Libertarians believe strongly in contract law. The Dutch government made a contract and has broken it. It's being told to complete its obligations. As a libertarian, I see no issue with the ruling.
Fair enough... So as a libertarian, what would you have the court do if the government doesn't "do what it is told"?
Court rulings are nice and all, but out here in the real world, what enforcement options does this court have?
This! In the nearly forty years I've had home owners insurance, I've never had a claim approved.
You need better insurance...:)
I've owned my house about 10 years and had a roof claim, they paid it without complaint and put a new roof on my house. They replaced the gutters as well.
The irony is that you can purchase a working tank... that even shoots... but you can't buy a newly made fully automatic rifle...
More proof that our laws can sometimes be silly...
Granted, the NFA was created for a reason, mail order Thomson Submachine Guns did get out of hand (however not to the extent that the media portrays).
That being said, the Hughes Amendment is in direct violation of the 2nd Amendment and is unconstitutional. But what else is new, so is a whole lot of what our government does and few people seem to care.
Or, for the same amount of effort and frustration, just install one of the Linux variants and try an OS where at least you don't get charged for the privilege of being abused...
Nice idea, I keep seeing people saying that...
But Linux doesn't run Windows programs and there are a LOT of Windows only programs.
For me even Windows 8.1 is not stable. I do a dism and a WindowsUPDATE FIXIT every freaking month! Literally after 2 years 8.1 still corrupts itself with updates.
The problem might well be on your end then...
I have Windows 8.1 on many computers, it is solid as a rock, I have no complaints.
My main work machine is still on 7, only because I have it setup just so and I'm happy with it, but all my secondary machines have 8.1 on them, with a single XP box for testing purposes.
I buy things from Amazon pretty regularly for both business and personal needs. Out of 50+ orders in the last 2 years, I've had 2 packages show up late and got a free month extension of my Prime benefits each time just by asking for it.
Amazon's customer service is, frankly, second to none... They are rather old-school in terms of "the customer is always, always right... make them happy at almost any cost..."
In return, I buy almost everything from Amazon, from computer parts to paper towels...
Sometimes said "small tweaks" to improve sales --- instead of involving changes to the product, involve employees or paid shills to buy the product and write favorable reviews.
If the product is a less popular one that doesn't have a large amount of purchases and only has a relatively small number of reviews, then these changes could further facilitate artificial score inflation.
You are assuming that the announced changes are the only ones being made.
If I were Amazon, I'd also secretly place reviews from established accounts with long purchase histories ahead of those that are new and haven't bought much.
Someone who has purchased 500 unique items should have more "weight" than someone who has bought 5.
The problem is this: he could have been reading that section while doing research on a mystery novel, acting as editor for that section of Wikipedia article on that book or just got interrupted a lot and had to go back. Or any number of other innocent actions.
All true, but that is why the requirement to convict isn't "proof beyond all doubt", it is "proof beyond a reasonable doubt".
If the wife was murdered at home, the husband has no alibi, no one else's DNA was found, and the wife was killed in the manor in which the husband researched a week before and read 27 times...
Well your honor, not only did the defendant purchase "How to murder your spouse", he read the page on poison techniques 37 times and only read the rest of the book twice. Since the autopsy indicates death by poison as described by the page in question, I rest my case.
And frankly, if that DID happen, then he probably DID kill his wife... and he should go to prison...
You advertise "unlimited" anything, it better be unlimited and fuck them if they don't deliver.
There are reasonable and understood limits to "unlimited" in most situations.
Imagine an all-you-can-eat buffet. Within reason, eat all you like... to a point...
I imagine you can't go there for Breakfast and sit there all day working on your laptop while eating slowly all day long. I also imagine you won't have much of a case when they ask you to leave. They might even refund you, to avoid issues, then ask you to not come back.
There has to be some level of reasonable to the whole thing. Besides, "unlimited" has almost always had conditions, such as not using it for business purposes or for 24/7 downloading.
I'm pretty sure there are 6 M134 miniguns that can be transferred, but that number might change over time for various reasons.
I'd fully expect to pay six figures for a M249, but it would be easier to get a post-86 "demo" gun to use for movies and events, rather than a pre-86 gun.
