Obviously, your argument is a straw man because the average citizen is not likely to be the target of an assassination, but fairly likely to be the target of a predator or a robber who values perversion or wealth more than human life. Firearms, combined with reasonable skills, are a great deterrent to this sort of crime.
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Why go to a country that will treat me like crap at immigration, then potentially kidnap me and ship me to Cuba if some computer tells them I might be a terrist?
Obviously, this method is a bit more sophisticated than yours as it uses a FEW more variables. I'm not following your logic, which seems to be that if creating a profile based on one factor is stupid then creating one based on many factors is no better.
I didn't realize your pickup was representative of the average vehicle in 1981. Guess what: it's not. First of all, that company was known as Datsun in 1981 so unless you're in some country other than the USA (that apparently uses MPG instead of km/l) I call BS. Second, the gas version got about 25-30 highway so I doubt you got an entire 10 MPG more on the diesel. Third, your pickup is simply not represenative of the average ca. 1981 vehicle. CAFE restrictions have been ramped up since then. Most vehicles were still struggling to balance emissions, power, and fuel efficiency requirements. V8 engines were still very common, and only the newest vehicles had technology like EFI. Cars now are lighter, more efficient, have a tiny fraction of the emissions, and can actually get out their own way.
SUVs are really badly designed in a lot of ways (apparently the syndrome is something like: in order to keep SUVs from tending to flip over, they need wide wheel bases that push the wheels out sideways so that they tend to snag on the posts of guardrails, and hence flip over more easily....).
Holy crap! Imagine what would happen if a tractor-trailer were to try driving on a highway! Big trucks flipping all over the place! Maybe it would help if we put something over the wheels to keep them from touching barriers and guardrails. Hmm... call it a "fender."
Skiing: Dangerous and often illegal, as you indicated. BUSTED Cycling: OK Build a deck: OK for a deck, but what about the deck chairs and the table? They won't fit either. $25+$25+$25... Going to dinner: You just took two cars! You mean two small vehicles use less fuel than one large one? Someone needs to tell cities to dump the buses and start carting people around in taxis! Oh wait, you said to use a limo. LOL! Not only are you elitist, but you picked a supremely wasteful 9 MPG vehicle!
Why "store" then in your trash? Why not put them into folder, so you don't have to search on so many unsorted messages and run the risk of accidentally emptying the trash?
In the real world, instead of being ruled by a government which is ruled only by it's own incompetence and presumably by its constitution, a libertarian state would be ruled over by either warlord princes who govern small city-states via force of arms (if government is gone completely) or corprations which govern through greed and abuse of justice, (if there actually was a police force and state military.)
It's not the Anarchy Party, you ignoramus. Try going to the website and finding out the party's stance is.
Actually, no, since it's only illegal to lie to law enforcement or in court. It doesn't matter whether you are an individual or speaking for a corporation. Kevin Mitnick's pretexting was perfectly legal-- it's when he used the information to trespass or break into systems that he broke the law.
Gingrich currently holds no office and you, like the ignoramus who wrote the headline, didn't read the article. Gingrich definitely doesn't indicate that free speech is "forefeit!" What an idiotic thing for an public figure to do at a "free speech" dinner! He also didn't say that the "idea of free speech needs to be reexamined." He said-- and this is the only truthful part of the summary-- that a "different set of rules" is needed. You know, like updating our outdated laws to allow us to stop terrorists without stepping on the toes of trolling Slashdotters.
The Startac was considerably larger than the RAZR in at least one dimension: thickness. Kind of the selling point of the RAZR, as nearly every other phone on the market is smaller in length and width.
I loathe the RIAA (a strange thing for a former recording engineer), but I agree that statements like this trivializes those who suffered under actual reigns of terror. It's simply not an acceptable metaphor.
What if "activists" don't like how you raise your kids, should they be allowed to just take them??
That's pretty much how DYFS works in New Jersey. You can make any outrageous claim about your neighbor and a social worker will show up with a police officer and demand access. If the parent is not home, they'll intimidate whoever is supervising (such as an aunt or sibling) into handing over your child without so much as a warrant.
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Obviously, your argument is a straw man because the average citizen is not likely to be the target of an assassination, but fairly likely to be the target of a predator or a robber who values perversion or wealth more than human life. Firearms, combined with reasonable skills, are a great deterrent to this sort of crime.
Obviously, this method is a bit more sophisticated than yours as it uses a FEW more variables. I'm not following your logic, which seems to be that if creating a profile based on one factor is stupid then creating one based on many factors is no better.
I didn't realize your pickup was representative of the average vehicle in 1981. Guess what: it's not. First of all, that company was known as Datsun in 1981 so unless you're in some country other than the USA (that apparently uses MPG instead of km/l) I call BS. Second, the gas version got about 25-30 highway so I doubt you got an entire 10 MPG more on the diesel. Third, your pickup is simply not represenative of the average ca. 1981 vehicle. CAFE restrictions have been ramped up since then. Most vehicles were still struggling to balance emissions, power, and fuel efficiency requirements. V8 engines were still very common, and only the newest vehicles had technology like EFI. Cars now are lighter, more efficient, have a tiny fraction of the emissions, and can actually get out their own way.
Skiing: Dangerous and often illegal, as you indicated. BUSTED
Cycling: OK
Build a deck: OK for a deck, but what about the deck chairs and the table? They won't fit either. $25+$25+$25...
Going to dinner: You just took two cars! You mean two small vehicles use less fuel than one large one? Someone needs to tell cities to dump the buses and start carting people around in taxis! Oh wait, you said to use a limo. LOL! Not only are you elitist, but you picked a supremely wasteful 9 MPG vehicle!
Why "store" then in your trash? Why not put them into folder, so you don't have to search on so many unsorted messages and run the risk of accidentally emptying the trash?
Actually, no, since it's only illegal to lie to law enforcement or in court. It doesn't matter whether you are an individual or speaking for a corporation. Kevin Mitnick's pretexting was perfectly legal-- it's when he used the information to trespass or break into systems that he broke the law.
His degrees from Yale and Harvard and experience as a military officer and pilot may have helped as well.
I'm sure that, as an AC, your statements are totally reliable.
The patent finally ran out on it last week! Unfortunately, there's still a copyright on the software (the guy turning the crank).
Smell you later!
Only the Qur'an says that "religion" is a good thing.
That's why we have the 9th amendment, a sort of meta-amendment.
Gingrich currently holds no office and you, like the ignoramus who wrote the headline, didn't read the article. Gingrich definitely doesn't indicate that free speech is "forefeit!" What an idiotic thing for an public figure to do at a "free speech" dinner! He also didn't say that the "idea of free speech needs to be reexamined." He said-- and this is the only truthful part of the summary-- that a "different set of rules" is needed. You know, like updating our outdated laws to allow us to stop terrorists without stepping on the toes of trolling Slashdotters.
The Startac was considerably larger than the RAZR in at least one dimension: thickness. Kind of the selling point of the RAZR, as nearly every other phone on the market is smaller in length and width.
I loathe the RIAA (a strange thing for a former recording engineer), but I agree that statements like this trivializes those who suffered under actual reigns of terror. It's simply not an acceptable metaphor.
I'm wondering if anyone is claiming that this year's hurricane non-season is further evidence of global warming.
I think you played a little too much "Civilization".