It also says "well regulated Militia": and where are those now? Are you part of a militia? If so, who is your commanding officer and your chain of command?
Do we have to bring this up every fucking time? Well regulated, in the speech of 1789, does not mean the same thing it does now. Regardless, the Supreme Court ruled that comma seperated the people from the militia part. The Federalist Papers back up this interpretation as being the only possible correct interpretation. That was the whole point of the Papers.. They were the Cliff Notes, of their time, to the Document.
The people have the right to form militias.. and they have the right to bear arms.. They can bear those arms privately or they can bear them in a militia.. Their choice.. End of story..
If there was any possibly chance the left could overturn or repeal the 2nd amendment with another amendment, they'd have tried by now.. Instead they are working on it by attrition.. Chip away a little bit here and a little bit there.
The popular vote is meaningless. It's as valid as fairy dust. It has zero legal force.. It's side data if anything. The College is mentioned in the Constitution, the popular vote is not. So what's your point?
Hate to break it to ya pal, but you can't claim to be a sword defender of the Constitution if you're going to ignore it or cherry pick. You seem to be the exact opposite of a defender of the document.
The words "oversight, screening, and training" appear exactly zero times in the 2nd amendment.
How much more clear does it need to be?
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
shall not be infringed. I don't seen any qualifications for oversight, screening, and training. In fact, I'd happily argue that the "oversight" bit was 180 deg out from what the framers intended. There is no way in hell they would have been fine with the government knowing exactly how many, and what type of, guns you owned and where they were at any given time.
The whole point of the 2nd amendment was as a bulwark, or safety, against a government gone tyrannical. Jefferson mentions tyranny several times in his writings. The man was absolutely terrified that our own government would immediately begin heading down the wrong path and he, and the other framers, wanted the people to be armed to the teeth. He was hardly wrong either.. Didn't take very long for the government to pass the alien and sedition acts, which were so blatantly unconstitutional that it was horrifying. 10 years... That's how long it took before the government, that had just been formed, and before the ink was dry on the 1st amendment, tried to make it a crime to be critical of the government. Ten fucking years.....
I'd prefer that same government have a minimal, as possible, role in firearm oversight. I'd also prefer it if they have horribly inaccurate intelligence regarding who owns what and where it is. Because fuck them. They don't have a right to know. Do they have a want? Sure.. Do they have a need? Maybe.. But them's ain't rights... I want pussy.. I need pussy... Don't mean I have a right to any... Fuck them
Who cares? It's already been ruled on by the 9th Circuit Court. Encryption is free speech and the 1st Amendment applies. The government cannot ban/regulate the export of the code. There are a few exceptions that are permitted. For example in regards to embargoed countries. But in general you can export the code. After this ruling the Feds got in a tiff and were still banning the export of complied code, on the grounds it's not human readable and thus not speech. Phil Zimmerman (of PGP) began printing the code out in books. The Feds eventually gave up when it became clear they were wasting their time.
I always kinda viewed it like the Berlin Airlift.. Once the Soviets realized we'd keep flying those planes in, they, and the rest of the world, knew Stalin had lost. To continue their efforts would be viewed, by everyone, as them being petty. Similarly, once the Feds realized they had lost they just went home.
All codes, even low level noforn and secret level stuff, are regularly changed. Some are done daily.. Others weekly. Well, at least in the DoD.
I can't even imagine that the nuclear stuff isn't rotated far more often than NOFORN. I wouldn't be surprised if it's some sorta deal like I've seen done at some Fortune 500 companies where you get a key fob with a password that changes every 30 seconds or so. I'm sure the nuke crap would be far more sophisticated.
You have no privacy. You're being watched, through walls, by radar
Okay....... You know of this special new radar that can see through walls, eh? Did we get it from The Aliens?
I think you meant infrared... Radar doesn't see through walls. Well, at least not the kind that would be deployed to watch millions of people. If you focus the beam tight enough, there are types that can penetrate a wall, but certainly not over hundreds of miles and the only way this could possibly be occurring would be via satellite. But, of course, it's not and you're a loony.
The FBI director isn't elected. In fact, he and the entire FBI and the rest of the intelligence community do not answer to the elected government.
