You'll understand it when you see the tremendous rise in armed criminality in the U.K. and Australia, both of which have banned the ownership and use of the tools of self defense.
And if anyone thinks that all the bears and bandits are gone, they should try a trip to Alaska, not to mention Montana, or even Colorado.
Nowhere does it say that it is everybody's right to bear arms.
What the....???? It says, quite clearly, "...the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."
It doesn't say, "...the right of the militia to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."
Did your government indoctrination center teachers not teach you the English language?
I can hardly believe someone would post something so obviously unintelligent. Sheesh!
And, FYI, a "well-regulated" militia was one that was well-regulated like a clock. It met regularly, it practiced regularly, it drilled regularly. And it was composed of all the able-bodied males and their home-stored tools of self defense.
You're correct that isolationism is a xenophobic and counter-productive attitude.
However, non-interventionism (the clear view of the world held by George Washington, et. al.) is the best way forward toward peace and progress.
Non-interventionists fully engage the world in trade, travel, and commerce. Non-interventionists DO NOT invade other countries (Russia, 1917: for which America was never forgiven), they do not prop up dictatorships (Viet Nam, Korea), they do not bomb drug factories in the Sudan (you know who, when).
Non-interventionism says, "We're here to do business with you, let you visit (and even stay, if you'll become a citizen), visit you in your country, be friends with you if you'll do business with us and let us visit you. If you invade our homeland, blow up our buildings, or commit suicide with airplanes, we're comin' to get you sucka!"
That's supposedly why the "War Department" changed its name to the "Defense Department." But that happened just around the time the Pentagon began to be used for committing war just about anywhere the President or the gullible Congress wanted to let him commit it.
Isolationism is the policy of a bunch of xenophobic racists (anybody for Charles Lindbergh?). Non-interventionism was American policy for over a century, and created the best and finest country on the world, which then got trashed by the interventionists from Teddy Roosevelt on forward.
Our only hope is that the current system of government indoctrination centers either implodes like the USSR did (and for the same reasons!) or is defunded by the people so that our children don't get any more dumbed down than they already have been.
The number one goal of the current "education" system is to promote the religion of Goverment-is-the-solution-to-all-problems.
Did you see the guy on the daily show that was on the ballot as a libertarian candidate even though the libertarian party didn't support him at all?
Yeah. I know one of those guys. Rick Stanley was running for Senate in Colorado. He's an extremely abrasive personality who listens to nobody and seems to think he's god's gift to humanity. He didn't deserve my vote.
But generally (I'd say about 98% of the time) if you vote for a Libertarian, you're voting FOR more liberty and AGAINST more government intrusions into your life, liberty and property. It's a lot better percentage than you'll find among Repelephants or Democrasses.
Is it possible that one widely disregarded factor in what happened on 9/11/2001 was that none of the passengers on those four flighs were allowed their pre-existing self defense rights, in complete and utter disregard of the 2nd Amendment?
Is it not possible that, having already made the decision for security over liberty back in the 1970's when the tools of self defense were banned from aircraft (and post offices, and schools, I might add), these formerly free United States had become a haven for terrorists without any help from the NSA?
All the Macs I have use three button mice, including my iBook. Easy retrofit is virtually any Micro$oft USB mouse. Making new buttons on the PB itself is probably overkill. Just get the USB mouse.
I would be fined for making gas line changes w/o a permit, and probably have to pay the difference between residential/heating gas rates (cheap) and commercial (expensive) rates...
Why in the world are the rates different? Why should "commercial" rates subsidize "residential" rates? Consumers end up paying the difference in higher prices anyway, so why the difference? Some idiot PUC nitwit's idea of forced "economic equality" is why. And if that weren't so, whoever this blacksmith might be would just pay for more gas. At the same rate as everybody else. And that would be fine, as far as I can tell.
If Buckeye cable can find out who's using extra bandwidth, fine: just charge extra for anything used above the amount originally paid for. Everyone's happy. Nobody goes to jail.
If we find a jurisdiction where suicide isn't illegal and make it so, then we're not going to see a doubling of suicide rates or anything like that. (Note to self. Is there a jurisdiction where suicide is legal? This would be... interesting... to test.)
Rumor has it that Oregon has made some kinds of suicide legal. I don't know what that has done to Oregon's suicide rate, but I'm sure it's a checkable statistic (that I'm too lazy to Google up). I suspect your choice of suicide as a comparison to marijuana, heroin, ethanol, or nicotine is likewise flawed. Suicide is not normally seen (or felt) as desireable, even by the infinitesimally small minority who actually commit suicide. On the other hand, most heroin, ethanol, nicotine, or marijuana users see those drugs as highly desireable.
