"It is my duty to ensure that only those people who _should_ be in possession of a handgun _are_ in possession of a handgun, in doing this I must judge their character.
With this duty in mind I have but two questions for anyone who comes asking such a license; Would you like to own a gun? and, if I were to issue this license, will you then take that license and use it to procure said weapon?
If the applicant answers to both in the affirmative, then I deem that they are not really the sort of person who I feel should be in possession of a gun."
Out here in the real world, when such discretion is given to a single individual, they will abuse that discretion, sell it, or neglect it. To even broach the subject seriously shows an utter naivety about the wholesomeness and integrity of people put in such positions of discretionary power. We (Americans) would like to live in a nation of laws, not a nation ruled by thousands of tiny little dictators in their own little regulatory fiefdoms. Each legislative issuance of this sort of discretionary power is a retraction of freedom, no matter what the subject- whether it be guns, or zoning laws, or health care.
The author, Gary Taubes, basically says that a south beach/atkins/low glycerimic index diet is the way to go. He does so by explaining the metabolism at hand, and providing studies to explain various points.
I read the book, shifted my eating habits, and lost thirty pounds rather easily. I then got lazy and sloppy and stopped losing weight- but my appetite and habits have been shifted enough that I haven't gained any back.
One of the key insights in his book is that you'd give the same advice for building up an appetite before a sumptous dinner as you would give to someone losing weight- ie: 1) Don't eat much before hand 2) Exercise a bunch to make yourself hungry.
Any scheme based on that alone is bound to fail. Any scheme where you can't eat whenever you want is bound to fail.
That leaves what you eat as the variable. Taubes explains why you should stear away from vertain foods. Good luck.
But that was a strong lesson to me. If I ever really want to be anonymous I'm going to have to purposely work on adopting a completely different writing style. And I will have to keep a wall up between styles and never 'slip'.
Have someone you trust, who is not in the company, rewrite your missive for you. That's probably the safest way.
...Being a lecturing nanny to actually see that the normal functions of a city government are performed. Note his wars on large sodas and restuarant menus, while bedbugs run rampant. He wags his finger at Apple because crooks are loose in his city. And he has his PIs make straw purchases of firearms in far-away states, violating federal law for masterbatory political posturing. Why do New Yorkers elect this clown?
Folks, I'd like to introduce you to "Extreme Damage Mitigating Guidelines" (EDMG), which are procedures created in response to NRC Security Order Section B.5.b. That order was created after 9/11/2001, when crashing airliners into important structures became a known tactic.
The industry response to the B.5.b requirements is not unlike what you would expect for Fukashima contingencies (you've lost large portions of your plant to widespread fires and destruction. How can you mitigate the release of radionuclides to the public when areas x,y and z of your plant are heavily damaged?)
A certain local nuclear power plant I'm familiar with has a diesel-powered pump stored onsite but far away from the power block. It's the exact same type of pump that would have saved the plants at Fukushima, and because of 9/11, we already had the pump, hoses, flanges, and connections required to inject cooling water into the reactor or steam generators under the most adverse conditions. This equipment and the required contigencies plans were in place a few years before Fukushima.
Now the post-Fukushima problem is a natural disaster could conceivably wipe out this B5B pump, putting this contingency plan at risk. That, presumably, is where this FLEX equipment comes in. If you can't count on ANYTHING onsite being available, then you need to have it stored safely offsite. If you're going to do that, might as well share the equipment and costs. One might argue about the size of the regions where this equipment is shared, but the FLEX equipment is: a backup plan (FLEX) to a backup plan (EDMG per B5B) to a backup plan (Severe accident mitigating guidelines and backup pumps and backup- backup generators that pre-date 9/11) to a backup plan (original emergency diesel generators and emergency operating procedures that have been at the plants from the start.)
Japan did not develop EDMG's after 9/11, and consequently were far behind the US nuclear industry in terms of emergency preparedness.
Now, the NRC has required a number of changes at existing and planned US nuclear facilities in response to the Fukushima meltdowns, however, that builds upon changes already made in response to the B5b regulations that came about a decade ago.
Sometimes shit happens and there's no way to plan for it.
'Shit' didn't just happen. A pending attack or assassination was a big concern for Ambassador Stevens months beforehand, and his requests for more security went nowhere.
Past that, there's some concern that Obama failed miserably when Hillary Clinton's legendary '3 am phone call' came.
