Militia is and was a state institution or club. The virginia militia wasn't part of the army. It was a group of volunteers. The minutemen who were called upon during the war were a militia who regulated themselves. We would not have had militias or even our own country had we disarmed everyone. Being necessary to the security of a free state. Free from what? From federal intervention. We are a federation or banding together of individual states. A militia is the state's guarantee that the fed wouldn't run roughshod over them.
Rights are expressly for the people. Government has powers and privs granted by the consent of the governed. Because the key word is "RIGHT", it applies to the individual.
By common definition, the statement "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state; the right to keep and bear arms shall not be abridged." would qualify as a run-on sentence. In actuallity a sentence that should be two separate sentences. Thus when people who understand grammer and run-ons reads the second ammendment he/she should see "A well regulated militia is necessary for the security of a free state, therefore no militia shall be repressed by any federal agency. The individual has a right to keep and bear arms which shall not be abridged by any legislature."
Double pc-card expansion pack with integrated video camera. The prototype calles for an ipaq with linux loaded, and is a step towards portable video-cell phone/personal organizers.
This new Compaq gadget looks like a step in the right direction. We just need to work on a cloth with embedded display that can go ridgid when current is applied.
Why? We're already working with organo-phosphate displays which are laminated onto a plastic that can be rolled up. They are brighter than conventional LCD, and if you mount it on a spring loaded roll like projector screens, and put it on small rails for the top and bottom It'll stretch and still stay somewhat rigid along the top and bottom edges.
So many people want them that we had to introduce one with a greyscale screen. I'm not certain if what you say about iPaqs not being allowed is true, I've heard of one person who did have one on site. To my knowledge it's basically the same as a laptop, just don't bring it into contact with the red net or you'll lose it. Most modern laptops have mics and speakers, with recording software. They were banning those to my knowledge until it became difficult to find notebooks without those features. Of course I could be totally wrong in all of this. In which case please dis-regard.
The air force has been looking at doing a space plane for a while now. They've already been undergoing changes from an aerospace force to a space-air force. Whoever has military craft in space, has a much longer reach. I wouldn't be too surprised if they started trying to put together a stealth space-plane that could go anywhere in the world within a few hours. In fact I'd be really surprised if something like that isn't already on the boards or in test flight production runs.
Thousands of people with clean criminal records were taken off the voting rolls in a purported purge of "felons" performed by a private company.
The problem there was some of them had committed their crimes in states where once they were let out of prison their right to vote was restored. Florida's laws on the books did not follow the same statute. That said, most people did not contest that they weren't eligable until after the election. If you receive a letter in the mail saying that there was a problem registering you because you match a profile on a list and don't take the time to get it fixed who's fault is that?
Police roadblocks harassed blacks on their way to the polls.
Said it before and I'll say it again. Prove it!
The first thing I'd do if any such thing happened to me or my fellows is to grab a camera and document it. Failing that I'd call a news agency who'd have a field day with live footage. The fact that nothing else has come of this speaks for itself.
Not in a situation where certain areas are given technology known to undercount (both from usuablilty issues and physical failure), and others are given accurate vote tabulators.
If they couldn't tell by looking at the finished card when after they voted that something didn't look right, I have to pity them for that.
It is also my understanding that a large number of these undervotes came from using an optronics system with the wrong type of ink.
God helps us should we implement an e-lection over the internet. I can just see the headlines now, "New evidence by computing firm proves Gore had the election hacked!" Short of having election workers standing over your shoulder making sure you don't screw up a ballot, I don't think this issue is completely solvable. I'm reminded of the system we used in michigan when I lived there. It was optronic, it used a special marker to complete a line in a broken arrow, and before the page was fed into the machine, it was checked over for extra marks, missing marks, etc. Upgrading the entire nation to something like that makes sense in a way.
Providing names and addresses and womb parasite removers is a tool to facilitate these actions.
So humans are parasites? Well you may have that point in some cases, but you'd probably question the lable if it were applied to you personally.
And tools are in-animate objects, how is the tool to blame for the use? Should we ban wrenches because they can be used to kill instead of fix things?
