I've known CA liberals who are avid supporters of the 2A. Doesn't mean they didn't get their guns illegally confiscated by the LAPD (after coming off of the LAX Shooting Range no less, for example) or not have to jump through all the inane hoops one has to jump through to be legal in CA with gun ownership. I don't know if you've ever owned a gun anywhere else besides CA, but things are very different where I live as far as regulations and restrictions.
Hate to burst your bubble there, AC, but "high crimes and misdemeanors" is explicitly vague for a reason. It is up to Congress - in other words "the people" to impeach - and it is up to the senate - in other words "the states" - to try him based upon the impeachment. There's no codified threshold for what actually constitutes "high crimes and misdemeanors". In history we've had impeachments for FAR more minor transgressions than what has happened in the past few years here.
If enough of them sign their name to it, it will force the hand. I happen to agree with David Frum's take on this. Zontar, despite being mindless, is echoing some of what David Frum also says.
I'd happily take service from Grande. But even better then Grande is GVTC, and unfortunately I'm just as unlikely to get their service. And Spectrum or Ma Bell? Well, that fiber is 1 mile away. I can't even get either of them to tell me how many rooftops it will take to sign up for service for them to pull the fiber. Nobody at Ma Bell even knows who to ask. Surely it's the computer, since the computer controls everything there, including Randall Stephen's pornography choices.
Not to mention that all this discussion is about AT&T, a company that historically was supposed to be a frickin' PUBLIC UTILITY and now can't be bothered to invest in their infrastructure until some other company either is an upstart or decides to break the gentlemen's agreement. I can't even get a f'ing answer to the question of "how many rooftops need to sign up for service for a fiber line to be pulled 1 mile of pre-existing pole" nor can I even get an answer to "why does my address magically not qualify for the ancient ADSL service even though I'm within 6000 feet of the DSLAM and the folks two properties away from me have it. And not less than 2 linemen on the poles have told me that I qualify". That Randall Stephenson, he's quite the visionary. Worth millions and millions.
The plural of "anecdote" is not "data". Try again. Maybe you should try to understand the actual underlying reasons for the anecdotes that you claim to have observed instead of just sitting up on a judgmental high horse...
Modern bumpers are meant to absorb the impact. Old bumpers were literally bumpers, meaning that they returned at least part of the force of the impact. That's not good design as far as the humans are concerned. Thus the change.
Encryption was regulated much more restrictively than firearms prior to Zimmermann's court case, that's my point. And what you're thinking of regulating is ultimately speech, which unfortunately is already more restricted that should be. This was apparent when you asserted that a diagram is not a valid expression - the law disagrees with you as a diagram can be copyright-protected.
And as for what the Constitution would have to say about manufacturing, that's a misunderstanding of the Constitution. The Constitution is not an enumeration of rights granted to the people or states, but an enumeration of restrictions placed upon the federal gov't.
I'm not a lawyer, and I personally wouldn't do this, but I bet you that it's 100% legal to manufacture those specific components for making an NFA rifle. The violation of law most likely occurs as soon as you assemble it into a functional or possibly even a semi-functional firearm. But that being said, if you live out in the middle of nowhere and own tons of land, it's possible that you could slip under the radar if said NFA firearm never left your property. Just speculation of course... I've used military weapons before, and I don't find automatic mode to be at all useful except for wasting a ton of ammo.
Some restrictions may remain, especially with regards to enemy states. But on the whole, my statement is still accurate. The encryption algos were classified as weapons, and were much more heavily restricted.
Maybe in a few decades what you think will happen will, but for the time being, those manufacturers make a far superior firearm to what you'll get out of a 3d printer at this time. As one who enjoys shooting sports, I won't shoot a 3d printed gun even if you paid me. They're only good for 0-3 shots more or less, and note that I started at 0. And they're just as likely to blow up in your hand as they are to not. A lot of guns nowadays incorporate a high amount of polymers in them, but the barrels are all still made of metal because metal expands and contracts much better, and can dissipate the heat from the explosion far better than polymers can.
I'd suggest that this is a very futile attempt by these states, and will have no effect. Thus there's no need for the NRA or other groups that are pro-2A to be involved. The states' attempt is as futile as the Federal gov't's was regarding classification of encryption algos as armaments as well. Once it's found to be protected under the 1A, that's pretty much it.
is it? It's a manufacturing diagram. That's not expressing much of anything. Also, I'm not sure where the law is on manufacturing arms vs the right to keep and bare arms. Those are different things. I'm not sure the constitution address manufacturing. I suppose you could read that into it, but the right wing of SCOTUS tend to be literalists.
I suggest that you see the story of Phil Zimmermann than. You could make the same kind of argument about encryption basically, and the hint is that thanks to him and colleagues, we can freely use strong encryption.
