"but the location of his grave was lost when the building was demolished in the 16th century.
A team of historians, though, were determined to find the body. Archaeologists used ground-penetrating radar on the site of the former priory, and were able to locate the skeleton beneath a parking lot after only a few days of digging."
THEY DID THE GEOPHYS, did they?
This sounds awfully like the setup to every episode of TIME TEAM ever.
When you see a x-military person on TV or at some type of post military gathering or event, they are usually quiet and reserved and shy away from from the spotlight.
I've often thought that it must feel really awkward for those soldiers who are paraded in front of the crowd at half-time. 100,000 people staring at them and all they can really do is wave for a few minutes then walk off.
You do realize that the NRA is not participating in the video games industry, don't you? The NRA is not an industry group - it is a group of gun owners. The Industry group is the NSSF.
Then why did the NRA release a game about shooting for iOS?
Please excuse me for my hasty generalization. I was just using gun rights proponents' view to demonstrate one possible extreme from their point of view.
To be fair though, the BBC also gets this wrong on a regular basis and the gun laws here are so unbelievably stupid it is difficult to tell what is legal and what is not.
Heres a good example - handguns are illegal. Except for percussion-cap revolvers and other muzzle-loaders. Oh, and.22LR pistols if you make them large enough (called a Long Barrelled Pistol or LBP, 12" barrel and 24" overall length, achieved by welding a metal rod to the butt of the grip) which technically makes it a rifle (and.22LR rifles are still allowed to be semi-auto here). Oh, and the rarer but still legal Long Barrelled Revolver, which is the same as a LBP but can be any calibre because the law for black-powder handguns (rushed in during the handgun ban) treat each chamber in a revolver as a separate firearm, so an LBR is technically 6 (or however many rounds it can hold) non-self-loading rifles, which are legal in any calibre.
For those doubting parent's claim of the doctors in the UK trying to ban French style chef knives (the big knife that Le Cordon Bleu, and presumably every other culinary school, teaches is to be used for EVERYTHING), here's a link:
Sounds like a tyrany to me, when the government can act with impunity against its own people. Which these certainly could. Its only a short step to do so. Much like Austria in 1938...
Gitmo, the TSA, warrantless wiretapping. You, the average person, could do precisely fuck all to prevent those from happening. Sounds like government acting with impunity to me. Also, how did NY get these laws passed? Did they ask everyone in the state? No. Can gun owners do anything about it? No.
On one extreme, you have a nation like the UK, which has completely banned guns to the point that even officers don't even carry them
Not true. It may seem like a ban from a US point of view because I cant just go to the supermarket and buy an AR-15 and 1000 rounds of ammo, but guns are definitely not completely banned here.
The best way to handle a tailgaiter is to just touch your brake pedal now and again. The brake lights will go on, but the brakes will not apply. Make THEM slam theirs on.
For the really terminal cases, just brake sharply and let them rear-end you, then sue them for a new car and for the "chronic back pain" you will have afterwards.
For the record, back when I took it, my TaeKwonDo instructor made it very clear that it was going to be worth very little in a real fight. I'd almost argue it has a negative effect, because you condition yourself to aim for the most ineffective spots.
Really? The bits I remember about Tae Kwon Do involved punching/kicking techniques designed to use as much force as possible.
normal people off the street have to jump through so many hoop to own an automatic weapon now (fingerprinting, extensive background check, letter of endorsement from local head law enforcement official, tax stamp, etc.) that VERY few do so
IIRC someone recently produced a special holder in which you could place a semi automatic gun which would cause your finger to release from the trigger when it recoiled and then spring it back pushing your finger back into the trigger giving you effectively full auto fire without the gun itself being full auto.
Dunno if anyone has used one in a crime yet though.
I think that is called the Slidefire. There are a few videos on YouTube showing it working.
After all if it wont fire people will just use it as a bludgeon to beat someone to death instead and it'll still be declared a gun crime so the gun control nuts can still have statistics on their side.
Also what happens if someone tries to shoot a midget? The gun might think of them as a kid, so a midget on a shooting rampage might do even more damage.
Actually, this is genius. Police officers can have standard-issue plastic baby dolls to hold during a shoot-out, thus rendering the criminal's gun useless.
