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SOPA Creator Now In Charge of NSF Grants
sl4shd0rk writes "Remember SOPA? If not, perhaps the name Lamar Smith will ring a bell. The U.S. House Committee on Science, Space and Technology chose Smith to Chair as an overseer for the National Science Foundation's funding process. Smith is preparing a bill (PDF) which will require that every grant must benefit 'national defense,' be of 'utmost importance to society,' and not be 'duplicative of other research.' Duplicating research seems reasonable until you consider that this could also mean the NSF will not provide funding for research once someone has already provided results — manufactured or otherwise. A strange target since there is a process in place which makes an effort to limit duplicate funding already. The first and second requirements, even when read in context, still miss the point of basic research. If we were absolutely without-a-doubt-certain of the results, there would be little point in doing the research in the first place."
The Canucks? They've always been a more stable people than we are. You can't use THEM as an example.
So, what is your solution? Repeal the second amendment, confiscate all the weapons? That's more than a hundred million weapons that you know about. God knows how many that you don't know about. How long will it take to round up all the weapons? Ten years? A hundred years? See, I'm not giving MY guns up, and there are several millions other American citizens who aren't going to surrender their weapons. How are you going to get my weapons? Home invasions, and searches? What are you prepared to do to confiscate all the weapons?
The best thing to be done, is to round up all the CRIMINALS who use weapons, and make sure they never walk the streets again. CRIMINALS commit crimes, for which they often go unpunished, or inappropriately punished.
Some moron kid gets caught two or three times with a big of grass, and he goes to the pen for years. A real criminal commits an armed robbery, he goes to the same pen, and he's out in half the time.
Our priorities are so skewed - - -
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