This might not even be a money grabbing move as much as "rich people should have their privacy" despite being on Facebook.
What this is is a "if you're not on my FBfriends list (IOW, a spammer or other complete stranger), you're going to pay through the nose for wasting my time sending me messages through FB's internal email system.
Hell, I wish I could do that sort of thing on my regular email - most of what I get every day is spam, and it would be nice to have the extra income....
The NERVA test engine is on display at Johnson Space Center, as I understand it.
Being 40+ years out of date, I imagine they'll have to spend billions to repeat the original work, but I'd hope that the fact that we already built a working nuclear rocket would mean that developing a new one wouldn't be overwhelmingly difficult.
Last time when we talk about Soviet Union and/or China and/or Cuba and/or Iran and/or North Korea or East Germany, or any of those countries we used words like "ROUGE COUNTRIES" to describe them.
Well, technically, Iran has never been a "rouge nation". On the other hand, that's an apt description for all the communist nations...
On the other hand, if you really meant "ROGUE nation", then Iran would also fit nicely.
Why do so many supposedly educated people get "rouge" and "rogue" confused?
As compared to the strange sounding Hyundai, Volkswagen, Nokia, Nissan, Lenovo, etc... They do OK in US market.
Better to say "they did OK in the US market eventually". Yes, they all had acceptance problems when they first appeared over here, mostly because most people prefer familiar brands to unfamiliar.
In a few years, the Chinese smartphone brands will sort themselves out into "good reputation" and "cheap garbage", and the former will do well, and the latter will quietly rebrand themselves and try again.
we haven't seen massive numbers of mass-shootings conducted by former military personnel that were honorably discharged
Hate to say this, but we haven't seen "massive numbers of mass shootings" conducted by any other group, either. They've averaged only two a year over the last 30 years.
Don't know about you, but I've never considered two people out of 350,000,000 people per year to represent "massive numbers"....
The Swiss gun issue is entirely different than the US. Just about every Swiss household has a gun, however it is a government-issued weapon for military service. Not only is it locked up at all times, there is also a lot of training and oversight that goes with it. By contrast, anybody with a valid id and money in their pocket can get a gun of some kind in the US without difficulty.
So, what you're saying is that in Switzerland, if someone goes bug-nuts crazy and wants to shoot up downtown, the fact that his FULLY AUTOMATIC rifle is government-issue, and is locked up in his closet to which he has a key, along with at least a basic infantryman's ammo loadout (perhaps some obliging Swiss guy can tell me the correct number, in the USA that would be about 200 rounds) is going to stop him from using that fully automatic rifle to do the dirty deed?
When I search web browser, I get the wikipedia entry, Opera, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari in that order. I found it strange that I had Firefox as my 3rd entry
I get the same result for that search.
And I'm running Firefox, and have been for about as long as Firefox has been around.
And when I did a similar search, Yahoo's email came out on top. Gmail came in second. Wikipedia's article on email came in third.
No, I don't use Yahoo's email.
Nor do I use gmail.
Nor have I ever used either, for anything...
On the other hand, I do use wikipedia to look things up from time to time, so Google is OBVIOUSLY being paid by wikipedia to pad the results in their favour
Why do you insist that semi-automatic weapons must not be infringed but not tanks and nukes?
In the general case, the "militia" is a source of infantry. The basic weapon of the infantry is the rifle. A self-loading (the proper term for what is colloquially call "semi-automatic") rifle is a perfectly adequate infantry weapon (automatic fire for anything other than suppressive fire is vastly overrated).
On the other hand, very few infantry have ever used tanks or nukes as their primary weapons - largely because tanks makes you Armour (not Infantry), and nukes makes you Air Force (or Navy or Strategic Rocket Forces or whatever they call the guys who have the nukes in your country of choice).
Chris Rock did a joke once where he said we should just add a $5,000 tax on bullets. So each bullet would be over $5,000.00. The way it goes,
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Yeah, it's a joke but that is how I see guns being defacto regulated: taxes.
Last century but one, this was tried with printers' ink.
Supreme Court ruled that you couldn't infringe a Constitutional Right via onerous taxation....
Not only would painting guns pink keep men from buying guns to look cool, Painting guns pink would also have the added benefit of getting women more interested in gun ownership.
Smith & Wesson already tried making pink guns for women.
It did NOT go over well with female gun owners.
For that matter, I never talked to a male gun owner who was terribly impressed with the marketing acumen of whoever came up with the idea....
Find me a well education intelligent white catholic girl (hey, I'm atheist but catholic girls' schools seem to produce my sort of woman) who's a good cook, likes to dance, can put up with 4 hours of computer gaming on non-dance nights and has a slim or athletic build.
You're going to have a hard time interesting a well educated, intelligent girl if you write like this....
The majority of the colonies were rebels, therefore the Tyrannical Majority won and a full 5% of the population fled to Canada.
Well, no.
Actually, relatively few were rebels - it took some serious work to convince people to fight the Brits. So much so that Washington had major trouble even keeping an army in the field.
I should also note that you were pointing out that government muskets were necessary elements of victory in the Revolution and Civil Wars.