Even if you want to say 'shit happens' for the latter, the former is still a good reason to look into the deaths of 4 Americans.
In any case, your absolute lack of curiosity on the subject makes you every bit the mindless partisan you accuse republicans of being.
No one told anyone to shut up or stop speaking their mind. Rather, several people questioned the quality of the source. It seems to me that if you disagree with a poster's statements, you might want to try (as you did, not very successfully IMHO) presenting your side.
I'm curious if you have the same lofty standards for the post I was replying to. Here it is, for your convenience:
TheBlaze (i.e. Glenn Beck) is not a credible news source. Please delete this article.
Yes, because accusing a Chicago democrat of rigging votes is completely baseless./sarcasm I'm not too excited about the article, to be honest. I read it. I don't see why you're excited about it, either.
What interests me, however, is your desire to silence anything that could be construed as harmful to democrats, instead of having any sort of discussion about it.
Why do you suppose that those of us on the right want the left to keep talking, and those of you on the left want those on the right to shut up?
I have a similar taste in pens, and I've settled on the Pilot G-2 0.38mm. The ink takes about 2-3 seconds to dry. That fits my quick drying criteria; yours may be different.
Other than that it fits the bill. You can get them at staples for maybe $7 for a six pack.
it doesn't give Zimmerman a right to appoint himself as his judge, jury, and executioner.
Zimmerman was defending himself from an ongoing attack, and there's physical evidence and witness testimony to corroborate that. Do you think an attacker would accept a call of 'time out' so that there might be an investigation, trial, and punishment? Should a person allow themselves to be beaten to a bloody pulp, and perhaps murdered, so cooler heads can later determine if he was actually being attacked?
Not limited to or by established, traditional, orthodox, or authoritarian attitudes, views, or dogmas; free from bigotry.
Please find another word as your political term-of-abuse.
The agents of the left, having already misappropriated the term 'liberal', have moved onto the term 'progressive' Of course they are neither liberal in the classical sense of the word- spreading liberty (unless you mean sexual permissiveness and 'liberty' from the predictable consequences of ill considered acts), nor are they 'progressive'- not advancing the nation, but advocating policies that led to the European implosion we are watching.
Anyway, leftists will seek out a new label as soon as the old one is tarnished (Liberal being abandoned for Progressive nowadays)
You can apply whatever conceitful definition you wish to the current label of those of you on the left.
That label will in short order become a derisive term for those who wish to create a voting bloc by making folks dependent on the government.
As you've seen, I don't use liberal or progressive to describe the leftist, as the use of those terms implies things that aren't so. I wish my fellow right wingers ('liberals' in the classical sense) would abandon the label as well, and simply use 'leftist', 'socialist', or 'communist-lite', as these are accurate definitions using the actual meaning of those words.
In some societies, the concept that we are our brothers' keeper is very strong.
In these societies, if something is bad for someone then that's enough justification to outlaw it.
Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
At some of these research reactors, you can pull the rods out of the reactor shortly after criticality and take your measurements with the fuel rod in your hand. Individual research reactor loads may or may not be particularly dangerous- you can have a radiation well above background level, but far below the rate required to cause health issues. However, a recently irradiated fuel assembly from a power reactor will kill you in short order*, if not shielded by a lot of water.
As for the young Mr. Peren's misadventure, these places are built for adults with the security clearance and knowledge required to get into the facility in the first place. These knowledgable, responsible adults may then escort visitors on arranged tours.
A visitor can be shown (more or less) whatever their escort has access too. The escort's duty is to keep the visitors out of trouble while showing them around. It seems as though Bruce's escort was a bit negligent (and knew it, from the student's displeasure.)
*perversely, the high radiation level of a used fuel assembly is a bit of a security feature. You can't steal something that will kill you before you can get out the door.
When a woman becomes pregnant with a child she does not want, she will be forced to have it. BUT - when the child is born, it will be given to the person at the front of the line, instead of the mother. That person will have the child as long as that child needs parenting. Does not matter if the mother is affluent, or a crack-whore, and the person in line does not get to choose. If the child has Down's Syndrome, or some other equally disabling condition then I guess that parent will be parenting for a long, long time. How's THAT for you putting your money where your mouth is?
Well, that's really a proposition whose implications can be researched. How many abortions are there per year? A quick internet search yields 1.2 million. Let's go with that. How many people are waiting for a child to adopt? That information is harder to come by- there's one site there are dozens waiting for every child that gets adopted; other sites say 1-2 million couples per year.