You don't think the director of the FBI answers to the President? The President is head of the Executive branch. The FBI is part of the Department of Justice. The Department of Justice is in the Executive branch. He most certainly does answer to the President.
The President has held the power to appoint and dismiss the director of the FBI at his or her discretion since 1968.
The current nomination and confirmation process for the FBI director was created by an amendment to the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968. The amendment established that the position of FBI director was to be nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate.
Moreover, Congress has the power to impeach and remove him from office (a constitutional power they hold over any civil officer). That makes him answerable to two branches of the government.....
They started collecting phone metadata on index cards filled out by the operators that connected the calls. Granting that was only on people that were suspicious or knew a foreigner.
In the 80s, there was a 'geek circles rumor' that the NSA knew every phone number you had ever made a pattern of calling, they had used that to map all the people you knew. It was at the time the 'world's largest database'. Turns out it was a true rumor.
And that's my point. It went from a manual operation, where you had to actually allocate human resources, to an automated system because nobody freaked out and voted the morons out of office.
Freedom isn't free. It never has been. But act like you care and people assume you're some sort of loony.
Look, our country isn't in terrible shape today.. Some things could be better, some could be worse.. But the slide to authoritarianism and socialism doesn't happen over night.. It's a slow steady process where your rights are chipped away at.. Take Hugo Chavez.. The man was freely elected. He promised the Venezuelans all sorts of benefits and happiness if they just gave him a little more power.. And then a little more.. And finally he had total power.. Venezuela went from being one of the richest countries in South America to one of the poorest (I think only Paraguay is poorer). 100% of that transition, from rich to poor, happened under the dictator Chavez. Nobody else (besides the voters/citizens) is to blame.
I'm a Trump supporter, but the level of power any President (including him) has is frightening.. What's great when your party is in power isn't so great when the opposition is in power. We weren't set up this way.. The President was supposed to be a relatively (compared to today) weak position.. His job was to execute the laws.. Now we have Presidents saying "I'm not going to enforce this whole law" or variations of "I'm only going to enforce and apply certain provisions". Well, if the President can do that, then why the fuck do we even have a Congress?
So yeah, when I see my fellow Americans heading down the path (albeit more slowly) I am concerned.
What it is about the American mindset where we have thoughts like "Well, we've never been a dictatorship so it can't happen". The fuck it can't.......
Roosevelt had to ask Congress to declar war on Japan, and we'd just had the livin' shit bombed out of our Pacific Fleet... Now we have Presidents that don't even bother.... It was not supposed to be like this. I prefer the collective voice of our elected officials to drag us into war.. Not the whims of one man (regardless of if he's a Democrat or a Republican). That is too much power for one man.
Well, it's apparent that your world view is not correct for the rest of the world. It may be absolutely accurate in your circle of acquaintances, but apparently people, in general, like Fortnite more than Netflix. I don't use either, but that doesn't lead me to believe that nobody else does.. They're both pretty successful companies.
The French have fast trains. The US does not......
Yeah, but to be fair, if the Islamists over here ever decided to go all loopy and form rape gangs (like seems to be fairly common in Europe these last few years) we can shoot them...... That's gotta count for something..
We do not want to become like the EU. Mr. President, you have the nation's support.
Yeah.. uh.. I'm a conservative, but I'd like to know why you think you get to make a blatant statement like that? There are a few people in this country who get the privilege of speaking for the nation.. President, Vice President, Speaker of the House, President Pro Tempore of the Senate (Congress is a coequal branch), and maybe Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (again, another coequal branch).
You get to speak for yourself and maybe your family.. If you're the Mayor of some city, I suppose you could speak for your city... But what the hell? How offensive would you find it if some liberal said "On Behalf of the US, I'd like to say we all love socialism".. Yeah... the level of ego to elevate yourself to that position..... I didn't vote for you.. nobody did... Do you get to speak from royal birthright?
Not a lawyer but I know how to use Google. How you came to the conclusion that copyright is not a criminal offense is beyond me, when we all have seen warez pirates sent to prison.....
