It also directs the Justice Department to develop programs to educate the American public on why copyright violation is bad.
Must be taking some lessons from the wildly successful DARE program. Reprogramming children is all good and fun except when they learn to think for themselves.
(senators say to themselves): Hmmmmm, what should we spend money on now? Should it be making sure the poor and elderly get proper medial attention, give people a fighting chance so they don't need to sleep on the street, or maybe make sure that noone in this country goes hungry? NO! How about we do some favors for the wealthy like give them a big tax cut, let corporation get away with screwing their employees and investors, and give the RIAA some proverbial head and follow through with the reach around before quickly snowballing the public while convincing them thats it s not only yummy, but good for them too.
Why do we have politicians? I thought prostitution was illegal in most places?
According to your source website almost as many people die each year from falling(13,162) as they do intentional and unintentional firearms discharges combined(15,145). Unfortunately, that is a type of accident that is hard to prevent, just like many auto accidents. It's hard to compare those unrelated statistics because we definately need to walk, more so than own a gun ayway. Which would you give up first, personal mobility, or your gun?
Do you suggest that the society would function better if we reduced personal mobility? Auto accidents are generally accepted as inevitable consequences when compared to the benifits of transportation. I would throw together some numbers for a cost/benefit anaysis comapring guns and cars, but it's late, I'm tired, and 78% of people can find statistics to prove their point. 84% of people know that. Besides, I'd assume to say that people need cars more than they need guns.
Then again, why should logic be involved in politics. Thanks to mandatory minimums the relatively harmless pot smoker faces longer sentences than rapists and murders. Iâ(TM)d like to see a minimum that required spending at least 50 years in jail for ANY crime that involved a gun, whether or not it was ever fired. Maybe if organizations that cared about upholding the ALL of the citizensâ(TM) constitutional rights had the money, power, and political sway of the NRA, maybe people out there wouldnâ(TM)t feel so hopeless as to think a gun would protect them. Oddly enough, for some reason, most of the time I hear the ACLU in the news they have some conservative bashing them for protecting unpopular speech. It wouldnâ(TM)t surprise me a bit if itâ(TM)s the same conservatives that support and/or are financially backed by the NRA.
I guess to phrase my rant into one sentence: Guns can never truly solve problems, only make them more complex.
And yes, I smile inside whenever I see a video clip of Charleton Heston holding a flintlock rifle above is head shouting "from my cold dead hands!"
I dream of the day that someone arranges that. My favorite clip of his is in "Bowling for Columbine" when he more or less said teh reason for all of Americas gun violence was because of all the minoritys. You gotta respect people who choose someone like that as their mouthpeice.
Just because someone has the right to do something doesn't mean it's a good idea. Hell, for a long time we had the constitutional right to own slaves. It took a civil war to fix that... and there is a smaller one being fought in the streets right now, every day. Unfortunately, white america sees most of this on tv and doesn't give a damn because it's just blacks shooting blacks in what feels like half a world away.
About 10 years ago my neighbor's son came home after studying abroad for 2 years. He got home a week early and wanted to suprise them. He comes in through the garage and steps into the house. His father was waiting in the shadows for the "intruder". In a quick blast his son was a quadrapalegic. He was never arrested, never charged... because he punished himself. A couple weeks later the son died from complications, and shortly after the father turned another one of his weapons on himself. He chose to do it on his front porch... with a 12 gague. I was walking home from school with a couple of my childhood freinds. We saw him before the police arrived and walked right past the body. We were about 12 or 13 years old. His wife is still here, and still addicted to a rainbow of anti-depressants and sleeping agents. From time to time, I still wake up in a cold sweat, panicking, over the images floating inside my head. Now tell me how in the hell society benifits from this.
When's the last time someone talked of a god propelled spacecraft? I think thatâ(TM)s Mr. 500 club when he gets on his racist and fascist burn-em-at-the-stake bandwagon.
Assume there is conflict (A) in the world. You have religion (B) and Science (C). What results in a simpler answer A+B or A+C? Science has solved more problems than religion can ever hope to.
In short, religion is simply another of mans political institutions that preys upon his spirituality in order to enslave the minds of the masses. Fear the future and pray for the good `ol days. Yea, the good old days, never mind that it was only good to white Christian males who had a boy in the cotton fields and a woman under foot.
Religion: Continuing to prove that man would rather have any âoeanswerâ other than âoewe donâ(TM)t yet knowâ
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It also directs the Justice Department to develop programs to educate the American public on why copyright violation is bad.
Must be taking some lessons from the wildly successful DARE program. Reprogramming children is all good and fun except when they learn to think for themselves.
(senators say to themselves): Hmmmmm, what should we spend money on now? Should it be making sure the poor and elderly get proper medial attention, give people a fighting chance so they don't need to sleep on the street, or maybe make sure that noone in this country goes hungry? NO! How about we do some favors for the wealthy like give them a big tax cut, let corporation get away with screwing their employees and investors, and give the RIAA some proverbial head and follow through with the reach around before quickly snowballing the public while convincing them thats it s not only yummy, but good for them too.