What the "arm the teachers" advocates seem to want to ignore is how badly people - even trained combat infantry troops - shoot when under pressure. Folks that can constantly hit targets on the range, get one shot kills when hunting, etc will have very bad hit rates when someone is shooting back. Most of the return fire will miss and can (will often?) lead to some additional casualties when the return fire hits someone that is behind the target. This badly reduced accuracy while under duress issue is totally missed by many folks.
Which is why you train the teachers to use the guns properly. It certainly would be better than the current strategy of waiting until the perp runs out of bullets/targets or gets bored.
Until the day a teacher goes postal and kills the kids in his/her classroom, after which the NRA will call for the kids to be armed too.
So I have no problem with handguns and automatic rifels being illegal here. My only real criticism would be that the laws were drafted too stringently, so that even target shooting pistols were outlawed, which seems unnecessary.>
Target pistols (.22LR) were to be exempt from the ban in the same way that.22LR semi-auto rifles are still available, but Tony Blair's "ban everything" government decided otherwise. The closest you can go is either black-powder or the abomination that is the Long-Barrelled Pistol (a.22LR handgun with a 12" barrel and a bit of metal sticking out the back to make it long enough to be classified as a rifle).
People here are raised to be terrified of guns. Hell, up here in Scotland, the nanny-state nationalist government even wants a firearms-style licence for air guns, because they are evil and scary machines of death. Or something.
Yes, this was the big hope that was supposed to be revealed with the release of a native Linux Steam client. But when it comes down to it, native linux just barely scrapes by the "Other" category.
Oh no! The closed-beta client that has only been opened for all for an entire month hasn't registered 100% of all users! May as well give up then and go back to Windows.
I would like to point out the:
A) it wasn't just old biddies
B) It worked. It accomplished the goal it set out to. Reduce domestic abuse and crime.
Domestic Abuse all but disappeared, violent crime dropped significantly.
I would also like to point out the prohibition meant the media(Newspapers) lost a lot of advertising money.
Please don't reply with a comparison to other substances; that's irrelevant.
You are ignoring the horrific negative effects of prohibition, such as NASCAR.
Same thing as the "Right to bear arms" --- you think with your pissy little semi-automatic assault rifles you can fight the army?
Hey, at least you still have semi-automatics, you should try living in a country which is about to criminalise anyone who doesn't register/license their fucking air weapons..
Ironically, you can get a semi-automatic.22LR with a standard firearms licence. Which, knowing the SNP, will be cheaper and easier than getting a licence for a sub-12ft.lb airgun. Or you just go into a sporting goods shop and buy a crossbow (which is way more lethal than a non-FAC airgun) over the counter with only an age check.
Truth is most certainly an absolute defence against libel in the UK.
Actually, it is not.
Actually, it depends on which part of the UK. England & Wales has the libel law you are referring to. Scotland does not - libel falls under defamation which has truth as an absolute defence. I don't know about Northern Ireland.
You just don't understand do you? It's not up to you if it's worth trying or not. It's HER life. She gets to decide if she wants to try leeches to cure her cancer. In a private system, she can seek out and purchase insurance that covers what she wants. In a single payer system you HAVE NO CHOICE.
I undertand perfectly. I live a country with public health care, and I do have a choice. This may come as a surprise to you, but you can buy a strange thing called "private health insurance". I have one that covers every the public health insurance doesn't, and covers the rest of everything the public doesn't cover fully. It costs a total of €200 per year. PER YEAR! That is the platinum version, the cheapest version is around €50 per year to cover 50% of the price on all medicin the public doesn't cover.
When the public insurance covers pretty much everything, getting a private one that covers the rest is insanely cheap.
Remember the/. mentality. There are only absolutes. You either have 100%-private healthcare or 100%-tax funded care. You cant have a mixture of the two. That doesn't fit the "for us or against us" worldview that thrives here.
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Well fuck my youngest is screwed then. Everyone will think he is some sort of French epic hero.
You named him * ?
From TFA
"but the location of his grave was lost when the building was demolished in the 16th century. A team of historians, though, were determined to find the body. Archaeologists used ground-penetrating radar on the site of the former priory, and were able to locate the skeleton beneath a parking lot after only a few days of digging."
THEY DID THE GEOPHYS, did they?
