They run firearms safety courses and hunter safety courses all over the country, plus put out public education campaigns about safety and general firearms knowledge. They also sponsor shooting competitions and help local shooting and hunting clubs get started, which is why most of them want you to be an NRA member to join.
Remember, the NRA was originally founded to improve the marksmanship of the general public. The political arm is only relatively recent, a necessary response to efforts to restrict gun ownership by the "Bill of Rights -1" crowd.
I'm not talking about expenses used to run the charity. And a childcare provider at a woman's shelter isn't really overhead, but part of the charitable work if they're watching the children of the women being helped.
As far as admin expenses, I'm not talking regular admin, or even a CEO making a million a year. It can cost that much to hire someone competent enough to run a large multi-national charity.
However, there are charities around that basically look like money funnels. Small charities where the admin expense and CEO pay is a significant portion of the intake. Even worse, where fundraising expenses are half or more of the total. To me, these look like the CEO has buddies who run fundraising companies and is using the charity simply as a way to funnel business to them, probably with kickbacks. It's also a way to funnel money to family and friends by hiring them for various do-nothing admin positions.
When conservatives break the law they always get away with it, because law and order only applies to minorities and Democrats.
So that's why Charlie Rangel and Maxine Waters are still in office. It took cash in the freezer and years of prosecution to get the obviously guilty William Jefferson behind bars -- and Democrats still re-nominated him while he was under indictment.
The last time a conservative insider got put away was Scooter Libby, and he was taking a bullet for Chaney's leaking Valery Plame's status as a CIA operative.
Actually, no. Libby was convicted because he didn't remember correctly, and forgot to preface his statements with "I'm not sure, but..." The special prosecutor already knew the leak was Richard Armitage from the State Department and declined to pursue that further, so Libby was protecting nobody. He was the sacrificial lamb. The investigation had to produce a result, even if it had nothing to do with punishing an actual leaker.
Apple discontinued the 3G in June 2010, and the first update that didn't include the 3G was in March 2010. So you bought a phone that you knew was at the end of its sales life (almost two years old already) and at a discounted price due to it being last year's model. Still, you got almost a year of official latest OS support.
I bought an Android phone that was NEVER at the latest OS. It came out 1.6 when 2.0 had been out a while. Then went 2.1 when 2.2 had been out a while, and never went to 2.2.
More recently we bought a phone with 2.3 six months after the phone came out, just after 4.0 came out. Official support will never go to 4.0.
So, while you had a year of latest-OS support, be happy you weren't on Android, where quite often you never get to be on the latest OS for long, if ever.
As with most things, FDR was neither all good nor all bad.
With private sector unions, the union officials are negotiating with the company about how company money is used. Both want more, and have the incentive to work out a deal where neither side gets screwed.
With a public sector union, the union officials are negotiating with the politicians they helped put into office about how someone else's money is used. They have incentive to work out a sweetheart deal for both of them, but the taxpayer gets screwed since his interests aren't part of the deal making.
Democrat politicians want the strong unions since they steer more money to their campaign coffers. In return, Democrat politicians give ever sweeter terms to the unions, paid for by the taxpayers. It's a sick, incestuous relationship.
So even if we assign the worst motives to the likes of Walker for curtailing public sector unions, purely to cut off a funding source for Democrats, the net positive effect is still to the benefit of the taxpayers over a small minority that has been milking them for years.
"[A] strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to obstruct the operations of government until their demands are satisfied. Such action looking toward the paralysis of government by those who have sworn to support it is unthinkable and intolerable."
Unions are corporations, and they then shouldn't be able to petition the government.
The basic problem here is that corporations are made of people, and people have rights. So you're telling a group of people that as soon as they get together for a common purpose, they suddenly lose those rights. Let's say a group of like-minded people want to get together for a cause, let's say against eating kittens. They decide to incorporate to make things easier concerning their pooled money in a bank account, etc. But now, under your rule, they can't use that money to run ads against a politician who advocates eating kittens.
It's funny how it backfires. Now whenever a protest gets ugly due to the actions of the protesters themselves, they claim agent provacateur. The occupy protests had at least one known agent provacateur, but a whole lot of illegal activity on their own too.
