This gets at the heart of the matter. Why do these laws exist, but other laws do not?
Knives are just as dangerous as firearms, yet I don't have to keep my steak knives secured in a vault.
Why is that? I doesn't really make a sense. It's a knee jerk reaction by someone that doesn't understand the reality of the dangers that exist in the world.
I don't think the individuals that end up dead really care if the instrument of their death was designed for that. If your dead, your dead, doesn't matter if it was via a wacko in a car or a wacko with a gun.
Using this logic I could leave buckets of caustic acid in my yard. If someone injures someone with this acid I can say "Well it wasn't designed to injure people, to bad."
Be very carefull where you go with this line of reasoning. If someone stole your car and ran over 14 young innocent children in the playground, should you be held responsible for not "securing" your car?
If someone steals your cell phone and calls in a bomb threat to the whitehouse, are you responsible?
If you answer 'no' the above questions, then why are firearms any different?
Wars, tanks and weapons?
Nah, they also teach us how to shoot a human torso at a thousand yards. Sadly most kids fail this portion of their education. These kids revert back to the "Spray and Pray" method and end up causing excessive calateral damage.
The RF spectrum belongs to the public, therefore the public has a right to use at least some of it.
Unrestricted use of the airways would result in chaos and make the spectrum useless from all the noise.
Would you be okay with the federal, state, and local gov'ts each charging a $1,000/year "driver's fee"?
The already do, it's called a gasonline tax, and it's administrered at the state level. Well I'm sure it doesn't add up to $1,000 per person per year, but you still pay.
This does not indicate that "the KVM switch works fine". Windows may recognize that the mouse got borked by the switch and reset the mouse. If the XFree86 drivers don't do this it doesn't mean that XFree86 is broken.
You would have a long time with islands of well connected individuals. And these islands wouldn't be connected to each other. I.E. how would cities be connected? Through a series of wireless cards in some farmers computer? I don't think so.
Door locks by their very nature do not violate my privacy. Not that I expect absolute privacy while driving down the street, but I don't expect the government to actively violate my privacy.
I would think the trick in an ignitor isn't the actual ignition, but the proper mixing of the fuel and oxidizer. Incorrect mixture and it either doesn't ignite or it goes boom!
And I guess if I was wrong you would be speaking German, unless you didn't have blonde hair and blue eyes, in which case you wouldn't be speaking at all.
I understand it's hard to admit you needed help. I'll try not to rub it in. But you don't need to find fault with us just because you had to ask for help.
How are guns bad? Are steak knives bad? Are baseball bats bad? Are tire irons bad? No, wait, sleeping pills have to be bad, people use 'em to kill themselves, oh dear God, what should we do..
These things are inanimate objects, they can not be classified as good or bad. Only an individual that uses these objects can be judged good or bad. And even then, there isn't always universal agreement on what exactly good and bad is.
I guess it's the difference between being a Citizen and a Subject. Next time you're getting your collective asses kicked and need some big weaponry to save your little country, don't call us.
Car ownership should demand a great deal of responsibility on the part of those owning vehicles.
Practically, though, you don't see people being held accountable when their car is stolen, used for a crime, drive by a kid, etc.
I believe the pro-car ownership lobby has become too extreme defending the right to own very fast sports cars and neglected the need to insure that car owners are more responsible.
They need to listen and understand their own rhetoric about "cars don't kill people, people kill people".
Well, how the hell did those irresponsible idiots get a car in the first place? Qualifications for owning cars are as woefully inadequate as they are for procreation with consequences that are just as dire.
I'm in favor of an empowered citizenry, with the right to own very fast cars. But I'm insistent that the greater the risk of the car (including the highest levels where government officials control nukes, etc.), the greater the responsibility and accountability needs to be.
Varmint hunters tend to reload with bullets that severely fragment (i.e. they are completely destroyed, transfering most of their energy to the target). If you start fingerprinting rifles, criminal elements will start using highly frangible bullets.
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This gets at the heart of the matter. Why do these laws exist, but other laws do not?
Knives are just as dangerous as firearms, yet I don't have to keep my steak knives secured in a vault.
Why is that? I doesn't really make a sense. It's a knee jerk reaction by someone that doesn't understand the reality of the dangers that exist in the world.
I don't think the individuals that end up dead really care if the instrument of their death was designed for that. If your dead, your dead, doesn't matter if it was via a wacko in a car or a wacko with a gun.
