Depleted Uranium ain�t what you think.
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Depleted Uranium is not spent the fuel rods leftovers most people assume from its name. It is what is left over after extraction of the fissile material from refined Uranium.
Significant amounts of refined Uranium are stable isotopes. To get enriched Uranium you force the refined metallic Uranium through a series of filters that select the isotopes based on physical characteristics. Uranium ions in solution are large enough a special porous ceramic filter can pass the ions of the desired atomic weight. Using several passes with different sizes of pores you get the nice hot Uranium you need for bombs and such. One of the byproducts is a nice very dense metal, Uranium. Almost as hard as austenitic steel and much denser than lead. Not much hotter than the tritium illuminator sources in the standard issue compasses carried by infantry. The dust is however a mechanical poison that works much like ionic silver. Silver nitrate is just as dangerous a compound.
I hardly think the $396,100,000,000.00 spent on military (52% of the total budget [upenn.edu]) is really as necessary(spelling corrected) as the government would like you to believe.
Read your own source better! It clearly states the military budget is 52% of the discretionary spending not the total budget as you have implied. Do you know the difference between a discretionary and a non-discretionary line item? If you are going to convince anyone of the validity of your arguments you should understand the terminology.
BTW most of the Defense budget is non-discretionary spending. In other words the CONGRESS says, "You will spend the money this way or not at all." Comparing the total military budget to the budget of other selected Departments is at best misleading and at worse deceitful.
Misquoting your source as haphazardly as you have leads one to conclude you are either ill informed or purposefully trying to mislead people. How many military members are there compared to the number of employees in the federal department of education? How many total employees are there in the aggregated departments of education for the federal and state and local level and what is the total budget for those aggregated departments? That is a better measure of the level of funding for education compared to the national defense.
[rant mode on] About your sources: Quit comparing apples and oranges it invalidates your argument
Education is managed and principally funded at a local level. National defense is managed and funded at the federal level. Comparing the national budget for defense to the national budget for education is vacuous. The budget analysis in the source you quote is very much like comparing the number of legs on an ant to the number of leaves on an apple tree and gleefully concluding that insects infinitely more worthy of leaves.
Look at this from the solders point of view. How _do_ you discriminate between friendly signals and signals from hostiles? US ground forces can detect and localize satellite cell phone signals; however, in general the intercepts are side lobe spill of digitized and compressed signal from a mostly directional antenna. Most of the time you know someone is talking and where they are but you can't listen in real time from the ground. Can't the Iraqi's use cell phones to relay information from scouts back to artillery units or headquarters? Guess what they all ready do. Any signal not from an imbedded journalist could be someone getting ready to kill you and your buddies. So warning the non-imbedded journalists that they may draw fire by using a technology known to be in enemy hands is somehow the wrong thing to do?
According to Ms. Adie, who twelve years ago covered the last Gulf War, the Pentagon attitude is: "entirely hostile to the free spread of information."
Ms. Adie thinks that she _should_ be able to report the exact location of the 3ID's headquarters and offsets the from those coordinates for the main briefing area and the exact time of the next command staff meeting. Should the people in that briefing let her? Should they feel hostile to someone whose actions may result in their death or dismemberment?
if they feel that strongly, I hear the iraqi army is recruiting!
Of course, I don't remember those protests when Bill Clinton launched cruise missiles at Iraq. Or when he invaded Haiti, Bosnia, or Sudan, without UN approval.
Oh, that's right, They're not protesting the war, they're protesting against George Bush. You don't see Iraq citizens protesting the american invasion, do you?
France, Germany and Russia all have heavy investments in the Iraqi oil industry. They have been working on getting huge follow on expansion of their involvement as soon as the UN lifts its sanctions. France, Germany and Russia all know if the US kicks Saddam out of power all their back office deals are down the tube and the rebuilding of the Iraqi economy will be handle by US firms.
France and Russia have been selling arms, duel use technology and nuclear technology to Iraq for the last 35 years. The Iraqis will continue to refuse to destroy the Al Samoud 2 missiles as ordered by the UN. They will whine and complain and drag their feet for years as France, Germany and Russia continues to support them in the UN Security Council.
