The ACLU has argued that child pornography is sometimes protected by the first amendment and that the second amendment only protects states' rights to have a national guard.
Fuck them.
Nazis want to rally in a Jewish neighborhood, the ACLU is there. Klansmen want to march through a black neighborhood, the ACLU is there. Pedophile gets caught downloading kiddie porn, the ACLU is there.
Someone wants to own a gun to protect his or her family, the ACLU's silence is deafening.
Some employers prefer them because they don't have to put any effort into keeping them happy. H1Bs aren't free to leave like US citizens are. If everything were equal: education, experience, job performance and salary, the H1B is often more attractive because they're not able to shop around if working for you sucks.
At one time, in three years the performance difference between an old PC and a new PC was so great that it was easier to justify spending the money for an upgrade. Now, the increase in transistor density seems to have lead us to a point where we still have great increases in computing power but we've had to branch out into multi-core architectures. An 8 core PC at 3 Ghz is obviously more powerful than a 4 core PC at 2.8Ghz but for most people, it's not worth the expense to upgrade.
Exactly, if it was a depiction of heterosexual sex, Apple would have behaved the same way.
I'm an ex-apple guy and we feel about Apple the same way ex-smokers feel about cigarette smoke so I'm not a fanboi or an apologist. I'm just pointing out that this is consistency, not persecution.
Feinstein is of the mindset that we can legislate our way to utopia. She's in the Senate, so it's unthinkable to her that she can do nothing to address a societal problem.
Gun legislation is an incredibly difficult uphill battle, but she still feels like she has to do something... FOR THE CHILDREN.
Now it's this lunacy.
Here on slashdot, I saw a lot of posts about how people don't care about my right to own a gun if it'll save one child's life to strip us of our guns. They weren't thinking long term. That kind of reasoning can be used to justify any intrusion.
They weren't thinking about the long term consequences of that position. Now, it's video games again. Eventually, it'll be rap music and heavy metal again. The point is that unless we say no the bullshit when it's aimed at someone else, there will be no one to come to our defense when they target us.
I'm a gun owning gamer. I'm not giving up either without a long, bloody fight.
There is an enormous difference between the two. Agnostics do not deny the possibility that there is more to existence than the physical world that we perceive. They refuse to believe without proof. I find that to be very intellectually honest.
Atheists have what could be called negative faith. They believe that there is no God. An affirmative belief in some idea with no evidence is faith.
Your right to believe whatever you like doesn't include a stipulation that no one can hold that against you.
Coworkers are just as likely to avoid the asshole atheist as they are to avoid the asshole Jesus freak.
Your constitutional protections under the first amendment do not protect you from the disdain of a significant other's family. You are just as free to say "fuck them" because you think that their beliefs are silly.
Most believers will still befriend an atheist, so long as he or she isn't an asshole about it. When a believer mentions to you that he or she can't make plans with you because of a religious obligation, do you say the equivalent of "ok, talk to you later" or do you go off on a rant about how useless, backwards and primitive their religious rituals are? If you do the latter, you're an asshole and people tend to avoid interactions with assholes.
You are grateful for the "militant" atheists, I like to call them evangelicals because I find them to be just as annoying as any other in your face type. Is it because they're doing what you deep down want to do but that part of you that wants to be liked by others prevents you from doing?
In theory, perhaps but in practice, that is often not the case. Some atheists are in essence atheists and not atheists.
The parent is undoubtedly an atheist. He seems to dislike the term, however, likely due to the association with the vile cesspool that is the online atheist community.
I'm an atheist myself, but I don't set out to convince anybody else to be one, so I don't bother to try to prove my viewpoint to anybody.
That's because you're not an asshole.
There are evangelical atheists who are on a crusade to spread their Godless worldview to others and they tend to use confrontation and ridicule as their means, when those don't work they resort to shunning.
I'm a believer but it's not my place to convince you of something that there is no proof for. I walk a fine line with my children, Their mother is a Christian and if I HAD to put a label on my beliefs, I'm a Pagan so I don't preach to them and when they ask me religious questions I preface my answers with "I believe...". What it comes down to is what we choose to believe, be it because of experience, circumstance or conscious decision. Demanding proof of something that can not be proved is like demanding that someone prove to you that their favorite color is the best possible color.
They don't make paintballs to fit in my rifle. Have you ever seen a.308 paintball?
I don't want to buy a paintball gun.
Paintballs behave differently in flight than bullets, becoming proficient with one doesn't translate well to the other.
