5 AM to 7 AM is a two-hour period. 5 PM to 7 PM is a two-hour period. That's only four hours.
I know I'm getting enough when I wake up before the dog (my Greyhound whines when she is needing to be let outside in the morning)! Nowadays we hit the hay between 10 and 11 PM. I used to function just as well staying up to about 12.
Even when I was in school (Georgia Tech) I didn't stay up much past 12 AM. I didn't live on campus and had 8 or 9 AM classes. Furthermore, I never pulled an allnighter; rest and freshness was more benificial than an extra hour or two of frantic (and useless) study.
Well, perhaps that's an exaggeration, but a glance over the history of Cable/xDSL stories on/. will reveal the outrage whenever a company attempts to make their offering profitable with caps and volume charging.
No, the outrage comes from the service providers failing to live up to their (possibly implied, via advertising) contractual obligations. If I sign a contract with an ISP stating I'll give them $50/month for the next twelve (or more) months, and in return they'll give me "always on, 1.5 Mbit speed, blah blah blah" they'd better live up to it. They're the ones that wrote up the service agreement, right?
I write this as one unable to get DSL, but I can throw a rock from my house to the wirecenter. I was -->right out. I could get Earthlink cable I suppose, but I'm not sure about the service people at TWC; they'd be the ones doing the hardware.
Storage is where the computer puts things that it isn't dealing with at the moment; disk space is the normal storage medium.
Memory is where the computer holds things that it is currently dealing with.
I like the hands analogy. The computer's memory is like your hands: if you're working with something, it's got to be in your hands. When you're done fiddling with it, you put it down (send it to storage).
This guy is just wanting to make a powerful diskless compute server, which is great except for one thing: most modern operating systems use, if not require, virtual memory (a region of storage that is used as a temporary holding area for thing that are not currently being worked on, but will be needed shortly). To the user, VM looks like memory, but it's really just storage in a funny suit. Having VM over a network would be painfully slow, I imagine. (Imagine how slow a Beowulf cluster of these diskless compute engines would be!)
(Flips to the back of most recent Circuit Cellar magazine, #138, January 2002: "Measurement and Sensors")
At the bottom of page 85 is a 1/3 page ad for Abacom Technologies. They sell ISM (418 and 433 MHz) band Rx and Tx modules that could be pressed into service for what you want. One drawback-- half duplex only. But it's a complete 38,400 bps transiever for $140.
On page 47 Radiotronix has an ad, but their stuff is limited to 4800 bps.
On page 32 there's a feature article about a wireless (RF) irrigation control system. It's not exactly what you want, but it will tell you some of the things to think about.
(Gets out MX-Com catalog)
Their CMX017 transmitter and CMX018 receiver can be used to build such a device. For your speeds they'll do fine (I wanted 10 Mbps; they won't go that fast!).
(Looks at Xilor pamphlet)
Nope; their stuff looks like remote controls (keyles entry stuff) only.
(Gets out Maxim selector guide)
Hmm. These guys have a range of 1800 MHz PCS and 800-1000 MHz tunable tranceivers. These could work.
No, none of these are "turnkey" solutions and they all have their drawbacks. It's not true that stuff isn't out there. The Abacom Tech stuff is very, very close.
You just have to realize that this is a very small market; just because we have PDAs (I just got a Visor Prism for Christmas!) doesn't mean there's enough PDA owners to support such a device.
I might like one, but right now my latest hardware project will be making a battery charger for the Prism that doesn't cost the $50 they want for a cradle. My computer isn't on the way out of the door in the morning; it'd be nice to have a non-HotSync-able cradle by the door just for charging.
There's nothing wrong with understanding the internal workings of a machine. I would argue that intimate knowledge of its operation is an imperative to extracting the maximum benefit from its use.
To answer your question: disk space is not memory. It's storage. Even if it's used as "virtual memory," disk space is storage.
It's like this: you only have so many hands (computer memory). Each hand (allocation block of computer memory) can only hold so much. If your hands (computer memory) are full but you want to pick something new up (allocate more memory), something has to get put down (go to storage, or perhaps thrown away). "Virtual memory" is a special case of storage such that the items that are put down are kept close by so they can be picked up again, like putting the scissors on the counter instead of back in the drawer, but it's still storage.