I think the US should just state for the record an extension of the MAD deterrence policy of the cold war. ONLY they should tell the world "Okay we'll leave Iraq alone BUT if a terrorist group, any terrorist group, uses a WMD against the US, the US will use fusion bombs on the capitols of all nations that are currently refusing to deal with Iraq's weapons programs now."
Although you have rendered your arguments vacuous by resorting to invective I will reply in your mode of communication.
Look up the definition of a republic again genius
My point is, moron, that too many people, like you, let the representatives drive the operation of the government. You confuse definitions and operations.
Why bother to check on the beliefs of someone you selected to represent you after you send them to the government? I guess you're just to busy trying to grok the essence of hexadecimal for your freshman computing class mid-term to capture the subtlety of my meaning.
Why don't you look up the definition of a representative and re-read my post, sonny?
And you can't drive vehicles of any type because the manufacturing process has to be such that certain emissions are curbed dumbass.
Too technically incompetent to do an aftermarket modification, eh? There are thousands of sources for aftermarket equipment. Just because you drive a POS made in Japan and designed by the EPA doesn't mean I must.
Since none of the six "lot cars" on my farm are registered to drive on public roads, they have no catalytic converters or other smog control devices, no license plates, no inspection stickers, no insurance, two have no doors, all have no seatbelts and all are fueled by propane. Both my tractors run on propane as well. Since these vehicles don't operate over public roads they are not bound by the governmental controls for vehicles manufactured for use on the public road system. All those process controls to curb emissions apply only to vehicles on public roads.
For instance, I could say that since we allow the government to regulate the operation of motor vehicles, it is only a matter of time before the government regulates all aspects of life.
It is because roads are funded with public money and the public uses those roads that the government has any right of regulation for vehicles. We allow the government to regulate the operation of motor vehicles only on public roads or public property in the US. You can drive at any age, drive vehicles of any type or drive vehicles of any condition on your own property. You can have a vehicle shipped by common carrier to any location in the US. As long as you do not operate the vehicle on pubic roads or property you do not have to register, insure or jump through any other regulatory hoops for that vehicle.
Now, you ask where do we draw the line? We don't draw the line. The politicians you have elected do. This is a republic, not a democracy and therefore if you are concerned with this problem, contact your representative and find out where he or she stands. I hope you know who your representative is.
Wrong, We draw the lines. Don't contact your government representative to "find out where he or she stands". Contact them to let them know where you as a constituent stand. If your government representative does not represent you and your interests, align with like-minded people and work for getting your reprehensive replaced. Quit allowing the horse to drive the cart. The people selecting representatives, not people abdicating their responsibilities and passively taking on the values of the government, run a republic.
That's not what Unions are for. Unions are for the workers not being bullied by management
That's wrong. Vote with your feet. If you are being bullied by the management, quit the job! Bad managers don't deserve good employees. Get a clue. Work places full of weak willed low performers go into a death spiral of overwork and tighter deadlines. Tell the business managers to heed your technical advice or THEY can suffer the consequences. Write a memo of record and send it to the CTO, CFO and CEO. When the project is overdue and they are yelling at you hand them a copy of the memo. If they keep whining, quit! Go start your own company.
Unions in the US are a vehicle for the "labor movement" to force you to pay dues and contribute to involuntary "retirement plans" where the organizers then abscond with the money before you are fully vested.
No, It like JWSmythe just stated. It is not part of their job. Forget the "To Protect and Serve" line. The police are there to enforce laws not protect you from criminals. The only one that has any legal obligation to protect you is _you_. The only other entities, at least in the state of Texas, that have any legal right, not obligation, to defend you are persons with whom you enjoy a special relationship; e.g. wife, child, husband, extended family, friend or someone responding to your calls for help. Please note that they have a right to act in your defense but no obligation..
Talk about parroting a party line straight from the Violence Policy Center. Try reading the US Code TITLE 10 , Subtitle A , PART I , CHAPTER 13 , Sec. 311. - Militia: composition and classes
(a)
The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
(b)
The classes of the militia are -
(1)
the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
(2)
the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia
Are you a male US citizen? Are you under 45 years old? If yes to both, you are part of the unorganized militia with a Federal mandate to protect your nation by keeping and bearing arms.
