I am licensed to carry firearms in MA and NH and have done so for years. I have managed to resolve differences with people without them ever even suspecting that I am carrying. Just because I don't fear an inanimate object the way many people do, does not mean the I lack the morals to know murder is wrong and the judgement to apply force in self-defense.
And yes, with a greater likelihood of being confronted by someone capable of stopping you from committing murder, you would have a harder time committing murder.
The bottom line is that there is a dark side of human nature from which most people are shielded. As a result, some people delude themselves into thinking such horror is just not a part of their world. But it is a part of life, and always has been. Even before the invention of firearms, video games and other popular scapegoats, there were massacres, genocide and enslavement. As has always been the case, the people who are least capable of defending themselves will bear the brunt of such horror.
Gun bill gets shot down by panel HB 1572, which would have allowed handguns on college campuses, died in subcommittee. By Greg Esposito
381-1675
A bill that would have given college students and employees the right to carry handguns on campus died with nary a shot being fired in the General Assembly.
House Bill 1572 didn't get through the House Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety. It died Monday in the subcommittee stage, the first of several hurdles bills must overcome before becoming laws.
The bill was proposed by Del. Todd Gilbert, R-Shenandoah County, on behalf of the Virginia Citizens Defense League. Gilbert was unavailable Monday and spokesman Gary Frink would not comment on the bill's defeat other than to say the issue was dead for this General Assembly session.
Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker was happy to hear the bill was defeated. "I'm sure the university community is appreciative of the General Assembly's actions because this will help parents, students, faculty and visitors feel safe on our campus."
Del. Dave Nutter, R-Christiansburg, would not comment Monday because he was not part of the subcommittee that discussed the bill.
Most universities in Virginia require students and employees, other than police, to check their guns with police or campus security upon entering campus. The legislation was designed to prohibit public universities from making "rules or regulations limiting or abridging the ability of a student who possesses a valid concealed handgun permit... from lawfully carrying a concealed handgun."
The legislation allowed for exceptions for participants in athletic events, storage of guns in residence halls and military training programs.
Last spring a Virginia Tech student was disciplined for bringing a handgun to class, despite having a concealed handgun permit. Some gun owners questioned the university's authority, while the Virginia Association of Chiefs of Police came out against the presence of guns on campus.
In June, Tech's governing board approved a violence prevention policy reiterating its ban on students or employees carrying guns and prohibiting visitors from bringing them into campus facilities.
There is a slashdot.org bias against Windows. All that means is people here tend to have unfavorable opinions of MS Windows.
This is a forum to express and discuss (mostly technology related) opinions is it not?
Now if we were to go forth and present our opinions as unbiased news items, as the media often does, then claims of bias would be justified. But as long you own your bias and admit to what you are advocating, then no one can accuse you of trying to be deceptive.
And I suppose that every minute of your company's time that you waste posting crap like this is good for my company's stock.
You anti-America leftists crack me up.
3. Open Source allows DOD to have absolute control over its systems.
2. Won't have to worry about M$ "Easter Eggs" in the way of back door access to DOD systems. (e.g. intended security flaws, not to be confused with the scores of unintened security flaws.)
1. If Redmond WA ever gets nuked, DOD won't have to worry about where its next upgrades are coming from.
BTW: This is an incomplete list, and there is no such thing as a completed list. A resourceful killer is only limited by his imagination when it comes to selecting tools. This is one of the reasons gun control has never stopped criminals and only ensured that their intended victims are unable to defend themselves.
One can take the phrase "When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns" and replace the word guns with the word encryption and have it be just as true.
Awesome! A few years back, Progress (prgs) stock shot up like a rocket (and soon came back down) on rumors floated on CNBC that M$ was looking into buying them.
You guys start to rumors, I'll login to eTrade...
The ACLU does NOT defend the Bill of Rights.
Try getting their help on a 2nd Amendment issue.
Their defense of the 1st Amendment usually stops short of "freedom of expression" - when they don't agree with the ideas being expressed.
The ACLU defends the Bill of Rights, mostly when it is good for its own adgenda.
After reading this and his views on Microsoft - I conclude that Dan Hayes is an oxygen thief and not worth the time to it would take to rebuke HIS revisionist ideas.
BTW: You should look up the word revisionist and adjust your usage of it; as you are the one that is attempting to change the facts as told by the people (American, British and Japenese) who were there.
Scientology is a dangerous cult? Maybe someone should call the Cult Awareness Network and let them know...oh wait CAN was annihilated by Scientology for expressing their concerns about the cult of Scientology.
