can't... resist..... do we really want hardware that must bit bang ports used to maintain aircraft? Or a person working on airplains who cannot spell airplain?
You are very idealistic. I don't mean to sound like I'm speaking down to you, but you really don't understand. Some parents don't give a rat's behind about their children. Kindergarten kids who get themselves up to go to school because there is no food at home. Kids that get TWO meals a day... school lunch and school breakfast. This, despite their parents being given EBT cards for food. Ohh and let's not forget our wonderful earned income credit system. Poor people with 3 kids get a check for $9600 in the spring of each year. In my town, Sumter SC, a kid died of malnutrition despite the family getting food stamps and earned income credit. I had occasion to speak to a guy who worked at the same place as the dad. They had no idea how he'd afforded to get the new 22" rims for his car and were shocked to find that it was him in the newspaper with a dead little girl. Child starves to death That safety net wouldn't work anyway!
It might surprise you to know what efforts the parent of a suspended kid will go to in order to get their kid back in school. They don't want their (troublemaking) kid at home. Teachers who try to reach out to these parents when asking for help making sure homework is done are ignored and the parent(s) can't be found... until the kids is suspended. Then they come screaming.
Right on the money! Get the kids which are impediments to the rest of the kids learning out of the way. Won't happen though as long as schools are funded by the number of students in attendance.... and those students don't have any skin the game. My ex is a high school teacher and she can't get rid of the bad apples.
I like how you think, but the myth of paying more to get better teachers is just that... a myth. (note my derisive circular logic!) Honestly, teachers don't go into the profession for the money. They are typically people who would like to help or teach kids. Once in the system, they find that they can't maintain discipline in the classrooms and spend inordinate amounts of time dealing with problem kids that the administration won't deal with. The administration is incentivized to keep all kids in school by the method the schools are funded.
The more ambitious teachers end up migrating to schools in better neighborhoods leaving the dregs of teachers with the dregs of students. The solution is NOT more money for teachers... it is getting rid of the students who have no business in a classroom to start with.
I was married to a teacher and have seen the frustrations.
Also, Clinton's projected surplus never materialized b/c it was based on the sale (auction) of the 700mhz spectrum vacated by HDTV.
I will not point fingers at one party though.... both parties spend too much money to keep their bases happy.
In Germany, they have a trash can right by the mailboxes and you can put a sign on your box that says Keine Werbung (no adverts). But the USPS will never go along with that. Funny, we have that silly Can SPAM law which is impossible to enforce, but in the case of the postal service, we could control spam (junk mail) but don't. Interesting.
....and the other way 'round would be to give extra money to schools which don't perform? Talk about a race to the bottom. If you "reward" underperforming schools with more money, you'll soon have all of them in that category.
You are right, money is the reason, but not how you think. Kids showing up at school -> kids answering present in the roll call -> money paid to the school for a student/day of instruction. What if the kids don't show up? The administration marks them present and still gets the money. Since the administration fudges the records, we needed a high tech way to count the kids that the administrators could not tamper with. It was never about making sure the kids were in school... it was about making sure the school wasn't paid for kids who weren't there.
PS why do you think they came up with in school suspension? They get paid despite the student not being in class.
Here in South Carolina, we have many running around with expired tags and the police do nothing about it. Insurance companies notify the state when a policy is cancelled and the state is supposed to send you a letter requiring you turn in your tags. So you don't and they don't do anything about it. The police all but ignore no tags and expired tags which are so easy to spot,
So we need "smart tags" that allow me to renew my tag without postage? Are you kidding me? The problem here is not the postage... it is people not complying with the law and the state not doing a damn thing about it.
Ahhh... I see.../accused/ of domestic violence. Not convicted. Also, in the case of the battery of police officer, the charges were dropped. So in reality, he has no criminal record.
As for continuing to follow TM, the operator is not a LE officer. They do not dole out the law, they try to calm the people calling until more help arrives. He was under no legal obligation to follow the 911 operator's advice. I love how the prosecutor used the word "stalking" in the trial. Stalking is a crime defined by law. What GZ did was to follow and observe. None of which is criminal.
