This is the same guy who thought it would be a good idea to have the ATF force American gun dealers to sell firearms to Mexican drug lords, so he could use that later for political gain.
This is the same guy who helped cover up the FBI's involvement in motivating and equipping Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing.
This is the same guy who last week said the president has the authority to order the murder of Americans (somehow, to most Americans, ordering the murder of non-Americans is okay) without a trial, or even the presentation of evidence, simply because the president claims the target is a threat to "national security".
I was there four times today alone.
Although I use cplusplus.com or docs.python.org for specific API questions, for how or why questions, stackoverflow is the best.
Even with AdBlock and the don't autoplay flash plugin, there are still occasionally pages that start playing something. And the three things they all seem to have in common are: really bad music, really loud, bad music, and they only seem to show up when you've loaded ten or more pages in the background.
MuteTab tries to keep the volume down, or off, on other tabs, but there's only so much they can do with a plugin.
I don't know a single Mac user who uses windows on a Mac. I have Linux VMs on mine for VPN access, school work, and general tinkering, but my only windows installation is my gaming PC.
Gun runners? Are you implying that companies like Colt, FN, and Barrett are smuggling illicit firearms to drug cartels and African warlords? They sell almost exclusively to the US government...which is far worse.
It makes me think you're an idiot.
The guy who compiled the list is Jewish (at least I'd guess so from the name). Maybe the whole thing is a red herring to trick us into falling for whatever you idiots think the Jewish conspiracy is trying to trick us into falling for.
Except for the a higher percentage of bad people are gun owners than compared to good people, therefore if you want to correlate bad persons its easier to check the gun registry.
That might be the most retarded thing I've read on/.
While a higher percentage of bad people are gun owners, you won't find them on the CCW lists or filling out 4473s at the local gun shop. They illegally buy illegal guns illegally imported from Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
The projection bias, bravado, paranoia, necessity that sometimes leads to gun ownership, is a pretty strong indication that the person is bad or crazy.
And how many case studies did you perform before pulling this conclusion out of your ass?
The fact that so many bad guys have guns, and they're so easy for bad guys to buy, despite all of the laws against it (I'm confounded as to why these criminals keep violating the gun laws), would prompt a rational person to look for a form of protection. Therefore I conclude that the number of guns a person owns is directly proportional to his sanity.
I cannot count the number of times I have seen John Wayne or 'gangasta' wannabes flash their weapon, as if they are somehow the just and righteous parties (mass killers are included), but end up just being either dumb, ignorant, or mentally ill.
I can't count the number of times a unicorn has bought me lunch, and probably for the same reason.
I'd wager I know a few more legal gun owners than you do, and we as a group do not flash our guns. We are normal middle-class people who know that the cops can't be everywhere and that there are evil, crazy, or otherwise dangerous people in the world.
Without guns there are no bad people with guns, and no need for good people with guns, or bad people who think they are good people with guns.
People who want to ban guns in America fit into one of the following categories: would-be tyrants, rapists, murderers, muggers, or the useful idiots who allow the previous groups to be successful.
So is it better for an accountable person to kill an innocent due to negligence, indifference, or malice, or for an unaccountable armed "nutjob" (although I consider the threat of death row and civil suits pretty damn accountable) to not kill someone?
Are you seriously trying to associate a statist quote like ignorance of the law is no excuse with Thomas Jefferson? Thomas Jefferson?
The Thomas Jefferson who said The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive?
The Thomas Jefferson who said, Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government) those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny?
The Thomas Jefferson who said, I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master?
The quote you allude to is from some Briton a few decades earlier.
However you are correct about it being public information. Yet another reason to not live in New York.
Incidentally, here are some other Jefferson quotes:
No Free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks.
What country can preserve it's liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms.
Oh yeah, Jefferson was a mega-gun nut, but then all the founding fathers were in favor of unrestricted civilian gun ownership, since they had just survived a war started when the British began confiscating arms from the colonies engaged in peaceful protest, and won primarily by the effort of civilian militias.
