Something like 12% of people who claim to be religious go to church (or mosque, temple etc) at least once a week. It's a bit higher for Catholics, about 17%.
(The statistic at the top, "According to the 2001 census, there were 41 million Christians in Great Britain, making up almost three quarters of the population (72%)", was often argued to be quite inaccurate. IIRC, the census question was pretty loaded -- I think there were tick-boxes for religions, but you had to write in "no religion".)
That a 2001 census! - 12 years ago! - Things have changed a lot since then. The immigration from Muslim countries have been so intense, and the birthrate of Muslims been so high, that Christians now are just above 50% and still dropping. All the lost percentages have been lost to the Muslim groups.
Actually I know quite a few catholics. They are the same as everybody else. Everybody.
The same... except they're catholics.
If you let religion define you or control your life, you got it all wrong. It's your religion and you define it. The other way around seems like one of those bad Soviet Russia jokes, except they frowned upon religion.
Yes, I know a lot of people get a kick (or something?) out of following some often misunderstood and misinterpreted teachings. That of course makes as little sense as the teachings or rules themselves. Any proper religion should help its followers get more out of their lives or live better lives, but most rules seems bent on setting harsh limits and impose akward or obstructive routines that hamper life instead of improving it. This plays close to the self-flagellation practiced by certain religions or sects within a religion, like Opus Dei - a catholic sect.
"When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion." (Robert Pirsig) "The majority is always (by definition) sane" (Wonko The Sane - from "The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy" by Douglas Adams)
That ethnic background meant my children were automatically stereotyped by the schools they attended. In particular one of them was misdiagnosed as having an English deficiency when in fact he had Asperger's.
This diagnosis was done on the basis of my wife's ethnic background despite the fact she speaks English better than 99.99+% of US citizens.
The harm done to my son from of this cannot be undone.
The really sad thing is that we tend to stereotype based on generalized experience.
The reason certain minorities (blacks and Hispanics in particular) are over-represented in jails are not racist police or courts but that these groups through a mixture of stupidity and peer pressure tend to make them do really stupid things, like forming gangs and doing drugs. There's a lot of Hispanic and black gangs, a few Asian gangs but few (none?) of pure 'whites', despite a lot of these people also being poor and living in subsidized housing and so on. The social circumstances obviously doesn't cause crime, gangs etc. - it must be something else. This is why people tend to generalize that these ethnic groups are dumb, lazy, criminal, deliberately undereducated etc. - an unspoken underlying cause could be genetic and then it's a short leap to the pure racist ideas that "blacks are born lazy" and "Hispanics are inherently criminal".
It baffles me that there are men out there so oblivious to the impact of sexist advertising on women
It baffles me that some people think the answer to all problems is not to reduce demand, but to hit the symptom of the moment with a shovel, dig a grave for it and hope no new troubles arise even though the demand that created the problem is still present.
Whatever "works" for you I guess.
Wow! - More or less exactly as I would have said it.
The only issue I have is that I don't agree that there is sexist advertising at all. Lightly clad women are not sexist per definition. They might be bad taste or vulgar, but so is (IMHO) semi-naked men. They are all valid expressions and valid means to 'catch the eye' IMHO and we certainly don't need laws regulating stuff like this.
... the impact of sexist advertising on women and women's role in society..
You seem to think that 'sexist advertising' controls women's role in society, but you got it completely reversed. The advertising *reflects* society, reinforcing what we already are familiar and comfortable with.
Maybe you should try watching "Mad Men". I know it's fiction but its award-winning portrayal of how commercial advertising worked back in the much more sexist late 1950's and early 1960's is spot on. Even feeble attempts at breaking norms were rejected by the advertisers. They wanted 'safe' advertising, and most of all they didn't want to offend anyone. It is only in the past decades or so that advertising turned provocative and potentially offensive, in some cases actively using the 'scandal', the debate and media attention to further boost the impact of certain ads.
