Note to future DMCA enforcers : When you come to collect my illegal OS I suggest you wear kevlar and bring a big pile of medics. You will ultimately win and you will eventually take my illegal OS, but the cost to do so will be very high.
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Fine,
In that case I will take a lesson from the Liberals (They got to redefine "Assualt Weapon") book and do the following:
From this point forward all nuclear weapons are now called "Energy Release Devices" (ERD for short). Anyone caught with an ERD without an appropriate license from the NRC will be in big trouble.
How many people died of lung cancer from smoking?
How many people died in alcohol related accidents?
Find the answers and you might be surprised. These are activties that are not protected by the constituion, and we don't ban them.
Maybe the answer isn't so simple
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I don't particulary agree with your assessment of the situation. Let's start with a list of all items starting from revolvers up through battle ships; we will call this list "Friendly Puppy". Now, everything on the "Friendly Puppy" list can be owned and used by free citizens. There are people who own enough land and have enough room that they can go fire howitzers without hurting anybody. Own your own private island? Why not protect it with a battle ship? Fire a couple of 16 inch shells for practice every once in a while and nobody gets hurt. Want to fly a cruise missile around your 50,000 acres? No problem, as long as you do it responsibly.
Now, we have our second list, the "Evil Puppy" list, that contains nuclear weapons. One problem with items on the "Evil Puppy" list is that when you use them you release very dangerous materials into the atmosphere that put everybody on the planet in jeopardy. There is no amount of land you can own that will allow you to safely practice with a nuclear weapon. Even when detonated underground these materials tend to escape. I don't mind my next door neighbour firing his weapons. But, when he is releasing Strontium-90 into the air, that is something completely different.
So in conclusion: Owning a 16 inch gun from a destroyer with enough money and space to fire it - WAY COOL! Poisioning everybody on the planet with nuclear fall out - NO SO COOL!
And if GWB didn't have the job, most of the yahoos reading this board would be employeed by now.
This crap is really amazing. I don't particulary like Bush or Kerry, but to put the entire blame of your misfortunes on a sitting president is stupid. It's takes more than one person to create the situation we have, including, but not limited to: Senators, Congressmen, Mayors, Counsel Members, Governors, etc.
Many problems can be blamed on individual states ramping up their budgets when "times were good", and living the high life. When things started going south nobody wanted to give up the gravy train.
So, next time you're farting around without a job, spend some time at the local library and actually learn how the country works. You might be surprised to learn how little power the president really has.
Maybe IHBT, but sometimes it's hard to tell with AC's. You have to wonder if they can really be that poorly informed.
This is from memory, but, I think you are mostly correct, with the addition of one fact. If I remember correctly the final nail in the coffin was the fact lowering the rods displaced water and made the problem worse.
That was an issue with the design, it basically had an 'event horizon' that once you crossed you couldn't recover. Do nothing, water evaporates and plant blows up. Drop rods, water gets displaced by rods and you lose cooling, plant blows up.
I feel much safer when "petite women" (or any other people) around me are not carying loaded guns with chambered bullets and cocked hammers...
Hmmm, strange indeed, I feel much safer knowing that when the shit hits the fan there will be some firepower around to neutralize the situation properly. The last thing I need is some wacko 'tazing' a rampaging heroin addict and accomplishing nothing more than pissing him off. But that's just me.
References please....... Awareness is the first step to survival, if this woman was caught off-guard, armed or un-armed, she is already in trouble. You gotta do something: kick, scream, bite, poke, pinch, grab, twist, gouge, scratch, shoot, head-butt, or pull hair, whatever it takes, because once the attacker pulls you into his car your chances of survival starts dropping really fast.
if the concept of regulation is antiquated then so is the concept of having armed civilians.
The concept is not antiquated, any skilled gunsmith will understand what "well regulated" means. The issue arises because the "liberals" have started applying alternate meanings to key words in order to confuse the issue.
Also, I'm very certain that Rumsfeld understands that you can only restrict so many freedoms before everybody discovers "militias" are still around.
What part of "well regulated" is so hard to understand?