This is not true. It was also not true that everyone had their own guns. City dwellers, even in the colonies and the Old South, were no more likely to own a firearm than they are today.
The reason government supplied muskets were used were more related to supply issues than anything else - easier to keep guns operational when everyone is using the same kind of musket.
They were perfectly free to reject the taxpayer bailout and look for money elsewhere.
Umm, no.
Even during the Bush Presidency, it was reported that the banks were given no choice about accepting the bailouts, since if any of the big banks refused, people might see some stigma if THEIR bank needed a bailout, pull funds, and go to a "safe" bank that hadn't needed a bailout (a banking panic was the last thing we needed then).
So the first group of banks offered bailouts were told "I'm going to make you an offer you can't refuse"....
Well, the thing that turned me from "he's just another President" to "not just no, but F*** No!" was when he ordered the assassination of an American citizen.
Now, arguably, the guy in question deserved to be killed. That said, there were ways to make it (closer to) legal - a trial in absentia would have been questionable, but MIGHT have answered the Constitutional questions. Or, alternatively, conveniently making him "collateral damage" in an attack on a legitimate target.
Or even letting some lower-level flunky make the decision. Obama making the decision pushed things a bit far past the legal fig-leaf he could have mustered, and moved him into the "not just no, but F*** NO!" category.
It should, before I am labelled a Right-Wing Extremist (for saying bad things about Obama), be noted that I didn't vote Romney, nor did I vote for Bush Jr (either time), though I have voted in every other Presidential election since it became legal for me to do so.
On an e-reader or a tablet I buy a license that lets me have a copy on a device. Unless I back up my copy, the seller can take it away from me without even asking.
Well, no.
At least for me, it's "no". My eReader doesn't have wifi (old model, plugs into comp to get new books), so the seller has no power whatsoever to "take it away from me without even asking".
And this ignores the backup copies I make when I get a new eBook....
My mother, 70-something, loves her Nook. She bought it after she saw myself, the wife, the daughter using eBook readers one afternoon at her place, and the daughter showed her the variable font-size...
I find it odd as well. Maybe it is the social network generation, their friends already know what they play/read/saw/did so who cares to display it. But my bookshelf, with accompanying trinkets, tells more about me in less space than most could imagine.
One of the reasons for me making the jump too eBooks is that I have no more walls to fill with bookshelves - I'm having to store books in the attic now.
Twelve boxes up there so far.
Now, I could keep buying paper books, and just add to the boxes of books in the attic, but that seems kind of pointless when I could buy an eBook, strip the DRM using Calibre, keep a copy in my book reader, my laptop, my desktop, and one (or more) of the backup HDDs....
The colonists won some battles with personal weapons, but could not have won the war without Washington's Army, and Washington's Army used government muskets.
Of course, the functional difference between a "government musket" and "personal weapons" was essentially zero at that time.
Other than the bayonet lug, of course.
The very first skirmishes of the Civil War used local militias with their own weapons, but that didn't last. By Bull Run pretty much everyone was using a weapon the government paid for.
Of course, the functional difference between a "weapon the government paid for" and "their own weapons" was essentially zero at that time.
Tax everyone, based on miles driven + weight of the car. Because heavier cars damage the road more. Then it will probably make sense.
Which is essentially what a gasoline tax does - heavier cars tend to use more, cars that are driven more use more, heavy cars that are driven more use even more.
This is just looking ahead to a future when the current way of doing business no longer works....
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What this is is a "if you're not on my FBfriends list (IOW, a spammer or other complete stranger), you're going to pay through the nose for wasting my time sending me messages through FB's internal email system.
Hell, I wish I could do that sort of thing on my regular email - most of what I get every day is spam, and it would be nice to have the extra income....
The NERVA test engine is on display at Johnson Space Center, as I understand it.
Being 40+ years out of date, I imagine they'll have to spend billions to repeat the original work, but I'd hope that the fact that we already built a working nuclear rocket would mean that developing a new one wouldn't be overwhelmingly difficult.
They're not proposing this to combat "tax avoidance" (which is legal), but "tax evasion" (which is illegal).
Well, technically, Iran has never been a "rouge nation". On the other hand, that's an apt description for all the communist nations...
On the other hand, if you really meant "ROGUE nation", then Iran would also fit nicely.
Why do so many supposedly educated people get "rouge" and "rogue" confused?
Better to say "they did OK in the US market eventually". Yes, they all had acceptance problems when they first appeared over here, mostly because most people prefer familiar brands to unfamiliar.
In a few years, the Chinese smartphone brands will sort themselves out into "good reputation" and "cheap garbage", and the former will do well, and the latter will quietly rebrand themselves and try again.
Hate to say this, but we haven't seen "massive numbers of mass shootings" conducted by any other group, either. They've averaged only two a year over the last 30 years.
Don't know about you, but I've never considered two people out of 350,000,000 people per year to represent "massive numbers"....
So, what you're saying is that in Switzerland, if someone goes bug-nuts crazy and wants to shoot up downtown, the fact that his FULLY AUTOMATIC rifle is government-issue, and is locked up in his closet to which he has a key, along with at least a basic infantryman's ammo loadout (perhaps some obliging Swiss guy can tell me the correct number, in the USA that would be about 200 rounds) is going to stop him from using that fully automatic rifle to do the dirty deed?
