Even better, the wounded brother was found due to a citizen noticing something out of place.... ummm that would be the very same citizen(s) whom the government told to stay inside and that the police had it under control. There cannot be enough police... ever. They must enlist the help of the citizenry, but don't seem to trust us. It is a shame too.
Thank you for making your point. I also don't want to live in a society where someone commits a crime with a certain type of weapon and I am subsequently barred from owning such a weapon. The fault lies with the individual, not the tool.
Actually, I think the requirement came from FM radios.... a superheterodyne radio offsets the local oscillator frequency by 10.7mhz... so if your radio is tuned to 100mhz the local oscillator is tuned to 110.7, right in the middle of the nav band. This is the only device that interferes with aircraft navigation instruments that I'm aware of. From there superstition took over and all equipment was outlawed by the bureaucrats.
You do realize that Article 1, section 8 of the constitution says that congress cannot allocate money for more than 2 years for an army, right? We're not supposed to have the standing army we presently have. Standing armies expensive... just look at the cost in the past 10 years. Funny, isn't it, that we seem to always have something go on about every 2 years isn't it? 1989 the USSR failed leaving the US with no standing enemy. By 1991, Saddam had popped up on the radar. Coincidence? Bonus points if you can name all of our military actions since WW2.
I'm all for seeing if a person is a full citizen and therefore eligible to exercise the 2nd amendment. But limiting rounds in a magazine? Also, I got to nit pick your assertion that it might take more than 10 rounds to hit a target. 1 warning shot, leaves 9 for multiple assailants.... Sure a little extra range time might be worthwhile, but in the heat of the moment defending my family and home the last thing I want to hear is "click".
What is pissing me off right now is that there are laws regarding background checks that are not being enforced... so naturally we need more laws, right? In 2009, Alice Boland pleaded innocent by reason of insanity to threatening the president and members of Congress -- after that she spent time in a Texas prison mental institution.
None of it was enough to stop the 28-year-old from entering the grounds of a private school in Charleston called Ashley Hall last month and trying to shoot staffers.
Boland bought her.22-caliber handgun from a dealer in Walterboro SC. A background check failed to identify her as a mental patient possibly because of a rule that allowed the government to drop charges after her guilty plea.
And we have the right to a speedy and public trial, but some states are not reporting metal health judgements citing HIPA and privacy laws. Well, kids, if the trial is public so is the verdict.
Me thinks the politicians love laws that aren't enforced so they can pass more and more draconian laws.
The difference between a pellet gun and a firearm is define in South Carolina code 16-23-345, "weapon" means firearm (rifle, shotgun, pistol, or similar device that propels a projectile through the energy of an explosive), a blackjack, a metal pipe or pole, or any other type of device, or object which may be used to inflict bodily injury or death.
I suspect there is a federal regulation which uses a similar definition.
So a pellet gun does not use the energy of an explosive, it is merely a weapon, not a firearm. Clear now?
I've been able to make my own guns for years. A milling machine and a lathe in my garage for Pete's sake. I think the limit is 49 a year. The *only* difference here is the printer instead of a milling machine. sheesh.
When I get into a programming mood, I wear noise blocking ear buds and play new age music (enya and david lanz). The music is predictable, so it is not a distraction and it raises the noise floor so I can't hear outside distractions.
Well stated. Arguing over Republican or Democrat is the equivalent of two rednecks arguing over which is better, Ford or Chevy. I share your stance of being a hybrid of Republican/Libertarian, and of late side with Libertarian. The media has devolved into hype and pushing agendas. Our policital machine has devolved into two remarkably similar parties thanks to our "winner takes all" election process.
Even better, my exwife is a school teacher. They all got promethuim smart boards (yay!), and each teacher has a PC in their classroom. But some of the classroom layouts do not place the smart board near the PC. Rather than buy a VGA extension cable, the school opted to buy the teachers laptops. Of course half of the teachers didn't need them since their desk was close enough to the smart board, so my ex just took her laptop home for personal use. On the other hand, at the local private school which my step daughter attends, the teacher there bought the needed extension cord.
...and you can't hold down the START button for say, 10 seconds and shut off the car? My wife's Hyundai works that way for emergency starting.... simply stabbing the start button shuts it off.