If a gun is constructed in a way that it's not possible to render it harmless or bring it back to operational quickly, it is a flaw with the gun, and it would be better removed from the market and replaced with better options. This is 2012, not 1911.
Any gun can be rendered harmless in under a tenth of a second: take your finger off the trigger. No properly maintained modern firearm will discharge without a trigger pull (usually 4-8lb. of consistent pull).
Now if you mean 'render it inoperative', then that's a different goal, and an idiotic one. If I can convert a pistol from inert to fully operational in two seconds, there's not much benefit to the inert state, is there?
The 1911 has three safeties: the user must grip the pistol properly to depress the grip safety; he must switch off the thumb safety, and he must pull the trigger. That's pretty damn safe.
Rifle bolts are very different than pistol firing pins. Bolts are very easy to take out in many types of rifles. I don't know of a pistol where the firing pin is easy to get out. The 1911 is one of the easiest ones I've done, because it doesn't require a hammer. For my CZ-75 pistols I have to put the slide in a vise and hammer out a pin (drinkypoo, you should check out the CZs I sold my last 1911 after getting one).
If I have guests over, my firearms stay on my body or in the safe. If I have a sleepover guest, I make sure she's okay with having one on my nightstand first. There's no way in hell I will store my self-defense firearms disassembled. That is idiotic. Any methed-out home invader who shows up won't have his knife or gun disassembled.
The FBI would disagree with you. Their decades of crime statistics show that having a firearm is the most effective way to scare off an intruder. Burglars who see a gun, hear a gun cocking sound, or even a homeowner yelling, "I have a gun", are much more likely to flee.
Alarms aren't perfect, neither are guns or the cops. I prefer to have multiple layers of protection available: alarm, loaded CZ-75 pistol on the nightstand (no kids in the house), loaded AR-15 in the safe (along with a few unloaded pistols and rifles, and several loaded magazines). And the call to the cops would happen after the emergency happened. I live two blocks from Seattle PD headquarters, and even that is too far for them to get there fast enough. I've read a lot of books on self-defense shootings, most of them are over in under two minutes.
Wow, condescending, divisive and fallacious. Good find!
Of course it ignores that the Wall Street thieves are in a blue state, that most blue states are in serious economic decline (with a few exceptions like Washington, where we have 0% income tax, gay marriage, legal pot, and minimal gun laws--the perfect shade of purple), that most of the economic growth in the US is in the South and West (sans California), and that VA, MD, FL, and DE were all slave states, and DC was a slave district.
Asking the feds if we can secede is like asking a burglar if we can opt out. This is more of a publicity stunt than a real attempt.
But if it increases people's awareness of secession and its benefits, then it's a good thing. I'd love to see the US split into 20 or more independent countries. It would be much harder for a single state or federation of states to run around the world killing and destroying the way the US does. It would also be easier for people to flee from an autocratic regime to a more liberal state (by the actual definition of liberal, not the modern political one).
Batteries can be replaced.
Activation codes can be written down (or simply bypassed).
This might sound crazy, but we could stop meddling in the internal affairs of almost every country on the planet.
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This is the same guy who thought it would be a good idea to have the ATF force American gun dealers to sell firearms to Mexican drug lords, so he could use that later for political gain.
This is the same guy who helped cover up the FBI's involvement in motivating and equipping Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing.
This is the same guy who last week said the president has the authority to order the murder of Americans (somehow, to most Americans, ordering the murder of non-Americans is okay) without a trial, or even the presentation of evidence, simply because the president claims the target is a threat to "national security".
Now maybe it's because I recently watched the absolutely horrible Red Dawn remake, but maybe we should all stay away from Spokane.
I was there four times today alone.
Although I use cplusplus.com or docs.python.org for specific API questions, for how or why questions, stackoverflow is the best.
