I have tears coming down my cheeks from laughing. This is so funny to me. A bunch of kids doing something dangerous–following the law.
People with Asperger get annoyed, angry even, with people who don’t follow the rules. To have other people get angry because someone else is following the law and inconveniencing the law breakers is just so sweet.
Thanks to Sean who sent it to me with the subject line “More hope for today’s youth.”
Long story made short: There is a new version of Modern Ballistics available here.
Long story made long: As many of you know I wrote the exterior ballistics program Modern Ballistics. I had the free demo require a license to be updated once a month by contacting server which kept track of how many computers were using the demo. The user interface to the server had a limit of 100 computers using any copy of the software at a time. It turned out that more than 100 people were using the demo in a month and new users couldn’t test out the software. This happened just as I moved everything to a new computer and was in the middle of converting my code to use a new compiler. I had deleted the old compiler off the old computer and I had no way to fix the problem people were having. Last night (early this morning actually) I got the new build of the program tested. To get things out quicker I just made the demo not require connecting to the server at all. Then I had to update the installation process and test it. Then I had to update the website. I finished up about 0200 this morning. Download the latest version here.
Let me know if you run into any bugs. The testing was rather “thin”. In particular I am concerned about it working on various operating systems. I only tested it on Windows XP and XP-x64. I have a Win98 and Win95 available at home but I’m not home now. Send an email to bugs@modernballistics.com if you notice something broken. Thanks.
I’m not praticularily surprised to see the average barking moonbat saying guns used in a murder are going to hell. But when the leader of a nation says “they’re evil” you have to wonder what kind of insanity has taken hold of an entire nation. The story is here:
PRIME Minister John Howard tightened gun laws after the Port Arthur massacre because he did not want Australia going down the same path as the US, he said today.
Mr Howard, on the eve of his 10th anniversary in office, said today the nation’s grief over the 1996 Port Arthur massacre had been a great opportunity to tighten Australia’s gun laws.
“I would call that very definitely an extraordinary outpouring of amazement and grief in this country and I knew out of that there was an opportunity to grab the moment and think about a fundamental change to gun laws in this country,” he told the Nine Network.
Mr Howard said he did not want Australia to adopt the American stance on guns.
“I did not want Australia to go down the American path,” he said.
“There are some things about America I admire and there are some things I don’t.
“And one of the things I don’t admire about America is their … slavish love of guns. They’re evil.”
And you, mister Prime Minister, are irrational. Answer Just One Question.
And one of the things I don’t admire about America is their … slavish love of guns. They’re evil.
John Howard
Prime Minister of Australia
March 01, 2006
The Australian