That's a very GOOD thought because lockouts are common in industry and thoroughly accepted.
You can get a nice plastic electrical enclosure to hold your router etc, order a locking switch and padlock from Grainger or McMaster-Carr or MSC (the big three suppliers of "industrial stuff" which purchasing depts are used to ordering from) and have at it.
You can get lockouts which accept multiple padlocks if multiple personnel must confirm the setting. Totally familiar stuff.
"With only an 8th grade education, and all of your friends and family belonging to the community, you'd probably stay because you'd fear the total abandonment of the only life you've ever known."
"they hire their own private armies a la Pinkerton, because who'll stop them?"
There was a time when American workers had balls, and they shot and killed Pinkertons. When people are beyond the reach of the law they may still not be out of range...
Our country and it's freedoms were born of righeous Revolutionary violence, the eager willingness to send bayonet and musket ball crashing into the bodies of British soldiers and their Hessian mercs.
If the Founders had been pacifists they wouldn't have Founded anything.
Things aren't bad enough for violence so long as we are kept comfortable and fed by our Masters. Woe betide them if they forget that people don't revolt over freedom, they revolt over food and shelter.
I despise religion because Superstitionist societies impose restrictions on personal freedom which I reject.
I therefore care nothing for the suffering of the religious because they are my enemies. Let their Sky Fairie save them. The only reason the Amish aren't much of a problem is the small size of their cult. Their ROE are still "superstition of the desert".
Pacifists and vegans don't tend to build societies which are restrictive to personal freedom, so I've nothing against them and wish them no harm.
I didn't mention Muslims, what you interpreted was not what I wrote. Should I "interpret" that you are a Bible Thumper so paranoid you see your Muslim competitors under every rock?
Prove Jehovah exists and your enemies will evaporate. No proof, then you deserve no respect as a person because you spout toxic insanity. Anyone who professes that a God exists has the burden of proving their assertion.
I hold ALL Superstitions in contempt because they have had THOUSANDS of years to prove their Imaginary Friend(s) exist and have utterly failed to do so.
I reject ALL slavery to the minions of the tribal superstitions of the desert. It would be delightful if you just killed each other, but you stunt the progress of mankind.
Yes, their particular cult is marketed to appear quaint, but it's still just another Superstition of the Desert and I laugh at the misfortunes of people who choose to believe in such insanity.
There are plenty of capital "investments". Take the State I live in as an example. Continental Tire is spending more than half a billion dollars on a new tire plant, while Michelin and Bridgestone are expanding theirs. BMW exports SUVs to mainland China! Infrastructure investments are being made so the port of Charleston can handle greater traffic from these and other domestic businesses.
The main barrier to marketing "new ideas" is that we have all the basics and most luxuries covered! There is almost nothing American consumers "need" that they don't already have.
The main barrier to more employment is high productivity. You don't need meatsacks running manual production machinery when fewer meatsacks can produce vastly more product supporting machining centers and other automated production equipment.
We inherited a baseline underclass which was useful when manual labor was valuable. Now, most manual labor is not valuable yet deliberate policies ensure immigration (legal or otherwise) of people who are unskilled and compete with domestic unskilled people for the economic scraps remaining.
The War on Some Drugs coerces people to immigrate to the US for safety, but they have few jobs and end up ghettoized, disenfranchised, and self-destructive.
A variety of political calculation by both Parties ensures open borders and destroys what exclusivity (overloaded lifeboats SINK, the Industrial Revolution is OVER) might somewhat protect.
Underclasses are a result of surplus people. Too few humans of the right age mix weakens an economy, too many for available jobs (which are rapidly being destroyed by technology) and there will not be work for them so the State must provide bread and circuses. Populations which practice birth control including abortion have high quality of life. Uneducated groups who breed what they can't care for (even if Uncle Sugar is paying for the food) have chosen a lower quality of life.
When members of the underclass reject the old ways (consider the increasing number of Black women in higher education), they move up the ladder.