While they might not be prohibitively expensive (except for the case of the M249), and I know you can buy what are labelled as 40mm "flare" launchers, but good luck finding explosive rounds for it.
Actually, those are 37mm flare launchers for a few hundred.
A real M203 40mm grenade launcher can still be made and sold, they cost about $3,000 for a nice one.
Each round is also a few hundred dollars and each round has to have the $200 stamp tax paid. And yes, you can buy 40mm explosive rounds, still today. You just have to do the BATF paperwork on each round.
Heck, you can buy a RPG-7 and real rockets for it, again, it costs a bit more, but it isn't that bad.
The M249 is insanely expensive because so few legally exist for the civilian market (those few made back in the mid 80s). Almost as much as one of the few legal M134 miniguns (I think 6 exist that you can private transfer, last I looked into it, but the last one sold went for a quarter million).
Fun fact, the minigun used in Predator and Terminator 2 was one of the 6 privately owned, legal M134 miniguns. It is rented out to movies and events. It was the same gun in both movies.
And as for body armor, I know you can buy basic Kevlar for a few hundred dollars, but I am not aware of any being sold at your local Army/Navy store that come with the ballistic plates.
There is another source, complete with prices. The price goes north of $1K for a real set really fast however. But it will stop real rifle rounds, which police body armor won't.
Really, the people who can afford things like that are the kind of people that aren't going to cause problems anyway, they just want to go out to a track of land they own and blow crap up.
This is true, and I said that as well.
I own many thousands of dollars worth of guns, I also am not a criminal.:)
I have close to 10 firearms myself, but I certainly don't have an M249, a 203, or kevlar with ceramic plates-all standard issue for military. An enthusiast might be better armed than your average patrolman who has a.40 pistol and a shotgun in his trunk, but the police still have easy access to surplus military light weapons and other weapons that are restricted to police use.
You can buy all of those things. Some are expensive, an M249 very much so, but you can buy one.
Body armor isn't that expensive, in relative terms, even a M203 40mm grenade launcher isn't that expensive.
That is an annual event that you can attend, bring your machine guns and cannons to and fire them off to your hearts content.
Those people own massive firepower, and frankly, wouldn't hurt a fly. Those weapons aren't cheap, rich people don't rob banks with guns. Maybe with a computer and a pen, that is debatable, but they don't do it with violence.
I've owned fully automatic weapons, back when I was younger I put many thousands of rounds through an AK-47 and M-16. Then I got married and had kids and discovered that I could afford a wife and kids, or ammo.:)
Frankly, automatic weapons are a great way to turn money into noise. Fun, but expensive after awhile.
If it results in a society with no secrets where everybody knows everybody else's secret, would it be ok for people in power like Hastert to have had relations with male student? I mean, everybody would know already.
I don't care, so long as it is consensual, knock himself out, not my business.
Frankly, such things being in the open remove one more way for people to try and blackmail him.
Sadly, most people aren't that enlightened and vote based on petty reasons, rather than important ones.
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Libertarians believe strongly in contract law. The Dutch government made a contract and has broken it. It's being told to complete its obligations. As a libertarian, I see no issue with the ruling.
Fair enough... So as a libertarian, what would you have the court do if the government doesn't "do what it is told"?
Court rulings are nice and all, but out here in the real world, what enforcement options does this court have?
This! In the nearly forty years I've had home owners insurance, I've never had a claim approved.
You need better insurance... :)
I've owned my house about 10 years and had a roof claim, they paid it without complaint and put a new roof on my house. They replaced the gutters as well.
I can reasonably extrapolate from my present experience.
No, you can't... You really have no idea how you'll respond, nor do most people, unless they have been there...
The irony is that you can purchase a working tank... that even shoots... but you can't buy a newly made fully automatic rifle...
More proof that our laws can sometimes be silly...
Granted, the NFA was created for a reason, mail order Thomson Submachine Guns did get out of hand (however not to the extent that the media portrays).
That being said, the Hughes Amendment is in direct violation of the 2nd Amendment and is unconstitutional. But what else is new, so is a whole lot of what our government does and few people seem to care.
