...other than a worldview focused on eternity, not on this world...
Not to throw a wrench into the gears of what some might prefer remain a highly-polarized debate... but I can't help disagreeing with you there: weapons are all about this world. The notion that "Gawd wants us to have 'em!" - whether we swallow it hook, line and sinker like a bunch of brainwashed fundamentalists or we completely scoff at it like properly-indoctrinated liberals - is just more framing-of-the-debate courtesy of TPTB.
But no, there's absolutely nothing divine or spiritually-healthy about weapons of death and destruction; you can bet your ass that neither Christ nor Buddha would've wanted to carry around a Taurus Judge or a Saiga 12... and perhaps when I reach total-enlightenment and/or become One with the Metaverse, I won't want to, either. Until then...;)
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful."
~Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger), ca. 4 BC â" 65 AD
As long as unimaginative, highly-conditioned liberals and conservatives keeping trying to stereotype me into a box constructed by their own limited intellects, I figure I must be doing something right.;)
Save your modpoints, UK Gov't shills on GMT; it may still be early here in the States but a lot of us American *nix-guys tend to be independent-minded free-thinkers with modpoints to spare.:)
Thank you for asking; the answer to that question is undoubtedly of the utmost importance. However, I firmly believe that equipping you to answer it for yourself (assuming you're not a troll) makes much more sense.
As such, here are more than a few relevant quotes that might broaden your perspective enough for you to do so:
"A free people ought to be armed." ~George Washington
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them..." ~Richard Henry Lee
"The right of self-defense is the first law of nature; in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest possible limits... and [when] the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction." ~St. George Tucker
"[The Constitution preserves] the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation (where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms." ~James Madison
"Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth." ~George Washington
"A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders." ~Larry Elder
"One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them." ~Thomas Jefferson
"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed." ~Alexander Hamilton
"By calling attention to 'a well regulated militia,' 'the security of the nation,' and the right of each citizen 'to keep and bear arms,' our founding fathers recognized the essentially civilian nature of our economy... The Second Amendment still remains an important declaration of our basic civilian-military relationships in which every citizen must be ready to participate in the defense of his country. For that reason I believe the Second Amendment will always be important." ~John F. Kennedy
"Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are all qualified, entitled, and morally obliged to evaluate the conduct of our rulers. This political judgment, moreover, is not simply or primarily a right, but like self-preservation, a duty to God. As such it is a judgment that men cannot part with according to the God of Nature. It is the first and foremost of our inalienable rights without which we can preserve no other." ~John Locke
"No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself, and what he possesses; else he lives precariously, and at discretion." ~James Burgh
"The congress of the United States possesses no power to regulate, or interfere with the domestic concerns, or police of any state: it belongs not to them to establish any rules respecting the rights of property; nor will the constitution permit any prohibition of arms to the people." ~Saint George Tucker
"The right of the people to keep and bearâ¦arms shall not be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country..." ~James Madison
"And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms... The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants" ~Thomas Jefferson
"The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone w
Linus, what are your thoughts re: the coming war on general-purpose computing?
PS: Thank you for everything you've done, and continue to do (the world is actually full of heroes but the vast majority of them - at least in this day and age - have limited spheres of influence. You on the other hand...);)
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racing leagues that turn right and have drivers and fans educated enough to read.
Q) What has two hundred legs and twelve teeth?
A) The front row at a Willie Nelson concert.
Damn shills with modpoints; someone mod me the hell back up again (my comment was funny, insightful and profound)! ;)
Oh wait
Amusing fuck-up of yours, there: nVidia drivers were the defacto standard for Linux... about five to ten years ago. :p
...other than a worldview focused on eternity, not on this world...
Not to throw a wrench into the gears of what some might prefer remain a highly-polarized debate... but I can't help disagreeing with you there: weapons are all about this world. The notion that "Gawd wants us to have 'em!" - whether we swallow it hook, line and sinker like a bunch of brainwashed fundamentalists or we completely scoff at it like properly-indoctrinated liberals - is just more framing-of-the-debate courtesy of TPTB.