The goal of legislation is to repress the growth in usage of something the government doesn't want you to use. The legislation didn't cause the growth - it just failed to stop it.
The problem with "goals" in legislation is that they are almost always unattainable. In the case of drugs (or crypto'd Linux), the goal is to reduce the usage of something the government doesn't like, but the result is the growth of that usage far beyond what it would have been had the government kept its busybody fingers to itself and let the people make their own choices and take personal responsibility for those choices.
Banning crypto is like banning crack. Or worse. It's a lot easier to get crypto that works well (gpg, pgp, openssl, openssh) anywhere in the world with a phone connection, than it is to get crack, and crytpo costs a lot less. Banning crypto just makes it more obvious that governments are populated by a bunch of clueless idiots who have no idea what they're doing and no understanding of the consequences thereof.
Hmmm... Interesting. I've never been able to get a Solaris 7 or 8 box to talk to anything without putting an IP address in/etc/defaultrouter, but I'm not a professional Solaris admin, just someone who uses Solaris for serving webpages at http://www.allmax.com/wea/ (an SS10 with 2 Ross CPUs).
Which would help the spread of Linux in those countries tremendously.
Just look at the Drug War in the formerly free United States. Make certain drugs (not ethanol or nicotine!) illegal, and suddenly the profit in spreading them around and getting people hooked on them is extremely high. The business case becomes very attractive, especially for poorly(read: government)-educated young people in the socialist-destroyed American inner cities.
The same will happen when Linux is illegal. You'll have vendors on every street corner selling "banned" CDs. Best thing that ever could happen to Linux. Maybe, if the encryption is good enough, Linux would be banned even in the formerly free United States. Running Linux could become an act of civil disobedience.
Perhaps, with 64 bits (*Hammer, PPC 670, Yamhill) on the desktop, 1024 or 2048 bit encryption will become easy to do quickly.
Ah, now *there* would be a reason to upgrade.
Remember when the G4 first came out, with Altivec doing gigaflops, and Macs were considered munitions, not shippable to some countries?
If you *have* true freedom of speech there is no requirement for anonymous speech.
Oh yeah? What if you're a member of the NAACP in the 1950's and you want to raise money for your cause. The state of Mississippi is asking for your donor list because you're a political lobbying organization. (actual historical situation, BTW) Which trumps here? Anonymous speech?
What evidence is there that crypto restrictions helped bring down the Warsaw pact? I've heard of none. The Warsaw pact folks "fell" because they had a rotten economic system that treated their people like dirt. People in the Warsaw pact (take, for example, the East Germans) only had to look across a border at their like-culture, like-language brethren, and know with a certainty that the only reason they were in deep doo-doo was their tyrannical economic system.
Western crypto restrictions had nothing to do with breaching the Berlin Wall, for example.
No. Nobody can. Crypto can be used for good or ill, just like any self-defense tool. Keeping it out of the hands of "enemies" also keeps it out of the hands of people rebelling against our "enemies."
Freedom of speech also implies freedom of anonymous, or even encrypted speech, a concept that politicians have destroyed completely with "campaign reform."
The E30 is an "interim" design known in IBMese as "rspc" and doesn't have the "chrp" designation that would allow it to be used with most of the currently available commercial Linux distros. It won't run AIX 5.2 either. There's probably a *BSD that'll run on it, though.
Actually he's neither a troll nor an idiot. When government strayed from its original purposes of protecting life, liberty, and property, it messed up.
If there truly is a $175 Billion market for accessible websites, then websites will be made accessible without government meddling.
All that government meddling does is produce people who are pissed off at "differently abled" people having the best parking places reserved for them by government fiat (NOT by market forces), then never using them.
As Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis said, "Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."
I have compassion for people who are differently abled, but mandating website accessibility is a loss of freedom that will have unintended consequences similar to the closing of public bathrooms due to their inaccessibility by the "differently abled."
Water is not compatible with small aircraft engines because of a phenomenon referred to as carburetor icing.
Interestingly, the carburetor is becoming a thing of the past in small airplane engines. Most newer airplanes are fuel-injected, just like most automobiles. So the "problem" of carburetor icing doesn't really exist for most new piston airplanes. Of course it never existed for turbine engines. And won't exist for the new diesel aircraft engines that run on kerosene/diesel fuel.
