They have less and less content on there, and yet they keep raising their prices?
For what exactly are we getting for this increate of money paid in?
Original content is ok, some of it is pretty good, but they hardly ever these days have a modern movie I want to watch, which is why I subscribed to them int he first place!!!
Absolutely. Where do the guns come from that are illegally owned though? Are there illegal gun factories in the US pumping out black market guns? No, they are all legally manufactured in the US and legally sold to distributors or direct to vendors in the US. Only afterwards do they end up illegally owned. In other words, we have so many people who own guns illegally precisely because of our mass legal gun ownership.
I for one like the idea of living in country where, generally speaking, the worst a mugger has is a knife because if they're a mugger they'll have their weapon out well before I ever would so my own right or non-right to carry a gun would be irrelevant.
So, we should deny the rights of the VAST majority, the millions of legal, responsible gun owners, due to a small minority of criminals?
I mean geez, when a drunk drives a car into people and kills them, do you blame the car?
We have seen how a hands-off approach most definitely causes racial disparities in many instances, neighborhoods segregate, schools segregate, and so forth.
It happens quite readily because it is NATURAL for people to tend to congregate, associate and prefer to live with people that look and act largely like themselves.
We all as humans have a bit of tribalism baked into us.
There's nothing wrong with this, as long as there is no discrimination or that type action if someone prefers to live differently.
This is just naturally the way humans tend to act if not forced by outside forces, like the government.
While everyone should be free and and able to live where they want, I don't think it is necessarily to have things gamed by the government.
Why not let people live lives directed by their natural tendencies?
They aren't being silenced, they are just not being paid to speak.
On YT, just get some folks against what you say, even if not violent, or threatening, etc.....and they start getting strikes put on your channel, and you'll be silenced pretty quickly.
3 strikes and your out....and that's even for some pretty big YT "stars" with followings and actual people they can contact at YT..... You don't even get a fight at all if you're a small fry.
Not anymore, apparently. It looks like tough, independent Australians are being turned into an obedient little slaves to Big Brother.
Well, it starts when they take away your guns, and then the govt figures the populace has no way to fight back, and then they start slowing eroding your rights.
I'm kinda curious if Facebook also has a policy of allowing people to search for and target things like:
muslim terrorists/jihad?
ANTIFA violence?
Black Panthers?
KKK?
I'm just curious if they are only wanting them to target Nazis, or other equally fringe and often distasteful and possibly "radicalizing" sects/subjects?
I'm curious as to where the line is drawn....and, who decides?
I personally am against all of them, but I wonder if they are trying to root out all aspects of distasteful beliefs and groups?
While I think this is the WRONG battle to do this over....I do admire anyone trying to fight to wrench back states rights, and push back on Federal overreach.
Mel Brooks films make sense. And more importantly, they make fun of everybody, but with a special twist of using openly racist tropes to satirize racists.
No way anyone can make a movie today with a black character saying, "Where de white women at?"
This is SO sadly true.
You could never make a masterpiece comedy like Blazing Saddles in this day in age, without a deluge of butt-hurt people all over the place.
It's sad you could not make a LOT of movies today that you could only a few years ago...many are classics.
I was watching Revenge of the Nerds on IFC yesterday....you couldn't do that, you have "homophobic", racist....there would be #MeToo all over the place just to start with....
Other movies? Hmm...off the top of my head:
1. Fast Times At Ridgemont High (right off to bat, depicting underage sex would get you in legal trouble most likely).
...at first, I wasn't thinking this was necessary
at all.
But with recent readings about how China really seems to be upping their space game, and apparently looking to set up a base on the moon, this actually might not be a bad idea.
China is definitely doing military groundwork for space, and we don't want to be caught with our pants too far down.
And this actually might boost conventional space progress for us...something we've lost over the past decades.
If you have military $$ behind it, it might give the regular NASA stuff a boost too.
I"m guessing they can't let EVERYONE work only Mon-Thurs.....they have to stagger everyone's week day off, won't they?
I'm guessing those that are happier would have either Mon or Friday off, so as to always have a 3x day weekend.
Kinda sucks for those a bit, that they'd have to break their weekends and weekday off to be off Sat-Sun, have to work Mon and Friday and be off Tues or Wed or Thurs.
How do they pick who gets lucky and gets the perpetual LONG weekend set ups?
What happens when a holiday occurs on your week day off? Do you get double pay for it?
While it sounds interesting, I'd like to hear the details on things like this.....
You are a liar. I've done my taxes, and paid more this year. Lots of people have been complaining about this.
Aside from the high tax states, where the Feds started dis-allowing you to write off those insanely high state taxes....most people will see a tax break.
From what I can see, the majority of people complaining about tax season this year, is not due to HIGHER taxes, but that companies didn't adjust correctly the W4 exemptions claimed...meaning the Feds didn't take out as much money from people's paychecks as they used to, to cover the annual tax debt.
People aren't getting back refunds, or may actually owe a bit of tax...
