You can't legally buy assault rifles, or select fire battle rifles for that matter, if you're a civilian living in a first world nation. Doesn't matter what you might see in the news that says otherwise, go try it at your local gun store and see how far you get. If it's got automatic fire capability, it's a military weapon belonging in the hands of soldiers, and cannot be owned by your local gun nut anymore than he can own a live grenade.
Civilians can legally purchase full-auto guns in the US, as long they live in one of the 39 states that allow full auto weapons and own the appropriate tax stamp.
Canadians can legally purchase full-auto guns (just not from gun stores), as long as they have the 12.2 status on their PAL.
I don't blame you for getting the facts wrong though. I'm guessing 50% of American gun owners don't know about the tax stamps and 90% of Canadian gun owners don't know about the 12.2 status.
Drugs ruin much more than just the user's life. It affects the entire family. What is a child supposed to do when their parents uses drugs all day and there's no food on the table? "take responsibility" for their parents' lives?
That being said, some drugs are socially acceptable in the western world (despite how harmful they are). Tobacco and alcohol are the two main ones. Any drug that's less harmful and less addictive than these two should be automatically decriminalized, starting with marijuana.
A moon doesn't necessarily need to orbit a planet; it can orbit a very, very dense hunk of rock that doesn't fit the definition of planet, but has a sufficiently strong gravitational pull to keep it in orbit.
and I first thought this would have been more effective if they hadn't announced it.
This is actually all fake. They pretended there was a disinformation campaign when there wasn't so that the enemies would think there is a disinformation campaign going on.
Of course if this were true there is no way such a secret will be revealed in a random/. comment.
Unless, of course, said/. comment is also part of the disinformation campaign
...or maybe that's just what they want you to think.
You're talking about the ROK-US Mutual Defense Treaty. The treaty doesn't say anything about automatic declaration of war though. In fact:
Article 3
Each Party recognizes that an armed attack in the Pacific area on either of the Parties in territories now under their respective administrative control, or hereafter recognized by one of the Parties as lawfully brought under the administrative control of the other, would be dangerous to its own peace and safety and declares that it would act to meet the common danger in accordance with its constitutional processes.
POTUS can enable military aid to South Korea, but he can't declare war. According to our "constitutional processes" only the Senate can declare war.
Of course this whole discussion about "war" is moot because we've had at least a dozen "wars" that were technically "armed conflicts".
#2: An American citizen could move aboard and live under a different name.
#3: American citizenship can be obtained by being born in a foreign country to American parents.
I wasn't addressing this case. I don't even fully agree with GP's point. I was simply answering your question.
how can the american gov't not be 100% sure whether someone is american or not?
The American government doesn't know the name of everyone born in the United States.
The American government doesn't know all the possible future names of everyone born in the United States.
The American government doesn't know the birth parents' names of every foreign person on Earth.
Democracy is often confused with the republic form of government. In some definitions of "republic," a republic is a form of democracy. Other definitions make "republic" a separate, unrelated term.
GP is correct according to his definition of "republic". You are correct according to your definition of "republic".
Now can we please get on with the actual discussion?
The fact that you're using IE and isn't allowed to change the certificate store tells me that you don't have admin privileges. If that's case, then your company can already log your every key stroke, so I don't see how HTTPS packet inspection is any more intrusive.
I just avoid doing banking or sensitive transactions on computers that isn't administered by myself or someone that I trust.
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Why yes, I'm all for more efficient methods for re-creating Brazil.
FTFY
You can't legally buy assault rifles, or select fire battle rifles for that matter, if you're a civilian living in a first world nation. Doesn't matter what you might see in the news that says otherwise, go try it at your local gun store and see how far you get. If it's got automatic fire capability, it's a military weapon belonging in the hands of soldiers, and cannot be owned by your local gun nut anymore than he can own a live grenade.
Civilians can legally purchase full-auto guns in the US, as long they live in one of the 39 states that allow full auto weapons and own the appropriate tax stamp.
Canadians can legally purchase full-auto guns (just not from gun stores), as long as they have the 12.2 status on their PAL.
I don't blame you for getting the facts wrong though. I'm guessing 50% of American gun owners don't know about the tax stamps and 90% of Canadian gun owners don't know about the 12.2 status.
Drugs ruin much more than just the user's life. It affects the entire family. What is a child supposed to do when their parents uses drugs all day and there's no food on the table? "take responsibility" for their parents' lives?