Alcohol is not energy cost-effective as a fuel. It costs more energy to cultivate and process crops into alcohol than the alcohol returns in transportation energy. It just doesn't make sense economically without a whopping government subsidy to Dole-promoted companies like Archer-Daniels Midlands, etc. That's why we have alcohol blended into gasoline these days: there's still a whopping large taxpayer subsidy for alcohol producers. Without that subsidy, and the foolish requirement that "oxygen" be added to gasoline during the winter months for "pollution reduction", the whole idea of alcohol as fuel would still be laughable. It is laughable, but government subsidies make it appear sensible.
Movie/video producers deal with scan lines from television/computer screens everyday.
Well, it's not quite that easy. Film producers use 24fps TVs, computer screens, etc. that are synchronized to their 24fps film cameras. Not cheap. Not really easy. You can see the credits for the people who do 24fps video as the credits roll, especially on any film where video/computers is featured. As for video, you have to set computer screens to exactly 29.97 fps to match video. Not easy either. TV screens are generally already 29.97, so videoing a TV screen isn't much of a problem.
I also saw this one on September 6th. I was at a restaurant in Sterling, CO, eating outdoors on the patio. The bright white turned to orange and spit off "sparks", then finally died away to nothingess. It was much slower than a "normal" meteor, but the slowness might be due to its being quite far away and very high in the atmosphere. Everyone on the patio "Ooooh"d and "Ahhhh"d at the spectacular event, but we all concluded that it was a meteor.
Yes, they are overreacting. I'm an airplane pilot (aerobatics) and have studied the UWB reports in Aviation Week and Space Technology. What United et. al. did was to spew a signal 100 times more powerful than any legal UWB signal in the mistaken belief that 100 different UWB signals would add up to a 100 times powerful interference. My understanding of UWB would NOT include adding 100 different UWB signals together to make a 100X single powerful signal.
I believe the report in AWST was bogus, fear-mongering, and not based on any known science.
But of course the FAA (and the British CAA) will completely forget Benjamin Franklin's words in my.sig below.
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Nope. Not Jefferson. Franklin. See .sig.
And if anyone thinks that all the bears and bandits are gone, they should try a trip to Alaska, not to mention Montana, or even Colorado.
It doesn't say, "...the right of the militia to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."
Did your government indoctrination center teachers not teach you the English language?
I can hardly believe someone would post something so obviously unintelligent. Sheesh!
And, FYI, a "well-regulated" militia was one that was well-regulated like a clock. It met regularly, it practiced regularly, it drilled regularly. And it was composed of all the able-bodied males and their home-stored tools of self defense.
However, non-interventionism (the clear view of the world held by George Washington, et. al.) is the best way forward toward peace and progress.
Non-interventionists fully engage the world in trade, travel, and commerce. Non-interventionists DO NOT invade other countries (Russia, 1917: for which America was never forgiven), they do not prop up dictatorships (Viet Nam, Korea), they do not bomb drug factories in the Sudan (you know who, when).
Non-interventionism says, "We're here to do business with you, let you visit (and even stay, if you'll become a citizen), visit you in your country, be friends with you if you'll do business with us and let us visit you. If you invade our homeland, blow up our buildings, or commit suicide with airplanes, we're comin' to get you sucka!"
That's supposedly why the "War Department" changed its name to the "Defense Department." But that happened just around the time the Pentagon began to be used for committing war just about anywhere the President or the gullible Congress wanted to let him commit it.
Isolationism is the policy of a bunch of xenophobic racists (anybody for Charles Lindbergh?). Non-interventionism was American policy for over a century, and created the best and finest country on the world, which then got trashed by the interventionists from Teddy Roosevelt on forward.
Nope. It was Benjamin Franklin.
The current educational system is specifically designed to ingest impressionable children and excrete pliable, gullible, "citizens."
Our only hope is that the current system of government indoctrination centers either implodes like the USSR did (and for the same reasons!) or is defunded by the people so that our children don't get any more dumbed down than they already have been.
The number one goal of the current "education" system is to promote the religion of Goverment-is-the-solution-to-all-problems.
But generally (I'd say about 98% of the time) if you vote for a Libertarian, you're voting FOR more liberty and AGAINST more government intrusions into your life, liberty and property. It's a lot better percentage than you'll find among Repelephants or Democrasses.
Disclaimer: I was a Libertarian candidate in the election on November 5.