One's a tool to perfectly good program that will let you view your own DVDs on your own computer, the other is a tool and encouragement for illegal action.
If it were a website that had the names of kkk members instead of abortion doctors, does that make it any more legal? What if the intent was to make this knowledge public so that peaceful demonstrations could be arranged at locations such as near homes or in front of the place of work? Or should we disband the civil liberties union because the same information about who is for or against a certain law restricting free speech or advocating access control could just as easily be used for an illegal action as well as a legal and justly moral one?
I really do think that people like this (Rep. Garcia included) think that computers and the Internet are somehow magical, in that it's utterly impossible for the average human being to understand them, so they don't even make the effort to try.
And don't overlook the religious right in all this. Although conservatives like to publicly justify their actions by saying their goal is to protect children, I've always believed this is just a smokescreen. (D) Garcia, Domingo
I guess democrats are the conservative religious right now?
Fuels cells depending on what they are burning are not always environmentally friendly. Even burning hydrogen and producing water that might change condensation, humidity and other factors if used on a wide scale. Solar turns the surrounding area into desert which is fine if you stick it in a desert to begin with but still it takes up a lot of space to be usable. Nuclear produces waste that we can't even get rid of, burying it for later generations and hoping it doesn't leak and cause the local wildlife or whatever to mutate. And wind doesn't work to well once the jet stream (or if it's in another area, wind currents) change.
They agree not to open a file that doesn't belong to them. Copying is not opening, nor is transmitting the data contained in a file or recieving said data. And once a copy exists on your system you own that copy of the file since it resides on your filesystem and all data contained on your filesystem is yours. Even if you don't own what's encoded in the file itself the file belongs to you. At least this is just one interpretation of the wording. Actually the part that may stand up in court is the fact that data transmissions are encrypted and in order to see what's being sent the RIAA and associates would have to decrypt (violate a protection mechanism) the streams. I find this funny in an ironic sense.
I recall one of the/. topics of herf guns, and I recall a link on one of them leading to plans for all sorts of toys.
One of the posts, mentioned how long script kiddies might last actually trying to build some of this stuff.
While it is fairly easy to build something similar to this using parts from a microwave (magnetron, as the microwave source) and a radar detector (waveguide, to redirect the energy in one direction and prevent you from cooking your hands while you hold it), all it takes is pointing the thing at a metal wall or plate and you'll flash fry yourself. Or if the waveguide is not aligned properly you can cook your hands or other body parts.
This is probably also why any metallic pan that goes into the microwave probably has a ceramic coating. Most other metal parts tend to cause violent reactions.
I can just see it now, riots where l337 5cr!pt k!dd!3s run around with metal shields and homebuilt phasers. I think I'd much rather stick with teargas which doesn't actually blind someone permanently in most cases.
Burns? Doesn't that qualify under cruel and unusual punishment? It's almost like taking a low power flamethrower to a croud.
And what happens when they accidentally hit a car with this? While it supposedly only gets up ti 130 degrees, once it hits the metal it'll get much hotter and possibly even ignite the fuel tank.
Were because of the modem manufacturing industry trying to cut costs. They do this by putting the compression and such into the drivers in the OS. These modems aren't completely incompatible with other OSes, it's just that most alternatives don't want to support them, or the companies want to protect themselves by not disclosing the code for the drivers.
640k was a PC limitation and DOS was designed around the PC's at the time. Rather than redesigning the whole thing later when they added more memory, it made more sense for them at the time to segment and use TSRs to access the additional memory. I'm not defending MS for the sake of defending MS, I'm just trying to point out that in some of these cases you are barking up the wrong tree.
We may have high capacity hard drives these days, but back then they didn't and they designed the system around what they knew and what they thought reasonable for expansion. Back then they probably would have laughed if you told them we'd have 80gb HDDs.
1) Tipping is not anonymous, and failure to tip incurs societal disapproval (people think you're a cheap bastard).
Unless you are visiting a strange town, and if the service sucks I do more than not just give a decent tip, I leave a single penny to let them know how dis-satisfied I am with the service.