So it's not unfathomable that most every fetus that's aborted could be adopted. As for your comment about hard to place children, New York city has maybe 1,000 hard to place children, and 200,000 abortions take place there every year. How many of those abortions would become hard adoption cases? Hard to be sure.
So, I know you're trying to be clever, but the statistics might actually come out on the pro-lifer's side of things. It would take a serious study (beyond the scope of this comment) to come up with a good answer, but it could be done. (I'm ambivalent about abortion, and consequently do not take the matter into consideration when voting.)
AC condensation was also my first guess upon reading the comment. After I watched the video, I'm thinking motor oil. AC's don't make trails like that (too much liquid), and the liquid appeared to be rather dark. The leak is also coming from the center line of the car, not off to the side like your quoted text suggests.
For many people, the hot particles they inhaled or ingested will stay with them forever and will lead to significant cell damage and cancer.
I'm no Radiation Protection technician, but I believe this is quantified by the 'Committed Effective Dose Equivalent" measure, and would also show up in a "Whole Body Count", which is required when folks start employment and leave employment at a nuclear facility.
In other words, it's understood and measurable, it's not an unknowable boogeyman.
Or, you know, we could be in the middle of a worldwide financial meltdown where hard decisions have to be made. Governments love to fund scientists, especially when those scientists come to conclusions that convienently give authoritarians the excuse to take more money and power. Even considering that, however, sometimes, you just run out of other people's money to borrow and/or take.
Thank you PEPCO and other 1%ers who are willing to let the US infrastructure rot so you buy yourself islands
Now, I don't know a thing about PEPCO, or the grid regulatory structure down there, but.....
Electricity use and infrastructure should logically be paid for out of the ratebase, ie, the cost apportioned to usage, and capital investments made with those funds.
I'm not sure how your hate of rich people and their islands has anything to do with that. It's really a non-sequitor.
If PEPCO makes infrastructure improvements, your bill and those nasty 1%er's bill will go up by the same proportion. Don't you think those EEEVVVIIILLLL 1%er's want a reliable power source as well?
Backup generators are expensive to run. Everyone knows that.
I'm under the impression that to get this level of academia, you generally have to publish dissertations, a thesis or three, and the occasional article. Perhaps I am mistaken in this regard, but no one has been able to obtain Obama's. He has held academic positions, yes, but the work required to get there- generally public- is sorely missing. Now, perhaps I misunderstand how these things generally go- I have friends with masters and Phd's, though none in law. Are the legal advanced degrees issued by some other means? As for his teaching, what do his students have to say as to his acumen?
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Out here in the real world, when such discretion is given to a single individual, they will abuse that discretion, sell it, or neglect it.
To even broach the subject seriously shows an utter naivety about the wholesomeness and integrity of people put in such positions of discretionary power.
We (Americans) would like to live in a nation of laws, not a nation ruled by thousands of tiny little dictators in their own little regulatory fiefdoms.
Each legislative issuance of this sort of discretionary power is a retraction of freedom, no matter what the subject- whether it be guns, or zoning laws, or health care.
... Is a great book that helped me lose a lot of weight
The author, Gary Taubes, basically says that a south beach/atkins/low glycerimic index diet is the way to go. He does so by explaining the metabolism at hand, and providing studies to explain various points.
I read the book, shifted my eating habits, and lost thirty pounds rather easily. I then got lazy and sloppy and stopped losing weight- but my appetite and habits have been shifted enough that I haven't gained any back.
One of the key insights in his book is that you'd give the same advice for building up an appetite before a sumptous dinner as you would give to someone losing weight- ie:
1) Don't eat much before hand
2) Exercise a bunch to make yourself hungry.
Any scheme based on that alone is bound to fail. Any scheme where you can't eat whenever you want is bound to fail.
That leaves what you eat as the variable. Taubes explains why you should stear away from vertain foods. Good luck.
Have someone you trust, who is not in the company, rewrite your missive for you. That's probably the safest way.
So how did they view the wrong-doing? You'll notice the lack of arrests other than Manning.
What do you consider wrong-doing, revealed by Manning, that is yet to be addressed?
Specifics, please.
...Being a lecturing nanny to actually see that the normal functions of a city government are performed.
Note his wars on large sodas and restuarant menus, while bedbugs run rampant.
