A simple design based on decades of experience and the most modern of materials. Remember, the Glock is in most cases replacing a weapon designed in 1911!
Uh, the Glock has mostly replaced revolvers in police inventories. The Beretta 92F (which we renamed the M9) replaced the 1911 as our standard military sidearm.
And there is a trend back to the 1911. FBI HRT uses custom Springfields. LAPD SWAT went with a Kimber Custom. And I hear they were still quite popular with our guys in the Gulf.
The manual of arms for a 1911 (cocked and locked, hooyah!) is a bit more complicated than a revolver or a glock, but it's the choice of the many highly trained professionals.
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The numbers for FISA taps are available for 2001.
The 2002 numbers aren't available yet.
Interesting post on this from Orin Kerr, a law professor at George Washington.
Gun games like IPSC or
IDPA are full of geeks. There is plenty of cool equipment to tinker with. And while it takes years to master, once you know a few simple safety rules almost anyone can enjoy it.
If you want something a little less politically incorrect, there are always the service rifle competitons put on by the Civilian Marksmanship Program and the NRA.
The main problem is it's in the middle of nowhere (Mapquest link [mapquest.com] ), about 50 miles from Topeka. Paying the local loop charges for dedicated (and redundant) Internet access is probably going to cost a fortune.
Actually, it's only about 15 miles from Kansas State University in Manhattan. There are providers in Wamego itself (even one who's doing wireless from the Wamego water tower.)
...to plan testing then you're always going to be behind. Test plans need to be set up in parallel with software development so the testers can become familiar with the software and create any tools or setups they will need for testing.
One thing that I've seen good organizations do is make the developers responsible for the completeness of the test plan. They have to sign off on it and if something is missed they take as much blame for it as the QA people do. At my current job, we're months away from code complete and yet most of the test plans are in place.
At my current workplace we are required to have our release notes checked into source control before we get a new release into the build (of course, this requires cooperation from the build guy.) If we don't provide proper release notes--defined by build and QA, BTW--QA won't even see it to test it.
Sure some of the developers are going to grumble about it, but those with some experience know that you have to have the procedures in place if you want to have working software instead of a big ball of mud. The 10 minutes I spend updating our release notes prevents the hour of questions I'd get from build and QA about which bugs I fixed in this release. Spending an hour with the QA guys working on the test plan can save me from being the guy who keeping our product from shipping because of a bug that's not found until the day before we ship.
OK, this is cool. But what if some of my 'schemes' need to enable WEP in different ways? Do the schemes extend into the wireless.opts file too?
Yes, they work in wireless.opts. The scheme is passed as the first argument of $ADDRESS. So home,*,*,00:02:2D:*) matches my MAC on my lucent card while using my home scheme. Scheme's can be appended as a kernel parameter, so I have different lilo entries for each scheme.
I never noticed that RH6 broke anything in the pcmcia package because I always build a new kernel as soon as the laptop is up and running. But I've heard that they 'simplified' the network.opts file a little too much.
To get the Lucent cards to work with 6.2 you have to download a newer version of the PCMCIA-cs package, build it and install it.
What you're looking for is disability insurance, more specifically, own-occupation coverage. That way you won't have to look for a job doing something else. Many tech companies offer short-term disability insurance, but I haven't seen one that offers long term without you having to pay for it. In my experience you can usually find a better plan on your own.
You'll want to read up on this. There are a lot of factors to consider, e.g. how long you're out of work before you collect benefits, etc.
I looked into several schools. (I have a BA in Poli-Sci with lots of Math from econ.) For the most part, they require you to go back and take a good part of the core CS curriculum before you start grad classes.
Of course, you might never actually make it to the grad classes as companies start throwing money at you as soon as you hit the junior level classes.
I get up regularly to stretch, and I look out across the top of the cubes, and there's nothing... I expect, with all
the times I've looked, that I would at least see someone else looking out across as well, but no! It's a barren
wasteland of... productivity? Perhaps...
