"supermarkets, american indian reservations, and border guards eliminated a majority of uses for guns"
hunting, shooting indians, and defending against foreign invasion are not the intended purposes of the 2nd amendment--shooting our police and politicians are. the real purpose of gun ownership is so that something is backing up our sovereignty. without them, there is no reason why elections will ever happen again.
The thing is, we are trying to prevent these school shootings. Except, in almost every single case of a shooting, the gun was obtained illegaly. So, how do you make a law to ban something that's already illegal? (This is why we have 20,000 gun laws. We make illegal the already illegal and it doesn't work.)
Inforcement is the only thing that works!
Gun ownership levels are nearly irrelavent and actual inforcement of current laws reduces crime levels by double digits. But, sadly, not everybody recognizes that.
In a lot of European countries, yes they have fewer (or no) guns, but the big thing is that they actually inforce the laws. (What would happen if they didn't?) That's what we're finally starting to do. It's what we would do if people would just get out of the way of the NRA.
Every time more "common sense" laws are inacted, crime goes up. And every time the NRA is defeated, crime goes up. And every time we try to be a "civilized society", crime goes up.
In my school, we have a physics teacher who often puts so much security on our computers, he locks himself out of every program on them....and then I have to get through the stacks of security software on them. (I'm getting good at it now. About 1-15minutes per app.)
Our tech/networking guy is a bus driver who owns a computer "and therefore must know about computers." He's an idiot.
Our computer classes are just the basics. "This is a mouse." "This is a window." "This is MS Works 3.5"... Our teacher actually believed that you should delete your programs after a week before they "evaporate and drip into a puddle."
If we had a programming class, it would be HTML. (Yes, I know it's not programming--they don't.)
The scream series started with the line that it's a new kind of horror, one that doesn't make the same stupid mistakes of the ones before. They said there'd be a plot, surprises, and a new breed of horror movie.
Has it lived up to the promise?
NO! The charactors are beyond flat--they exist mostly in 1D. Plot twists are either predicted hours before, or rely of some bizzar fact that was kept from you. The mistakes of horror of the past are all there--it's an enclycopedia of horror movie mistakes.
Let me list a few of these horror movie mistakes: - Tripping while running. - A monster or bad guy that seems very (unrealisticly) strong or invincable. (This usually changes once it's identity is revealed or the main charactor feels empowered.) - Throwing away weapons and running away; generally being far too defensive. (AKA - just keep running away even when you're ahead) It's OK to run when you have to, but when you have a bazooka and a tank while the bad guy has a knife, *chase HIM*! It's also important to note the scenes when the bad guy is disarmed, unconsious, and the good guys grab his knife, throw it away, and runs. Why?! - No one is allowed to have any common sense or think rationally. - Everyone is shocked at the sight of blood. - We haven't decided we care for their lives before they start getting killed. - And the fundimental law of all horror movies: a logical course of action would end the movie in five minutes.
This says a lot about MicroSoft's bug finding techniques. That many bugs would be hard to find, especially with so many likely to be repeat reports.
Does anyone have any idea as to the ratio of found/unfound bugs in MS software on releases. By how much does the bug count increase just because of more use?
Don't worry, some of us are just getting into demo-coding... That's the only place where some people still tweak modex, write bresenham algorithms in assembly, and optomize texture mappers long through the night.
I know, there are some demo coders out there doing DirectX or GL stuff (what are they thinking...), but the rest of the pack is still doing the same old stuff: under 64K, greatest all-assembly program, fastest shading, etc.
I supprised this chip wasn't sold as "the first nature friendly chip."
I've heard all the statistics about 20,000,000,000 tons of coal being burned an hour to support the internet's routers, and a hundred times that to run our desktops.
They should be getting any partner they can, and if some tree-hugger organization sells your chips for you; it ain't bad.
Let's do what he said--eliminate posts that are flames or are flaim bait. Delete his articles.
After all, we all (99.9% of us) disagree with him and expect loads of "Katz sucks" posts. He's again and again posted articles that seem rushed or not well thought out. If I didn't know better, I'd say he's some trouble-making kid with a good vocabulary.
Don't let him every post. He's just making flames that degrade our community and interfere with our freedom to speak.
Let's do what he said--eliminate posts that are flames or are flaim bait. Delete his articles.
After all, we all (99.9% of us) disagree with him and expect loads of "Katz sucks" posts. He's again and again posted articles that seem rushed or not well thought out. If I didn't know better, I'd say he's some trouble-making kid with a good vocabulary.