He wags his finger at Apple because crooks are loose in his city. And he has his PIs make straw purchases of firearms in far-away states, violating federal law for masterbatory political posturing.
Why do New Yorkers elect this clown?
Folks,
I'd like to introduce you to "Extreme Damage Mitigating Guidelines" (EDMG), which are procedures created in response to NRC Security Order Section B.5.b. That order was created after 9/11/2001, when crashing airliners into important structures became a known tactic.
The industry response to the B.5.b requirements is not unlike what you would expect for Fukashima contingencies (you've lost large portions of your plant to widespread fires and destruction. How can you mitigate the release of radionuclides to the public when areas x,y and z of your plant are heavily damaged?)
A certain local nuclear power plant I'm familiar with has a diesel-powered pump stored onsite but far away from the power block. It's the exact same type of pump that would have saved the plants at Fukushima, and because of 9/11, we already had the pump, hoses, flanges, and connections required to inject cooling water into the reactor or steam generators under the most adverse conditions. This equipment and the required contigencies plans were in place a few years before Fukushima.
Now the post-Fukushima problem is a natural disaster could conceivably wipe out this B5B pump, putting this contingency plan at risk.
That, presumably, is where this FLEX equipment comes in.
If you can't count on ANYTHING onsite being available, then you need to have it stored safely offsite. If you're going to do that, might as well share the equipment and costs.
One might argue about the size of the regions where this equipment is shared, but the FLEX equipment is:
a backup plan (FLEX)
to a backup plan (EDMG per B5B)
to a backup plan (Severe accident mitigating guidelines and backup pumps and backup- backup generators that pre-date 9/11)
to a backup plan (original emergency diesel generators and emergency operating procedures that have been at the plants from the start.)
Japan did not develop EDMG's after 9/11, and consequently were far behind the US nuclear industry in terms of emergency preparedness.
Now, the NRC has required a number of changes at existing and planned US nuclear facilities in response to the Fukushima meltdowns, however, that builds upon changes already made in response to the B5b regulations that came about a decade ago.
'Shit' didn't just happen. A pending attack or assassination was a big concern for Ambassador Stevens months beforehand, and his requests for more security went nowhere.
Past that, there's some concern that Obama failed miserably when Hillary Clinton's legendary '3 am phone call' came.
Even if you want to say 'shit happens' for the latter, the former is still a good reason to look into the deaths of 4 Americans.
In any case, your absolute lack of curiosity on the subject makes you every bit the mindless partisan you accuse republicans of being.
The sophisticated urban elite, on the other hand, proudly live on the government dole.
It's not America, just certain states and localities. Here in New Hampshire we use bubble sheets that are fed into a scanner/lockbox.
Quick to tally, easy to recount & validate.
I'm curious if you have the same lofty standards for the post I was replying to. Here it is, for your convenience:
TheBlaze (i.e. Glenn Beck) is not a credible news source. Please delete this article.
You could have just walked away. Yet you're here, and demanding silence on the part of folks you politically oppose.
My point stands.
Yes, because accusing a Chicago democrat of rigging votes is completely baseless. /sarcasm
I'm not too excited about the article, to be honest. I read it. I don't see why you're excited about it, either.
What interests me, however, is your desire to silence anything that could be construed as harmful to democrats, instead of having any sort of discussion about it.
Why do you suppose that those of us on the right want the left to keep talking, and those of you on the left want those on the right to shut up?
Ha! You beat me by 20 minutes. I just made the same recommendation.
I actually carry the G2 0.38 in my pants pocket. I use the clip to keep it at the top of the pocket, and I haven't had any bleeding problems yet.
I have a similar taste in pens, and I've settled on the Pilot G-2 0.38mm.
The ink takes about 2-3 seconds to dry. That fits my quick drying criteria; yours may be different.
Other than that it fits the bill. You can get them at staples for maybe $7 for a six pack.
Zimmerman was defending himself from an ongoing attack, and there's physical evidence and witness testimony to corroborate that.
Do you think an attacker would accept a call of 'time out' so that there might be an investigation, trial, and punishment?
Should a person allow themselves to be beaten to a bloody pulp, and perhaps murdered, so cooler heads can later determine if he was actually being attacked?
The agents of the left, having already misappropriated the term 'liberal', have moved onto the term 'progressive'
Of course they are neither liberal in the classical sense of the word- spreading liberty (unless you mean sexual permissiveness and 'liberty' from the predictable consequences of ill considered acts), nor are they 'progressive'- not advancing the nation, but advocating policies that led to the European implosion we are watching.
