My understanding of the 2nd amendment is that it was so you could repel invaders (ie, the British) during a time you didn't have a standing army. It would allow the President to call up the population to bear arms and fight back.
Because honestly, how much shit will you let your government do before you rise up against them like you genuinely believe you will? Do you think for even a second you would be able to start the movement for such a revolution without the government snatching you up as a 'terroris't and throwing you in a dark hole?
There were at least two Facebook pages calling for the murder of Mark Bridger. This was one of the comments;
"Jessica Morris Keep it open- we need somewhere to convene if he gets released- we will need to arrange a march to his house for welsh justice if he gets released!!! X"
"if you have nothing better to do in life than sit around and inhale a drug to "get high" and have psychodelic hallucinations then you're probably not destined for greatness"
Both Carl Sagan and Richard Feynman used marijuana
We didn't even storm the Libyan embassy when they opened fire on a crowd and killed a British policewoman. We just allowed them to leave and be on their way. So these threats they're making to get at Assange are, quite frankly, hilarious.
"According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,within a few years winter snowfall will become "a very rare and exciting event".
"Children just aren't going to know what snow is," he said."
Hey now, this has been a part of BF since the beginning. Used to be really fun back in those 1942 days base jumping off some of the bridges above the canyons.
I know, it's totally crazy. I mean, there we all were with our circular television sets and triangular computer monitors before some sane person came along with square and rectangular shaped displays putting an end to the madness.
" The effect of reducing or eliminating CO2 would have a far greater positive impact than any negative of wind. The effet of Co2 is permenant and irreversible."
Meanwhile, Usenet providers (who are mostly US operated companies by the look of it) continue unhindered. I wonder how many people are paying $20 a month to the likes of Giganews for 1000day binary retention, fast connections, etc for legitimate purposes?
As an aside, want to know what eventually caused the breakdown of my parents marriage and divorce in the early 2000s? My fathers drinking and eventual alcoholism!
"I can't imagine that having a parent abusing drugs makes for the best circumstances for parenting"
You'd think, right? But not neceassrily. My father's day job at the time was a helicopter navigator for the oil rigs! I didn't have a terrible upbringing although my parents did fall out like I assume everyones does. My parents always ensured we never went without and actually did things with us as children (took us places, spent time with us, etc). Being ex-hippies they both smoked pot as well so I was made well aware of what that was from a very early age ("Never tell anyone that we smoke this" my father would say). I guess although my father was a wannabe rockstar and doing his best Keith Richards impersonation my mother was the rock that kept things stable.
The problem is, you won't get many parents to honestly admit their previous drug history, especially if they suspect that is the result for their childs behaviour. When my mother took my brother to be diagnosed she recognised the parents of the other children with ADHD as local drug users (because as you most likely know, when you're taking drugs and buying them from illegal sources you will often bump into their other customers or be forwarded to other dealers and you get to recognise these people, at least in relatively small towns), she told the Doctor her suspicions and he agreed that was the most likely cause but parents are often unwilling to admit it.
You've missed something although I do agree with what you're saying. If a 'normal' person take amphetamine then they will do a lot of that shit you mentioned up there, for those diagnosed with ADHD it has the complete opposite effect and calms them down. My brother was diagnosed ADHD and prescribed Ritalin. My mother blames that on the fact my dad was in a rock band between me and my brother being born and did ridiculous amounts of cocaine and speed, result? a brother that bounced off the walls for the first 14yrs or so. (this was in the late 80s, early 90s). I went to an ADHD 'support' forum once and suggested that their childrens behaviour was a result of parental drug abuse prior to conception. Oh boy, those parents did not like that suggestion at all and insisted that it was 'genetics'. Yes, that's right, you fucked up your genetics by abusing drugs and now it's manifesting itself in your offspring. Guess what recent studies are suggesting? That's right, that ADHD is linked to drug abuse!