Handbrake? Why are you discussing ripping DVD's in this thread??:-O
Applying the handbrake at the wrong time could cause a nasty spinout, but we have to assume the driver would have been smarter than that despite being French. They are smart people... didn't they invent the steam powered loom 300 years ago???
THe problem is not *that* the newspaper published the data, it was public record after all. The problem is that the information existed *as* public record. That's the RCFA. The law that makes these records public information is flawed.
I live in South Carolina and remember around 2002 time frame, our State Law Enforcement Division (SLED) was asking for money for a warehouse to store papers on a budget. When asked what they were storing there, they said "gun purchase applications". The problem with this is that in SC, those records are only to be kept for a year and then destroyed. SLED had been keeping them since the inception of the law and had run out of space. AFAIK, they did not get the money for their storage warehouse.
Does anyone ever do an analysis of the costs of doing a cost analysis?
Amen brother! They've been doing an environmental impact study for years to consider deepening the Charleston SC harbor channel by something like 2 meters. They've spent MILLIONS on the study and more time than it would have taken to have simply deepened the channel.
How many of the Freedom of Information requests come back in clear text? Most are blacked out to the point of making them incomprehensible. I can understand blotting out some private citizen's name or a social security number, but not whole paragraphs.
It has been suggested you keep a small 375ml bottle of booze in your car. When you get pulled over, step out of the car, throw your keys on the ground, open the bottle and drink all of it. Make sure they see you break the seal on their dash cam. Now they can't prove you were drunk before you got pulled over.
I used to work with a guy who was a cop in Mobile Al, and he told me one night he instructed the passenger of a car to get out. When the passenger complied, he was arrested for public drunkenness. Yes, it happens. They guy/cop's reasoning.... The passenger was mouthy. really.
Also, I'll go on a little rant here... Many of the clubs look at their repeater as a "service" and not a base for experimentation or advancing the radio hobby. Case in point... for years I tried to get the club in my area to allow me to put equipment on the repeater that would mute Mic-Encoder packets from the output of the repeater to no avail. They looked at the repeater as a service that could not be interrupted for an instant or tinkered with. So after years of trying in two cities, I gave up. It ain't just the FCC holding us back.
I tried to get my 11 year old daughter to get her ticket before she got interested in boys (you know, that age).... alas she did not pass and happily texts on her cell phone all day long. I'll work on my boy as he comes of age, but so far no interest. It's really difficult to impress kids today with the idea that you can talk to someone around the world or send a packet radio message in this day of universal internet access. To them, ham radio is the hard way to do things.
Bravo... Many modulation modes can't be attempted because of FCC regulations. Heck, even AFSK1200 modems have a CW ID built into their firmware! The commercial interests have bypassed ham radio's wunderland of yesteryear. I hate to say it, but innovation is not where ham radio is now. Didn't I see on QRZ a year ago the FCC was considering allowing spread spectrum for the ham bands? wow. What trailblazers we are.
It funny... those who complain about the loopholes are the ones who scream the loudest for a progressive tax rate. Tell ya what... let's cut the loopholes and in exchange, we'll tax every dollar everyone makes at the same rate. Consider one philosophy of the progressive tax system and deductions (ie loopholes). Let's start from the beginning... you make more money than you can spend, and so leave it in the bank. Money that is no circulating gives us a stagnate economy. We need to think of a way to encourage you to keep it circulating... so how about this... we'll tax you at a very high rate unless you spend it on things that make jobs or stimulate the economy. If Mr Gotrocks earns a bazillion dollars a year, we will tax him at 99%... but if Mr Gotrocks decided to start a company that employed people, we'll only tax him at 50%. We know that those employed people will earn money and in turn be taxed, so we can afford to cut Mr Gotrocks some slack, plus all that money moving from person to person keeps the economy moving along. People who are angry about the loopholes forget why they exist. And yes, I must conceed that over time, our leaders become corrupt and make loopholes targeted at certain companies or individuals. That part does need to be addressed.
So we need to either have a flat tax or a progressive tax with deductions (loopholes). Since the loopholes lead to corrution, I'd prefer to stop the funny business and simply have a flat tax.
Taking money FROM me to do things I would not choose to do is a punishment. As for my children, I can control (to a large degree) what they do and who they'll become. I can guide them in a direction that I deem productive. I cannot do that for the people the government gives my money to. Back in the old days, the church gave welfare. And they knew who should and should not get help. The government is not nearly as good of a stewart of my "charity".