Are you a human being? If yes you have an intrinsic right to self-protection as acknowledged by the US Constitution.
If 'the people' in the first amendment refers to an individual right to free speech and peaceable assembly why does 'the people' in the second amendment refer to a states right to organize a militia? All other references 'the people' in the US Constitution and Bill of Rights are interpreted to mean either an individual right or a right reserved to the 'body of the people' as a whole, hence reserved to each and every member of the body.
{If your life is threatened, it is the police's job to protect you.}= FALSE.
The police have no obligation to protect you. In most major metro areas, they don't even respond to 911 calls reporting gun shots. They may respond to 'robbery in progress' calls but usually arrive AFTER the event is over. Try holding a police department responsible for your personal safty in a court case and you will give the judge a good laugh.
BTW read TITLE 10 , Subtitle A , PART I , CHAPTER 13 , Sec. 311. to find out who is the milita refered to by the second amendment.
1. Roast rocks in space for carbon and other useful stuff.
2. Make cable from carbon.
3. Use juke left over from making cable for counter poise etc.
4. Drop loose end into atmoshpere in to pre built foundation.
If you are not a security guru and know some things about security, you need to know a good primary source for information. The book's data may get dated very quickly but the data sources you derive from the book will be current. Some books are good for the data others are good for directing you to a current reference. Having an author do 90% of the leg work and sorting of trash sources from golden ones is important.
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Get real, humans and cockroaches already share about 70% of their genetic material. The difference between similar species' genetic material is tiny. Adding the one character, say to have a plant make more of a specific chemical, is a trivial change. Adding jellyfish genes to a plant to make it luminous under ultra-violet light when it needs water isn't a threat to humanity.
Agricultural monoculture is more of a threat than bioengineering. Didn't we learn that during the potato blight in the 1800's?
Eco-terrorism is not going to 'change' the way multinational corporations do business. It will only get the mega-corps to have oppressive protective laws enacted that will prevent the common people from enjoying the few natural places left on the planet.
What if communist conspirators hax0r the voting boxes and Fidel Castro's tube-baby offspring is elected President of the United States?
That is the reason these voting boxes should be standalone systems. No network connection to the box makes access to the box a requirment to hack it. Having the system physically as secure as the average ballot box, will keep the kiddies off the console. Burning the custom kernal single use application image into a ROM installed in the voting box by the election officials, will allow pre and post election review of the binary. Logging the voter's every transaction on a custom hardware, non-field-removeable media WORM drive along with the voter's registration number, will allow officials to review not only the outcome of the election but every event during the any or all votes. Reasonable and standardized interface design with a butt-load of;"Do you really want to vote for Mr/s. XYZ? Touch here for yes. Touch here for no.", type user feedback, will help to keep the "general publics" on task Manditory tutorials containing a simulated voting experience to be completed before going to the "real" voting station at every election. will hopefully reduce the number of voters saying "Can I have a 'do-over' because I think I didn't do it right?".
Even where the pay is lower, I think 19K is fair pay for a very secure 9-month a year job that merely requires one of the easiest college majors, and NO demonstrated skills beyond the degree.
If you truly believe this to be true, why aren't you teaching? Oh, you believe you are worth more than 19K a year! Is it because you don't want to put up with the problems in the profession? Have you even looked a your state's requirement to get a teaching certificate? Most states now require subject area tests to be certified to teach. Additionally, in some states, Texas for example, you can't teach a subject unless you have a major or minor in the subject and can pass a state qualifying test in the content area you are teaching. Texas colleges don't even offer education as a major for a bachelor degrees.
And I have seen teachers who hated students and never taught anyone anything keep their positions until they retired. That's not typical, but it happens. In the same public school, the two best teachers were both gone within 3 years -- one became headmaster of an exclusive private school, the other left teaching.
