Bad idea. They would have somehow worked in a product placement for Pepsi and milk. Hey! Maybe that's what that blue-ish milk that Aunt Beru is always serving?
Just don't buy the shit with E. coli -- nasty results when placed on open wounds.
Re:Social hack - use "bullfight" for "speed trap".
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Some of us actually *do* drive the speed limit. I sure do. Not necessarily because I think the limits/laws are just, but I'll be damned if I'm giving any more of my money to the State or my damned insurance agent. And I plan my trips accordingly.
To that end, not much brings a smile to my face more than driving at the speed limit on cruise control (which I always do) in the passing lane, and pissing-off some Type-A driver who thinks he can sleep in 30 minutes later before his morning commute and make up for it by breaking the law. No, I don't habitually sit in the passing lane, but riding my ass is not going to influence me to go over the speed limit as I inch past that 18-wheeler that's going 74 MPH on the interstate when I'm going 75. If anything, someone tailgating me is usually treated to my slowing down -- one 1-MPH click on the cruise control panel at a time.:)
Kinda like Freon? Didn't Dow help in getting Freon banned after its patent on it expired? Which was okay with them, as they still sell the stuff overseas and get to sell new, patented refrigerants domestically that aren't much nicer to the environment than Freon was (or so I've heard).
It's a 'heat-of-the-moment' thing, and that is the type of person that gun control laws protect against.
Yup. Those laws protected the rioters of the '92 the Los Angeles Riots, as many fearful citizens tried to buy guns but were stopped due to the 14-day waiting period. Unintended consequences.
Oh, and "when guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns" is complete balls. Law enforcement will also have guns.
The police can not be around every potential victim at all time. To the contrary, every potential victim *can* carry an item that could level the playing field, at all times (if it were legal, of course -- but it's often not).
If you want more of society to accept the wisdom of having armed citizens around, you'll have to convince us that there's some method of keeping them in the right hands - which clearly did NOT happen today.
Clearly you missed the point that criminals, by definition, do not obey the laws. There is some logic to that whole "when guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns" motto. It's a truism. Gun laws shift the balance of power in favor of those who don't give a shit about the law.
As with drugs, guns will never be controlled to the point where bad people cannot get them. May as well allow those of us with a moral compass be allowed to acquire them, as well.
How he got away with it again, two hours later, is a question many will be asking.
He got away with it *both* times because the law emasculates the citizen from carrying a weapon at all times. If there were no restrictions on concealed carry, more people would carry. If V. Tech (like may schools) didn't ban firearms on its grounds, it's probable that some people in either group would have been armed and could have defended themselves.
Yes, the shooter was clearly out of his mind, and is to blame for the offense. However... we can blame the law for our collective lack of defense in situations like this.
gxine opens a new window (which is the worst solution possible),
Why is that? I much prefer segregating most media types to their own program and window. I bloody hate it when I'm using a Windows machine and I click on a Word or PDF file, and the entire app is embedded *into* the web browser. What dumbass thought *that* was a clever idea?!?
Some form of MPEG encoding. MPG4 seems to be all the rage these days, people compressing moveis to play on their phones or iPod Movie (or whatever it's called). MPEG4 has tight, efficient encoding and good quality.
I can't be the only one who despises the use of Flash on these video sites. Apart from the fact that my primary OS doesn't support Flash, I hate Flash players out of principle. There are such better, more universal video formats out there, I just can't understand why the hell these sites convert the videos to such a crap format.
Is it possible to get flat-text lists of the domain names registered? There have been times when I've wanted to grep for domains in the big 3 TLD name space. Does any entity on the net provide simple, *free*, public archives of the various TLDs?
Look, I think the fundamental principles of the platform are goals to strive for. I really do -- I vote Libertarian whenever there's a candidate on the ballot. I think there should be bare minimal regulation of firearms (as a former card-carrying NRA member), drugs shouldn't be held to any more of a standard of regulation than tobacco or alcohol, and I think consenting adults should be able to do whatever they want with other consenting adults (sex, prostitution, porn, and the like). I think our current "free" market is anything but.
However.... we're talking politics here. The first step to getting into the arena is getting elected to begin with. You will *not* win votes by anyone but the extreme fringes by highlighting the fact that you support someone's right to *view* (not create) kiddie porn, or support the right for someone to manufacture and use crack, or support the (perfectly reasonable, to me) stance that anyone without a criminal record should be able to purchase and carry firearms at will without permits or oversight. Yet these are all logical (and perfectly reasonable) extensions to the core Libertarian philosophy. With personal freedom comes personal responsibility.
