If the United States had civilian courts then the 'people' might stand a chance, but there are no civilian courst in the United States. They all fly the Federal military flag and Federal staff, and are military courts.
There is no constitutional crisis. People in the United States are no longer sovereign Americans, and we are all under martial law. It's been like this for a long time. We are all property of the federal government, and all our courts are military courts. It's just time to face facts that the 'people' have been asleep at the wheel since 1912.
Contrary to popular belief... tanks, airplanes, guided missiles are fairly ineffective against individual human targets who have a good deal of mobility over any kind of terrain. With a handgun I can take a rifle, with a rifle I can take explosives, with explosives I can take something more lethal. Use of force when properly, and not chaotically applied is an effective tool in getting items that grant you more force.
Rifles and shotguns may be useless against tanks, but tanks are a huge achilles heel where other types of attacks can be levered against it such as explosives in the treads, molitove cocktails against the hull, trenches, etc...
Also, if it really comes down to the people defending itself from the local, state, and/or federal governments, there are numerous national guard armories that have just the right tools for the job.
De Beers will take care of those rogue operations by their serialization of diamonds, and insisting that if it doesn't carry a De Beers serial number that it is 'synthetic'.
The key here is that they are 'conflict' or 'blood' diamonds only if DeBeers does not control them. Those two terms are just a DeBeers marketing ploy to make people guilty if they buy diamonds from someone other than DeBeers.
They are diamonds. By refering to them as 'synthetic diamonds', you are giving in to DeBeers... a company that is inherently evil, and I don't mean that in a figurative way.
If the IRS accepts payment in game plat, gold, credits, isk, etc...
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"Speaking of campers, what's with people who hide under the stairs in FPS and wait for someone to walk around the corner? Are you afraid of real combat?"
That IS real combat. It's sneaky, it's underhanded, and you never, ever, give your opponent an even break. Unless you think of combat being the way the British fought the revolutionaries, or how the Civil war was fought where people just stand out in the open blatantly shooting each other.
If you can't handle real (simulated) combat then take you noob ass to another game... I suggest something involving Barbie dolls.
I live in the United States, and can't walk into a supermarket and buy a gun. What a concept though! I haven't seen a gun in a supermarket ever... now there is fresh fruit, and you never know what someone armed with a bananna will do!
------------------ Ok, since your "bogometer" seems to go off at one of the most highly respected scientific publications, on the planet... let me do a little physics-to-layman translation for ya. -------------------
yeah, yeah, yeah. I get it... it's a nerd jerk off magazine. It all becomes more and more trekish every year.
It all came down to the personality, and personalness of it. Each BBS had it's own style, flavor, charm, and was very personal. That is what is missing from the internet. Even the telnet bbs's that are up now have an impersonal feel to them. It is very hard to describe the full difference unless you have experinced the BBS world, and can compare that experience to the internet.
because software patents do not patent the exact way of achieving the end result. They patent an abstract idea of how to achieve the end result. A way which can be done literally millions of different ways in the code. It's always been said that ideas cannot be patented, but that is exactly what software patents do.
Know what you can do about software patents? Do not use anything from a company that patents software. Urge everyone you know to not use patented software, and speak out against software patents every chance you get. Write your representatives, write your local newspaper, etc... Granted, most people out there could care less, but they will after they hear/read about it, and they have time to actually mentally digest the ramifications of software patenting. Just saying, "Software patents are bad... m-kay?" Ins't good enough.
The poblem, as I see it, isn't that patents cover algorithm and/or source code, but an over all abstract of what the software does. It's as if someone patented a generic 'steering mechanism', wrote it in such a way to be obtuse, and expect license payment from everything from using a steering wheel to ropes attached to suspensions, etc... The sofware patents do not patent an exact method in the same way a patent on a mechanical object does.
In programming, the same end-result can be attained by using a myriad of different programming methods, and code. All software patents should be revoked, but the source code doesn't necessarily need to be released because the source code isn't the issue with software patents.