Thanks for making my point; the two best teachers went where the pay and environment are better! The poor teaches stay. So the best teachers leave and now the administration needs to hire more teachers, who to hire for the openings? Do you, as an administrator on a tight budget, hire the most experienced teacher you can find, or do you move the 15-20 year veterans to the bottom of the pile and look first at the more affordable fresh faces just out of college? Did you know 60% or so of the teachers with five or less years experience quit teaching and move on to other sectors of the economy? A teacher with more than five years experience will typically change jobs inside the education industry for two reasons: better pay, or better working environment. Schools with bigger salaries have better teachers. Schools that respect their staff as human beings have better teachers. More affluent schools that can offer more cash and better work environment get better, poorer schools that offer less money and less friendly environments get worse.
The top-notch teachers could do that job, but they'd rather teach -- and so they settle for the same salary as the lousy teachers. Not fair, but increasing the pay of the lousy teachers is not going to fix it, it just gives more people who can't or won't teach well an incentive to get into the field.
I quit teaching after four years. Now four years after I went to into industry as a Mechanical Engineer, I make five times as much as I did as a teacher. My income is now slightly more than three times the average maximum salary for a teacher in my state with 30 years of experience. I was a better teacher than almost every one of my co-workers. Why would I ever go back to a place of work where I am verbally and mentally abused on a daily basis and am paid one-fifth what I get now? Increasing the pay for teachers in general will attract a better quality of person to the job! The least qualified teachers will be forced out of education over time into jobs flipping burgers and greeting people at Wally World where they belong. This is not an issue of fairness. This is an issue of market forces at work. Offer 100K a year and only retain the best candidates and your education system improves. Offer pay on par with flipping burgers and you get people only qualified to flip burgers or ones that maybe be 'wonderful teachers' but have a martyr syndrome and education suffers.
The reason the quality of teaching (and teachers) is so low in the United States is the low pay and high level of responsibility.
Some states only pay a first year teacher 19K a year. Remember they only are paid for the 185 or so school days they really worked. Assuming a teacher works at Wally World or somewhere through the summer at the same rate as he is paid to teach, for a full work year's you only get 26K as a starting salary. Let's see that's ~$12.50 an hour if you base it on a 40-hour week. Here's the kicker most teachers go to work around 7:30AM and go home around 4:00PM with half an hour off for lunch. Then they start grading papers until 7:30 or 8:00 at night. That's a 65-hour workweek people. So, that is ~$7.70 an hour. Hmm minimum wage is $6.25 an hour. Most clerks at the mall and Wally World greeters make $8-$10 and hour. Mall clerks and Wally World greeters don't have to put up with the stuff a teacher deals with on a day-to-day basis. Most middle school and high school kids are completely self-absorbed and treat their teacher and fellow students horribly. Parents treat teachers somewhere between baby sitters and hand servants. Parents generally only go to see a teacher to complain about the teacher's treatment of their child.
How would you like a job where you do a great job every day and yet get obscenities screamed at you 7-8 times a week for 30-40 minutes at a time? You also get punished for complaining about your scream sessions. As a bonus prize, your supervisor decides your retention by showing up in your work area for one hour a year and bases your evaluation on that single hour. You could walk on water the rest of the year but get canned because a little 'Bart Simpson type' passed gas and caused the room to break out in laughter. That's just the minor complaints. Try counseling a pregnant teenager on how (or if) she is going to tell her Neanderthal father about her situation. (Remember you have to be able to live with yourself after she loses the baby from the beating she gets from her Daddy.) Or being required by law to report 'any signs of child abuse', you observe during the regular course of your day to the State Child Protective Services Office. Or being expected to teach morality and good citizenship to kids but not offend any of the local loony-toon's personal values. Yup, I'll do that for eight bucks an hour until I have 10 years of seniority.
After all with a college degree you can get a job as an executive assistant and make twice as much with better conditions and spend more quality time at home.
Ditto! I started teaching myself UNIX administration on a Slackware Box. The fact that "I" had to do everything on my own taught me more than reading the man pages and HOWTO's. The Slackware approach leads you to the Linux "Do it yourself" philosophy.
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Depleted Uranium is not spent the fuel rods leftovers most people assume from its name. It is what is left over after extraction of the fissile material from refined Uranium.