No it's not.. Nothing in politics is ever zero and the fact that Brooklyn elected a goddamn communist to sit in Congress is worrying.. Not by itself, but if this becomes a trend....
In the 1950s, if you had suggested we'd get to a point where our government would be spying on us (NSA metadata, et al) by the millions, you'd have been laughed out of the room.
Freedom requires vigilance. If for no other reason than humans are lazy and will always try to take the shortcut.. I'm surprised the American people have tolerated asset forfeiture.. Blatantly unconstitutional, yet absolutely pervasive..If they'll tolerate that, what won't they tolerate?
Whatever, you're the asshole who brought up breaking into my home. I simply stated that would be a bad idea. I seriously doubt you could hit the broad side of a barn with a shotgun.
What about the mother that steals food for her starving baby FROM another poor mother with a starving baby... Justify that one..
Do I understand it? Yeah.. Would I suggest a mother be sent to prison for it? No... Does that mean it's totally justifiable? Maybe and maybe not.. Maybe in your scenario and maybe not in mine... But regardless, starving mothers are a huge jump from stealing pencils because you don't WANT to pay for them.
Maybe, maybe not. You have no proof they would have. What we do know is Photoshop was one of the most widely pirated software titles out there. Probably (guessing) beaten by pirate installs of Windows.
Large corporations are slow to change. They have inertia.. They tend to react rather than be proactive. It's more likely (absent any facts) that Adobe would have continued with their business model if there had been less pirating.. There would have been no pressure to change... Why move to subscriptions if people were buying the software in the first place?
Oh.. I know.. All corporations are evil and Adobe is a bunch of assholes for wanting to be paid.. But rather than not pirate it and use a free alternative like GIMP.. Oh, yeah GIMP sucks in comparison so lets justify stealing Photoshop.. There, saved you the bother of replying.
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It also says "well regulated Militia": and where are those now? Are you part of a militia? If so, who is your commanding officer and your chain of command?
Do we have to bring this up every fucking time? Well regulated, in the speech of 1789, does not mean the same thing it does now. Regardless, the Supreme Court ruled that comma seperated the people from the militia part. The Federalist Papers back up this interpretation as being the only possible correct interpretation. That was the whole point of the Papers.. They were the Cliff Notes, of their time, to the Document.
The people have the right to form militias.. and they have the right to bear arms.. They can bear those arms privately or they can bear them in a militia.. Their choice.. End of story..
If there was any possibly chance the left could overturn or repeal the 2nd amendment with another amendment, they'd have tried by now.. Instead they are working on it by attrition.. Chip away a little bit here and a little bit there.
The popular vote is meaningless. It's as valid as fairy dust. It has zero legal force.. It's side data if anything. The College is mentioned in the Constitution, the popular vote is not. So what's your point?
Hate to break it to ya pal, but you can't claim to be a sword defender of the Constitution if you're going to ignore it or cherry pick. You seem to be the exact opposite of a defender of the document.
The words "oversight, screening, and training" appear exactly zero times in the 2nd amendment.
How much more clear does it need to be?
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
shall not be infringed. I don't seen any qualifications for oversight, screening, and training. In fact, I'd happily argue that the "oversight" bit was 180 deg out from what the framers intended. There is no way in hell they would have been fine with the government knowing exactly how many, and what type of, guns you owned and where they were at any given time.
The whole point of the 2nd amendment was as a bulwark, or safety, against a government gone tyrannical. Jefferson mentions tyranny several times in his writings. The man was absolutely terrified that our own government would immediately begin heading down the wrong path and he, and the other framers, wanted the people to be armed to the teeth. He was hardly wrong either.. Didn't take very long for the government to pass the alien and sedition acts, which were so blatantly unconstitutional that it was horrifying. 10 years... That's how long it took before the government, that had just been formed, and before the ink was dry on the 1st amendment, tried to make it a crime to be critical of the government. Ten fucking years.....