Why do we have politicians? I thought prostitution was illegal in most places?
According to your source website almost as many people die each year from falling(13,162) as they do intentional and unintentional firearms discharges combined(15,145). Unfortunately, that is a type of accident that is hard to prevent, just like many auto accidents. It's hard to compare those unrelated statistics because we definately need to walk, more so than own a gun ayway. Which would you give up first, personal mobility, or your gun?
Do you suggest that the society would function better if we reduced personal mobility? Auto accidents are generally accepted as inevitable consequences when compared to the benifits of transportation. I would throw together some numbers for a cost/benefit anaysis comapring guns and cars, but it's late, I'm tired, and 78% of people can find statistics to prove their point. 84% of people know that. Besides, I'd assume to say that people need cars more than they need guns.
Before I even watched it, I knew that movie would be heavily biased. Despite sections of questionable content, there are still sections that raise valid concerns. Despite likely statistical inflations, America still loses many more of its citizens in gun related deaths than any other country. Also, almost any schizophrenic with grand delusions of mass conspiracy is able to build a cache of weapons. There is also the beloved cliché of âoeguns donâ(TM)t kill people, people kill peopleâ, which I must admit, is true. Of course, when applied to human behavior, truth and logic seldom intersect. Guns serve one ultimate function, and it is the ending of life. Yes, without guns, people would still kill people, but without the brutal ease and efficiency of a firearm, I doubt that people would be so inclined to such split second lapses in judgment that would result in such a quick death. It takes a couple seconds to aim and pull, but it takes many more seconds to choke the life out of someone. Also, people would find other things to use as a weapon if guns weer rare, but a baseball bat, stone, or other common item canâ(TM)t compete with the efficiency and ease of a gun.
Then again, why should logic be involved in politics. Thanks to mandatory minimums the relatively harmless pot smoker faces longer sentences than rapists and murders. Iâ(TM)d like to see a minimum that required spending at least 50 years in jail for ANY crime that involved a gun, whether or not it was ever fired. Maybe if organizations that cared about upholding the ALL of the citizensâ(TM) constitutional rights had the money, power, and political sway of the NRA, maybe people out there wouldnâ(TM)t feel so hopeless as to think a gun would protect them. Oddly enough, for some reason, most of the time I hear the ACLU in the news they have some conservative bashing them for protecting unpopular speech. It wouldnâ(TM)t surprise me a bit if itâ(TM)s the same conservatives that support and/or are financially backed by the NRA.
I guess to phrase my rant into one sentence: Guns can never truly solve problems, only make them more complex.
And yes, I smile inside whenever I see a video clip of Charleton Heston holding a flintlock rifle above is head shouting "from my cold dead hands!"
I dream of the day that someone arranges that. My favorite clip of his is in "Bowling for Columbine" when he more or less said teh reason for all of Americas gun violence was because of all the minoritys. You gotta respect people who choose someone like that as their mouthpeice.
Just because someone has the right to do something doesn't mean it's a good idea. Hell, for a long time we had the constitutional right to own slaves. It took a civil war to fix that... and there is a smaller one being fought in the streets right now, every day. Unfortunately, white america sees most of this on tv and doesn't give a damn because it's just blacks shooting blacks in what feels like half a world away.
About 10 years ago my neighbor's son came home after studying abroad for 2 years. He got home a week early and wanted to suprise them. He comes in through the garage and steps into the house. His father was waiting in the shadows for the "intruder". In a quick blast his son was a quadrapalegic. He was never arrested, never charged... because he punished himself. A couple weeks later the son died from complications, and shortly after the father turned another one of his weapons on himself. He chose to do it on his front porch... with a 12 gague. I was walking home from school with a couple of my childhood freinds. We saw him before the police arrived and walked right past the body. We were about 12 or 13 years old. His wife is still here, and still addicted to a rainbow of anti-depressants and sleeping agents. From time to time, I still wake up in a cold sweat, panicking, over the images floating inside my head. Now tell me how in the hell society benifits from this.
Polio, small pox, malaria, yellow fever⦠just to think of a few. Letâ(TM)s not forget that life expectancy is greater than 40 these days.
When's the last time someone talked of a god propelled spacecraft? I think thatâ(TM)s Mr. 500 club when he gets on his racist and fascist burn-em-at-the-stake bandwagon. Assume there is conflict (A) in the world. You have religion (B) and Science (C). What results in a simpler answer A+B or A+C? Science has solved more problems than religion can ever hope to. In short, religion is simply another of mans political institutions that preys upon his spirituality in order to enslave the minds of the masses. Fear the future and pray for the good `ol days. Yea, the good old days, never mind that it was only good to white Christian males who had a boy in the cotton fields and a woman under foot. Religion: Continuing to prove that man would rather have any âoeanswerâ other than âoewe donâ(TM)t yet knowâ
Does it matter? Kelvin, Celsius, Farenheit... no matter what its so hot I wouldn't want to touch it. Thats all that matters to me.