I remember that case and it really stinks... a perversion of the law. I really don't mean to bring politics into this, but isn't it funny that this woman gets 20 years for a warning shot while the VP of the USofA advises people to fire a warning shot with a shot gun and then goes on to advise them to fire blindly though a door?
The other issue with communism is the human factor. Some people simply don't want to work. The whole "from each his abilities" breaks down from the start.
Wait until they lower the BAC limit from.08 to.05.... then they'll be building that database faster than you can imagine. Of course, lowering the BAC will be tied to federal hiway funds, and it does nothing to prevent the majority of DUI cases today.... habitual offenders who already have their licenses suspended. Remarkable how similar the tactics are for going after law abiding gun owners too... cite statistics for people killed with stolen and unregistered guns, then take away "assault" rifles.
Embed an inductive charging loop in the arm of your easy chair. Then set your cell phone on the arm of the chair while you are watching TV. Most Americans would have a fully charged cell phone at all times!!!
Perhaps we could call the terrorist hotline and report a black car with tinted windows. I just saw the driver looking around suspiciously as he sat in the car and just before he closed the door, I noticed he was carrying a pistol out in the open and had what seemed to be a sawed off shotgun in the front seat. He spoke using a lot of codes, as if they were second nature to him. I strongly suspect this individual to be involved in a rather large, well organized group who seems to want to harass and harm people. I think he's either a terrorist or a government agent in an unmarked car.... it is so hard to tell the difference these days.
In South Carolina, a firearm is defined in law as a device that uses a chemical explosion to propel a projectile. I'm sure you didn't mean chemical in this sense.... I suspect you meant chemical like mustard gas.
I'm not an "NRA type", but I am a Libertarian type. I was raised around guns. My dad was quite a good shot and a collector. I learned reloading at around 8 years old. I was shooting under supervision at age 5 and unsupervised at age 9.
The second amendment isn't about hunting of shooting sports. It is about the US government not having a standing army. Why would you need a standing army when you have a bunch of people interested in helping out? Article 1 section 8 of the US Constitution says that congress shall not appropriate money for longer than two years for an army. Fits hand in glove with the (obvious) intent of the 2nd.
As for the type of weapons an ordinary citizen should be able to own... it should be anything they want. The Federal Firearms Act of 1934 required specific types of weapons to have a $200 tax added to them. This was tested in Miller vs US in 1939. Mr Miller died two weeks prior to the SCOTUS hearing, but the case went forward anyway. His argument was that the $200 tax was a violation of the 2nd amendment. The court seems to have agreed because the opinion of the court was that since he had failed to demonstrate that his Short Barreled Shotgun had a use in a militia, it could be taxed. So if I can demonstrate that a weapon has a use in a militia, it cannot be taxed. I'm sure that a full auto ak47 meets this criteria, don't you? And yes, a sawed off shotgun has a use in a militia... Mr Miller failed to show it did because he was dead. In WW1 it was called a trench gun. Ironically, the smallest of guns such as a ruger 10/22 rifle have no legitimate use in a military, and therefore are what should be subject to the tax.
That said, here in the USA, we have a criminal problem, not a gun problem. We have 200million firearms here and 99.999999999% of them have never jumped out of their owners' hand and shot anyone. IMHO, the real problem we have is that we've criminalized so many "victimless" crimes, that our jails are full and convicts are released too early to go and on to commit new crimes.
The bigger problem we have in the US is that we cannot challenge the constitutionality of a law unless we are charged with violating that law. So the lawmakers get away with writing onerous laws the flaunt the US Constitution and I must put my livelihood and family's finances at risk to challenge a law. It's a very high risk, too much for most folks to bear. An example is my state's concealed carry law. You must pay the state police a fee to have a background check to concealed carry. This is in violation of the 2nd amendment, but no one in the state has yet to challenge it in court. Similar things were done when registering to vote in years past (poll tax), and that was shown to be unconstitutional. I should not have to pay the state to keep and BEAR arms. My state agreed to the terms of the US Constitution in 1789 when they ratified it.