Well, if this is really the case, then I guess Microsoft will give up the Linux/Open Source FUD campaign... no need to continue it if "For all practical purposes, Linux is dead". If the war has been won, then we should expect Microsoft to stop beating a "dead" horse. I bet Microsoft proves you wrong on this one.
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Actually, he left 4 children behind. Speaking of filtering bad genes out of the pool, when was the last time you got laid? I bet that your genes don't do as well as The Intimidator's did.
You could command a 6 figure salary in any profession? Lets see you do it as a mens room attendent.
I have been making a good living for the past 10 years developing "open source" applications...and for most of that time I have been paid a six figure salary. I develop enterprise business applications - traditionally using Oracle or Progress, but now using other tools like MySQL, Perl, PhP, Appache. My clients pay me for my services, not the software. And that is the way this business has worked since long before I (or M$) came along. The clients own the source code to their enterprise applications, and will change it as they see fit...and thankfully they see fit to change it all the time as their business changes - and that is what keeps programmers gainfully employed, not the licences.
Web Servers, Databases, Development (in so many languages), Office productivity suites, Games, Multimedia, Instant messaging, Chat, Communication (e.g. fax, paging, Palm Pilot), Archiving, Editors galore, Publishing ---
its all there. So when the MicroNazi - Herr Dokter Allchin talks about the need to buy..er educate legislators, he knows that it is dangerous, for M$ to be compared to Linux (especially for quality).
And with regards to glibc: things are a long way from perfect, but at the rate at which opensource development moves, I'll bet it approaches perfect faster then M$
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That whenever any Form of Commercial Organisation becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Forms of Commercial Organisation, laying their foundation on such principles and organizing their powers in such ways, as to them shall seem most likely to secure their personal autonomy and continued happiness.
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Here we go, another uptight suit fretting that that competition has just improved while their own latest attempt at imitation continues to flop.
Aren't you late for you colonic ?
I am licensed to carry firearms in MA and NH and have done so for years. I have managed to resolve differences with people without them ever even suspecting that I am carrying. Just because I don't fear an inanimate object the way many people do, does not mean the I lack the morals to know murder is wrong and the judgement to apply force in self-defense.
And yes, with a greater likelihood of being confronted by someone capable of stopping you from committing murder, you would have a harder time committing murder.
The bottom line is that there is a dark side of human nature from which most people are shielded. As a result, some people delude themselves into thinking such horror is just not a part of their world. But it is a part of life, and always has been. Even before the invention of firearms, video games and other popular scapegoats, there were massacres, genocide and enslavement. As has always been the case, the people who are least capable of defending themselves will bear the brunt of such horror.
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... from lawfully carrying a concealed handgun."
Gun bill gets shot down by panel
HB 1572, which would have allowed handguns on college campuses, died in subcommittee.
By Greg Esposito
381-1675
A bill that would have given college students and employees the right to carry handguns on campus died with nary a shot being fired in the General Assembly.
House Bill 1572 didn't get through the House Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety. It died Monday in the subcommittee stage, the first of several hurdles bills must overcome before becoming laws.
The bill was proposed by Del. Todd Gilbert, R-Shenandoah County, on behalf of the Virginia Citizens Defense League. Gilbert was unavailable Monday and spokesman Gary Frink would not comment on the bill's defeat other than to say the issue was dead for this General Assembly session.
Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker was happy to hear the bill was defeated. "I'm sure the university community is appreciative of the General Assembly's actions because this will help parents, students, faculty and visitors feel safe on our campus."
Del. Dave Nutter, R-Christiansburg, would not comment Monday because he was not part of the subcommittee that discussed the bill.
Most universities in Virginia require students and employees, other than police, to check their guns with police or campus security upon entering campus. The legislation was designed to prohibit public universities from making "rules or regulations limiting or abridging the ability of a student who possesses a valid concealed handgun permit
The legislation allowed for exceptions for participants in athletic events, storage of guns in residence halls and military training programs.
Last spring a Virginia Tech student was disciplined for bringing a handgun to class, despite having a concealed handgun permit. Some gun owners questioned the university's authority, while the Virginia Association of Chiefs of Police came out against the presence of guns on campus.
In June, Tech's governing board approved a violence prevention policy reiterating its ban on students or employees carrying guns and prohibiting visitors from bringing them into campus facilities.
No kidding? When did this happen?
I think the idea behind the laws was to make it easier to discover such a plot.
Although I'll grant you that the laws are unnecessary in Canada; what significance could there be in attacking Canada?
"policies that dont work get revoked"
They don't work? Was there a terrorist act in Canada that the laws failed to prevent?
At best, the effectiveness of these laws were never tested.