I'd prefer that same government have a minimal, as possible, role in firearm oversight. I'd also prefer it if they have horribly inaccurate intelligence regarding who owns what and where it is. Because fuck them. They don't have a right to know. Do they have a want? Sure.. Do they have a need? Maybe.. But them's ain't rights... I want pussy.. I need pussy... Don't mean I have a right to any... Fuck them
Who cares? It's already been ruled on by the 9th Circuit Court. Encryption is free speech and the 1st Amendment applies. The government cannot ban/regulate the export of the code. There are a few exceptions that are permitted. For example in regards to embargoed countries. But in general you can export the code. After this ruling the Feds got in a tiff and were still banning the export of complied code, on the grounds it's not human readable and thus not speech. Phil Zimmerman (of PGP) began printing the code out in books. The Feds eventually gave up when it became clear they were wasting their time.
I always kinda viewed it like the Berlin Airlift.. Once the Soviets realized we'd keep flying those planes in, they, and the rest of the world, knew Stalin had lost. To continue their efforts would be viewed, by everyone, as them being petty. Similarly, once the Feds realized they had lost they just went home.
All codes, even low level noforn and secret level stuff, are regularly changed. Some are done daily.. Others weekly. Well, at least in the DoD.
I can't even imagine that the nuclear stuff isn't rotated far more often than NOFORN. I wouldn't be surprised if it's some sorta deal like I've seen done at some Fortune 500 companies where you get a key fob with a password that changes every 30 seconds or so. I'm sure the nuke crap would be far more sophisticated.
Jesus F'ing Christ.. You are delusional...
You have no privacy. You're being watched, through walls, by radar
Okay....... You know of this special new radar that can see through walls, eh? Did we get it from The Aliens?
I think you meant infrared... Radar doesn't see through walls. Well, at least not the kind that would be deployed to watch millions of people. If you focus the beam tight enough, there are types that can penetrate a wall, but certainly not over hundreds of miles and the only way this could possibly be occurring would be via satellite. But, of course, it's not and you're a loony.
The FBI director isn't elected. In fact, he and the entire FBI and the rest of the intelligence community do not answer to the elected government.
You don't think the director of the FBI answers to the President? The President is head of the Executive branch. The FBI is part of the Department of Justice. The Department of Justice is in the Executive branch. He most certainly does answer to the President.
The President has held the power to appoint and dismiss the director of the FBI at his or her discretion since 1968.
The current nomination and confirmation process for the FBI director was created by an amendment to the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968. The amendment established that the position of FBI director was to be nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate.
Moreover, Congress has the power to impeach and remove him from office (a constitutional power they hold over any civil officer). That makes him answerable to two branches of the government.....
What the actual fuck? You think you have to use javascript to have non-static pages? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
They started collecting phone metadata on index cards filled out by the operators that connected the calls. Granting that was only on people that were suspicious or knew a foreigner.
In the 80s, there was a 'geek circles rumor' that the NSA knew every phone number you had ever made a pattern of calling, they had used that to map all the people you knew. It was at the time the 'world's largest database'. Turns out it was a true rumor.
And that's my point. It went from a manual operation, where you had to actually allocate human resources, to an automated system because nobody freaked out and voted the morons out of office.
Freedom isn't free. It never has been. But act like you care and people assume you're some sort of loony.
Look, our country isn't in terrible shape today.. Some things could be better, some could be worse.. But the slide to authoritarianism and socialism doesn't happen over night.. It's a slow steady process where your rights are chipped away at.. Take Hugo Chavez.. The man was freely elected. He promised the Venezuelans all sorts of benefits and happiness if they just gave him a little more power.. And then a little more.. And finally he had total power.. Venezuela went from being one of the richest countries in South America to one of the poorest (I think only Paraguay is poorer). 100% of that transition, from rich to poor, happened under the dictator Chavez. Nobody else (besides the voters/citizens) is to blame.
I'm a Trump supporter, but the level of power any President (including him) has is frightening.. What's great when your party is in power isn't so great when the opposition is in power. We weren't set up this way.. The President was supposed to be a relatively (compared to today) weak position.. His job was to execute the laws.. Now we have Presidents saying "I'm not going to enforce this whole law" or variations of "I'm only going to enforce and apply certain provisions". Well, if the President can do that, then why the fuck do we even have a Congress?
So yeah, when I see my fellow Americans heading down the path (albeit more slowly) I am concerned.