And I won't ever be in enough pain to try something that I know won't work.
You actually don't know that...
Or, for the same amount of effort and frustration, just install one of the Linux variants and try an OS where at least you don't get charged for the privilege of being abused...
Nice idea, I keep seeing people saying that...
But Linux doesn't run Windows programs and there are a LOT of Windows only programs.
Until that changes, Linux isn't an option...
The Pope holds a great deal of moral authority.
Says who, you?
I frankly think the Pope and the entire Catholic Church is without any moral authority whatsoever.
Of course, to true believers, why I believe that won't matter, nothing will change their minds anyway.
For me even Windows 8.1 is not stable. I do a dism and a WindowsUPDATE FIXIT every freaking month! Literally after 2 years 8.1 still corrupts itself with updates.
The problem might well be on your end then...
I have Windows 8.1 on many computers, it is solid as a rock, I have no complaints.
My main work machine is still on 7, only because I have it setup just so and I'm happy with it, but all my secondary machines have 8.1 on them, with a single XP box for testing purposes.
10 is just fine, relax...
I buy things from Amazon pretty regularly for both business and personal needs. Out of 50+ orders in the last 2 years, I've had 2 packages show up late and got a free month extension of my Prime benefits each time just by asking for it.
Amazon's customer service is, frankly, second to none... They are rather old-school in terms of "the customer is always, always right... make them happy at almost any cost..."
In return, I buy almost everything from Amazon, from computer parts to paper towels...
Sometimes said "small tweaks" to improve sales --- instead of involving changes to the product, involve employees or paid shills to buy the product and write favorable reviews.
If the product is a less popular one that doesn't have a large amount of purchases and only has a relatively small number of reviews, then these changes could further facilitate artificial score inflation.
You are assuming that the announced changes are the only ones being made.
If I were Amazon, I'd also secretly place reviews from established accounts with long purchase histories ahead of those that are new and haven't bought much.
Someone who has purchased 500 unique items should have more "weight" than someone who has bought 5.
IMHO of course.
I could be missing something, but frankly everything I read in the summery seems like reasonable changes to me.
Someone who actually is known to have purchased the item, yea, their review should be worth more than random Internet person #4827341
A review from last month is probably worth more than one from two years ago. The product may have changed.
The problem is this: he could have been reading that section while doing research on a mystery novel, acting as editor for that section of Wikipedia article on that book or just got interrupted a lot and had to go back. Or any number of other innocent actions.
All true, but that is why the requirement to convict isn't "proof beyond all doubt", it is "proof beyond a reasonable doubt".
If the wife was murdered at home, the husband has no alibi, no one else's DNA was found, and the wife was killed in the manor in which the husband researched a week before and read 27 times...
That likely is plenty to get a conviction.
Nothing is unlimited... by your definition, nothing could ever be called unlimited...
Reasonable people are not so black and white...
Well your honor, not only did the defendant purchase "How to murder your spouse", he read the page on poison techniques 37 times and only read the rest of the book twice. Since the autopsy indicates death by poison as described by the page in question, I rest my case.
And frankly, if that DID happen, then he probably DID kill his wife... and he should go to prison...
I fail to see the problem...
You advertise "unlimited" anything, it better be unlimited and fuck them if they don't deliver.
There are reasonable and understood limits to "unlimited" in most situations.
Imagine an all-you-can-eat buffet. Within reason, eat all you like... to a point...
I imagine you can't go there for Breakfast and sit there all day working on your laptop while eating slowly all day long. I also imagine you won't have much of a case when they ask you to leave. They might even refund you, to avoid issues, then ask you to not come back.
There has to be some level of reasonable to the whole thing. Besides, "unlimited" has almost always had conditions, such as not using it for business purposes or for 24/7 downloading.
Yep, that is why I sold them once I got married and had kids...
You can go through a few thousand dollars of ammo in an afternoon without trying very hard...
Is there only 1? I thought there were at least 3.
I'm pretty sure there are 6 M134 miniguns that can be transferred, but that number might change over time for various reasons.
I'd fully expect to pay six figures for a M249, but it would be easier to get a post-86 "demo" gun to use for movies and events, rather than a pre-86 gun.