Many non shooters believe that guns work like they do in the movies. You point, you shoot, you hit. That's not reality. A hunting rifle is adjusted for a particular load. You have to learn to control your breathing, your heart rate and your blinking. You have to know how wind, elevation and distance will influence the path of your bullet. All of that requires experience and you can't get that without shooting real bullets out of real guns.
That's a fair counter-point. Unfortunately, there is no such thing as an unbiased source. Even the testimony of an eye-witness is going to be tainted by that person's biases and preferences. What I call the truth can also be called "The closest thing to the actual events that I'll be able to determine, without videotape of the entire event".
The truth is always in the middle. I like to read Fox, MSNBC(Now NBCNEWS) and CNN to see different sides of the story and decide for myself what the truth is.
All of us have biases and we even use our own biases when interpreting information. This isn't a surprise to me. In fact, I'd bet that the only people who are surprised by this are the semi-literate fucktards who like to bandy about the term "Faux News".
It's probably one of those "you had to be there" situations. During Jobs' absence, there was a real feeling of community.
For several years, I was probably the 2nd best Mac technician in my city. I loved Macs and Apple. Then, when Jobs came back, he seemed to delight in shitting all over everything. Dealers? Fuck them! Users? Fuck them! Developers? Fuck them! Fuck what you want, fuck what you like, you're getting clear plastic everything!
I still have my old Performa. I still fire it up occasionally and play some old games. The nostalgia is still there but most of the magic is gone.
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Don't take my word for it.
The ACLU has spoken openly about it.
http://www.aclu.org/blog/organization-news-and-highlights/heller-decision-and-second-amendment
In New York vs Ferber, the ACLU advocated that the possession and distribution of child pornography is protected by the first amendment.
Even after the Heller decision, the ACLU stuck to their collective right interpretation of the second amendment.
This is not a group that truly cares about freedom. They only want to use the constitution as a weapon.
LK
The ACLU has argued that child pornography is sometimes protected by the first amendment and that the second amendment only protects states' rights to have a national guard.
Fuck them.
Nazis want to rally in a Jewish neighborhood, the ACLU is there.
Klansmen want to march through a black neighborhood, the ACLU is there.
Pedophile gets caught downloading kiddie porn, the ACLU is there.
Someone wants to own a gun to protect his or her family, the ACLU's silence is deafening.
LK
Some employers prefer them because they don't have to put any effort into keeping them happy. H1Bs aren't free to leave like US citizens are. If everything were equal: education, experience, job performance and salary, the H1B is often more attractive because they're not able to shop around if working for you sucks.
LK
At one time, in three years the performance difference between an old PC and a new PC was so great that it was easier to justify spending the money for an upgrade. Now, the increase in transistor density seems to have lead us to a point where we still have great increases in computing power but we've had to branch out into multi-core architectures. An 8 core PC at 3 Ghz is obviously more powerful than a 4 core PC at 2.8Ghz but for most people, it's not worth the expense to upgrade.
LK
Exactly, if it was a depiction of heterosexual sex, Apple would have behaved the same way.
I'm an ex-apple guy and we feel about Apple the same way ex-smokers feel about cigarette smoke so I'm not a fanboi or an apologist. I'm just pointing out that this is consistency, not persecution.
LK
Some people won't be happy until we all have precisely the same level of nothing.
LK
I too keep an eye out for liberal bias but it's far too early to accuse them of this, yet.
Let's see if they hit on Obamanoids before they pick up "Tea Party Zombies Must Die".
LK
Feinstein is of the mindset that we can legislate our way to utopia. She's in the Senate, so it's unthinkable to her that she can do nothing to address a societal problem.
Gun legislation is an incredibly difficult uphill battle, but she still feels like she has to do something... FOR THE CHILDREN.
Now it's this lunacy.
Here on slashdot, I saw a lot of posts about how people don't care about my right to own a gun if it'll save one child's life to strip us of our guns. They weren't thinking long term. That kind of reasoning can be used to justify any intrusion.
They weren't thinking about the long term consequences of that position. Now, it's video games again. Eventually, it'll be rap music and heavy metal again. The point is that unless we say no the bullshit when it's aimed at someone else, there will be no one to come to our defense when they target us.
I'm a gun owning gamer. I'm not giving up either without a long, bloody fight.
LK
If they don't deny the possibility, then they're agnostics.
LK
Agnostics lack a belief in gods(s). Atheists disbelieve in god(s).
You seem to be mixing up Truth with Social Skills. They are orthogonal.
Not at all. I'm merely pointing out that sometimes, when people don't like you, it's not for the reason that you think it is.
