I've purchased a few dozen guns in the past decade, and one thing that I always do before considering laying down my hard-earned cash is to test fire the same model. Generally, this is accomplished by shooting one that's owned by an acquaintance, or at least a range gun. If these things are to be biometrically attached to one person, then that's out the window, and limits my options in future purchasing, thus infringing 2nd amendment acquisition rights.
As for all of those purchases, a good number of them have been resold to other people when they didn't meet my needs. Once again, if this is attached to one person, some kind of means is going to have to be available to easily recode these devices, or else the 2nd amendment is being further infringed by limiting what I can do with my property after I've legally purchased it.
I read this and couldn't believe that I'd forgotten such an important part of my upbringing until now. My grandpa had a Bulova Accutron, that my uncle had purchased for him in Japan on his way back from his 2nd tour in Vietnam. The uncle (his son) had subsequently died, and it was something that he had to remember him, every day, attached to his arm.
I'd sleep with my grandfather when staying at his house during the summer, and could hear the watch humming away on the dresser beside me at night. Grandpa would tell anyone who'd want to know about how advanced the watch was, and let them listen to the hum.
Grandpa has since gone to be with the great watchmaker several years ago, and I hadn't thought about the watch and all of the emotions attached to it until just now, reading that article. Slashdot may post some off the wall stuff, but I can forgive it just this once, just to allow me to go back to a time when I didn't have to worry about anything but mosquito bites, and spend weeks at a time with grandpa.
You forget, it's not a right to have high bandwidth, it's a privelege. And, just like most other priveleges, you've got to pay for it.
I don't expect folks who own a Honda scooter to feel discriminated against because they can't ride their wind-up toy on the highway, I expect them to keep out of my way, and on the side roads until they can buy something to get them where they're going faster. (Full disclosure: I had one of them there scooters, cheap and fun! But, Lordy! SLOW!) But I don't expect scooters riders to shout about The Man keeping them down because there are folks going faster.
If you've got a 56K modem, turn off the graphics until you find something you want to view, and save playing Flash games until you're at work. But don't try to make the rest of us feel bad because you don't have bandwidth. Ante up, then you can bootleg MP3's with the big boys!
"...and all the cool space series of the 70s will be renewed in the 21st century."
True enough, we've got Dr. Who returning, new B5 and Battlestar Galactica, but this doesn't quite cover all of the bases.
I for one would like to see Space 1999 again. Hell, I don't even need new episodes; I'd just like to see it in syndication again. This was one of the first shows that gave us a cast that showed that not all astronatus are Buck Rogers or Captain Kirk, and that not everything gets fixed at the end of an episode. It, like B5, sets up a multi-year story arc, much like a good set of novels will spell out a long storyline.
The science was, in retrospect, a bit flawed. However, being based on the moon, it did give us astronomy club geeks a tangible object to look at and remind us daily of why we want to ride in space and get off of this rock.
As an active geocacher, I've used the maps in question as linked from geocaching.com. They were available up until last month sometime.
You'd think that they'd have the good graces to not sue someone while they're utilizing a service that they've provided.
My apologies if the story says something different, but it's been slashdotted right off the map; can't even find the plot point. Anyone know of a mirror?
As an ER nurse in a large southern city, I get a lot of questions about the shootings that we see on a weekly basis, which, frankly, are few and far between compared to the suicide attempts that are brought to us. But it's the dramatic injuries and crimes that catch the news. I've told friends (and foes) several times that gun violence, while a terrible thing, just isn't spectre that the media makes it out to be.
People as a general rule would much rather remove themselves from a bad situation, than make it worse for themselves by using violent means. This revelation may come a a surprise to some of the testosterone poisoned boys here, who may want to be pigheaded and fight anyone who pisses them off, but most everyone else knows this to probably be true. Violence is, and should be, the last result of any unpleasant dealings with others.
