Cliff is a particularly amusing example. I wonder how much money he paid to the descendants of Emily Bronte for stealing their ancestors idea and turning it into the musical "Heathcliff". My guess would be "none at all".
Shhh. You're breaking out of the groupthink that censorship in any form is an absolute evil. This is slashdot, and there's no need for nuanced comments like yours. Keep your ethical thinking black and white, please. We don't understand the concept of "the lesser of two evils".
Fact: if fingerprint identification were invented tomorrow, 90% of slashdotters would be against it as an infringement of civil liberties.
Sure, signed into law. All that means is that he didn't consider it important enough to veto, as a lame duck President. I was introduced in the House by Howard Coble (R-NC) and passed by a Republican controlled House and a Republican Senate.
At the point where you think legally held firearms will protect you from an army controlled by a despotic government, well... you're clearly too stupid to live.
The difference is in whether or not we have the means to accomplish this overthrow before the revolution, or whether we have to scramble after the fact to obtain some kind of home-made substitute that might cause as much danger to us as to the enemy.
As presently interpreted, the 2nd Amendment give no legal protection to possession of the sort of weapons necessary to overthrow a 21st century government. As far as its stated aims go, its completely and utterly anachronistic. Nothing that a militia man would find useful in the fight against the standing army is covered.
Exactly -- so the stated purpose of the Second Amendment is completely irrelevant. If you're intent on overthrowing a corrupt government, very few people care if the constitution approves of your means.
It's not mandatory. Pubs can implement it if they want to. The government has said they'll help fund it but its NOT mandatory. Imagine that, a privately owned retail enterprise being allowed to decide its own door policy.
The government has an army, and the army has serious fucking hardware. Exactly what legally-owned firearm do you think is going to stop an Abrams Tank?
You'll notice that the Iraqi insurgents are not using.45s and hunting rifles.
Err, no. I never made that claim. Nice try though. (Incidentally, I understand my own backwater of climate science sufficiently well to be published in JGR [Oceans] and GAFD).
I think it would be fairly trivial to produce a malicious extension. Worse, you could even craft one that works on Linux, OS X and Windows in one fell swoop, since you have unfettered access to all of the XPCOM objects running in Firefox.
Maybe. BUT THIS ISN'T IT. The possibility of a piece of auto-installing firefox malware doesn't magically mean this malware is such a beast.
And yet T-Mobile management and CSC's Bjarne Riis still suggested it wasn't their teams' responsibility to help organise the peloton and chase down Landis on the last mountain stage. Stupid bastards.
If you take 10,000 photos between taking a "once-in-a-lifetime" photo and backing it up onto a tougher media, you pretty much deserve to lose all your work. The biggest loss of digital camera images are caused by loss/theft of the camera, and user error (accidental deletion). Media failure doesn't even register on the scale.
Heres my question on smart mobs: How many "futurologists" one would need to gather in one place before they came up with anything even remotely perceptive?
Gosh. Another slashdotter capable of alluding to something that happened between 1947 and 1970 and that doesn't involve Pink Floyd. That brings the total to nine.
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Gingrich should be legally prevented from saying such dumb things.
Cliff is a particularly amusing example. I wonder how much money he paid to the descendants of Emily Bronte for stealing their ancestors idea and turning it into the musical "Heathcliff". My guess would be "none at all".
Shhh. You're breaking out of the groupthink that censorship in any form is an absolute evil. This is slashdot, and there's no need for nuanced comments like yours. Keep your ethical thinking black and white, please. We don't understand the concept of "the lesser of two evils".
Fact: if fingerprint identification were invented tomorrow, 90% of slashdotters would be against it as an infringement of civil liberties.
Sure, signed into law. All that means is that he didn't consider it important enough to veto, as a lame duck President. I was introduced in the House by Howard Coble (R-NC) and passed by a Republican controlled House and a Republican Senate.
Sounds like nothing we didn't learn from BSE (Mad Cow Disease), At least that stopped British farmers inserting brain matter back into the food chain.
At the point where you think legally held firearms will protect you from an army controlled by a despotic government, well ... you're clearly too stupid to live.
Mao didn't kill all those guys either.
Mainly it was typhus and starvation, so in that respect it was basically the fault of their own immune systems.
Exactly -- so the stated purpose of the Second Amendment is completely irrelevant.
If you're intent on overthrowing a corrupt government, very few people care if the constitution approves of your means.
It's not mandatory. Pubs can implement it if they want to. The government has said they'll help fund it but its NOT mandatory. Imagine that, a privately owned retail enterprise being allowed to decide its own door policy.
The government has an army, and the army has serious fucking hardware.
.45s and hunting rifles.
Exactly what legally-owned firearm do you think is going to stop an Abrams Tank?
You'll notice that the Iraqi insurgents are not using
Well, other films hire things like Scriptwriters, Script editors and people to polish the dialogue. :)
An inaccurate headline from "The Register"? Surely not ;)
And yet T-Mobile management and CSC's Bjarne Riis still suggested it wasn't their teams' responsibility to help organise the peloton and chase down Landis on the last mountain stage. Stupid bastards.
We don't use the 'Z' word.
No punctuation sentence fragments very hard to underst
If you take 10,000 photos between taking a "once-in-a-lifetime" photo and backing it up onto a tougher media, you pretty much deserve to lose all your work. The biggest loss of digital camera images are caused by loss/theft of the camera, and user error (accidental deletion). Media failure doesn't even register on the scale.
Heres my question on smart mobs: How many "futurologists" one would need to gather in one place before they came up with anything even remotely perceptive?
Gosh. Another slashdotter capable of alluding to something that happened between 1947 and 1970 and that doesn't involve Pink Floyd. That brings the total to nine.