Damn, run-on sentence - I need more coffee...
I get the same result for that search.
And I'm running Firefox, and have been for about as long as Firefox has been around.
And when I did a similar search, Yahoo's email came out on top. Gmail came in second. Wikipedia's article on email came in third.
No, I don't use Yahoo's email.
Nor do I use gmail.
Nor have I ever used either, for anything...
On the other hand, I do use wikipedia to look things up from time to time, so Google is OBVIOUSLY being paid by wikipedia to pad the results in their favour
In the general case, the "militia" is a source of infantry. The basic weapon of the infantry is the rifle. A self-loading (the proper term for what is colloquially call "semi-automatic") rifle is a perfectly adequate infantry weapon (automatic fire for anything other than suppressive fire is vastly overrated).
On the other hand, very few infantry have ever used tanks or nukes as their primary weapons - largely because tanks makes you Armour (not Infantry), and nukes makes you Air Force (or Navy or Strategic Rocket Forces or whatever they call the guys who have the nukes in your country of choice).
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Last century but one, this was tried with printers' ink.
Supreme Court ruled that you couldn't infringe a Constitutional Right via onerous taxation....
Smith & Wesson already tried making pink guns for women.
It did NOT go over well with female gun owners.
For that matter, I never talked to a male gun owner who was terribly impressed with the marketing acumen of whoever came up with the idea....
You're going to have a hard time interesting a well educated, intelligent girl if you write like this....
I'll add this...
Well, no.
Actually, relatively few were rebels - it took some serious work to convince people to fight the Brits. So much so that Washington had major trouble even keeping an army in the field.
I should also note that you were pointing out that government muskets were necessary elements of victory in the Revolution and Civil Wars.
This is not true. It was also not true that everyone had their own guns. City dwellers, even in the colonies and the Old South, were no more likely to own a firearm than they are today.
The reason government supplied muskets were used were more related to supply issues than anything else - easier to keep guns operational when everyone is using the same kind of musket.
Umm, no.
Even during the Bush Presidency, it was reported that the banks were given no choice about accepting the bailouts, since if any of the big banks refused, people might see some stigma if THEIR bank needed a bailout, pull funds, and go to a "safe" bank that hadn't needed a bailout (a banking panic was the last thing we needed then).
So the first group of banks offered bailouts were told "I'm going to make you an offer you can't refuse"....
Well, the thing that turned me from "he's just another President" to "not just no, but F*** No!" was when he ordered the assassination of an American citizen.
Now, arguably, the guy in question deserved to be killed. That said, there were ways to make it (closer to) legal - a trial in absentia would have been questionable, but MIGHT have answered the Constitutional questions. Or, alternatively, conveniently making him "collateral damage" in an attack on a legitimate target.
Or even letting some lower-level flunky make the decision. Obama making the decision pushed things a bit far past the legal fig-leaf he could have mustered, and moved him into the "not just no, but F*** NO!" category.
It should, before I am labelled a Right-Wing Extremist (for saying bad things about Obama), be noted that I didn't vote Romney, nor did I vote for Bush Jr (either time), though I have voted in every other Presidential election since it became legal for me to do so.
Well, no.
Actually, 1.27 mm is EXACTLY 50 mils, since the inch is defined as exactly 25.4 mm. Since 1933, in fact.
Note an exception: the "survey inch" is NOT 25.4 mm, but is used only for land survey purposes...
Well, no.
At least for me, it's "no". My eReader doesn't have wifi (old model, plugs into comp to get new books), so the seller has no power whatsoever to "take it away from me without even asking".
And this ignores the backup copies I make when I get a new eBook....
My mother, 70-something, loves her Nook. She bought it after she saw myself, the wife, the daughter using eBook readers one afternoon at her place, and the daughter showed her the variable font-size...
One word: Calibre.
Buy eBook, remove DRM, Lend eBook as desired. Or not.
One of the reasons for me making the jump too eBooks is that I have no more walls to fill with bookshelves - I'm having to store books in the attic now.
Twelve boxes up there so far.
Now, I could keep buying paper books, and just add to the boxes of books in the attic, but that seems kind of pointless when I could buy an eBook, strip the DRM using Calibre, keep a copy in my book reader, my laptop, my desktop, and one (or more) of the backup HDDs....
Of course, the functional difference between a "government musket" and "personal weapons" was essentially zero at that time.
Other than the bayonet lug, of course.
Of course, the functional difference between a "weapon the government paid for" and "their own weapons" was essentially zero at that time.
Other than the bayonet lug, of course.
Which is essentially what a gasoline tax does - heavier cars tend to use more, cars that are driven more use more, heavy cars that are driven more use even more.
This is just looking ahead to a future when the current way of doing business no longer works....
Been to Mexico recently?
We amended the Constitution to make slavery illegal.
Get back to me when you can convince 38 States to go along with amending the Constitution on that whole RKBA thing...
Until then, I guess we'll have to muddle along with having guns being legal and Constitutionally protected.