This sounds awfully like the setup to every episode of TIME TEAM ever.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Team
Yeah, but these guys actually found something other than a series of small walls.
When you see a x-military person on TV or at some type of post military gathering or event, they are usually quiet and reserved and shy away from from the spotlight.
I've often thought that it must feel really awkward for those soldiers who are paraded in front of the crowd at half-time. 100,000 people staring at them and all they can really do is wave for a few minutes then walk off.
Indeed - if you have people fighting for you, it helps to remind them once in a while of what they're fighting for.
Securing foreign oil to keep the lights on? :)
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers "its what plants crave!"
You call that "Congress", I believe. We call it "Parliament".
You do realize that the NRA is not participating in the video games industry, don't you? The NRA is not an industry group - it is a group of gun owners. The Industry group is the NSSF.
Then why did the NRA release a game about shooting for iOS?
The DMCA law makes it illegal to breach encryption
Im sure Microsoft would argue that turning off SecureBoot to boot into Linux counts as circumventing encryption.
Please excuse me for my hasty generalization. I was just using gun rights proponents' view to demonstrate one possible extreme from their point of view.
To be fair though, the BBC also gets this wrong on a regular basis and the gun laws here are so unbelievably stupid it is difficult to tell what is legal and what is not.
.22LR pistols if you make them large enough (called a Long Barrelled Pistol or LBP, 12" barrel and 24" overall length, achieved by welding a metal rod to the butt of the grip) which technically makes it a rifle (and .22LR rifles are still allowed to be semi-auto here). Oh, and the rarer but still legal Long Barrelled Revolver, which is the same as a LBP but can be any calibre because the law for black-powder handguns (rushed in during the handgun ban) treat each chamber in a revolver as a separate firearm, so an LBR is technically 6 (or however many rounds it can hold) non-self-loading rifles, which are legal in any calibre.
Heres a good example - handguns are illegal. Except for percussion-cap revolvers and other muzzle-loaders. Oh, and
Simple as that.
For those doubting parent's claim of the doctors in the UK trying to ban French style chef knives (the big knife that Le Cordon Bleu, and presumably every other culinary school, teaches is to be used for EVERYTHING), here's a link:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4581871.stm
I have to admit that I thought he was making it up, but there it is.
Your link is from 2005. One doctor called for it. Nobody listened.
Sounds like a tyrany to me, when the government can act with impunity against its own people. Which these certainly could. Its only a short step to do so. Much like Austria in 1938...
Gitmo, the TSA, warrantless wiretapping. You, the average person, could do precisely fuck all to prevent those from happening. Sounds like government acting with impunity to me. Also, how did NY get these laws passed? Did they ask everyone in the state? No. Can gun owners do anything about it? No.
On one extreme, you have a nation like the UK, which has completely banned guns to the point that even officers don't even carry them
Not true. It may seem like a ban from a US point of view because I cant just go to the supermarket and buy an AR-15 and 1000 rounds of ammo, but guns are definitely not completely banned here.
And pray tell, honorable senator from Missouri, what will these taxes go to?
The taxes will help pay for the No Child Left Unarmed policy.
You know how you stop a bad guy with a gun?
A good guy with a gun.
Excellent. Now all we need is a way to tell the two guys apart before the shooting starts.
The best way to handle a tailgaiter is to just touch your brake pedal now and again. The brake lights will go on, but the brakes will not apply. Make THEM slam theirs on. For the really terminal cases, just brake sharply and let them rear-end you, then sue them for a new car and for the "chronic back pain" you will have afterwards.
For the record, back when I took it, my TaeKwonDo instructor made it very clear that it was going to be worth very little in a real fight. I'd almost argue it has a negative effect, because you condition yourself to aim for the most ineffective spots.
Really? The bits I remember about Tae Kwon Do involved punching/kicking techniques designed to use as much force as possible.
normal people off the street have to jump through so many hoop to own an automatic weapon now (fingerprinting, extensive background check, letter of endorsement from local head law enforcement official, tax stamp, etc.) that VERY few do so
IIRC someone recently produced a special holder in which you could place a semi automatic gun which would cause your finger to release from the trigger when it recoiled and then spring it back pushing your finger back into the trigger giving you effectively full auto fire without the gun itself being full auto.
Dunno if anyone has used one in a crime yet though.
