On the helmet question; Which would you choose: make other people wear helmets, pay a tax, or let bikers die if they get in an accident?
What would I have? Those are not all of the choices. You left out many options including, treat till insurance quits paying. Make the Auto driver who hit him pay.
But, more laws will not help.
We have too many laws.
That is only true if you include all injuries. Helmets do not protect legs, arms...
If you only consider the head injuries then most un-helmeted riders die. The cost to us argument is BS.
It is simply one group legislating what another group should do.
Using the same kind of logic:
California has mandatory helmet laws, Oklahoma does not. The public cost of medical for head injuries is greater in California. Faulty logic.
Hey, computer users have more carpal-tunnel. Lets legislate finger exercise breaks and use of hand exercise tools made by my company.
We make motorcyclists wear helmets because as a society we like to make others do as we believe they should.
There is a law that says you MUST be insured to drive a motor vehicle, thus no public cost in an accident.
The whole campaign to force people to wear helmets was based on a lie.
More laws simply employ more bureaucrats to take money in the name of promoting the welfare of we the sheeple.
Using the Dirty Harry theme, 5 passengers put bullets around the kid, into the terrorist.
10 miss the kid because they are bad shots and were looking at the kid. Terrorist still hit.
40 miss entirely and plane loses pressure, But the pilot knows what to do, he descends and makes an emergency landing. Possible hydraulic leaks.
Still bottom line armed passengers no terrorist. Same as the unarmed passengers but a little more chance they would survive.
Frangible ammo is readily available.
But, you are correct some dolt would be carrying a Desert Eagle and start firing randomly with 300 grain FMJ ammo. If a terrorist tried to take over a plane where all were armed. There is always an idiot in any crowd.
But once again, we will never find out what it would be like to have the general public armed. Those who run this country would loose too much power if we the people were truly self reliant.
I pumped gas for several years in the 60's, I was a smoker. We all smoked at work. We all survived.
Air marshals carry guns on planes.
If all citizens were allowed to carry guns on a plane 911 would not have happened.
Have you not seen the lack of quality of camera recorded movies?
That is not theft. That is not infringement. That is torture to anyone who watches the recording. If the content is interesting to you then it is advertising. The owners of the movie should be paying for the advertisement. The MPAA should enforce the payment to the people distributing those hard to watch ads.
It is only important to use "Approved Vendors" to satisfy paper pushers. Attorneys are among them. Notice that the more we litigate the further behind we fall. In 1969 we landed men on the moon, Since then, a few robotic probes, and a myopic telescope. The legal system has brought us DMCA, RIAA and MPAA among other wondrous things.
Maybe NASA is one of the leaders in bringing us down. Maybe they are only a victim.
A resistor that measures 1,000 ohms is within 1%. Even if it is marked 20%.
When you let lawyers determine the specs for equipment, The equipment will work as well as our legal system.
We're talking about the same NASA that got all flipped out because some engineer bought some parts from Radio Shack to meet a schedule. BUT, OMG, They are not an approved vendor! All of those superfluous paper pushers didn't get to validate their jobs by puting their stamp of approval on that 1K resistor.
Some one used to even a straight key can tap out a 'u' in Morse much quicker than two clicks of, where was that, Oh yea, the '8' button. Then there are electronic keyers, only two touches.
> Except the changes in CO2 far exceed any measurement from the last 800,000 years.
> Not some of them, not kinda near, far exceed . the most prior 1900 was 300ppm, now
> we have 350ppm...
So All man made Global Warming proponents should stop exhaling.
End of CO2 problem.
The education system is highly over rated by those who are products of it.
There is always more than one way to skin a cat.
The first job of a school is to convince you to give them your money.
The second job is to convince you to tell others to do the same.
Actually teaching you something falls somewhere below that.
It is about interpretation, is congress meaning government in general?
Public schools are a government entity, thus they should not censor.
This same argument is being applied to biblical references on US money and in government buildings. It is yet to be decided.
The application of the guarantee of freedom of speech is a side issue, we are talking about education. The school that blocks information sources, good or bad, is only giving a partial education. This is similar to how churches operate, don't allow the followers to see, hear, or read anything with a dissenting opinion.
Perhaps our education system is simply another form of religion...
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You need to look at both sides of the argument.p .html
http://www.bikersrights.com/statistics/statsdatah
For each argument there is a counter.
Helmets might save you $0.02. Outlaw cars and that would be way more!
That would also save more lives than outlawing guns, and helmet-less riders.
On the helmet question;
Which would you choose: make other people wear helmets, pay a tax, or let bikers die if they get in an accident?
What would I have? Those are not all of the choices. You left out many options including, treat till insurance quits paying. Make the Auto driver who hit him pay.
But, more laws will not help.
We have too many laws.
That is only true if you include all injuries. Helmets do not protect legs, arms...
If you only consider the head injuries then most un-helmeted riders die. The cost to us argument is BS.
It is simply one group legislating what another group should do.