If you tried that at my company, you'd most likely be nailed in the head by the big brother of the flyingtorpedos mentioned above. (Sorry, no URL, the guy who orders them for us has already gone home.) We played with them so much that most of them broke so we sent in another order. Our VP of engineering matched us up to $100 worth and our Den Mother bought us another case. We're looking at ~200 rockets arriving next week.
Of course we have our fair share of Nerf guns. There's a Ping Pong Ball Burp gun a couple cubes down. My solution for self defense has been camoflage netting over the top of my cube. At least that keeps out the indirect fire. Not much you can do about a WildFire firing squad.
We're currently trying to come up with a design for a belt-fed Nerf gun. And somehow we still manage to bring our projects in on schedule.
It really depends on your requirements. How much downtime can you stand? How much traffic are you going to get and how fast will it grow? Is it cost effective for you to deal with the infrastructure issues yourself or should you let the coloc people worry about it?
Bandwidth, power and cooling are going to be your main issues. Let's talk bandwidth first. How fast is your traffic going to grow? Major colocs like
Exodus have plenty of spare bandwidth on hand to sell you. Telcos can take weeks to run a new line. If you do it yourself you have to really keep on top of your line utilization or you can find yourself way behind the curve and it's a bitch to try and catch back up.
As far a cooling goes, you're probably going to be fine unless you have to add a ton of servers. But this is one thing that's bitten me in the past. We outgrew our cooling capacity in just a few months and we paid the price for months until we got another unit installed.
And let's not forget the power issue. How much downtime can you afford? A good coloc is going to have a generator as well as a good UPS system. Can you stand your site being down 4 hours because of a blackout?
The other benefits of a good coloc is their experience and full time staffing. I've very rarely seen the good ones have anything but minor network outages (backhoes not withstanding.:) Their NOCs often catch problems long before you hear anything from your users.
The major downside to a coloc is the expense. The good ones cost a ton of money. The only way to cut down the expense is to make sure you go rackmount and use the minium Us you need to do the job. They'll also hit you up for bandwidth costs, but that's gonna directly relate to your traffic so it's less of an issue.
So it all pretty much boils down to balancing downtime and headaches vs. costs. And that's math only you can do.
Blah. You shouldn't have felt embarassed; the service should've popped up a flag telling you your encryption wasn't up to snuff. Instead it just failed on you.
The WFB site makes it pretty clear when you don't have strong enough encryption. They only require 40bit for everything but the Online Bill Pay.
They're pretty quick to verify new browswers as well. I upgraded to a point release of Navigator (the day it was released) and found it wouldn't work on their site. I mailed them asking about it. They replied that they were working on making sure the browswer didn't have any major bugs. I tired it again a couple days later and it worked just fine. Seems like they've got all their ducks in a row
When we formed the Air Capitol Linux Users Group (ACLUG) we got it sponsored by the ACM chapter at Wichita State. Since ACM was a offical university organization we had no trouble booking rooms.
I've got a couple. One for work and one for home. Pretty easy to set up and get running.
As for the range, the house isn't big enough to worry about. I need to play with it more at work (spend most of the time in my cube) but it seems to work fine all over the building (less than 150' away.)
Configuration wise it's pretty simple. One the ethernet side you can set it up with a static IP or tell it to use the DHCP client. You can even run the DHCP server on the ethernet side. (Not sure why you'd want to, but it's pretty cool that you can do that.)
On the wireless side you can turn the NAT on and off and have it bridge to the ethernet. Also has DHCP of course. Nothing provided for forwarding ports or anything like that.
All this was done using the windows configuration utility. I've done an SNMP walk across the MIB and will probably start hacking on it, but nothing useful so far.
Another great way to help out the Linux community is to help out with the local LUGs. Give them a place to meet. Speaking from experience, finding a good location is one of the hardest parts of running a LUG
Also encourage your employees to attend, especially your most experienced Linux people. Have them monitor the mailing list and help out newbies. Sponsor an install fest.
