But it was Hilter's well-armed Brownshirts that murdered and intimidated the rest of the populace. A well armed civilian opposition could have defeated the in the early stages. It is also notable that few Germans wanted democracy or were willing to fight for it. Hilter, Stalin and all other dictators are big gun-control supporters. Mao said " power comes from the barrel of a gun". Read Gulag Archipelago and "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" for the hows and what it was like to live under these gun-control advocates.
The Bill of Rights was written before your dictionary was written (or do you think a time warp was involved).
The militia part is a supporting idea and it is NOT the statement of the right itself. Any idea that the framers felt it necessary to state that the gov has the "right" to arm it soldiers is silly. The Bill of Rights was intended to put limits on government (including the States) power. The indivudual states rights are dealt with in the main body of the Constition.
I agree with your description of Miller and the tendancy towards military arms. But another point against the arguement the 2nd applies only to militia and armys is that, if only a soldier has gun rights, than any order for a soldier to give up his/her weapon would be illegal (ie Military Police arresting the soldier would be impossible).
It is ludicrious to think that the Constition explicity gives the US Government the right to arm its soldiers (ie what army does not arm its soldiers). The Bill of rights as written apply only to individuals (ie people).
If the gun-control people want to remove this right -- do it legally by a constititional amendment (or convention). Any other way is illegal and in my opinion treasonous.
Pixar is on the right track. I do ASIC verification, mainly on Sun boxes (fastest USparc IIIs, multi-proccessor, 14GBs memory, etc). Lately, I have been running the exact same jobs on an LSF enabled Linux farm of Intel boxes. The improvement is 3-4 times speedup ie 8 hour Sun jobs take 2 hours on Intels. For the price of one dual proccesor Sun workstation, you can get ten Intel boxes running linux. Not only is the speedup great, I need less licences to run the CAD software (doing multiple regression jobs). Since a license seat per CAD tool can run from 30K to 200K each plus 10% a year maintence fee, the savings are huge.
Changing over to linux was trivial. I like and have used Suns for years and Suns were a major player in this industry. But I firmly believe that this paradigm is going to be a SUN KILLER!
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But it was Hilter's well-armed Brownshirts that murdered and intimidated the rest of the populace. A well armed civilian opposition could have defeated the in the early stages. It is also notable that few Germans wanted democracy or were willing to fight for it. Hilter, Stalin and all other dictators are big gun-control supporters. Mao said " power comes from the barrel of a gun". Read Gulag Archipelago and "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" for the hows and what it was like to live under these gun-control advocates.
The Bill of Rights was written before your dictionary was written (or do you think a time warp was involved). The militia part is a supporting idea and it is NOT the statement of the right itself. Any idea that the framers felt it necessary to state that the gov has the "right" to arm it soldiers is silly. The Bill of Rights was intended to put limits on government (including the States) power. The indivudual states rights are dealt with in the main body of the Constition.
I agree with your description of Miller and the tendancy towards military arms. But another point against the arguement the 2nd applies only to militia and armys is that, if only a soldier has gun rights, than any order for a soldier to give up his/her weapon would be illegal (ie Military Police arresting the soldier would be impossible). It is ludicrious to think that the Constition explicity gives the US Government the right to arm its soldiers (ie what army does not arm its soldiers). The Bill of rights as written apply only to individuals (ie people). If the gun-control people want to remove this right -- do it legally by a constititional amendment (or convention). Any other way is illegal and in my opinion treasonous.
Pixar is on the right track. I do ASIC verification, mainly on Sun boxes (fastest USparc IIIs, multi-proccessor, 14GBs memory, etc). Lately, I have been running the exact same jobs on an LSF enabled Linux farm of Intel boxes.
The improvement is 3-4 times speedup ie 8 hour Sun jobs take 2 hours on Intels.
For the price of one dual proccesor Sun workstation, you can get ten Intel boxes running linux.
Not only is the speedup great, I need less licences to run the CAD software (doing multiple regression jobs). Since a license seat per CAD tool can run from 30K to 200K each plus 10% a year maintence fee, the savings are huge.
Changing over to linux was trivial. I like and have used Suns for years and Suns were a major player in this industry. But I firmly believe that this paradigm is going to be a SUN KILLER!