The only "solution" is "every man for himself" and his politically active subgroup. As long as we are rich enough to feed the underclass, we'll have domestic peace. People revolt for lack of food, nothing else.
"They are taking a virgin tech and trying to make it MANDATORY."
Indeed.
I find it amusing that a site which rails against pant-on-head-retarded proposed restrictions on COMPUTERS has so many firearm-tech-illiterate folks on it.
Dear Willful Fucktards: If you are too lazy to make the minimal effort to understand the VERY simple (compared to compared to computers) technology behind firearms, SHUT THE FUCK UP until you actually know whereof you speak. How dare you have an opinion on tech you don't understand?
Thousands of dead children and adults are the price you pay for stupid people, but they are a very reasonable price to pay to embed the capability for both self-defense and revolution in the American public.
Crime rates are very low, we are a huge nation, and if you consider that homicide rates among good citizens are very, very low, it's even less a problem. (Not all the casualties matter because hood rats offing each other is pure good.)
How about some outrage over the many things that kill hundreds of thousands of your fellows in less newsworthy ways? No? Thought not.
Don't imply all suicide is a loss or that ease of suicide is always a negative.
Honest insightful discussion of why people elect to SHORTEN their own lives is overdue in the US and rest of the world.
As more and more of us live lives prolonged into crippled dementia by modern medical technology, suicide will be a reasonable and logically defensible choice for many people.
Sorry if someone checked out and made you unhappy thereby, but I'm GUARANTEED a slow, prolonged, very nasty dying process due to a combination of various spinal/neurological problems plus Alzheimers if I live into my seventies.
I'll check out in a way that can't be used against the Second Amendment by idiots, but check out I will, and my remaining loved ones already understand and support that option for myself and themselves.
You may have a Sky Fairie (prove he/she/it exists or fuck off, I don't respect delusions nor is there reason I should) giving you marching orders, but as a free thinker who owns his own body I shall do my will to the extent practical according to my situation.
"These 3D printed cheap plastic guns are going to flood Africa and other such places with very cheap guns. "
I'm usually polite, but that sentence qualifies as "fucking stupid".
Africans are quite capable of making things, Kalashnikovs included.
Firearms are easy to make on basic machine tools available globally. Most classic weapons PREDATE CNC technology of any type. The Third World has many machinists who are skilled and ingenious. It has to because people must repair what we would discard in the US.
Kalashnikov prints abound, but a decent machinist can simply copy a working example. It ain't rocket surgery, because Mikhail Kalashnikov was a MECHANIC who wanted a rugged, simple weapon.
Africans can also obtain weapons from foreign donors. (First World sanctions are mostly good for disarming the innocents Janjaweed kill. If we wanted to protect Darfur we'd arm and train the weak to kill their enemies so they could defend themselves in detail, not help ghettoize them in refugee camps instead!)
Many people who are anti-gun are also worried about impending tyranny, be it government or corporate (which in the US are the same).
History repeatedly teaches such worry is not mere paranoia.
If things get bad enough, then we have events such as the American Revolution or the Syrian Revolt. One required flintlocks and the other requires Kalashnikovs, but in the end ALL political power flows from a gun barrel like it or not.
It's incredibly difficult and time-consuming to eat well.
If there is an efficient way to get ALL the nutrients required in a safe and economic way, that's a great idea for times when cooking for "fun" is too much hassle.
If I could be satiated and well-fed with a mouse-click that would give me more time to enjoy other things in life, and be better for my health too.
They don't need to smuggle them now, and anyone with serious (as in, drug money) cash can with zero traceability and zero exotic technology, buy a few CNC machine tools and produce modern firearms in quantity. They can then resell the tools, close the shop, cover their tracks, and sell their product.
Specs won't be valuable because weapon designs are HIGHLY refined tech. All that's left are " bells and whistles" to provide product differentiation.
A legit machine shop could work two shifts and mass-produce weapons on one of them.
