So that's a good solution It's unenforceable, by which you mean not everyone who does it is caught though some are caught, so let's just not try to stop it. That's like saying "rape is going to happen anyway we might as well make it legal"
No, it's more like saying "rape is going to happen anyway, so we might as well make penises legal".
If someone 3-D prints a gun, and takes it to the range, I have no problem (well, other than wanting to be at a different range that day).
I DO have a problem if he uses it to rob a store or kill someone. The same problem I have if he buys a gun at a gun shop and then uses it to rob a store or kill someone.
In other words, punish criminal use of the weapon, not the existence of the weapon.
Just allow companies to only grow up until they have, say, 1000 employees.
I'd be interested in seeing whether something like the Hoover Dam or a supertanker could be built with a workforce of 1000 people. Or how much an automobile would cost if the largest auto plant were only 3% the size of the current largest plant. Or how much computers would cost if the largest chip fab were 3% of its current size...
Venezuela enacted a country wide gun ban, and violent firearm crime dropped by 1/1000.
Venezuela has a murder rate of 45.1 per 100,000 post gun-ban. Are you really trying to suggest that their murder rate pre gun-ban was 45,100 per 100,000?
It should also be noted that the current 45.1 per 100K murder rate is ten times the US murder rate (4.5 per 100K)....
This has way more to do with the political motivation to spend the money required than technical know how.
And the Chinese inherited the technical knowhow, since they went after the US. So, given the technical know-how, the Chinese still took 40 years, after watching us do it in eight.
Yeah, there was a lot of "who cares?" from China that saw them ignore space for a long time. But even after they started taking it semi-seriously, there was still a couple decades before they managed that lunar lander (made with 21st century tech) that the US did in eight years (using 1960's tech).
Fundamentally, you seem to believe that Iran and Syria have, in fact, given up their WMD's (poison gas in the one case, enriched uranium in the other).
So, do you have any actual evidence that this is true?
Without international inspections (which neither country has allowed), it's not like there is any way to know for sure whether all the poison gas manufacturies (in the one case) have been revealed, much less shutdown. Ditto the enriched uranium (in the other case).
And then there's Ukraine.
Next week, Obama is going to the Far East to reassure our allies there that he won't leave them hanging out to dry the way he left Ukraine hanging out to dry. While there are definite differences between Ukraine and Japan/Phillipines/etc, it'll be interesting to see if Japan/Phillipines/etc buy what he's selling.
Previous Korean conflict you had the south and its allies against the north
You also had the Red Army on North Korea's side.
Do remember that the NK's last six months on their own, and had pretty much lost their country (the US Army was approaching the northern border of NK with China), when the Chinese came in (and kept the war going another couple years).
That's the Supreme Court case that ruled that a farmer growing his own chickenfeed was engaged in Interstate Commerce, since the act of NOT BUYING chickenfeed affected interstate commerce in chickenfeed.
Looks like it would pretty much cover this case nicely.
China in particular understands that progress comes not from the Invisible Hand, but from directing your resources to a primary goal of human development.
Which, presumably, is why China has done in 40 years what it took the US eight years...
And... what exactly is this means you're thinking they'll have?
Well, one obvious way to do it would be to set up a pricing structure for designer babies such that the babies with the Politically Correct genome (whatever that is conceived to be) waaay cheaper than the non-PC genomes.
I mean, something as simple as "white babies 1/2 off this month only!" would be vile beyond belief, and almost certainly done if it were possbile.
You could also look for genetic defects common to [minority you despise] and offer to "fix" them, along with a "few other [unspecified] improvements" that might not be seen as "improvements" by the prospective parents....
There is no genuine reason for publishing emails that were exchanged whilst the creation of regulations was still in progress.
Hmm, wouldn't you want to see an email by a Senator saying "Bloomberg really wants this, and he's promising all of us on the Committee $3 million for our campaign warchests if we make it so"?