Anyway, leftists will seek out a new label as soon as the old one is tarnished (Liberal being abandoned for Progressive nowadays)
You can apply whatever conceitful definition you wish to the current label of those of you on the left.
That label will in short order become a derisive term for those who wish to create a voting bloc by making folks dependent on the government.
As you've seen, I don't use liberal or progressive to describe the leftist, as the use of those terms implies things that aren't so. I wish my fellow right wingers ('liberals' in the classical sense) would abandon the label as well, and simply use 'leftist', 'socialist', or 'communist-lite', as these are accurate definitions using the actual meaning of those words.
Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
Robert A. Heinlein
At some of these research reactors, you can pull the rods out of the reactor shortly after criticality and take your measurements with the fuel rod in your hand.
Individual research reactor loads may or may not be particularly dangerous- you can have a radiation well above background level, but far below the rate required to cause health issues.
However, a recently irradiated fuel assembly from a power reactor will kill you in short order*, if not shielded by a lot of water.
As for the young Mr. Peren's misadventure, these places are built for adults with the security clearance and knowledge required to get into the facility in the first place. These knowledgable, responsible adults may then escort visitors on arranged tours.
A visitor can be shown (more or less) whatever their escort has access too. The escort's duty is to keep the visitors out of trouble while showing them around. It seems as though Bruce's escort was a bit negligent (and knew it, from the student's displeasure.)
*perversely, the high radiation level of a used fuel assembly is a bit of a security feature. You can't steal something that will kill you before you can get out the door.
Most tires are necessarily reversed when rotated. So no. I'm sure it works independently of direction.
Well, that's really a proposition whose implications can be researched.
How many abortions are there per year? A quick internet search yields 1.2 million. Let's go with that.
How many people are waiting for a child to adopt? That information is harder to come by- there's one site there are dozens waiting for every child that gets adopted; other sites say 1-2 million couples per year.
So it's not unfathomable that most every fetus that's aborted could be adopted.
As for your comment about hard to place children, New York city has maybe 1,000 hard to place children, and 200,000 abortions take place there every year.
How many of those abortions would become hard adoption cases? Hard to be sure.
So, I know you're trying to be clever, but the statistics might actually come out on the pro-lifer's side of things. It would take a serious study (beyond the scope of this comment) to come up with a good answer, but it could be done.
(I'm ambivalent about abortion, and consequently do not take the matter into consideration when voting.)
AC condensation was also my first guess upon reading the comment.
After I watched the video, I'm thinking motor oil. AC's don't make trails like that (too much liquid), and the liquid appeared to be rather dark.
The leak is also coming from the center line of the car, not off to the side like your quoted text suggests.
I'm no Radiation Protection technician, but I believe this is quantified by the 'Committed Effective Dose Equivalent" measure, and would also show up in a "Whole Body Count", which is required when folks start employment and leave employment at a nuclear facility.
In other words, it's understood and measurable, it's not an unknowable boogeyman.
Or, you know, we could be in the middle of a worldwide financial meltdown where hard decisions have to be made.
Governments love to fund scientists, especially when those scientists come to conclusions that convienently give authoritarians the excuse to take more money and power.
Even considering that, however, sometimes, you just run out of other people's money to borrow and/or take.
Now, I don't know a thing about PEPCO, or the grid regulatory structure down there, but.....
Electricity use and infrastructure should logically be paid for out of the ratebase, ie, the cost apportioned to usage, and capital investments made with those funds.
I'm not sure how your hate of rich people and their islands has anything to do with that. It's really a non-sequitor.
If PEPCO makes infrastructure improvements, your bill and those nasty 1%er's bill will go up by the same proportion. Don't you think those EEEVVVIIILLLL 1%er's want a reliable power source as well?
Backup generators are expensive to run. Everyone knows that.
I'm under the impression that to get this level of academia, you generally have to publish dissertations, a thesis or three, and the occasional article.
Perhaps I am mistaken in this regard, but no one has been able to obtain Obama's.
He has held academic positions, yes, but the work required to get there- generally public- is sorely missing.
Now, perhaps I misunderstand how these things generally go- I have friends with masters and Phd's, though none in law.
Are the legal advanced degrees issued by some other means?
As for his teaching, what do his students have to say as to his acumen?