The National Guard isn't a militia. And the second amendment does not only give the right to bear arms to the militias, regardless. It gives it to all citizens. (pay particular attention to the second section - "Constitutional Scholars"
Referance for militia:
militia n.
1. An army composed of ordinary citizens rather than professional soldiers.
2. A military force that is not part of a regular army and is subject to call for service in an emergency. 3. The whole body of physically fit civilians eligible by law for military service.
Pay particular attention to the bolded parts for why the Guard isn't a militia.
Otherwise, I tend to agree with you. Bush's moves have been fairly straightforward if you wanted to take the US into a dictatorship. Oh, there might be other reasons, but that's a quite logical conclusion from his actions.
We, however, do it on purpose... For all those shopping for excelence in babbling loons, with Discordians you get a better quality of babble, and our loons have carefully groomed feathers for superior quality.
There's a quote from George Carlin that seems appropriate: "We could ban organized religions, and all [these sex crimes] would go away in a couple of generations... but we don't have time for rational solutions."
"failure to follow the lawful orders of a police officer"
Ummm, if you change the bold in your comment as so, you arrive at why the police can't give you a ticket, etc. He cannot lawfully force you to leave, or even ask, as you are not disturbing the peace by looking.
In my case, my real name shows up as me in 2 pages (one of which appears to now be defunct... well, it has been 6 years since I graduated). However, I do show up as a high school football coach and/or a NHL official in a number of places, neither of which is me by a long shot. The funny thing is me and the other me live 20 miles from each other... and I don't have a common name.
That's the other problem with googling your dates... you might not get the right 'them'.
Or maybe someone was modding him up in a way that gives him Karma. I'll probably end up doing that... I don't think it's fair that 'funny' is any less valued than 'informative'. I need both every day.
I was doing fairly moderatly on my test. We finally wandered back to the RMV to finish the test. I pull in, take the first corner (for some reason, you have to go around the building to get to the main entrance...), and stop. Instructor looks at me, and says 'You can go around the building'. I looked at him a moment, then waved ahead of me... at the car that had just rapidly pulled out into the space that I would have occupied in another 5 seconds.
The RMV tends to fail people on their first try, regardless of how well they do. I passed.
"I still have a pair of goofy, hand-made with parts from Radio-shack, dark goggles with lights inside that pulsate at alpha and theta frequencies. They will relax you completely or put you to sleep in just a few minutes. And I use them when I get migraines."
Ok, I don't suppose you have the electical schematics and stuff? I could really use something like that...
Might have been about the same time... I was in a store, and I start to hear the Muzak... George Throughgood, Bad to the Bone. I would have never gone back, but I kinda worked there.
Actually, it is a privacy issue (probably not a bad one in this exact case, but I'm taking the other side for a minute in the more general argument). So you choose it? So what? Just like other things that take your rights away, it doesn't have to be a wrenching grab. It could be like trying to get the air ratchet away from a small child... give them something to distract them (oooo... shiny!), and take the dangerous tool ('rights', to clarify the metaphor) away and they'll hardly notice it's gone... Lately the shiny thing has been 'security' (or at least the illusion thereof)
I don't know... I mean, it's lexan. You can color it. Why not just make the housing the speaker? You need it anyway. It's great for size reduction of things.
And what about frequancy range? If it's ultrasonic capable, maybe we could use bowls made of plastic to keep soup warm. Or for cleaning things... Also good for fire alarms... all the windows go off. Put the cabling on the outside, and you can have internal/external alarms on the same channel. Noise cancelation in cars? Put a microphone in the engine compartment and sound off the plastic firewall to compensate... All sorts of nifty things you can do when the speaker is part of the structure.
But the most important application has to be turning the little tiny speaker at movie theater ticket counters into something you can actually understand the words from...
Amendment IX - The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Amendment X - The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
God pretty much (for Christians anyway) has to have the characteristics omnipotent and benevolent. That's sufficient to disprove the existence of the Christian god. See: The Argument from Evil.
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In Massachusetts, the way you can determine acceptability of self defense is by 'JAM': The person must place you in Jeopardy, have the Ability to harm you, and the Means to harm you (the distinction is that a person might have the means (a knife, or just be lots stronger) but not the ability (he's across the room and can't exactly stab you, but if he positions the knife as if to throw it, now he's got the ability and you could shoot him)). Here, even using pepperspray requires that sort of evaluation (of course, you need a firearms license to use pepperspray...)
And Mass law basically says that if the person breaking into your home isn't threatening you, you can't shoot him to stop him. You might be allowed to physically restrain him, but that's not often an option.
Your comment only holds for values of geek != engineers. I knew several people who had HPs who SWITCHED to TIs because of the ease of use for mechanical engineering problems.
Just because you thing a Devorak keyboard is faster doesn't mean that someone doing computational work won't stomp you into the ground using a keypad. Different tools for different problems.
Something like the "Contrived Acronym (Legislative) Outlaw and Removal for Independant Evaluation of Merits (CALORIE-M)" bill? A low-cal alternative to stupic acronyms.
I'm an engineer. 'to within one order of magnitude' is way, way over what we'd accept. We generally go with 2-3X to account for things like neglected components and statistical anomolies. Physicists are (based on the one's I've talked to) the 'one order is good' people.
God may be lots of things, but 'love' is a big stretch. 'Hate' comes closer.
"Hell is a state of the soul in which you realize your own defects."
That would mean I'm currently in hell. It's a reasonable comment...
"n fact, the original sin, which corrupted satan, Adam, and Eve, is pride, because pride is the very negation of Love (self-giving)"
Ummm... No. 'Satan' was never corrupted, that's a bad misinterpretation of his role. Lucifer (the more correct name) is an angel carrying out god's will, to tempt people to disobey god. Your god tries to make people make a decision that will ultimatly lead to their unending torment. That is my definition of evil.