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Even better, the wounded brother was found due to a citizen noticing something out of place.... ummm that would be the very same citizen(s) whom the government told to stay inside and that the police had it under control. There cannot be enough police... ever. They must enlist the help of the citizenry, but don't seem to trust us. It is a shame too.
Thank you for making your point. I also don't want to live in a society where someone commits a crime with a certain type of weapon and I am subsequently barred from owning such a weapon. The fault lies with the individual, not the tool.
Actually, I think the requirement came from FM radios.... a superheterodyne radio offsets the local oscillator frequency by 10.7mhz... so if your radio is tuned to 100mhz the local oscillator is tuned to 110.7, right in the middle of the nav band. This is the only device that interferes with aircraft navigation instruments that I'm aware of. From there superstition took over and all equipment was outlawed by the bureaucrats.
You do realize that Article 1, section 8 of the constitution says that congress cannot allocate money for more than 2 years for an army, right? We're not supposed to have the standing army we presently have. Standing armies expensive... just look at the cost in the past 10 years. Funny, isn't it, that we seem to always have something go on about every 2 years isn't it? 1989 the USSR failed leaving the US with no standing enemy. By 1991, Saddam had popped up on the radar. Coincidence? Bonus points if you can name all of our military actions since WW2.
None of it was enough to stop the 28-year-old from entering the grounds of a private school in Charleston called Ashley Hall last month and trying to shoot staffers.
Boland bought her .22-caliber handgun from a dealer in Walterboro SC. A background check failed to identify her as a mental patient possibly because of a rule that allowed the government to drop charges after her guilty plea.
And we have the right to a speedy and public trial, but some states are not reporting metal health judgements citing HIPA and privacy laws. Well, kids, if the trial is public so is the verdict.
Me thinks the politicians love laws that aren't enforced so they can pass more and more draconian laws.
The difference between a pellet gun and a firearm is define in South Carolina code 16-23-345, "weapon" means firearm (rifle, shotgun, pistol, or similar device that propels a projectile through the energy of an explosive), a blackjack, a metal pipe or pole, or any other type of device, or object which may be used to inflict bodily injury or death. I suspect there is a federal regulation which uses a similar definition. So a pellet gun does not use the energy of an explosive, it is merely a weapon, not a firearm. Clear now?
I've been able to make my own guns for years. A milling machine and a lathe in my garage for Pete's sake. I think the limit is 49 a year. The *only* difference here is the printer instead of a milling machine. sheesh.
When I get into a programming mood, I wear noise blocking ear buds and play new age music (enya and david lanz). The music is predictable, so it is not a distraction and it raises the noise floor so I can't hear outside distractions.
Can anyone name a single protest in the past 20 years that has actually caused a change? Thats why people aren't protesting now.
Same could be said for voting.... voting "against" the other guy isn't working to well either, esp since both parties are remarkably similar.
Well stated. Arguing over Republican or Democrat is the equivalent of two rednecks arguing over which is better, Ford or Chevy. I share your stance of being a hybrid of Republican/Libertarian, and of late side with Libertarian. The media has devolved into hype and pushing agendas. Our policital machine has devolved into two remarkably similar parties thanks to our "winner takes all" election process.
Even better, my exwife is a school teacher. They all got promethuim smart boards (yay!), and each teacher has a PC in their classroom. But some of the classroom layouts do not place the smart board near the PC. Rather than buy a VGA extension cable, the school opted to buy the teachers laptops. Of course half of the teachers didn't need them since their desk was close enough to the smart board, so my ex just took her laptop home for personal use. On the other hand, at the local private school which my step daughter attends, the teacher there bought the needed extension cord.
Are you kidding me? Are we to believe that encrypted radio transmissions can't be triangulated? Give me a break.
...and you can't hold down the START button for say, 10 seconds and shut off the car? My wife's Hyundai works that way for emergency starting.... simply stabbing the start button shuts it off.
Applying the handbrake at the wrong time could cause a nasty spinout, but we have to assume the driver would have been smarter than that despite being French. They are smart people... didn't they invent the steam powered loom 300 years ago???