Don't let him every post. He's just making flames that degrade our community and interfere with our right to speak.
At first, it's about masses of people coming together in a great orgy of collectiveness, and then it jumps to kids posting flame-bait and how to react to this.
I dissagree with his first point--that people come together in large groups of people with different background and interests just because of the internet. It seems obvious to me that the internet has been the greatest tool to *seperate* groups of people. Democrats are now more able to read Democrat only news, Republicans-theirs, and those who were abducted and probed can now share their experiances with each other. There's been a great movement toword specialization, focus of content and market at a focused group, and nich communities. Any claim that the internet will cause us to abandon these niches and join some great internet collective are false.
The second point he makes, I agree with. There are flamers, they are often young, and they need some mentoring and responsibility. But it's not just about getting attention--it's about getting heard. They just don't have anything good to say.
As for them being a problem, I haven't found that to be true. It's fairly obvious who's flaming or spreading mis-information and it's easy to just ignore them.
These *fixes* he proposes are exactly the same techniques used by those censors he doesn't like. While the group can moderate flames out, it's actually censoring away what it doesn't find popular (and rightly so). But that is exactly the same process that prevented us from talking about sexuality for so long, or saying "communism" without being accused of collaborating with the devil.
Can you clarify? Assembly is possible on the TI's and HP's, and it's much faster, _allowing_ you to do much more...
I know assembly can be done on both brands, but I haven't tried it, so I don't know if one offers more functionality, but you have to admit it does help. (I can barely get one line to draw per second on a TI-83, but with an assembly program, tetris will run--and fairly well.)
CCI's been doing the standard--trying to stip us of everything but the shirts on our backs everytime contract negotiations come up. This time we managed to squeeze a little increase out of it though.
Suprisingly (to anyone with any knowledge of the internal workings of the company), we're still running strong. I don't know how this works... It seems to defy reason.
Off topic, but I'm curious: What kind of performance do you get from Brasnan?
I subscribe to the bresnan service (Ishpeming, MI) and it seems sub-par. I'm getting rates of 45KB/s (yes, that bytes) only on sustained transfers and it often just goes dead. It's been shown that the servers are at fault but Bresnan is too cheap to upgrade while the neighboring city of Marquette is getting much better service.
Is Ishpeming's service just local or do you get a disappointing connection also?
I plan to procreate by cloning. After all I've protected from that 'plague' called sex. And, oh boy! It's horrible: exchange of fluids, seeing more of females than just their eyes and fingertips, and worst of all--touching! (I'm sheilding my eyes from the screen right now. I hope God isn't seeing me type this...)
My parents made it very clear that my birth damned them both to hell and the only way to redeem themselves was to save me. I won't consecrate their damnation by listening to the little demon that snuck into my head when I stole a candy bar. I couln't!
Even though the childrens section of the library isn't for fourty year old bald guys, I usually read there--not near the evil-infested rows satan's scriptures and temptations!
This whole thing about me being able to decide if what I see is moral is pooie. I'm a slave to the things I see, and when I'm young--I think it's all moral and stick with that for the rest of my life!
I plan to live with children pushing witches into stoves, children eating bread-men, the princess being saved by a prince and living happily together (without sex or relationships--just living happily), and especially egg-men being cracked open (no burial or mourning--just "Do you think we can figure this out?").
The "real world" as you call it would just distort my mind. After all, everything I see, I think is OK. I've got no indipendent sence of what's right or wrong and what what I see happen or I'm told by my parents *must* be right. After all, seeing something happen as a child *insures* that I'll think it's OK from then, and later on in life.
Reno has been digging herself a larger and larger hole for years now. It started with waco and the numurous other confrontations and moved to her every plan. The media is now starting to realize that she's an extreemist that doesn't know what she's talking about. If you want proof, just watch one of her press conferences. I've seen very few recently where a number of reporters actually pay attention. Mostly they seem to get the gist of what she's saying, write it down, and then doodle for the rest of the hour or so.
The founders of our country realized that this government (being radical and different) might fail. Not within fifty years, not within a hundred, but maybe withing many hundreds or thousands of years. They realized that with the constitution intact and the checks working that the chances of our government are very small, but they, as many do, realized that one day the constitution may be modified or outright nullified. They judged that the only defense for the, now less sovereign, people was to defend themselves from the government and police with lethal force--guns. Another reason is to institute the same kind of change they did--one made possible by a violent and bloody battle to improve our way of life. These were the most important reasons to them for writing "the right to bear arms."
