Fresh out of college is the best time to recruit people for secret activities. The military goes for high school graduates. Why? Becasue that's when they're the most impressionable.
At 21-24 it is far easier to convince someone of the evil of those "Red Commie Bastards", that it is when that person is 30. So the age of this guy isn't that big of a problem for me.
No, gun dealers will not make sales because they're afraid that if they do, they'll get their doors kicked in by HK weilding BATF agents for a surprise inspection.
My friend, you have been told a lie. The main reason why only 2% of that 250,000 has been prosecuted is that about ~90% of those people failed the brady check because either 1. Mistaken identity, many of them have a name identical to a felon. Initially denied, but later approved. How many Joe Smiths there are in California?
or
2. Unpaid parking tickets. A bench warrant for unpaid parking tickets is enough to flag you on a background check. Obviously not prime examples of citizenship, but not the "dangerous, violent criminials" that president clinton has made them out to be.
In the state of Pennsylvania (and several others, but since this is where I live...) if you were issued a concealed weapons permit you didn't have to wait any amount of time or go through a background check before the instant check went into effect.
I have such a permit, they take a picture of you and the state police do a background check. I spent more time picking out a gun that in transferring ownership.
Waiting periods are a joke, for people like me who have at least 1 gun already the "cooling off" period arguement doesn't hold water. If I were to suddenly become unstable and decide to kill people I wouldn't need to go out any buy anything new.
Another proposal that I liked was the blaze orange driver's license. If you're ever convited of a crime that caused you to be prohibited from owning a firearm your driver's license would glow blaze orange when exposed to UV light. That proposal was killed because the bleeding hearts felt that it would be an unconstitutional violation of the rights of felons.
One last piece of trivia, the brady bill didn't contain any provisions which would have prevented James Brady from getting shot.
Back in 1993 when the Brady Bill was being debated and voted on. We said that after the sunset clause took effect and the national background check was in place the federal government could stop ALL gun sales by taking the national database offline.
We were called kooks and gun nuts and that they didn't want to prohibit firearms ownership or sales, they just wanted background checks. The useful idiots just got in line to support the false promise of lower crime rates.
Now am I the only one that thinks that it's not an accident that this happens the same week-end as the "million mom march". One last point, there is a clause that allows FFL dealers to sell firearms when the system is offline, however most of them are small businessmen who are afraid of the BATF kicking in their doors for a surprise inspection if they do. That's another reason why no guns are being sold.
With a new file format, we dodge the mainstream for a time. Hopefully education will have time to catch up.
It will only be billed by the RIAA et all as "The NEW MP3". Unless we stop their ignorance now, we'll see a domino effect. MP3, OV, WAV, AU, AIFF, and anything else that we use will be seen the same way.
A line must be drawn in the sand. Invoking the righteous indignation of Captain Jean Luc Picard in Star Trek First Contact This far, no further. We've tolerated your lies long enough. No more! Not now! Never again!
If you run from an angry dog, he'll chase you. If you turn your back on a mugger, he'll stab you. You can't avoid this fight, and delaying it will only make it harder to win.
In the past few years firearms have been used to kill schoolchildren in several high profile incidents.
Ammonium Nitrate was used to kill over 160 people in one horrible act.
During the period of time when the US was involved in the Vietnam conflict, more people were killed in domestic car accidents than were killed in combat in SouthEast Asia.
Do you see the NRA, Sturm Ruger & Co., K-Mart, Wal Mart, Ryder, Chrysler, General Motors, Ford, or any of their satisfied customers/clients/members backing away from those products?
Why should we? There's nothing wrong with MP3. What makes you think that Ogg Vorbis wouldn't suffer from the same public relations goof ups that MP3 has?
People use MP3s to rip off music because that's what's easy.
People use.zip files for wares because that's what's easy.
People will use whatever vehicle is necessary to do the things that they want to do. Without MP3, there will be something else.
If the record companies weren't price gouging, MP3 wouldn't even be an issue. BTW, the FTC came to an agreement with record companies today which *might* bring down the prices of CDs.
I'm not sure about this. I remember about ~7 years ago when a company started making men's underwear under the name of Body Action Design (BAD) and they were sued by the BVD people, the judge found that the more popular or dominant a name is in a field the less chance there will be of consumer confusion by a similar name. Gel-E Gelatin couldn't be confused with that other gelatin because of that other brand's market dominance.
