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— andy Gun Control's Self-Refuting Arguments
Damn Dirty Rino sent along a link to this great piece at PJM.
I personally believed in civilian disarmament until an acquaintance in law enforcement challenged my gun-bannersleins report titled Twelve facts about guns and mass shootings in the United States, below are eight fictions about gun control.
Oh, did I mention it was a nut stomping of a piece by WaPo wunderkind Juicebox Klein? No? Well that's just an added bonus, so read the whole thing.
This point really jumped out at me:
Fiction 3: Gun Violence
Gun violence is a crafted phrase to induce people into associating guns with violence. Using Ezra Kleins logic, Bradys A-graded, low-gun states should be the safest. But when collated with CDC firearms murder rates, an inconvenient correlation appears: more gun control, higher black homicide, lower Caucasian homicide.
(Crime rates = incidents per 100,000 population.).
Gun control is racist. Tell all your liberal friends. Or acquaintances. Whatever. Also, somebody tell this clown.
Another good read by someone applying logic instead of emotion: A Reluctant Vote in Favor of Armed School Guardsnamely that it takes just a few unguarded minutes for a catastrophe to unfold.
It's really not that hard, is it? Like LaPierre said, the only thing that'll stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.
The only problem the left really has with this is that the proposal was made by the NRA. When Bill Clinton said largely the same thing after Columbine, it was the most brilliant thing ever.
Journalists and Guns
Lots of fun was had at the HQ this week in pointing out how ignorant journalists are of gun laws. You'd think they'd recognize this deficiency and seek to address it, but you'd be wrong.
@theh2 Approached a MSM bigwig 2 days ago, with suggestion to hire a firearms editor to "proof" stories. No response.— Bob Owens (@bob_owens) December 28, 2012
I wonder, though, whether they're any more ignorant about guns than they are about any other topic in general. It's at this point that a reminder of Michael Crichton's Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect is in.
See also: Ezra Klein.
Gun Of The Week
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— andy Woke up to about 10" of snow outside... an awesome white Christmas was missed by a matter of days.
I blame the Mayan calendar.
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Q: Showfreqs and showwaves over background image? I'm wanting to get FFMPEG to export my podcast audio to a file I can upload to youtube that is visually interesting. 
currently I am using the following piece of code, which I don't fully grasp:
ffmpeg -i E04_ProphetsPrey.wav -filter_complex \
"    [0:a]showfreqs=mode=line:ascale=log:fscale=rlog:s=1280x518,pad=1280:720[vs]; \
 [0:a]showfreqs=mode=line:ascale=log:fscale=rlog:s=1x1[ss]; \
 [0:a]showwaves=s=1280x202:mode=p2p[sw]; \
 [vs][ss]overlay=w[bg]; \
 [bg][sw]overlay=0:H-h,drawtext=fontfile=/usr/share/fonts/TTF/Vera.ttf:fontcolor=white:x=10:y=10:text='\"Rated80s Prophets Prey\" by Comics On Film'[out]" \
-map "[out]" -map 0:a -c:v libx264 -preset fast -crf 18 -c:a copy -threads 0 output.mkv

what I would like to do is set a (branded) background image, and have showfreqs render over it on the top half and showwaves render over it on the bottom half. 
Is that possible, and if so could you provide me a detailed example?
(I'm on arch linux)

A: 
ffmpeg -i music.mp3 -loop 1 -i image.jpg -filter_complex \
"[0:a]showfreqs=mode=line:ascale=log:fscale=log:s=1280x518[sf]; \
 [0:a]showwaves=s=1280x202:mode=p2p[sw]; \
 [sf][sw]vstack[fg]; \
 [1:v]scale=1280:-1,crop=iw:720[bg]; \
 [bg][fg]overlay=shortest=1:format=auto,format=yuv420p,drawtext=fontfile=/usr/share/fonts/TTF/Vera.ttf:fontcolor=white:x=10:y=10:text='\"Rated80s Prophets Prey\" by Comics On Film'[out]" \
-map "[out]" -map 0:a -c:v libx264 -preset fast -crf 18 -c:a libopus output.mkv



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*vstack vertically stacks the two effects. It is easier and usually faster than using overlay to do so.

*The example background image was oversized, so scale and crop made the image 1280x720.

*The vstacked effects are then layered above the background using the overlay filter, format filter makes a more pixel format compatible with non-FFmpeg based players (you can remove it if just uploading to YouTube), and finally drawtext makes the text.

*If you get [overlay] Unable to parse option value "auto" your version is too old and you should upgrade. See the FFmpeg Download page for links.
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