Or if you think Bloomberg walks on water, replace "Bloomberg with "Koch Bros" or whoever your favorite bogeyman is....
Your state level issue is largely handled by the Federal Preemption clause in Article VI, clause 2.
Hmm, you might want to reread that clause. it establishes the Constitution as the "supreme law of the land".
It does NOT say that a State can't do something that is specifically forbidden to Congress.
Now, the 14th Amendment DOES pretty much accomplish your objective. Of course, there were 75 years or so between the Constitution and the 14th Amendment, during which, by your logic the "much stronger" "Congress shall make no laws" could have been overridden by State laws. Or local laws.
Personally, I still find "shall not be infringed" to be stronger than "Congress shall make no law". But YMMV....
They power nuclear subs, nuclear icebreakers etc. Stick a transformer on it and connect it to the grid, Bingo, floating nuclear power plant.
More to it than that. The overwhelming majority of the power for a nuclear sub/icebreaker/etc is used to make the props go roundy-roundy.
Only a very small part of that power goes to drive the generators (note that nuclear powered ships/subs HAVE been used to provide emergency power to shore installations, by the by).
And since the generators are sized for the amount of power needed by the boat/ship, you can't just push more steam through them to get more power.
1: Campaign donations are forbidden. Each candidate for an elected office will get an equivalent place to state their platform. Advertising anything election related on a commercial (paid) basis will be a crime.
So, basically we give the various newspaper editors the privilege of deciding who gets to be President/Senator/Congresscritter? Or were you planning on forbidding newspapers from mentioning political candidates?
Wish I could remember the dude's name. He was a big shot in one of the Arsenals of Revolutionary France, not just some grunt in the field.
He had the reputation of being the fastest guy with gun in France (and presumably the world, but the French at the time automatically assumed that "best in France" was the same as "best in the world").
Note that we're not talking loose powder and shot, but prepared paper cartridges....
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No, it's more like saying "rape is going to happen anyway, so we might as well make penises legal".
If someone 3-D prints a gun, and takes it to the range, I have no problem (well, other than wanting to be at a different range that day).
I DO have a problem if he uses it to rob a store or kill someone. The same problem I have if he buys a gun at a gun shop and then uses it to rob a store or kill someone.
In other words, punish criminal use of the weapon, not the existence of the weapon.
I'd be interested in seeing whether something like the Hoover Dam or a supertanker could be built with a workforce of 1000 people. Or how much an automobile would cost if the largest auto plant were only 3% the size of the current largest plant. Or how much computers would cost if the largest chip fab were 3% of its current size...
Or have you never heard of economies of scale?
You do understand that when the Supremes declare something unconstitutional, Congress is not allowed to pass laws reversing it, right?
The same one all the rest of the US citizens belong to. Read the Militia Act sometime.
Venezuela has a murder rate of 45.1 per 100,000 post gun-ban. Are you really trying to suggest that their murder rate pre gun-ban was 45,100 per 100,000?
It should also be noted that the current 45.1 per 100K murder rate is ten times the US murder rate (4.5 per 100K)....
...it'll let the Feds find them just as easily....
Or does anyone seriously think the NSA can't use this service just as well as Random Internet Idiot?
And the Chinese inherited the technical knowhow, since they went after the US. So, given the technical know-how, the Chinese still took 40 years, after watching us do it in eight.
Yeah, there was a lot of "who cares?" from China that saw them ignore space for a long time. But even after they started taking it semi-seriously, there was still a couple decades before they managed that lunar lander (made with 21st century tech) that the US did in eight years (using 1960's tech).
Fundamentally, you seem to believe that Iran and Syria have, in fact, given up their WMD's (poison gas in the one case, enriched uranium in the other).
So, do you have any actual evidence that this is true?
Without international inspections (which neither country has allowed), it's not like there is any way to know for sure whether all the poison gas manufacturies (in the one case) have been revealed, much less shutdown. Ditto the enriched uranium (in the other case).
And then there's Ukraine.
