Not really. If I buy a gun in a private sale, there's no record of that kept, and quite possibly way to know I've ever met that seller. Plus it's perfectly legal (at the federal level - states may vary) to buy a "kit gut", which is not legally a firearm, and turn it into a real gun with some CnC milling (or old-fashioned metalworking, if you're good). There's not even a serial number in that case, though it's very illegal to sell a gun that you made that way.
It doesn't matter in the least. If it said "Purple giraffes being a danger to us all, the right to keep and bear arms shell not be infringed" it would have the same legal meaning. The bit about militia is comments, not code.
There is no "gun show exemption" - where did that myth start? - unless you mean the Gun Control Act of 1968, before which FFL dealers couldn't sell at gun shows at all. If the person selling you a gun is a FFL dealer, all the normal rules still apply. If the person selling you a gun is your neighbor selling off his collection, all the normal rules still apply.
There are many non-intrusive ways to tax. Unless you actually like totalitarianism (and many people do these days), you'd pick the least intrusive way to provide the taxes to pay for the roads (which, frankly, are mostly paid for by the federal government giving money to the states).
Your knee-jerk totalitarian-friendly response actually scares me. Are you really so emotionally invested in giving the government ever more power to track us that you'd fight back against a less intrusive way to pay? Or did you just not think it through?
It's not a Republican thing, or a Texas thing really, it's just legacy dealership laws that most states have. Car dealership owners are often the most powerful figures in local politics (since politics is mostly about name recognition and advertising budget), so it's not a surprise. It will likely change over time.
Mostly though, party doesn't matter: we have 2 big-government, pro-corporation parties now (bigger government is more pro-corporation now - it's naive to think otherwise). Look at the press the "Tea Party" gets and you'll see why neither one wants to be the small government party.
My car is similar to the Tesla in weight and power, and gets a bit less than 20 MPG, so it costs a bit more than $30 to drive 200 miles. Most cars in the class are similar (V8 luxury sedans). $30 was actually a pretty good number, and I've thought about the "Tesla + occasional rental" plan for my next car.
WTF is an "oil company"? No large company has called itself an "oil company" for years - they are "energy companies", and have spent decades moving into natural gas alongside oil. And they don't care whether your car gets its energy from gas at the pump or natural gas at the generator.
I like the Win7 interface with mouse and KB, but the Metro stuff seems like a better approach to casual use with more clumsy input devices. I haven't really been looking at the Xbone, but if it has the same voice and gesture-based controls my TV has, the Metro stuff should work well with that.
When did we stop counting the cost of government intrusion into our daily lives? When did people stop dismissing that sort of thing as flatly unacceptable? Is our need to try to force our neighbors to live the way we think in right so strong?
I shudder to think what this newfound love of intrusive government would turn into if the religious right retook the reigns of power. The same power given the government to turn everyone into good little progressives won't suddenly vanish if next the government wants to turn you into good little worshippers.
Tiles seem like a good layout for controllers, voice, or gesture-based controls (and I'd be surprised if you didn't have all 3 options for the Xbone UI). Left, right, up, down, select - that's all you need with tiles. (Wonder what you enable with the Konami code?) My Samsung TV has basically the same interface, and it works OK with all those forms of input.
Sure, go and spend $100k on "education for education's sake" if your trust fund covers it. Enjoy the years of entertainment your luxury allows. Normal people need to do productive things with their lives, and can (and will) learn the stuff they love to learn far more cheaply in other ways.
An architecture degree should give you vocational skills you'll actually need to work as an architect. A mechanical engineering degree should give you vocational skills you'll actually need to work as a mechanical engineer. A software engineering degree should give you vocational skills you'll actually need to work as a software engineer.
For what modern degrees cost, if they don't actually help you do the job, why bother?
I've done just that. More than once. That's why I hope to soon be independently wealthy. I've gone from spending 105% of my take home pay to 40% (admittedly, not all at once, but the first 10% is quite easy).
It's not actually that hard, it's just a matter of priorities, and realizing you're not entitled to something just because you really want it. And it's the only long term plan for financial success. Cutting spending is within your power, and it works. Spending what you think you should be earning is the worst sort of foolishness.
Getting married to a fool is a foolish decision, as is going into business with a fool as a partner. It's basic responsibility: before entering into a long term committed relationship with someone (for any purpose), it's on you to ensure you're comfortable with any decision your partner is likely to make. The fact that arguments over money are, the last I heard, still a leading cause of break-ups tells me people aren't talking about the important stuff beforehand.
Sure, you have to make wise decisions in life or your life deserves to suck. Perhaps that's the place to start with better education? With the somehow-missing idea that you can't escape the consequences of your decisions, so you might want to think them through?
I find financial ignorance excusable (at least, in one's 20s), because our society seems intent on keeping people exploitable, but the other problem seems to be a deep cultural issue. People work so hard to shield children (and now even adults!) from the world, and the fundamental notion that you can hurt yourself through foolish choices by removing any pain from those choices. Seems like a foolish choice, to me.
4. Get one rifle shot shot at long range from a citizen who got screwed in the bargain. Make it a.50 caliber.
I've been saying since Enron we should add more FEAR to the "greed and fear run Wall St." aphorism...