As long as we don't end up like Sweden, where boys play with dolls and girls with guns (the result of an anti-gender stereotype law)... Here's a comparison on the exact same toy ads in its Danish and Swedish version: http://weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/aaa7_158-550x364.jpg (Swedish on the left).
How is enforcing gender equality standards across Europe pandering to Sharia? Please explain how legislation intended to prohibit unequal treatment of genders and alternative sexuality adhere to the man-first-women-last-gays-dead version of life that Sharia proposes?
It's not about 'gender equality' - it's about hiding women away - and THAT'S pandering to Sharia.
NYC finds out its still legal to sell 20 OZ drinks, meanwhile French business owners still can't work more than a certain amount of hours at their own business.
Well, that large drink ban was a joke to begin with... First and foremost. sugary drinks are not fattening in themselves, no matter how big. They may influence the onset of diabetes but that's about it. They should rather ban large portions, quadruple burgers etc. - much more efficient on obesity.
Second, all the business owners affected have 'emergency plans' for providing the customers what they want. Bright ideas including giving away empty big containers (the ban covers sale, not free stuff) for people to merge their smaller drinks into themselves, and micro-markets (exempt from the ban) for drinks only, have already been seen.
It's a stupid and useless ban and it was rightly stopped.
Porn isn't "freedom of speech". "Speech" implies that words are communicated. Speech is important for political communication, for discussing ideas, for rational thinking, for debating. Porn isn't..
Oh you are so wrong. Even the US supreme court agrees with me on this one. Porn, like any other expression (verbal or not) is protected free speech.
When you speak or write, you communicate. Most people agree on this one. But a lot of communication is non-verbal. Everything non-human usually is. There's chemical communication (smells, odors etc.), gesture and motion communication (sign language, mating dances etc.), color communication (flowers and insects, 'dangerous colors' etc.). Maybe you don't understand what's communicated but it doesn't change that it is communication. As it doesn't make sense to limit the free speech to just words and maybe sign language, the freedom is usually called "Freedom of Speech and Expression".
So sorry, buddy. Porn is fully covered by this freedom - and rightly so. It's just communication using more or less naked bodies, a few words and some gestures. Nothing wrong with this by the way. If you don't like what's communicated, walk away. You have the implicit right to 'listen' to any communication (the other half of the freedom of speech) and you of course also have the right not to. Nobody forces you to watch porn. If you don't like it, switch channel or throw that magazine away. But don't think that because you don't like it, the right of others to 'listen' should be taken away, or the right to make it. Likewise, if you don't like what I write here, either argue against it or go away. That's your right.
Mensa is for a special class of genius. It makes sense that that same segment would gravitate to Face Book.
Trailer Park Genius?
When I went to the University of Copenhagen doing my major in Computer Science, we formed "Manse", an alternative to Mensa - for those smart enough not to be affiliated with Mensa... Basically we did t-shirts and had some awesome parties... but all members were actually qualified for Mensa; none had IQs below 130 and most of us above 150. The name "Manse" is of course a lame anagram for "Mensa" but also a very funny male name often seen used for submissive somewhat effeminate husbands from the upper class.
As long as the bad guys have nukes (or is in the process of getting them), we need to have them as well, and enough to make sure that nobody gets any bright ideas in their megalomaniacal madness of penile erectile superiority.
Even Windows (which has a pretty crap set-up IMHO) can be tweaked to behave time-wise with the right registry settings.
Sorry, but no. I struggled with my Windows 7 (64 bit) for a few days before giving up. Before that I made a Windows Vista behave flawlessly so I presumed the much better Windows was just as easy - nope. Time kept getting set exactly once and then the WT service would just hang. If forced to restart it would delete the configuration and revert to the defaults.
Googled, found a Windows version of ntpd, downloaded and installed it (took less than 2 minutes) and now the time is always set. It works just as well as it does on my Debian GNU/Linux server. I disabled the WT service of course.
