OR they knew a secure smart gun couldn't be created and intended this. Just think, make the legislation say it requires smart guns only if they are secure, leave it as vague as possible, then ban all smart guns that are made as insecure. Roundabout way to outlaw guns.
I'd not put it past them.
But man..."smart" guns IMHO are NOT a good thing to have.
I mean, having a firearm that my life may depend on in a home invasion, that may not fire if I'm not wearing a watch (I usually do not wear one), or if I"m wearing it, happens to be low or run out of power....is not a good thing.
I mean, if you want one, I think that's fine, but trouble is, if they become prolific, then I foresee problems with govt trying to mandate that all weapons be "smart" (likely cops are excepted)...and I don't like that mandate.
I like to keep my guns loaded, chambered and hidden throughout the house...where I'm never but a few steps away from any weapon that I can grab, and pull the trigger on (some do have safety on, but the glocks do not).
I don't want to have the risk that any of these would not fire due to a missing signal from a watch or other e-signature type device.
I think the only thing I may hate worse than the sing song indian accents that are barely understandable...is the voice robot that answers phones these days, asking that you speak answers to them, rather than simply pushing a button.
I thought I hated he button thing...but man, having to talk/shout to a computer voice to get through a menu system?
not only frustrating, but you're having to do it within earshot of people around you, at least with pushing buttons, it is private that you are doing something support related.
When I get the voice activated menus (VAM?)..i just repeated ask for "operator"...and maybe a motherfucker or two too, as that I've heard some of the systems respond faster to off color language as a sign that the customer is frustrated and needs a human intervention fast......usually that bypasses all the stupid choices and gets me to some human to actually converse with.
Of course, that human may not be understandable, but hey at least they are human and you can try more than with a VAM.
Bob: "Hey, Dora, you been gettin' a mite fat over the last nine months. Maybe you oughtn'a be eatin' so much?"
Dora: "I ain't eatin' that much, and I been pukin' a lot of it up what'n I do eat, you know? I don't know what's... ungh, OW!" plop. "Hey, look at that! It's a kid!"
Bob: "Yeah, I wonder where that came from. But damn, woman, you're looking a lot trimmer now, let's go have sex to celebrate your sudden weight loss..."
You know..if they really ARE that fuckng stupid, then perhaps we need to consider requiring sterilization as a prerequisite to welfare, 'cause you know these folks like you described will be on the dole.
In 20+ years of contracting, I've never met an IT contractor who wasn't also a W2 employee for a contracting agency. Most 1099 contractors are probably consultants.
Hi...nice to meet you, you just met one.
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I started out as most any do as a W2 employee of a contract house...but once in the door, meeting people, etc....I've been able to get myself 1099.
It isn't always easy and the companies WANT you as W2, but after awhile and if you get in good with people, etc...you can get yourself 1099.
I was prepared long back as that I incorporated myself, as that of course, NO ONE wants to risk corp to person 1099...you have to be corp-to-corp to make sure everyone is happy that no one is going to come back and try to sue for employment benefits.
I"ll admit, it isn't for everyone, but if you're willing to do some research, be willing to do more paperwork on your own for taxes, (get a cpa too)...it is a viable way to make a good bit of money.
Consultant / contractor....I see no difference....it is the bill rate and who takes taxes out of your check..you or another corporation.....
I still make the argument, if you are a W2 employee, you are not a contractor...but you can get yourself into the worst of both worlds.....no job security without the bill rate you should get to go with the risk....but, you gotta start somewhere.
I've been contracting for the last 20+ years. Contracting agencies started offering full benefits after ObamaCare got passed in 2010 to comply with the law and stay competitive with each other to attract the best employees. If a recruiter offered me a contract job without benefits, I would laugh in their face.
You are talking about being a W2 employee to a contract house..that's one thing.
But if you are a TRUE 1099 contractor....you just need to make sure to calculate then negotiate your bill rate so that you can afford to fund your own benefits, and that isn't that hard.
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Set up SEP IRA, IRA's or solo 401K's..invest for retirement...set up HSA for routine medical expenses pre-tax....etc.
In discussions on "contracting" we need to maybe not lump in W2 employees working for a contract house..that is NOT true contracting in the legal or fiscal sense.
