The ACLU has often been criticized for "ignoring the Second Amendment" and refusing to fight for the individual's right to own a gun or other weapons. This issue, however, has not been ignored by the ACLU. The national board has in fact debated and discussed the civil liberties aspects of the Second Amendment many times.
We believe that the constitutional right to bear arms is primarily a collective one, intended mainly to protect the right of the states to maintain militias to assure their own freedom and security against the central government. In today's world, that idea is somewhat anachronistic and in any case would require weapons much more powerful than handguns or hunting rifles. The ACLU therefore believes that the Second Amendment does not confer an unlimited right upon individuals to own guns or other weapons nor does it prohibit reasonable regulation of gun ownership, such as licensing and registration.
This expedition has about as much credibility as an expedition to the North Pole for Santa's Workshop.
On the other hand, *MY* religion is the 100% truth. My cat, Queen Maeve, created the universe with the appearance of age Last Thursday. You can wave your "scientific method" or "Bible" around but it won't change the Truth and I dare anyone to prove she didn't.
Absent a rebuttal, you must convert to the Church of Last Thursday or face an afterlife in the Eternal Litterbox!
The poor are generally hit the hardest by sales taxes as opposed to income taxes. If we switched to sales tax over income tax, it would be yet another tax cut for the wealthy and the poorest would pay a larger share of their income.
Studies have shown that in states with sales taxes and the like, the poor pay a larger % of their income compared to rich people.
Sometimes, I'm ashamed of my fellow countrymen. Like the majority who *still* believe that Iraq was involved in 9/11.
they've just demonstrated that it only takes a couple bombs on a train track to derail the entire government.
The bombs didn't kick PP out of office, PP trying to pin the blame on ETA instead of Al Quaeda(despite all evidence to the contrary) and using 3/11 for political gain is what handed victory to the PSOE. PP was already slipping in the polls leading up to the attacks; Aznar's shameful behaviour turned it into a rout.
Maybe if you had been paying attention instead of watching Fox News, you'd realize that.
Spain wants to withdraw their armed forces because they had a train bombed?
Spain wants to withdraw their armed forces because Iraq is a clusterfnck and their people never wanted to be there in the first place.
Again, maybe if you had been paying attention instead of watching Fox News, you'd realize that.
In Iraq the battle was possible without having to play defense
Iraq went easy because the CIA bought off Hussein's top generals and got them to order their troops to standdown. Of course, since we never actually defeated and disarmed Iraq's army... we're experiencing technical difficulties now with the populace.
If you aren't being targetted for attacks
Other countries have always had a problem with terrorism. The US just joined the club.
if you aren't providing money
European gov'ts, in general, allocate a greater % of their budget towards foreign aid than the United States.
and if you aren't powerful enough to have an effect with your own sanctions against us
I guess you missed the recent round of Trade War Chicken that Bush lost against the EU?
Our government was hit directly, the difference is we hit back.
Yeah, we hit back, let the perp get away and then started hitting the neighbour with whom we had a personal score to settle and who had nothing to do with the actual crime.
Please do not forget that it was Gore's team that wanted to exclude hundreds of absentee ballots from members of our armed services who were serving overseas. That is a real, true and deliberate attempt to disenfranchise voters.
You mean the absentee ballots that were postmarked *after* the election? Or possibly the duplicate ballots? Or were you referring to the ballots that weren't signed?
At the time I wondered if their selling themselves to the highester bidder a few months later was related.
Ehhh. Not really. Everyone had known for some time that the company was going to be sold. That's partly why I left the company last summer. No use staying on a sinking ship, especially if you're going to be one of the last to be laid off, and I had better things to do.
It's a total short-timers attitude there now. People leave the office at 5pm or earlier every day. Half of my team in HR is gone however(they'd been laid off last year).
The article pretty much seems to ignore its premise.
The fact that TOEE is bug-ridden doesn't say *anything* about the suitability of adapting Pen N Paper RPGs to the computer. It just means there were sloppy programmers.
DVDs are extremely cheap to *reproduce* but they have a high cost upfront to *produce*.
Creating high-quality transfers, assembling extras and putting it together into one shiny package costs a heckuva lot more money than shoving a movie onto a VHS tape.
After that though, you're right. They can churn out many many more DVDs compared to VHS tapes once the master has been created.
I'm surprised we see as many... experimental DVDs out there as we do given the upfront costs involved.