The best part is that most employees will find this to be very enjoyable and rewarding.
I hate it when drug testing is being advocated by the old, but still false, "if you don't do drugs, you've got no reason not to take a drug test"-argument. I mean, what can you say to that?
I would tell them that it's none of their fscking business what I do on my own time. They pay me to get a job done. I get it done. On time and under budget. I'll follow their rules at the workplace (or quit) but their power over me stops as soon as I walk out the door.
I have a privilege of living in a small country where the public opinion is so much for drug testing at workplace and at school that I wouldn't be suprised if drug testing would become mandatory by law.
Thankfully they can't do that to us here yet (TX, US). But the fight is far from over.
"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." -- Wendell Phillips (1811-1884)
Mandatory drug testing, psychological testing, NDA agreements before and after your employment and soon genetic testing.
At a previous job we got a new director of HR who thought that mandatory drug testing was a good idea. She was informed by the CTO that as long as he was still with the company it would never happen. And if they tried it half their best developers wouldn't pass and the other half would quit instead of taking the test. And they would never be able to replace them as they wouldn't be able to get applicants to agree to test.
I don't work for companies that violate my privacy. Period. But I have no problem signing NDAs (of course I read them first) and other agreements that protect the intellectual property of the company.
Serfdom? The companies I work for need me a lot more than I need them. The same goes for most of the people I work with. The company spends a lot of time and effort to see that we're happy. Our skills are by far their most valuable asset and they act to protect that asset. But all the legal wrangling in the world can't make an unhappy employee productive.
I've heard it called "Hotelling" (do you spell that with one L or two?). I can see it being useful in a consulting office where people spend most of their time at customer sites. You can actually get away with having fewer desks than people since everyone isn't there working all the time.
But it's a dumb idea for people who actually have to work there. There's no way in hell I could move the 50 lbs of books I have around with me. Not to mention the victim host I'm using right now to build system images and all the other crap that I keep in my cube
Libertarians believe they are responsible for their own safety. A firearm is by far the most effective means of self defense (other than good judgement and situational awareness, of course.)
Nobody does studies of accidents caused by people changing radio stations.
Actually they have. You're 14 times more likely to have an accident when playing with the radio. 30some times more likely when talking on a cell phone.
One thing mentioned in the article I read was that navigation devices (GPS, etc) are even worse than cell phones.
Besides, I'm not worried about accidents. I drive a big Lexus SUV. God, I love consulting!
You're fine unless you hit some like me who drives an even bigger truck.:)
It's not luck, it's called Networking. (No, not the TCP/IP kind.) In this business it's all about who you know. The director of staffing at my current company is a guy a used to work for about 5 years ago. He called me up and told me that this was one I really needed to be involved with. He mentioned at the last company meeting that 71% of our hires are from internal referrals. This is after a regional add campaign that brought in a flood of resumes (several thousand).
This is kind of relevant. Does anyone else have a problem writing, with something like graffiti, being a left hander
I've never had a problem using Graffiti on my Palm V or my Palm Pilot 5000 that I used before it. Since I'm only writing in one place I don't have the normal problems that come from going left to right. And you can write some really nasty looking letters and they will still get recognized. Really the only letter I have much dificulty doing is 'e' for some strange reason
That said, when it comes time do really enter some data, I'll head for the PC and the keyboard. I just don't understand those people who love to do all of their email on the pilot.
First of all, the amendment related to guns is the second. Next, that amendment does not give you as an individual the right to own or carry a gun. It gives the states power to arm their militia. By law, this means the national guard. No section of the constitution or the US code allows you to form your own militia and claim the right to carry a gun. This view has been consistantly upheld by the Supreme Court, most directly in US v. Miller, 307 US 174. For a more in-depth analysis, see The Politics of Gun Control, Robert J. Spitzer.
Read Miller again. Miller lost the case because a sawed off shotgun is not a weapon with much military value. There is even some language that infers that 2nd is an individual right.