If you a W2 employee and not a 1099 contractor, then you are really NOT a contractor and yes, should expect benefits.
Kinda sad...feel entitled, want socialism....fundamentally want to change the US from what made it a great and powerful country to date....nah...let's cut back on the young for a bit....
Statements like this make me queasy. You're telling me that we now have a society where we have decided that it's ok that raising the next generation is too expensive for ordinary people to do. There has to be something wrong with a society that considers raising the next generation to be something ordinary people can't participate in.
No...not saying that, BUT, saying that people should plan for and make sure they are ready to have kids.
In today's society, it takes $$ to have kids. If you don't make enough money young, you need to wait to have a family till you can earn enough money to take care of them, and send them to proper schools, and have time to spend with them....none of that is cheap.
And for most 'normal' people...this will require sacrifice...personal sacrifice in terms of time, and monetarily needs and personal growth.
Most young adults today, are not willing to do what my parents did just a few years back. They pretty much stopped their lives, to have and raise me.
I'm trying to pay them back some for that now, but they gave up a LOT to have me and make sure I was raised in a happy household, was schooled, etc.
If you only make $80K a year...and want to have kids, you need to make sure you are first pretty much out of debt...can afford to work/live where you are (otherwise MOVE)...and have some money saved back.
That makes perfect sense in today's society to expect that.
The rest of us here are not here to pay for your offspring, YOU need to be responsible for what happens if you don't pull out in time...
We have become a sad population if we reproach people having 3 kids.
There's NOTHING in the world wrong with having 3 kids....if you can AFFORD them...eh?
We're all (presumably) relatively intelligent beings walking the earth here, and one would think they would PLAN and think ahead like adults to make sure they can afford to have any kids before they have them, no?
Ok...hey, let's give them the first one as an accident...it happens. They didn't get rid of it, so they have one...if they are having trouble affording precious bundle #1...they damned sure should NOT have #2 and #3, I mean, that make sense, no?
US military has had serving transgender people for a while now, why rock the boat and exclude them?
The new rule to allow them to participate in the open, is rather recent, it had only been in effect for about a year, at the VERY END of the Obama administration.
Even he didn't think it was important enough to do at the beginning, he just left it as a landline for the republicans.
Being transgender does not imply removing body parts.
Well, it is a case of being fucked up in the head....and it does matter to 'real' men, who in combat are having to bathe, sleep, eat, shit and co-habitate in pretty nasty places and environments, and you're not wanting to do that with someone who isn't quite sure which way they swing.
Not to mention, having to worry about being out in combat, and if private notsuremysex starts having problems due to running out of hormones for his/her therapy.....
It doesn't take much of a hormone imbalance to really fsck a person up.
And you can't give me the "oh well, we won't assign them to combat"....ok, so, you're giving special dispensation to these type people and not others? That's not fair either.
Look, we did just find without these till now..why rock the boat? The military is NOT the place for social experimentation.
It is meant for one thing and one thing only....swift and blinding violence to kill the enemy.
Nothing that could possibly interfere with that goal should be considered.
Believe it or not, you can appreciate the engineering of the internal combustion engine and at the same time realize how crappy they are and their injury to the planet.
Yeah, but a motorcycle will NOT be the same if they are forced to go electric.
Half the fun is the loud sound, the low rumble, the smells, etc......
And besides, by the time it would hurt the planet seriously, we'll all be long gone and dead, so who cares?
That is one of the most powerful tools any state/community pulls out of the quiver any time they try to entice a large company to their area.
I'm sure it happened here, but it's not like it is scandalous or different than business as usual for anything of this nature in the past, present or future.
The problem is not the community, which by all accounts is wonderful. It's the location. If you could pick it up and move it all to someplace that wasn't just going to get wiped out again, I'd cheer it along.
Well, that's the thing...we weren't wiped out.
Hell, a year after Katrina, we had more restaurants than we had before Katrina.
The areas that got really devastated, most of them, were in need of flushing out anyway. They were built on swamp land that was never a safe place.
New Orleans is older than the US itself. And its location is actually quite strategic...being at the mouth of the MS river. It is here to house one of the largest ports in the US.
