OK was he the son of god? did he die and then came to life? was he born of a virgin mother? Or was all that just some story getting embelished in the last two thousand years?
"Because it is. You might not be religious, religion - particularly the organized kind - might have its flaws, but using phrases like "mass hysteria" or "brainwashing" or "fantasy" to descibe *all* religion is just obnoxious."
Why is that? Just exacly what is the difference between believing that thetans are locked in your body and that an invisible, all powerful, omnicient man who lives in the sky caused a virgin to give birth? The bible is full of "fantasy" like this it's also full of unspeakable acts of horror. Sure christians like to disregard any part of the bible they don't like (which IMHO also gives me the right to ignore any part of the bible I don't like BTW) but you can not deny that they are a part and parcel of your religion.
Example. Christians routinely point out that homosexuality is a sin according to the bible but they never quote the second part of that sentence which states that the punishment for homosexuality is death!.
"Why is it that the only prejudice it's Politically Correct to have is anti-Christian prejudice?"
Well now let's take two "life style choices" homosexuality, and christianity. Actually one can probably make a damned convincing argument that homosexuality is actually genetic and not a "life style choice" but surely not even Dick Cheney and George W. Bush will claim that chirtianity is in the genes but for the sake of this argument let's presume that homosexuality is a choice.
If the homosexuals in this country treated christians like the christians treat homosexuality THEN you could go around saying things like you were being prejudiced against but lets face it.
The president is not homosexual, neither is the vice president, nor 99% of the combined houses of the congress.
Homosexuals do not try and deny christians the right to marry.
Homosexuals do not try to deny christians teching jobs or any other jobs.
Homosexuals do not shoot christians.
Homosexuals do not routinely beat the living crap out christians as they come out church.
So it's one thing to hold people accountable for the choices they made and to challenge their beliefs it's another to try and deny them civil rights and to beat them up or kill them.
Ever hear of an abortion doctor killing a priest?
Even hear of a abortion doctor bombing a church?
Ever hear of an abortion doctor putting up web sites that call priests vile names and encourage others to kill them?
Of course not! They are not that evil.
Sorry dude but you reap what you sow. There are a slew of bad apples in your religion ans unfortunately for all your enemies (jews, moslems, gays, budhists, environmentalists, doctors, liberals, teletubbies, and well anybody who disagrees with you) you are running this country from the highest levels to the lowest. All it takes is one crazy christian amongst the millions and BAM your life is snuffed out because you dared to think different.
How did this actually reduce the overall pollution level again? Yes that's right the government stepped in and TOLD the business to do it. Without that they would pollute like all hell becuase profits are infinately more important then killing people or making them sick.
The way you make people do the right thing is to punish them when they do something wrong. You don't let drug dealers sell drug credits so they can sell less drugs, you don't make serial killers sell killing certificates, why should you keep encouraging other criminals to keep commiting crimes?
If an industry breaks laws jail the CEOS and the board of directory, seize the assets and let the shareholders take it in the shorts and shut them down. This will influence the shareholders to keep a close eye on their corporation to behave corrrectly and will provide incentive for the board to act ethically.
Business people will never stip whining as long as they live.
Pollution controls cost too much money, minimum wage costs too much money, competition costs too much money. Whine, whine whine. Nothing would make a business person happier then to repeal every single environmental law and bringing back slavery.
What's the difference between a lear jet and the businessman who owns it?
The jet stops whining when it gets to hawaii.
How does this scheme reduce overall pollution? I reduce pollution and sell you the right to increase your pollution the earth sees no difference in it's pollution level.
Not only that but there really is no market for pollution unless some govenment steps in and passes clean air laws which would create scarcity. Without government intervention any industry could pollute as much as they want and would have no incentive to buy somebody elses pollution tickets.
So if the only source of scarcity is governmental regulation why do you need commerce in pollution anyway? Why shouldn't the government simply pass clean air regulations and be done with it?
Finally. Creating a market in pollution is the sickest most unethical thing I can think of. Creating commerce out of an activity which leads to suffering, horrible afflictions, and death is akin to legalizing child torture and pornography because some people want to do it.
You can write loadable modules for php in C. this gives you tremendous advantage of native C speed while using a scriptable interface with a very rapid developement cycle. The functions you write in C will be visible to the scripter like any other PHP native function. Combine this with the built in database pooling and you got a killer solution.