I block all ads as I've done for the past decades. I currently use AdBlock and NoScript and they efficiently kill just about all ads.
If you want to finance your website, use subscriptions, pay-per-view or proceeds from the sale of physical merchandise. If you want a free section, adjust the fees accordingly. Yes, it's that simple.
Instead of focusing on the rather innocent little exclamation you should be more worried about the fact that even though things like Tor, VPNs, hired proxies and the like are held up as solutions and workarounds for almost all these internet blocks, we have here, in Iran, a real world demonstration that such things are useless against deep packet inspection and filtering.
Sure, but we're not there yet. The blocking in Iran is nothing more than basic port and protocol blocks; just block 1723/tcp and protocol 47 (gre) and you've blocked PPTP VPN, the most common form of VPN. IPsec VPN can be blocked by blocking 500/udp and protocol esp+ah. The more rare SSL-only form of VPN is probably blocked using blacklists as no form of deep packet inspection can see inside encrypted packets and there's no other way to find out if it's a regular SSL connection or something like VPN. But then maybe they simply block all use of SSL across the borders.
Such techniques will be used in the States, in Canada, in the UK, anywhere, either under the direction of the intellectual property owners or to protect us all from terrorism and any attempt to use such techniques or others to circumvent the blocks to certain types of files or information will be considered a criminal act.
For smaller files, encryption of the files within other files can be used but for larger files, streams or participation in open conversations of prohibited subjects will become harder over time.
They are basically attempting to do what the extremely conservative Islamists are doing already - eradicating women from public view. No women used for advertising and no women in the news.
It will only be a matter of time before they want women to be Photoshopped from news pictures as well. Or they will have to wear burkas or similar. There are actually places where they'll even remove a female head of state in pictures from an official visit. I remember a picture with the White House staff following the Seal Team Six killing Osama Bin Laden. There were two female in the original picture, including Hilary Clinton, and they were both removed from both the picture and the caption.
Some might say that they just want the women to be more conservatively dressed but that's a slippery slope ending in burkas.
Oh, and double standards are rampant in that community - an ad featuring the silhouette of a naked woman behind a semi-opaque glass wall caused an uproar but a similar ad featuring a naked man caused absolutely nothing. The two ads are here (NSFW): http://www.denstoredanske.dk/@api/deki/files/25654/=463791.501.jpg?size=webview - it's only a naked women that's pornography... despite both pictures featuring full frontal nudity, including genitals.
free things don't require a credit card, unless its *only* to verify that you're over 18, then its totally trustworthy!
Actually a lot of online 'free sampling' do require a credit card. You sign up for something that is initially free (for a limited time) and unless you opt out before this period ends, you are billed for the first period (usually a month) but recurring. So if you want to pay nothing, just opt out in time. If not, it turns into a regular subscription. This is a fair construct that rely on people being too lazy to opt out (in time).
Got to agree with you there - mostly. I eat grains for breakfast, rolled oatmeal to be precise, with low-fat milk. Lunch and dinner are either green salad or one serving of a regular hot meal (can be anything), i.e. one of each either for lunch or dinner - oatmeal, salad and hot meal or oatmeal, hot meal and salad.
I've lost 55 kg (~120 pounds) over the past 14 months so it really works.
If they count on stopping terrorists by security (theater) checks and the airports and similar, it's too late - way too late. If a terrorist actually gets to the security check at the airport it's a major fail. As no terrorist is ready to do his evil deed in just a few days. the intelligence services have plenty of time to spot and verify each potential terrorist and stop his activities a long time before he even plans to go to the airport. Sure, the security check at the airport might prevent a specific attack, but if you focus on the persons instead of the tools, you might catch all of the terrorists and their leader instead of just the one at the airport.