What it is about the American mindset where we have thoughts like "Well, we've never been a dictatorship so it can't happen". The fuck it can't.......
Roosevelt had to ask Congress to declar war on Japan, and we'd just had the livin' shit bombed out of our Pacific Fleet... Now we have Presidents that don't even bother.... It was not supposed to be like this. I prefer the collective voice of our elected officials to drag us into war.. Not the whims of one man (regardless of if he's a Democrat or a Republican). That is too much power for one man.
Well, it's apparent that your world view is not correct for the rest of the world. It may be absolutely accurate in your circle of acquaintances, but apparently people, in general, like Fortnite more than Netflix. I don't use either, but that doesn't lead me to believe that nobody else does.. They're both pretty successful companies.
The French have fast trains. The US does not......
Yeah, but to be fair, if the Islamists over here ever decided to go all loopy and form rape gangs (like seems to be fairly common in Europe these last few years) we can shoot them...... That's gotta count for something..
better stop using English which was invented by the English.
But mostly spoken by Indians. There are more people in India who speak English than the rest of the primary English speakers, worldwide, combined..
We do not want to become like the EU. Mr. President, you have the nation's support.
Yeah.. uh.. I'm a conservative, but I'd like to know why you think you get to make a blatant statement like that? There are a few people in this country who get the privilege of speaking for the nation.. President, Vice President, Speaker of the House, President Pro Tempore of the Senate (Congress is a coequal branch), and maybe Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (again, another coequal branch).
You get to speak for yourself and maybe your family.. If you're the Mayor of some city, I suppose you could speak for your city... But what the hell? How offensive would you find it if some liberal said "On Behalf of the US, I'd like to say we all love socialism".. Yeah... the level of ego to elevate yourself to that position..... I didn't vote for you.. nobody did... Do you get to speak from royal birthright?
you took time out of building straw men to link me a video? how nice...
Not a lawyer but I know how to use Google. How you came to the conclusion that copyright is not a criminal offense is beyond me, when we all have seen warez pirates sent to prison.....
No it's not.. Nothing in politics is ever zero and the fact that Brooklyn elected a goddamn communist to sit in Congress is worrying.. Not by itself, but if this becomes a trend....
In the 1950s, if you had suggested we'd get to a point where our government would be spying on us (NSA metadata, et al) by the millions, you'd have been laughed out of the room.
Freedom requires vigilance. If for no other reason than humans are lazy and will always try to take the shortcut.. I'm surprised the American people have tolerated asset forfeiture.. Blatantly unconstitutional, yet absolutely pervasive..If they'll tolerate that, what won't they tolerate?
Whatever, you're the asshole who brought up breaking into my home. I simply stated that would be a bad idea. I seriously doubt you could hit the broad side of a barn with a shotgun.
I concur with your statement.
Nope. But your tone suggests you're one of those pussies who didn't serve at all.
What about the mother that steals food for her starving baby FROM another poor mother with a starving baby... Justify that one..
Do I understand it? Yeah.. Would I suggest a mother be sent to prison for it? No... Does that mean it's totally justifiable? Maybe and maybe not.. Maybe in your scenario and maybe not in mine... But regardless, starving mothers are a huge jump from stealing pencils because you don't WANT to pay for them.
You'd be incorrect. I actually do worry about the entitled people who are dead set on turning this country into Venezuela. They never learn.
Maybe, maybe not. You have no proof they would have. What we do know is Photoshop was one of the most widely pirated software titles out there. Probably (guessing) beaten by pirate installs of Windows.
Large corporations are slow to change. They have inertia.. They tend to react rather than be proactive. It's more likely (absent any facts) that Adobe would have continued with their business model if there had been less pirating.. There would have been no pressure to change... Why move to subscriptions if people were buying the software in the first place?
Oh.. I know.. All corporations are evil and Adobe is a bunch of assholes for wanting to be paid.. But rather than not pirate it and use a free alternative like GIMP.. Oh, yeah GIMP sucks in comparison so lets justify stealing Photoshop.. There, saved you the bother of replying.
Now you're speculating. We have facts as presented by the article. Your statement has nothing to back it up beyond guesses.
Unlikely. I was trained by the Department of Defense.