"The same lybia you bombed to the grounds to "liberate from tyranny" had on average a better living standar than your beloved america (this sounds strange, I know, but have you ever been to libya?"
Citation needed. Yes really.
BTW I'd have left both Qaddafi and Saddam Hussein in power as they were basically secular and kept order, but if you make a statistical assertion do back it up.
"We expect people to be able to make moral decision"
Then be able to hold a (figurative) knife to their throat, for positive reinforcement. You may never need it, but trust alone is stupid and we all know it.
The Second Amendment exists for very good reason. One day, the laws and the lawgivers may not protect you. Any freedom worth having is worth taking lives to protect.
If the Founders hadn't been willing to send ball and shot and bayonet through the bodies of their Crown oppressors we'd still be a colony. Good causes are worth killing for after all other means are exhaused.
Also note that the embedding of the Right of The People to keep and bear arms is specifically intended to allow them the only means of countering tyranny when peaceful means fail.
How many countries understand it may one day be necessary to kill their own government and protect the potential of their citizens to do that?
Further, weapons exist in sufficient quantity in the US to make a popular revolt viable as the number of armed citizens utterly dwarfs the number of police and government and military functionaries, which groups would be divided in a serious revolt.
England has a few people with a few weapons, but they don't matter and the people there have long surrendered even more of their rights to their government.
Americans are indeed fat, uneducated slugs by and large, but if our masters one day overstep their bounds the Founders ensured we have a viable chance of killing them and taking the country back.
The tiny firearm crime rate among people who aren't garbage is a modest price to pay for that. There being no viable self-defense against a physically superior opponent without firearms, guns are also key to personal security in many areas.
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Don't rust anyone over 30.
That's a very GOOD thought because lockouts are common in industry and thoroughly accepted.
You can get a nice plastic electrical enclosure to hold your router etc, order a locking switch and padlock from Grainger or McMaster-Carr or MSC (the big three suppliers of "industrial stuff" which purchasing depts are used to ordering from) and have at it.
You can get lockouts which accept multiple padlocks if multiple personnel must confirm the setting. Totally familiar stuff.
"With only an 8th grade education, and all of your friends and family belonging to the community, you'd probably stay because you'd fear the total abandonment of the only life you've ever known."
That also explains the Bible Belt.
"They need to be called out by the greater community, but of course they never will be."
That's the nature of Superstition, to exalt man over other men based on unprovable assertions.
"they hire their own private armies a la Pinkerton, because who'll stop them?"
There was a time when American workers had balls, and they shot and killed Pinkertons. When people are beyond the reach of the law they may still not be out of range...
Our country and it's freedoms were born of righeous Revolutionary violence, the eager willingness to send bayonet and musket ball crashing into the bodies of British soldiers and their Hessian mercs.
If the Founders had been pacifists they wouldn't have Founded anything.
Things aren't bad enough for violence so long as we are kept comfortable and fed by our Masters. Woe betide them if they forget that people don't revolt over freedom, they revolt over food and shelter.
I despise religion because Superstitionist societies impose restrictions on personal freedom which I reject.
I therefore care nothing for the suffering of the religious because they are my enemies. Let their Sky Fairie save them. The only reason the Amish aren't much of a problem is the small size of their cult. Their ROE are still "superstition of the desert".
Pacifists and vegans don't tend to build societies which are restrictive to personal freedom, so I've nothing against them and wish them no harm.
I didn't mention Muslims, what you interpreted was not what I wrote. Should I "interpret" that you are a Bible Thumper so paranoid you see your Muslim competitors under every rock?
Prove Jehovah exists and your enemies will evaporate. No proof, then you deserve no respect as a person because you spout toxic insanity. Anyone who professes that a God exists has the burden of proving their assertion.
I hold ALL Superstitions in contempt because they have had THOUSANDS of years to prove their Imaginary Friend(s) exist and have utterly failed to do so.
I reject ALL slavery to the minions of the tribal superstitions of the desert. It would be delightful if you just killed each other, but you stunt the progress of mankind.