Significant amounts of refined Uranium are stable isotopes. To get enriched Uranium you force the refined metallic Uranium through a series of filters that select the isotopes based on physical characteristics. Uranium ions in solution are large enough a special porous ceramic filter can pass the ions of the desired atomic weight. Using several passes with different sizes of pores you get the nice hot Uranium you need for bombs and such. One of the byproducts is a nice very dense metal, Uranium. Almost as hard as austenitic steel and much denser than lead. Not much hotter than the tritium illuminator sources in the standard issue compasses carried by infantry. The dust is however a mechanical poison that works much like ionic silver. Silver nitrate is just as dangerous a compound.
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I hardly think the $396,100,000,000.00 spent on military (52% of the total budget [upenn.edu]) is really as necessary(spelling corrected) as the government would like you to believe.
Read your own source better! It clearly states the military budget is 52% of the discretionary spending not the total budget as you have implied. Do you know the difference between a discretionary and a non-discretionary line item? If you are going to convince anyone of the validity of your arguments you should understand the terminology.
BTW most of the Defense budget is non-discretionary spending. In other words the CONGRESS says, "You will spend the money this way or not at all." Comparing the total military budget to the budget of other selected Departments is at best misleading and at worse deceitful.
Misquoting your source as haphazardly as you have leads one to conclude you are either ill informed or purposefully trying to mislead people. How many military members are there compared to the number of employees in the federal department of education? How many total employees are there in the aggregated departments of education for the federal and state and local level and what is the total budget for those aggregated departments? That is a better measure of the level of funding for education compared to the national defense.
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About your sources: Quit comparing apples and oranges it invalidates your argument
Education is managed and principally funded at a local level. National defense is managed and funded at the federal level. Comparing the national budget for defense to the national budget for education is vacuous. The budget analysis in the source you quote is very much like comparing the number of legs on an ant to the number of leaves on an apple tree and gleefully concluding that insects infinitely more worthy of leaves.
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Look at this from the solders point of view. How _do_ you discriminate between friendly signals and signals from hostiles? US ground forces can detect and localize satellite cell phone signals; however, in general the intercepts are side lobe spill of digitized and compressed signal from a mostly directional antenna. Most of the time you know someone is talking and where they are but you can't listen in real time from the ground. Can't the Iraqi's use cell phones to relay information from scouts back to artillery units or headquarters? Guess what they all ready do. Any signal not from an imbedded journalist could be someone getting ready to kill you and your buddies. So warning the non-imbedded journalists that they may draw fire by using a technology known to be in enemy hands is somehow the wrong thing to do?
According to Ms. Adie, who twelve years ago covered the last Gulf War, the Pentagon attitude is: "entirely hostile to the free spread of information."
Ms. Adie thinks that she _should_ be able to report the exact location of the 3ID's headquarters and offsets the from those coordinates for the main briefing area and the exact time of the next command staff meeting. Should the people in that briefing let her? Should they feel hostile to someone whose actions may result in their death or dismemberment?
Rita Cosby on FOX News- US Troops Have Just Discovered WMD in the Field
if they feel that strongly, I hear the iraqi army is recruiting!
Of course, I don't remember those protests when Bill Clinton launched cruise missiles at Iraq. Or when he invaded Haiti, Bosnia, or Sudan, without UN approval.
Oh, that's right, They're not protesting the war, they're protesting against George Bush. You don't see Iraq citizens protesting the american invasion, do you?
Not a war crime not then not now. http://community.webshots.com/photo/17750667/17750 777KOLvpHNqRo
France, Germany and Russia all have heavy investments in the Iraqi oil industry. They have been working on getting huge follow on expansion of their involvement as soon as the UN lifts its sanctions. France, Germany and Russia all know if the US kicks Saddam out of power all their back office deals are down the tube and the rebuilding of the Iraqi economy will be handle by US firms.
France and Russia have been selling arms, duel use technology and nuclear technology to Iraq for the last 35 years. The Iraqis will continue to refuse to destroy the Al Samoud 2 missiles as ordered by the UN. They will whine and complain and drag their feet for years as France, Germany and Russia continues to support them in the UN Security Council.