Additionally I'd suggest doing research on the laws regarding manufacturing your own personal firearms before you start loudly speculating and/or proclaiming. You'll be less likely to be found wrong in public.:-)
It surprises me not in the least that these senators would equate an on-demand internet-based streaming service with broadcast TV of days bygone. It's as if it's too painful for them to think of actual real solutions to the problems, and albeit it's not perfect, cellphone alerts do tend to be the most effective as their geographic physical locations are known to the system. (Notwithstanding the idiots who think that waking my ass up at 3am because some kid was kidnapped and thinking that this is an effective method of recovering the kidnapped kid.)
They can keep it as a separate line item, but as it's not a government mandated tax, it should under no circumstances increase my overall costs. We accept that government mandated taxes are not within our direct control and are subject to change regardless of what our service agreements spell out. But this is just a way to increase what I pay to them.
Straws can't be reusable? Funny, I have a bag of reusable straws here. I have a special straw brush for cleaning them too. These aren't the super-thin McDonald's kind of straws - they're actually significantly thicker. But they can be purchased at Walmart, Target, and Amazon...
More or less stuff we learned in elementary school music class. Only that nobody really paid attention in that class (you would know by how many people blew too hard into their recorders)...
Comparisons to systemd and upstart and the like aren't very relevant here since iproute2 is about 22 years old. It's not just being forcefed down everybody's throats like anything Poettering wrote, and iproute2 and related tools are definitely more capable than the old tools were. While I don't like change just for the sake of change, this is NOT an instance of change just for change's sake.
Crap, even Slackware is in the process of migrating everything to iproute2 for system scripts. And I don't get all the naysayers' moaning: I find the syntax/grammar of iproute2 to be highly logical and understandable. I might not do a lot of the high level networking stuff that you do, but I've done enough over the years to understand what you're saying and why what you say makes sense.
What gets me is this: how can they be very serious about privacy when discussing a product of theirs whose raison d'etre is to spy on people in its audible vicinity.
ogg in of itself is simply a container format. It does not actually handle the compression/decompression of the streams within it, that's handled by other stuff such as libvorbis for vorbis encoded streams.
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I've known CA liberals who are avid supporters of the 2A. Doesn't mean they didn't get their guns illegally confiscated by the LAPD (after coming off of the LAX Shooting Range no less, for example) or not have to jump through all the inane hoops one has to jump through to be legal in CA with gun ownership. I don't know if you've ever owned a gun anywhere else besides CA, but things are very different where I live as far as regulations and restrictions.
Hate to burst your bubble there, AC, but "high crimes and misdemeanors" is explicitly vague for a reason. It is up to Congress - in other words "the people" to impeach - and it is up to the senate - in other words "the states" - to try him based upon the impeachment. There's no codified threshold for what actually constitutes "high crimes and misdemeanors". In history we've had impeachments for FAR more minor transgressions than what has happened in the past few years here.
If enough of them sign their name to it, it will force the hand. I happen to agree with David Frum's take on this. Zontar, despite being mindless, is echoing some of what David Frum also says.
I'd happily take service from Grande. But even better then Grande is GVTC, and unfortunately I'm just as unlikely to get their service. And Spectrum or Ma Bell? Well, that fiber is 1 mile away. I can't even get either of them to tell me how many rooftops it will take to sign up for service for them to pull the fiber. Nobody at Ma Bell even knows who to ask. Surely it's the computer, since the computer controls everything there, including Randall Stephen's pornography choices.
AFAIK, Grande isn't a content producer.
Not to mention that all this discussion is about AT&T, a company that historically was supposed to be a frickin' PUBLIC UTILITY and now can't be bothered to invest in their infrastructure until some other company either is an upstart or decides to break the gentlemen's agreement. I can't even get a f'ing answer to the question of "how many rooftops need to sign up for service for a fiber line to be pulled 1 mile of pre-existing pole" nor can I even get an answer to "why does my address magically not qualify for the ancient ADSL service even though I'm within 6000 feet of the DSLAM and the folks two properties away from me have it. And not less than 2 linemen on the poles have told me that I qualify". That Randall Stephenson, he's quite the visionary. Worth millions and millions.
The plural of "anecdote" is not "data". Try again. Maybe you should try to understand the actual underlying reasons for the anecdotes that you claim to have observed instead of just sitting up on a judgmental high horse...
Modern bumpers are meant to absorb the impact. Old bumpers were literally bumpers, meaning that they returned at least part of the force of the impact. That's not good design as far as the humans are concerned. Thus the change.
The issue comes up pretty regularly here. And you're pretty solely focused on the export aspect. I'm not limiting my statement to that of export.
And all the mechanical parts in the lower receiver in any gun I've handled were all metal. The rest could be polymer without much consequence.