Found one:
http://www.lmtstore.com/m203/m...
$1,800, not including the $200 stamp transfer tax. :)
While they might not be prohibitively expensive (except for the case of the M249), and I know you can buy what are labelled as 40mm "flare" launchers, but good luck finding explosive rounds for it.
Actually, those are 37mm flare launchers for a few hundred.
A real M203 40mm grenade launcher can still be made and sold, they cost about $3,000 for a nice one.
Each round is also a few hundred dollars and each round has to have the $200 stamp tax paid. And yes, you can buy 40mm explosive rounds, still today. You just have to do the BATF paperwork on each round.
Heck, you can buy a RPG-7 and real rockets for it, again, it costs a bit more, but it isn't that bad.
The M249 is insanely expensive because so few legally exist for the civilian market (those few made back in the mid 80s). Almost as much as one of the few legal M134 miniguns (I think 6 exist that you can private transfer, last I looked into it, but the last one sold went for a quarter million).
Fun fact, the minigun used in Predator and Terminator 2 was one of the 6 privately owned, legal M134 miniguns. It is rented out to movies and events. It was the same gun in both movies.
And as for body armor, I know you can buy basic Kevlar for a few hundred dollars, but I am not aware of any being sold at your local Army/Navy store that come with the ballistic plates.
Why on Earth would you buy there?
http://www.armorworks.com/prod...
You can of course buy military body armor, there is nothing special about the ceramic plates.
http://www.safeguardarmor.com/...
There is another source, complete with prices. The price goes north of $1K for a real set really fast however. But it will stop real rifle rounds, which police body armor won't.
Really, the people who can afford things like that are the kind of people that aren't going to cause problems anyway, they just want to go out to a track of land they own and blow crap up.
This is true, and I said that as well.
I own many thousands of dollars worth of guns, I also am not a criminal. :)
I have close to 10 firearms myself, but I certainly don't have an M249, a 203, or kevlar with ceramic plates-all standard issue for military. An enthusiast might be better armed than your average patrolman who has a .40 pistol and a shotgun in his trunk, but the police still have easy access to surplus military light weapons and other weapons that are restricted to police use.
You can buy all of those things. Some are expensive, an M249 very much so, but you can buy one.
Body armor isn't that expensive, in relative terms, even a M203 40mm grenade launcher isn't that expensive.
Nonsense, you absolutely can own a howitzer or a bazooka...
You have some paperwork to jump through and a few BATF transfer taxes to pay, but it actually isn't that big of a deal.
Ok, perhaps New York and California don't respect people's rights, but most states do.
You can even get them that fire.
https://youtu.be/EcVk0WtUPtw
That is an annual event that you can attend, bring your machine guns and cannons to and fire them off to your hearts content.
Those people own massive firepower, and frankly, wouldn't hurt a fly. Those weapons aren't cheap, rich people don't rob banks with guns. Maybe with a computer and a pen, that is debatable, but they don't do it with violence.
I've owned fully automatic weapons, back when I was younger I put many thousands of rounds through an AK-47 and M-16. Then I got married and had kids and discovered that I could afford a wife and kids, or ammo. :)
Frankly, automatic weapons are a great way to turn money into noise. Fun, but expensive after awhile.
If it results in a society with no secrets where everybody knows everybody else's secret, would it be ok for people in power like Hastert to have had relations with male student? I mean, everybody would know already.
I don't care, so long as it is consensual, knock himself out, not my business.
Frankly, such things being in the open remove one more way for people to try and blackmail him.
Sadly, most people aren't that enlightened and vote based on petty reasons, rather than important ones.
What research have you done on the cost of HVAC control for comparable sized installations?
Do your doubts have any foundation?
Yes... a 30 year old desktop computer is running the system today, its replacement shouldn't cost 200 times as much...
Nonsense, you could buy 20 spares of everything for cheap and have spare parts for years...
I didn't say "wait until it breaks, then go and find spares", I said you could get spares today, cheap.
So do so...
And what do you do if a part dies? Where are you going to get parts for something that has not been manufactured for 20+ years?
eBay, there is a TON of that stuff out there... the prices are cheap as well...