So does this mean I'll actually be able to find a sales guy, since they won't be working from home?
Just kidding...I would never shop at a best buy.
Even with AdBlock and the don't autoplay flash plugin, there are still occasionally pages that start playing something. And the three things they all seem to have in common are: really bad music, really loud, bad music, and they only seem to show up when you've loaded ten or more pages in the background.
MuteTab tries to keep the volume down, or off, on other tabs, but there's only so much they can do with a plugin.
None of the clothing will function on Sundays, holidays, (and now) Saturdays.
27" iMac + 27" cinema display = 5120x1440
Plenty of room for lots of MacVim windows and multiple iTerms.
I don't know a single Mac user who uses windows on a Mac. I have Linux VMs on mine for VPN access, school work, and general tinkering, but my only windows installation is my gaming PC.
Gun runners? Are you implying that companies like Colt, FN, and Barrett are smuggling illicit firearms to drug cartels and African warlords? They sell almost exclusively to the US government...which is far worse.
It makes me think you're an idiot.
The guy who compiled the list is Jewish (at least I'd guess so from the name). Maybe the whole thing is a red herring to trick us into falling for whatever you idiots think the Jewish conspiracy is trying to trick us into falling for.
Any bigfoot DNA in there?
That happened in the US. Mr. Feng lives in a country that has more freedom: The People's Republic of China.
How long until moms in Texas hire in game assassins as a means of removing their own children's competition?
Except for the a higher percentage of bad people are gun owners than compared to good people, therefore if you want to correlate bad persons its easier to check the gun registry.
That might be the most retarded thing I've read on /.
While a higher percentage of bad people are gun owners, you won't find them on the CCW lists or filling out 4473s at the local gun shop. They illegally buy illegal guns illegally imported from Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
The projection bias, bravado, paranoia, necessity that sometimes leads to gun ownership, is a pretty strong indication that the person is bad or crazy.
And how many case studies did you perform before pulling this conclusion out of your ass?
The fact that so many bad guys have guns, and they're so easy for bad guys to buy, despite all of the laws against it (I'm confounded as to why these criminals keep violating the gun laws), would prompt a rational person to look for a form of protection. Therefore I conclude that the number of guns a person owns is directly proportional to his sanity.
I cannot count the number of times I have seen John Wayne or 'gangasta' wannabes flash their weapon, as if they are somehow the just and righteous parties (mass killers are included), but end up just being either dumb, ignorant, or mentally ill.
I can't count the number of times a unicorn has bought me lunch, and probably for the same reason.
I'd wager I know a few more legal gun owners than you do, and we as a group do not flash our guns. We are normal middle-class people who know that the cops can't be everywhere and that there are evil, crazy, or otherwise dangerous people in the world.
Without guns there are no bad people with guns, and no need for good people with guns, or bad people who think they are good people with guns.
So when a 250lb. man without a gun rapes a 110lb. woman without a gun, that's okay to you? That's sounds like a situation where a good guy with a gun would be really damn useful. Incidentally, a woman who carries a firearm is 310 times more likely to successfully fend off a rapist than a woman who does not.
And that's according to FBI crime data.
People who want to ban guns in America fit into one of the following categories: would-be tyrants, rapists, murderers, muggers, or the useful idiots who allow the previous groups to be successful.
So is it better for an accountable person to kill an innocent due to negligence, indifference, or malice, or for an unaccountable armed "nutjob" (although I consider the threat of death row and civil suits pretty damn accountable) to not kill someone?
It is perhaps also significant that a comparison of police to civilian shootings of alleged criminals shows police to be 5.5 times more likely to have shot an innocent person in the belief that he was a criminal .
Are you seriously trying to associate a statist quote like ignorance of the law is no excuse with Thomas Jefferson? Thomas Jefferson?
The Thomas Jefferson who said The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive?
The Thomas Jefferson who said, Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government) those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny?
The Thomas Jefferson who said, I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master?
