A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Note that phrase "well regulated" in the actual literal text of the Bill of Rights. Very very few people say that all guns should be taken away; instead, the argument is that we should actually follow the constitution and regulate guns.
Jesus Christ, not this line of crap again. "Regulated" in that time meant "functioning". And if there's any question as to what this was all about, take if from one of the writers of that article:
"I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public officials."
— George Mason, in Debates in Virginia Convention on Ratification of the Constitution, Elliot, Vol. 3, June 16, 1788
The Federalist Papers make it very clear that the public has an unquestionable right to arms in order to defend themselves from government tyranny.
And you are wrong, there are many people who want to take ALL weapons away from law abiding citizens. Of course their method to do that, ironically, is to use gun-toting cops and military to do it.
well regulated is clearly meant in reference to bowel function. Nobody wants to see a constipated man with a firearm..
Why can't I travel anonymously? In addition to airlines, Amtrak already requires ID as well. Buses are supposed to check it too, although they don't (yet?). Hitchhiking is illegal, while driving is a personal car requires a registered vehicle with license-plate scanners keeping records.
Why can I not travel anonymously, exactly? How did we allow the Statists to play us so?
How you gonna get rid o them Meskin illegals if you don't got no citizen ID? time was when conservatives would point to the requirement to carry an internal passport as the hallmark of a tyranny. "May we see your papers, please?" Now with few exceptions, to whom proper respect, it's acceptable as long as we can catch Pedro the dishwasher at the diner and send him back home.
It's "voluntary" in the same way that the drinking age being 21 is voluntary. The federal government actually does not have the right to regulate drinking age: that actually falls to the states.
Bah -- federalism is effectively dead. We still have many places where the federal government lets states do their thing, but if anything comes up that seems sufficiently dire, a magical solution will be found in some passage of the Constitution that will authorize federal power to trump states' rights.
I mean, if you want to go down the road to that sort of argument, you have to start with the question of whether the federal government has the right to regulate air travel at all. It certainly isn't mentioned in the enumerated powers of the Constitution. In the 1910s and 1920s, there was much debate over whether a Constitutional amendment was necessary for Congress to regulate anything other than basic interstate commerce issues. With the Air Commerce Act of 1926, the federal government formalized its role in regulating some safety measures, only for commercial flights, and rather limited. (It's important to remember this was still in the middle of the Lochner era, when the Supreme Court routinely struck down any statute that seemed like government interfering with economic liberty.)
Of course, everything changed after the FDR court-packing threat and the Switch in Time that Saved Nine in 1937, followed by sweeping federal government expansion in 1937-42, effectively culminating in the end of federalism. (Standard example: Alcohol prohibition required a Constitutional amendment before this time; marijuana prohibition did not, since it occurred at/after this time.) Federalism still nominally exists, but not really. Wherever the feds want states to do something, they tie up huge funding issues with it, as you say, so the feds bully the states into it.... and if they deem it even more important (e.g., TERRORISM!! AHHH!! RUN FOR THE HILLS!!), then they'll just magically make it a federal power by fiat.
While the feds likely could not say "no one without a Real ID compliant license flies" I'm sure they could stir up trouble in other ways with states that don't comply.
This statement is skimming over HUGE leaps in Constitutional law that have been changed by fiat just in the past few decades. After the terrorist threats in the 1970s, security screening was instituted with metal detectors and such at airports, but it was run by airports/airlines, NOT the feds, mostly because of Fourth Amendment concerns which would clearly prohibit such blanket searching (at least for the first 200 years of the Constitution or so). Prior to 2001, you submitted to voluntary security screening as a condition of the commercial contract you entered into with the airline.
Of course, after 2001 this whole 4th amendment concern was swept under the rug, and the crucial distinction between private voluntary search in a commercial transaction and government agents performing mandatory searches (which you could not just exit from -- now you could be detained by police even if you decided to leave after entering the security area).
But to get back to the real issue here -- you have to deal with the right to free travel within the U.S., which the TSA has arguably been disrupting since 2001. But the feds hesitated at first to stretch the Constitution that far. So -- while it was not widely known -- you could still travel domestically without ID for about a decade after 2001, as long as you made it clear to the TSA that you knew your rights and insisted.
