Newtown school shooting, recently issued its report, titled "Priorities for Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-Related Violence."
The committee of 14, led by Alan I. Leshner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, was tasked with developing "a potential research agenda focusing on the public health aspects of firearm-related violence-- its causes, approaches to interventions that could prevent it, and strategies to minimize its health burden." The report calls for a research program to be implemented by the CDC and other agencies and private foundations and "designed to produce impacts in 3-5 years" that focuses on the characteristics of firearm violence and risk and protective factors, among other issues.
Kleck is best known for his 1995 study with Marc Gertz that claims that up to 2.5 million incidents of defensive gun use occur every year. Media figures and the National Rifle Association frequently cite this study to bolster their claims that owning firearms makes people safer.
But critics point to the study's "serious methodological difficulties" -- it extrapolates a very rare event, the slightly more than one percent of respondents to a survey that said they had used a gun in self-defense over the past year, to the entire population of 200 million adults. This means that even slight deficiencies in the accuracy of the survey, whether due to false positives or a sample that is not perfectly indicative of the overall population, can lead to large differences in the result. Harvard Injury Control Research Center Director David Hemenway has labeled Kleck's result "an enormous overestimate" and pointed out that the results require one to believe, for instance, that "burglary victims use their guns in self-defense more than 100% of the time."
Contra Kleck, data from the National Crime Victimization survey produced by the Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics suggests that there are roughly 100,000 instances of defensive gun use per year.
Right-wing media have pointed to the report's citation of Kleck's research to claim that it proves that "guns actually save lives." In fact, the report's treatment of the criminologist's work is more complex, typically contrasting his results with other studies that show dramatically different results. For example, the report states (emphasis added):
Estimates of gun use for self-defense vary widely, in part due to definitional differences for self-defensive gun use, different data sources, and questions about accuracy of data, particularly when self-reported. The NCVS has estimated 60,000 to 120,000 defensive uses of guns per year. Based on data from l992 and l994, the NCVS found 116,000 incidents (McDowall et al., 1998). Another body of research estimated annual gun use for self-defense to be much higher, up to 2.5 million incidents, suggesting that self-defense can be an important crime deterrent (Kleck and Gertz, 1995). Some studies on the association between self-defensive gun use and injury or loss to the victim have found less loss and injury when a firearm is used (Kleck, 2001b).
Similarly (emphasis added):
Defensive uses of guns by crime victims is a common occurrence, although the exact number remains disputed (Cook and Ludwig, 1996; Kleck, 2001a). Almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by criminals, with estimates of annual uses ranging from about 500,000 to more than 3 million per year (Kleck, 2001a), in the context of about 300,000 violent crimes involving firearms in 2008 (BJS, 2010). On the other hand, some scholars point to radically lower estimate of only 108,000 annual defensive uses based on the National Crime Victimization Survey (Cook et al., 1997). The variation in these numbers remains a controversy in the field. The estimate of 3 million defensive uses per year is based on an extrapolation from a small number of responses taken from more than 19 national surveys. The former estimate of 108,000 is difficult to interpret because respondents were not asked specifically about defensive gun use.
A spokesperson for the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council would not comment on Kleck's controversial presence on the committee, but explained that the committee was selected by staff based on "folks that are nominated" with an eye toward providing "enough expertise to address all of the questions" at issue as well as "these different perspectives and points of view with the expertise." She stressed that the slate was approved by the president of the National Academy of Science and that all members must sign off on the report before its release.
Kleck and Leshner did not respond to requests for comment.
From the June 25 edition of Fox News' Happening Now:
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Some of the country's top news editors are criticizing a new Louisiana law that punishes journalists who publicly identify gun owners with concealed weapons permits.
At the American Society of News Editors annual conference being held this week in Washington, D.C., several major newspaper editors spoke out against the law during interviews with Media Matters, with some saying that it appears unconstitutional.
"It seems absurd on its face," said Seattle Times Executive Editor David Boardman said. "In fact, it seems to me on the surface it is a prior restraint issue."