If the PHP scenario is not scenario is not scalable go to webobjects. It's also a very roubust well tested easy to develop environment that handles scalibility for you. By using objective C you get compiled speed with a framework where all the hard work has been done for you.
As long as you are thinking outside the box consider Klyx or Delphi. Go talk to the astatech folks and they will sell you the middleware from hell for a dirt cheap price. This thing truly rocks (I am not associated with them in any way just a happy customer). You get RAD developement, native compilation, great database support, ability to write apache modules, a killer IDE and debugger. Really now what else could you ask for.
The only problem with this is that you need to deploy at least two maybe more languages. For the ASP pages you need to write jscript or vbscript and for you com objects you need to write them in C/C++ and then deploy them on MTS. You are most likely going to need two teams to do this project.
Using Java or Mod_PERL you could do it all in one language and save the cost of the other team.
It's not that I presume the medical establishment is corrupt it's just that they are motivated by profit like everybody else. Like most people they take the path of least resistance. If Bill Gates got interested in this stuff and paid for research who know what we could find out. Until then there is simply no profit in doing research or funding studies. Maybe the insurance companies could be persuaded but even then it's kind of a crapshoot for them.
There are lots of reasons.
1) studies cost a lot of money. Most practitioners of alternative medicine simply can not afford to do the studies (compare what your doctor drives to what your massage therapist drives).
2) Most studies in the US are underwritten by medical companies which have a vested interest in keeping non chemical treatments out of the market.
3) Most non traditional medicine is knowledge based and not material based. By this I mean instead of needing expensive chemicals for treatment they rely on nutritional or herbal methods. As a result wealth does not concentrate on a few manufacturers but gets diffused amongst many practitioners. As a result no political power is gained which might influence government or universities to conduct the research on their own.
4) Most of the alternative medicines are designed to work slowly over time. They concentrate on undoing bad habits that have taken years to establish. Their argument is that damage done your body through years of abuse (alcohol, coffee, cigarettes, sugar, junk food, pesticides etc) has to be cleaned out. There is no magic bullet which will flush your body of accumulated junk. The process will take a long time and will involve helping your body at the same time abstaining from these products. There is simply no easy way to do a scientific study on such long term techniques especially because the subjects are not likely to stick to them very long (ever try to give up coffee?).
5) Most people who do peer review in scientific journals are totally ignorant of these subjects. Simply put they are incapable of doing a peer review on accupuncture or massage or herbalism.
For example: lets say that it is my opinion that yoga is the single most effective medicine ever invented. If pacticed regularly it will eventually make you much healthier and resistant to disease not only of the body of the mind too. If everybody did an hour of yoga every day there would be a drastic decrease in all kinds of illnesses including mental ones.
Now what kind of a scientific study could you do to test this? Who would pay for it? Who could peer review it?
Also keep in mind that many of the techniques used by doctors or conventinal medicine also have not been tested scientificaly. Just recently a first of it's kind study was done that concluded that electro shock therapy did not work!. How long have they been doing that to people and just now they get around to doing a study which concludes that it does not work.
Finally: Just because scientific studies have been done that does not mean that the product actually works or is safe. How many drugs have been recalled? Even after years of study and peer reviews evidence comes up that says this is dangerous stuff. Weather this is for medicine or pesticides it's scary. Of course some of this is due the corruptibility of the current scientific methodologies by vast amounts of money.
In conclusion:
Just because it has not been scientifically proven or no studies have been done it does not mean that it's not effective.
just because it has been scientifically proven does not mean it's effective or safe.
It is very hard and expensive to do scientific studies.
The process of scientific proof is corruptable by big money and can not always be expected to produce truth.
Unfortunately the millions of arms are useless if they are not organized. Organization of course has weaknesses too because they are more easily attacked. The best stradegy will be to form small teams of educated and trained people who act alone and communicate anonymously with other teams.
This is best of both worlds but it only works if your weapons are able to cause large damage while being wielded by only 3 to 5 people.
This BTW works for everybody weather you are a malcontent who dislikes the govt or an environmentalist who wants to stop a mine. A small team with the ability to kill many people via chemical, poison, or sabotage gets the job done.
You can achieve your goals by poisoning the water supply of the mining camp. This will shoot the cost of operating the mine sky high (especially if it's done a couple of times). The mine will eventually be economically unfeasable.
What I am advocating is terrorism which has traditionally worked very well. It could work even better in the united states.
I saw a show on TV where they discovered a 6,000 year old body frozen in some mountain. This guy had accupuncure marks on him.