I think the US should just state for the record an extension of the MAD deterrence policy of the cold war. ONLY they should tell the world "Okay we'll leave Iraq alone BUT if a terrorist group, any terrorist group, uses a WMD against the US, the US will use fusion bombs on the capitols of all nations that are currently refusing to deal with Iraq's weapons programs now."
after market modification don't you understand, you ignorant fool?
Although you have rendered your arguments vacuous by resorting to invective I will reply in your mode of communication.
Look up the definition of a republic again genius
My point is, moron, that too many people, like you, let the representatives drive the operation of the government. You confuse definitions and operations.
Why bother to check on the beliefs of someone you selected to represent you after you send them to the government? I guess you're just to busy trying to grok the essence of hexadecimal for your freshman computing class mid-term to capture the subtlety of my meaning.
Why don't you look up the definition of a representative and re-read my post, sonny?
And you can't drive vehicles of any type because the manufacturing process has to be such that certain emissions are curbed dumbass.
Too technically incompetent to do an aftermarket modification, eh? There are thousands of sources for aftermarket equipment. Just because you drive a POS made in Japan and designed by the EPA doesn't mean I must.
Since none of the six "lot cars" on my farm are registered to drive on public roads, they have no catalytic converters or other smog control devices, no license plates, no inspection stickers, no insurance, two have no doors, all have no seatbelts and all are fueled by propane. Both my tractors run on propane as well. Since these vehicles don't operate over public roads they are not bound by the governmental controls for vehicles manufactured for use on the public road system. All those process controls to curb emissions apply only to vehicles on public roads.
Get your causality straight!
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US Seeks To Block Spread Of Unpiloted Aircraft Technologies
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/uav-
Next thing I know my model plane will be considered a spyplane if I mount a video camera on it. Actually, I shouldn't give them ideas.
You are not giving them ideas! They are far ahead of you. Think about it. R/C airplanes and model rockets?... Predator drones and maverick missiles?
For instance, I could say that since we allow the government to regulate the operation of motor vehicles, it is only a matter of time before the government regulates all aspects of life.
It is because roads are funded with public money and the public uses those roads that the government has any right of regulation for vehicles. We allow the government to regulate the operation of motor vehicles only on public roads or public property in the US. You can drive at any age, drive vehicles of any type or drive vehicles of any condition on your own property. You can have a vehicle shipped by common carrier to any location in the US. As long as you do not operate the vehicle on pubic roads or property you do not have to register, insure or jump through any other regulatory hoops for that vehicle.
Now, you ask where do we draw the line? We don't draw the line. The politicians you have elected do. This is a republic, not a democracy and therefore if you are concerned with this problem, contact your representative and find out where he or she stands. I hope you know who your representative is.
Wrong, We draw the lines. Don't contact your government representative to "find out where he or she stands". Contact them to let them know where you as a constituent stand. If your government representative does not represent you and your interests, align with like-minded people and work for getting your reprehensive replaced. Quit allowing the horse to drive the cart. The people selecting representatives, not people abdicating their responsibilities and passively taking on the values of the government, run a republic.
That's not what Unions are for. Unions are for the workers not being bullied by management
That's wrong. Vote with your feet. If you are being bullied by the management, quit the job! Bad managers don't deserve good employees. Get a clue. Work places full of weak willed low performers go into a death spiral of overwork and tighter deadlines. Tell the business managers to heed your technical advice or THEY can suffer the consequences. Write a memo of record and send it to the CTO, CFO and CEO. When the project is overdue and they are yelling at you hand them a copy of the memo. If they keep whining, quit! Go start your own company.
Unions in the US are a vehicle for the "labor movement" to force you to pay dues and contribute to involuntary "retirement plans" where the organizers then abscond with the money before you are fully vested.
No, It like JWSmythe just stated. It is not part of their job. Forget the "To Protect and Serve" line. The police are there to enforce laws not protect you from criminals. The only one that has any legal obligation to protect you is _you_. The only other entities, at least in the state of Texas, that have any legal right, not obligation, to defend you are persons with whom you enjoy a special relationship; e.g. wife, child, husband, extended family, friend or someone responding to your calls for help. Please note that they have a right to act in your defense but no obligation..