I think that is called the Slidefire. There are a few videos on YouTube showing it working.
Yes it is very dumb...
After all if it wont fire people will just use it as a bludgeon to beat someone to death instead and it'll still be declared a gun crime so the gun control nuts can still have statistics on their side.
Also what happens if someone tries to shoot a midget? The gun might think of them as a kid, so a midget on a shooting rampage might do even more damage.
Actually, this is genius. Police officers can have standard-issue plastic baby dolls to hold during a shoot-out, thus rendering the criminal's gun useless.
What the "arm the teachers" advocates seem to want to ignore is how badly people - even trained combat infantry troops - shoot when under pressure. Folks that can constantly hit targets on the range, get one shot kills when hunting, etc will have very bad hit rates when someone is shooting back. Most of the return fire will miss and can (will often?) lead to some additional casualties when the return fire hits someone that is behind the target. This badly reduced accuracy while under duress issue is totally missed by many folks.
Which is why you train the teachers to use the guns properly. It certainly would be better than the current strategy of waiting until the perp runs out of bullets/targets or gets bored.
Until the day a teacher goes postal and kills the kids in his/her classroom, after which the NRA will call for the kids to be armed too.
So I have no problem with handguns and automatic rifels being illegal here. My only real criticism would be that the laws were drafted too stringently, so that even target shooting pistols were outlawed, which seems unnecessary.>
Target pistols (.22LR) were to be exempt from the ban in the same way that .22LR semi-auto rifles are still available, but Tony Blair's "ban everything" government decided otherwise. The closest you can go is either black-powder or the abomination that is the Long-Barrelled Pistol (a .22LR handgun with a 12" barrel and a bit of metal sticking out the back to make it long enough to be classified as a rifle).
People here are raised to be terrified of guns. Hell, up here in Scotland, the nanny-state nationalist government even wants a firearms-style licence for air guns, because they are evil and scary machines of death. Or something.
The only thing republicans ever want to cut is education and programs for those who might need some help staying afloat.
Make people dumb, poor and desperate while also guaranteeing their right to guns. Genuis, utter genuis.
Yes, this was the big hope that was supposed to be revealed with the release of a native Linux Steam client. But when it comes down to it, native linux just barely scrapes by the "Other" category.
Oh no! The closed-beta client that has only been opened for all for an entire month hasn't registered 100% of all users! May as well give up then and go back to Windows.
I would like to point out the: A) it wasn't just old biddies B) It worked. It accomplished the goal it set out to. Reduce domestic abuse and crime. Domestic Abuse all but disappeared, violent crime dropped significantly.
I would also like to point out the prohibition meant the media(Newspapers) lost a lot of advertising money.
Please don't reply with a comparison to other substances; that's irrelevant.
You are ignoring the horrific negative effects of prohibition, such as NASCAR.
Same thing as the "Right to bear arms" --- you think with your pissy little semi-automatic assault rifles you can fight the army?
Hey, at least you still have semi-automatics, you should try living in a country which is about to criminalise anyone who doesn't register/license their fucking air weapons..
Ironically, you can get a semi-automatic .22LR with a standard firearms licence. Which, knowing the SNP, will be cheaper and easier than getting a licence for a sub-12ft.lb airgun. Or you just go into a sporting goods shop and buy a crossbow (which is way more lethal than a non-FAC airgun) over the counter with only an age check.
Truth is most certainly an absolute defence against libel in the UK.
Actually, it is not.
Actually, it depends on which part of the UK. England & Wales has the libel law you are referring to. Scotland does not - libel falls under defamation which has truth as an absolute defence. I don't know about Northern Ireland.
I undertand perfectly. I live a country with public health care, and I do have a choice. This may come as a surprise to you, but you can buy a strange thing called "private health insurance". I have one that covers every the public health insurance doesn't, and covers the rest of everything the public doesn't cover fully. It costs a total of €200 per year. PER YEAR! That is the platinum version, the cheapest version is around €50 per year to cover 50% of the price on all medicin the public doesn't cover.
When the public insurance covers pretty much everything, getting a private one that covers the rest is insanely cheap.
Remember the /. mentality. There are only absolutes. You either have 100%-private healthcare or 100%-tax funded care. You cant have a mixture of the two. That doesn't fit the "for us or against us" worldview that thrives here.