For 6,000 years people have been using accupuncture without a double blind stury or scientific peer review, or a statistical tested studies. Only thing they had was anecdotal evidence.
That whole time accupuncture actually worked dispite the lack of scientific evidence.
Just because there is no study that meets your expectations that does not mean it's not true.
Irrelevant. My point is that the govt is armed with tanks and helicopters, and planes, and missiles, and chemical weapons. You and your shotgun are not going to accomplish anything. The second amendment will not help you when they come knocking on your door.
You need to start thinking outside the box. If you want to wage war against the US you best bet is not to buy a 9MM but to learn how to make nerve gas, how to deliver caustic chemicals in jell format, how make and distribute drugs, how to poison water systems, how to effectively deliver biological agents and how to detonate massive explosives from a distance.
When the police hit your door with a battering ram the other side of that door better be rigged up with C4 and you better be coming out of that tunnel you dug last year. That's how stop opression.
It takes millions to run a campaign. Every american politician must raise ungodly amount of money to keep their seat. How much did George W raise do you remember? it was over 100 million dollars.
So in america every single politician takes bribes to the tune of 10s or 100s of millions dollars every election cycle.
And yes they are bribes, yes they money does buy influence, yes there is no real difference betweek selling yellowstone and letting your former bosses drill for oil in alaska.
Or do what apple did. Throw out backwards compatibily and come up with a directory structure that makes sense to you, add a super slick GUI on the top of that, add some really cool programming environments and call it something geek sounding like MACOSX.
Whever happened to old DOS days when every app lived in it's own directory and needed nothing outside of what could be found in there?
Is the concept of trying to save disk space even valid anymore?
Let me tell you why file associations are a bad idea. This is a true story.
My wife called me one day because her and the accountant had spent the entire day tring to get one quikbooks file transfered from her work computer into the accountants. She had done a backup but quickbooks could not see the file and double clicking on the program did something weird and eventually locked up the computer.
I went over there to find out that when she made the backup she named it backup.doc not backup.qbb. Because the open file dialog was filtering by qbb it never showed up as being on the disk. When she explored the disk it hid the extensions and she saw that there was a file called backup. When she double clicked on it word attempted to open up the file and crashed.
Here is the lesson. The name of the file should never be the most important thing about that file.
The machintosh had things right it knew about the program that created the file no matter what you named it.
It's always the same story from the business people.
Pollution laws cost too much money why can't we just dump whatever poisons we want wherever we want.
Safety regulations cost too much money who cares if a few undred of our employees die we can always hire some more.
Minimum wage laws cost too much why can't we just pay people 10 cents a day like they do in pakistan.
What is the difference between a businessman and a jet airplane? The jet stops whining when it gets to Hawaii.
"If you'll recall, the USSR got their asses kicked by Afghanistan. The US got their asses kicked by the Vietnamese. We also pulled out of Somalia due to a fairly small number of losses by people who almost are already in the Stone Age, and the Balkans have been a nightmare for ages."
Perhaps a two year old reading history books might come to this conclusion but adults realize that without the stinger missles sold to the afghans by the good old U.S of A also helped quite a bit. Same with viet nam you don't really believe that the vietnamese were able to repel the US armed forces without help from the russians and the chinese do you?
I'll give a more recent example. David Koresh was armed to the teeth but he could do nothing to stave off the ATF and the FBI. How about the Militia of Montana? they too were armed but eventually could not get along without their TV and surrendered. Show me one instance in the united states where an armed citizenry was able to repel the armed forces and the police. Even the civil war was lost and that was the most stark evidence of people fighting their own government.
People in the suburbs are richer they have no need to commit crimes (except crimes of passion perhaps).
People in the suburbs are white and police almost never brutilize white (or even almost white) people.
People in the suburbs have enough room to breathe and get privacy. Crowded people are more on the edge.
The ratio of people to cops is greater in crowded areas which makes for more opportunity.
It's easier to get away in a crowded scene. In the suburbs you have to drive a car which could be tracked by helicopters but in the city all you gotta do is outrun some fat cop for a block or two.
I am sure there are tons of other reasons too these seem most likely to me.
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And to think we have based our entire society on money and greed. how ironic.
What part of atheism is based on faith?
OK was he the son of god? did he die and then came to life? was he born of a virgin mother? Or was all that just some story getting embelished in the last two thousand years?