Not much when you realise that at the time "regulated" meant that both barrels of a double barrel were adjusted to have the same point of impact at a given distance.
Now imagine what would happen if that gun wasn't confiscated, got on the plane, and some nutcase decided to start firing at people for whatever reason.
That's when I start feeling really sorry that they confiscated MY gun. Guess I won't be returning fire on that trip. Maybe I can call 911 on the inflight phone...
Do most users need that option? I sure fucking don't.
Aye, but there be the rub, who gets to decide what is important and what is not? There is no way to easily define a single set of important features that would be accepted by everybody.
Your cute gui interface will absolutely require at least several modes: beginner, intermediate, advanced, and "I am God give me everything or give me my damn text file back".
...someone needs to start a project site to add GUI's for every single configurable thing that happens in linux.
This isn't always the best solution either. I have seen on more than one occasion when the gui wasn't up to date with all the options in the config file. And most times not all advanced functions are represented in the gui. This happens in Windows also, where is the gui dialog to edit the tab completion character for the command line? In this case you have to use the registry editor and already know what the key is.
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What if those older OS's become illegal to use?
Note to future DMCA enforcers : When you come to collect my illegal OS I suggest you wear kevlar and bring a big pile of medics. You will ultimately win and you will eventually take my illegal OS, but the cost to do so will be very high.
Fine, In that case I will take a lesson from the Liberals (They got to redefine "Assualt Weapon") book and do the following:
From this point forward all nuclear weapons are now called "Energy Release Devices" (ERD for short). Anyone caught with an ERD without an appropriate license from the NRC will be in big trouble.
How many people died of lung cancer from smoking?
How many people died in alcohol related accidents?
Find the answers and you might be surprised. These are activties that are not protected by the constituion, and we don't ban them.
Maybe the answer isn't so simple
I don't particulary agree with your assessment of the situation. Let's start with a list of all items starting from revolvers up through battle ships; we will call this list "Friendly Puppy". Now, everything on the "Friendly Puppy" list can be owned and used by free citizens. There are people who own enough land and have enough room that they can go fire howitzers without hurting anybody. Own your own private island? Why not protect it with a battle ship? Fire a couple of 16 inch shells for practice every once in a while and nobody gets hurt. Want to fly a cruise missile around your 50,000 acres? No problem, as long as you do it responsibly.
Now, we have our second list, the "Evil Puppy" list, that contains nuclear weapons. One problem with items on the "Evil Puppy" list is that when you use them you release very dangerous materials into the atmosphere that put everybody on the planet in jeopardy. There is no amount of land you can own that will allow you to safely practice with a nuclear weapon. Even when detonated underground these materials tend to escape. I don't mind my next door neighbour firing his weapons. But, when he is releasing Strontium-90 into the air, that is something completely different.
So in conclusion: Owning a 16 inch gun from a destroyer with enough money and space to fire it - WAY COOL! Poisioning everybody on the planet with nuclear fall out - NO SO COOL!
Social Engineering
Very non-deterministic.
Oh, that's just great. Now I've got this image of isolated islanders wearing grass lab coats building a nuke out of bamboo and coconut milk.
Meanwhile an islander in a grass business suit is running about complaining infiltration from the "acka-ack-nunucket" island.
Thankfully I think I see Feynman swimming to shore, maybe he can save me!
Correct you are sir: "Council Members". Just like the ones in Flint that let the unions chase out General Motors. Boy, that plan worked real well.
And if GWB didn't have the job, most of the yahoos reading this board would be employeed by now.
This crap is really amazing. I don't particulary like Bush or Kerry, but to put the entire blame of your misfortunes on a sitting president is stupid. It's takes more than one person to create the situation we have, including, but not limited to: Senators, Congressmen, Mayors, Counsel Members, Governors, etc.
Many problems can be blamed on individual states ramping up their budgets when "times were good", and living the high life. When things started going south nobody wanted to give up the gravy train.
So, next time you're farting around without a job, spend some time at the local library and actually learn how the country works. You might be surprised to learn how little power the president really has.