Typically, readers will be complaining about how the members of the RIAA rarely pay its fair share to music artists.
How is this any different than if they were an enourmously succesful rock band? If band members wanted more than just a small percentage of what their publisher was making, would slashdotters tell them to "Get over it!" and "Get used to it!"
With sites that list multiple products on one page.
I've been searching for video cards on Froogle, to get an idea of price ranges. Several times Froogle has returned a top of the line video card for a couple hundred dollars less than everyone else.
But when I click on the page, it's really the same price. Froogle was just getting confused about another video card listed on the page. It just took the first price on the page, I think.
Because it's SOOOO easy to get professional in other countries without citizenship.
I consider myself fortunate that I have dual EU-US citizenship. It means that if the US descends into poverty, I can at least get the hell out of here and simply *be able* to get work elsewhere.
When you stop looking for work, you're no longer counted as 'unemployed'.
I love it when people claim 'The US has an unemployment rate that's the envy of the world.' No we don't. The rest of the world just reports it in an honest manner.
Arch villans. The Dr must be pitted against a worthy advisory, the Master. He really was very evil, in fact the Master invented evil. The chaps in the shiny suits and trash cans on wheels never really scared me at all, the Master on the other hand was equipped with a TARDIS that actually worked and all the knowledge of a time lord. The Master was Moriarty to The Doctors Sherlock Holmes, and or course he wanted to rule the known universe.
In Scream of the Shalka, the Master was a robot and the Doctor's travelling companion. He couldn't leave the TARDIS. The Doctor apparently gave him new life in gratitude for helping him through a difficult time...
Slashdot Mirror
Enron sues the United States Government for damages.
Claims they wouldn't have gone bankrupt if not for government interference in their accounting.
Why don't you take the them to task for ignoring the other 9/10ths of the Bill of Rights? Seems like the ACLU's up about 8 ammendments on them.
You were saying?
The ACLU has often been criticized for "ignoring the Second Amendment" and refusing to fight for the individual's right to own a gun or other weapons. This issue, however, has not been ignored by the ACLU. The national board has in fact debated and discussed the civil liberties aspects of the Second Amendment many times.
We believe that the constitutional right to bear arms is primarily a collective one, intended mainly to protect the right of the states to maintain militias to assure their own freedom and security against the central government. In today's world, that idea is somewhat anachronistic and in any case would require weapons much more powerful than handguns or hunting rifles. The ACLU therefore believes that the Second Amendment does not confer an unlimited right upon individuals to own guns or other weapons nor does it prohibit reasonable regulation of gun ownership, such as licensing and registration.
PATRIOT Act supresses YOU!
Oh wait...
I doubt an SUV-sized vehicle with a few kilos of deuterium (enmeshed in palladium) could do anything close to even what that did.
that any kind of DRM could stop a nuclear explosion?
This expedition has about as much credibility as an expedition to the North Pole for Santa's Workshop.
On the other hand, *MY* religion is the 100% truth. My cat, Queen Maeve, created the universe with the appearance of age Last Thursday. You can wave your "scientific method" or "Bible" around but it won't change the Truth and I dare anyone to prove she didn't.
Absent a rebuttal, you must convert to the Church of Last Thursday or face an afterlife in the Eternal Litterbox!
Head on over to the Talk.Origins FAQ archive.
The poor are generally hit the hardest by sales taxes as opposed to income taxes. If we switched to sales tax over income tax, it would be yet another tax cut for the wealthy and the poorest would pay a larger share of their income.
Studies have shown that in states with sales taxes and the like, the poor pay a larger % of their income compared to rich people.
Sometimes, I'm ashamed of my fellow countrymen. Like the majority who *still* believe that Iraq was involved in 9/11.
they've just demonstrated that it only takes a couple bombs on a train track to derail the entire government.
The bombs didn't kick PP out of office, PP trying to pin the blame on ETA instead of Al Quaeda(despite all evidence to the contrary) and using 3/11 for political gain is what handed victory to the PSOE. PP was already slipping in the polls leading up to the attacks; Aznar's shameful behaviour turned it into a rout.
Maybe if you had been paying attention instead of watching Fox News, you'd realize that.
Spain wants to withdraw their armed forces because they had a train bombed?
Spain wants to withdraw their armed forces because Iraq is a clusterfnck and their people never wanted to be there in the first place.
Again, maybe if you had been paying attention instead of watching Fox News, you'd realize that.