Using this logic I could leave buckets of caustic acid in my yard. If someone injures someone with this acid I can say "Well it wasn't designed to injure people, to bad."
So once again I ask, why are firearms different?
Be very carefull where you go with this line of reasoning. If someone stole your car and ran over 14 young innocent children in the playground, should you be held responsible for not "securing" your car?
If someone steals your cell phone and calls in a bomb threat to the whitehouse, are you responsible?
If you answer 'no' the above questions, then why are firearms any different?
Wars, tanks and weapons?
Nah, they also teach us how to shoot a human torso at a thousand yards. Sadly most kids fail this portion of their education. These kids revert back to the "Spray and Pray" method and end up causing excessive calateral damage.
The RF spectrum belongs to the public, therefore the public has a right to use at least some of it.
Unrestricted use of the airways would result in chaos and make the spectrum useless from all the noise.
Would you be okay with the federal, state, and local gov'ts each charging a $1,000/year "driver's fee"?
The already do, it's called a gasonline tax, and it's administrered at the state level. Well I'm sure it doesn't add up to $1,000 per person per year, but you still pay.
This does not indicate that "the KVM switch works fine". Windows may recognize that the mouse got borked by the switch and reset the mouse. If the XFree86 drivers don't do this it doesn't mean that XFree86 is broken.
You would have a long time with islands of well connected individuals. And these islands wouldn't be connected to each other. I.E. how would cities be connected? Through a series of wireless cards in some farmers computer? I don't think so.
Lower customer density.
Hmm, I mean the aggregate customer count is lower, per infrastructure used. Not that individual customers have a lower density.
Door locks by their very nature do not violate my privacy. Not that I expect absolute privacy while driving down the street, but I don't expect the government to actively violate my privacy.
Oh man, who has to clean the Sexbots at the end of the night?
Except the last time I scratched a book I could still read it.
> Look at the AK-47. Name a particularly good reason why you need a fully automatic (automagic) weapon.
To defend myself from the government that attempts to confiscate my AK-47, 'nuff said.
We are not a Democracy, the term you are looking for is Constitutional Republic.
I would think the trick in an ignitor isn't the actual ignition, but the proper mixing of the fuel and oxidizer. Incorrect mixture and it either doesn't ignite or it goes boom!
Wouldn't it make more sense to remote-control the switch?
And how would you see the railroad car that is at the switch from a mile away?
And I guess if I was wrong you would be speaking German, unless you didn't have blonde hair and blue eyes, in which case you wouldn't be speaking at all.
I understand it's hard to admit you needed help. I'll try not to rub it in. But you don't need to find fault with us just because you had to ask for help.
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How are guns bad? Are steak knives bad? Are baseball bats bad? Are tire irons bad? No, wait, sleeping pills have to be bad, people use 'em to kill themselves, oh dear God, what should we do..
These things are inanimate objects, they can not be classified as good or bad. Only an individual that uses these objects can be judged good or bad. And even then, there isn't always universal agreement on what exactly good and bad is.
I guess it's the difference between being a Citizen and a Subject. Next time you're getting your collective asses kicked and need some big weaponry to save your little country, don't call us.
Car ownership should demand a great deal of responsibility on the part of those owning vehicles.
Practically, though, you don't see people being held accountable when their car is stolen, used for a crime, drive by a kid, etc.
I believe the pro-car ownership lobby has become too extreme defending the right to own very fast sports cars and neglected the need to insure that car owners are more responsible.
They need to listen and understand their own rhetoric about "cars don't kill people, people kill people".
Well, how the hell did those irresponsible idiots get a car in the first place? Qualifications for owning cars are as woefully inadequate as they are for procreation with consequences that are just as dire.
I'm in favor of an empowered citizenry, with the right to own very fast cars. But I'm insistent that the greater the risk of the car (including the highest levels where government officials control nukes, etc.), the greater the responsibility and accountability needs to be.
Varmint hunters tend to reload with bullets that severely fragment (i.e. they are completely destroyed, transfering most of their energy to the target). If you start fingerprinting rifles, criminal elements will start using highly frangible bullets.
Or, run a stainless brush through the barrel.
That's a poor analogy because you can not feasibly put a cop on every street corner.
Hmmmm, and the government doesn't have the right to inhumane torture.
Therefore, when they show up, express you non constitutionaly controlled right to toruture!
Oh grow up, I've probably written more code than you'll ever see.
Trolling involves more than personal insults.
I wouldn't know, I don't get to see his code.