Talk about parroting a party line straight from the Violence Policy Center. Try reading the US Code
TITLE 10 , Subtitle A , PART I , CHAPTER 13 , Sec. 311. - Militia: composition and classes
(a)
The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
(b)
The classes of the militia are -
(1)
the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
(2)
the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia
Are you a male US citizen? Are you under 45 years old? If yes to both, you are part of the unorganized militia with a Federal mandate to protect your nation by keeping and bearing arms.
Are you a human being? If yes you have an intrinsic right to self-protection as acknowledged by the US Constitution.
If 'the people' in the first amendment refers to an individual right to free speech and peaceable assembly why does 'the people' in the second amendment refer to a states right to organize a militia? All other references 'the people' in the US Constitution and Bill of Rights are interpreted to mean either an individual right or a right reserved to the 'body of the people' as a whole, hence reserved to each and every member of the body.
{If your life is threatened, it is the police's job to protect you.}= FALSE.
The police have no obligation to protect you. In most major metro areas, they don't even respond to 911 calls reporting gun shots. They may respond to 'robbery in progress' calls but usually arrive AFTER the event is over. Try holding a police department responsible for your personal safty in a court case and you will give the judge a good laugh.
BTW read TITLE 10 , Subtitle A , PART I , CHAPTER 13 , Sec. 311. to find out who is the milita refered to by the second amendment.
Think before you speak young one.
1. Roast rocks in space for carbon and other useful stuff.
2. Make cable from carbon.
3. Use juke left over from making cable for counter poise etc.
4. Drop loose end into atmoshpere in to pre built foundation.
If you are not a security guru and know some things about security, you need to know a good primary source for information. The book's data may get dated very quickly but the data sources you derive from the book will be current. Some books are good for the data others are good for directing you to a current reference. Having an author do 90% of the leg work and sorting of trash sources from golden ones is important.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/cjusew96.htm
Get real, humans and cockroaches already share about 70% of their genetic material. The difference between similar species' genetic material is tiny. Adding the one character, say to have a plant make more of a specific chemical, is a trivial change. Adding jellyfish genes to a plant to make it luminous under ultra-violet light when it needs water isn't a threat to humanity.
Agricultural monoculture is more of a threat than bioengineering. Didn't we learn that during the potato blight in the 1800's?
Eco-terrorism is not going to 'change' the way multinational corporations do business. It will only get the mega-corps to have oppressive protective laws enacted that will prevent the common people from enjoying the few natural places left on the planet.
What if communist conspirators hax0r the voting boxes and Fidel Castro's tube-baby offspring is elected President of the United States?
That is the reason these voting boxes should be standalone systems. No network connection to the box makes access to the box a requirment to hack it. Having the system physically as secure as the average ballot box, will keep the kiddies off the console. Burning the custom kernal single use application image into a ROM installed in the voting box by the election officials, will allow pre and post election review of the binary. Logging the voter's every transaction on a custom hardware, non-field-removeable media WORM drive along with the voter's registration number, will allow officials to review not only the outcome of the election but every event during the any or all votes. Reasonable and standardized interface design with a butt-load of;"Do you really want to vote for Mr/s. XYZ? Touch here for yes. Touch here for no.", type user feedback, will help to keep the "general publics" on task Manditory tutorials containing a simulated voting experience to be completed before going to the "real" voting station at every election. will hopefully reduce the number of voters saying "Can I have a 'do-over' because I think I didn't do it right?".
If you truly believe this to be true, why aren't you teaching? Oh, you believe you are worth more than 19K a year! Is it because you don't want to put up with the problems in the profession? Have you even looked a your state's requirement to get a teaching certificate? Most states now require subject area tests to be certified to teach. Additionally, in some states, Texas for example, you can't teach a subject unless you have a major or minor in the subject and can pass a state qualifying test in the content area you are teaching. Texas colleges don't even offer education as a major for a bachelor degrees.
And I have seen teachers who hated students and never taught anyone anything keep their positions until they retired. That's not typical, but it happens. In the same public school, the two best teachers were both gone within 3 years -- one became headmaster of an exclusive private school, the other left teaching.