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can't... resist..... do we really want hardware that must bit bang ports used to maintain aircraft? Or a person working on airplains who cannot spell airplain?
You are very idealistic. I don't mean to sound like I'm speaking down to you, but you really don't understand. Some parents don't give a rat's behind about their children. Kindergarten kids who get themselves up to go to school because there is no food at home. Kids that get TWO meals a day... school lunch and school breakfast. This, despite their parents being given EBT cards for food. Ohh and let's not forget our wonderful earned income credit system. Poor people with 3 kids get a check for $9600 in the spring of each year. In my town, Sumter SC, a kid died of malnutrition despite the family getting food stamps and earned income credit. I had occasion to speak to a guy who worked at the same place as the dad. They had no idea how he'd afforded to get the new 22" rims for his car and were shocked to find that it was him in the newspaper with a dead little girl. Child starves to death That safety net wouldn't work anyway!
It might surprise you to know what efforts the parent of a suspended kid will go to in order to get their kid back in school. They don't want their (troublemaking) kid at home. Teachers who try to reach out to these parents when asking for help making sure homework is done are ignored and the parent(s) can't be found... until the kids is suspended. Then they come screaming.
Right on the money! Get the kids which are impediments to the rest of the kids learning out of the way. Won't happen though as long as schools are funded by the number of students in attendance.... and those students don't have any skin the game. My ex is a high school teacher and she can't get rid of the bad apples.
The more ambitious teachers end up migrating to schools in better neighborhoods leaving the dregs of teachers with the dregs of students. The solution is NOT more money for teachers... it is getting rid of the students who have no business in a classroom to start with.
I was married to a teacher and have seen the frustrations.
...but it is a living document!
Also, Clinton's projected surplus never materialized b/c it was based on the sale (auction) of the 700mhz spectrum vacated by HDTV. I will not point fingers at one party though.... both parties spend too much money to keep their bases happy.
In Germany, they have a trash can right by the mailboxes and you can put a sign on your box that says Keine Werbung (no adverts). But the USPS will never go along with that. Funny, we have that silly Can SPAM law which is impossible to enforce, but in the case of the postal service, we could control spam (junk mail) but don't. Interesting.
....and the other way 'round would be to give extra money to schools which don't perform? Talk about a race to the bottom. If you "reward" underperforming schools with more money, you'll soon have all of them in that category.
You are right, money is the reason, but not how you think. Kids showing up at school -> kids answering present in the roll call -> money paid to the school for a student/day of instruction. What if the kids don't show up? The administration marks them present and still gets the money. Since the administration fudges the records, we needed a high tech way to count the kids that the administrators could not tamper with. It was never about making sure the kids were in school... it was about making sure the school wasn't paid for kids who weren't there. PS why do you think they came up with in school suspension? They get paid despite the student not being in class.
There are somethings you really don't appreciate until later in life. Being spanked by an attractive middle aged woman is one of them.
Here in South Carolina, we have many running around with expired tags and the police do nothing about it. Insurance companies notify the state when a policy is cancelled and the state is supposed to send you a letter requiring you turn in your tags. So you don't and they don't do anything about it. The police all but ignore no tags and expired tags which are so easy to spot, So we need "smart tags" that allow me to renew my tag without postage? Are you kidding me? The problem here is not the postage... it is people not complying with the law and the state not doing a damn thing about it.
..... including the person driving the Lexus in question.
Ahhh... I see... /accused/ of domestic violence. Not convicted. Also, in the case of the battery of police officer, the charges were dropped. So in reality, he has no criminal record.
As for continuing to follow TM, the operator is not a LE officer. They do not dole out the law, they try to calm the people calling until more help arrives. He was under no legal obligation to follow the 911 operator's advice. I love how the prosecutor used the word "stalking" in the trial. Stalking is a crime defined by law. What GZ did was to follow and observe. None of which is criminal.
I remember that case and it really stinks... a perversion of the law. I really don't mean to bring politics into this, but isn't it funny that this woman gets 20 years for a warning shot while the VP of the USofA advises people to fire a warning shot with a shot gun and then goes on to advise them to fire blindly though a door?