To continue, pride isn't why Adam and Eve got driven out of the garden. God got annoyed at them because they gained knowledge, even though he placed the knowledge there. There was NO OTHER reason for that 'fruit of knowledge' to be there unless god wanted them to be tempted by it. Eventually, someone was going to take it, because that's the nature of things, especially with Lucifer helping things along.
And if I were you, I'd look up 'The Argument from Evil'. I know enough about Christianity, I don't need a search.
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Referance for militia:
militia n.
1. An army composed of ordinary citizens rather than professional soldiers.
2. A military force that is not part of a regular army and is subject to call for service in an emergency.
3. The whole body of physically fit civilians eligible by law for military service.
Pay particular attention to the bolded parts for why the Guard isn't a militia.
Otherwise, I tend to agree with you. Bush's moves have been fairly straightforward if you wanted to take the US into a dictatorship. Oh, there might be other reasons, but that's a quite logical conclusion from his actions.
We, however, do it on purpose... For all those shopping for excelence in babbling loons, with Discordians you get a better quality of babble, and our loons have carefully groomed feathers for superior quality.
There's a quote from George Carlin that seems appropriate: "We could ban organized religions, and all [these sex crimes] would go away in a couple of generations... but we don't have time for rational solutions."
Someone I used to work with said it this way: "Tighten 'till it loosens"
Ummm, if you change the bold in your comment as so, you arrive at why the police can't give you a ticket, etc. He cannot lawfully force you to leave, or even ask, as you are not disturbing the peace by looking.
That's the other problem with googling your dates... you might not get the right 'them'.
Or maybe someone was modding him up in a way that gives him Karma. I'll probably end up doing that... I don't think it's fair that 'funny' is any less valued than 'informative'. I need both every day.
The RMV tends to fail people on their first try, regardless of how well they do. I passed.
Ok, I don't suppose you have the electical schematics and stuff? I could really use something like that...
Might have been about the same time... I was in a store, and I start to hear the Muzak... George Throughgood, Bad to the Bone. I would have never gone back, but I kinda worked there.
Actually, it is a privacy issue (probably not a bad one in this exact case, but I'm taking the other side for a minute in the more general argument). So you choose it? So what? Just like other things that take your rights away, it doesn't have to be a wrenching grab. It could be like trying to get the air ratchet away from a small child... give them something to distract them (oooo... shiny!), and take the dangerous tool ('rights', to clarify the metaphor) away and they'll hardly notice it's gone... Lately the shiny thing has been 'security' (or at least the illusion thereof)
How about Al Leong?
And what about frequancy range? If it's ultrasonic capable, maybe we could use bowls made of plastic to keep soup warm. Or for cleaning things... Also good for fire alarms... all the windows go off. Put the cabling on the outside, and you can have internal/external alarms on the same channel. Noise cancelation in cars? Put a microphone in the engine compartment and sound off the plastic firewall to compensate... All sorts of nifty things you can do when the speaker is part of the structure.
But the most important application has to be turning the little tiny speaker at movie theater ticket counters into something you can actually understand the words from...
Amendment IX - The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Amendment X - The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
How much more explicit do you need?
Omniscient follows from omnipotent, as far as I can tell. If you want to know something, and can't, they you're not omnipotent.
God pretty much (for Christians anyway) has to have the characteristics omnipotent and benevolent. That's sufficient to disprove the existence of the Christian god. See: The Argument from Evil.
And Mass law basically says that if the person breaking into your home isn't threatening you, you can't shoot him to stop him. You might be allowed to physically restrain him, but that's not often an option.
Your comment only holds for values of geek != engineers. I knew several people who had HPs who SWITCHED to TIs because of the ease of use for mechanical engineering problems.
Just because you thing a Devorak keyboard is faster doesn't mean that someone doing computational work won't stomp you into the ground using a keypad. Different tools for different problems.
Yeah, I'm 29.
California.
And that's what the Gov is saying, but not what it MEANS.
Nope. There were several states with bills passed that actually did something useful to stop spam. This one makes it easier to spam.
Or, in other words: "If we can't solve the problem, we're sure as hell not going to let YOU solve it."
Something like the "Contrived Acronym (Legislative) Outlaw and Removal for Independant Evaluation of Merits (CALORIE-M)" bill? A low-cal alternative to stupic acronyms.
I'm an engineer. 'to within one order of magnitude' is way, way over what we'd accept. We generally go with 2-3X to account for things like neglected components and statistical anomolies. Physicists are (based on the one's I've talked to) the 'one order is good' people.
"Hell is a state of the soul in which you realize your own defects."
That would mean I'm currently in hell. It's a reasonable comment...
"n fact, the original sin, which corrupted satan, Adam, and Eve, is pride, because pride is the very negation of Love (self-giving)"
Ummm... No. 'Satan' was never corrupted, that's a bad misinterpretation of his role. Lucifer (the more correct name) is an angel carrying out god's will, to tempt people to disobey god. Your god tries to make people make a decision that will ultimatly lead to their unending torment. That is my definition of evil.
To continue, pride isn't why Adam and Eve got driven out of the garden. God got annoyed at them because they gained knowledge, even though he placed the knowledge there. There was NO OTHER reason for that 'fruit of knowledge' to be there unless god wanted them to be tempted by it. Eventually, someone was going to take it, because that's the nature of things, especially with Lucifer helping things along.
And if I were you, I'd look up 'The Argument from Evil'. I know enough about Christianity, I don't need a search.