"Because it is. You might not be religious, religion - particularly the organized kind - might have its flaws, but using phrases like "mass hysteria" or "brainwashing" or "fantasy" to descibe *all* religion is just obnoxious."
Why is that? Just exacly what is the difference between believing that thetans are locked in your body and that an invisible, all powerful, omnicient man who lives in the sky caused a virgin to give birth? The bible is full of "fantasy" like this it's also full of unspeakable acts of horror. Sure christians like to disregard any part of the bible they don't like (which IMHO also gives me the right to ignore any part of the bible I don't like BTW) but you can not deny that they are a part and parcel of your religion.
Example. Christians routinely point out that homosexuality is a sin according to the bible but they never quote the second part of that sentence which states that the punishment for homosexuality is death!.
"Why is it that the only prejudice it's Politically Correct to have is anti-Christian prejudice?"
Well now let's take two "life style choices" homosexuality, and christianity. Actually one can probably make a damned convincing argument that homosexuality is actually genetic and not a "life style choice" but surely not even Dick Cheney and George W. Bush will claim that chirtianity is in the genes but for the sake of this argument let's presume that homosexuality is a choice.
If the homosexuals in this country treated christians like the christians treat homosexuality THEN you could go around saying things like you were being prejudiced against but lets face it.
The president is not homosexual, neither is the vice president, nor 99% of the combined houses of the congress.
Homosexuals do not try and deny christians the right to marry.
Homosexuals do not try to deny christians teching jobs or any other jobs.
Homosexuals do not shoot christians.
Homosexuals do not routinely beat the living crap out christians as they come out church.
So it's one thing to hold people accountable for the choices they made and to challenge their beliefs it's another to try and deny them civil rights and to beat them up or kill them.
Ever hear of an abortion doctor killing a priest?
Even hear of a abortion doctor bombing a church?
Ever hear of an abortion doctor putting up web sites that call priests vile names and encourage others to kill them?
Of course not! They are not that evil.
Sorry dude but you reap what you sow. There are a slew of bad apples in your religion ans unfortunately for all your enemies (jews, moslems, gays, budhists, environmentalists, doctors, liberals, teletubbies, and well anybody who disagrees with you) you are running this country from the highest levels to the lowest. All it takes is one crazy christian amongst the millions and BAM your life is snuffed out because you dared to think different.
How did this actually reduce the overall pollution level again? Yes that's right the government stepped in and TOLD the business to do it. Without that they would pollute like all hell becuase profits are infinately more important then killing people or making them sick.
The way you make people do the right thing is to punish them when they do something wrong. You don't let drug dealers sell drug credits so they can sell less drugs, you don't make serial killers sell killing certificates, why should you keep encouraging other criminals to keep commiting crimes?
If an industry breaks laws jail the CEOS and the board of directory, seize the assets and let the shareholders take it in the shorts and shut them down. This will influence the shareholders to keep a close eye on their corporation to behave corrrectly and will provide incentive for the board to act ethically.
Business people will never stip whining as long as they live.
Pollution controls cost too much money, minimum wage costs too much money, competition costs too much money. Whine, whine whine. Nothing would make a business person happier then to repeal every single environmental law and bringing back slavery.
What's the difference between a lear jet and the businessman who owns it?
The jet stops whining when it gets to hawaii.
How does this scheme reduce overall pollution? I reduce pollution and sell you the right to increase your pollution the earth sees no difference in it's pollution level.
Not only that but there really is no market for pollution unless some govenment steps in and passes clean air laws which would create scarcity. Without government intervention any industry could pollute as much as they want and would have no incentive to buy somebody elses pollution tickets.
So if the only source of scarcity is governmental regulation why do you need commerce in pollution anyway? Why shouldn't the government simply pass clean air regulations and be done with it?
Finally. Creating a market in pollution is the sickest most unethical thing I can think of. Creating commerce out of an activity which leads to suffering, horrible afflictions, and death is akin to legalizing child torture and pornography because some people want to do it.
In that case you were not saying anything at all.
Monkeys may have flown out of Ronald Reagans butt.
Can you prove beyond any doubt that this statement is false? Other then the fact that ronald probably believes it?
I just wanted to point out that..
You can write loadable modules for php in C. this gives you tremendous advantage of native C speed while using a scriptable interface with a very rapid developement cycle. The functions you write in C will be visible to the scripter like any other PHP native function. Combine this with the built in database pooling and you got a killer solution.