I recommend dropping almost everything at the airport and use all the resources out in the country, keeping close tabs on the terrorist nests, i.e. meetings/events relating to right- or left wing extremists, militias, religious cults including Islamist mosques and so on. I cannot think of any terrorist not affiliated with an organization already known to be suspect at the time of discovery. Use the resources to identify those people most likely to become 'active' and then stop them. I know the FBI has had a lot of success providing these people with fake explosives and so on, thus both identifying them and their intentions with certainty and prevent any risk to the general public.
Despite the negative sides mentioned, there's also some good. It is unlikely in the extreme that the MAFIAA will ever get their way with the authorities in North Korea, meaning that it quickly could become the heaven for torrent trackers and similar. Besides, anything that offends or annoys the western world, especially in the US, will get a lot of support from the North Korean government, maybe even a nuclear defense!:)
Sure, countries like the UK, The Netherlands and Denmark will continue their stupid DNS-blocking of TPB while countless proxy- and VPN-services continue to provide avenues of circumvention, and with the site itself being 'untouchable' I'd say it's GAME OVER for the MAFIAA. Their only option will be to stop their war on their customers and rethink their business models - or die.
Actually it's just two sentences, first a justification and then the content.
Because: "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state" Therefore: "the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed"
Simple and not that hard to understand - unless you deliberately try to curb or indeed infringe on this right.
One can argue that RPGs, fully automatic assault rifles and nukes are not the arms intended to be 'arms'. I would concur with that. It might be fun hunting deer with RPGs or a 50-calibre Gatling gun but not very useful. And nukes are rather stupid as a means of defending your home...
I'd say that regular handguns and similar rifles are the arms intended and they should be freely available to anyone not a convicted felon or mental patient. All the heavier weapons should also be available to anyone with a proper license or who is a member of a licensed group (a militia for instance).
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Here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/11297461 for the UK.
Something like 12% of people who claim to be religious go to church (or mosque, temple etc) at least once a week. It's a bit higher for Catholics, about 17%.
(The statistic at the top, "According to the 2001 census, there were 41 million Christians in Great Britain, making up almost three quarters of the population (72%)", was often argued to be quite inaccurate. IIRC, the census question was pretty loaded -- I think there were tick-boxes for religions, but you had to write in "no religion".)
That a 2001 census! - 12 years ago! - Things have changed a lot since then. The immigration from Muslim countries have been so intense, and the birthrate of Muslims been so high, that Christians now are just above 50% and still dropping. All the lost percentages have been lost to the Muslim groups.
Actually I know quite a few catholics. They are the same as everybody else. Everybody.
The same... except they're catholics.
If you let religion define you or control your life, you got it all wrong. It's your religion and you define it. The other way around seems like one of those bad Soviet Russia jokes, except they frowned upon religion.
Yes, I know a lot of people get a kick (or something?) out of following some often misunderstood and misinterpreted teachings. That of course makes as little sense as the teachings or rules themselves. Any proper religion should help its followers get more out of their lives or live better lives, but most rules seems bent on setting harsh limits and impose akward or obstructive routines that hamper life instead of improving it. This plays close to the self-flagellation practiced by certain religions or sects within a religion, like Opus Dei - a catholic sect.
Well...
"When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion." (Robert Pirsig)
"The majority is always (by definition) sane" (Wonko The Sane - from "The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy" by Douglas Adams)
Maybe we need to come up with "Facist America" jokes instead
In Facist America the government spy on you!
Nah, not funny, Sad reality actually.
That ethnic background meant my children were automatically stereotyped by the schools they attended. In particular one of them was misdiagnosed as having an English deficiency when in fact he had Asperger's.
This diagnosis was done on the basis of my wife's ethnic background despite the fact she speaks English better than 99.99+% of US citizens.
The harm done to my son from of this cannot be undone.
The really sad thing is that we tend to stereotype based on generalized experience.