We all know that one thing the federal government doesn't have is a dictionary. Those things are like kryptonite to governments.
Well, no. whatever online dictionary i just looked at defines consequences as "the effect, result, or outcome of something occurring earlier" which does fit the use; what it is, however, is useless and meaningless. There's a connotation to consequences which they are leaning on while trying to keep deniability.
The message was that while participation was voluntary, there would be consequences for failing to comply.
If there are consequences, I'm pretty sure that's the opposite of voluntary.
Everything has consequences. Such is the nature of cause and effect. Saying "there will be consequences", however, is momspeak for "i will punish you" while trying to avoid saying "I will punish you"
When I was a kid, we had stores, not online marketplaces...
when i was a kid my major metropolitan area was still a one horse town so i bought all this stuff via mail order, which is just like amazon but slower.
Exactly why I generally avoid sarcasm. It misfires so easily, and people who don't know you well can't tell if you are serious or not. Say what you mean and mean what you say. It is better to be clear than to be clever.
They don't know how to mend broken bones, computers, bikes, cars, radios, friendships, feelings, or hearts. I presume the AC was trying to troll or they really don't get it. I also imagine they don't know how to fix a damned thing.
the only way to fix a damned thing is to let Jesus into its heart.
Yeah, that seems to be the message. I just wonder what the outcome of this grand social experiment is going to be and if maybe we shouldn't have made as many changes as we did.:/
we live in a capitalist society. sit tight and accept that your purpose in life is to be a conduit to funnel money from whoever you "work" for to those few whose role in society is to accumulate it, as efficiently as possible and with minimal fuss.
there's still lots of science kits available at places like michael's which have lots of hands on: rock tumbling, astronomy, whatever. astronomy is particularly good, because a talented and ambitious and diligent (and/or just lucky) kid can still make actual discoveries just like a tenured prof.
My daughter loves ScratchJr on my iPad. And also Monument Valley (check it out). She got a quilling set today and searched on YouTube on instruction videos. She's 8 years old. So, yeah, really bad those iPads. You remind me a bit of my mother who at first got a bit upset with me because I was very often behind my ZX Spectrum.
i was just thinking about scratch... crayola now sells an animation studio for $30; a stick figure dummy thing with registration marks on it that you pose and take photos of with an app on your phone, then you pick a body to dress the dummy's image in and some backgrounds, and the software interpolates motion.
and I used to think scratch was amazing.
Kids want only tablets and phones. Finding a way to program in these electronic devices is almost futile: Lame IDE kits, obsolete and broke ports of languages, webserves that cannot read local files... When I was kid I did carve for a C64 or Apple II, now I my tablets only drops birds and wait to hearts for recharge. Meh.
And if you didn't got it: WANT KIDS TO BECOME CODERS AND ENGINEERS? PORT THE TOOLS TO ANDROID AND IOS!
that's kind of an obsolete attitude, that kids are supposed to do things and build things. the proper citizen of today's world is a consumer. you don't build stuff, you buy it. you don't have experiences, you buy them. you don't even educate yourself, you just buy an education. free market 1, humanity 0.
Last time I checked (two minutes ago), Erector products were made by Meccano.
only in the US
growing up in canada, we were lucky to be exposed to both erector (the real ones, from gilbert company) and meccano. plus all the gilbert science kits with their little bottles of cyanide and pitchblende and whatnot, as well as the british science kits with their mysterious "spirit lamp" labeled "fill with paraffin".
This story is based on real life events. A small company I was working for was bought-out by another small, but out-of-state electronics company. The new owners were well versed in bit-banging and CPU. My former company was 99% analog. We used op amps and R/C circuits for timing/filtering. They used code on CPU's. The new owners flew me out to their facility on three different weeks, to help their staff incorporate this whole new product line into theirs.
One interesting discussion I had with them involved creating a 0.5 second power-on reset signal for a USB interface chip, to allow the rest of the unit to "settle" before bringing up the USB interface. One guy said he'd just use a little 8-pin CPU and some code. I suggested an op-amp, some resistors, and a cap. They looked at me like I had two heads.