Also check out US v Emerson which is now before the 5th Circuit. Judge Sam Cummings ruled it an indivual right and it looks like the 5th Curcuit is leaning that way. The whole issue could be before SCOTUS next year.
That's a nice sentiment, but Benjamin Franklin wasn't living in a world where any Muslim nutball could sneak into the middle of Manhattan with a nuclear bomb in a suitcase, was he? To suggest that Franklin would have the FBI sit back and do absolutely nothing as millions of Americans died is plain ludicrous. In fact, the FBI did not even exist when Ben Franklin supposedly made that statement, so your point is completely moot.
I'm a lot less worried about a "Muslim" nutball than our own government trying to protect us.
First off, nuking Manhattan would be a pretty boneheaded move. American retalitaion would be of a magnitude I hate to even imagine. The terrorists know this and play by the rules. Their acts have to be enough to make the public fear them, but not enough to generate a dispropotional response from the US. For example, what's really stopping us from really going after Ben Laden instead of bombing his camps with cruise missles? You can bet that if he were to blow up a school bus full of American kids you would see a military response that would make the Gulf War seem like a picnic.
We also have intelligence agencies that deal with communication outside of the USA (NSA/NRO etc.) While they aren't allowed to spy on American citizens, how many of these terrorists are homegrown. (Then again, look at OKC)
My real concern is that the Federal goverment means well, but in their rush to "protect" us they start seeing our rights as getting in the way. So is the next step to suspend the 4th amendment entirely?
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. -- Justice Louis Brandeis (1928)
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. -- William Pitt (1783)
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it. -- Thomas Jefferson (1791)
Good intentions will always be pleaded for any assumption of power. The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters. -- Daniel Webster
Kansas city is boring! Nobody wants to come to KC just to see the show. We want to get out and enjoy the city! Unfortunately, there's nothing to enjoy. Maybe I'm just spoiled...I live in Chicago. And where was the advertising for this? I saw nothing!
Your KC must be in another universe than the one I'm used to. Tons of stuff to do and the cost of living is very low.
That being said, KC is pretty much in the stone age when it comes to tech. It seems most places are still mainframe shops and Sprint seemed to be the only place with any interesting work.
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Uh, the Glock has mostly replaced revolvers in police inventories. The Beretta 92F (which we renamed the M9) replaced the 1911 as our standard military sidearm.
And there is a trend back to the 1911. FBI HRT uses custom Springfields. LAPD SWAT went with a Kimber Custom. And I hear they were still quite popular with our guys in the Gulf.
The manual of arms for a 1911 (cocked and locked, hooyah!) is a bit more complicated than a revolver or a glock, but it's the choice of the many highly trained professionals.
The numbers for FISA taps are available for 2001. The 2002 numbers aren't available yet.
Interesting post on this from Orin Kerr, a law professor at George Washington.
Gun games like IPSC or IDPA are full of geeks. There is plenty of cool equipment to tinker with. And while it takes years to master, once you know a few simple safety rules almost anyone can enjoy it.
If you want something a little less politically incorrect, there are always the service rifle competitons put on by the Civilian Marksmanship Program and the NRA.
The main problem is it's in the middle of nowhere (Mapquest link [mapquest.com] ), about 50 miles from Topeka. Paying the local loop charges for dedicated (and redundant) Internet access is probably going to cost a fortune.
Actually, it's only about 15 miles from Kansas State University in Manhattan. There are providers in Wamego itself (even one who's doing wireless from the Wamego water tower.)
...to plan testing then you're always going to be behind. Test plans need to be set up in parallel with software development so the testers can become familiar with the software and create any tools or setups they will need for testing.
One thing that I've seen good organizations do is make the developers responsible for the completeness of the test plan. They have to sign off on it and if something is missed they take as much blame for it as the QA people do. At my current job, we're months away from code complete and yet most of the test plans are in place.
At my current workplace we are required to have our release notes checked into source control before we get a new release into the build (of course, this requires cooperation from the build guy.) If we don't provide proper release notes--defined by build and QA, BTW--QA won't even see it to test it.