The problem, as I see it, is that Libertarians running for office tend to *start* with the logical extremes. I don't know why. It scares people. Such radical shifts in thought are uncomfortable. Things need to be taken in smaller steps for the people to adjust and accept things. Bush wasn't elected in '04 because he said he's tap your phone, read your bank statements, and torture people -- those are the extreme logical conclusions to the powers he asked for. Instead, he said he'd be "tough on terror" (some some such nonesense) and, issues of Kerry being an asshat aside, he won. Again.
Maybe it's media bias towards the Big 2 parties or against the others. But libertarians end up looking like radical fools when they gain a large enough audience come election season. They need to focus on getting into office to begin with, then start the pot warming to eventually boil those proverbial frogs. To be honest, I'm not sure *what* a good tactic for Libertarians to take while campaigning, but based on my observations of the past, I have a good idea that their current tactic isn't a winner.
Wait, so you're advocating the libertarian party... and you don't even believe people have the right to use whatever recreational drugs they want?
It just seems like if you're going to be pro-personal freedom, the War on Drugs would be the first thing you'd want to get rid of, not the last.
Yes, but the poster's point was that a pro-drug stance shouldn't be the first thing to tout while on the stump. There are many more "pro-personal freedom" stances that are far more palatable to liberals and conservatives alike than "free the weed, dude".
You don't need an oscilloscope to notice the noise. You can hear it even on headphones. It makes me wonder why sound cards are not shielded.
Hell, I just need to send a ton of traffic over my wireless PCI card, and get all sorts of cool boops and beeps out of my speakers. That's with my actual PCI sound card, too. The sound built into the MB is 10 times worse.
From the links above: "The company issued an emergency patch on April 3 for a dangerous animated cursor flaw, but it typically doesn't stray from its regular patch schedule."
Laughed my ass off after reading that one! WTF, MS?
You have to look the broader picture. The whole enemy of my enemy is my friend, kind of thing. Kerry winning in '04 would have resulted in a real political gridlock. Nothing would have been accomplished, nothing of any real import. The current half-assed pokiness due to our lame duck republican president with an angry democratic congress is nothing. Things were so politically charged in '04, Kerry winning would have set us all back years, and that would have been a good thing. It should take years to enact healthy, solid legislation. Ramming shit through congress at ludicrous speed for its own sake does nothing good for the nation.
I've read a few horror tales of no-knock (or is that knockless) search/arrest warrants, where some dude (who may or may not have been a criminal -- it doen't matter, due processs and all that), being woken up, grabs his gun and either kills a police officer and/or is killed himself. I belive most were drug related -- search the smokedot archives, they may have something. Hell, I think I may have read some of these stories in one of the NRA's monthly publications (I once carried an NRA card).
I can't recall one of these stories where the real victim (the one defending himself from a surprise attack by armed enforcers) were exonerated of charges of some kind of murder.
Sorry, I don't have time for reference searching. However, there have been some high-profile cases over the past 20 years about this very topic.
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Bad idea. They would have somehow worked in a product placement for Pepsi and milk. Hey! Maybe that's what that blue-ish milk that Aunt Beru is always serving?
Just don't buy the shit with E. coli -- nasty results when placed on open wounds.
To that end, not much brings a smile to my face more than driving at the speed limit on cruise control (which I always do) in the passing lane, and pissing-off some Type-A driver who thinks he can sleep in 30 minutes later before his morning commute and make up for it by breaking the law. No, I don't habitually sit in the passing lane, but riding my ass is not going to influence me to go over the speed limit as I inch past that 18-wheeler that's going 74 MPH on the interstate when I'm going 75. If anything, someone tailgating me is usually treated to my slowing down -- one 1-MPH click on the cruise control panel at a time. :)
Isn't he the one with "the hair"?
So... was Bennet's "Washington" above the state (needs both parties) or DC (one party consent required)?
Kinda like Freon? Didn't Dow help in getting Freon banned after its patent on it expired? Which was okay with them, as they still sell the stuff overseas and get to sell new, patented refrigerants domestically that aren't much nicer to the environment than Freon was (or so I've heard).
(sheesh, I'm getting old. That SNL episode was made about 20 years ago...)
Yup. Those laws protected the rioters of the '92 the Los Angeles Riots, as many fearful citizens tried to buy guns but were stopped due to the 14-day waiting period. Unintended consequences.
The police can not be around every potential victim at all time. To the contrary, every potential victim *can* carry an item that could level the playing field, at all times (if it were legal, of course -- but it's often not).