"Prior restraint" is government action that prohibits speech, and with few exceptions has been found by the Supreme Court to violate the First Amendment.
The Louisiana law, signed by Gov. Bobby Jindal on June 19, sets penalties of fines of up to $10,000 or six months in jail for those who publish "any information regarding the identity of any person who applied for or received a concealed handgun permit." The law includes exceptions for cases in which the concealed handgun holder is charged with a felony offense involving the use of a handgun.
The law stems from the controversial decision by The Journal News of White Plains, N.Y., to publish names and addresses of those who had conceal carry permits in their area last year. The information was obtained legally through open public records; in Louisiana, such records are closed to the public.
Journalists in the state have spoken out against the bill, arguing that it chills and criminalizes journalists for doing their jobs. That argument found support at the ASNE convention.
"The reporting of factual information in the public interest is something I support," said Jill Abramson, executive editor of The New York Times, who added that it must be handled carefully, but should not be outlawed.
Martin Baron, editor of The Washington Post, also said he would not necessarily publish such information, but opposes legal restrictions.
"I don't think media organizations should have to pay a price," he said. "It is up to the news organization to decide if it should be published. I think that is for every individual news organization to make that decision on their own."
Margaret Sullivan, public editor of The New York Times and former editor of The Buffalo News, said "I am not in favor of punishing newspapers who serve the public by getting information out there."
Major newspapers and cable and broadcast media have ignored Louisiana's passage of a law that makes it a crime for journalists to publicly identify concealed handgun permit holders or applicants.
On June 19, Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA) signed a bill that sets penalties of up to six months in jail and $10,000 for those who publish "any information regarding the identity of any person who applied for or received a concealed handgun permit." The law includes exceptions for cases in which the concealed handgun holder is charged with a felony offense involving the use of a handgun.
Supporters cited as their rationale for proposing the law a New York paper's controversial December publication of a Google map that featured the names and addresses of local handgun permit holders, saying that the legislation was necessary to prevent local media outlets from publishing similar information. Most states, including Louisiana, have laws that make such information confidential, but Alabama is the only other state that currently makes publication of that information illegal subject to a penalty.
The law's passage comes during a furious debate over whether the federal government infringed upon freedom of the press by naming a reporter as a co-conspirator in a leak case; the journalist was never charged with a crime.
Louisiana's law, explicitly passed in order to chill and criminalize journalism, has not received national attention. According to a review of the Nexis and Factiva databases*, major newspapers like The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and USA Today have not mentioned the law. Neither have ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, or Fox News. The Associated Press produced several articles as the bill moved through the legislative process and became law, reporting on June 19:
Despite criticism it would violate the First Amendment, Gov. Bobby Jindal on Wednesday signed into law a bill that makes it a crime for journalists or anyone else to publicly identify concealed handgun permit holders or applicants.
Carl Redman, the executive editor of the Baton Rouge Advocate and chairman of the Louisiana Press Association's Freedom of Information Committee, offered a stirring defense of freedom of the press in opposing the Louisiana law at a May 7 state Senate committee hearing. He called it "very ironic that the very people who screamed the loudest about attempts to limit their Second Amendment rights are here eager to limit my First Amendment rights."
Other advocates for freedom of the press joined him in opposing the bill.
Frank Borelli, a frequent guest on NRA News, noted the excuse used by Nazis who operated concentration camps that they were "just following orders" to applaud sheriffs who would "selectively enforce" Maryland's new gun violence prevention laws.
On May 16, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley signed into law a ban on assault weapons, limits on high-capacity magazines and a handgun licensing scheme.
Borelli, who is the editor of the law enforcement news site Officer.com and is a regular guest on NRA News, made the Nazi comparison as a counterpoint to an editorial by Maryland House of Delegates member Jon S. Cardin that criticized a Maryland sheriff who said he would not enforce the new laws.