2) You personally benefit by tipping, assuming you return to the restaurant (you'll get good service next time)
I should have good service the first time if they even expect me to come back. Aside from that, tips are usually distributed among others who work there. I recall one time I was at a restaurant, the person who was the waitress was an exceptional server, however she didn't get any of the tips because she was in training, they all went to some fat lazy bitch hanging out at the register chatting with other employees. Since then, we've made a habit of giving it directly to the people as a gift.
That's the same problem I have with taxing blank media, who decides who gets what? Especially when that same media can be used for other purposes, such as if I had to duplicate a corporate training cd for a new employee, or a database backup.
Where do you get child molester from non-christian? And who says I'm hiding behind the letter of the bible? I don't even believe in that hogwash (in my own opinion) anyhow. Oh that's right.. I forgot the christians classify anything that doesn't follow their vision as evil. No wonder they had the dark ages and the crusades. I could care less about ignorant philosophies about turning the other cheek. When those that wrong me redeem themselves in my eyes I'll forgive them, if they continue to wrong me why should I not get back somehow? I have yet to see a time when things balance out completely and fairly. I can't stand pacifists either. If I see someone harming another I'll at least stand up and help rather than turning the other cheek. Even if it means getting my hands a bit dirty in the process.
Not everyone follows the christian path and believes in the ten commandments. Besides, it says thou shall not kill, not thou shall not maim, harm, injure, defend thyself, or beat the shit outta someone who deserves it. And as others have said not all geeks are pizza eating quake mongers. Sure I like pizza, but I also like hiking, camping, target shooting, hell I read survival manuals and army field manuals in my spare time. Geekdom encompasses a lot more than just computers.
Once that happens, we'll have to fight the procedure again with a dozen different standards competing to be named top code. While standardization does help people play together nicely, you do have to admit that standards change often, or have incompatible subsets added to them.
MAybe you think that anyone with half a brain can run cable, perhaps that's true, but without that cable the whole project may not work. For example, I'm a field service engineer with Compaq Federal, my job is to maintain systems. Replace, repair, test, troubleshoot. But before I can do that, I need systems, which means I may be sent off to help build the systems. And then when enough are ready they get clustered. In clustering them and running the storage, there is a lot of cable work. Without the cables the thing wouldn't work too well. And On a test system I've already pulled over 12 hours on a shift just helping with the cable work. I imagine once the production system arrives I'll be doing that day in and out for a week or two. Cabling is all part of the total experience. And you get out what you put in.
I agree that there are a lot of childish people here, but you cannot prove that the majority of them are 19 year old idiots. I've seen people in their thirties still act like children on message boards. I would think that you could at least be civil in your post and not sink to the level of the people who bother you. I've defended posts from more that one woman on this forum. And I think the best recourse at this time is to mail the admins about moderation abuse. (0, Troll)? Please... She has a couple valid points.
I wish I had mod points right now. At best I can just say this post was informative. I used to be firmly pro-choice, I'd like to think I'm more enlightened now and realize that this is a very grey area.
Where such treaties conflict with the constitution and it's inclusive ammendments, for such cases the constitution is supreme. Hate speech or free speech? Who decides? All parties involved are free to form their own opinions and proceed from there.
I did not say that they were child molesters, I said it's a possibility that they MIGHT be. And I also said the same of straight people as well as the gays. Or didn't you notice that?
Denying debate, history, or ideas and ideals only sparks more controversy and the issues at hand are never resolved, just smoothed over until they rise to the surface again.
At the risk of sounding rude, (like I care anyhow), I think the primary issue about the gays in boy scouts is that if I had kids, either boy or girl, I sure as hell wouldn't want a male girl scout leader, or by the same token, a female boy scout leader. why? because there is just too much risk of them being attracted to the children and causing all sorts of scandal. By the same token due to their "sexual orientation", which I don't believe in anyhow, I wouldn't want my children led by a gay scout leader who might be attracted to them and cause problems.
however, introducing a natural bacteria into an artificial environment may cause it to adapt and change to the differing environmental conditions. In which case if it adapts and changes, it could just as easily run amok as do good.