Extracting the most utility from a machine comes from fully understanding its abilities and limitations, which follows from knowing how it works. For example, cadidates hoping for an aircraft type rating (required to operate aircraft with gross weights greater than 12,500 pounds) must understand each of the particular airplane type's systems and be able to explain to an examiner how they work. While that kind of detailed computer knowledge may not be required to check your email, it would certianly come in handy when your email suddenly doesn't work. Or you don't know how to stop the flood of ILOVEYOU messages from appearing in your inbox.
I suppose I'll do the obligatory Ugly American post:
I'm surprised in their precision in the number of photographs they took. 78.000 photographs. I didn't think you could take non-integer numbers of photographs. Of course, if an image file was corrupted exactly halfway through, I suppose they would only have ad 77.500 pictures.
People: just write the number out: seventy-eight thousand. That way there's absolutely no confusion about what is meant! 78.000 (seventy-eight and no thousandths or seventy-eight thousand?) != 78,000 (seventy-eight thousand or seventy-eight and no thousandths?) no matter where you go, but in different regions those two collections of symbols will mean different things. Let's rid ourselves of numeric colloquialisms!
Ximian has an answer for that: Red Carpet (usually) works great. Lately they've had some signature deficiencies, and there have been some dependencies that got missed WRT GIMP modules last night.
Beyond that Linux has much more comprehensive on-line documentation than Windows, in my estimation.
Case in point: I bought a Mitsume IDE CD-RW drive for my wife's school. I couldn't make any of the Windows software recognize it as a writer. I swapped it out for an older Mitsumi drive in my Linux box, and it worked just fine! Go figure. (I took the older drive to school, and *it* worked!)
I think a previous poster was right: Windows is thought to be easy because it's ubiquitous. People mistake familiarity for ease. Bruce Tognazzini talks about this idea.
Doubling the clock speed *should* provide noticable differences in performance for *all* applications, not just new games. If these new games are all that benefit, then the hardware has been designed wrong for a general-purpose PC.
Case in point: here at work my old P2-266 was replaced with a P3-500. I noticed absolutely NO difference in performance. My Linux box (K6-2/400) at home seemed slow with only 64 MB of RAM. Adding 128MB to it (192 MB total) did more for performance than doubling the clock speed of the machine at work!
The connection between ownership and voting rights was a la mode in Europe at the mid 19th Century, but as an instrument for democracy in the 21th
Century I consider the concept dusty and obsolete
Actually, all he'd have to do is never produce a version of PGP (or whatever) beyond the date that the new law would take effect. I'm sure that older systems would be grandfathered in; are they going to go around and confiscate older versions of PGP, GPG, whatever?
AvWeb has a link to the latest NOTAM (NOTice to AirMen) concering Part 91 (general aviation) operations. It's been largely unreported that Most airplanes aren't yet flying.
I'd estimate that between eighty and ninety percent of general aviation is still stuck. There's a lot of people that depend on general aviation for their livelyhood, and they're hurting as badly, if not moreso, than the airlines. President Bush and Congress need to reign the FAA back in; they're designing rules that do nothing but hurt Americans.
Here's the text of Part 1 of the NOTAM, effective yesterday:
PART I. EXCEPT FOR THE OPERATIONS LISTED BELOW, PART 91 VFR OPERATION ARE PERMITTED WITHIN THE TERRITORIAL AIRSPACE OF THE U.S.,
FOR U.S. REGISTERED AIRCRAFT PROVIDED THAT THOSE OPERATIONS ARE CONDUCTED OUTSIDE "ENHANCED CLASS B AIRSPACE."
A. THE FOLLOWING TYPES OF OPERATIONS ARE NOT AUTHORIZED:
1. CIVIL AIRCRAFT VFR FLIGHT TRAINING OPERATIONS
2. BANNER TOWING OPERATIONS
3. SIGHT SEEING FLIGHT OPERATIONS CONDUCTED FOR COMPENSATION OR HIRE (UNDER PART 91, PURSUANT TO THE EXCEPTION IN 119.1(e)(2))
4. TRAFFIC WATCH FLIGHT OPERATIONS
5. AIRSHIP/BLIMP OPERATIONS
6. NEWS REPORTING OPERATIONS
B. EXAMPLES OF AUTHORIZED OPERATIONS, OUTSIDE "ENHANCED CLASS B AIRSPACE" INCLUDE:
I've received a couple of wierd emails this morning. They've come from different senders, but they have two things in common: long, meaningless subjects and no body text. Here's an example:
Hrm. In my post I prodcue a working definition for "censorship," while you merely say that it "has to do with the act of censoring." First, what you said is vacuous because it's circular: something is X because it deals with X.