From the June 20 edition of Cam & Company on the Sportsman Channel:
CAM EDWARDS, HOST: The Baltimore Sun is very upset, particularly Jon Cardin is incensed that there are sheriffs in the state of Maryland who say that they will not be enforcing the new gun control laws against otherwise legal law-abiding gun owners. He says this is a horrible idea, in a country dependent on the rule of law, he says, to protect civil rights and public safety this is dangerous and distressing. I'm curious, what's your take, Frank?
FRANK BORELLI: I'd like to ask Mr. Cardin one question. Does he feel that when Nazis working the death camps used the excuse of, I was just following orders, was that an acceptable excuse and did it exempt them for moral turpitude for their actions? And I'd like to hear him justify that.
These sheriffs have stepped up, again this is my opinion, these sheriffs have stepped up and said you know what, we don't [sic] feel these laws are unconstitutional therefore we're not going to enforce them. They're saying, hey, this isn't a lawful order. These laws aren't enforceable. We choose not to enforce them. I commend them for their courage to do so.
The National Rifle Association's news show inaccurately portrayed a California program that seeks to recover guns from felons and other prohibited individuals as a means of placing law-abiding gun owners in danger of firearm confiscation.
The June 20 special targeted a California law enforcement program that works with the Armed Prohibited Persons System (APPS), a database of individuals who are no longer legally allowed to possess guns. The database works by combining gun registration records with the records of individuals who are barred from owning a firearm because of a felony conviction, restraining order or adjudication of serious mental illness.
According to Pacific Standard magazine, the database includes 20,000 people who possess at least 38,000 handguns and 1,600 assault weapons.
Setting up the segment, NRA News' investigative reporter Ginny Simone said that the special would tell the story of a person who was "wrongly targeted," despite the fact that the person featured is prohibited by federal law from owning a gun. NRA News host Cam Edwards also claimed that "there are so many issues right now for the law-abiding in California because you got lawmakers going after their rights, meanwhile the criminals are getting put back out onto the streets, and it sounds like you've got a government that is in many ways just out of control."
The recent bloody headlines out of Chicago relayed the sad tale of the city's deadly weekend, where seven people were killed in shootings and more than 50 were victims of gunfire. Thanks in part to news coverage, America's third largest city has become synonymous with runaway gun violence, and especially deadly weekend shootouts.
Sadly, that type of shooting spree isn't restricted to Chicago. Just this month in New York City, which has experienced an historic reduction in crime in recent years, 25 people were shot over a single weekend; six of the victims died.
Nonetheless, the Chicago news triggered the usual response from conservative gun advocates, who love to mock the city's homicide rate. In recent years Chicago gun victims have served as a macabre punch line for NRA fans as they scoff at the alleged futility of the city's gun safety laws. (Chicago banned handguns decades ago, and has retained strong gun laws following the 2010 overturning of that ban by the Supreme Court.)
Conservative conspiracists such as Rush Limbaugh even claim Democratic politicians, including Chicago's mayor Rahm Emanuel, want the city's murder rate to remain high so they can use the killings to advocate for stronger gun laws.
But mostly, firearm defenders simply ridicule Chicago's murder count. "Slaughter in Gun Control Chicago," blogged Fox News contributor Katie Pavlich in the wake of last weekend's gun attacks, while a Breitbart writer on Monday insisted city officials had "little to show" for their efforts to curb violence.
But note what these commentators are careful not to mention while using the killings to make a political point: They didn't mention that homicides in "Gun Control Chicago" are down dramatically this year; a trend that undermines the attack that the Second City stands as the ultimate symbol of gun enforcement failure.
In early May, the Chicago Police Department released figures indicating the city marked a 43 percent decline in the number of murders over the first four months of this year, as compared to the same period last year. For the first quarter of this year, Chicago registered 93 murders, its lowest January-to-April tally since 1963.
Then this month came news that Chicago experienced a 31 percent decrease in shootings for the month of May, which meant that through May of this year the city's murder count had declined 34 percent from last year. Chicago homicides still outnumber those in larger cities, such as New York and Los Angeles; it suffers from weaker gun laws in both its home state and surrounding states than those two cities, allowing criminals easier access to guns purchased elsewhere.