I reminded them that because these devices were intended to be used in environments with high levels of radio frequency energy, and high sensitivity receivers, (transceivers) RFI ingress and egress were important! The op amp and R/C circuits were virtually RF immune, and generated NONE. A CPU generates some, and is sensitive to RF.
Case-in-point: They had a high-current, DC switching system (multiple DC power ports that could be controlled remotely) that was driving them completely bonkers, because of random resets or other unpredictable behavior when they switched loads on and off. When I tried to explain current loops and grounding, they again looked at me like I had two heads. One even said, "But isn't ground, just GROUND??" (Insert FACEPALM here!)
I had to briefly explain OHM'S LAW to them! Ground planes have a measurable (albeit small) resistance, and when you are passing a dozen amps or more, you start to see dozens of millivolts from the E=IR drops... sometimes, switching spikes were high enough to false-trigger CPU inputs or other circuits, because the CPU was "riding" up and down on those voltages! When I showed them one of our old ANALOG designs, with separated ground paths... and explained WHY those paths were separate... I think they finally "got it". Their next complete redesign didn't have the issues of the first.
I summed it up by saying, "It is an ANALOG WORLD, guys!";)
indeed. the difference between a hack and a talent is the ability to accept nonideal behavior from whatever it is you work with.
Thermisters? See, even the names of basic components are designed to perpetuate the male domination of STEM fields.
Start a campaign the rename them thermadams. Start it now!
No no! you see, that was a mistake, probably made by a testosterone fueld member of the patriarchy. We shal correct it, so that is like the others:
Transisters, resisters, so we march on to remove sexist names, and replace them with....other sexist names?
side note - working with some female technicians, there are some awkward moments when dealing with male and female sockets and plugs. Though most of the ladies would get it out of the way by talking about the gender early on.
And let's not forget the learning verse for the color codes of resistors!
Bad
Boys
Rape
Our
Young
Girls
But
Violet
Gives
Willingly
for
Gold
or
Silver
Cannot believe my electronics instructor used that one. It was the 70's for certain, but sheesh.
Remember when I first learned that code, i ended up in the hospital for a week after trying to decode the value of a coral snake.
Please stop with y our microaggressions.
Womanual Cycle, please.
Zanussi ZRB 327 WO manual https://www.manualscat.com/en/... i don't know which is funnier here, wo-manual or manual scat. neither one is all that funny, though.
The thing with induction plates is that the central components (power capacitors, switch, coil) must be high-quality, or the whole thing goes up in smoke very fast. Hence they have inherent long lifetime. Of course, manufacturers do not want that, they want people to buy new stuff, not use old stuff forever. What they do is add artificial weak points. Sometime you can find and fix them, and I did so for a generic induction plate.
This plate has a 235V rectifier whose leads are pressing against an aluminum heat-sink. The leads are insulated with PVC-tubing that has a limited lifetime, even more so when heated up, which it is here. When it gets brittle, it stops insulating well, shortening out and blowing the non-replaceable fuse and likely other components. My fix was to saw out the piece of the heat sink that they pressed against. It should also work to replace the tubing with silicone-glass-cloth insulation tubing that has a very long lifetime. While the circuit has some electrolyte capacitors as well, they were all good quality 105C types and should live a long time. They should also not damage the circuit when they fail and hence can be replaced at need.
i find in contemporary appliances, very often the failure is in the digital display, often the flat panel itself.
What are they? I've owned several dishwashers in my life I've only ever used one type of cycle on each of them, standard.
What are you doing that requires you to put more thought into washing dishes than loading them and hitting the start button? This sounds like a simple case of more != better, unless you're in marketing and like selling shit with more features.
mine have always had
1 rinse and hold 2 pots and pans 3 normal 4 either light loads or delicate china/glassware
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Let me quote the 2nd Amendment for you:
Note that phrase "well regulated" in the actual literal text of the Bill of Rights. Very very few people say that all guns should be taken away; instead, the argument is that we should actually follow the constitution and regulate guns.
Jesus Christ, not this line of crap again. "Regulated" in that time meant "functioning". And if there's any question as to what this was all about, take if from one of the writers of that article:
"I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public officials." — George Mason, in Debates in Virginia Convention on Ratification of the Constitution, Elliot, Vol. 3, June 16, 1788
The Federalist Papers make it very clear that the public has an unquestionable right to arms in order to defend themselves from government tyranny.