If the PHP scenario is not scenario is not scalable go to webobjects. It's also a very roubust well tested easy to develop environment that handles scalibility for you. By using objective C you get compiled speed with a framework where all the hard work has been done for you.
As long as you are thinking outside the box consider Klyx or Delphi. Go talk to the astatech folks and they will sell you the middleware from hell for a dirt cheap price. This thing truly rocks (I am not associated with them in any way just a happy customer). You get RAD developement, native compilation, great database support, ability to write apache modules, a killer IDE and debugger. Really now what else could you ask for.
Actually php 4.x has native session methods too. I use them and they work very well.
The only problem with this is that you need to deploy at least two maybe more languages. For the ASP pages you need to write jscript or vbscript and for you com objects you need to write them in C/C++ and then deploy them on MTS. You are most likely going to need two teams to do this project.
Using Java or Mod_PERL you could do it all in one language and save the cost of the other team.
A clarification.
It's not that I presume the medical establishment is corrupt it's just that they are motivated by profit like everybody else. Like most people they take the path of least resistance. If Bill Gates got interested in this stuff and paid for research who know what we could find out. Until then there is simply no profit in doing research or funding studies. Maybe the insurance companies could be persuaded but even then it's kind of a crapshoot for them.
There are lots of reasons.
1) studies cost a lot of money. Most practitioners of alternative medicine simply can not afford to do the studies (compare what your doctor drives to what your massage therapist drives).
2) Most studies in the US are underwritten by medical companies which have a vested interest in keeping non chemical treatments out of the market.
3) Most non traditional medicine is knowledge based and not material based. By this I mean instead of needing expensive chemicals for treatment they rely on nutritional or herbal methods. As a result wealth does not concentrate on a few manufacturers but gets diffused amongst many practitioners. As a result no political power is gained which might influence government or universities to conduct the research on their own.
4) Most of the alternative medicines are designed to work slowly over time. They concentrate on undoing bad habits that have taken years to establish. Their argument is that damage done your body through years of abuse (alcohol, coffee, cigarettes, sugar, junk food, pesticides etc) has to be cleaned out. There is no magic bullet which will flush your body of accumulated junk. The process will take a long time and will involve helping your body at the same time abstaining from these products. There is simply no easy way to do a scientific study on such long term techniques especially because the subjects are not likely to stick to them very long (ever try to give up coffee?).
5) Most people who do peer review in scientific journals are totally ignorant of these subjects. Simply put they are incapable of doing a peer review on accupuncture or massage or herbalism.
For example: lets say that it is my opinion that yoga is the single most effective medicine ever invented. If pacticed regularly it will eventually make you much healthier and resistant to disease not only of the body of the mind too. If everybody did an hour of yoga every day there would be a drastic decrease in all kinds of illnesses including mental ones.
Now what kind of a scientific study could you do to test this? Who would pay for it? Who could peer review it?
Also keep in mind that many of the techniques used by doctors or conventinal medicine also have not been tested scientificaly. Just recently a first of it's kind study was done that concluded that electro shock therapy did not work!. How long have they been doing that to people and just now they get around to doing a study which concludes that it does not work.
Finally: Just because scientific studies have been done that does not mean that the product actually works or is safe. How many drugs have been recalled? Even after years of study and peer reviews evidence comes up that says this is dangerous stuff. Weather this is for medicine or pesticides it's scary. Of course some of this is due the corruptibility of the current scientific methodologies by vast amounts of money.
In conclusion:
Just because it has not been scientifically proven or no studies have been done it does not mean that it's not effective.
just because it has been scientifically proven does not mean it's effective or safe.
It is very hard and expensive to do scientific studies.
The process of scientific proof is corruptable by big money and can not always be expected to produce truth.
Unfortunately the millions of arms are useless if they are not organized. Organization of course has weaknesses too because they are more easily attacked. The best stradegy will be to form small teams of educated and trained people who act alone and communicate anonymously with other teams.
This is best of both worlds but it only works if your weapons are able to cause large damage while being wielded by only 3 to 5 people.
This BTW works for everybody weather you are a malcontent who dislikes the govt or an environmentalist who wants to stop a mine. A small team with the ability to kill many people via chemical, poison, or sabotage gets the job done.
You can achieve your goals by poisoning the water supply of the mining camp. This will shoot the cost of operating the mine sky high (especially if it's done a couple of times). The mine will eventually be economically unfeasable.