There is a slashdot.org bias against Windows. All that means is people here tend to have unfavorable opinions of MS Windows.
This is a forum to express and discuss (mostly technology related) opinions is it not?
Now if we were to go forth and present our opinions as unbiased news items, as the media often does, then claims of bias would be justified. But as long you own your bias and admit to what you are advocating, then no one can accuse you of trying to be deceptive.
The free market is not magical. There is even a science devoted to studying it - economics.
People being free to pursue their own potential always has and always will trump elitist's solutions to human problems.
Right-wing pussy in MA would love to hook up for a bitch-slap. I'm betting you're only tough when operating from the safety of you keyboard...
And I suppose that every minute of your company's time that you waste posting crap like this is good for my company's stock. You anti-America leftists crack me up.
3. Open Source allows DOD to have absolute control over its systems. 2. Won't have to worry about M$ "Easter Eggs" in the way of back door access to DOD systems. (e.g. intended security flaws, not to be confused with the scores of unintened security flaws.) 1. If Redmond WA ever gets nuked, DOD won't have to worry about where its next upgrades are coming from.
BTW: This is an incomplete list, and there is no such thing as a completed list. A resourceful killer is only limited by his imagination when it comes to selecting tools. This is one of the reasons gun control has never stopped criminals and only ensured that their intended victims are unable to defend themselves. One can take the phrase "When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns" and replace the word guns with the word encryption and have it be just as true.
Awesome! A few years back, Progress (prgs) stock shot up like a rocket (and soon came back down) on rumors floated on CNBC that M$ was looking into buying them. You guys start to rumors, I'll login to eTrade...
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The ACLU does NOT defend the Bill of Rights. Try getting their help on a 2nd Amendment issue. Their defense of the 1st Amendment usually stops short of "freedom of expression" - when they don't agree with the ideas being expressed. The ACLU defends the Bill of Rights, mostly when it is good for its own adgenda.
After reading this and his views on Microsoft - I conclude that Dan Hayes is an oxygen thief and not worth the time to it would take to rebuke HIS revisionist ideas. BTW: You should look up the word revisionist and adjust your usage of it; as you are the one that is attempting to change the facts as told by the people (American, British and Japenese) who were there.
Scientology is a dangerous cult? Maybe someone should call the Cult Awareness Network and let them know...oh wait CAN was annihilated by Scientology for expressing their concerns about the cult of Scientology.
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Well, if this is really the case, then I guess Microsoft will give up the Linux/Open Source FUD campaign... no need to continue it if "For all practical purposes, Linux is dead". If the war has been won, then we should expect Microsoft to stop beating a "dead" horse. I bet Microsoft proves you wrong on this one.
Actually, he left 4 children behind. Speaking of filtering bad genes out of the pool, when was the last time you got laid? I bet that your genes don't do as well as The Intimidator's did.
You could command a 6 figure salary in any profession? Lets see you do it as a mens room attendent.
I have been making a good living for the past 10 years developing "open source" applications...and for most of that time I have been paid a six figure salary. I develop enterprise business applications - traditionally using Oracle or Progress, but now using other tools like MySQL, Perl, PhP, Appache. My clients pay me for my services, not the software. And that is the way this business has worked since long before I (or M$) came along. The clients own the source code to their enterprise applications, and will change it as they see fit...and thankfully they see fit to change it all the time as their business changes - and that is what keeps programmers gainfully employed, not the licences.
What variety of software are you talking about?
Web Servers, Databases, Development (in so many languages), Office productivity suites, Games, Multimedia, Instant messaging, Chat, Communication (e.g. fax, paging, Palm Pilot), Archiving, Editors galore, Publishing ---
its all there. So when the MicroNazi - Herr Dokter Allchin talks about the need to buy..er educate legislators, he knows that it is dangerous, for M$ to be compared to Linux (especially for quality).
And with regards to glibc: things are a long way from perfect, but at the rate at which opensource development moves, I'll bet it approaches perfect faster then M$
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal, that they are endowed with certain unalienable Rights, and that chief among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these Rights, and in particular the last, Commercial Organisations are created to serve the People, deriving their just powers from the consent and free choice and will of the People. That whenever any Form of Commercial Organisation becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Forms of Commercial Organisation, laying their foundation on such principles and organizing their powers in such ways, as to them shall seem most likely to secure their personal autonomy and continued happiness. Successful Commercial Organisations long established should not be changed lightly or for transient reasons; and experience has shown that humankind is more likely to suffer, while burdens are sufferable, than to right the situation by abolishing the commercial forms to which they have grown accustomed..... http://springboard.dyndns.org/FD-IT/freedom/
open source is the markets response to the M$ monopoly.