Yeah, there is that. There's also small networks, that honestly don't need patch panels. If you have 8 drops, a switch, and one router, there's no need for a patch. If you have 100 drops, yeah, a patch is good. One place in particular had 36 drops, the idiots that put it in put in a 24 port switch, an 8 port switch, and a 4 port switch, and a router. No labeling of any kind, anywhere. So, they had essentially three different networks all wired up willy-nilly, which was suppose to be one network. It cost them more for me to go out, get a 16 port switch, sub-contract a guy to help me out (that I could trust), and a good part of the day hot plugging jacks while he looked for the blinking light, and both of us marking cable at both ends. To make matters worse it was one of those 'neat installs' where we had to cut zip ties, and follow cables in the closet. That kind of wiring job is a love/hate thing. On one hand it just pisses me off to no end, on the other hand it makes me money. I'm just one of those "if you going to do it, do it right the first time" kind of guys.
Don't even get me started on the idiots that put in cat5 with 8 conductor telephone wire.
You got lucky, or someone had some time on their hands. Around here (SE NM, Lubbock, and the Midland/Odessa, tx area) every single freakin patch panel and cable I've seen has been unlabeled. One place had cat-5 run, and I asked "they didn't label anyting?", the admin there just shrugged and said "They said it didn't need to be labeled." Most places it's just comedy gold. Cables run to patch panels like they should be, then short cables run to switches. Shit, guys, just cut out the patch panel if your going to do that, but it does look fancy.
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If the United States had civilian courts then the 'people' might stand a chance, but there are no civilian courst in the United States. They all fly the Federal military flag and Federal staff, and are military courts.
There is no constitutional crisis. People in the United States are no longer sovereign Americans, and we are all under martial law. It's been like this for a long time. We are all property of the federal government, and all our courts are military courts. It's just time to face facts that the 'people' have been asleep at the wheel since 1912.
This is like replacing their automatic transmissions with manual transmissions in their vehicles.
"We've secretly replaced grandmas windows xp operating system with Ubuntu Linux... let's see if she notices."
Europe is now a country, the 'countries' there are really just states now.
Contrary to popular belief... tanks, airplanes, guided missiles are fairly ineffective against individual human targets who have a good deal of mobility over any kind of terrain. With a handgun I can take a rifle, with a rifle I can take explosives, with explosives I can take something more lethal. Use of force when properly, and not chaotically applied is an effective tool in getting items that grant you more force.
Rifles and shotguns may be useless against tanks, but tanks are a huge achilles heel where other types of attacks can be levered against it such as explosives in the treads, molitove cocktails against the hull, trenches, etc...
Also, if it really comes down to the people defending itself from the local, state, and/or federal governments, there are numerous national guard armories that have just the right tools for the job.
'conflict free' just means the DeBeers is selling the diamonds on the world market instead of the third-world despot that sold them to it.
De Beers will take care of those rogue operations by their serialization of diamonds, and insisting that if it doesn't carry a De Beers serial number that it is 'synthetic'.
The key here is that they are 'conflict' or 'blood' diamonds only if DeBeers does not control them. Those two terms are just a DeBeers marketing ploy to make people guilty if they buy diamonds from someone other than DeBeers.
They are diamonds. By refering to them as 'synthetic diamonds', you are giving in to DeBeers... a company that is inherently evil, and I don't mean that in a figurative way.
Just put it in the passenger seat. You might have to turn you head farther to watch your porn, but it'll fit there.
Yeah... hand grenades need to be nerfed. Their AOE instant kill area is overpowered.
If the IRS accepts payment in game plat, gold, credits, isk, etc...
"Speaking of campers, what's with people who hide under the stairs in FPS and wait for someone to walk around the corner? Are you afraid of real combat?"
That IS real combat. It's sneaky, it's underhanded, and you never, ever, give your opponent an even break. Unless you think of combat being the way the British fought the revolutionaries, or how the Civil war was fought where people just stand out in the open blatantly shooting each other.