Sure some of the developers are going to grumble about it, but those with some experience know that you have to have the procedures in place if you want to have working software instead of a big ball of mud. The 10 minutes I spend updating our release notes prevents the hour of questions I'd get from build and QA about which bugs I fixed in this release. Spending an hour with the QA guys working on the test plan can save me from being the guy who keeping our product from shipping because of a bug that's not found until the day before we ship.
OK, this is cool. But what if some of my 'schemes' need to enable WEP in different ways? Do the schemes extend into the wireless.opts file too?
Yes, they work in wireless.opts. The scheme is passed as the first argument of $ADDRESS. So home,*,*,00:02:2D:*) matches my MAC on my lucent card while using my home scheme. Scheme's can be appended as a kernel parameter, so I have different lilo entries for each scheme.
I never noticed that RH6 broke anything in the pcmcia package because I always build a new kernel as soon as the laptop is up and running. But I've heard that they 'simplified' the network.opts file a little too much.
To get the Lucent cards to work with 6.2 you have to download a newer version of the PCMCIA-cs package, build it and install it.
What you're looking for is disability insurance, more specifically, own-occupation coverage. That way you won't have to look for a job doing something else. Many tech companies offer short-term disability insurance, but I haven't seen one that offers long term without you having to pay for it. In my experience you can usually find a better plan on your own. You'll want to read up on this. There are a lot of factors to consider, e.g. how long you're out of work before you collect benefits, etc.
I looked into several schools. (I have a BA in Poli-Sci with lots of Math from econ.) For the most part, they require you to go back and take a good part of the core CS curriculum before you start grad classes.
Of course, you might never actually make it to the grad classes as companies start throwing money at you as soon as you hit the junior level classes.
I get up regularly to stretch, and I look out across the top of the cubes, and there's nothing... I expect, with all the times I've looked, that I would at least see someone else looking out across as well, but no! It's a barren wasteland of... productivity? Perhaps...
If you tried that at my company, you'd most likely be nailed in the head by the big brother of the flyingtorpedos mentioned above. (Sorry, no URL, the guy who orders them for us has already gone home.) We played with them so much that most of them broke so we sent in another order. Our VP of engineering matched us up to $100 worth and our Den Mother bought us another case. We're looking at ~200 rockets arriving next week.
Of course we have our fair share of Nerf guns. There's a Ping Pong Ball Burp gun a couple cubes down. My solution for self defense has been camoflage netting over the top of my cube. At least that keeps out the indirect fire. Not much you can do about a WildFire firing squad.
We're currently trying to come up with a design for a belt-fed Nerf gun. And somehow we still manage to bring our projects in on schedule.
It really depends on your requirements. How much downtime can you stand? How much traffic are you going to get and how fast will it grow? Is it cost effective for you to deal with the infrastructure issues yourself or should you let the coloc people worry about it?
Bandwidth, power and cooling are going to be your main issues. Let's talk bandwidth first. How fast is your traffic going to grow? Major colocs like Exodus have plenty of spare bandwidth on hand to sell you. Telcos can take weeks to run a new line. If you do it yourself you have to really keep on top of your line utilization or you can find yourself way behind the curve and it's a bitch to try and catch back up.
As far a cooling goes, you're probably going to be fine unless you have to add a ton of servers. But this is one thing that's bitten me in the past. We outgrew our cooling capacity in just a few months and we paid the price for months until we got another unit installed.
And let's not forget the power issue. How much downtime can you afford? A good coloc is going to have a generator as well as a good UPS system. Can you stand your site being down 4 hours because of a blackout?
The other benefits of a good coloc is their experience and full time staffing. I've very rarely seen the good ones have anything but minor network outages (backhoes not withstanding. :) Their NOCs often catch problems long before you hear anything from your users.