Thanks for making my point; the two best teachers went where the pay and environment are better! The poor teaches stay. So the best teachers leave and now the administration needs to hire more teachers, who to hire for the openings? Do you, as an administrator on a tight budget, hire the most experienced teacher you can find, or do you move the 15-20 year veterans to the bottom of the pile and look first at the more affordable fresh faces just out of college? Did you know 60% or so of the teachers with five or less years experience quit teaching and move on to other sectors of the economy? A teacher with more than five years experience will typically change jobs inside the education industry for two reasons: better pay, or better working environment. Schools with bigger salaries have better teachers. Schools that respect their staff as human beings have better teachers. More affluent schools that can offer more cash and better work environment get better, poorer schools that offer less money and less friendly environments get worse.
The top-notch teachers could do that job, but they'd rather teach -- and so they settle for the same salary as the lousy teachers. Not fair, but increasing the pay of the lousy teachers is not going to fix it, it just gives more people who can't or won't teach well an incentive to get into the field.
I quit teaching after four years. Now four years after I went to into industry as a Mechanical Engineer, I make five times as much as I did as a teacher. My income is now slightly more than three times the average maximum salary for a teacher in my state with 30 years of experience. I was a better teacher than almost every one of my co-workers. Why would I ever go back to a place of work where I am verbally and mentally abused on a daily basis and am paid one-fifth what I get now? Increasing the pay for teachers in general will attract a better quality of person to the job! The least qualified teachers will be forced out of education over time into jobs flipping burgers and greeting people at Wally World where they belong. This is not an issue of fairness. This is an issue of market forces at work. Offer 100K a year and only retain the best candidates and your education system improves. Offer pay on par with flipping burgers and you get people only qualified to flip burgers or ones that maybe be 'wonderful teachers' but have a martyr syndrome and education suffers.
The reason the quality of teaching (and teachers) is so low in the United States is the low pay and high level of responsibility.
Some states only pay a first year teacher 19K a year. Remember they only are paid for the 185 or so school days they really worked. Assuming a teacher works at Wally World or somewhere through the summer at the same rate as he is paid to teach, for a full work year's you only get 26K as a starting salary. Let's see that's ~$12.50 an hour if you base it on a 40-hour week. Here's the kicker most teachers go to work around 7:30AM and go home around 4:00PM with half an hour off for lunch. Then they start grading papers until 7:30 or 8:00 at night. That's a 65-hour workweek people. So, that is ~$7.70 an hour. Hmm minimum wage is $6.25 an hour. Most clerks at the mall and Wally World greeters make $8-$10 and hour. Mall clerks and Wally World greeters don't have to put up with the stuff a teacher deals with on a day-to-day basis. Most middle school and high school kids are completely self-absorbed and treat their teacher and fellow students horribly. Parents treat teachers somewhere between baby sitters and hand servants. Parents generally only go to see a teacher to complain about the teacher's treatment of their child.
How would you like a job where you do a great job every day and yet get obscenities screamed at you 7-8 times a week for 30-40 minutes at a time? You also get punished for complaining about your scream sessions. As a bonus prize, your supervisor decides your retention by showing up in your work area for one hour a year and bases your evaluation on that single hour. You could walk on water the rest of the year but get canned because a little 'Bart Simpson type' passed gas and caused the room to break out in laughter. That's just the minor complaints. Try counseling a pregnant teenager on how (or if) she is going to tell her Neanderthal father about her situation. (Remember you have to be able to live with yourself after she loses the baby from the beating she gets from her Daddy.) Or being required by law to report 'any signs of child abuse', you observe during the regular course of your day to the State Child Protective Services Office. Or being expected to teach morality and good citizenship to kids but not offend any of the local loony-toon's personal values. Yup, I'll do that for eight bucks an hour until I have 10 years of seniority.
After all with a college degree you can get a job as an executive assistant and make twice as much with better conditions and spend more quality time at home.
Ditto! I started teaching myself UNIX administration on a Slackware Box. The fact that "I" had to do everything on my own taught me more than reading the man pages and HOWTO's. The Slackware approach leads you to the Linux "Do it yourself" philosophy.
Some of us it the first time. The artical has enough good content to deserve a repost or three.