And you are wrong, there are many people who want to take ALL weapons away from law abiding citizens. Of course their method to do that, ironically, is to use gun-toting cops and military to do it.
well regulated is clearly meant in reference to bowel function. Nobody wants to see a constipated man with a firearm..
It felt good to be out of the rain.
mod up! mod up!
Why can't I travel anonymously? In addition to airlines, Amtrak already requires ID as well. Buses are supposed to check it too, although they don't (yet?). Hitchhiking is illegal, while driving is a personal car requires a registered vehicle with license-plate scanners keeping records.
Why can I not travel anonymously, exactly? How did we allow the Statists to play us so?
How you gonna get rid o them Meskin illegals if you don't got no citizen ID?
time was when conservatives would point to the requirement to carry an internal passport as the hallmark of a tyranny. "May we see your papers, please?" Now with few exceptions, to whom proper respect, it's acceptable as long as we can catch Pedro the dishwasher at the diner and send him back home.
I like to refer to that as being 'voluntold' to do something.
"We require a volunteer to infiltrate enemy lines. Private Smith, step forward...."
It's "voluntary" in the same way that the drinking age being 21 is voluntary. The federal government actually does not have the right to regulate drinking age: that actually falls to the states.
Bah -- federalism is effectively dead. We still have many places where the federal government lets states do their thing, but if anything comes up that seems sufficiently dire, a magical solution will be found in some passage of the Constitution that will authorize federal power to trump states' rights.
I mean, if you want to go down the road to that sort of argument, you have to start with the question of whether the federal government has the right to regulate air travel at all. It certainly isn't mentioned in the enumerated powers of the Constitution. In the 1910s and 1920s, there was much debate over whether a Constitutional amendment was necessary for Congress to regulate anything other than basic interstate commerce issues. With the Air Commerce Act of 1926, the federal government formalized its role in regulating some safety measures, only for commercial flights, and rather limited. (It's important to remember this was still in the middle of the Lochner era, when the Supreme Court routinely struck down any statute that seemed like government interfering with economic liberty.)
Of course, everything changed after the FDR court-packing threat and the Switch in Time that Saved Nine in 1937, followed by sweeping federal government expansion in 1937-42, effectively culminating in the end of federalism. (Standard example: Alcohol prohibition required a Constitutional amendment before this time; marijuana prohibition did not, since it occurred at/after this time.) Federalism still nominally exists, but not really. Wherever the feds want states to do something, they tie up huge funding issues with it, as you say, so the feds bully the states into it.... and if they deem it even more important (e.g., TERRORISM!! AHHH!! RUN FOR THE HILLS!!), then they'll just magically make it a federal power by fiat.
While the feds likely could not say "no one without a Real ID compliant license flies" I'm sure they could stir up trouble in other ways with states that don't comply.
This statement is skimming over HUGE leaps in Constitutional law that have been changed by fiat just in the past few decades. After the terrorist threats in the 1970s, security screening was instituted with metal detectors and such at airports, but it was run by airports/airlines, NOT the feds, mostly because of Fourth Amendment concerns which would clearly prohibit such blanket searching (at least for the first 200 years of the Constitution or so). Prior to 2001, you submitted to voluntary security screening as a condition of the commercial contract you entered into with the airline.
Of course, after 2001 this whole 4th amendment concern was swept under the rug, and the crucial distinction between private voluntary search in a commercial transaction and government agents performing mandatory searches (which you could not just exit from -- now you could be detained by police even if you decided to leave after entering the security area).
But to get back to the real issue here -- you have to deal with the right to free travel within the U.S., which the TSA has arguably been disrupting since 2001. But the feds hesitated at first to stretch the Constitution that far. So -- while it was not widely known -- you could still travel domestically without ID for about a decade after 2001, as long as you made it clear to the TSA that you knew your rights and insisted.
But then the TSA closed that "loophole"
We all know that one thing the federal government doesn't have is a dictionary. Those things are like kryptonite to governments.
Well, no. whatever online dictionary i just looked at defines consequences as "the effect, result, or outcome of something occurring earlier" which does fit the use; what it is, however, is useless and meaningless. There's a connotation to consequences which they are leaning on while trying to keep deniability.
