Considering carbon dating has been shown to be about as accurate as a politicians promises, they should have just said they were guessing at how long it had been there.
..will help as far as the letter of the law is concerned, but it has always been my view that the scales of justice were balancing the letter of the law with the spirit of the law.
You know how to make government work for the people... ALL meetings are public. every correspondence is public, ALL of it.. there would be no "covert" "back-room" "national security" anything... meetings with foreign leaders.. PUBLIC, ALL of it.. and if people want to keep things hush hush then they just won't deal with a public government and it would expose all those who are doing things for nefarious reasons.
You want world peace, this is the way to do it.. The more people realize that they can't just work a deal for their own benefit the better this world will be... let issues stand on their own merits, not part of some "I'll vote for yours if you vote for mine" BS...
While light is wonderful for fuel efficiency, I'm finding that with each new generation of car I drive, strong lateral gusts of wind tend to pose more of a problem while driving. This is purely conjecture of course, but I just don't remember having these troubles in the past, where it's harder to immediately compensate for a sudden strong gust of wind that can literally alter your cars course in an instant.
Pollution has been around since the dawn of time.. This is just a naturally occurring cycle in our planets history, plus the data doesn't go back far enough to come to a conclusion. This is just a story by the main stream media to further the agenda of "Big Science".
could you elaborate on that..? Are you saying that his thoughts SHOULD be a crime, or are you saying that if he was hanged right away a crime would NOT have occurred?
When we convict people of thoughts and feelings that is a slippery slope to an Orwellian future.
Right now, personal drones are getting to a point where people ARE getting in the way of real aircraft, registration would make it easier for law enforcement to track a drone to it's owner instead of having to create some elaborate investigation into who owns the device.
Not even counting how drones are starting to be used a little more prolifically for businesses.
All this talk about "gub'mint confiscation" seems like runoff from gun nut types.
If your son's RC car is affecting regular traffic then yes.. that makes him a "driver"
Imagine if RC cars were a relatively new thing.. and people started attaching cameras to them and driving them on the freeway around emergency responders.
....so you think a terrorist attack is going to cause a country to collapse? Terror attacks have been going on for as long as governments have been around. They're meant to sway policy not topple governments.
There isn't massive gun violence in the US (it is merely a moderately higher rate than other countries). As for "solving" it, I would continue to enforce laws against violence - with or without guns.
So basically you're saying.. "it's not happening and I wouldn't change anything"
Again... just because you choose to bury your head in the sand about it doesn't mean that it isn't a real thing. The U.S. has a horrible gun violence rate, unless you're comparing it to 3rd world failed nations.. is that what you're doing?
I would also legalize most recreational drugs and other victimless crimes like gambling and prostitution. And finish with a rational immigration policy that provides a clear, prompt, and rather easy path to permanent residency in the US.
Just a point, prostitution is not a victimless crime, but like anything else it needs tight regulation in order for it to be closer to being a victimless crime.
Which is a meaningless observation since it doesn't support your arguments at all.
Which is about as meaningless to the argument was what you posted.....
Which simply isn't true. Else we wouldn't have laws against negligent use or storage of firearms, much less laws against assault and murder with firearms.
Your argument is that there is no correlation between gun ownership and violence..... ok, fine... please explain the cause of the massive gun violence rate in America and your solution for solving it...
So you do admit that there is a lack of connection between gun ownership and violence? Ok."
No, just because you refuse to acknowledge it, doesn't mean it doesn't exist...
Gun ownership has always been about responsible gun ownership as you admit here. That doesn't have a thing to do with violence.
Nope... no it hasn't... it's been about the right to have a gun.. period (regardless of responsibility)... and there is a direct correlation between irresponsible gun ownership and violence.
So? I was just making an observation about the lack of correlation between presence of guns and violence. For example, US society is more violent than Swiss society, but they have similar levels of gun ownership.
Let me add to your information... "The vast majority of men between the ages of 20 and 30 are conscripted into the militia and undergo military training, including weapons training. The personal weapons of the militia are kept at home as part of the military obligations. However, it is generally not permitted to keep army-issued ammunition, but compatible ammunition purchased for privately owned guns is permitted. At the end of military service period the previously used gun can be converted to a privately owned gun after a weapon acquisition permit has been granted (fully automatic weapons will be rebuilt into semi-automatic ones)."