What I am advocating is terrorism which has traditionally worked very well. It could work even better in the united states.
I saw a show on TV where they discovered a 6,000 year old body frozen in some mountain. This guy had accupuncure marks on him.
For 6,000 years people have been using accupuncture without a double blind stury or scientific peer review, or a statistical tested studies. Only thing they had was anecdotal evidence.
That whole time accupuncture actually worked dispite the lack of scientific evidence.
Just because there is no study that meets your expectations that does not mean it's not true.
Irrelevant. My point is that the govt is armed with tanks and helicopters, and planes, and missiles, and chemical weapons. You and your shotgun are not going to accomplish anything. The second amendment will not help you when they come knocking on your door.
You need to start thinking outside the box. If you want to wage war against the US you best bet is not to buy a 9MM but to learn how to make nerve gas, how to deliver caustic chemicals in jell format, how make and distribute drugs, how to poison water systems, how to effectively deliver biological agents and how to detonate massive explosives from a distance.
When the police hit your door with a battering ram the other side of that door better be rigged up with C4 and you better be coming out of that tunnel you dug last year. That's how stop opression.
It takes millions to run a campaign. Every american politician must raise ungodly amount of money to keep their seat. How much did George W raise do you remember? it was over 100 million dollars.
So in america every single politician takes bribes to the tune of 10s or 100s of millions dollars every election cycle.
And yes they are bribes, yes they money does buy influence, yes there is no real difference betweek selling yellowstone and letting your former bosses drill for oil in alaska.
Or do what apple did. Throw out backwards compatibily and come up with a directory structure that makes sense to you, add a super slick GUI on the top of that, add some really cool programming environments and call it something geek sounding like MACOSX.
Whever happened to old DOS days when every app lived in it's own directory and needed nothing outside of what could be found in there?
Is the concept of trying to save disk space even valid anymore?
If you said /usr/dict/words to joe use his brain would explode. Joe use needs to get a mac. MacosX is pretty nice gui for a unix!
Let me tell you why file associations are a bad idea. This is a true story.
My wife called me one day because her and the accountant had spent the entire day tring to get one quikbooks file transfered from her work computer into the accountants. She had done a backup but quickbooks could not see the file and double clicking on the program did something weird and eventually locked up the computer.
I went over there to find out that when she made the backup she named it backup.doc not backup.qbb. Because the open file dialog was filtering by qbb it never showed up as being on the disk. When she explored the disk it hid the extensions and she saw that there was a file called backup. When she double clicked on it word attempted to open up the file and crashed.
Here is the lesson. The name of the file should never be the most important thing about that file.
The machintosh had things right it knew about the program that created the file no matter what you named it.
It's always the same story from the business people.
Pollution laws cost too much money why can't we just dump whatever poisons we want wherever we want.
Safety regulations cost too much money who cares if a few undred of our employees die we can always hire some more.
Minimum wage laws cost too much why can't we just pay people 10 cents a day like they do in pakistan.
What is the difference between a businessman and a jet airplane? The jet stops whining when it gets to Hawaii.
"If you'll recall, the USSR got their asses kicked by Afghanistan. The US got their asses kicked by the Vietnamese. We also pulled out of Somalia due to a fairly small number of losses by people who almost are already in the Stone Age, and the Balkans have been a nightmare for ages."
Perhaps a two year old reading history books might come to this conclusion but adults realize that without the stinger missles sold to the afghans by the good old U.S of A also helped quite a bit. Same with viet nam you don't really believe that the vietnamese were able to repel the US armed forces without help from the russians and the chinese do you?
I'll give a more recent example. David Koresh was armed to the teeth but he could do nothing to stave off the ATF and the FBI. How about the Militia of Montana? they too were armed but eventually could not get along without their TV and surrendered. Show me one instance in the united states where an armed citizenry was able to repel the armed forces and the police. Even the civil war was lost and that was the most stark evidence of people fighting their own government.
People in the suburbs are richer they have no need to commit crimes (except crimes of passion perhaps).
People in the suburbs are white and police almost never brutilize white (or even almost white) people.
People in the suburbs have enough room to breathe and get privacy. Crowded people are more on the edge.
The ratio of people to cops is greater in crowded areas which makes for more opportunity.
It's easier to get away in a crowded scene. In the suburbs you have to drive a car which could be tracked by helicopters but in the city all you gotta do is outrun some fat cop for a block or two.
I am sure there are tons of other reasons too these seem most likely to me.