If you know what I mean by "that other gelatin", you've just proven me right.
If a few idiots can turn you off from using a new product that may or may not be great when then does that say of you?
I've been a slashdotter for over a year and a half. I suppose that I'm not nearly as Old Skool as some of the rest here but with the exception of the Katz Articles, I think that Rob and Hemos are doing a great job. They provide a place where people from our community can come together and share our thoughts.
If you don't like news about open source projects, if you don't like news about new hardware, I think that I can recommend a few news pages for you. zdnet.com or cnn.com should be more like what you're looking for.
I (and many more like me) come to slashdot because we can have some great debates. Even though I may disagree with the other parties, I can at least have a discussion that is more profound than "Do you think that Callista Flockheart is too skinny?"
It is your desire to see/. dumbed down just to expand the user base? Just to get more eyes on the ads? Well I'm sure that if Rob and Hemos did that, sure Andover could make more money, at least for a short while. It would kill/. however, it would no longer be the/. that we know and love.
Let me tell you the story of two musicians. Mc. Hammer and Vanilla Ice, both were hugely popular. Both made fantastic sums of money. Now neither of them could sell out a public bathroom for a concert. Why? Because they lost the respect of the people who put them on top.
That's exactly what would happen to/. if you had you way.
If you don't want to try linux because you're afraid. Fine. If you don't want to try linux because your current OS serves all of your needs. Fine. Don't blame anyone else for your decision not to try something new.
They're musicians, not rocket scientists. Some lawyer comes to them and sayt that "This company is costing you $X per day and I think we can stop them." These guys aren't the cream of the crop intellectually. They're a bunch of white bread suburbanites who would be pumping our gas if they couldn't play instruments and make "tough" faces when someone brings a camera around.
This is not the 1960's. Rock is not the vanguard of social and societal commentary and change. These guys aren't forward thinking revolutionaries. They're a garage band who 15 years ago wrote and played some original tunes.
My point, once again, is that these guys aren't evil. They've got lawyers, managers, and record company execs all over them what else do you expect them to do?
I don't understand why it's bad to be a zealot. What I'm getting at is this. I despise M$ as much as anyone else, in fact on the day of judge Jackson's ruling I called a radi talk show and read the short list of M$'s transgressions to a nationwide audience as I spoke to M$'s director of PR.
His response? None of that's been proven by anyone.
Being even tempered, rational, and polite doesn't mean that you can't be a fundamentalist.
It's the difference between 1. "I'm not going to vote for cantidate X because of the way he feels about issue Y."
and
2. "That c*cksucking motherf*cker should f*cking die! I'm going to blow his f*cking house up, rape his wife and burn his kids alive!"
Person 1 and person 2 both may be fanatics or fundamentalists, but sounding like a lunatic will only get you ignored at best and persecuted at worst.
I have an idea, how about everyone who uses napster renaming ONE MP3 file to include the phrase "Not by Metallica" or "Sans Metallica" or some other such phrase. Let their investigators try to week through all of the additional hits that they'd encounter by searching through results that include every Napster user.
How many other cases can you site where the INS got involved in a "child custody" issue? How many other times have federal agents with body armor and sub-machineguns been sent in to resolve a "child custody" issue.
Why is it that both the INS and DOJ claimed to have had no warrant because they felt that they didn't need one until monday? On monday this warrant magically appears.
I don't have a problem with the boy being sent home, but I do have a problem with the fedcops sending a hundred yahoos with 9mm sub-machineguns every time Janet Reno wants to win a dick measuring contest.
Since when does the government need anything more then a warrent signed by a judge? A court order was ignored by those citizens, and the remafication were inforced. Just like Citizen Mitnick broke the laws of land, the ramifications are being enforced.
Point 1. There was no warrant at the time of the raid.
Point 2. Janet Reno is not a judge. She has NO legal authority to give anyone a "deadline".
It was a case of "You don't say NO to us! We'll send the gestapo if you do."
As much as I hate to do it, I'm going to quote Chairman Mao. "Power grows out of the barrel of a gun." The federal government has all of the guns and the best guns. And are more than willing to use them.