But no, there's absolutely nothing divine or spiritually-healthy about weapons of death and destruction; you can bet your ass that neither Christ nor Buddha would've wanted to carry around a Taurus Judge or a Saiga 12... and perhaps when I reach total-enlightenment and/or become One with the Metaverse, I won't want to, either. Until then... ;)
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful."
~Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger), ca. 4 BC â" 65 AD
As long as unimaginative, highly-conditioned liberals and conservatives keeping trying to stereotype me into a box constructed by their own limited intellects, I figure I must be doing something right. ;)
...it may still be early here in the States but...
Sorry; grammatical fuck-up there. That should have read "It is still early here in the States and..." :)
Save your modpoints, UK Gov't shills on GMT; it may still be early here in the States but a lot of us American *nix-guys tend to be independent-minded free-thinkers with modpoints to spare. :)
Thank you for asking; the answer to that question is undoubtedly of the utmost importance. However, I firmly believe that equipping you to answer it for yourself (assuming you're not a troll) makes much more sense.
As such, here are more than a few relevant quotes that might broaden your perspective enough for you to do so:
"A free people ought to be armed."
~George Washington
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them..."
~Richard Henry Lee
"The right of self-defense is the first law of nature; in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest possible limits... and [when] the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction."
~St. George Tucker
"[The Constitution preserves] the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation (where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."
~James Madison
"Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth."
~George Washington
"A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders."
~Larry Elder
"One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them."
~Thomas Jefferson
"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed."
~Alexander Hamilton
"By calling attention to 'a well regulated militia,' 'the security of the nation,' and the right of each citizen 'to keep and bear arms,' our founding fathers recognized the essentially civilian nature of our economy... The Second Amendment still remains an important declaration of our basic civilian-military relationships in which every citizen must be ready to participate in the defense of his country. For that reason I believe the Second Amendment will always be important."
~John F. Kennedy
"Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are all qualified, entitled, and morally obliged to evaluate the conduct of our rulers. This political judgment, moreover, is not simply or primarily a right, but like self-preservation, a duty to God. As such it is a judgment that men cannot part with according to the God of Nature. It is the first and foremost of our inalienable rights without which we can preserve no other."
~John Locke
"No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself, and what he possesses; else he lives precariously, and at discretion."
~James Burgh
"The congress of the United States possesses no power to regulate, or interfere with the domestic concerns, or police of any state: it belongs not to them to establish any rules respecting the rights of property; nor will the constitution permit any prohibition of arms to the people."
~Saint George Tucker
"The right of the people to keep and bearâ¦arms shall not be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country..."
~James Madison
"And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms... The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants"
~Thomas Jefferson
"The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone w
Well, it's one of the reasons, at any rate, but don't worry; there'll be more to follow shortly...
Aussies, now you know why you were disarmed.
Quick, what does this mean regarding mammoth burgers?
Grass or grain-fed?
Apple Quietly Releases New iPods
Not quietly enough, obviously...
(I kid, I kid!)
Oddly enough, I don't recall having gotten any modpoints since the site changed hands... anyone else experiencing this?
Mod parent up once more; I lack the points...
I don't know I even bother
Well, maybe that, too...
If the entire planet was made of solid gold, it would make it an economic disaster to go there.
Make that more of a tragedy, since:
A) Gold is an incredibly useful industrial metal
and
B) The recovery costs would greatly exceed its worth in... nevermind (sometimes I don't know I even bother!). :p
PS: Thank you for everything you've done, and continue to do (the world is actually full of heroes but the vast majority of them - at least in this day and age - have limited spheres of influence. You on the other hand...) ;)
A) Instead of building lots of new tollbooths (you know they will), replace each of 'em with a Taco Bell drive-through.
B) Build a methane-capture device into every driver's seat...
Representative Paul Broun (Georgia Republican) said that evolution, embryology and the Big Bang theory are 'lies straight from the pit of hell
You're an embrassment to yourself, Billy-Bob...
Silence, conformist! :p
enough power that they could learn to recognize cats
How many more nodes can they add before it wants to know what they taste like?
Bullshit: if this were really happening, this guy would not be aware of it.
He's interviewed extensively in Food, Inc. Good people. Here's the wikipedia entry. The documentary is a must see, by the way...
You lost me...
Why Worms In the Toilet Might Be a Good Idea
Better out than in, eh?