What you completely miss is the fact that nobody besides the government is capable of censoring in the way that most people think about censoring: completely removing an idea from public consumption.
Yes, there are things called network censors that "clean up" objectionable material from television, but these people are only able to do so for whatever network they work for. For example, last week FoxNews decided not to air videotape they had of the WTC buildings actually falling on people. This benevolent self-censorship is in my opinion A Good Thing; there was no need or reason to show individuals dying. Shepard Smith even said on-air that the tapes weren't fit for public consumption. The world is grotesque enough without adding to the horror.
When most people think of censorship, they envision Sovietesque repression. This malevolent brand of censorship is only possible when carried out by a government agency under threat of bodily harm. Individual outlets may choose not to carry an item, but there's always someone that will unless they're crushed by a larger power.
It's obvious from the lyrics that Jerry Lee Lewis, the Killer himself, was trying to warn us of the impending attacks. Why, just look at the first line of his song, "Great Balls of Fire:"
You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain
Too much love drives a man insane
Furthermore, the connection between material wealth and attractiveness to the opposite sex is well documented. It doesn't take much to see the connection between "too much love" and an abundance of money, and what symbolizes money more dramatically than the World Trade Center?
You broke my will, but what a thrill
Goodness, gracious, great balls of fire
JLL now admits that he, and by extension we, have become slaves to our own persuit of wealth, and concludes that in can only end badly.
The rest of the song is similarly prophetic.
I laughed at love 'cause I thought it was funny
You came along and moved me honey
I've changed my mind, your love is fine
Goodness, gracious, great balls of fire
Kiss me baby, woo feels good
Hold me baby, wellllll I want to love you like a lover should
Your fine, so kind
I want to tell the world that your mine mine mine mine
I chew my nails and I twiddle my thumbs
I'm real nervous, but it sure is fun
Come on baby, drive my crazy
Goodness, gracious, great balls of fire!!
The Honorable Senator Bob Graham
2252 Killearn Center Blvd, 3rd Floor
Tallahassee, FL 32308
RE: DECREASING LIBERTIES IS UNAMERICAN
Senator Graham:
This week we've witnessed many horrifying and unprecedented events. Many people have asked or will ask you to do "something" about the hijackings that took place Tuesday morning. I would like to advise you to be calm, thoughtful, and most importantly courageous. This is a time for all of us to emphasize what has made
the United States great: the freedom of its citizens. It is my opinion that what happened Tuesday was aided and abetted not by lax government control and security, but rather by a lack of liberty on the part of the American public. Furthermore, I've seen absolutely no indications that the Federal Government are going to fix the problem, or even comprehend it. In this respect the terrorists have succeeded: the American public enjoys fewer liberties today than on last Monday with little benefit.
Already I have heard reports of bills to be introduced to Congress and new policies instituted by executive agencies that, while ostensibly are designed to protect Americans, will actually end up hurting them. In the rush to do something, too many times the wrong thing is accomplished. This is one area where the Law of Unintended Consequences will no doubt be a major player in public safety for years to come:
* One report I've read was on Wired news (http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46816,0 0.html) says that one of your colleagues, Senator Gregg of New Hampshire, plans to introduce legislation that would require all encryption systems to have a Federally-approved "back door" to make it easy for law enforcement agencies to "crack" suspected communications. If this bill becomes law, the only people it would affect are law-abiding American citizens. Terrorist or other "bad guy" organizations would of course circumvent this law by either not upgrading to "approved" versions, or by developing their own encryption codes. I would implore you: do not support any legislation that has as its goal the reduction of the rights of Americans in the false hopes that it would increase their security.
* Before this week, the Federal Aviation Administration allowed passengers of airliners to carry knives with blades up to four inches long. The weapons used in the attack were therefore legal. The new rules (http://www.faa.gov/apa/faq/pr_faq.htm) forbid the carriage of any knives, even little plastic ones like that found at fast food restaurants. This is exactly the wrong course of action. What we need is a public that has the freedom, the liberty, to defend itself with force if necessary. Citizens of the United States that have concealed carry permits, are members of any law enforcement organization or serve in the United States military should be allowed to carry weapons on airliners. I can think of few better examples than last Tuesday of what the Framers intended for these words: "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."