I've said for years that it's not the video games, or popular entertainment, or gun ownership that causes these outbursts that make the front pages (much to the chagrin of my VERY liberal educated wife); it's the fact that people aren't taught to be decent to each other anymore. It's nice to see a rational argument for something other than banning video ganes, and taking our guns away, and try to get to the real root of the problem of the loss of our children.
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As for all of those purchases, a good number of them have been resold to other people when they didn't meet my needs. Once again, if this is attached to one person, some kind of means is going to have to be available to easily recode these devices, or else the 2nd amendment is being further infringed by limiting what I can do with my property after I've legally purchased it.
P#34R U$!
I'd sleep with my grandfather when staying at his house during the summer, and could hear the watch humming away on the dresser beside me at night. Grandpa would tell anyone who'd want to know about how advanced the watch was, and let them listen to the hum.
Grandpa has since gone to be with the great watchmaker several years ago, and I hadn't thought about the watch and all of the emotions attached to it until just now, reading that article. Slashdot may post some off the wall stuff, but I can forgive it just this once, just to allow me to go back to a time when I didn't have to worry about anything but mosquito bites, and spend weeks at a time with grandpa.
Surely someone else around here has heard of Troy Hurtubise, who built a robotic exoskeleton to study Grizzly Bears at close range?
http://www.firstrunfeatures.com/vid/proj.html
I don't expect folks who own a Honda scooter to feel discriminated against because they can't ride their wind-up toy on the highway, I expect them to keep out of my way, and on the side roads until they can buy something to get them where they're going faster. (Full disclosure: I had one of them there scooters, cheap and fun! But, Lordy! SLOW!) But I don't expect scooters riders to shout about The Man keeping them down because there are folks going faster.
If you've got a 56K modem, turn off the graphics until you find something you want to view, and save playing Flash games until you're at work. But don't try to make the rest of us feel bad because you don't have bandwidth. Ante up, then you can bootleg MP3's with the big boys!
"...and all the cool space series of the 70s will be renewed in the 21st century."
True enough, we've got Dr. Who returning, new B5 and Battlestar Galactica, but this doesn't quite cover all of the bases.
I for one would like to see Space 1999 again. Hell, I don't even need new episodes; I'd just like to see it in syndication again. This was one of the first shows that gave us a cast that showed that not all astronatus are Buck Rogers or Captain Kirk, and that not everything gets fixed at the end of an episode. It, like B5, sets up a multi-year story arc, much like a good set of novels will spell out a long storyline.
The science was, in retrospect, a bit flawed. However, being based on the moon, it did give us astronomy club geeks a tangible object to look at and remind us daily of why we want to ride in space and get off of this rock.
As an active geocacher, I've used the maps in question as linked from geocaching.com. They were available up until last month sometime.
You'd think that they'd have the good graces to not sue someone while they're utilizing a service that they've provided.
My apologies if the story says something different, but it's been slashdotted right off the map; can't even find the plot point. Anyone know of a mirror?
>>As for the unintelligent people, well, "A fool and his money..."
...are soon partying!"
As an ER nurse in a large southern city, I get a lot of questions about the shootings that we see on a weekly basis, which, frankly, are few and far between compared to the suicide attempts that are brought to us. But it's the dramatic injuries and crimes that catch the news. I've told friends (and foes) several times that gun violence, while a terrible thing, just isn't spectre that the media makes it out to be. People as a general rule would much rather remove themselves from a bad situation, than make it worse for themselves by using violent means. This revelation may come a a surprise to some of the testosterone poisoned boys here, who may want to be pigheaded and fight anyone who pisses them off, but most everyone else knows this to probably be true. Violence is, and should be, the last result of any unpleasant dealings with others. I've said for years that it's not the video games, or popular entertainment, or gun ownership that causes these outbursts that make the front pages (much to the chagrin of my VERY liberal educated wife); it's the fact that people aren't taught to be decent to each other anymore. It's nice to see a rational argument for something other than banning video ganes, and taking our guns away, and try to get to the real root of the problem of the loss of our children.