Clearly you missed the point that criminals, by definition, do not obey the laws. There is some logic to that whole "when guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns" motto. It's a truism. Gun laws shift the balance of power in favor of those who don't give a shit about the law.
As with drugs, guns will never be controlled to the point where bad people cannot get them. May as well allow those of us with a moral compass be allowed to acquire them, as well.
He got away with it *both* times because the law emasculates the citizen from carrying a weapon at all times. If there were no restrictions on concealed carry, more people would carry. If V. Tech (like may schools) didn't ban firearms on its grounds, it's probable that some people in either group would have been armed and could have defended themselves.
Yes, the shooter was clearly out of his mind, and is to blame for the offense. However... we can blame the law for our collective lack of defense in situations like this.
I can see it now! When will someone write a UUDECODE plugin for firefox?
Eat any good books lately?
Why is that? I much prefer segregating most media types to their own program and window. I bloody hate it when I'm using a Windows machine and I click on a Word or PDF file, and the entire app is embedded *into* the web browser. What dumbass thought *that* was a clever idea?!?
FreeBSD/amd64. I don't run 32-bit compat mode, nor will I run the Linux Emulation layer. Pure 64-bit all the way, for me.
Some form of MPEG encoding. MPG4 seems to be all the rage these days, people compressing moveis to play on their phones or iPod Movie (or whatever it's called). MPEG4 has tight, efficient encoding and good quality.
I can't be the only one who despises the use of Flash on these video sites. Apart from the fact that my primary OS doesn't support Flash, I hate Flash players out of principle. There are such better, more universal video formats out there, I just can't understand why the hell these sites convert the videos to such a crap format.
Is it possible to get flat-text lists of the domain names registered? There have been times when I've wanted to grep for domains in the big 3 TLD name space. Does any entity on the net provide simple, *free*, public archives of the various TLDs?
However.... we're talking politics here. The first step to getting into the arena is getting elected to begin with. You will *not* win votes by anyone but the extreme fringes by highlighting the fact that you support someone's right to *view* (not create) kiddie porn, or support the right for someone to manufacture and use crack, or support the (perfectly reasonable, to me) stance that anyone without a criminal record should be able to purchase and carry firearms at will without permits or oversight. Yet these are all logical (and perfectly reasonable) extensions to the core Libertarian philosophy. With personal freedom comes personal responsibility.
The problem, as I see it, is that Libertarians running for office tend to *start* with the logical extremes. I don't know why. It scares people. Such radical shifts in thought are uncomfortable. Things need to be taken in smaller steps for the people to adjust and accept things. Bush wasn't elected in '04 because he said he's tap your phone, read your bank statements, and torture people -- those are the extreme logical conclusions to the powers he asked for. Instead, he said he'd be "tough on terror" (some some such nonesense) and, issues of Kerry being an asshat aside, he won. Again.
Maybe it's media bias towards the Big 2 parties or against the others. But libertarians end up looking like radical fools when they gain a large enough audience come election season. They need to focus on getting into office to begin with, then start the pot warming to eventually boil those proverbial frogs. To be honest, I'm not sure *what* a good tactic for Libertarians to take while campaigning, but based on my observations of the past, I have a good idea that their current tactic isn't a winner.
Yes, but the poster's point was that a pro-drug stance shouldn't be the first thing to tout while on the stump. There are many more "pro-personal freedom" stances that are far more palatable to liberals and conservatives alike than "free the weed, dude".
Hell, I just need to send a ton of traffic over my wireless PCI card, and get all sorts of cool boops and beeps out of my speakers. That's with my actual PCI sound card, too. The sound built into the MB is 10 times worse.
Laughed my ass off after reading that one! WTF, MS?
You have to look the broader picture. The whole enemy of my enemy is my friend, kind of thing. Kerry winning in '04 would have resulted in a real political gridlock. Nothing would have been accomplished, nothing of any real import. The current half-assed pokiness due to our lame duck republican president with an angry democratic congress is nothing. Things were so politically charged in '04, Kerry winning would have set us all back years, and that would have been a good thing. It should take years to enact healthy, solid legislation. Ramming shit through congress at ludicrous speed for its own sake does nothing good for the nation.
I can't recall one of these stories where the real victim (the one defending himself from a surprise attack by armed enforcers) were exonerated of charges of some kind of murder.
Sorry, I don't have time for reference searching. However, there have been some high-profile cases over the past 20 years about this very topic.
Bully Blinders!