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Militia is and was a state institution or club. The virginia militia wasn't part of the army. It was a group of volunteers. The minutemen who were called upon during the war were a militia who regulated themselves. We would not have had militias or even our own country had we disarmed everyone. Being necessary to the security of a free state. Free from what? From federal intervention. We are a federation or banding together of individual states. A militia is the state's guarantee that the fed wouldn't run roughshod over them.
Rights are expressly for the people. Government has powers and privs granted by the consent of the governed. Because the key word is "RIGHT", it applies to the individual.
By common definition, the statement "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state; the right to keep and bear arms shall not be abridged." would qualify as a run-on sentence. In actuallity a sentence that should be two separate sentences. Thus when people who understand grammer and run-ons reads the second ammendment he/she should see "A well regulated militia is necessary for the security of a free state, therefore no militia shall be repressed by any federal agency. The individual has a right to keep and bear arms which shall not be abridged by any legislature."
The link for the mercury project at compaq's crl.
www.crl.research.digital.com/projects/mercury/
Double pc-card expansion pack with integrated video camera. The prototype calles for an ipaq with linux loaded, and is a step towards portable video-cell phone/personal organizers.
This new Compaq gadget looks like a step in the right direction. We just need to work on a cloth with embedded display that can go ridgid when current is applied.
Why? We're already working with organo-phosphate displays which are laminated onto a plastic that can be rolled up. They are brighter than conventional LCD, and if you mount it on a spring loaded roll like projector screens, and put it on small rails for the top and bottom It'll stretch and still stay somewhat rigid along the top and bottom edges.
So many people want them that we had to introduce one with a greyscale screen. I'm not certain if what you say about iPaqs not being allowed is true, I've heard of one person who did have one on site. To my knowledge it's basically the same as a laptop, just don't bring it into contact with the red net or you'll lose it. Most modern laptops have mics and speakers, with recording software. They were banning those to my knowledge until it became difficult to find notebooks without those features. Of course I could be totally wrong in all of this. In which case please dis-regard.
The air force has been looking at doing a space plane for a while now. They've already been undergoing changes from an aerospace force to a space-air force. Whoever has military craft in space, has a much longer reach. I wouldn't be too surprised if they started trying to put together a stealth space-plane that could go anywhere in the world within a few hours. In fact I'd be really surprised if something like that isn't already on the boards or in test flight production runs.
Thousands of people with clean criminal records were taken off the voting rolls in a purported purge of "felons" performed by a private company.
The problem there was some of them had committed their crimes in states where once they were let out of prison their right to vote was restored. Florida's laws on the books did not follow the same statute. That said, most people did not contest that they weren't eligable until after the election. If you receive a letter in the mail saying that there was a problem registering you because you match a profile on a list and don't take the time to get it fixed who's fault is that?
Police roadblocks harassed blacks on their way to the polls.
Said it before and I'll say it again. Prove it! The first thing I'd do if any such thing happened to me or my fellows is to grab a camera and document it. Failing that I'd call a news agency who'd have a field day with live footage. The fact that nothing else has come of this speaks for itself.
Not in a situation where certain areas are given technology known to undercount (both from usuablilty issues and physical failure), and others are given accurate vote tabulators.
If they couldn't tell by looking at the finished card when after they voted that something didn't look right, I have to pity them for that.
It is also my understanding that a large number of these undervotes came from using an optronics system with the wrong type of ink.
God helps us should we implement an e-lection over the internet. I can just see the headlines now, "New evidence by computing firm proves Gore had the election hacked!"
Short of having election workers standing over your shoulder making sure you don't screw up a ballot, I don't think this issue is completely solvable. I'm reminded of the system we used in michigan when I lived there. It was optronic, it used a special marker to complete a line in a broken arrow, and before the page was fed into the machine, it was checked over for extra marks, missing marks, etc. Upgrading the entire nation to something like that makes sense in a way.
Providing names and addresses and womb parasite removers is a tool to facilitate these actions.
So humans are parasites? Well you may have that point in some cases, but you'd probably question the lable if it were applied to you personally. And tools are in-animate objects, how is the tool to blame for the use? Should we ban wrenches because they can be used to kill instead of fix things?