It is also uniquely set up for helping to bring oil in from the gulf, not to mention, provide for close to 1/3 of the US's seafood.
The areas in New Orleans proper...the original areas that were built up by the settlers almost 300 years go..actually didn't really flood much.
Even the areas with more damage...near the 17th street canal, near good neighborhoods...lots of parts in there survived, and it didn't take but a couple of years to where you really couldn't tell there was a Katrina flood, in the areas of town that are original, or were and still remain productive and vibrant.
Areas like New Orleans East, the 9th ward, etc...those were dead areas before the storm, the floods just washed a lot of the trash away, and the city is better for it. Poverty and crime is all those areas housed and so, not missing that at all.
hat also means increased dependence on foreign oil. The US does not have enough oil for long term. That means the US will be dependent on other countries for oil.
Considering that the US is currently pumping more oil than it can use, and is actively selling it on the foreign market...I seriously doubt what you say would happen in my lifetime.
If the foreign market dried up, we'd stop selling our excess and enjoy it for many, many years to come.
Shhh, were all supposed to pretend that women don't take a huge amount of time off to give birth, or outright quit because they'd rather be fulltime moms.
Sssh.....soon, you'll have men wondering WTF they are forced to pay for maternal care on their medical insurance policies, even if single and/or no intention of ever having kids....
It kind of does if you want to win. In WWII it would have been politically expedient to have only white soldiers but practicality meant being at the forefront of social change.
The gender thing shouldn't get in the way of being effective.
There's a BIG difference between being born a certain race...vs choosing if you want to cut your pee-pee off and dress like a girl.
It's not a town, it's a disaster area. I hope nobody paid you to stay, because that should be a crime.
hmm...not sure why you say that?
Sure it has some unique problems, mostly due to some high poverty areas, but has improved since we started getting rid of a lot of the projects throughout the city, which started before Katrina.
But most everyone that lives here LOVES it...cost of living items like food, and drink (haha) are cheap...seafood is plentiful year round, there is all kinds of sportsman activities, especially fishing, crabbing, etc.
And there is ALWAYS something going on here...a festival, at least one almost every week...music ones, cooking ones...art ones...etc.
and the people...to me, that's the best part. People here that might not have a shirt to give you off their back...will still do so. Friendly, and good to be with...people you can trust and count on...you get to know your neighbors here, which I think is nice, and something that is missing these days in other cities and communities.
I'd rather stay where I am...not quite taxed to the bejesus....and more freedom.
I like my guns and enjoy very lax regulations here, I like not being forced to sort my garbage, you can, but you are still free to just put one can out for the garbagemen. No "sniff" test on my car for an inspection....hell, and where I live, I can go to a bar 24/7, or buy beer, wine or liquor in a grocery store 7 days a week....drive through daiquiri stores, and no one has much a hangup about who you are, etc....
I find it a very good thing that different states can mostly self regulate and have the laws their citizens enjoy, rather than a one size fits all federal mandate on fucking everything.
Let's keep it that way, eh?
Have fun in Seatle....I'll come to visit, but not wanting to live there. I'm sure many out there feel then same about here.
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I'd not put it past them.
But man..."smart" guns IMHO are NOT a good thing to have.
I mean, having a firearm that my life may depend on in a home invasion, that may not fire if I'm not wearing a watch (I usually do not wear one), or if I"m wearing it, happens to be low or run out of power....is not a good thing.
I mean, if you want one, I think that's fine, but trouble is, if they become prolific, then I foresee problems with govt trying to mandate that all weapons be "smart" (likely cops are excepted)...and I don't like that mandate.
I like to keep my guns loaded, chambered and hidden throughout the house...where I'm never but a few steps away from any weapon that I can grab, and pull the trigger on (some do have safety on, but the glocks do not).
I don't want to have the risk that any of these would not fire due to a missing signal from a watch or other e-signature type device.
I thought I hated he button thing...but man, having to talk/shout to a computer voice to get through a menu system?
not only frustrating, but you're having to do it within earshot of people around you, at least with pushing buttons, it is private that you are doing something support related.
When I get the voice activated menus (VAM?)..i just repeated ask for "operator"...and maybe a motherfucker or two too, as that I've heard some of the systems respond faster to off color language as a sign that the customer is frustrated and needs a human intervention fast......usually that bypasses all the stupid choices and gets me to some human to actually converse with.