It's true that Chicago's crime is certain to spike in the coming summer months, and with it will come more heartbreaking headlines about tragic gun murders; killings that will inevitably involve young victims. But statistically, violent crime almost always goes up in warm weather months. So the question is, will Chicago's murder rate go up more this year than during last year's summer months? Or will the city be able to maintain its pattern of reduced gun violence throughout 2013?
Six months after the tragic Newtown school shooting, Fox & Friends highlighted a gun manufacturer's high profits but failed to recognize victims of gun violence in Newtown or elsewhere in the country.
On December 14, the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT, left 26 people dead, including 20 children, and helped to spark a national debate about preventing gun violence and stronger gun laws. Six months later, gun manufacturer Smith & Wesson reported record earnings, which CNN Money attributed to a "spike in demand from consumers fearing that the national debate over gun control would yield new regulations limiting their ability to buy certain firearms."
But Fox & Friends ignored the Newtown victims exactly six months after the school shooting, instead highlighting how gun sales have soared in response to congressional debate over tougher gun laws. In Fox & Friends' "News by the Numbers" feature, co-host Brian Kilmeade said:
KILMEADE: First, 10 percent. That's how much stock for Smith & Wesson is up since the start of the year. The company helped by strong demand and fears of increased gun regulations.
In contrast to how Fox & Friends handled the report, CNN's Starting Point similarly mentioned the gun industry's "record" sales in recent months, but also took time to recognize the victims of the Newtown shooting. CNN host Christine Romans noted that the trend of increasing gun sales "accelerated after the Newtown shootings, which happened six months ago today."
The Fox News show America's Newsroom, which follows Fox & Friends, aired part of a Newtown moment of silence in remembrance of the shooting victims.


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Oct 13, 2010
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Water Scarcity a Bond Risk, Study Warns
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Nov 19, 2008
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Nov 17, 2010
- Pension funds and other institutional investors eager to tap into financial opportunities tied to cutting greenhouse gas emissions say they would like nothing more than to put their money where their mouths are. Just ahead of the U.N.-led climate summit in Cancun, Mexico, starting at the end of this month, money managers are banging the drum for progress on adaptation financing, clean energy, reforestation and emissions targets. But they acknowledged yesterday that the smart bet is on incremental progress and not the frenzied expectations that defined the lead-up to the 2009 conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Investors face regulation risks in shale oil and coal-to-liquid fuels -- study
Dec 09, 2010
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US investor groups want companies to disclose deepwater drill risks
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Why or why not does .9 repeating equal 1?
HI! I am wondering if .999...=1? I mean if 1/3=.333 and 1/3+1/3+1/3=3/3 and 3/3=1. So wouldn't .333...+.333...+.333...=1? But it actually equals .999... not 1. I googled this question and I got many different answers
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I'm not really into math, but a friend brought something up to me today that really seemed very strange. (For the duration of this post, .999 will mean .9 repeating unless otherwise specified- just for the sake of ease)
10x - x = 9x
.999 = 1.
Someone else wrote:
Numbers are fake. They are a manifestation of our minds to describe something, similar to words. Just because we say "red" doesn't mean something is red. what is red? Languages and math are very similar. Math is universal...at least for our planet though. .999~ does not = 1. But what .999~ repeating represents, does in fact equal what 1 represents.
No-one will ever be able to comprehend infinity, os its time to stop trying. Think of space and the universe. IT IS GROWING. how can it continue to grow with no stop? what is there to contain it? WE need something to contain it in order for us to understand it. We need a stopping point, but there is none.
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In your proof that .333...*3=.999... you forgot to include the fact that .3333... is NOT 1/3. 1/3 if not a number that can be turned into a decimal in any way. I thought someone might like to know this fact.
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Just a pedantic point the equation for differentiation is given by lim x->0 [f(x+h)-f(x)]/h, it has the minus sign. It is after all just telling you the slope and is no different really from doing simple trig using the tan function. Here you just take a really small triangle.