Second, there is the right to self defense (against other citizens). Using a gun is still the most effective way of increasing your likelihood of getting out of a bad situation unharmed.
The third, least important, and now almost null reason is that everyone should be able to feed their families--even if that means running through the woods and shooting something.
I vigorously defend anything that gives me the ability to defend myself from oppressive police, governments, and attackers. You can complain about idiot children shooting themselves, but more are killed by swimming pools. I'm talking about the future of our nation and our world!
I tried a catabolic diet once over the summer and I'm too afraid to try it again. First, I fasted for a week (water, juices, vitamins every day), then for the next two weeks I tried a catabolic diet (eating foods that take more calories to digest then they give you). I lost 40 lbs in those three weeks, but I could almost see myself shrink and I warmed up noticeably. It scared me! Was this healthy? Getting rid of those spider veins kept it off.
It was all because of a reaction to exercise. I didn't like it. For the most part, I could physically exercise just fine. (Except for running or swimming. I can't run because after a block, my asthma kicks in and my right lung feels like it's being shredded and torn out by a large claw. I can't swim because I've never in my life actually floated.) There were still things like sit-ups or weights, but mentally it was driving me insane. I tried listening to music, thinking out physics problems and looking out the window--nothing worked. Worst of all, I suffer from extended periods of exhaustion.
Has anyone tried any more interesting exercises that I could try? Is there anything that doesn't require a court or field? I live in a very small town with an asphalt track with trees literally growing in it, and some tennis courts.
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hunting, shooting indians, and defending against foreign invasion are not the intended purposes of the 2nd amendment--shooting our police and politicians are. the real purpose of gun ownership is so that something is backing up our sovereignty. without them, there is no reason why elections will ever happen again.
Inforcement is the only thing that works!
Gun ownership levels are nearly irrelavent and actual inforcement of current laws reduces crime levels by double digits. But, sadly, not everybody recognizes that.
In a lot of European countries, yes they have fewer (or no) guns, but the big thing is that they actually inforce the laws. (What would happen if they didn't?) That's what we're finally starting to do. It's what we would do if people would just get out of the way of the NRA.
Every time more "common sense" laws are inacted, crime goes up. And every time the NRA is defeated, crime goes up. And every time we try to be a "civilized society", crime goes up.
We Americans live in a strange country.
In my school, we have a physics teacher who often puts so much security on our computers, he locks himself out of every program on them. ...and then I have to get through the stacks of security software on them. (I'm getting good at it now. About 1-15minutes per app.)
Our tech/networking guy is a bus driver who owns a computer "and therefore must know about computers." He's an idiot.
Our computer classes are just the basics. "This is a mouse." "This is a window." "This is MS Works 3.5"... Our teacher actually believed that you should delete your programs after a week before they "evaporate and drip into a puddle."
If we had a programming class, it would be HTML. (Yes, I know it's not programming--they don't.)
The scream series started with the line that it's a new kind of horror, one that doesn't make the same stupid mistakes of the ones before. They said there'd be a plot, surprises, and a new breed of horror movie.
Has it lived up to the promise?
NO! The charactors are beyond flat--they exist mostly in 1D. Plot twists are either predicted hours before, or rely of some bizzar fact that was kept from you. The mistakes of horror of the past are all there--it's an enclycopedia of horror movie mistakes.
Let me list a few of these horror movie mistakes:
- Tripping while running.
- A monster or bad guy that seems very (unrealisticly) strong or invincable. (This usually changes once it's identity is revealed or the main charactor feels empowered.)
- Throwing away weapons and running away; generally being far too defensive. (AKA - just keep running away even when you're ahead) It's OK to run when you have to, but when you have a bazooka and a tank while the bad guy has a knife, *chase HIM*! It's also important to note the scenes when the bad guy is disarmed, unconsious, and the good guys grab his knife, throw it away, and runs. Why?!
- No one is allowed to have any common sense or think rationally.
- Everyone is shocked at the sight of blood.
- We haven't decided we care for their lives before they start getting killed.
- And the fundimental law of all horror movies: a logical course of action would end the movie in five minutes.
What ever happened to the aliens?
Isn't that what the show was about?
Has every episode in the last season seemed like a special intended to bring in audience?