The reason certain minorities (blacks and Hispanics in particular) are over-represented in jails are not racist police or courts but that these groups through a mixture of stupidity and peer pressure tend to make them do really stupid things, like forming gangs and doing drugs. There's a lot of Hispanic and black gangs, a few Asian gangs but few (none?) of pure 'whites', despite a lot of these people also being poor and living in subsidized housing and so on. The social circumstances obviously doesn't cause crime, gangs etc. - it must be something else. This is why people tend to generalize that these ethnic groups are dumb, lazy, criminal, deliberately undereducated etc. - an unspoken underlying cause could be genetic and then it's a short leap to the pure racist ideas that "blacks are born lazy" and "Hispanics are inherently criminal".
It baffles me that there are men out there so oblivious to the impact of sexist advertising on women
It baffles me that some people think the answer to all problems is not to reduce demand, but to hit the symptom of the moment with a shovel, dig a grave for it and hope no new troubles arise even though the demand that created the problem is still present.
Whatever "works" for you I guess.
Wow! - More or less exactly as I would have said it.
The only issue I have is that I don't agree that there is sexist advertising at all. Lightly clad women are not sexist per definition. They might be bad taste or vulgar, but so is (IMHO) semi-naked men. They are all valid expressions and valid means to 'catch the eye' IMHO and we certainly don't need laws regulating stuff like this.
... the impact of sexist advertising on women and women's role in society..
You seem to think that 'sexist advertising' controls women's role in society, but you got it completely reversed. The advertising *reflects* society, reinforcing what we already are familiar and comfortable with.
Maybe you should try watching "Mad Men". I know it's fiction but its award-winning portrayal of how commercial advertising worked back in the much more sexist late 1950's and early 1960's is spot on. Even feeble attempts at breaking norms were rejected by the advertisers. They wanted 'safe' advertising, and most of all they didn't want to offend anyone. It is only in the past decades or so that advertising turned provocative and potentially offensive, in some cases actively using the 'scandal', the debate and media attention to further boost the impact of certain ads.
As long as we don't end up like Sweden, where boys play with dolls and girls with guns (the result of an anti-gender stereotype law)... Here's a comparison on the exact same toy ads in its Danish and Swedish version: http://weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/aaa7_158-550x364.jpg (Swedish on the left).
How is enforcing gender equality standards across Europe pandering to Sharia? Please explain how legislation intended to prohibit unequal treatment of genders and alternative sexuality adhere to the man-first-women-last-gays-dead version of life that Sharia proposes?
It's not about 'gender equality' - it's about hiding women away - and THAT'S pandering to Sharia.
NYC finds out its still legal to sell 20 OZ drinks, meanwhile French business owners still can't work more than a certain amount of hours at their own business.
Well, that large drink ban was a joke to begin with... First and foremost. sugary drinks are not fattening in themselves, no matter how big. They may influence the onset of diabetes but that's about it. They should rather ban large portions, quadruple burgers etc. - much more efficient on obesity.
Second, all the business owners affected have 'emergency plans' for providing the customers what they want. Bright ideas including giving away empty big containers (the ban covers sale, not free stuff) for people to merge their smaller drinks into themselves, and micro-markets (exempt from the ban) for drinks only, have already been seen.
It's a stupid and useless ban and it was rightly stopped.
Porn isn't "freedom of speech". "Speech" implies that words are communicated. Speech is important for political communication, for discussing ideas, for rational thinking, for debating. Porn isn't..
Oh you are so wrong. Even the US supreme court agrees with me on this one. Porn, like any other expression (verbal or not) is protected free speech.
When you speak or write, you communicate. Most people agree on this one. But a lot of communication is non-verbal. Everything non-human usually is. There's chemical communication (smells, odors etc.), gesture and motion communication (sign language, mating dances etc.), color communication (flowers and insects, 'dangerous colors' etc.). Maybe you don't understand what's communicated but it doesn't change that it is communication. As it doesn't make sense to limit the free speech to just words and maybe sign language, the freedom is usually called "Freedom of Speech and Expression".