I also hate to bring this up here, but, look at what happened in Miami last week-end. The federal government had NO LEGAL AUTHORITY to do what they did, but they had 150 men with HK MP5 sub-machineguns so who could have stopped them?
Remember that el lamo movie "hackers"? Do you think that our current DOJ would hesistate to send in men in ninja suits with machineguns just to show off how tough they are if Mitnick doesn't comply?
The big difference is that Scientologists can be dangerous.
Satanists may have a strange set of beliefs, but except for the mentally ill wannabes they don't hurt people. They don't starve their members. They don't make people slaves.
Satanists (the 1st church kind) love to bother you. If you're disturbed by them, then they've accomplished their goal.
Scientologists just want your money. The brainwashing is incidental to getting at your money.
How much money is the life of your child worth to you?
I think that it'sa bad idea to give the money to the families of the victims. It cheapens the value of their loss. If we were talking about a civil lawsuit, this would be different. What good does "We feel very sorry for you, here will this MONEY make you feel better" do? As sad as it is, those people are gone.
They should donate the money to a charity that can do some good for people who are still alive.
At some point though someone was going to persecute those two simply because no one goes through life without being persecuted. What were they going to do then, with no teacher or principal to protect them?
Call the police. Believe it or not things that are blown off during school are taken seriously out in the real world.
I couldn't count the number of girls' asses that I squeezed before 10th grade, it was stupid and childish and I shouldn't have done it, but if I did that now, I'd go to jail.
The fact is this, no matter how warped these two were, no matter how many innocent people were hurt by these lunatics this will always be true, if schools didn't sit back and do nothing while certain kids were RELENTLESSLY persecuted by other kids and school faculty this wouldn't have happened.
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Fresh out of college is the best time to recruit people for secret activities. The military goes for high school graduates. Why? Becasue that's when they're the most impressionable.
At 21-24 it is far easier to convince someone of the evil of those "Red Commie Bastards", that it is when that person is 30. So the age of this guy isn't that big of a problem for me.
LK
Not a big deal here. I have a progressive reloader. I could pop out about 1000 bullets per hour.
LK
No, gun dealers will not make sales because they're afraid that if they do, they'll get their doors kicked in by HK weilding BATF agents for a surprise inspection.
LK
My friend, you have been told a lie. The main reason why only 2% of that 250,000 has been prosecuted is that about ~90% of those people failed the brady check because either
1. Mistaken identity, many of them have a name identical to a felon. Initially denied, but later approved. How many Joe Smiths there are in California?
or
2. Unpaid parking tickets. A bench warrant for unpaid parking tickets is enough to flag you on a background check. Obviously not prime examples of citizenship, but not the "dangerous, violent criminials" that president clinton has made them out to be.
LK
In the state of Pennsylvania (and several others, but since this is where I live...) if you were issued a concealed weapons permit you didn't have to wait any amount of time or go through a background check before the instant check went into effect.
I have such a permit, they take a picture of you and the state police do a background check. I spent more time picking out a gun that in transferring ownership.
Waiting periods are a joke, for people like me who have at least 1 gun already the "cooling off" period arguement doesn't hold water. If I were to suddenly become unstable and decide to kill people I wouldn't need to go out any buy anything new.
Another proposal that I liked was the blaze orange driver's license. If you're ever convited of a crime that caused you to be prohibited from owning a firearm your driver's license would glow blaze orange when exposed to UV light. That proposal was killed because the bleeding hearts felt that it would be an unconstitutional violation of the rights of felons.
One last piece of trivia, the brady bill didn't contain any provisions which would have prevented James Brady from getting shot.
LK
Do a search for "The battle of Athens", you'll see that in the USA people have used the second amendment right to vote to protect the right to vote.
http://www.jpfo.org/athens.htm
http://www.constitution.org/mil/tn/batathen.htm
Have a look for yourself.
LK
I'd love to strike a deal with you. We'll send you all of our gun prohibitionists in excahnce for your gun owners.
Everyone wins right?
LK
The language is dynamic, in the late 18th century "well-regulated" was synonymous with "well-equipped".
Ever notice how the other side forgets that?
LK
Back in 1993 when the Brady Bill was being debated and voted on. We said that after the sunset clause took effect and the national background check was in place the federal government could stop ALL gun sales by taking the national database offline.