While in general, this is a good thing...you are keeping your own money throughout the year, rather than giving the federal government a year long interest free loan...and having them refund it back to you.
The bad thing about this, is that it seems most W2 employees were not informed about this so they would know to either adjust their W4's accordingly and not be surprised.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
These are two thoughts in one sentence.
The right of the PEOPLE is not depending upon the existence of or membership of a militia.
The constitution mentions a right of the PEOPLE several times, and it means just that. It is the right the PEOPLE have, this is not the right of a militia.
Well obviously if you use a club card type thing that can be tracked. Also if you use the same credit card to pay for things, they know how often you come, how many snacks you buy, etc.
Hmm...ok, I was going with the assumption that most people just use cash at a movie theater?
Hmm, now that I think about it, I guess they do take credit cards, but for minor expenses like this, just use cash.....?
Sure, not that either saves you much in the end. No matter how much the ATF (or whatever their latest acronym is) says otherwise there is a lot more to a gun than a lower and those parts add up to the cost of the gun.
You might save a little bit of cash if you want a very non-stock gun by buying the parts you want in the first place but usually not as much as you think and certainly not vs buying a non-ar style rifle.
Well, it isn't so much the cost that people are interested in saving.
It is having a firearm that there is no record of, no registration, no NICS background check....basically no part of the US government (federal, state or local) knows you have this weapon.
And that is perfectly legal...and as far as most firearms go, ONLY one part of the gun is officially "the gun". IN the case of the AR, it is the simple, lower receiver.
So, say you buy a so called 80% lower. It usually comes with jigs you put it into, to help guide you with a drill, or other type tools, to mill out the remaining parts and make it fully functional.
At that part, you buy a fully constructed upper, a lower parts kit (trigger, hammer, springs, etc)....slap it all together, and voila!! You have a fully functional AR-15 (you can do this with pistols and other rifles too, but ARs are the most popular), and you built it yourself, there is no record of it whatsoever in any govt database.
If that is important to you and it is to people out there, this is an easy way to do it.
People are looking to do with with simple 3D printers, so they can do it easier, especially if they don't have access to machining tools.
Specifically
"Texas Penal Code Section 46.05 requires that "explosive weapons", "machine guns", "short-barrel firearms", and "firearm silencers", as defined in Section 46.01, be "registered in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record maintained by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives or classified as a curio or relic by the United States Department of Justice". Prior to May 22nd 2015, Section 46.05 called "registration pursuant to the National Firearms Act" a "defense to prosecution".
That's what I was referring to in my original comment with regard to NFA (National Firearms Act).
That's a federal thing, not a state thing, however....if you have NFA items, you have to register them with the Feds and pay a $200 tax stamp.
Most states don't do anything on top of that, but there are a few of the less than 'free' states that ban NFA items outright, but TX isn't one of them.
Anyway, more and more I"m thinking either the article or the summary here misstated what he was convicted of with respect to the 'unregistered firearm'.
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They have less and less content on there, and yet they keep raising their prices?
For what exactly are we getting for this increate of money paid in?
Original content is ok, some of it is pretty good, but they hardly ever these days have a modern movie I want to watch, which is why I subscribed to them int he first place!!!
So, we should deny the rights of the VAST majority, the millions of legal, responsible gun owners, due to a small minority of criminals?
I mean geez, when a drunk drives a car into people and kills them, do you blame the car?
Well, after all.....
The words 'rap' and 'music' are mutually exclusive terms.
Gangs.
Largest by far percent of gun violence is gangs with handguns shooting each other. Next is suicide.
The chances of you getting involved with a shooting by the majority of legal gun owners is less than you dying in a car accident.
I for one, like to have the option to protect myself.
I think down here in the New Orleans area...mulatto is synonymous to "creole".
It happens quite readily because it is NATURAL for people to tend to congregate, associate and prefer to live with people that look and act largely like themselves.
We all as humans have a bit of tribalism baked into us.
There's nothing wrong with this, as long as there is no discrimination or that type action if someone prefers to live differently.
This is just naturally the way humans tend to act if not forced by outside forces, like the government.
While everyone should be free and and able to live where they want, I don't think it is necessarily to have things gamed by the government.
Why not let people live lives directed by their natural tendencies?
Hell, in this day in age, to keep from offending anyone, they shouldn't ask for color or ethnicity, or even sex.
Pick people based on their merits, eh?
On YT, just get some folks against what you say, even if not violent, or threatening, etc.....and they start getting strikes put on your channel, and you'll be silenced pretty quickly.
3 strikes and your out....and that's even for some pretty big YT "stars" with followings and actual people they can contact at YT..... You don't even get a fight at all if you're a small fry.
Well, it starts when they take away your guns, and then the govt figures the populace has no way to fight back, and then they start slowing eroding your rights.
Yeah...color me old fashioned, and a fuddy-duddy....
But I'm leaning towards keeping my footwear (and clothing) purely analog, and manual.
muslim terrorists/jihad?
ANTIFA violence?
Black Panthers?
KKK?