If you can't handle real (simulated) combat then take you noob ass to another game... I suggest something involving Barbie dolls.
I live in the United States, and can't walk into a supermarket and buy a gun. What a concept though! I haven't seen a gun in a supermarket ever... now there is fresh fruit, and you never know what someone armed with a bananna will do!
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Ok, since your "bogometer" seems to go off at one of the most highly respected scientific publications, on the planet... let me do a little physics-to-layman translation for ya.
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yeah, yeah, yeah. I get it... it's a nerd jerk off magazine. It all becomes more and more trekish every year.
"Magnons are the quanta of magnetic excitations in a magnetically ordered ensemble of magnetic moments."
This statement caused my bogometer to break. Now the needle is stuck all the way right at WTF.
It all came down to the personality, and personalness of it. Each BBS had it's own style, flavor, charm, and was very personal. That is what is missing from the internet. Even the telnet bbs's that are up now have an impersonal feel to them. It is very hard to describe the full difference unless you have experinced the BBS world, and can compare that experience to the internet.
Dont' forget, you had to tie an onion to your belt.
Perhaps Microsoft was just out to prove that if you give a rose any other name, it really isn't a rose.
Yeah, he is a hippy, but in this he's right for all the wrong reasons.
because software patents do not patent the exact way of achieving the end result. They patent an abstract idea of how to achieve the end result. A way which can be done literally millions of different ways in the code. It's always been said that ideas cannot be patented, but that is exactly what software patents do.
Know what you can do about software patents? Do not use anything from a company that patents software. Urge everyone you know to not use patented software, and speak out against software patents every chance you get. Write your representatives, write your local newspaper, etc... Granted, most people out there could care less, but they will after they hear/read about it, and they have time to actually mentally digest the ramifications of software patenting. Just saying, "Software patents are bad... m-kay?" Ins't good enough.
The poblem, as I see it, isn't that patents cover algorithm and/or source code, but an over all abstract of what the software does. It's as if someone patented a generic 'steering mechanism', wrote it in such a way to be obtuse, and expect license payment from everything from using a steering wheel to ropes attached to suspensions, etc... The sofware patents do not patent an exact method in the same way a patent on a mechanical object does.
In programming, the same end-result can be attained by using a myriad of different programming methods, and code. All software patents should be revoked, but the source code doesn't necessarily need to be released because the source code isn't the issue with software patents.
Yeah, there is that. There's also small networks, that honestly don't need patch panels. If you have 8 drops, a switch, and one router, there's no need for a patch. If you have 100 drops, yeah, a patch is good. One place in particular had 36 drops, the idiots that put it in put in a 24 port switch, an 8 port switch, and a 4 port switch, and a router. No labeling of any kind, anywhere. So, they had essentially three different networks all wired up willy-nilly, which was suppose to be one network. It cost them more for me to go out, get a 16 port switch, sub-contract a guy to help me out (that I could trust), and a good part of the day hot plugging jacks while he looked for the blinking light, and both of us marking cable at both ends. To make matters worse it was one of those 'neat installs' where we had to cut zip ties, and follow cables in the closet. That kind of wiring job is a love/hate thing. On one hand it just pisses me off to no end, on the other hand it makes me money. I'm just one of those "if you going to do it, do it right the first time" kind of guys.
Don't even get me started on the idiots that put in cat5 with 8 conductor telephone wire.
You got lucky, or someone had some time on their hands. Around here (SE NM, Lubbock, and the Midland/Odessa, tx area) every single freakin patch panel and cable I've seen has been unlabeled. One place had cat-5 run, and I asked "they didn't label anyting?", the admin there just shrugged and said "They said it didn't need to be labeled." Most places it's just comedy gold. Cables run to patch panels like they should be, then short cables run to switches. Shit, guys, just cut out the patch panel if your going to do that, but it does look fancy.