IIRC, one of the Enron higher ups "committed suicide" in fishy circumstances early in the trial process. This being Texas, I've always assumed that this unlikely "suicide" was the police simply agreeing with the "he needed killin'" defense, and choosing not to investigate.
I'm pretty sure that is a law. But Experian could easily offer "credit monitoring" to everyone, not quite for free on their part but as a straightforward software project.
I think we should require that of them regardless!
Usually I laugh at claims that the CEO should be in jail when a company does something bad, but in this case there are laws with teeth about credit report info. Unless this was some case where he could not reasonably have known that this was going on, there must be some crime here, times 300 million counts.
Your first job will be crap, that's a given. But it shouldn't take long to get to the point where you have both the financial resources and the work history to not live in fear of losing your job.
As I see it, the real problem here is the utter lack of financial education in America, whereby otherwise smart people live in really financially stupid ways in their 20s. I sure as heck did. Your employer will have you over a barrel until you both learn to live well below your means, and learn what to do with the money you save. These are simple things to learn compared to an engineering degree!
Let's face it, having a work life balance in no longer tolerated in corp America; hence the smartphones keeping one tied to their job 24/7 - and even on vacations.
Bullshit. Software development is still a profession, and there's no reason to put up with that. I sure as Hell don't, and have no problem finding jobs. The exception is your first job to break into the profession, where you should reasonably expect a crap job simply because the supply of people who would like to enter the profession, but haven't proven themselves yet, is so high.
Facebook is still very much centered in "first-job culture", but is trying to pay enough to keep people past their first couple of years. For some reason, they have great difficulty attracting senior engineers (and don't really know what they're for). I'm rather glad that when I interviewed with them recently, not knowing much about them, that we determined quite quickly that it wasn't a match. Facebook knows exactly what it's looking for, that's for sure.
Only to ideologues, which I'm not. I care about practical problems, and in practice I needed GOG to do the work for me, and I'm happy they charge so little for doing so. Nothing in life lasts forever - in the long run, I'm dead. So I don't care if I can keep using some game forever, I only care that it doesn't end up in IP Hell: as long as someone can sell me the game again once it's nostalgia time, that's fine.
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Let's be honest here: YouTube comments would be a step up from Bennie's tripe.
It ain't spam filters blocking your email lists, bud, it's the fact no one cares for anything you have to say.
Shhhhh. I'm trying to scare progressive here. Could you try growling a little and threaten to outlaw homosexuality? Thanks.
Every gun you own can be traced back to you
Not really. If I buy a gun in a private sale, there's no record of that kept, and quite possibly way to know I've ever met that seller. Plus it's perfectly legal (at the federal level - states may vary) to buy a "kit gut", which is not legally a firearm, and turn it into a real gun with some CnC milling (or old-fashioned metalworking, if you're good). There's not even a serial number in that case, though it's very illegal to sell a gun that you made that way.
It doesn't matter in the least. If it said "Purple giraffes being a danger to us all, the right to keep and bear arms shell not be infringed" it would have the same legal meaning. The bit about militia is comments, not code.
There is no "gun show exemption" - where did that myth start? - unless you mean the Gun Control Act of 1968, before which FFL dealers couldn't sell at gun shows at all. If the person selling you a gun is a FFL dealer, all the normal rules still apply. If the person selling you a gun is your neighbor selling off his collection, all the normal rules still apply.
There are many non-intrusive ways to tax. Unless you actually like totalitarianism (and many people do these days), you'd pick the least intrusive way to provide the taxes to pay for the roads (which, frankly, are mostly paid for by the federal government giving money to the states).
Your knee-jerk totalitarian-friendly response actually scares me. Are you really so emotionally invested in giving the government ever more power to track us that you'd fight back against a less intrusive way to pay? Or did you just not think it through?
It's not a Republican thing, or a Texas thing really, it's just legacy dealership laws that most states have. Car dealership owners are often the most powerful figures in local politics (since politics is mostly about name recognition and advertising budget), so it's not a surprise. It will likely change over time.
Mostly though, party doesn't matter: we have 2 big-government, pro-corporation parties now (bigger government is more pro-corporation now - it's naive to think otherwise). Look at the press the "Tea Party" gets and you'll see why neither one wants to be the small government party.
My car is similar to the Tesla in weight and power, and gets a bit less than 20 MPG, so it costs a bit more than $30 to drive 200 miles. Most cars in the class are similar (V8 luxury sedans). $30 was actually a pretty good number, and I've thought about the "Tesla + occasional rental" plan for my next car.
WTF is an "oil company"? No large company has called itself an "oil company" for years - they are "energy companies", and have spent decades moving into natural gas alongside oil. And they don't care whether your car gets its energy from gas at the pump or natural gas at the generator.
I like the Win7 interface with mouse and KB, but the Metro stuff seems like a better approach to casual use with more clumsy input devices. I haven't really been looking at the Xbone, but if it has the same voice and gesture-based controls my TV has, the Metro stuff should work well with that.
The last one is the one I care about.