One's a tool to perfectly good program that will let you view your own DVDs on your own computer, the other is a tool and encouragement for illegal action.
If it were a website that had the names of kkk members instead of abortion doctors, does that make it any more legal? What if the intent was to make this knowledge public so that peaceful demonstrations could be arranged at locations such as near homes or in front of the place of work? Or should we disband the civil liberties union because the same information about who is for or against a certain law restricting free speech or advocating access control could just as easily be used for an illegal action as well as a legal and justly moral one?
I really do think that people like this (Rep. Garcia included) think that computers and the Internet are somehow magical, in that it's utterly impossible for the average human being to understand them, so they don't even make the effort to try. And don't overlook the religious right in all this. Although conservatives like to publicly justify their actions by saying their goal is to protect children, I've always believed this is just a smokescreen. (D) Garcia, Domingo I guess democrats are the conservative religious right now?
Fuels cells depending on what they are burning are not always environmentally friendly. Even burning hydrogen and producing water that might change condensation, humidity and other factors if used on a wide scale. Solar turns the surrounding area into desert which is fine if you stick it in a desert to begin with but still it takes up a lot of space to be usable. Nuclear produces waste that we can't even get rid of, burying it for later generations and hoping it doesn't leak and cause the local wildlife or whatever to mutate. And wind doesn't work to well once the jet stream (or if it's in another area, wind currents) change.
They agree not to open a file that doesn't belong to them. Copying is not opening, nor is transmitting the data contained in a file or recieving said data. And once a copy exists on your system you own that copy of the file since it resides on your filesystem and all data contained on your filesystem is yours. Even if you don't own what's encoded in the file itself the file belongs to you. At least this is just one interpretation of the wording. Actually the part that may stand up in court is the fact that data transmissions are encrypted and in order to see what's being sent the RIAA and associates would have to decrypt (violate a protection mechanism) the streams. I find this funny in an ironic sense.
I recall one of the /. topics of herf guns, and I recall a link on one of them leading to plans for all sorts of toys.
One of the posts, mentioned how long script kiddies might last actually trying to build some of this stuff.
While it is fairly easy to build something similar to this using parts from a microwave (magnetron, as the microwave source) and a radar detector (waveguide, to redirect the energy in one direction and prevent you from cooking your hands while you hold it), all it takes is pointing the thing at a metal wall or plate and you'll flash fry yourself. Or if the waveguide is not aligned properly you can cook your hands or other body parts.
This is probably also why any metallic pan that goes into the microwave probably has a ceramic coating. Most other metal parts tend to cause violent reactions.
I can just see it now, riots where l337 5cr!pt k!dd!3s run around with metal shields and homebuilt phasers. I think I'd much rather stick with teargas which doesn't actually blind someone permanently in most cases.
Burns? Doesn't that qualify under cruel and unusual punishment? It's almost like taking a low power flamethrower to a croud.
And what happens when they accidentally hit a car with this? While it supposedly only gets up ti 130 degrees, once it hits the metal it'll get much hotter and possibly even ignite the fuel tank.
Were because of the modem manufacturing industry trying to cut costs. They do this by putting the compression and such into the drivers in the OS. These modems aren't completely incompatible with other OSes, it's just that most alternatives don't want to support them, or the companies want to protect themselves by not disclosing the code for the drivers.
640k was a PC limitation and DOS was designed around the PC's at the time. Rather than redesigning the whole thing later when they added more memory, it made more sense for them at the time to segment and use TSRs to access the additional memory. I'm not defending MS for the sake of defending MS, I'm just trying to point out that in some of these cases you are barking up the wrong tree.
We may have high capacity hard drives these days, but back then they didn't and they designed the system around what they knew and what they thought reasonable for expansion. Back then they probably would have laughed if you told them we'd have 80gb HDDs.
1) Tipping is not anonymous, and failure to tip incurs societal disapproval (people think you're a cheap bastard).
Unless you are visiting a strange town, and if the service sucks I do more than not just give a decent tip, I leave a single penny to let them know how dis-satisfied I am with the service.