You need to take the context into account, a government with the pretense of being a free society, where everybody is supposedly free, but the powers that be slowly encroach on the freedoms until people who think they are free, aren't. She's talking about an enviornment where most people think "Why worry if I've done nothing wrong," but there exists a very real need to worry.
Ayn Rand came from a country where the threat of wiping out your family was very credible and real, so I'm sure she understood that option.
Do you know all 200,000 pages of the US Code, plus all federal regulations, plus your state code, plus state regulations, plus your county and city codes? Have you gone over all court decisions pertaining to those laws and regulations? Have you done this with an attorney to make sure your understanding is correct? No? There's ignorance of the law for you.
Ayn Rand was a bit of a kook, but one thing she definitely nailed was this quote:
There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
This is why you have an attorney present, or don't talk.
The part that bothers me is that the FBI tries to entrap them, get them to commit a crime where they normally wouldn't have done it. And in the end, you know those wiretaps are still around. There is no way to order the FBI to close the case, clear the files, and let these people get back to their old lives.
The Ruby Ridge fiasco shows how badly the government can behave in this regard.
They questioned him as a witness to one crime, with wich he had nothing to do and was perfectly innocent. But during the questioning he ended up laying some crumbs with a few wrong words, which the investigator followed, and ended up in him being arrested for another crime (adultery, he was in the military).
It may not be adultery for you, but maybe something you didn't even know was a crime. Maybe you admitted to sightseeing along a highway in Nevada, and off-handedly mentioned how much you love camels too. Wait, did you ride a camel on a Nevada highway? Busted! A lawyer will tell you "Don't answer that" before you hit that point.
MREs have very low dietary fiber content, and that's what messes with your system. As a past consumer of many an MRE going back to the days of the four fingers of death, I can confirm the effects. Otherwise, MREs are nutritionally sufficient, although high in fat and sodium. So if you plan on living on MREs, make sure you pack a few bottles of fiber supplement like Benefiber and mix it with lots of water.
Something that is true does not become any less true because some guy decided to make it a part of his religion.
The poor will always be around for many reasons. One is government leaders deciding to take all the country's wealth for themselves. Another is that many people just aren't that industrious. Another is pure bad luck.
Agree with the point, but we're not talking about consumer space. In the embedded high-performance market like this, 64-bit was standard back in the 90s. The 64-bit DEC Alpha was common for Raster Image Processors and was in early NetApps. 64-bit MIPS found quite a lot of use in this area too.
So ARM will be more like two decades late to the 64-bit party.
Muslim countries think they are the freest in the world. You are completely free to live your life according to Sharia. They actually don't see punishing speech "insulting" to Islam as an infringement on freedom of speech. They don't see putting apostates to death as an infringement on their religous freedom. But copies of copyrighted works are freely available for sale everywhere, with no compensation to the rights holder.
In the US you can say anything you want about any religion and can't be legally prosecuted (although the leftist "hate speech" trend is getting us there). You can flip between religions as you like, no punishment whatsoever. But put some movies up at a web site and the FBI may come down on you worse than if you'd murdered someone.
And, of course, release US secrets to the world, and the US will want to prosecute while its enemies cheer freedom and openness. Release the secrets of those enemies, suddenly they're not so hot on freedom and openness.
Somewhere in a US-unfriendly place for sure. But likely that US-unfriendly place won't be the most free country in the world and may want to shut you down for whatever reason (if you're hosting in Iran and say something bad about Iran, for example). So, you need to host in the US too, because the US will ignore their legal requests for takedown. Get domains from a few different TLDs that can always lead to your site, and you're good.
Early 1970s technology, 0 to Mach 10 in 5 seconds, intercept at 30,000 meters in 15 seconds. There is just no way a modern hypersonic jet could outrun even that 40 year-old tech.
There were a couple, but not smart phones like the LG Prada, which was a feature phone. Of course, Apple already had this design solidified for a smart phone back in 2005, before the LG Prada was unveiled.
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Shorter arctic shipping routes are opening up due to the rapid disappearance of route-blocking ice.