Thank you for your time and consideration; this is a grave time for us all, but please remember what has made this country what it is: the freedom of the people. Give these people the freedom and power to protect and defend themselves. Restricting freedoms means only that we are more vulnerable than we were before.
I've got three letters going out tomorrow morning:
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http://www.k2net.cc/users/jcmay/politics/BobGrah am 1.html
http://www.k2net.cc/users/jcmay/politics/BillNel so n1.html
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If you'd read my post, I indicated that my problem with Browne's comments was his timing, not neccessarily his message.
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Four hours.
5 AM to 7 AM is a two-hour period. 5 PM to 7 PM is a two-hour period. That's only four hours.
I know I'm getting enough when I wake up before the dog (my Greyhound whines when she is needing to be let outside in the morning)! Nowadays we hit the hay between 10 and 11 PM. I used to function just as well staying up to about 12.
Even when I was in school (Georgia Tech) I didn't stay up much past 12 AM. I didn't live on campus and had 8 or 9 AM classes. Furthermore, I never pulled an allnighter; rest and freshness was more benificial than an extra hour or two of frantic (and useless) study.
No, the outrage comes from the service providers failing to live up to their (possibly implied, via advertising) contractual obligations. If I sign a contract with an ISP stating I'll give them $50/month for the next twelve (or more) months, and in return they'll give me "always on, 1.5 Mbit speed, blah blah blah" they'd better live up to it. They're the ones that wrote up the service agreement, right?
I write this as one unable to get DSL, but I can throw a rock from my house to the wirecenter. I was -->right out. I could get Earthlink cable I suppose, but I'm not sure about the service people at TWC; they'd be the ones doing the hardware.
Palsy
Memory is not storage.
Storage is where the computer puts things that it isn't dealing with at the moment; disk space is the normal storage medium.
Memory is where the computer holds things that it is currently dealing with.
I like the hands analogy. The computer's memory is like your hands: if you're working with something, it's got to be in your hands. When you're done fiddling with it, you put it down (send it to storage).
This guy is just wanting to make a powerful diskless compute server, which is great except for one thing: most modern operating systems use, if not require, virtual memory (a region of storage that is used as a temporary holding area for thing that are not currently being worked on, but will be needed shortly). To the user, VM looks like memory, but it's really just storage in a funny suit. Having VM over a network would be painfully slow, I imagine. (Imagine how slow a Beowulf cluster of these diskless compute engines would be!)
(Flips to the back of most recent Circuit Cellar magazine, #138, January 2002: "Measurement and Sensors")
At the bottom of page 85 is a 1/3 page ad for Abacom Technologies. They sell ISM (418 and 433 MHz) band Rx and Tx modules that could be pressed into service for what you want. One drawback-- half duplex only. But it's a complete 38,400 bps transiever for $140.
On page 47 Radiotronix has an ad, but their stuff is limited to 4800 bps.
On page 32 there's a feature article about a wireless (RF) irrigation control system. It's not exactly what you want, but it will tell you some of the things to think about.
(Gets out MX-Com catalog)
Their CMX017 transmitter and CMX018 receiver can be used to build such a device. For your speeds they'll do fine (I wanted 10 Mbps; they won't go that fast!).
(Looks at Xilor pamphlet)
Nope; their stuff looks like remote controls (keyles entry stuff) only.
(Gets out Maxim selector guide)
Hmm. These guys have a range of 1800 MHz PCS and 800-1000 MHz tunable tranceivers. These could work.
No, none of these are "turnkey" solutions and they all have their drawbacks. It's not true that stuff isn't out there. The Abacom Tech stuff is very, very close.
You just have to realize that this is a very small market; just because we have PDAs (I just got a Visor Prism for Christmas!) doesn't mean there's enough PDA owners to support such a device.
I might like one, but right now my latest hardware project will be making a battery charger for the Prism that doesn't cost the $50 they want for a cradle. My computer isn't on the way out of the door in the morning; it'd be nice to have a non-HotSync-able cradle by the door just for charging.
There's nothing wrong with understanding the internal workings of a machine. I would argue that intimate knowledge of its operation is an imperative to extracting the maximum benefit from its use.
To answer your question: disk space is not memory. It's storage. Even if it's used as "virtual memory," disk space is storage.