Most "Christianity" isn't Christianity if you ask a Christian of a different sect.
I'll respect what they believe when the PROVE their Sky Fairie exists. I shall kneel down before his/her/it's Noodly Appendage and recant.
is not my problem or concern.
Yes, their particular cult is marketed to appear quaint, but it's still just another Superstition of the Desert and I laugh at the misfortunes of people who choose to believe in such insanity.
Inquiring minds want to know.
There are plenty of capital "investments". Take the State I live in as an example. Continental Tire is spending more than half a billion dollars on a new tire plant, while Michelin and Bridgestone are expanding theirs. BMW exports SUVs to mainland China! Infrastructure investments are being made so the port of Charleston can handle greater traffic from these and other domestic businesses.
The main barrier to marketing "new ideas" is that we have all the basics and most luxuries covered! There is almost nothing American consumers "need" that they don't already have.
The main barrier to more employment is high productivity. You don't need meatsacks running manual production machinery when fewer meatsacks can produce vastly more product supporting machining centers and other automated production equipment.
We inherited a baseline underclass which was useful when manual labor was valuable. Now, most manual labor is not valuable yet deliberate policies ensure immigration (legal or otherwise) of people who are unskilled and compete with domestic unskilled people for the economic scraps remaining.
The War on Some Drugs coerces people to immigrate to the US for safety, but they have few jobs and end up ghettoized, disenfranchised, and self-destructive.
A variety of political calculation by both Parties ensures open borders and destroys what exclusivity (overloaded lifeboats SINK, the Industrial Revolution is OVER) might somewhat protect.
Underclasses are a result of surplus people. Too few humans of the right age mix weakens an economy, too many for available jobs (which are rapidly being destroyed by technology) and there will not be work for them so the State must provide bread and circuses. Populations which practice birth control including abortion have high quality of life. Uneducated groups who breed what they can't care for (even if Uncle Sugar is paying for the food) have chosen a lower quality of life.
When members of the underclass reject the old ways (consider the increasing number of Black women in higher education), they move up the ladder.
The only "solution" is "every man for himself" and his politically active subgroup. As long as we are rich enough to feed the underclass, we'll have domestic peace. People revolt for lack of food, nothing else.
"Ironically, that's less upsetting -- getting your nation's ass whooped -- than getting your Fearless Leader killed."
Fearless Leaders write the rules.
Water purification is simple. Distill it and you have far "purer" water than you get from a well.
"They are taking a virgin tech and trying to make it MANDATORY."
Indeed.
I find it amusing that a site which rails against pant-on-head-retarded proposed restrictions on COMPUTERS has so many firearm-tech-illiterate folks on it.
Dear Willful Fucktards:
If you are too lazy to make the minimal effort to understand the VERY simple (compared to compared to computers) technology behind firearms, SHUT THE FUCK UP until you actually know whereof you speak. How dare you have an opinion on tech you don't understand?
Thousands of dead children and adults are the price you pay for stupid people, but they are a very reasonable price to pay to embed the capability for both self-defense and revolution in the American public.
Crime rates are very low, we are a huge nation, and if you consider that homicide rates among good citizens are very, very low, it's even less a problem. (Not all the casualties matter because hood rats offing each other is pure good.)
How about some outrage over the many things that kill hundreds of thousands of your fellows in less newsworthy ways? No? Thought not.
26 officers over ten years is a TINY casualty rate, not worth bothering about.
How many did obesity and other medical conditions cripple or kill during the same period?
Don't imply all suicide is a loss or that ease of suicide is always a negative.
Honest insightful discussion of why people elect to SHORTEN their own lives is overdue in the US and rest of the world.
As more and more of us live lives prolonged into crippled dementia by modern medical technology, suicide will be a reasonable and logically defensible choice for many people.
Sorry if someone checked out and made you unhappy thereby, but I'm GUARANTEED a slow, prolonged, very nasty dying process due to a combination of various spinal/neurological problems plus Alzheimers if I live into my seventies.