The quote you allude to is from some Briton a few decades earlier.
However you are correct about it being public information. Yet another reason to not live in New York.
Incidentally, here are some other Jefferson quotes:
No Free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks.
What country can preserve it's liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms.
Oh yeah, Jefferson was a mega-gun nut, but then all the founding fathers were in favor of unrestricted civilian gun ownership, since they had just survived a war started when the British began confiscating arms from the colonies engaged in peaceful protest, and won primarily by the effort of civilian militias.
I'm soooo getting on a DHS watch list for this.
If a gun is constructed in a way that it's not possible to render it harmless or bring it back to operational quickly, it is a flaw with the gun, and it would be better removed from the market and replaced with better options. This is 2012, not 1911.
Any gun can be rendered harmless in under a tenth of a second: take your finger off the trigger. No properly maintained modern firearm will discharge without a trigger pull (usually 4-8lb. of consistent pull).
Now if you mean 'render it inoperative', then that's a different goal, and an idiotic one. If I can convert a pistol from inert to fully operational in two seconds, there's not much benefit to the inert state, is there?
The 1911 has three safeties: the user must grip the pistol properly to depress the grip safety; he must switch off the thumb safety, and he must pull the trigger. That's pretty damn safe.
Rifle bolts are very different than pistol firing pins. Bolts are very easy to take out in many types of rifles. I don't know of a pistol where the firing pin is easy to get out. The 1911 is one of the easiest ones I've done, because it doesn't require a hammer. For my CZ-75 pistols I have to put the slide in a vise and hammer out a pin (drinkypoo, you should check out the CZs I sold my last 1911 after getting one).
If I have guests over, my firearms stay on my body or in the safe. If I have a sleepover guest, I make sure she's okay with having one on my nightstand first. There's no way in hell I will store my self-defense firearms disassembled. That is idiotic. Any methed-out home invader who shows up won't have his knife or gun disassembled.
So when the safety breaks (and it will), the gun is inoperable. That's a great idea... I'll stick with my DA/SA pistols, thanks.
The FBI would disagree with you. Their decades of crime statistics show that having a firearm is the most effective way to scare off an intruder. Burglars who see a gun, hear a gun cocking sound, or even a homeowner yelling, "I have a gun", are much more likely to flee.
Alarms aren't perfect, neither are guns or the cops. I prefer to have multiple layers of protection available: alarm, loaded CZ-75 pistol on the nightstand (no kids in the house), loaded AR-15 in the safe (along with a few unloaded pistols and rifles, and several loaded magazines). And the call to the cops would happen after the emergency happened. I live two blocks from Seattle PD headquarters, and even that is too far for them to get there fast enough. I've read a lot of books on self-defense shootings, most of them are over in under two minutes.
Uhh...Using your 'logic', cars only have one purpose: to transport people and property.
Wow, condescending, divisive and fallacious. Good find!
Of course it ignores that the Wall Street thieves are in a blue state, that most blue states are in serious economic decline (with a few exceptions like Washington, where we have 0% income tax, gay marriage, legal pot, and minimal gun laws--the perfect shade of purple), that most of the economic growth in the US is in the South and West (sans California), and that VA, MD, FL, and DE were all slave states, and DC was a slave district.
Asking the feds if we can secede is like asking a burglar if we can opt out. This is more of a publicity stunt than a real attempt.
But if it increases people's awareness of secession and its benefits, then it's a good thing. I'd love to see the US split into 20 or more independent countries. It would be much harder for a single state or federation of states to run around the world killing and destroying the way the US does. It would also be easier for people to flee from an autocratic regime to a more liberal state (by the actual definition of liberal, not the modern political one).
It works with both, actually: they can't secede if they fail in their attempt.
Batteries can be replaced.
Activation codes can be written down (or simply bypassed).
This might sound crazy, but we could stop meddling in the internal affairs of almost every country on the planet.