It's like this: you only have so many hands (computer memory). Each hand (allocation block of computer memory) can only hold so much. If your hands (computer memory) are full but you want to pick something new up (allocate more memory), something has to get put down (go to storage, or perhaps thrown away). "Virtual memory" is a special case of storage such that the items that are put down are kept close by so they can be picked up again, like putting the scissors on the counter instead of back in the drawer, but it's still storage.
Extracting the most utility from a machine comes from fully understanding its abilities and limitations, which follows from knowing how it works. For example, cadidates hoping for an aircraft type rating (required to operate aircraft with gross weights greater than 12,500 pounds) must understand each of the particular airplane type's systems and be able to explain to an examiner how they work. While that kind of detailed computer knowledge may not be required to check your email, it would certianly come in handy when your email suddenly doesn't work. Or you don't know how to stop the flood of ILOVEYOU messages from appearing in your inbox.
I suppose I'll do the obligatory Ugly American post:
I'm surprised in their precision in the number of photographs they took. 78.000 photographs. I didn't think you could take non-integer numbers of photographs. Of course, if an image file was corrupted exactly halfway through, I suppose they would only have ad 77.500 pictures.
People: just write the number out: seventy-eight thousand. That way there's absolutely no confusion about what is meant! 78.000 (seventy-eight and no thousandths or seventy-eight thousand?) != 78,000 (seventy-eight thousand or seventy-eight and no thousandths?) no matter where you go, but in different regions those two collections of symbols will mean different things. Let's rid ourselves of numeric colloquialisms!
Once again, I lack the mod points that this post deserves; I don't understand why this guy posted as AC.
Yes, all those things are already illegal. That hasn't stopped the Left from continually proposing greater gun control either.
It comes down to this: Governments are, around the world, pretentious busybodies with nothing better to do than make everyone miserable.
From the lack of comments posted here it appears that the guy is right: people don't care about privacy anymore.
If they did, there'd be more comment here, wouldn't there?
Ximian has an answer for that: Red Carpet (usually) works great. Lately they've had some signature deficiencies, and there have been some dependencies that got missed WRT GIMP modules last night.
Beyond that Linux has much more comprehensive on-line documentation than Windows, in my estimation.
Case in point: I bought a Mitsume IDE CD-RW drive for my wife's school. I couldn't make any of the Windows software recognize it as a writer. I swapped it out for an older Mitsumi drive in my Linux box, and it worked just fine! Go figure. (I took the older drive to school, and *it* worked!)
I think a previous poster was right: Windows is thought to be easy because it's ubiquitous. People mistake familiarity for ease. Bruce Tognazzini talks about this idea.
You're a card carrying member of University of California-- Los Angeles?
Perhaps you meant the American Civil Liberties Union-- ACLU.
Sorry, couldn't help myself.
I disagree completely.
Doubling the clock speed *should* provide noticable differences in performance for *all* applications, not just new games. If these new games are all that benefit, then the hardware has been designed wrong for a general-purpose PC.
Case in point: here at work my old P2-266 was replaced with a P3-500. I noticed absolutely NO difference in performance. My Linux box (K6-2/400) at home seemed slow with only 64 MB of RAM. Adding 128MB to it (192 MB total) did more for performance than doubling the clock speed of the machine at work!
What's he got against Ice CreaM?
The original ST pilot was "The Cage," was shot in black and white, and featured Captian Pike and a woman as "Number One."
Actually, all he'd have to do is never produce a version of PGP (or whatever) beyond the date that the new law would take effect. I'm sure that older systems would be grandfathered in; are they going to go around and confiscate older versions of PGP, GPG, whatever?
Basically, the problem is insufficient liberty.
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Taco, get real, will you?
I'd estimate that between eighty and ninety percent of general aviation is still stuck. There's a lot of people that depend on general aviation for their livelyhood, and they're hurting as badly, if not moreso, than the airlines. President Bush and Congress need to reign the FAA back in; they're designing rules that do nothing but hurt Americans.
Here's the text of Part 1 of the NOTAM, effective yesterday:
Now this subject isn't exactly meaningless, but it certianly is suspicious.
Hrm. In my post I prodcue a working definition for "censorship," while you merely say that it "has to do with the act of censoring." First, what you said is vacuous because it's circular: something is X because it deals with X.
What you completely miss is the fact that nobody besides the government is capable of censoring in the way that most people think about censoring: completely removing an idea from public consumption.