We were called kooks and gun nuts and that they didn't want to prohibit firearms ownership or sales, they just wanted background checks. The useful idiots just got in line to support the false promise of lower crime rates.
Now am I the only one that thinks that it's not an accident that this happens the same week-end as the "million mom march". One last point, there is a clause that allows FFL dealers to sell firearms when the system is offline, however most of them are small businessmen who are afraid of the BATF kicking in their doors for a surprise inspection if they do. That's another reason why no guns are being sold.
LK
You are correct, I should have been more specific.
With a new file format, we dodge the mainstream for a time. Hopefully education will have time to catch up.
It will only be billed by the RIAA et all as "The NEW MP3". Unless we stop their ignorance now, we'll see a domino effect. MP3, OV, WAV, AU, AIFF, and anything else that we use will be seen the same way.
A line must be drawn in the sand. Invoking the righteous indignation of Captain Jean Luc Picard in Star Trek First Contact This far, no further. We've tolerated your lies long enough. No more! Not now! Never again!
If you run from an angry dog, he'll chase you. If you turn your back on a mugger, he'll stab you. You can't avoid this fight, and delaying it will only make it harder to win.
LK
In the past few years firearms have been used to kill schoolchildren in several high profile incidents.
.zip files for wares because that's what's easy.
Ammonium Nitrate was used to kill over 160 people in one horrible act.
During the period of time when the US was involved in the Vietnam conflict, more people were killed in domestic car accidents than were killed in combat in SouthEast Asia.
Do you see the NRA, Sturm Ruger & Co., K-Mart, Wal Mart, Ryder, Chrysler, General Motors, Ford, or any of their satisfied customers/clients/members backing away from those products?
Why should we? There's nothing wrong with MP3. What makes you think that Ogg Vorbis wouldn't suffer from the same public relations goof ups that MP3 has?
People use MP3s to rip off music because that's what's easy.
People use
People will use whatever vehicle is necessary to do the things that they want to do. Without MP3, there will be something else.
If the record companies weren't price gouging, MP3 wouldn't even be an issue. BTW, the FTC came to an agreement with record companies today which *might* bring down the prices of CDs.
LK
I'm not sure about this. I remember about ~7 years ago when a company started making men's underwear under the name of Body Action Design (BAD) and they were sued by the BVD people, the judge found that the more popular or dominant a name is in a field the less chance there will be of consumer confusion by a similar name. Gel-E Gelatin couldn't be confused with that other gelatin because of that other brand's market dominance.
If you know what I mean by "that other gelatin", you've just proven me right.
LK
If a few idiots can turn you off from using a new product that may or may not be great when then does that say of you?
/. dumbed down just to expand the user base? Just to get more eyes on the ads? Well I'm sure that if Rob and Hemos did that, sure Andover could make more money, at least for a short while. It would kill /. however, it would no longer be the /. that we know and love.
/. if you had you way.
I've been a slashdotter for over a year and a half. I suppose that I'm not nearly as Old Skool as some of the rest here but with the exception of the Katz Articles, I think that Rob and Hemos are doing a great job. They provide a place where people from our community can come together and share our thoughts.
If you don't like news about open source projects, if you don't like news about new hardware, I think that I can recommend a few news pages for you. zdnet.com or cnn.com should be more like what you're looking for.
I (and many more like me) come to slashdot because we can have some great debates. Even though I may disagree with the other parties, I can at least have a discussion that is more profound than "Do you think that Callista Flockheart is too skinny?"
It is your desire to see
Let me tell you the story of two musicians. Mc. Hammer and Vanilla Ice, both were hugely popular. Both made fantastic sums of money. Now neither of them could sell out a public bathroom for a concert. Why? Because they lost the respect of the people who put them on top.
That's exactly what would happen to
If you don't want to try linux because you're afraid. Fine. If you don't want to try linux because your current OS serves all of your needs. Fine. Don't blame anyone else for your decision not to try something new.
LK
They're musicians, not rocket scientists. Some lawyer comes to them and sayt that "This company is costing you $X per day and I think we can stop them." These guys aren't the cream of the crop intellectually. They're a bunch of white bread suburbanites who would be pumping our gas if they couldn't play instruments and make "tough" faces when someone brings a camera around.
This is not the 1960's. Rock is not the vanguard of social and societal commentary and change. These guys aren't forward thinking revolutionaries. They're a garage band who 15 years ago wrote and played some original tunes.