Is it not possible that, having already made the decision for security over liberty back in the 1970's when the tools of self defense were banned from aircraft (and post offices, and schools, I might add), these formerly free United States had become a haven for terrorists without any help from the NSA?
Didn't anybody ever watch "Red Dawn?"
All the Macs I have use three button mice, including my iBook. Easy retrofit is virtually any Micro$oft USB mouse. Making new buttons on the PB itself is probably overkill. Just get the USB mouse.
What are you smoking? Have you checked current Itanic prices? Currently the cheapest one on PriceWatch is $3,141.01 (includes s&h).
ROFL!
If Buckeye cable can find out who's using extra bandwidth, fine: just charge extra for anything used above the amount originally paid for. Everyone's happy. Nobody goes to jail.
Banning crypto is like banning crack. Or worse. It's a lot easier to get crypto that works well (gpg, pgp, openssl, openssh) anywhere in the world with a phone connection, than it is to get crack, and crytpo costs a lot less. Banning crypto just makes it more obvious that governments are populated by a bunch of clueless idiots who have no idea what they're doing and no understanding of the consequences thereof.
Hmmm... Interesting. I've never been able to get a Solaris 7 or 8 box to talk to anything without putting an IP address in /etc/defaultrouter, but I'm not a professional Solaris admin, just someone who uses Solaris for serving webpages at http://www.allmax.com/wea/ (an SS10 with 2 Ross CPUs).
Just look at the Drug War in the formerly free United States. Make certain drugs (not ethanol or nicotine!) illegal, and suddenly the profit in spreading them around and getting people hooked on them is extremely high. The business case becomes very attractive, especially for poorly(read: government)-educated young people in the socialist-destroyed American inner cities.
The same will happen when Linux is illegal. You'll have vendors on every street corner selling "banned" CDs. Best thing that ever could happen to Linux. Maybe, if the encryption is good enough, Linux would be banned even in the formerly free United States. Running Linux could become an act of civil disobedience.
Perhaps, with 64 bits (*Hammer, PPC 670, Yamhill) on the desktop, 1024 or 2048 bit encryption will become easy to do quickly.
Ah, now *there* would be a reason to upgrade.
Remember when the G4 first came out, with Altivec doing gigaflops, and Macs were considered munitions, not shippable to some countries?
Western crypto restrictions had nothing to do with breaching the Berlin Wall, for example.
Freedom of speech also implies freedom of anonymous, or even encrypted speech, a concept that politicians have destroyed completely with "campaign reform."
The E30 is an "interim" design known in IBMese as "rspc" and doesn't have the "chrp" designation that would allow it to be used with most of the currently available commercial Linux distros. It won't run AIX 5.2 either. There's probably a *BSD that'll run on it, though.
If there truly is a $175 Billion market for accessible websites, then websites will be made accessible without government meddling.
All that government meddling does is produce people who are pissed off at "differently abled" people having the best parking places reserved for them by government fiat (NOT by market forces), then never using them.
As Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis said, "Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."
I have compassion for people who are differently abled, but mandating website accessibility is a loss of freedom that will have unintended consequences similar to the closing of public bathrooms due to their inaccessibility by the "differently abled."
Alcohol is not energy cost-effective as a fuel. It costs more energy to cultivate and process crops into alcohol than the alcohol returns in transportation energy. It just doesn't make sense economically without a whopping government subsidy to Dole-promoted companies like Archer-Daniels Midlands, etc. That's why we have alcohol blended into gasoline these days: there's still a whopping large taxpayer subsidy for alcohol producers. Without that subsidy, and the foolish requirement that "oxygen" be added to gasoline during the winter months for "pollution reduction", the whole idea of alcohol as fuel would still be laughable. It is laughable, but government subsidies make it appear sensible.
I also saw this one on September 6th. I was at a restaurant in Sterling, CO, eating outdoors on the patio. The bright white turned to orange and spit off "sparks", then finally died away to nothingess. It was much slower than a "normal" meteor, but the slowness might be due to its being quite far away and very high in the atmosphere. Everyone on the patio "Ooooh"d and "Ahhhh"d at the spectacular event, but we all concluded that it was a meteor.
There's only one mouse button on the default mouse. You're not the kind of person who settles for the defaults, are you?? Really???
I believe the report in AWST was bogus, fear-mongering, and not based on any known science.
But of course the FAA (and the British CAA) will completely forget Benjamin Franklin's words in my .sig below.