They run firearms safety courses and hunter safety courses all over the country, plus put out public education campaigns about safety and general firearms knowledge. They also sponsor shooting competitions and help local shooting and hunting clubs get started, which is why most of them want you to be an NRA member to join.
Remember, the NRA was originally founded to improve the marksmanship of the general public. The political arm is only relatively recent, a necessary response to efforts to restrict gun ownership by the "Bill of Rights -1" crowd.
I'm not talking about expenses used to run the charity. And a childcare provider at a woman's shelter isn't really overhead, but part of the charitable work if they're watching the children of the women being helped.
As far as admin expenses, I'm not talking regular admin, or even a CEO making a million a year. It can cost that much to hire someone competent enough to run a large multi-national charity.
However, there are charities around that basically look like money funnels. Small charities where the admin expense and CEO pay is a significant portion of the intake. Even worse, where fundraising expenses are half or more of the total. To me, these look like the CEO has buddies who run fundraising companies and is using the charity simply as a way to funnel business to them, probably with kickbacks. It's also a way to funnel money to family and friends by hiring them for various do-nothing admin positions.
So that's why Charlie Rangel and Maxine Waters are still in office. It took cash in the freezer and years of prosecution to get the obviously guilty William Jefferson behind bars -- and Democrats still re-nominated him while he was under indictment.
Actually, no. Libby was convicted because he didn't remember correctly, and forgot to preface his statements with "I'm not sure, but..." The special prosecutor already knew the leak was Richard Armitage from the State Department and declined to pursue that further, so Libby was protecting nobody. He was the sacrificial lamb. The investigation had to produce a result, even if it had nothing to do with punishing an actual leaker.
She didn't realize the implications.
Now Democrat Mario Cuomo has his guys use Blackberry PIN to PIN communications to purposely avoid FOIA.
Most likely protected from disclosure.
Yes, typo on the year.
Apple discontinued the 3G in June 2010, and the first update that didn't include the 3G was in March 2010. So you bought a phone that you knew was at the end of its sales life (almost two years old already) and at a discounted price due to it being last year's model. Still, you got almost a year of official latest OS support.
I bought an Android phone that was NEVER at the latest OS. It came out 1.6 when 2.0 had been out a while. Then went 2.1 when 2.2 had been out a while, and never went to 2.2.
More recently we bought a phone with 2.3 six months after the phone came out, just after 4.0 came out. Official support will never go to 4.0.
So, while you had a year of latest-OS support, be happy you weren't on Android, where quite often you never get to be on the latest OS for long, if ever.
As with most things, FDR was neither all good nor all bad.
With private sector unions, the union officials are negotiating with the company about how company money is used. Both want more, and have the incentive to work out a deal where neither side gets screwed.
With a public sector union, the union officials are negotiating with the politicians they helped put into office about how someone else's money is used. They have incentive to work out a sweetheart deal for both of them, but the taxpayer gets screwed since his interests aren't part of the deal making.
Democrat politicians want the strong unions since they steer more money to their campaign coffers. In return, Democrat politicians give ever sweeter terms to the unions, paid for by the taxpayers. It's a sick, incestuous relationship.
So even if we assign the worst motives to the likes of Walker for curtailing public sector unions, purely to cut off a funding source for Democrats, the net positive effect is still to the benefit of the taxpayers over a small minority that has been milking them for years.
I think FDR said it best:
"[A] strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to obstruct the operations of government until their demands are satisfied. Such action looking toward the paralysis of government by those who have sworn to support it is unthinkable and intolerable."
Unions are corporations, and they then shouldn't be able to petition the government.
The basic problem here is that corporations are made of people, and people have rights. So you're telling a group of people that as soon as they get together for a common purpose, they suddenly lose those rights. Let's say a group of like-minded people want to get together for a cause, let's say against eating kittens. They decide to incorporate to make things easier concerning their pooled money in a bank account, etc. But now, under your rule, they can't use that money to run ads against a politician who advocates eating kittens.
It's funny how it backfires. Now whenever a protest gets ugly due to the actions of the protesters themselves, they claim agent provacateur. The occupy protests had at least one known agent provacateur, but a whole lot of illegal activity on their own too.