Maybe IHBT, but sometimes it's hard to tell with AC's. You have to wonder if they can really be that poorly informed.
duck and cover...
Hmmm, one wonders what one uses for cover when the guts of a nuclear power plant are approaching at supersonic speeds?
This is from memory, but, I think you are mostly correct, with the addition of one fact. If I remember correctly the final nail in the coffin was the fact lowering the rods displaced water and made the problem worse.
That was an issue with the design, it basically had an 'event horizon' that once you crossed you couldn't recover. Do nothing, water evaporates and plant blows up. Drop rods, water gets displaced by rods and you lose cooling, plant blows up.
It was a joke, relax....... Wow, some people just don't get it.
In Michigan :
Don't go to public schools,
Yeah, because they suck anyways.
drive on public roads,
How dare you call those crater filled strips of land roads!
call the police when you are robbed
Don't call the police in Detroit, you have a greater chance of being shot by them then the bad guy.
or have a medical emergency
Yeah, many of the hospitals suck also.
and you can keep all of your money.
They sure take a lot, but nothing ever gets fixed.
It's so hard to tell with creationists!
Yeah, what he said, and let's ditch physics too, that's nothing but a mere theory also.
I feel much safer when "petite women" (or any other people) around me are not carying loaded guns with chambered bullets and cocked hammers...
Hmmm, strange indeed, I feel much safer knowing that when the shit hits the fan there will be some firepower around to neutralize the situation properly. The last thing I need is some wacko 'tazing' a rampaging heroin addict and accomplishing nothing more than pissing him off. But that's just me.
References please....... Awareness is the first step to survival, if this woman was caught off-guard, armed or un-armed, she is already in trouble. You gotta do something: kick, scream, bite, poke, pinch, grab, twist, gouge, scratch, shoot, head-butt, or pull hair, whatever it takes, because once the attacker pulls you into his car your chances of survival starts dropping really fast.
empowering a petit man to fend off a burly rapist?
i would phone the police.
You assume this is possible...
then i'm gone.
You assume this is possible...
I'll probably suggest to my family that they do the same.
You assume your family is still alive.
i'm fucked
Yup, and all us gun owners will thinking "Wow, he got fucked, bad, so sad for him, should have had a gun".
if the concept of regulation is antiquated then so is the concept of having armed civilians.
The concept is not antiquated, any skilled gunsmith will understand what "well regulated" means. The issue arises because the "liberals" have started applying alternate meanings to key words in order to confuse the issue.
Also, I'm very certain that Rumsfeld understands that you can only restrict so many freedoms before everybody discovers "militias" are still around.
What part of "well regulated" is so hard to understand?
Not much when you realise that at the time "regulated" meant that both barrels of a double barrel were adjusted to have the same point of impact at a given distance.
Right, because obviously crossfire is just what we need on a crowded aircraft.
Well, bullets are already zipping about the aircraft, potentially killing passengers. What do you suggest we do, shout "Stop!" ?
Now imagine what would happen if that gun wasn't confiscated, got on the plane, and some nutcase decided to start firing at people for whatever reason.
That's when I start feeling really sorry that they confiscated MY gun. Guess I won't be returning fire on that trip. Maybe I can call 911 on the inflight phone...
4. Evil guy comes at you aim at his chest
That's two to the chest one to the head,
lather, rinse, repeat!
But I think you were trying to be funny.
Do most users need that option? I sure fucking don't.
Aye, but there be the rub, who gets to decide what is important and what is not? There is no way to easily define a single set of important features that would be accepted by everybody.
Your cute gui interface will absolutely require at least several modes: beginner, intermediate, advanced, and "I am God give me everything or give me my damn text file back".
...someone needs to start a project site to add GUI's for every single configurable thing that happens in linux.
This isn't always the best solution either. I have seen on more than one occasion when the gui wasn't up to date with all the options in the config file. And most times not all advanced functions are represented in the gui. This happens in Windows also, where is the gui dialog to edit the tab completion character for the command line? In this case you have to use the registry editor and already know what the key is.