So sorry, buddy. Porn is fully covered by this freedom - and rightly so. It's just communication using more or less naked bodies, a few words and some gestures. Nothing wrong with this by the way. If you don't like what's communicated, walk away. You have the implicit right to 'listen' to any communication (the other half of the freedom of speech) and you of course also have the right not to. Nobody forces you to watch porn. If you don't like it, switch channel or throw that magazine away. But don't think that because you don't like it, the right of others to 'listen' should be taken away, or the right to make it. Likewise, if you don't like what I write here, either argue against it or go away. That's your right.
Mensa is for a special class of genius. It makes sense that that same segment would gravitate to Face Book.
Trailer Park Genius?
When I went to the University of Copenhagen doing my major in Computer Science, we formed "Manse", an alternative to Mensa - for those smart enough not to be affiliated with Mensa... Basically we did t-shirts and had some awesome parties... but all members were actually qualified for Mensa; none had IQs below 130 and most of us above 150. The name "Manse" is of course a lame anagram for "Mensa" but also a very funny male name often seen used for submissive somewhat effeminate husbands from the upper class.
As long as the bad guys have nukes (or is in the process of getting them), we need to have them as well, and enough to make sure that nobody gets any bright ideas in their megalomaniacal madness of penile erectile superiority.
Even Windows (which has a pretty crap set-up IMHO) can be tweaked to behave time-wise with the right registry settings.
Sorry, but no. I struggled with my Windows 7 (64 bit) for a few days before giving up. Before that I made a Windows Vista behave flawlessly so I presumed the much better Windows was just as easy - nope. Time kept getting set exactly once and then the WT service would just hang. If forced to restart it would delete the configuration and revert to the defaults.
Googled, found a Windows version of ntpd, downloaded and installed it (took less than 2 minutes) and now the time is always set. It works just as well as it does on my Debian GNU/Linux server. I disabled the WT service of course.
I block all ads as I've done for the past decades. I currently use AdBlock and NoScript and they efficiently kill just about all ads.
If you want to finance your website, use subscriptions, pay-per-view or proceeds from the sale of physical merchandise. If you want a free section, adjust the fees accordingly. Yes, it's that simple.
Instead of focusing on the rather innocent little exclamation you should be more worried about the fact that even though things like Tor, VPNs, hired proxies and the like are held up as solutions and workarounds for almost all these internet blocks, we have here, in Iran, a real world demonstration that such things are useless against deep packet inspection and filtering.
Sure, but we're not there yet. The blocking in Iran is nothing more than basic port and protocol blocks; just block 1723/tcp and protocol 47 (gre) and you've blocked PPTP VPN, the most common form of VPN. IPsec VPN can be blocked by blocking 500/udp and protocol esp+ah. The more rare SSL-only form of VPN is probably blocked using blacklists as no form of deep packet inspection can see inside encrypted packets and there's no other way to find out if it's a regular SSL connection or something like VPN. But then maybe they simply block all use of SSL across the borders.
Such techniques will be used in the States, in Canada, in the UK, anywhere, either under the direction of the intellectual property owners or to protect us all from terrorism and any attempt to use such techniques or others to circumvent the blocks to certain types of files or information will be considered a criminal act.
For smaller files, encryption of the files within other files can be used but for larger files, streams or participation in open conversations of prohibited subjects will become harder over time.
I agree with you there.
They are basically attempting to do what the extremely conservative Islamists are doing already - eradicating women from public view. No women used for advertising and no women in the news.
It will only be a matter of time before they want women to be Photoshopped from news pictures as well. Or they will have to wear burkas or similar. There are actually places where they'll even remove a female head of state in pictures from an official visit. I remember a picture with the White House staff following the Seal Team Six killing Osama Bin Laden. There were two female in the original picture, including Hilary Clinton, and they were both removed from both the picture and the caption.
Some might say that they just want the women to be more conservatively dressed but that's a slippery slope ending in burkas.