That being said, some drugs are socially acceptable in the western world (despite how harmful they are). Tobacco and alcohol are the two main ones. Any drug that's less harmful and less addictive than these two should be automatically decriminalized, starting with marijuana.
A moon doesn't necessarily need to orbit a planet; it can orbit a very, very dense hunk of rock that doesn't fit the definition of planet, but has a sufficiently strong gravitational pull to keep it in orbit.
Must... resist... urge... to make yo mama joke.
Apparently, it's illegal to put up fake wanted posters. Impersonating police officers and whatnot.
It cost me a misdemeanor charge and banishment from every walmart in the city to find this out.
Radio Frequency Paul trap, also known as an ion trap, is named after its inventor Wolfgang Paul. But thanks for derailing the discussion.
and I first thought this would have been more effective if they hadn't announced it.
This is actually all fake. They pretended there was a disinformation campaign when there wasn't so that the enemies would think there is a disinformation campaign going on.
/. comment.
/. comment is also part of the disinformation campaign
...or maybe that's just what they want you to think.
Of course if this were true there is no way such a secret will be revealed in a random
Unless, of course, said
Wow! Water has a coefficient of thermal expansion of zero across the entire temperature range? What an amazing material!
but no piece of technology targeted at the consumer market should ever require that something be done via CLI
He didn't say "CLI is useless". He didn't suggest taking out CLI. He says nothing should ever require CLI.
If something requires CLI to work, it means every single user must type in at least one command on the CLI for the device to function.
...a but of altruism...
Slashdot editors, brain-dead, epsilon minus, etc.
The cake is a lie.
The current ferry missions to the ISS are paid by NASA. I imagine the mission to Mars will be paid by NASA as well.
Article 3
Each Party recognizes that an armed attack in the Pacific area on either of the Parties in territories now under their respective administrative control, or hereafter recognized by one of the Parties as lawfully brought under the administrative control of the other, would be dangerous to its own peace and safety and declares that it would act to meet the common danger in accordance with its constitutional processes.
POTUS can enable military aid to South Korea, but he can't declare war. According to our "constitutional processes" only the Senate can declare war.
Of course this whole discussion about "war" is moot because we've had at least a dozen "wars" that were technically "armed conflicts".
#2: An American citizen could move aboard and live under a different name.
#3: American citizenship can be obtained by being born in a foreign country to American parents.
I wasn't addressing this case. I don't even fully agree with GP's point. I was simply answering your question.
how can the american gov't not be 100% sure whether someone is american or not?
The American government doesn't know the name of everyone born in the United States.
The American government doesn't know all the possible future names of everyone born in the United States.
The American government doesn't know the birth parents' names of every foreign person on Earth.
No person who is for sure 100% known to have American citizenship
We can't know for absolutely certain whether a person has American citizenship or not unless we actually arrest him.
You can't tell someone's citizenship from a drone camera thousands of feet up in the air.
Democracy is often confused with the republic form of government. In some definitions of "republic," a republic is a form of democracy. Other definitions make "republic" a separate, unrelated term.
GP is correct according to his definition of "republic". You are correct according to your definition of "republic".
Now can we please get on with the actual discussion?
I only know two of them.
Abdulrahman al-Awlaki
Anwar al-Awlaki
False. The UN Commander-in-Chief signed an armistice with the North Koreans and the Chinese back in 1953.
North Korea and South Korea are still at war with each other since South Korea wasn't a signatory to the armistice.
It should be easy for spammers to register mycleanpc2.com and continue spamming.
If only there was a HTML attribute that would stop the search engines from following the spam links...
As of 2012, fifty-six women have flown in space, out of 525 total space travelers. By country of origin: 1 each from China, France, UK, South Korea; 2 each from Canada and Japan, 3 from Soviet Union/Russia, and 45 from the United States.
The fact that you're using IE and isn't allowed to change the certificate store tells me that you don't have admin privileges. If that's case, then your company can already log your every key stroke, so I don't see how HTTPS packet inspection is any more intrusive.
I just avoid doing banking or sensitive transactions on computers that isn't administered by myself or someone that I trust.
Evolution isn't just about having babies you know. If that were the case, all men would have evolved condom breaking mechanisms already.
Sweden is just a stop. US is the final destination. US has extradition treaties with Sweden.
The death penalty is a non-issue. The US prosecution simply has to promise they won't seek the death penalty.