The major downside to a coloc is the expense. The good ones cost a ton of money. The only way to cut down the expense is to make sure you go rackmount and use the minium Us you need to do the job. They'll also hit you up for bandwidth costs, but that's gonna directly relate to your traffic so it's less of an issue.
So it all pretty much boils down to balancing downtime and headaches vs. costs. And that's math only you can do.
Blah. You shouldn't have felt embarassed; the service should've popped up a flag telling you your encryption wasn't up to snuff. Instead it just failed on you.
The WFB site makes it pretty clear when you don't have strong enough encryption. They only require 40bit for everything but the Online Bill Pay.
They're pretty quick to verify new browswers as well. I upgraded to a point release of Navigator (the day it was released) and found it wouldn't work on their site. I mailed them asking about it. They replied that they were working on making sure the browswer didn't have any major bugs. I tired it again a couple days later and it worked just fine. Seems like they've got all their ducks in a row
When we formed the Air Capitol Linux Users Group (ACLUG) we got it sponsored by the ACM chapter at Wichita State. Since ACM was a offical university organization we had no trouble booking rooms.
I've got a couple. One for work and one for home. Pretty easy to set up and get running.
As for the range, the house isn't big enough to worry about. I need to play with it more at work (spend most of the time in my cube) but it seems to work fine all over the building (less than 150' away.)
Configuration wise it's pretty simple. One the ethernet side you can set it up with a static IP or tell it to use the DHCP client. You can even run the DHCP server on the ethernet side. (Not sure why you'd want to, but it's pretty cool that you can do that.)
On the wireless side you can turn the NAT on and off and have it bridge to the ethernet. Also has DHCP of course. Nothing provided for forwarding ports or anything like that.
All this was done using the windows configuration utility. I've done an SNMP walk across the MIB and will probably start hacking on it, but nothing useful so far.
Another great way to help out the Linux community is to help out with the local LUGs. Give them a place to meet. Speaking from experience, finding a good location is one of the hardest parts of running a LUG
Also encourage your employees to attend, especially your most experienced Linux people. Have them monitor the mailing list and help out newbies. Sponsor an install fest.
The best part is that most employees will find this to be very enjoyable and rewarding.
I hate it when drug testing is being advocated by the old, but still false, "if you don't do drugs, you've got no reason not to take a drug test"-argument. I mean, what can you say to that?
I would tell them that it's none of their fscking business what I do on my own time. They pay me to get a job done. I get it done. On time and under budget. I'll follow their rules at the workplace (or quit) but their power over me stops as soon as I walk out the door.
I have a privilege of living in a small country where the public opinion is so much for drug testing at workplace and at school that I wouldn't be suprised if drug testing would become mandatory by law.
Thankfully they can't do that to us here yet (TX, US). But the fight is far from over.
Mandatory drug testing, psychological testing, NDA agreements before and after your employment and soon genetic testing.
At a previous job we got a new director of HR who thought that mandatory drug testing was a good idea. She was informed by the CTO that as long as he was still with the company it would never happen. And if they tried it half their best developers wouldn't pass and the other half would quit instead of taking the test. And they would never be able to replace them as they wouldn't be able to get applicants to agree to test.
I don't work for companies that violate my privacy. Period. But I have no problem signing NDAs (of course I read them first) and other agreements that protect the intellectual property of the company.
Serfdom? The companies I work for need me a lot more than I need them. The same goes for most of the people I work with. The company spends a lot of time and effort to see that we're happy. Our skills are by far their most valuable asset and they act to protect that asset. But all the legal wrangling in the world can't make an unhappy employee productive.
I've heard it called "Hotelling" (do you spell that with one L or two?). I can see it being useful in a consulting office where people spend most of their time at customer sites. You can actually get away with having fewer desks than people since everyone isn't there working all the time.
But it's a dumb idea for people who actually have to work there. There's no way in hell I could move the 50 lbs of books I have around with me. Not to mention the victim host I'm using right now to build system images and all the other crap that I keep in my cube
But what about gun control laws then?
Why are libertarians often so pro-gun?