Oh, and double standards are rampant in that community - an ad featuring the silhouette of a naked woman behind a semi-opaque glass wall caused an uproar but a similar ad featuring a naked man caused absolutely nothing. The two ads are here (NSFW): http://www.denstoredanske.dk/@api/deki/files/25654/=463791.501.jpg?size=webview - it's only a naked women that's pornography... despite both pictures featuring full frontal nudity, including genitals.
free things don't require a credit card, unless its *only* to verify that you're over 18, then its totally trustworthy!
Actually a lot of online 'free sampling' do require a credit card. You sign up for something that is initially free (for a limited time) and unless you opt out before this period ends, you are billed for the first period (usually a month) but recurring. So if you want to pay nothing, just opt out in time. If not, it turns into a regular subscription. This is a fair construct that rely on people being too lazy to opt out (in time).
Most (all?) hot peppers, especially the chili family, are overloaded with vitamin C as well, so they're good for you in several ways.
Got to agree with you there - mostly. I eat grains for breakfast, rolled oatmeal to be precise, with low-fat milk. Lunch and dinner are either green salad or one serving of a regular hot meal (can be anything), i.e. one of each either for lunch or dinner - oatmeal, salad and hot meal or oatmeal, hot meal and salad.
I've lost 55 kg (~120 pounds) over the past 14 months so it really works.
If they count on stopping terrorists by security (theater) checks and the airports and similar, it's too late - way too late. If a terrorist actually gets to the security check at the airport it's a major fail. As no terrorist is ready to do his evil deed in just a few days. the intelligence services have plenty of time to spot and verify each potential terrorist and stop his activities a long time before he even plans to go to the airport. Sure, the security check at the airport might prevent a specific attack, but if you focus on the persons instead of the tools, you might catch all of the terrorists and their leader instead of just the one at the airport.
I recommend dropping almost everything at the airport and use all the resources out in the country, keeping close tabs on the terrorist nests, i.e. meetings/events relating to right- or left wing extremists, militias, religious cults including Islamist mosques and so on. I cannot think of any terrorist not affiliated with an organization already known to be suspect at the time of discovery. Use the resources to identify those people most likely to become 'active' and then stop them. I know the FBI has had a lot of success providing these people with fake explosives and so on, thus both identifying them and their intentions with certainty and prevent any risk to the general public.
I find it funny that they allow golf clubs, but a maximum of 2.
Wouldn't 2 clubs be enough for whatever golf-like game you can play in the aisles?
Too bad... It would have been a perfect provocation against the MAFIAA and their sock puppets in Washington DC...
Despite the negative sides mentioned, there's also some good. It is unlikely in the extreme that the MAFIAA will ever get their way with the authorities in North Korea, meaning that it quickly could become the heaven for torrent trackers and similar. Besides, anything that offends or annoys the western world, especially in the US, will get a lot of support from the North Korean government, maybe even a nuclear defense! :)
Sure, countries like the UK, The Netherlands and Denmark will continue their stupid DNS-blocking of TPB while countless proxy- and VPN-services continue to provide avenues of circumvention, and with the site itself being 'untouchable' I'd say it's GAME OVER for the MAFIAA. Their only option will be to stop their war on their customers and rethink their business models - or die.
Actually it's just two sentences, first a justification and then the content.
Because: "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state"
Therefore: "the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed"
Simple and not that hard to understand - unless you deliberately try to curb or indeed infringe on this right.
One can argue that RPGs, fully automatic assault rifles and nukes are not the arms intended to be 'arms'. I would concur with that. It might be fun hunting deer with RPGs or a 50-calibre Gatling gun but not very useful. And nukes are rather stupid as a means of defending your home...
I'd say that regular handguns and similar rifles are the arms intended and they should be freely available to anyone not a convicted felon or mental patient. All the heavier weapons should also be available to anyone with a proper license or who is a member of a licensed group (a militia for instance).