As to the 0.99~ thing, this is really just writing the supremum (spelling might be off) of the numbers less than 1. Just think of it as taking the smallest number 'n-word' than 0 away from 1. They are not identical for if they were we would not have a continuous number line, but rather a dashed one with lots of wholes in it. I could simply argue that 0.99~8 is just as close to 0.99~9 as 0.99~ is to 1. For those who really want to understand go and look up supremum numbers and the axioms of the real number line.
So who is correct? Do you agree that .999...=1? Or .999... does not equal 1?
. 1/3 does NOT equal .333 - it's .3 repeating. You are using an approximation. 1/3 + 1/3 +1/3 = 3/3 = 1
. .9 repeating does NOT equal 1. As caitlinsdad says, it's real close (past a few decimal places doesn't really matter for most DIY projects), but not quite there.
Careful :-) .9 repeating for any finite number of places is less than 1 (in fact, less than by exactly 10-n, where n is the finite number of places.
If you specify the infinite repeat, then it's a freshman calculus exercise to show that the infinite sum converges to identically 1 (the equivalent of saying that 10-infinity = 0.
. Sorry, but this Calculus-ignorant Ibler just doesn't get it. No matter how many decimal places you carry it out to, 0.9rep just never quite reaches 1. If you carry it out to an infinite number of places, you get "infinitely close" but no cigar.
. From a Calculus POV, where am I going wrong? Do numbers have a "quantum"?
For your two examples, 0.888888.... = 8/9, which is not 0.9. 1.999... = 2.
I highly recommend Jack's insructable. He goes through the summation exercise in detail.
. Luckily, this is not something I am ever likely to use in an important situation (I've gone almost 54 years without it coming up), so I'll just take your word for it.
No, because the _infinite_ sum converges. Yes, each step is half of the step before, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, etc. If you add them up, you get closer and closer to 1. If you stop the sum at any point, you're short by 1/2^N (e.g., after four steps, you're at 15/16). But if you really take all the steps, then N=infinity, and 1/infinity=0. The sum is exactly 1.
. But:
. 1) Your explanation makes a certain amount of sense
. 2) I believe you know what you are talking about
. 3) You like to kid around a bit, but I've never seen you actually mislead anyone
. Ergo, I'm going to "take it on faith" that 0.9rep = 1
. I don't think infinity had been invented when I studied Math. <snicker> And why would they name a mathematics concept after some high-end speakers?
. I suppose the next thing you are going to tell me is that x0 always equals 1 (except when x=0). heehee (that one took a while to sink in back in school)
You can derive these again by taking the limit of 1/x, as you take x to either +/-infinity or to zero. For the latter, the result is actually "undefined" the limit of 1/x for x<0 goes to -infinity, but the limit for x>0 goes to +infinity.
As you say, zero and infinity are strange. You cannot trivially use results from finite numbers and expect them to "just work" with infinite limits.
. Thanks for taking the time to explain. I can't say I grok it, but I think I understand as well as I do capacitors.
0.333 is not equal to 1/3
10x 0.999 = 9.99 (not 9.999)
If you're going to pre-set a limit to decimal places displayed, you're effectively asking what a calculator will show you.
Or put another way, it's a question of rounding-up / approximating decimals.
so when you say that 10x.999=9.99 not 9.999, it doesn't make any difference, because the .9 is repeating.
.3 repeating + .3 repeating + .3 repeating = .9 repeating.
1/3 is a fraction, not a decimal. So 1/3 + 1/3 + 1/3 truly = 1.
<><> - 1/<><>
(<><> - 1)/<><>
Either one gives repeating 9's
The <><> is the best way I could write the infinity symbol
Hope this helps
Any number with repeating decimal, i.e. a rational number, can be expressed as a fraction with integers in both the numerator and denominator, i.e. a ratio of two integers.
In fact, I already wrote an instructable explaining how to do this:
Follow along, and you'll see that 0.999[repeating] simplifies to 1/1.