2) You personally benefit by tipping, assuming you return to the restaurant (you'll get good service next time)
I should have good service the first time if they even expect me to come back. Aside from that, tips are usually distributed among others who work there. I recall one time I was at a restaurant, the person who was the waitress was an exceptional server, however she didn't get any of the tips because she was in training, they all went to some fat lazy bitch hanging out at the register chatting with other employees. Since then, we've made a habit of giving it directly to the people as a gift.
That's the same problem I have with taxing blank media, who decides who gets what? Especially when that same media can be used for other purposes, such as if I had to duplicate a corporate training cd for a new employee, or a database backup.
Where do you get child molester from non-christian? And who says I'm hiding behind the letter of the bible? I don't even believe in that hogwash (in my own opinion) anyhow. Oh that's right.. I forgot the christians classify anything that doesn't follow their vision as evil. No wonder they had the dark ages and the crusades. I could care less about ignorant philosophies about turning the other cheek. When those that wrong me redeem themselves in my eyes I'll forgive them, if they continue to wrong me why should I not get back somehow? I have yet to see a time when things balance out completely and fairly. I can't stand pacifists either. If I see someone harming another I'll at least stand up and help rather than turning the other cheek. Even if it means getting my hands a bit dirty in the process.
Not everyone follows the christian path and believes in the ten commandments. Besides, it says thou shall not kill, not thou shall not maim, harm, injure, defend thyself, or beat the shit outta someone who deserves it. And as others have said not all geeks are pizza eating quake mongers. Sure I like pizza, but I also like hiking, camping, target shooting, hell I read survival manuals and army field manuals in my spare time. Geekdom encompasses a lot more than just computers.
"And it would serve to clean up the current gene pool a bit." Trolls are too damn stuborn to die peacefully.
Once that happens, we'll have to fight the procedure again with a dozen different standards competing to be named top code. While standardization does help people play together nicely, you do have to admit that standards change often, or have incompatible subsets added to them.
MAybe you think that anyone with half a brain can run cable, perhaps that's true, but without that cable the whole project may not work. For example, I'm a field service engineer with Compaq Federal, my job is to maintain systems. Replace, repair, test, troubleshoot. But before I can do that, I need systems, which means I may be sent off to help build the systems. And then when enough are ready they get clustered. In clustering them and running the storage, there is a lot of cable work. Without the cables the thing wouldn't work too well. And On a test system I've already pulled over 12 hours on a shift just helping with the cable work. I imagine once the production system arrives I'll be doing that day in and out for a week or two. Cabling is all part of the total experience. And you get out what you put in.
I agree that there are a lot of childish people here, but you cannot prove that the majority of them are 19 year old idiots. I've seen people in their thirties still act like children on message boards. I would think that you could at least be civil in your post and not sink to the level of the people who bother you. I've defended posts from more that one woman on this forum. And I think the best recourse at this time is to mail the admins about moderation abuse. (0, Troll)? Please... She has a couple valid points.
I wish I had mod points right now. At best I can just say this post was informative. I used to be firmly pro-choice, I'd like to think I'm more enlightened now and realize that this is a very grey area.
Where such treaties conflict with the constitution and it's inclusive ammendments, for such cases the constitution is supreme. Hate speech or free speech? Who decides? All parties involved are free to form their own opinions and proceed from there.
I did not say that they were child molesters, I said it's a possibility that they MIGHT be. And I also said the same of straight people as well as the gays. Or didn't you notice that?
Denying debate, history, or ideas and ideals only sparks more controversy and the issues at hand are never resolved, just smoothed over until they rise to the surface again.
At the risk of sounding rude, (like I care anyhow), I think the primary issue about the gays in boy scouts is that if I had kids, either boy or girl, I sure as hell wouldn't want a male girl scout leader, or by the same token, a female boy scout leader. why? because there is just too much risk of them being attracted to the children and causing all sorts of scandal. By the same token due to their "sexual orientation", which I don't believe in anyhow, I wouldn't want my children led by a gay scout leader who might be attracted to them and cause problems.
however, introducing a natural bacteria into an artificial environment may cause it to adapt and change to the differing environmental conditions. In which case if it adapts and changes, it could just as easily run amok as do good.