Of course, that human may not be understandable, but hey at least they are human and you can try more than with a VAM.
You know..if they really ARE that fuckng stupid, then perhaps we need to consider requiring sterilization as a prerequisite to welfare, 'cause you know these folks like you described will be on the dole.
Hi...nice to meet you, you just met one.
I started out as most any do as a W2 employee of a contract house...but once in the door, meeting people, etc....I've been able to get myself 1099.
It isn't always easy and the companies WANT you as W2, but after awhile and if you get in good with people, etc...you can get yourself 1099.
I was prepared long back as that I incorporated myself, as that of course, NO ONE wants to risk corp to person 1099...you have to be corp-to-corp to make sure everyone is happy that no one is going to come back and try to sue for employment benefits.
I"ll admit, it isn't for everyone, but if you're willing to do some research, be willing to do more paperwork on your own for taxes, (get a cpa too)...it is a viable way to make a good bit of money.
Consultant / contractor....I see no difference....it is the bill rate and who takes taxes out of your check..you or another corporation.....
I still make the argument, if you are a W2 employee, you are not a contractor...but you can get yourself into the worst of both worlds.....no job security without the bill rate you should get to go with the risk....but, you gotta start somewhere.
You are talking about being a W2 employee to a contract house..that's one thing.
But if you are a TRUE 1099 contractor....you just need to make sure to calculate then negotiate your bill rate so that you can afford to fund your own benefits, and that isn't that hard.
. Set up SEP IRA, IRA's or solo 401K's..invest for retirement...set up HSA for routine medical expenses pre-tax....etc.
In discussions on "contracting" we need to maybe not lump in W2 employees working for a contract house..that is NOT true contracting in the legal or fiscal sense.
If you a W2 employee and not a 1099 contractor, then you are really NOT a contractor and yes, should expect benefits.
I dunno...you seen the ones we have here lately?
Kinda sad...feel entitled, want socialism....fundamentally want to change the US from what made it a great and powerful country to date....nah...let's cut back on the young for a bit....
No...not saying that, BUT, saying that people should plan for and make sure they are ready to have kids.
In today's society, it takes $$ to have kids. If you don't make enough money young, you need to wait to have a family till you can earn enough money to take care of them, and send them to proper schools, and have time to spend with them....none of that is cheap.
And for most 'normal' people...this will require sacrifice...personal sacrifice in terms of time, and monetarily needs and personal growth.
Most young adults today, are not willing to do what my parents did just a few years back. They pretty much stopped their lives, to have and raise me.
I'm trying to pay them back some for that now, but they gave up a LOT to have me and make sure I was raised in a happy household, was schooled, etc.
If you only make $80K a year...and want to have kids, you need to make sure you are first pretty much out of debt...can afford to work/live where you are (otherwise MOVE)...and have some money saved back.
That makes perfect sense in today's society to expect that.
The rest of us here are not here to pay for your offspring, YOU need to be responsible for what happens if you don't pull out in time...
There's NOTHING in the world wrong with having 3 kids....if you can AFFORD them...eh?
We're all (presumably) relatively intelligent beings walking the earth here, and one would think they would PLAN and think ahead like adults to make sure they can afford to have any kids before they have them, no?
Ok...hey, let's give them the first one as an accident...it happens. They didn't get rid of it, so they have one...if they are having trouble affording precious bundle #1...they damned sure should NOT have #2 and #3, I mean, that make sense, no?
The new rule to allow them to participate in the open, is rather recent, it had only been in effect for about a year, at the VERY END of the Obama administration.
Even he didn't think it was important enough to do at the beginning, he just left it as a landline for the republicans.
Well, it is a case of being fucked up in the head....and it does matter to 'real' men, who in combat are having to bathe, sleep, eat, shit and co-habitate in pretty nasty places and environments, and you're not wanting to do that with someone who isn't quite sure which way they swing.
Not to mention, having to worry about being out in combat, and if private notsuremysex starts having problems due to running out of hormones for his/her therapy.....
It doesn't take much of a hormone imbalance to really fsck a person up.