When did we stop counting the cost of government intrusion into our daily lives? When did people stop dismissing that sort of thing as flatly unacceptable? Is our need to try to force our neighbors to live the way we think in right so strong?
I shudder to think what this newfound love of intrusive government would turn into if the religious right retook the reigns of power. The same power given the government to turn everyone into good little progressives won't suddenly vanish if next the government wants to turn you into good little worshippers.
Tiles seem like a good layout for controllers, voice, or gesture-based controls (and I'd be surprised if you didn't have all 3 options for the Xbone UI). Left, right, up, down, select - that's all you need with tiles. (Wonder what you enable with the Konami code?) My Samsung TV has basically the same interface, and it works OK with all those forms of input.
Has there been "general purpose" malware? Or are you just talking about ATM hacks (which have nothing to do with the OS)?
Sure, go and spend $100k on "education for education's sake" if your trust fund covers it. Enjoy the years of entertainment your luxury allows. Normal people need to do productive things with their lives, and can (and will) learn the stuff they love to learn far more cheaply in other ways.
An architecture degree should give you vocational skills you'll actually need to work as an architect. A mechanical engineering degree should give you vocational skills you'll actually need to work as a mechanical engineer. A software engineering degree should give you vocational skills you'll actually need to work as a software engineer.
For what modern degrees cost, if they don't actually help you do the job, why bother?
I've done just that. More than once. That's why I hope to soon be independently wealthy. I've gone from spending 105% of my take home pay to 40% (admittedly, not all at once, but the first 10% is quite easy).
It's not actually that hard, it's just a matter of priorities, and realizing you're not entitled to something just because you really want it. And it's the only long term plan for financial success. Cutting spending is within your power, and it works. Spending what you think you should be earning is the worst sort of foolishness.
Getting married to a fool is a foolish decision, as is going into business with a fool as a partner. It's basic responsibility: before entering into a long term committed relationship with someone (for any purpose), it's on you to ensure you're comfortable with any decision your partner is likely to make. The fact that arguments over money are, the last I heard, still a leading cause of break-ups tells me people aren't talking about the important stuff beforehand.
So apparently while the website's not working you can call the Healthcare.gov help line at 800-318-2596. That's easy to remember as 1-800-F1UCKYO.
That's so funny I thought it was urban legend, but as far as I can tell it checks out. If that's an elaborate prank, I stand in awe of the prankster!
Sure, you have to make wise decisions in life or your life deserves to suck. Perhaps that's the place to start with better education? With the somehow-missing idea that you can't escape the consequences of your decisions, so you might want to think them through?
I find financial ignorance excusable (at least, in one's 20s), because our society seems intent on keeping people exploitable, but the other problem seems to be a deep cultural issue. People work so hard to shield children (and now even adults!) from the world, and the fundamental notion that you can hurt yourself through foolish choices by removing any pain from those choices. Seems like a foolish choice, to me.
4. Get one rifle shot shot at long range from a citizen who got screwed in the bargain. Make it a .50 caliber.
I've been saying since Enron we should add more FEAR to the "greed and fear run Wall St." aphorism...
IIRC, one of the Enron higher ups "committed suicide" in fishy circumstances early in the trial process. This being Texas, I've always assumed that this unlikely "suicide" was the police simply agreeing with the "he needed killin'" defense, and choosing not to investigate.
I'm pretty sure that is a law. But Experian could easily offer "credit monitoring" to everyone, not quite for free on their part but as a straightforward software project.
I think we should require that of them regardless!
Usually I laugh at claims that the CEO should be in jail when a company does something bad, but in this case there are laws with teeth about credit report info. Unless this was some case where he could not reasonably have known that this was going on, there must be some crime here, times 300 million counts.
Your first job will be crap, that's a given. But it shouldn't take long to get to the point where you have both the financial resources and the work history to not live in fear of losing your job.
As I see it, the real problem here is the utter lack of financial education in America, whereby otherwise smart people live in really financially stupid ways in their 20s. I sure as heck did. Your employer will have you over a barrel until you both learn to live well below your means, and learn what to do with the money you save. These are simple things to learn compared to an engineering degree!
Let's face it, having a work life balance in no longer tolerated in corp America; hence the smartphones keeping one tied to their job 24/7 - and even on vacations.
Bullshit. Software development is still a profession, and there's no reason to put up with that. I sure as Hell don't, and have no problem finding jobs. The exception is your first job to break into the profession, where you should reasonably expect a crap job simply because the supply of people who would like to enter the profession, but haven't proven themselves yet, is so high.
Facebook is still very much centered in "first-job culture", but is trying to pay enough to keep people past their first couple of years. For some reason, they have great difficulty attracting senior engineers (and don't really know what they're for). I'm rather glad that when I interviewed with them recently, not knowing much about them, that we determined quite quickly that it wasn't a match. Facebook knows exactly what it's looking for, that's for sure.
Only to ideologues, which I'm not. I care about practical problems, and in practice I needed GOG to do the work for me, and I'm happy they charge so little for doing so. Nothing in life lasts forever - in the long run, I'm dead. So I don't care if I can keep using some game forever, I only care that it doesn't end up in IP Hell: as long as someone can sell me the game again once it's nostalgia time, that's fine.