In Iraq the battle was possible without having to play defense
Iraq went easy because the CIA bought off Hussein's top generals and got them to order their troops to standdown. Of course, since we never actually defeated and disarmed Iraq's army... we're experiencing technical difficulties now with the populace.
If you aren't being targetted for attacks
Other countries have always had a problem with terrorism. The US just joined the club.
if you aren't providing money
European gov'ts, in general, allocate a greater % of their budget towards foreign aid than the United States.
and if you aren't powerful enough to have an effect with your own sanctions against us
I guess you missed the recent round of Trade War Chicken that Bush lost against the EU?
Our government was hit directly, the difference is we hit back.
Yeah, we hit back, let the perp get away and then started hitting the neighbour with whom we had a personal score to settle and who had nothing to do with the actual crime.
Tivo Basic
It's even been out for almost a year.
I believe they have to issue you one.
Please do not forget that it was Gore's team that wanted to exclude hundreds of absentee ballots from members of our armed services who were serving overseas. That is a real, true and deliberate attempt to disenfranchise voters.
You mean the absentee ballots that were postmarked *after* the election? Or possibly the duplicate ballots? Or were you referring to the ballots that weren't signed?
Or did Rush forget to mention those details?
International observers *are* going to be monitoring a few counties in Florida this year.
It's just for that one zip code. Try 44198 and you'll get different figures.
Sucks that it doesn't seem to do entire cities at once.
At the time I wondered if their selling themselves to the highester bidder a few months later was related.
Ehhh. Not really. Everyone had known for some time that the company was going to be sold. That's partly why I left the company last summer. No use staying on a sinking ship, especially if you're going to be one of the last to be laid off, and I had better things to do.
It's a total short-timers attitude there now. People leave the office at 5pm or earlier every day. Half of my team in HR is gone however(they'd been laid off last year).
It's always about making *science* and *math* kid-friendly.
Has anyone ever tried making the *kids* science and math-friendly?
You can try and figure out your cell phone company's new name!
AT&T Cingular?
Cingular Wireless?
AT&Cingular?
Or more likely, given that Cingular bought AWS...
Cingular's bitch
The article pretty much seems to ignore its premise.
The fact that TOEE is bug-ridden doesn't say *anything* about the suitability of adapting Pen N Paper RPGs to the computer. It just means there were sloppy programmers.
DVDs are extremely cheap to *reproduce* but they have a high cost upfront to *produce*.
Creating high-quality transfers, assembling extras and putting it together into one shiny package costs a heckuva lot more money than shoving a movie onto a VHS tape.
After that though, you're right. They can churn out many many more DVDs compared to VHS tapes once the master has been created.
I'm surprised we see as many... experimental DVDs out there as we do given the upfront costs involved.
looking at the responses.
Typically, readers will be complaining about how the members of the RIAA rarely pay its fair share to music artists.
How is this any different than if they were an enourmously succesful rock band? If band members wanted more than just a small percentage of what their publisher was making, would slashdotters tell them to "Get over it!" and "Get used to it!"
With sites that list multiple products on one page.
I've been searching for video cards on Froogle, to get an idea of price ranges. Several times Froogle has returned a top of the line video card for a couple hundred dollars less than everyone else.
But when I click on the page, it's really the same price. Froogle was just getting confused about another video card listed on the page. It just took the first price on the page, I think.
"You call *that* a lawsuit? Now *this*, *this* is a lawsuit!"
So why don't you move to Russia?
Because it's SOOOO easy to get professional in other countries without citizenship.
I consider myself fortunate that I have dual EU-US citizenship. It means that if the US descends into poverty, I can at least get the hell out of here and simply *be able* to get work elsewhere.
When you stop looking for work, you're no longer counted as 'unemployed'.
I love it when people claim 'The US has an unemployment rate that's the envy of the world.' No we don't. The rest of the world just reports it in an honest manner.
Arch villans. The Dr must be pitted against a worthy advisory, the Master. He really was very evil, in fact the Master invented evil. The chaps in the shiny suits and trash cans on wheels never really scared me at all, the Master on the other hand was equipped with a TARDIS that actually worked and all the knowledge of a time lord. The Master was Moriarty to The Doctors Sherlock Holmes, and or course he wanted to rule the known universe.
In Scream of the Shalka, the Master was a robot and the Doctor's travelling companion. He couldn't leave the TARDIS. The Doctor apparently gave him new life in gratitude for helping him through a difficult time...