The other issue with communism is the human factor. Some people simply don't want to work. The whole "from each his abilities" breaks down from the start.
I can't wait for them to run the perp's genome and then prove in court without a doubt that he is big and fat... and a liar.
Wait until they lower the BAC limit from .08 to .05.... then they'll be building that database faster than you can imagine. Of course, lowering the BAC will be tied to federal hiway funds, and it does nothing to prevent the majority of DUI cases today.... habitual offenders who already have their licenses suspended. Remarkable how similar the tactics are for going after law abiding gun owners too... cite statistics for people killed with stolen and unregistered guns, then take away "assault" rifles.
Or 97% of dentists say it is good if you brush your teeth... a 3% say it is good for business if you don't.
Embed an inductive charging loop in the arm of your easy chair. Then set your cell phone on the arm of the chair while you are watching TV. Most Americans would have a fully charged cell phone at all times!!!
Perhaps we could call the terrorist hotline and report a black car with tinted windows. I just saw the driver looking around suspiciously as he sat in the car and just before he closed the door, I noticed he was carrying a pistol out in the open and had what seemed to be a sawed off shotgun in the front seat. He spoke using a lot of codes, as if they were second nature to him. I strongly suspect this individual to be involved in a rather large, well organized group who seems to want to harass and harm people. I think he's either a terrorist or a government agent in an unmarked car.... it is so hard to tell the difference these days.
Don't forget the press that was in the government's power too!
United we stand, divided we fall. Now we can all not trust one another.
In South Carolina, a firearm is defined in law as a device that uses a chemical explosion to propel a projectile. I'm sure you didn't mean chemical in this sense.... I suspect you meant chemical like mustard gas.
I'm not an "NRA type", but I am a Libertarian type. I was raised around guns. My dad was quite a good shot and a collector. I learned reloading at around 8 years old. I was shooting under supervision at age 5 and unsupervised at age 9.
The second amendment isn't about hunting of shooting sports. It is about the US government not having a standing army. Why would you need a standing army when you have a bunch of people interested in helping out? Article 1 section 8 of the US Constitution says that congress shall not appropriate money for longer than two years for an army. Fits hand in glove with the (obvious) intent of the 2nd.
As for the type of weapons an ordinary citizen should be able to own... it should be anything they want. The Federal Firearms Act of 1934 required specific types of weapons to have a $200 tax added to them. This was tested in Miller vs US in 1939. Mr Miller died two weeks prior to the SCOTUS hearing, but the case went forward anyway. His argument was that the $200 tax was a violation of the 2nd amendment. The court seems to have agreed because the opinion of the court was that since he had failed to demonstrate that his Short Barreled Shotgun had a use in a militia, it could be taxed. So if I can demonstrate that a weapon has a use in a militia, it cannot be taxed. I'm sure that a full auto ak47 meets this criteria, don't you? And yes, a sawed off shotgun has a use in a militia... Mr Miller failed to show it did because he was dead. In WW1 it was called a trench gun. Ironically, the smallest of guns such as a ruger 10/22 rifle have no legitimate use in a military, and therefore are what should be subject to the tax.
That said, here in the USA, we have a criminal problem, not a gun problem. We have 200million firearms here and 99.999999999% of them have never jumped out of their owners' hand and shot anyone. IMHO, the real problem we have is that we've criminalized so many "victimless" crimes, that our jails are full and convicts are released too early to go and on to commit new crimes.
The bigger problem we have in the US is that we cannot challenge the constitutionality of a law unless we are charged with violating that law. So the lawmakers get away with writing onerous laws the flaunt the US Constitution and I must put my livelihood and family's finances at risk to challenge a law. It's a very high risk, too much for most folks to bear. An example is my state's concealed carry law. You must pay the state police a fee to have a background check to concealed carry. This is in violation of the 2nd amendment, but no one in the state has yet to challenge it in court. Similar things were done when registering to vote in years past (poll tax), and that was shown to be unconstitutional. I should not have to pay the state to keep and BEAR arms. My state agreed to the terms of the US Constitution in 1789 when they ratified it.
Just my take on things. Wes