My point, once again, is that these guys aren't evil. They've got lawyers, managers, and record company execs all over them what else do you expect them to do?
LK
I don't understand why it's bad to be a zealot. What I'm getting at is this. I despise M$ as much as anyone else, in fact on the day of judge Jackson's ruling I called a radi talk show and read the short list of M$'s transgressions to a nationwide audience as I spoke to M$'s director of PR.
His response? None of that's been proven by anyone.
Being even tempered, rational, and polite doesn't mean that you can't be a fundamentalist.
It's the difference between
1. "I'm not going to vote for cantidate X because of the way he feels about issue Y."
and
2. "That c*cksucking motherf*cker should f*cking die! I'm going to blow his f*cking house up, rape his wife and burn his kids alive!"
Person 1 and person 2 both may be fanatics or fundamentalists, but sounding like a lunatic will only get you ignored at best and persecuted at worst.
LK
I have an idea, how about everyone who uses napster renaming ONE MP3 file to include the phrase "Not by Metallica" or "Sans Metallica" or some other such phrase. Let their investigators try to week through all of the additional hits that they'd encounter by searching through results that include every Napster user.
LK
It's not your fault if they price something too low to make a profit on it.
I remember reading somewhere (it could be false) but something likg 2/3 of all new businesses fail.
They had ample time to change their practices after the iopener thing happened.
LK
How many other cases can you site where the INS got involved in a "child custody" issue? How many other times have federal agents with body armor and sub-machineguns been sent in to resolve a "child custody" issue.
Why is it that both the INS and DOJ claimed to have had no warrant because they felt that they didn't need one until monday? On monday this warrant magically appears.
I don't have a problem with the boy being sent home, but I do have a problem with the fedcops sending a hundred yahoos with 9mm sub-machineguns every time Janet Reno wants to win a dick measuring contest.
LK
Since when does the government need anything more then a warrent signed by a judge? A court order was ignored by those citizens, and the remafication were inforced. Just like Citizen Mitnick broke the laws of land, the ramifications are being enforced.
Point 1. There was no warrant at the time of the raid.
Point 2. Janet Reno is not a judge. She has NO legal authority to give anyone a "deadline".
It was a case of "You don't say NO to us! We'll send the gestapo if you do."
No judge ordered that action be taken.
LK
As much as I hate to do it, I'm going to quote Chairman Mao. "Power grows out of the barrel of a gun." The federal government has all of the guns and the best guns. And are more than willing to use them.
I also hate to bring this up here, but, look at what happened in Miami last week-end. The federal government had NO LEGAL AUTHORITY to do what they did, but they had 150 men with HK MP5 sub-machineguns so who could have stopped them?
Remember that el lamo movie "hackers"? Do you think that our current DOJ would hesistate to send in men in ninja suits with machineguns just to show off how tough they are if Mitnick doesn't comply?
LK
The big difference is that Scientologists can be dangerous.
Satanists may have a strange set of beliefs, but except for the mentally ill wannabes they don't hurt people. They don't starve their members. They don't make people slaves.
Satanists (the 1st church kind) love to bother you. If you're disturbed by them, then they've accomplished their goal.
Scientologists just want your money. The brainwashing is incidental to getting at your money.
LK
How much money is the life of your child worth to you?
I think that it'sa bad idea to give the money to the families of the victims. It cheapens the value of their loss. If we were talking about a civil lawsuit, this would be different. What good does "We feel very sorry for you, here will this MONEY make you feel better" do? As sad as it is, those people are gone.
They should donate the money to a charity that can do some good for people who are still alive.
LK
At some point though someone was going to persecute those two simply because no one goes through life without being persecuted. What were they going to do then, with no teacher or principal to protect them?
Call the police. Believe it or not things that are blown off during school are taken seriously out in the real world.
I couldn't count the number of girls' asses that I squeezed before 10th grade, it was stupid and childish and I shouldn't have done it, but if I did that now, I'd go to jail.
LK
The fact is this, no matter how warped these two were, no matter how many innocent people were hurt by these lunatics this will always be true, if schools didn't sit back and do nothing while certain kids were RELENTLESSLY persecuted by other kids and school faculty this wouldn't have happened.
LK