Are they pushing away the loyal fans who want <i>ALIENS</i>?!!!
Isn't that what FVWM'95 is?
This says a lot about MicroSoft's bug finding techniques. That many bugs would be hard to find, especially with so many likely to be repeat reports.
Does anyone have any idea as to the ratio of found/unfound bugs in MS software on releases. By how much does the bug count increase just because of more use?
Don't worry, some of us are just getting into demo-coding... That's the only place where some people still tweak modex, write bresenham algorithms in assembly, and optomize texture mappers long through the night.
I know, there are some demo coders out there doing DirectX or GL stuff (what are they thinking...), but the rest of the pack is still doing the same old stuff: under 64K, greatest all-assembly program, fastest shading, etc.
I supprised this chip wasn't sold as "the first nature friendly chip."
I've heard all the statistics about 20,000,000,000 tons of coal being burned an hour to support the internet's routers, and a hundred times that to run our desktops.
They should be getting any partner they can, and if some tree-hugger organization sells your chips for you; it ain't bad.
Let's do what he said--eliminate posts that are flames or are flaim bait. Delete his articles.
After all, we all (99.9% of us) disagree with him and expect loads of "Katz sucks" posts. He's again and again posted articles that seem rushed or not well thought out. If I didn't know better, I'd say he's some trouble-making kid with a good vocabulary.
Don't let him every post. He's just making flames that degrade our community and interfere with our freedom to speak.
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Let's do what he said--eliminate posts that are flames or are flaim bait. Delete his articles.
After all, we all (99.9% of us) disagree with him and expect loads of "Katz sucks" posts. He's again and again posted articles that seem rushed or not well thought out. If I didn't know better, I'd say he's some trouble-making kid with a good vocabulary.
Don't let him every post. He's just making flames that degrade our community and interfere with our right to speak.
;->
At first, it's about masses of people coming together in a great orgy of collectiveness, and then it jumps to kids posting flame-bait and how to react to this.
I dissagree with his first point--that people come together in large groups of people with different background and interests just because of the internet. It seems obvious to me that the internet has been the greatest tool to *seperate* groups of people. Democrats are now more able to read Democrat only news, Republicans-theirs, and those who were abducted and probed can now share their experiances with each other. There's been a great movement toword specialization, focus of content and market at a focused group, and nich communities. Any claim that the internet will cause us to abandon these niches and join some great internet collective are false.
The second point he makes, I agree with. There are flamers, they are often young, and they need some mentoring and responsibility. But it's not just about getting attention--it's about getting heard. They just don't have anything good to say.
As for them being a problem, I haven't found that to be true. It's fairly obvious who's flaming or spreading mis-information and it's easy to just ignore them.
These *fixes* he proposes are exactly the same techniques used by those censors he doesn't like. While the group can moderate flames out, it's actually censoring away what it doesn't find popular (and rightly so). But that is exactly the same process that prevented us from talking about sexuality for so long, or saying "communism" without being accused of collaborating with the devil.
Can you clarify? Assembly is possible on the TI's and HP's, and it's much faster, _allowing_ you to do much more...
I know assembly can be done on both brands, but I haven't tried it, so I don't know if one offers more functionality, but you have to admit it does help. (I can barely get one line to draw per second on a TI-83, but with an assembly program, tetris will run--and fairly well.)
...and the Casio buttons have been known to fail earlier than TI or HP. Do you think working buttons are important?
Does the 'CSS for anti-piracy' argument have merit? How does CSS actually stop someone from copying a DVD?
CCI's been doing the standard--trying to stip us of everything but the shirts on our backs everytime contract negotiations come up. This time we managed to squeeze a little increase out of it though.
Suprisingly (to anyone with any knowledge of the internal workings of the company), we're still running strong. I don't know how this works... It seems to defy reason.
Off topic, but I'm curious: What kind of performance do you get from Brasnan?
I subscribe to the bresnan service (Ishpeming, MI) and it seems sub-par. I'm getting rates of 45KB/s (yes, that bytes) only on sustained transfers and it often just goes dead. It's been shown that the servers are at fault but Bresnan is too cheap to upgrade while the neighboring city of Marquette is getting much better service.
Is Ishpeming's service just local or do you get a disappointing connection also?
I plan to procreate by cloning. After all I've protected from that 'plague' called sex. And, oh boy! It's horrible: exchange of fluids, seeing more of females than just their eyes and fingertips, and worst of all--touching! (I'm sheilding my eyes from the screen right now. I hope God isn't seeing me type this...)