The message was that while participation was voluntary, there would be consequences for failing to comply.
If there are consequences, I'm pretty sure that's the opposite of voluntary.
Everything has consequences. Such is the nature of cause and effect. Saying "there will be consequences", however, is momspeak for "i will punish you" while trying to avoid saying "I will punish you"
This week a broken steel arm in the front end was fixed.
It was, you can buy it: http://hms-beagle.com/heirloom...
geez; do they offer financial aid? "i'd like to take out a mortgage to buy my kid a chemistry set, please"
When I was a kid, we had stores, not online marketplaces...
when i was a kid my major metropolitan area was still a one horse town so i bought all this stuff via mail order, which is just like amazon but slower.
Exactly why I generally avoid sarcasm. It misfires so easily, and people who don't know you well can't tell if you are serious or not. Say what you mean and mean what you say. It is better to be clear than to be clever.
are you being sarcastic?
Both. Because (s)he is Anonymous Coward.
that guy posts everywhere! he must spend all his time online.
They don't know how to mend broken bones, computers, bikes, cars, radios, friendships, feelings, or hearts. I presume the AC was trying to troll or they really don't get it. I also imagine they don't know how to fix a damned thing.
the only way to fix a damned thing is to let Jesus into its heart.
Yeah, that seems to be the message. I just wonder what the outcome of this grand social experiment is going to be and if maybe we shouldn't have made as many changes as we did. :/
we live in a capitalist society. sit tight and accept that your purpose in life is to be a conduit to funnel money from whoever you "work" for to those few whose role in society is to accumulate it, as efficiently as possible and with minimal fuss.
there's still lots of science kits available at places like michael's which have lots of hands on: rock tumbling, astronomy, whatever. astronomy is particularly good, because a talented and ambitious and diligent (and/or just lucky) kid can still make actual discoveries just like a tenured prof.
My daughter loves ScratchJr on my iPad. And also Monument Valley (check it out). She got a quilling set today and searched on YouTube on instruction videos. She's 8 years old. So, yeah, really bad those iPads. You remind me a bit of my mother who at first got a bit upset with me because I was very often behind my ZX Spectrum.
i was just thinking about scratch... crayola now sells an animation studio for $30; a stick figure dummy thing with registration marks on it that you pose and take photos of with an app on your phone, then you pick a body to dress the dummy's image in and some backgrounds, and the software interpolates motion.
and I used to think scratch was amazing.
Kids want only tablets and phones. Finding a way to program in these electronic devices is almost futile: Lame IDE kits, obsolete and broke ports of languages, webserves that cannot read local files... When I was kid I did carve for a C64 or Apple II, now I my tablets only drops birds and wait to hearts for recharge. Meh.
And if you didn't got it: WANT KIDS TO BECOME CODERS AND ENGINEERS? PORT THE TOOLS TO ANDROID AND IOS!
that's kind of an obsolete attitude, that kids are supposed to do things and build things. the proper citizen of today's world is a consumer. you don't build stuff, you buy it. you don't have experiences, you buy them. you don't even educate yourself, you just buy an education. free market 1, humanity 0.
Erector, perhaps; what about Meccano?
Last time I checked (two minutes ago), Erector products were made by Meccano.
only in the US
growing up in canada, we were lucky to be exposed to both erector (the real ones, from gilbert company) and meccano. plus all the gilbert science kits with their little bottles of cyanide and pitchblende and whatnot, as well as the british science kits with their mysterious "spirit lamp" labeled "fill with paraffin".
This story is based on real life events. A small company I was working for was bought-out by another small, but out-of-state electronics company. The new owners were well versed in bit-banging and CPU. My former company was 99% analog. We used op amps and R/C circuits for timing/filtering. They used code on CPU's. The new owners flew me out to their facility on three different weeks, to help their staff incorporate this whole new product line into theirs.
One interesting discussion I had with them involved creating a 0.5 second power-on reset signal for a USB interface chip, to allow the rest of the unit to "settle" before bringing up the USB interface. One guy said he'd just use a little 8-pin CPU and some code. I suggested an op-amp, some resistors, and a cap. They looked at me like I had two heads.