Next week, Obama is going to the Far East to reassure our allies there that he won't leave them hanging out to dry the way he left Ukraine hanging out to dry. While there are definite differences between Ukraine and Japan/Phillipines/etc, it'll be interesting to see if Japan/Phillipines/etc buy what he's selling.
You also had the Red Army on North Korea's side.
Do remember that the NK's last six months on their own, and had pretty much lost their country (the US Army was approaching the northern border of NK with China), when the Chinese came in (and kept the war going another couple years).
Wickard v. Filburn?
That's the Supreme Court case that ruled that a farmer growing his own chickenfeed was engaged in Interstate Commerce, since the act of NOT BUYING chickenfeed affected interstate commerce in chickenfeed.
Looks like it would pretty much cover this case nicely.
So, not feeding the beer by-products to cows will acidify the oceans???
Who knew?
First satellite in orbit to first lunar lander by the USA - eight years.
First satellite in orbit to first lunar lander by China - 40 years.
We "knew" they had WMD's because they used poison gas on their Kurds, just like the Syrians did.
Do remember that poison gas is a WMD, and under US policy is treated exactly the same way as nuclear weapons.
Which, presumably, is why China has done in 40 years what it took the US eight years...
Hmm, I've seen two cops this week. One traffic stop, one driving through the neighborhood. Hardly "so many security forces on US streets"....
Well, one obvious way to do it would be to set up a pricing structure for designer babies such that the babies with the Politically Correct genome (whatever that is conceived to be) waaay cheaper than the non-PC genomes.
I mean, something as simple as "white babies 1/2 off this month only!" would be vile beyond belief, and almost certainly done if it were possbile.
You could also look for genetic defects common to [minority you despise] and offer to "fix" them, along with a "few other [unspecified] improvements" that might not be seen as "improvements" by the prospective parents....
Hmm, wouldn't you want to see an email by a Senator saying "Bloomberg really wants this, and he's promising all of us on the Committee $3 million for our campaign warchests if we make it so"?
Or if you think Bloomberg walks on water, replace "Bloomberg with "Koch Bros" or whoever your favorite bogeyman is....
Yep, sure would.
Because noone would bother to develop new plants when they can't even recover the cost of development....
Hmm, you might want to reread that clause. it establishes the Constitution as the "supreme law of the land".
It does NOT say that a State can't do something that is specifically forbidden to Congress.
Now, the 14th Amendment DOES pretty much accomplish your objective. Of course, there were 75 years or so between the Constitution and the 14th Amendment, during which, by your logic the "much stronger" "Congress shall make no laws" could have been overridden by State laws. Or local laws.
Personally, I still find "shall not be infringed" to be stronger than "Congress shall make no law". But YMMV....
More to it than that. The overwhelming majority of the power for a nuclear sub/icebreaker/etc is used to make the props go roundy-roundy.
Only a very small part of that power goes to drive the generators (note that nuclear powered ships/subs HAVE been used to provide emergency power to shore installations, by the by).
And since the generators are sized for the amount of power needed by the boat/ship, you can't just push more steam through them to get more power.
I take it you're unaware that the Mayor of Tupelo (who was trying to conceal his text messages from the press) is a Democrat?
500 ly away...
Sounds like we have 350-400 years before they start hearing our radio noise. After that, we might need to worry....
Hmm, I'll see your Meriam-Webster and raise you an OED:
And here's another:
And here's another from your friend Meriam-Webster:
So, basically we give the various newspaper editors the privilege of deciding who gets to be President/Senator/Congresscritter? Or were you planning on forbidding newspapers from mentioning political candidates?
Wish I could remember the dude's name. He was a big shot in one of the Arsenals of Revolutionary France, not just some grunt in the field.
He had the reputation of being the fastest guy with gun in France (and presumably the world, but the French at the time automatically assumed that "best in France" was the same as "best in the world").
Note that we're not talking loose powder and shot, but prepared paper cartridges....