And you can't give me the "oh well, we won't assign them to combat"....ok, so, you're giving special dispensation to these type people and not others? That's not fair either.
Look, we did just find without these till now..why rock the boat? The military is NOT the place for social experimentation.
It is meant for one thing and one thing only....swift and blinding violence to kill the enemy.
Nothing that could possibly interfere with that goal should be considered.
There's a BIG difference between born a certain race vs choosing whether or not you want to cut off your pee-pee and start dressing like a woman.
Yeah, but a motorcycle will NOT be the same if they are forced to go electric.
Half the fun is the loud sound, the low rumble, the smells, etc......
And besides, by the time it would hurt the planet seriously, we'll all be long gone and dead, so who cares?
Well...Duh!!!
That is one of the most powerful tools any state/community pulls out of the quiver any time they try to entice a large company to their area.
I'm sure it happened here, but it's not like it is scandalous or different than business as usual for anything of this nature in the past, present or future.
Well, that's the thing...we weren't wiped out.
Hell, a year after Katrina, we had more restaurants than we had before Katrina.
The areas that got really devastated, most of them, were in need of flushing out anyway. They were built on swamp land that was never a safe place.
New Orleans is older than the US itself. And its location is actually quite strategic...being at the mouth of the MS river. It is here to house one of the largest ports in the US.
It is also uniquely set up for helping to bring oil in from the gulf, not to mention, provide for close to 1/3 of the US's seafood.
The areas in New Orleans proper...the original areas that were built up by the settlers almost 300 years go..actually didn't really flood much.
Even the areas with more damage...near the 17th street canal, near good neighborhoods...lots of parts in there survived, and it didn't take but a couple of years to where you really couldn't tell there was a Katrina flood, in the areas of town that are original, or were and still remain productive and vibrant.
Areas like New Orleans East, the 9th ward, etc...those were dead areas before the storm, the floods just washed a lot of the trash away, and the city is better for it. Poverty and crime is all those areas housed and so, not missing that at all.
Considering that the US is currently pumping more oil than it can use, and is actively selling it on the foreign market...I seriously doubt what you say would happen in my lifetime.
If the foreign market dried up, we'd stop selling our excess and enjoy it for many, many years to come.
Sssh.....soon, you'll have men wondering WTF they are forced to pay for maternal care on their medical insurance policies, even if single and/or no intention of ever having kids....
I'd like to keep big V-8's going throughout my lifetime, after that....meh, I don't care.
There's a BIG difference between being born a certain race...vs choosing if you want to cut your pee-pee off and dress like a girl.
The military is NOT the place to do social experimentation.
hmm...not sure why you say that?
Sure it has some unique problems, mostly due to some high poverty areas, but has improved since we started getting rid of a lot of the projects throughout the city, which started before Katrina.
But most everyone that lives here LOVES it...cost of living items like food, and drink (haha) are cheap...seafood is plentiful year round, there is all kinds of sportsman activities, especially fishing, crabbing, etc.
And there is ALWAYS something going on here...a festival, at least one almost every week...music ones, cooking ones...art ones...etc.
and the people...to me, that's the best part. People here that might not have a shirt to give you off their back...will still do so. Friendly, and good to be with...people you can trust and count on...you get to know your neighbors here, which I think is nice, and something that is missing these days in other cities and communities.
Any links on how to root your drone???
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Well, I live in New Orleans...I'd not call it exactly a very tiny rural town...especially with the adjoining suburbs....
I'd rather stay where I am...not quite taxed to the bejesus....and more freedom.
I like my guns and enjoy very lax regulations here, I like not being forced to sort my garbage, you can, but you are still free to just put one can out for the garbagemen. No "sniff" test on my car for an inspection....hell, and where I live, I can go to a bar 24/7, or buy beer, wine or liquor in a grocery store 7 days a week....drive through daiquiri stores, and no one has much a hangup about who you are, etc....
I find it a very good thing that different states can mostly self regulate and have the laws their citizens enjoy, rather than a one size fits all federal mandate on fucking everything.
Let's keep it that way, eh?
Have fun in Seatle....I'll come to visit, but not wanting to live there. I'm sure many out there feel then same about here.
No problem, nice to be free to choose in the US.
What did the last update do to your mavic exactly?