I reminded them that because these devices were intended to be used in environments with high levels of radio frequency energy, and high sensitivity receivers, (transceivers) RFI ingress and egress were important! The op amp and R/C circuits were virtually RF immune, and generated NONE. A CPU generates some, and is sensitive to RF.
Case-in-point: They had a high-current, DC switching system (multiple DC power ports that could be controlled remotely) that was driving them completely bonkers, because of random resets or other unpredictable behavior when they switched loads on and off. When I tried to explain current loops and grounding, they again looked at me like I had two heads. One even said, "But isn't ground, just GROUND??" (Insert FACEPALM here!)
I had to briefly explain OHM'S LAW to them! Ground planes have a measurable (albeit small) resistance, and when you are passing a dozen amps or more, you start to see dozens of millivolts from the E=IR drops... sometimes, switching spikes were high enough to false-trigger CPU inputs or other circuits, because the CPU was "riding" up and down on those voltages! When I showed them one of our old ANALOG designs, with separated ground paths... and explained WHY those paths were separate... I think they finally "got it". Their next complete redesign didn't have the issues of the first.
I summed it up by saying, "It is an ANALOG WORLD, guys!" ;)
indeed. the difference between a hack and a talent is the ability to accept nonideal behavior from whatever it is you work with.
Thermisters? See, even the names of basic components are designed to perpetuate the male domination of STEM fields.
Start a campaign the rename them thermadams. Start it now!
No no! you see, that was a mistake, probably made by a testosterone fueld member of the patriarchy. We shal correct it, so that is like the others:
Transisters, resisters, so we march on to remove sexist names, and replace them with ....other sexist names?
side note - working with some female technicians, there are some awkward moments when dealing with male and female sockets and plugs. Though most of the ladies would get it out of the way by talking about the gender early on.
And let's not forget the learning verse for the color codes of resistors!
Bad
Boys
Rape
Our
Young
Girls
But
Violet
Gives
Willingly
for
Gold
or
Silver
Cannot believe my electronics instructor used that one. It was the 70's for certain, but sheesh.
Remember when I first learned that code, i ended up in the hospital for a week after trying to decode the value of a coral snake.
Please stop with y our microaggressions. Womanual Cycle, please.
Zanussi ZRB 327 WO manual https://www.manualscat.com/en/...
i don't know which is funnier here, wo-manual or manual scat. neither one is all that funny, though.
I ripped mine out because it wastes water, electricity, and is noisy. Do the dishes the old fashioned way.
Real men don't use dishes. or pots. or silverware.
"It works fine, but only has 3 different wash cycles."
2 more than most people use.
Google has about 79,200 hits for "arduino dishwasher" , I guess you checked those?
kosher dishwasher, 3 cycles; meat, milk, and parve.
The thing with induction plates is that the central components (power capacitors, switch, coil) must be high-quality, or the whole thing goes up in smoke very fast. Hence they have inherent long lifetime. Of course, manufacturers do not want that, they want people to buy new stuff, not use old stuff forever. What they do is add artificial weak points. Sometime you can find and fix them, and I did so for a generic induction plate.
This plate has a 235V rectifier whose leads are pressing against an aluminum heat-sink. The leads are insulated with PVC-tubing that has a limited lifetime, even more so when heated up, which it is here. When it gets brittle, it stops insulating well, shortening out and blowing the non-replaceable fuse and likely other components. My fix was to saw out the piece of the heat sink that they pressed against. It should also work to replace the tubing with silicone-glass-cloth insulation tubing that has a very long lifetime. While the circuit has some electrolyte capacitors as well, they were all good quality 105C types and should live a long time. They should also not damage the circuit when they fail and hence can be replaced at need.
i find in contemporary appliances, very often the failure is in the digital display, often the flat panel itself.
What are they? I've owned several dishwashers in my life I've only ever used one type of cycle on each of them, standard.
What are you doing that requires you to put more thought into washing dishes than loading them and hitting the start button? This sounds like a simple case of more != better, unless you're in marketing and like selling shit with more features.
mine have always had
1 rinse and hold
2 pots and pans
3 normal
4 either light loads or delicate china/glassware