THe problem is not *that* the newspaper published the data, it was public record after all. The problem is that the information existed *as* public record. That's the RCFA. The law that makes these records public information is flawed. I live in South Carolina and remember around 2002 time frame, our State Law Enforcement Division (SLED) was asking for money for a warehouse to store papers on a budget. When asked what they were storing there, they said "gun purchase applications". The problem with this is that in SC, those records are only to be kept for a year and then destroyed. SLED had been keeping them since the inception of the law and had run out of space. AFAIK, they did not get the money for their storage warehouse.
Does anyone ever do an analysis of the costs of doing a cost analysis?
Amen brother! They've been doing an environmental impact study for years to consider deepening the Charleston SC harbor channel by something like 2 meters. They've spent MILLIONS on the study and more time than it would have taken to have simply deepened the channel.
How many of the Freedom of Information requests come back in clear text? Most are blacked out to the point of making them incomprehensible. I can understand blotting out some private citizen's name or a social security number, but not whole paragraphs.
It has been suggested you keep a small 375ml bottle of booze in your car. When you get pulled over, step out of the car, throw your keys on the ground, open the bottle and drink all of it. Make sure they see you break the seal on their dash cam. Now they can't prove you were drunk before you got pulled over.
I used to work with a guy who was a cop in Mobile Al, and he told me one night he instructed the passenger of a car to get out. When the passenger complied, he was arrested for public drunkenness. Yes, it happens. They guy/cop's reasoning.... The passenger was mouthy. really.
Also, I'll go on a little rant here... Many of the clubs look at their repeater as a "service" and not a base for experimentation or advancing the radio hobby. Case in point... for years I tried to get the club in my area to allow me to put equipment on the repeater that would mute Mic-Encoder packets from the output of the repeater to no avail. They looked at the repeater as a service that could not be interrupted for an instant or tinkered with. So after years of trying in two cities, I gave up. It ain't just the FCC holding us back.
I tried to get my 11 year old daughter to get her ticket before she got interested in boys (you know, that age).... alas she did not pass and happily texts on her cell phone all day long. I'll work on my boy as he comes of age, but so far no interest. It's really difficult to impress kids today with the idea that you can talk to someone around the world or send a packet radio message in this day of universal internet access. To them, ham radio is the hard way to do things.
Bravo... Many modulation modes can't be attempted because of FCC regulations. Heck, even AFSK1200 modems have a CW ID built into their firmware! The commercial interests have bypassed ham radio's wunderland of yesteryear. I hate to say it, but innovation is not where ham radio is now. Didn't I see on QRZ a year ago the FCC was considering allowing spread spectrum for the ham bands? wow. What trailblazers we are.
It's Bulimia w/o the awesome ab's!! No need to workout your tummy muscles with this!
It funny... those who complain about the loopholes are the ones who scream the loudest for a progressive tax rate. Tell ya what... let's cut the loopholes and in exchange, we'll tax every dollar everyone makes at the same rate. Consider one philosophy of the progressive tax system and deductions (ie loopholes). Let's start from the beginning... you make more money than you can spend, and so leave it in the bank. Money that is no circulating gives us a stagnate economy. We need to think of a way to encourage you to keep it circulating... so how about this... we'll tax you at a very high rate unless you spend it on things that make jobs or stimulate the economy. If Mr Gotrocks earns a bazillion dollars a year, we will tax him at 99%... but if Mr Gotrocks decided to start a company that employed people, we'll only tax him at 50%. We know that those employed people will earn money and in turn be taxed, so we can afford to cut Mr Gotrocks some slack, plus all that money moving from person to person keeps the economy moving along. People who are angry about the loopholes forget why they exist. And yes, I must conceed that over time, our leaders become corrupt and make loopholes targeted at certain companies or individuals. That part does need to be addressed.
So we need to either have a flat tax or a progressive tax with deductions (loopholes). Since the loopholes lead to corrution, I'd prefer to stop the funny business and simply have a flat tax.
Taking money FROM me to do things I would not choose to do is a punishment. As for my children, I can control (to a large degree) what they do and who they'll become. I can guide them in a direction that I deem productive. I cannot do that for the people the government gives my money to. Back in the old days, the church gave welfare. And they knew who should and should not get help. The government is not nearly as good of a stewart of my "charity".