Encryption was regulated much more restrictively than firearms prior to Zimmermann's court case, that's my point. And what you're thinking of regulating is ultimately speech, which unfortunately is already more restricted that should be. This was apparent when you asserted that a diagram is not a valid expression - the law disagrees with you as a diagram can be copyright-protected.
And as for what the Constitution would have to say about manufacturing, that's a misunderstanding of the Constitution. The Constitution is not an enumeration of rights granted to the people or states, but an enumeration of restrictions placed upon the federal gov't.
I'm not a lawyer, and I personally wouldn't do this, but I bet you that it's 100% legal to manufacture those specific components for making an NFA rifle. The violation of law most likely occurs as soon as you assemble it into a functional or possibly even a semi-functional firearm. But that being said, if you live out in the middle of nowhere and own tons of land, it's possible that you could slip under the radar if said NFA firearm never left your property. Just speculation of course... I've used military weapons before, and I don't find automatic mode to be at all useful except for wasting a ton of ammo.
Some restrictions may remain, especially with regards to enemy states. But on the whole, my statement is still accurate. The encryption algos were classified as weapons, and were much more heavily restricted.
Maybe in a few decades what you think will happen will, but for the time being, those manufacturers make a far superior firearm to what you'll get out of a 3d printer at this time. As one who enjoys shooting sports, I won't shoot a 3d printed gun even if you paid me. They're only good for 0-3 shots more or less, and note that I started at 0. And they're just as likely to blow up in your hand as they are to not. A lot of guns nowadays incorporate a high amount of polymers in them, but the barrels are all still made of metal because metal expands and contracts much better, and can dissipate the heat from the explosion far better than polymers can.
I'd suggest that this is a very futile attempt by these states, and will have no effect. Thus there's no need for the NRA or other groups that are pro-2A to be involved. The states' attempt is as futile as the Federal gov't's was regarding classification of encryption algos as armaments as well. Once it's found to be protected under the 1A, that's pretty much it.
is it? It's a manufacturing diagram. That's not expressing much of anything. Also, I'm not sure where the law is on manufacturing arms vs the right to keep and bare arms. Those are different things. I'm not sure the constitution address manufacturing. I suppose you could read that into it, but the right wing of SCOTUS tend to be literalists.
I suggest that you see the story of Phil Zimmermann than. You could make the same kind of argument about encryption basically, and the hint is that thanks to him and colleagues, we can freely use strong encryption.
Additionally I'd suggest doing research on the laws regarding manufacturing your own personal firearms before you start loudly speculating and/or proclaiming. You'll be less likely to be found wrong in public. :-)
If they can effectively screen baggage and prove it, it might reduce some of the other security-theater TSA nonsense.
If only I had points to mod you "Funny"...
It surprises me not in the least that these senators would equate an on-demand internet-based streaming service with broadcast TV of days bygone. It's as if it's too painful for them to think of actual real solutions to the problems, and albeit it's not perfect, cellphone alerts do tend to be the most effective as their geographic physical locations are known to the system. (Notwithstanding the idiots who think that waking my ass up at 3am because some kid was kidnapped and thinking that this is an effective method of recovering the kidnapped kid.)
They can keep it as a separate line item, but as it's not a government mandated tax, it should under no circumstances increase my overall costs. We accept that government mandated taxes are not within our direct control and are subject to change regardless of what our service agreements spell out. But this is just a way to increase what I pay to them.
Straws can't be reusable? Funny, I have a bag of reusable straws here. I have a special straw brush for cleaning them too. These aren't the super-thin McDonald's kind of straws - they're actually significantly thicker. But they can be purchased at Walmart, Target, and Amazon...
More or less stuff we learned in elementary school music class. Only that nobody really paid attention in that class (you would know by how many people blew too hard into their recorders)...
Comparisons to systemd and upstart and the like aren't very relevant here since iproute2 is about 22 years old. It's not just being forcefed down everybody's throats like anything Poettering wrote, and iproute2 and related tools are definitely more capable than the old tools were. While I don't like change just for the sake of change, this is NOT an instance of change just for change's sake.
Crap, even Slackware is in the process of migrating everything to iproute2 for system scripts. And I don't get all the naysayers' moaning: I find the syntax/grammar of iproute2 to be highly logical and understandable. I might not do a lot of the high level networking stuff that you do, but I've done enough over the years to understand what you're saying and why what you say makes sense.
I'm pretty sure this, unlike systemd, has been a long slow process. How many more years does everybody need to prepare for the inevitable?
What gets me is this: how can they be very serious about privacy when discussing a product of theirs whose raison d'etre is to spy on people in its audible vicinity.
ogg in of itself is simply a container format. It does not actually handle the compression/decompression of the streams within it, that's handled by other stuff such as libvorbis for vorbis encoded streams.