So if you want there here in the U.S. by all means... instead of a gun in every bubble gum machine, there's serious regulation involved with gun ownership in switzerland.. the same thing that would be considered "grabbing guns" here in the U.S.
About what? What wolf are we feeding with responsible gun ownership and fun D&D? I bet it's not the rabid wolf Mr. AC was thinking of.
Oh so you admit it's about RESPONSIBLE gun ownership now... not JUST gun ownership? FYI, we don't have responsible gun ownership in the U.S... we have "gun nuts" and a God/Constitutional right to arm ourselves to the teeth pretty much regardless of training or credentials.... a recipe for.. drum roll... violence!
"Because he's a moral fraud. And gun control has nothing to do with D&D or violence prevention for that matter."
Seriously?... gun control has nothing to do with violence prevention? (that is subject to SERIOUS debate)... and you claim HIM to be the moral fraud.. from what I'm reading he was 100% correct. especially when Im modded as flame bait simply for agreeing and you calling someone a "moral fraud" is modded as insightful. Clearly no bias there.
Very true, corporations have their time and place to do things... as does "socialism" where in this case, a local government, even a loosely established collective of people, got together and addressed a problem that they wanted fixed.
In a larger more populated area this kind of solution just wouldn't work, where a corporation would be doing the bureaucratic legwork and infrastructure maintenance required for a large scale operation.
"The move is likely to draw criticism from law enforcement officials in the U.S. who have argued over the past year that the increasing use of encryption on devices and online communications affects their ability to investigate crimes."
...the move is also more likely to hinder U.S. law enforcement from ABUSING their power... so you'll forgive me if I'm a little salty in saying...
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Considering carbon dating has been shown to be about as accurate as a politicians promises, they should have just said they were guessing at how long it had been there.
(sniff) (sniff) .. I smell a creationist...
..will help as far as the letter of the law is concerned, but it has always been my view that the scales of justice were balancing the letter of the law with the spirit of the law.
Every day I read about another reason on why I'm proud to be Dutch....
"My manners change nothing at all about this, or the universe." ...actually, your manners make this universe less pleasant for others...
You know how to make government work for the people... ALL meetings are public. every correspondence is public, ALL of it.. there would be no "covert" "back-room" "national security" anything... meetings with foreign leaders.. PUBLIC, ALL of it.. and if people want to keep things hush hush then they just won't deal with a public government and it would expose all those who are doing things for nefarious reasons. You want world peace, this is the way to do it.. The more people realize that they can't just work a deal for their own benefit the better this world will be... let issues stand on their own merits, not part of some "I'll vote for yours if you vote for mine" BS...
"On some worlds could are water"
Please speak Terran...
While light is wonderful for fuel efficiency, I'm finding that with each new generation of car I drive, strong lateral gusts of wind tend to pose more of a problem while driving. This is purely conjecture of course, but I just don't remember having these troubles in the past, where it's harder to immediately compensate for a sudden strong gust of wind that can literally alter your cars course in an instant.
If this were a conservative administration, they would be blaming the POTUS.
Well thank goodness we don't have a conservative administration and the president isn't unreasonably blamed for anything!!!!
Pollution has been around since the dawn of time.. This is just a naturally occurring cycle in our planets history, plus the data doesn't go back far enough to come to a conclusion. This is just a story by the main stream media to further the agenda of "Big Science".
No you lack communication skills.... because you can look at it two different ways...
who's the innocent person being killed in your scenario.. ?
At least a crime would have occurred...
could you elaborate on that..? Are you saying that his thoughts SHOULD be a crime, or are you saying that if he was hanged right away a crime would NOT have occurred? When we convict people of thoughts and feelings that is a slippery slope to an Orwellian future.
..and how is that different from convicting someone of thought crime?
Right now, personal drones are getting to a point where people ARE getting in the way of real aircraft, registration would make it easier for law enforcement to track a drone to it's owner instead of having to create some elaborate investigation into who owns the device.
Not even counting how drones are starting to be used a little more prolifically for businesses.
All this talk about "gub'mint confiscation" seems like runoff from gun nut types.