Libertarians believe they are responsible for their own safety. A firearm is by far the most effective means of self defense (other than good judgement and situational awareness, of course.)
Nobody does studies of accidents caused by people changing radio stations.
Actually they have. You're 14 times more likely to have an accident when playing with the radio. 30some times more likely when talking on a cell phone.
One thing mentioned in the article I read was that navigation devices (GPS, etc) are even worse than cell phones.
Besides, I'm not worried about accidents. I drive a big Lexus SUV. God, I love consulting!
You're fine unless you hit some like me who drives an even bigger truck.It's not luck, it's called Networking. (No, not the TCP/IP kind.) In this business it's all about who you know. The director of staffing at my current company is a guy a used to work for about 5 years ago. He called me up and told me that this was one I really needed to be involved with. He mentioned at the last company meeting that 71% of our hires are from internal referrals. This is after a regional add campaign that brought in a flood of resumes (several thousand).
This is kind of relevant. Does anyone else have a problem writing, with something like graffiti, being a left hander
I've never had a problem using Graffiti on my Palm V or my Palm Pilot 5000 that I used before it. Since I'm only writing in one place I don't have the normal problems that come from going left to right. And you can write some really nasty looking letters and they will still get recognized. Really the only letter I have much dificulty doing is 'e' for some strange reason
That said, when it comes time do really enter some data, I'll head for the PC and the keyboard. I just don't understand those people who love to do all of their email on the pilot.
First of all, the amendment related to guns is the second. Next, that amendment does not give you as an individual the right to own or carry a gun. It gives the states power to arm their militia. By law, this means the national guard. No section of the constitution or the US code allows you to form your own militia and claim the right to carry a gun. This view has been consistantly upheld by the Supreme Court, most directly in US v. Miller, 307 US 174. For a more in-depth analysis, see The Politics of Gun Control, Robert J. Spitzer.
Read Miller again. Miller lost the case because a sawed off shotgun is not a weapon with much military value. There is even some language that infers that 2nd is an individual right.
Also check out US v Emerson which is now before the 5th Circuit. Judge Sam Cummings ruled it an indivual right and it looks like the 5th Curcuit is leaning that way. The whole issue could be before SCOTUS next year.
That's a nice sentiment, but Benjamin Franklin wasn't living in a world where any Muslim nutball could sneak into the middle of Manhattan with a nuclear bomb in a suitcase, was he? To suggest that Franklin would have the FBI sit back and do absolutely nothing as millions of Americans died is plain ludicrous. In fact, the FBI did not even exist when Ben Franklin supposedly made that statement, so your point is completely moot.
I'm a lot less worried about a "Muslim" nutball than our own government trying to protect us.
First off, nuking Manhattan would be a pretty boneheaded move. American retalitaion would be of a magnitude I hate to even imagine. The terrorists know this and play by the rules. Their acts have to be enough to make the public fear them, but not enough to generate a dispropotional response from the US. For example, what's really stopping us from really going after Ben Laden instead of bombing his camps with cruise missles? You can bet that if he were to blow up a school bus full of American kids you would see a military response that would make the Gulf War seem like a picnic.
We also have intelligence agencies that deal with communication outside of the USA (NSA/NRO etc.) While they aren't allowed to spy on American citizens, how many of these terrorists are homegrown. (Then again, look at OKC)
My real concern is that the Federal goverment means well, but in their rush to "protect" us they start seeing our rights as getting in the way. So is the next step to suspend the 4th amendment entirely?
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin
Kansas city is boring! Nobody wants to come to KC just to see the show. We want to get out and enjoy the city! Unfortunately, there's nothing to enjoy. Maybe I'm just spoiled...I live in Chicago. And where was the advertising for this? I saw nothing!
Your KC must be in another universe than the one I'm used to. Tons of stuff to do and the cost of living is very low.
That being said, KC is pretty much in the stone age when it comes to tech. It seems most places are still mainframe shops and Sprint seemed to be the only place with any interesting work.