I'll check out in a way that can't be used against the Second Amendment by idiots, but check out I will, and my remaining loved ones already understand and support that option for myself and themselves.
You may have a Sky Fairie (prove he/she/it exists or fuck off, I don't respect delusions nor is there reason I should) giving you marching orders, but as a free thinker who owns his own body I shall do my will to the extent practical according to my situation.
"These 3D printed cheap plastic guns are going to flood Africa and other such places with very cheap guns. "
I'm usually polite, but that sentence qualifies as "fucking stupid".
Africans are quite capable of making things, Kalashnikovs included.
Firearms are easy to make on basic machine tools available globally. Most classic weapons PREDATE CNC technology of any type. The Third World has many machinists who are skilled and ingenious. It has to because people must repair what we would discard in the US.
Kalashnikov prints abound, but a decent machinist can simply copy a working example. It ain't rocket surgery, because Mikhail Kalashnikov was a MECHANIC who wanted a rugged, simple weapon.
Africans can also obtain weapons from foreign donors. (First World sanctions are mostly good for disarming the innocents Janjaweed kill. If we wanted to protect Darfur we'd arm and train the weak to kill their enemies so they could defend themselves in detail, not help ghettoize them in refugee camps instead!)
Many people who are anti-gun are also worried about impending tyranny, be it government or corporate (which in the US are the same).
History repeatedly teaches such worry is not mere paranoia.
If things get bad enough, then we have events such as the American Revolution or the Syrian Revolt. One required flintlocks and the other requires Kalashnikovs, but in the end ALL political power flows from a gun barrel like it or not.
It's incredibly difficult and time-consuming to eat well.
If there is an efficient way to get ALL the nutrients required in a safe and economic way, that's a great idea for times when cooking for "fun" is too much hassle.
If I could be satiated and well-fed with a mouse-click that would give me more time to enjoy other things in life, and be better for my health too.
They don't need to smuggle them now, and anyone with serious (as in, drug money) cash can with zero traceability and zero exotic technology, buy a few CNC machine tools and produce modern firearms in quantity. They can then resell the tools, close the shop, cover their tracks, and sell their product.
Specs won't be valuable because weapon designs are HIGHLY refined tech. All that's left are " bells and whistles" to provide product differentiation.
A legit machine shop could work two shifts and mass-produce weapons on one of them.
"The same lybia you bombed to the grounds to "liberate from tyranny" had on average a better living standar than your beloved america (this sounds strange, I know, but have you ever been to libya?"
Citation needed. Yes really.
BTW I'd have left both Qaddafi and Saddam Hussein in power as they were basically secular and kept order, but if you make a statistical assertion do back it up.
"We expect people to be able to make moral decision"
Then be able to hold a (figurative) knife to their throat, for positive reinforcement. You may never need it, but trust alone is stupid and we all know it.
The Second Amendment exists for very good reason. One day, the laws and the lawgivers may not protect you. Any freedom worth having is worth taking lives to protect.
If the Founders hadn't been willing to send ball and shot and bayonet through the bodies of their Crown oppressors we'd still be a colony. Good causes are worth killing for after all other means are exhaused.
Also note that the embedding of the Right of The People to keep and bear arms is specifically intended to allow them the only means of countering tyranny when peaceful means fail.
How many countries understand it may one day be necessary to kill their own government and protect the potential of their citizens to do that?
Further, weapons exist in sufficient quantity in the US to make a popular revolt viable as the number of armed citizens utterly dwarfs the number of police and government and military functionaries, which groups would be divided in a serious revolt.
England has a few people with a few weapons, but they don't matter and the people there have long surrendered even more of their rights to their government.
Americans are indeed fat, uneducated slugs by and large, but if our masters one day overstep their bounds the Founders ensured we have a viable chance of killing them and taking the country back.
The tiny firearm crime rate among people who aren't garbage is a modest price to pay for that. There being no viable self-defense against a physically superior opponent without firearms, guns are also key to personal security in many areas.