If your son's RC car is affecting regular traffic then yes.. that makes him a "driver"
Imagine if RC cars were a relatively new thing.. and people started attaching cameras to them and driving them on the freeway around emergency responders.
....so you think a terrorist attack is going to cause a country to collapse? Terror attacks have been going on for as long as governments have been around. They're meant to sway policy not topple governments.
There isn't massive gun violence in the US (it is merely a moderately higher rate than other countries). As for "solving" it, I would continue to enforce laws against violence - with or without guns.
So basically you're saying.. "it's not happening and I wouldn't change anything" Again... just because you choose to bury your head in the sand about it doesn't mean that it isn't a real thing. The U.S. has a horrible gun violence rate, unless you're comparing it to 3rd world failed nations.. is that what you're doing?
I would also legalize most recreational drugs and other victimless crimes like gambling and prostitution. And finish with a rational immigration policy that provides a clear, prompt, and rather easy path to permanent residency in the US.
Just a point, prostitution is not a victimless crime, but like anything else it needs tight regulation in order for it to be closer to being a victimless crime.
Which is a meaningless observation since it doesn't support your arguments at all.
Which is about as meaningless to the argument was what you posted.....
Which simply isn't true. Else we wouldn't have laws against negligent use or storage of firearms, much less laws against assault and murder with firearms.
Your argument is that there is no correlation between gun ownership and violence..... ok, fine... please explain the cause of the massive gun violence rate in America and your solution for solving it...
So you do admit that there is a lack of connection between gun ownership and violence? Ok."
No, just because you refuse to acknowledge it, doesn't mean it doesn't exist...
Gun ownership has always been about responsible gun ownership as you admit here. That doesn't have a thing to do with violence.
Nope... no it hasn't... it's been about the right to have a gun.. period (regardless of responsibility)... and there is a direct correlation between irresponsible gun ownership and violence.
(that is subject to SERIOUS debate)...
So? I was just making an observation about the lack of correlation between presence of guns and violence. For example, US society is more violent than Swiss society, but they have similar levels of gun ownership.
Let me add to your information... "The vast majority of men between the ages of 20 and 30 are conscripted into the militia and undergo military training, including weapons training. The personal weapons of the militia are kept at home as part of the military obligations. However, it is generally not permitted to keep army-issued ammunition, but compatible ammunition purchased for privately owned guns is permitted. At the end of military service period the previously used gun can be converted to a privately owned gun after a weapon acquisition permit has been granted (fully automatic weapons will be rebuilt into semi-automatic ones)."
So if you want there here in the U.S. by all means... instead of a gun in every bubble gum machine, there's serious regulation involved with gun ownership in switzerland.. the same thing that would be considered "grabbing guns" here in the U.S.
About what? What wolf are we feeding with responsible gun ownership and fun D&D? I bet it's not the rabid wolf Mr. AC was thinking of.
Oh so you admit it's about RESPONSIBLE gun ownership now... not JUST gun ownership? FYI, we don't have responsible gun ownership in the U.S... we have "gun nuts" and a God/Constitutional right to arm ourselves to the teeth pretty much regardless of training or credentials.... a recipe for .. drum roll... violence!
"Because he's a moral fraud. And gun control has nothing to do with D&D or violence prevention for that matter."
Seriously?... gun control has nothing to do with violence prevention? (that is subject to SERIOUS debate)... and you claim HIM to be the moral fraud.. from what I'm reading he was 100% correct. especially when Im modded as flame bait simply for agreeing and you calling someone a "moral fraud" is modded as insightful. Clearly no bias there.
I don't understand why you were moderated as flamebait, your point is valid and I wish I had mod points to throw at it.
Very true, corporations have their time and place to do things... as does "socialism" where in this case, a local government, even a loosely established collective of people, got together and addressed a problem that they wanted fixed.
In a larger more populated area this kind of solution just wouldn't work, where a corporation would be doing the bureaucratic legwork and infrastructure maintenance required for a large scale operation.
"The move is likely to draw criticism from law enforcement officials in the U.S. who have argued over the past year that the increasing use of encryption on devices and online communications affects their ability to investigate crimes."
...the move is also more likely to hinder U.S. law enforcement from ABUSING their power... so you'll forgive me if I'm a little salty in saying...
" You kinda brought this on yourselves. "
"IT'S A TRAP!"