They come from my law abiding grandmother who's house is broken into by a crack addict, who sells the piece to some arsehole that sells it to a gang member, who shoots my grandmother randomly on the street.
They're also smuggled into the country from Europe and Asia. A few years back, the Chinese gangs in California were caught getting AK-47s off of boats from China.
Another question I'd like to pose to the world: Why do we need handguns? What specifically do we have to own one for that couldn't be accomplished by a stun gun, rifle, or super-soaker (because I know how fun it is to shoot guns just to play, and I know its more fun to shoot my friends with water)?
Well, the first reason that comes to mind is the ability to defend myself in most public settings. The next one is the ability to defend my home without worrying about shooting through a wall and killing a neighbor.
Turn off all unnecessary breakers/disconnect fuses. Turn off the water. Set the thermostat to 40 degrees F. Ask a trusted friend to check on the place every week or so.
A Mammoth tank left behind can be advisable when your away base-raping however the airfield should normally be able to take care of any surprise threats.
An Apocalypse tank will stomp a mammoth's ass. The Apocalypse has better AA weaponry, so it makes for a much better defensive platform. Also, let's not forget that the mammoth tanks existed in an era when one could place antitank mines. In less than five minutes, it was possible to build a mine field that would destroy a fleet of mammoth tanks. There were no mine layers in the era of the Apocalypse tanks.
You do of course realize that the law in question was passed by Democrats in Washington DC, right?
I'm sure that the ass kicking that the GOP just got and the fact that we're likely to lose the white house in two years is influencing this as well. It's my suspicion that the GOP wants to get more work done so that the Democrats will have to work HARD to undo it and piss off a large base of voters before they can take us any further back than we are today.
In 1994, when Clinton passed the Brady Act and his gun ban it pissed off so many voters that the Demorats lost the House and Senate that fall. Bill Clinton himself acknowledged this in his 1995 state of the union address.
In fact, many snipers carry their rifles in cases during transit.. The case protects the parts from the elements.
Sure, they might case a rifle before taking a 5 thousand mile flight, but the rifle must be assembled and calibrated before it's accurate. Headspacing, scope alignment and the tightness of the stock will all be affected by disassembling a rifle (like they do in the movies) and then putting it all back together. Every one of those things will affect accuracy.
And a decent sniper rifle is accurate to 1000+ yards.
A good sniper can hit a target from a mile away, but that's not the point I was making.
You can not get sub MOA performance by field assembling a rifle.
Try being a firearms afficionado and watching some action movies.
Like when Neo is going akimbo with 22. caliber pistols and.223 caliber brass is hitting the ground?
Or when someone is firing shots from a semiauto pistol while the slide is locked open.
Or when someone tries to fire an empty semiauto pistol and the slide didn't lock open after the last bullet or it has locked open and yet there is still the sound of a hammer falling.
Or when someone fires 10 shots from a.357 magnum revolver?
Or when someone assembles a rifle out of a case and hits a bullseye from 400 yards away.
You must have never watched The Practice, the show from with Boston Legal was spun off. One of the lawyers from Crane, Poole and Schmidt was representing a client and Eleanor was representing the opposing party. The legal tactic was to bury them in paperwork. The office was filled with boxes and boxes of documents.
If you really had a large penis, you wouldn't have a problem getting attractive women to suck it. The fact that you're trolling here tells us all that you have a tiny penis. This is a desparete plea for help and attention for your pathetic member.
Furthermore, they shouldn't have called it a nullity. They should have called it a Bush.
Not a bad idea. The Bush is located at ground zero, so to speak. In women, Bush comes right before the negative space and in men it comes at the base of the positive space.
You may not be looking for a DVR, but Tivo's selling a DVR, and they have every right to make the product as they see fit, just as you are entitled to use it for any purpose you choose. You don't have to buy it if you don't want it.
You're dancing, fanboy.
You see, in my view, if you make a processor no longer able to run any program the user wants, it is no longer a universal Turing machine, and cannot be called a "computer."
Intel doesn't make computers. Intel makes ICs & microprocessors. Intel has every right to build in any crippling technology that they want to and still call them microprocessors. Just as one is free to not buy a TiVo, one is also free to not buy a computer that is based on "Trusted Computing" technology.
On the other hand, Tivo doesn't advertise their hardware as a computer: they advertise it as a DVR.
Albeit one that runs a computer's operating system on hobbled hardware.
What he (and many others) apparently miss is that when you buy a Tivo, you're not buying a general purpose computer: you're buying a DVR.