You need to take the context into account, a government with the pretense of being a free society, where everybody is supposedly free, but the powers that be slowly encroach on the freedoms until people who think they are free, aren't. She's talking about an enviornment where most people think "Why worry if I've done nothing wrong," but there exists a very real need to worry.
Ayn Rand came from a country where the threat of wiping out your family was very credible and real, so I'm sure she understood that option.
Do you know all 200,000 pages of the US Code, plus all federal regulations, plus your state code, plus state regulations, plus your county and city codes? Have you gone over all court decisions pertaining to those laws and regulations? Have you done this with an attorney to make sure your understanding is correct? No? There's ignorance of the law for you.
Ayn Rand was a bit of a kook, but one thing she definitely nailed was this quote:
This is why you have an attorney present, or don't talk.
The part that bothers me is that the FBI tries to entrap them, get them to commit a crime where they normally wouldn't have done it. And in the end, you know those wiretaps are still around. There is no way to order the FBI to close the case, clear the files, and let these people get back to their old lives.
The Ruby Ridge fiasco shows how badly the government can behave in this regard.
They questioned him as a witness to one crime, with wich he had nothing to do and was perfectly innocent. But during the questioning he ended up laying some crumbs with a few wrong words, which the investigator followed, and ended up in him being arrested for another crime (adultery, he was in the military).
It may not be adultery for you, but maybe something you didn't even know was a crime. Maybe you admitted to sightseeing along a highway in Nevada, and off-handedly mentioned how much you love camels too. Wait, did you ride a camel on a Nevada highway? Busted! A lawyer will tell you "Don't answer that" before you hit that point.
MREs have very low dietary fiber content, and that's what messes with your system. As a past consumer of many an MRE going back to the days of the four fingers of death, I can confirm the effects. Otherwise, MREs are nutritionally sufficient, although high in fat and sodium. So if you plan on living on MREs, make sure you pack a few bottles of fiber supplement like Benefiber and mix it with lots of water.
Something that is true does not become any less true because some guy decided to make it a part of his religion.
The poor will always be around for many reasons. One is government leaders deciding to take all the country's wealth for themselves. Another is that many people just aren't that industrious. Another is pure bad luck.
He wants population control, and here we are working to eliminate a major natural population control mechanism.
Millions of dead kids = good for the environment.
Agree with the point, but we're not talking about consumer space. In the embedded high-performance market like this, 64-bit was standard back in the 90s. The 64-bit DEC Alpha was common for Raster Image Processors and was in early NetApps. 64-bit MIPS found quite a lot of use in this area too.
So ARM will be more like two decades late to the 64-bit party.
Muslim countries think they are the freest in the world. You are completely free to live your life according to Sharia. They actually don't see punishing speech "insulting" to Islam as an infringement on freedom of speech. They don't see putting apostates to death as an infringement on their religous freedom. But copies of copyrighted works are freely available for sale everywhere, with no compensation to the rights holder.
In the US you can say anything you want about any religion and can't be legally prosecuted (although the leftist "hate speech" trend is getting us there). You can flip between religions as you like, no punishment whatsoever. But put some movies up at a web site and the FBI may come down on you worse than if you'd murdered someone.
And, of course, release US secrets to the world, and the US will want to prosecute while its enemies cheer freedom and openness. Release the secrets of those enemies, suddenly they're not so hot on freedom and openness.
Somewhere in a US-unfriendly place for sure. But likely that US-unfriendly place won't be the most free country in the world and may want to shut you down for whatever reason (if you're hosting in Iran and say something bad about Iran, for example). So, you need to host in the US too, because the US will ignore their legal requests for takedown. Get domains from a few different TLDs that can always lead to your site, and you're good.
Early 1970s technology, 0 to Mach 10 in 5 seconds, intercept at 30,000 meters in 15 seconds. There is just no way a modern hypersonic jet could outrun even that 40 year-old tech.
This is about Android, and Android was on the path to being a Blackberry clone, and suddenly switched after the iPhone came out.
There were a couple, but not smart phones like the LG Prada, which was a feature phone. Of course, Apple already had this design solidified for a smart phone back in 2005, before the LG Prada was unveiled.