There are laws in place that restrict where and when it is appropriate to restrict your constitutional right to bear arms. Just like there are times when laws restrict your right to free speech. I am not saying that it should be illegal to have a gun in New York but that for 99.99% of New Yorkers there is no good reason to do so.
Not sure how saying you shouldn't do something means that you aren't allowed to.
Again. I know people in the small towns of this country believe New York is this big scary city with muggers and rapists on every corner but if you've ever lived or worked there you would see that it just isn't the case anymore. This isn't the 70's. If you want to see a real dangerous city travel somewhere like Johannesburg, South Africa. There I endorse carrying a gun.
Now if you are somebody who routinely works late at night in the crappy parts of town then sure - bring a gun. But for 99.99% of New Yorkers there is never going to be a situation where a gun is going to help you. And that's based on real violent crime rates - not just pulling a number out of the air.
TSA can only make suggestions to local governments about train security. They don't control it. What is your support for them trying to "get to highways"?
I know you're from some redneck small town who thinks New York is full of big bad criminals like in the movies but I hate to tell you that New York is one of the safest cities in the country. Unless you are a car service driver in the South Bronx you aren't going to be anywhere near a criminal.
The Constitution says we have the right to bear arms - not that we should be bearing arms. I mean the Constitution gives me lots of rights that I don't necessarily use on a daily basis.
I agree that the TSA is out of control but I can't imagine any sane person thinks preventing guns on plans is a bad thing. Guns are for hunting - who are you hunting on a plane?
I can make it very easy for you to understand. Forget specifics - the general argument is this:
A very small percentage of the population has an inordinate and unfair control of the government, corporations, and the worldwide monetary system. This small percentage then reaps most of the benefits of their good decisions and bears almost none of the consequences of their bad decisions.
But you miss the point completely. Whoever THEY are and what they do doesn't have an impact on the reality. If they were protesting child slave labor and then wore clothes made by child slave labor does that reduce their argument at all? Child slave labor is still bad - it just makes them hypocrites.
But why even go there? I mean would you thought it to be quite the lark to visit a concentration camp in Hitler's Germany? I mean these are impoverished, repressed people - do they really need you gawking at them? Try to dig up some human decency somewhere.
You are quite the sadist aren't you. "They might imprison your guide and rape his family but think of the small talk". How about you visit South Korea instead. Or even go to Cuba.
Slang often has roots in real words so it invalidates your entire argument. Saying something is "cool" is slang when you don't mean that it really has a low temperature.
What gave you the impression that he wanted an unchanging English Language? I didn't see him expressing an opinion one way or the other - just explaining how these things come and go.
I find that only printers have the hardware/OS issues (and maybe scanners). Otherwise most USB based products now work on both PC and Mac.
People who use Office for their work do use a lot more of that functionality and they want to use the same product they are familiar with when at home.
Windows is hardly a monopoly and slowly loosing ground to Apple. They are at 86% - down from 90% in less than one year.
Admittedly Office is a near monopoly but that is only because nothing even comes close to it in functionality.
Not sure what hardware lock-in you are talking about.
I've tried Linux so many times as a desktop and been disappointed every time. Now that Windows is stable and secure I just don't see why I should try again. They had their shot.
I actually was referring to the rumor that Apple was actually going into the TV business - not just the add-on. I think the add-on business is the way to go. I already have 2 large hi-def TV's that I have no intention of replacing anytime soon.
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There are laws in place that restrict where and when it is appropriate to restrict your constitutional right to bear arms. Just like there are times when laws restrict your right to free speech. I am not saying that it should be illegal to have a gun in New York but that for 99.99% of New Yorkers there is no good reason to do so.
Not sure how saying you shouldn't do something means that you aren't allowed to.
Again. I know people in the small towns of this country believe New York is this big scary city with muggers and rapists on every corner but if you've ever lived or worked there you would see that it just isn't the case anymore. This isn't the 70's. If you want to see a real dangerous city travel somewhere like Johannesburg, South Africa. There I endorse carrying a gun.
Now if you are somebody who routinely works late at night in the crappy parts of town then sure - bring a gun. But for 99.99% of New Yorkers there is never going to be a situation where a gun is going to help you. And that's based on real violent crime rates - not just pulling a number out of the air.
So the NYPD covers upstate New York? That's news to me.
TSA can only make suggestions to local governments about train security. They don't control it. What is your support for them trying to "get to highways"?
I know you're from some redneck small town who thinks New York is full of big bad criminals like in the movies but I hate to tell you that New York is one of the safest cities in the country. Unless you are a car service driver in the South Bronx you aren't going to be anywhere near a criminal.
The Constitution says we have the right to bear arms - not that we should be bearing arms. I mean the Constitution gives me lots of rights that I don't necessarily use on a daily basis.
I agree that the TSA is out of control but I can't imagine any sane person thinks preventing guns on plans is a bad thing. Guns are for hunting - who are you hunting on a plane?
There is no legitimate reason for a normal person to carry a gun in New York.
$600K in cash sitting around and yet this still had a mortgage payment. I wonder what the house is worth that you wouldn't just pay it off.
I can make it very easy for you to understand. Forget specifics - the general argument is this:
A very small percentage of the population has an inordinate and unfair control of the government, corporations, and the worldwide monetary system. This small percentage then reaps most of the benefits of their good decisions and bears almost none of the consequences of their bad decisions.
Does that make sense?
But you miss the point completely. Whoever THEY are and what they do doesn't have an impact on the reality. If they were protesting child slave labor and then wore clothes made by child slave labor does that reduce their argument at all? Child slave labor is still bad - it just makes them hypocrites.
Gandhi came from a wealth family, too. Their background and (sometimes flawed) methods doesn't change the validity of their complaint.
But why even go there? I mean would you thought it to be quite the lark to visit a concentration camp in Hitler's Germany? I mean these are impoverished, repressed people - do they really need you gawking at them? Try to dig up some human decency somewhere.
You are quite the sadist aren't you. "They might imprison your guide and rape his family but think of the small talk". How about you visit South Korea instead. Or even go to Cuba.
If the website encourages violence against its citizens who are uprising then aren't they assisting?
Slang often has roots in real words so it invalidates your entire argument. Saying something is "cool" is slang when you don't mean that it really has a low temperature.
I think you'd be shocked how much of our language comes originally from slang or bastardization.
The technology is still here, and has in fact spread, and the language it has inspired is not gone, and has in fact spread.
MOOs and MUDs may still be here but it's a tough argument to say they've spread - unless you mean their descendants MMOs.
What gave you the impression that he wanted an unchanging English Language? I didn't see him expressing an opinion one way or the other - just explaining how these things come and go.
I find that only printers have the hardware/OS issues (and maybe scanners). Otherwise most USB based products now work on both PC and Mac.
People who use Office for their work do use a lot more of that functionality and they want to use the same product they are familiar with when at home.
Well actually it's only officially legal in California I think. The laws in other states are quite fuzzy and enforcement is even fuzzier.
Windows is hardly a monopoly and slowly loosing ground to Apple. They are at 86% - down from 90% in less than one year.
Admittedly Office is a near monopoly but that is only because nothing even comes close to it in functionality.
Not sure what hardware lock-in you are talking about.
I've tried Linux so many times as a desktop and been disappointed every time. Now that Windows is stable and secure I just don't see why I should try again. They had their shot.
I can do more what? Give me an example of a limitation I am facing?
I actually was referring to the rumor that Apple was actually going into the TV business - not just the add-on. I think the add-on business is the way to go. I already have 2 large hi-def TV's that I have no intention of replacing anytime soon.
Huh? What pile of money and what malware?