Using the same kind of logic:
California has mandatory helmet laws, Oklahoma does not. The public cost of medical for head injuries is greater in California. Faulty logic.
Hey, computer users have more carpal-tunnel. Lets legislate finger exercise breaks and use of hand exercise tools made by my company.
We make motorcyclists wear helmets because as a society we like to make others do as we believe they should.
There is a law that says you MUST be insured to drive a motor vehicle, thus no public cost in an accident.
The whole campaign to force people to wear helmets was based on a lie.
More laws simply employ more bureaucrats to take money in the name of promoting the welfare of we the sheeple.
the same thing with cell phones.
YES. The death penalty for DUICP!
Well maybe at least a "bitch slap".
Using the Dirty Harry theme, 5 passengers put bullets around the kid, into the terrorist.
10 miss the kid because they are bad shots and were looking at the kid. Terrorist still hit.
40 miss entirely and plane loses pressure, But the pilot knows what to do, he descends and makes an emergency landing. Possible hydraulic leaks.
Still bottom line armed passengers no terrorist. Same as the unarmed passengers but a little more chance they would survive.
An armed society is a polite society. - Robert A. Heinlein
> 100,000 times repeated, different story.
Regal Cinemas has a comment page Regal Cinema Comments Go tell them what you think.
They require an email address use mailinator.com
Frangible ammo is readily available.
But, you are correct some dolt would be carrying a Desert Eagle and start firing randomly with 300 grain FMJ ammo. If a terrorist tried to take over a plane where all were armed. There is always an idiot in any crowd.
But once again, we will never find out what it would be like to have the general public armed. Those who run this country would loose too much power if we the people were truly self reliant.
Aluminum foil deflector beanie, off.
I pumped gas for several years in the 60's, I was a smoker. We all smoked at work. We all survived.
Air marshals carry guns on planes.
If all citizens were allowed to carry guns on a plane 911 would not have happened.
Have you not seen the lack of quality of camera recorded movies?
That is not theft. That is not infringement. That is torture to anyone who watches the recording. If the content is interesting to you then it is advertising. The owners of the movie should be paying for the advertisement. The MPAA should enforce the payment to the people distributing those hard to watch ads.
Most engineer's and techs have an ohm meter.
It is only important to use "Approved Vendors" to satisfy paper pushers. Attorneys are among them. Notice that the more we litigate the further behind we fall. In 1969 we landed men on the moon, Since then, a few robotic probes, and a myopic telescope. The legal system has brought us DMCA, RIAA and MPAA among other wondrous things.
Maybe NASA is one of the leaders in bringing us down. Maybe they are only a victim.
A resistor that measures 1,000 ohms is within 1%. Even if it is marked 20%.
When you let lawyers determine the specs for equipment, The equipment will work as well as our legal system.
We're talking about the same NASA that got all flipped out because some engineer bought some parts from Radio Shack to meet a schedule. BUT, OMG, They are not an approved vendor! All of those superfluous paper pushers didn't get to validate their jobs by puting their stamp of approval on that 1K resistor.
Some how I can't get too excited about this.
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The guts of a conventional hard drive are what is flimsy.
Probably as long or longer than the spinning disk flavor of mass storage.
Don't bet on that.
Some one used to even a straight key can tap out a 'u' in Morse much quicker than two clicks of, where was that, Oh yea, the '8' button. Then there are electronic keyers, only two touches.
Thus they need to be put on the endangered species list and all of you other folks need to be taxed more.
> Except the changes in CO2 far exceed any measurement from the last 800,000 years.
> Not some of them, not kinda near, far exceed . the most prior 1900 was 300ppm, now
> we have 350ppm...
So All man made Global Warming proponents should stop exhaling.
End of CO2 problem.
And a lot of others too.
If they make this charge stick, I recommend a shooting war.
If they pull you over they must be up to no good.
Defend yourself.
They are armed with guns so shoot them.
Kill a few hundred cops they will finally get the message.
The education system is highly over rated by those who are products of it.
There is always more than one way to skin a cat.
The first job of a school is to convince you to give them your money.
The second job is to convince you to tell others to do the same.
Actually teaching you something falls somewhere below that.
Cynicism is the most advanced stage of idealism.
Fake yes, but be careful of a language you don't really know. I have been caught with my poor Spanish and my nearly non existent Chinese.
don't go back. For grins time how long they wait. Waste their time.
The only way to cure random violence is lots of neutron bombs.
Google builds their own servers, and runs custom operating systems.
It is about interpretation, is congress meaning government in general?
Public schools are a government entity, thus they should not censor.
This same argument is being applied to biblical references on US money and in government buildings. It is yet to be decided.
The application of the guarantee of freedom of speech is a side issue, we are talking about education. The school that blocks information sources, good or bad, is only giving a partial education. This is similar to how churches operate, don't allow the followers to see, hear, or read anything with a dissenting opinion.
Perhaps our education system is simply another form of religion...