Yes, there are things called network censors that "clean up" objectionable material from television, but these people are only able to do so for whatever network they work for. For example, last week FoxNews decided not to air videotape they had of the WTC buildings actually falling on people. This benevolent self-censorship is in my opinion A Good Thing; there was no need or reason to show individuals dying. Shepard Smith even said on-air that the tapes weren't fit for public consumption. The world is grotesque enough without adding to the horror.
When most people think of censorship, they envision Sovietesque repression. This malevolent brand of censorship is only possible when carried out by a government agency under threat of bodily harm. Individual outlets may choose not to carry an item, but there's always someone that will unless they're crushed by a larger power.
Furthermore, the connection between material wealth and attractiveness to the opposite sex is well documented. It doesn't take much to see the connection between "too much love" and an abundance of money, and what symbolizes money more dramatically than the World Trade Center?
JLL now admits that he, and by extension we, have become slaves to our own persuit of wealth, and concludes that in can only end badly.
The rest of the song is similarly prophetic.
Censorship is the act of government limiting the speech of its citizens by use of force. What's happening here is called a "management decision."
At least your company tells you why they're blocking it. We just get a boilerplate message saying that the site is inappropriate.
In any case, you beat me to the punch on this one.
Jeffery C. May
0 0.html) says that one of your colleagues, Senator Gregg of New Hampshire, plans to introduce legislation that would require all encryption systems to have a Federally-approved "back door" to make it easy for law enforcement agencies to "crack" suspected communications. If this bill becomes law, the only people it would affect are law-abiding American citizens. Terrorist or other "bad guy" organizations would of course circumvent this law by either not upgrading to "approved" versions, or by developing their own encryption codes. I would implore you: do not support any legislation that has as its goal the reduction of the rights of Americans in the false hopes that it would increase their security.
September 15, 2001
The Honorable Senator Bob Graham
2252 Killearn Center Blvd, 3rd Floor
Tallahassee, FL 32308
RE: DECREASING LIBERTIES IS UNAMERICAN
Senator Graham:
This week we've witnessed many horrifying and unprecedented events. Many people have asked or will ask you to do "something" about the hijackings that took place Tuesday morning. I would like to advise you to be calm, thoughtful, and most importantly courageous. This is a time for all of us to emphasize what has made
the United States great: the freedom of its citizens. It is my opinion that what happened Tuesday was aided and abetted not by lax government control and security, but rather by a lack of liberty on the part of the American public. Furthermore, I've seen absolutely no indications that the Federal Government are going to fix the problem, or even comprehend it. In this respect the terrorists have succeeded: the American public enjoys fewer liberties today than on last Monday with little benefit.
Already I have heard reports of bills to be introduced to Congress and new policies instituted by executive agencies that, while ostensibly are designed to protect Americans, will actually end up hurting them. In the rush to do something, too many times the wrong thing is accomplished. This is one area where the Law of Unintended Consequences will no doubt be a major player in public safety for years to come:
* One report I've read was on Wired news (http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46816,
* Before this week, the Federal Aviation Administration allowed passengers of airliners to carry knives with blades up to four inches long. The weapons used in the attack were therefore legal. The new rules (http://www.faa.gov/apa/faq/pr_faq.htm) forbid the carriage of any knives, even little plastic ones like that found at fast food restaurants. This is exactly the wrong course of action. What we need is a public that has the freedom, the liberty, to defend itself with force if necessary. Citizens of the United States that have concealed carry permits, are members of any law enforcement organization or serve in the United States military should be allowed to carry weapons on airliners. I can think of few better examples than last Tuesday of what the Framers intended for these words: "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."
Thank you for your time and consideration; this is a grave time for us all, but please remember what has made this country what it is: the freedom of the people. Give these people the freedom and power to protect and defend themselves. Restricting freedoms means only that we are more vulnerable than we were before.
Sincerely,
Jeffery C. May
registered voter
concerned citizen
I've got three letters going out tomorrow morning:
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h am 1.html
l so n1.html
http://www.k2net.cc/users/jcmay/politics/DaveWe
http://www.k2net.cc/users/jcmay/politics/BobGra
http://www.k2net.cc/users/jcmay/politics/BillNe
There's more talk on my home page, towards the bottom.
If you'd read my post, I indicated that my problem with Browne's comments was his timing, not neccessarily his message.
Next time, read the post, please.