LK
There is an enormous difference between the two. Agnostics do not deny the possibility that there is more to existence than the physical world that we perceive. They refuse to believe without proof. I find that to be very intellectually honest.
Atheists have what could be called negative faith. They believe that there is no God. An affirmative belief in some idea with no evidence is faith.
LK
Your right to believe whatever you like doesn't include a stipulation that no one can hold that against you.
Coworkers are just as likely to avoid the asshole atheist as they are to avoid the asshole Jesus freak.
Your constitutional protections under the first amendment do not protect you from the disdain of a significant other's family. You are just as free to say "fuck them" because you think that their beliefs are silly.
Most believers will still befriend an atheist, so long as he or she isn't an asshole about it.
When a believer mentions to you that he or she can't make plans with you because of a religious obligation, do you say the equivalent of "ok, talk to you later" or do you go off on a rant about how useless, backwards and primitive their religious rituals are? If you do the latter, you're an asshole and people tend to avoid interactions with assholes.
You are grateful for the "militant" atheists, I like to call them evangelicals because I find them to be just as annoying as any other in your face type. Is it because they're doing what you deep down want to do but that part of you that wants to be liked by others prevents you from doing?
LK
Atheism is simply a lack of belief in any god.
In theory, perhaps but in practice, that is often not the case. Some atheists are in essence atheists and not atheists.
The parent is undoubtedly an atheist. He seems to dislike the term, however, likely due to the association with the vile cesspool that is the online atheist community.
He or She strikes me more as an agnostic.
LK
I'm an atheist myself, but I don't set out to convince anybody else to be one, so I don't bother to try to prove my viewpoint to anybody.
That's because you're not an asshole.
There are evangelical atheists who are on a crusade to spread their Godless worldview to others and they tend to use confrontation and ridicule as their means, when those don't work they resort to shunning.
I'm a believer but it's not my place to convince you of something that there is no proof for. I walk a fine line with my children, Their mother is a Christian and if I HAD to put a label on my beliefs, I'm a Pagan so I don't preach to them and when they ask me religious questions I preface my answers with "I believe...". What it comes down to is what we choose to believe, be it because of experience, circumstance or conscious decision. Demanding proof of something that can not be proved is like demanding that someone prove to you that their favorite color is the best possible color.
LK
They don't make paintballs to fit in my rifle. .308 paintball?
Have you ever seen a
I don't want to buy a paintball gun.
Paintballs behave differently in flight than bullets, becoming proficient with one doesn't translate well to the other.
Many non shooters believe that guns work like they do in the movies. You point, you shoot, you hit. That's not reality. A hunting rifle is adjusted for a particular load. You have to learn to control your breathing, your heart rate and your blinking. You have to know how wind, elevation and distance will influence the path of your bullet. All of that requires experience and you can't get that without shooting real bullets out of real guns.
LK
Do you even know what vagina is?
LK
Well, we could see nutballs like you coming a decade ago and this law was passed to prevent that very thing.
LK
That's a fair counter-point. Unfortunately, there is no such thing as an unbiased source. Even the testimony of an eye-witness is going to be tainted by that person's biases and preferences. What I call the truth can also be called "The closest thing to the actual events that I'll be able to determine, without videotape of the entire event".
LK
The truth is always in the middle. I like to read Fox, MSNBC(Now NBCNEWS) and CNN to see different sides of the story and decide for myself what the truth is.
All of us have biases and we even use our own biases when interpreting information. This isn't a surprise to me. In fact, I'd bet that the only people who are surprised by this are the semi-literate fucktards who like to bandy about the term "Faux News".
LK
Henderson defense is selling New Frontier Armory lowers. (I suspect that the make is a backronym)
I have used these to build my own. They are fantastic. I like them better than cheap aluminum lowers.
I'd guess they're buying them from New Frontier as complete lowers and parting them out at a profit.
LK
I had problems at a place where the bosses' boss was the owner and the bosses were her sons.
It was the most miserable year of my career. As soon as I found another job, I put in my notice and got the fuck out of there.
LK
You're doing something wrong. I regularly get 6 month uptimes before I have to reboot my router.
LK
It's probably one of those "you had to be there" situations. During Jobs' absence, there was a real feeling of community.
For several years, I was probably the 2nd best Mac technician in my city. I loved Macs and Apple. Then, when Jobs came back, he seemed to delight in shitting all over everything. Dealers? Fuck them! Users? Fuck them! Developers? Fuck them! Fuck what you want, fuck what you like, you're getting clear plastic everything!
I still have my old Performa. I still fire it up occasionally and play some old games. The nostalgia is still there but most of the magic is gone.
LK