"In a recent issue of the Journal of Neuroscience, Gregg Stanwood, Ph.D., and Pat Levitt, Ph.D., report that prenatal cocaine exposure in rabbits causes a long lasting displacement of dopamine receptors in certain brain cells, which alters their ability to function normally. "
"A connection between cocaine use during pregnancy and attention dysfunction in children is suggested in a study by researchers at Cornell and the University of Kentucky"
Of course, no parent will admit they are responsible for the outcome of their child so they continue to bury their head in the sand, convince themselves it's 'genetic' and pump their kids full of speed so the cycle can continue
It's not that absurd as the entire point of SOCA is to go after 'serious organised crime', you know, the mafia types as opposed to your shoplifter types.
"Remember when the weather forecast was always wrong? It's been really remarkably precise recently when I've followed it, which I do a lot, because I enjoy outdoor sports. It's been scarily precise. Predictions a week out come true with astonishing regularity"
The British MET Office would probably like to ask some questions then as they get it horribly wrong year after year.
MET Office: "OMG HEATWAVE BBQ SUMMER INCOMING!!!"
Cue a Summer of rain and cold
"MILD WINTER AHEAD"
Cue the coldest Winters in who knows how long for the fourth year running.
No, he isn't. It's all right there in the Prospectus. As is what they will do with the $5billion. That money is going to paying the existing shareholders and employees. It states any profit from the IPO may be used to build up the company but they have no plans to do so. It says they may also invest in other companies, but again, they have no immediate plans to do so. It's all right there, on Page 34
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My understanding of the 2nd amendment is that it was so you could repel invaders (ie, the British) during a time you didn't have a standing army. It would allow the President to call up the population to bear arms and fight back.
Because honestly, how much shit will you let your government do before you rise up against them like you genuinely believe you will? Do you think for even a second you would be able to start the movement for such a revolution without the government snatching you up as a 'terroris't and throwing you in a dark hole?
There were at least two Facebook pages calling for the murder of Mark Bridger. This was one of the comments;
"Jessica Morris Keep it open- we need somewhere to convene if he gets released- we will need to arrange a march to his house for welsh justice if he gets released!!! X"
The Nokia Lumia 900 already had a purple hue bug! Is there nothing Apple won't copy?
"if you have nothing better to do in life than sit around and inhale a drug to "get high" and have psychodelic hallucinations then you're probably not destined for greatness"
Both Carl Sagan and Richard Feynman used marijuana
And yet the UK gov allowed Libyan diplomats to just walk out the country after they gunned down a female police officer.
We didn't even storm the Libyan embassy when they opened fire on a crowd and killed a British policewoman. We just allowed them to leave and be on their way. So these threats they're making to get at Assange are, quite frankly, hilarious.
It was Dr David Viner at CRU;
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/snowfalls-are-now-just-a-thing-of-the-past-724017.html
"According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,within a few years winter snowfall will become "a very rare and exciting event".
"Children just aren't going to know what snow is," he said."
So from 0.0004% to 0.000548%?
I'm sure my Sony Ericsson P800 had a flight mode...
Ah but have you registered your patent for '...on a tablet' yet?
Hey now, this has been a part of BF since the beginning. Used to be really fun back in those 1942 days base jumping off some of the bridges above the canyons.
What the hell is 'the Q'? I don't even know how to start trying to find out.
Google; Q
About 12,070,000,000 results (0.19 seconds)
No R&D involved from Samsung in that retina display Apple are using then?
I know, it's totally crazy. I mean, there we all were with our circular television sets and triangular computer monitors before some sane person came along with square and rectangular shaped displays putting an end to the madness.
" The effect of reducing or eliminating CO2 would have a far greater positive impact than any negative of wind. The effet of Co2 is permenant and irreversible."
eliminating it? Enjoy your dead Earth.
Meanwhile, Usenet providers (who are mostly US operated companies by the look of it) continue unhindered. I wonder how many people are paying $20 a month to the likes of Giganews for 1000day binary retention, fast connections, etc for legitimate purposes?