I'm just curious if they are only wanting them to target Nazis, or other equally fringe and often distasteful and possibly "radicalizing" sects/subjects?
I'm curious as to where the line is drawn....and, who decides?
I personally am against all of them, but I wonder if they are trying to root out all aspects of distasteful beliefs and groups?
While I think this is the WRONG battle to do this over....I do admire anyone trying to fight to wrench back states rights, and push back on Federal overreach.
This is SO sadly true.
You could never make a masterpiece comedy like Blazing Saddles in this day in age, without a deluge of butt-hurt people all over the place.
It's sad you could not make a LOT of movies today that you could only a few years ago...many are classics.
I was watching Revenge of the Nerds on IFC yesterday....you couldn't do that, you have "homophobic", racist....there would be #MeToo all over the place just to start with....
Other movies? Hmm...off the top of my head:
1. Fast Times At Ridgemont High (right off to bat, depicting underage sex would get you in legal trouble most likely).
2. Animal House
3. Porky's?
4. Stripes ("Black guys, help the white guys")
5. Add your favorites here.....
Agreed, or maybe like one of the old bad Japanese space movies....maybe with a lot of hand puppets in there in lieu of live actors.
But with recent readings about how China really seems to be upping their space game, and apparently looking to set up a base on the moon, this actually might not be a bad idea.
China is definitely doing military groundwork for space, and we don't want to be caught with our pants too far down.
And this actually might boost conventional space progress for us...something we've lost over the past decades.
If you have military $$ behind it, it might give the regular NASA stuff a boost too.
I'm guessing those that are happier would have either Mon or Friday off, so as to always have a 3x day weekend.
Kinda sucks for those a bit, that they'd have to break their weekends and weekday off to be off Sat-Sun, have to work Mon and Friday and be off Tues or Wed or Thurs.
How do they pick who gets lucky and gets the perpetual LONG weekend set ups?
What happens when a holiday occurs on your week day off? Do you get double pay for it?
While it sounds interesting, I'd like to hear the details on things like this.....
It appears that I'll be catching a break with the new tax cuts...I'm certainly not wealthy, but I am a small business owner with a S-Corp.
Aside from the high tax states, where the Feds started dis-allowing you to write off those insanely high state taxes....most people will see a tax break.
From what I can see, the majority of people complaining about tax season this year, is not due to HIGHER taxes, but that companies didn't adjust correctly the W4 exemptions claimed...meaning the Feds didn't take out as much money from people's paychecks as they used to, to cover the annual tax debt.
People aren't getting back refunds, or may actually owe a bit of tax...
While in general, this is a good thing...you are keeping your own money throughout the year, rather than giving the federal government a year long interest free loan...and having them refund it back to you.
The bad thing about this, is that it seems most W2 employees were not informed about this so they would know to either adjust their W4's accordingly and not be surprised.
Well, at least for now...it is perfectly legal to should a braced pistol.
These are two thoughts in one sentence.
The right of the PEOPLE is not depending upon the existence of or membership of a militia.
The constitution mentions a right of the PEOPLE several times, and it means just that. It is the right the PEOPLE have, this is not the right of a militia.
Just thinking it would be a useful tool if you needed to just put a face on an image or pamphlet, etc......
Hmm...ok, I was going with the assumption that most people just use cash at a movie theater?
Hmm, now that I think about it, I guess they do take credit cards, but for minor expenses like this, just use cash.....?
Well, it isn't so much the cost that people are interested in saving.
It is having a firearm that there is no record of, no registration, no NICS background check....basically no part of the US government (federal, state or local) knows you have this weapon.
And that is perfectly legal...and as far as most firearms go, ONLY one part of the gun is officially "the gun". IN the case of the AR, it is the simple, lower receiver.
So, say you buy a so called 80% lower. It usually comes with jigs you put it into, to help guide you with a drill, or other type tools, to mill out the remaining parts and make it fully functional.
At that part, you buy a fully constructed upper, a lower parts kit (trigger, hammer, springs, etc)....slap it all together, and voila!! You have a fully functional AR-15 (you can do this with pistols and other rifles too, but ARs are the most popular), and you built it yourself, there is no record of it whatsoever in any govt database.
If that is important to you and it is to people out there, this is an easy way to do it.
People are looking to do with with simple 3D printers, so they can do it easier, especially if they don't have access to machining tools.
Ah...now THAT is different!!
That indeed would be a NFA item, and that's a federal charge.
If he'd not been stupid, and just put a pistol brace on it, he'd have not gotten charged with that.
I know, very stupid distinction, but important for you if you are a gun owner (speaking more for legal gun owners here).
That's what I was referring to in my original comment with regard to NFA (National Firearms Act).
That's a federal thing, not a state thing, however....if you have NFA items, you have to register them with the Feds and pay a $200 tax stamp.
Most states don't do anything on top of that, but there are a few of the less than 'free' states that ban NFA items outright, but TX isn't one of them.
Anyway, more and more I"m thinking either the article or the summary here misstated what he was convicted of with respect to the 'unregistered firearm'.