Amen to that. I decided to learn Latin this spring. I got a book (actually I had it lying around from the last time I decided to learn Latin:^), and I Just Did It. It took the exertion of quite a bit of willpower on days I decided to just skip that day's goal, but I did make it to the end in about 4 months, not much longer than a semester...
Acutally, even your comment does not go far enough to reflect the historical thinking in place at the time the Second Amenedment was debated, passed, and ratified. All indicators are that it was intended to be a personal right. Each individual was expected to possess arms that he knew how to use. It was clearly not for militias, because before the 1776, Pennsylvania had a provision for the right to bear arms in their state constitution, and they did not even have a militia.
Too bad there is no branch of the Federal government willing to recognize these facts. The Framers' intent is a good thing, I guess, until it gets in the way of the need to control the people.
--mad
I loved the part about the village blacksmiths of the world assembling axles in their back yard. MS then becomes the analog of GM. The only flaw in the analogy is that software is not a car, it is more like the plan for a car, and even if you had the plans for a BMW, you probably couldn't build one in your backyard. If I have the code I can build it on my computer.
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Amen to that. I decided to learn Latin this spring. I got a book (actually I had it lying around from the last time I decided to learn Latin
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Acutally, even your comment does not go far enough to reflect the historical thinking in place at the time the Second Amenedment was debated, passed, and ratified. All indicators are that it was intended to be a personal right. Each individual was expected to possess arms that he knew how to use. It was clearly not for militias, because before the 1776, Pennsylvania had a provision for the right to bear arms in their state constitution, and they did not even have a militia. Too bad there is no branch of the Federal government willing to recognize these facts. The Framers' intent is a good thing, I guess, until it gets in the way of the need to control the people. --mad
I loved the part about the village blacksmiths
of the world assembling axles in their back yard.
MS then becomes the analog of GM. The only flaw
in the analogy is that software is not a car, it
is more like the plan for a car, and even if you
had the plans for a BMW, you probably couldn't
build one in your backyard. If I have the code
I can build it on my computer.