How do you know what other people buy things for? Once you have bought a product, you're entitled to use it for any legal purpose that you choose.
I mean, God forbid that they prevent users from running them out of business by buying the hardware for far less than it costs Tivo to make it and loading MythTV onto it. (Yes, Tivo subsidizes the cost of the hardware, but only because you are agreeing to pay for the service.)
Since when is the loss leader business model a right? There are some people, admittedly not all, but some people who would willingly pay more for the hardware if they could run whatever software they want on it.
Personally, I don't believe that TiVo is the most evil product/company ever, but they're not heroic either.
The telecom industry has been in bet with federal law enforcement in the US since AT LEAST the mid 1990s. It's been mandated by federal law that all telecom systems be readily tappable by the feds. What the fuck do people think that this means?
I'm a bit paranoid when it comes to privacy issues, but things like this prove me right every time.
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They come from my law abiding grandmother who's house is broken into by a crack addict, who sells the piece to some arsehole that sells it to a gang member, who shoots my grandmother randomly on the street.
They're also smuggled into the country from Europe and Asia. A few years back, the Chinese gangs in California were caught getting AK-47s off of boats from China.
Another question I'd like to pose to the world: Why do we need handguns? What specifically do we have to own one for that couldn't be accomplished by a stun gun, rifle, or super-soaker (because I know how fun it is to shoot guns just to play, and I know its more fun to shoot my friends with water)?
Well, the first reason that comes to mind is the ability to defend myself in most public settings. The next one is the ability to defend my home without worrying about shooting through a wall and killing a neighbor.
LK
Turn off all unnecessary breakers/disconnect fuses. Turn off the water. Set the thermostat to 40 degrees F. Ask a trusted friend to check on the place every week or so.
LK
A Mammoth tank left behind can be advisable when your away base-raping however the airfield should normally be able to take care of any surprise threats.
An Apocalypse tank will stomp a mammoth's ass. The Apocalypse has better AA weaponry, so it makes for a much better defensive platform. Also, let's not forget that the mammoth tanks existed in an era when one could place antitank mines. In less than five minutes, it was possible to build a mine field that would destroy a fleet of mammoth tanks. There were no mine layers in the era of the Apocalypse tanks.
LK
There should be mandatory gun training and licencing, such way possibly misusers can be rated as such at earlier ages.
Then, like with the Marijuana tax act, the government only needs to stop giving the classes to do away with the right.
LK
You do of course realize that the law in question was passed by Democrats in Washington DC, right?
I'm sure that the ass kicking that the GOP just got and the fact that we're likely to lose the white house in two years is influencing this as well. It's my suspicion that the GOP wants to get more work done so that the Democrats will have to work HARD to undo it and piss off a large base of voters before they can take us any further back than we are today.
In 1994, when Clinton passed the Brady Act and his gun ban it pissed off so many voters that the Demorats lost the House and Senate that fall. Bill Clinton himself acknowledged this in his 1995 state of the union address.
LK
Right, because your grand-daddy's rifle is really going to help against tanks and automatic weaponry.
The Jews in the Warsaw ghetto kept the Nazis at bay with 10 cheap handguns.
The Iraqi insurgents are doing quite a job against the US military with a firearm that was designed nearly 60 years ago.
And most people can buy a gas mask, but not many do, which means that anyone wanting to subdue you non-violently just has to use some simple tear gas.
I have an Israeli surplus gas mask.
The times when a group of civilians could contend with an equally numerous group of soldiers are long gone.
Warsaw Ghetto, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia and Kosovo all prove this claim to be untrue.
LK
In fact, many snipers carry their rifles in cases during transit.. The case protects the parts from the elements.
Sure, they might case a rifle before taking a 5 thousand mile flight, but the rifle must be assembled and calibrated before it's accurate. Headspacing, scope alignment and the tightness of the stock will all be affected by disassembling a rifle (like they do in the movies) and then putting it all back together. Every one of those things will affect accuracy.
And a decent sniper rifle is accurate to 1000+ yards.
A good sniper can hit a target from a mile away, but that's not the point I was making.
You can not get sub MOA performance by field assembling a rifle.
LK
What drove me absolutely bonkers was in the early 1990s when someone would dial a cell phone, there'd be a dial tone!!!!
LK
While I am not a Ninja Assasin,
Or so you'd have us believe, Kinjo.
LK
Try being a firearms afficionado and watching some action movies.