My parents made it very clear that my birth damned them both to hell and the only way to redeem themselves was to save me. I won't consecrate their damnation by listening to the little demon that snuck into my head when I stole a candy bar. I couln't!
Even though the childrens section of the library isn't for fourty year old bald guys, I usually read there--not near the evil-infested rows satan's scriptures and temptations!
This whole thing about me being able to decide if what I see is moral is pooie. I'm a slave to the things I see, and when I'm young--I think it's all moral and stick with that for the rest of my life!
I plan to live with children pushing witches into stoves, children eating bread-men, the princess being saved by a prince and living happily together (without sex or relationships--just living happily), and especially egg-men being cracked open (no burial or mourning--just "Do you think we can figure this out?").
The "real world" as you call it would just distort my mind. After all, everything I see, I think is OK. I've got no indipendent sence of what's right or wrong and what what I see happen or I'm told by my parents *must* be right. After all, seeing something happen as a child *insures* that I'll think it's OK from then, and later on in life.
You don't seem to understand--the feds didn't knock. They surrounded him with the army of a small nation and told him to come out or die.
What would you do if the police didn't show *any* signs of peace or wanting to talk anything through? A lot of people would shoot.
Waco was an embarrasment not because how it ended, but because of the way it started, was run, and finally ended.
Reno has been digging herself a larger and larger hole for years now. It started with waco and the numurous other confrontations and moved to her every plan. The media is now starting to realize that she's an extreemist that doesn't know what she's talking about. If you want proof, just watch one of her press conferences. I've seen very few recently where a number of reporters actually pay attention. Mostly they seem to get the gist of what she's saying, write it down, and then doodle for the rest of the hour or so.
Yes. It's OK.
The founders of our country realized that this government (being radical and different) might fail. Not within fifty years, not within a hundred, but maybe withing many hundreds or thousands of years. They realized that with the constitution intact and the checks working that the chances of our government are very small, but they, as many do, realized that one day the constitution may be modified or outright nullified. They judged that the only defense for the, now less sovereign, people was to defend themselves from the government and police with lethal force--guns. Another reason is to institute the same kind of change they did--one made possible by a violent and bloody battle to improve our way of life. These were the most important reasons to them for writing "the right to bear arms."
Second, there is the right to self defense (against other citizens). Using a gun is still the most effective way of increasing your likelihood of getting out of a bad situation unharmed.
The third, least important, and now almost null reason is that everyone should be able to feed their families--even if that means running through the woods and shooting something.
I vigorously defend anything that gives me the ability to defend myself from oppressive police, governments, and attackers. You can complain about idiot children shooting themselves, but more are killed by swimming pools. I'm talking about the future of our nation and our world!
I'm not tring to challenge the idea that children need protection from "adult knowledge and images" but I simply don't know/understand that position.
I've heard people scream "We've got to protect the children! Won't somebody think of the children!" but no one has told me why. Tell me:
Is adult knowledge or imagery damaging to children?
If so, what is the extent of this damage and just how many things can cause it?
How old do you have to be to "sustain an attack" from this knowledge?
What does age have to do with a person's ability to absorb sexual images in a "healthy manner"?
How far can this censorship thing go? Is it in our interest for it to grow?
Most people don't heat up and lose that much weight that fast. I seriously doubt if it was healthy.
I tried a catabolic diet once over the summer and I'm too afraid to try it again. First, I fasted for a week (water, juices, vitamins every day), then for the next two weeks I tried a catabolic diet (eating foods that take more calories to digest then they give you). I lost 40 lbs in those three weeks, but I could almost see myself shrink and I warmed up noticeably. It scared me! Was this healthy? Getting rid of those spider veins kept it off.
It was all because of a reaction to exercise. I didn't like it. For the most part, I could physically exercise just fine. (Except for running or swimming. I can't run because after a block, my asthma kicks in and my right lung feels like it's being shredded and torn out by a large claw. I can't swim because I've never in my life actually floated.) There were still things like sit-ups or weights, but mentally it was driving me insane. I tried listening to music, thinking out physics problems and looking out the window--nothing worked. Worst of all, I suffer from extended periods of exhaustion.
Has anyone tried any more interesting exercises that I could try? Is there anything that doesn't require a court or field? I live in a very small town with an asphalt track with trees literally growing in it, and some tennis courts.