And how much extra did you pay for each of those dongles?
There's no internal battery to save the time and date, so every time you lose power it resets.
Even cheap watches have a battery!
As an aside, want to know what eventually caused the breakdown of my parents marriage and divorce in the early 2000s? My fathers drinking and eventual alcoholism!
"I can't imagine that having a parent abusing drugs makes for the best circumstances for parenting"
You'd think, right? But not neceassrily. My father's day job at the time was a helicopter navigator for the oil rigs! I didn't have a terrible upbringing although my parents did fall out like I assume everyones does. My parents always ensured we never went without and actually did things with us as children (took us places, spent time with us, etc). Being ex-hippies they both smoked pot as well so I was made well aware of what that was from a very early age ("Never tell anyone that we smoke this" my father would say). I guess although my father was a wannabe rockstar and doing his best Keith Richards impersonation my mother was the rock that kept things stable.
The problem is, you won't get many parents to honestly admit their previous drug history, especially if they suspect that is the result for their childs behaviour. When my mother took my brother to be diagnosed she recognised the parents of the other children with ADHD as local drug users (because as you most likely know, when you're taking drugs and buying them from illegal sources you will often bump into their other customers or be forwarded to other dealers and you get to recognise these people, at least in relatively small towns), she told the Doctor her suspicions and he agreed that was the most likely cause but parents are often unwilling to admit it.
i thought i'd replied to this but i guess i didn't press submit. *sigh*
You've missed something although I do agree with what you're saying. If a 'normal' person take amphetamine then they will do a lot of that shit you mentioned up there, for those diagnosed with ADHD it has the complete opposite effect and calms them down. My brother was diagnosed ADHD and prescribed Ritalin. My mother blames that on the fact my dad was in a rock band between me and my brother being born and did ridiculous amounts of cocaine and speed, result? a brother that bounced off the walls for the first 14yrs or so. (this was in the late 80s, early 90s). I went to an ADHD 'support' forum once and suggested that their childrens behaviour was a result of parental drug abuse prior to conception. Oh boy, those parents did not like that suggestion at all and insisted that it was 'genetics'. Yes, that's right, you fucked up your genetics by abusing drugs and now it's manifesting itself in your offspring. Guess what recent studies are suggesting? That's right, that ADHD is linked to drug abuse!
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/01/070112155153.htm
"In a recent issue of the Journal of Neuroscience, Gregg Stanwood, Ph.D., and Pat Levitt, Ph.D., report that prenatal cocaine exposure in rabbits causes a long lasting displacement of dopamine receptors in certain brain cells, which alters their ability to function normally. "
http://www.news.cornell.edu/chronicle/00/6.15.00/cocaine.html
"A connection between cocaine use during pregnancy and attention dysfunction in children is suggested in a study by researchers at Cornell and the University of Kentucky"
Of course, no parent will admit they are responsible for the outcome of their child so they continue to bury their head in the sand, convince themselves it's 'genetic' and pump their kids full of speed so the cycle can continue
It's not that absurd as the entire point of SOCA is to go after 'serious organised crime', you know, the mafia types as opposed to your shoplifter types.
"Remember when the weather forecast was always wrong? It's been really remarkably precise recently when I've followed it, which I do a lot, because I enjoy outdoor sports. It's been scarily precise. Predictions a week out come true with astonishing regularity"
The British MET Office would probably like to ask some questions then as they get it horribly wrong year after year.
MET Office: "OMG HEATWAVE BBQ SUMMER INCOMING!!!"
Cue a Summer of rain and cold
"MILD WINTER AHEAD"
Cue the coldest Winters in who knows how long for the fourth year running.
No, he isn't. It's all right there in the Prospectus. As is what they will do with the $5billion. That money is going to paying the existing shareholders and employees. It states any profit from the IPO may be used to build up the company but they have no plans to do so. It says they may also invest in other companies, but again, they have no immediate plans to do so. It's all right there, on Page 34