.223 caliber brass is hitting the ground?
.357 magnum revolver?
Like when Neo is going akimbo with 22. caliber pistols and
Or when someone is firing shots from a semiauto pistol while the slide is locked open.
Or when someone tries to fire an empty semiauto pistol and the slide didn't lock open after the last bullet or it has locked open and yet there is still the sound of a hammer falling.
Or when someone fires 10 shots from a
Or when someone assembles a rifle out of a case and hits a bullseye from 400 yards away.
Or when someone rapid fires a bolt-action rifle.
LK
You must have never watched The Practice, the show from with Boston Legal was spun off. One of the lawyers from Crane, Poole and Schmidt was representing a client and Eleanor was representing the opposing party. The legal tactic was to bury them in paperwork. The office was filled with boxes and boxes of documents.
LK
Fuck all of you guys.
And the sub-14-bit UIDs you rode in on.
LK
Someone please post a link. Preferably a coral cache...
LK
If you really had a large penis, you wouldn't have a problem getting attractive women to suck it. The fact that you're trolling here tells us all that you have a tiny penis. This is a desparete plea for help and attention for your pathetic member.
LK
Hey, for a geek, at least it means you've gotten laid at some point in your life.
After high school, it's not that hard for geeks to get laid.
Women make it a game, and of course geeks game quite well.
If you learn to play well enough, you can even get laid in your parents' basement.
LK
~~=====> - Godwin's Law
0 - You
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It's not a rule that can be invoked like "Whoever finishes the TP must install the new roll.", it's a law in the sense of "E=MC^2".
Let me introduce you to Kano's Law.
LK
Furthermore, they shouldn't have called it a nullity. They should have called it a Bush.
Not a bad idea. The Bush is located at ground zero, so to speak. In women, Bush comes right before the negative space and in men it comes at the base of the positive space.
LK
I also had an imaginary girlfriend when I was 19.
My grandmother didn't like her either.
Unlike you, I have video proof.
LK
Or walking in on their parents by accident? How's that for harmful?
As odd as this may sound, those people are lucky.
When I was 15, I accidentally walked in on my grand parents.
Then, when I was 19, my grandmother walked in on my and my girlfrield.
LK
You may not be looking for a DVR, but Tivo's selling a DVR, and they have every right to make the product as they see fit, just as you are entitled to use it for any purpose you choose. You don't have to buy it if you don't want it.
You're dancing, fanboy.
You see, in my view, if you make a processor no longer able to run any program the user wants, it is no longer a universal Turing machine, and cannot be called a "computer."
Intel doesn't make computers. Intel makes ICs & microprocessors. Intel has every right to build in any crippling technology that they want to and still call them microprocessors. Just as one is free to not buy a TiVo, one is also free to not buy a computer that is based on "Trusted Computing" technology.
On the other hand, Tivo doesn't advertise their hardware as a computer: they advertise it as a DVR.
Albeit one that runs a computer's operating system on hobbled hardware.
LK
What he (and many others) apparently miss is that when you buy a Tivo, you're not buying a general purpose computer: you're buying a DVR.
How do you know what other people buy things for? Once you have bought a product, you're entitled to use it for any legal purpose that you choose.
I mean, God forbid that they prevent users from running them out of business by buying the hardware for far less than it costs Tivo to make it and loading MythTV onto it. (Yes, Tivo subsidizes the cost of the hardware, but only because you are agreeing to pay for the service.)
Since when is the loss leader business model a right? There are some people, admittedly not all, but some people who would willingly pay more for the hardware if they could run whatever software they want on it.
Personally, I don't believe that TiVo is the most evil product/company ever, but they're not heroic either.
LK
The telecom industry has been in bet with federal law enforcement in the US since AT LEAST the mid 1990s. It's been mandated by federal law that all telecom systems be readily tappable by the feds. What the fuck do people think that this means?
I'm a bit paranoid when it comes to privacy issues, but things like this prove me right every time.
LK
You know you can probably run out to a massage parlor and get quite the treatment for even the $600 the PS3 cost from the store.
And as a bonus, you get to keep the diseases for free!
LK
Considering the cost of a PS3 on eBay, the PS4 better come with a vagina.
LK
Really, I would presume if you said "I'm George W Bush," and you're not, that would be fraud.
I'm sure that somewhere in the nation, there is someone who is named George W Bush who is not the president. What would be wrong with using that name?
Pretexting is fraud, but not all fraud is pretexting.
Some pretexting is fraud.
LK