Well, technically the 2d Amendment prevents the federal government from infringing upon the right to bear arms. This says nothing about the states and local governments (yet).
This will eventually change when the 2nd amendment is incorporated against the states
I'd just like to point out that this will be a huge amount of judicial activism for Scalia, Thomas, Alito, and Roberts to acknowledge selective incorporation via the 14th Amendment. Tantamount to approving of a ton of liberal programs and liberal jurisprudence. It will be very interesting to see it happen.
I'm seconding this. There is no resentment in my relationship that I'm aware of, despite me being the less financially successful and socially respected one (lawyer versus surgeon). A long time ago, in arguments I started this thing with my then-girlfriend: She'd start complaining/yelling/bitching about something and I'd stop her with "Stop this bullshit. It's not helping anything." This went on for a while, awkwardly derailing raised voices.
Then one day she did something to wrong me moderately (not a forgotten birthday, but not a cheating episode either). I don't even remember what it was. Hell, I didn't remembered what it was an hour later when she came back and apologized to me for doing whatever it was.
Me: What are you talking about? Her: You know, __XX__. Me: Oh, honey. You know that "stop that bullshit" thing I've been doing? I didn't care two seconds after you did it that you did it. Her (paraphrased): Holy shit. That's fucking amazing.
Ever since then, if either of us catches the other about to start an argument, we remind each other that we only have 50-60 years together on this earth, and when we're dying, we don't want to think "If only we hadn't fought so much."
Neither of us wants to hurt the other, so if we've wronged the other, we talk it out and try our best not to do it again. That's all anyone can hope for. Yelling doesn't make you any more likely to fix the problem unless you're so mentally weak that physical threats are the only way to reform your behavior. I would hope we alleged "intelligent" people could do better than yelling. Ain't nothin to it but to do it.
I was about to post the same thing. It's amazing to me (and possibly explains the image of the geek as unsuccessful with women) that some people think "socially intelligent" is equivalent to "nice."
I'll be honest: Your post isn't really that helpful. You should realize that geeks want facts to back up assertions. You've asserted a list of useful books with the fact that "my wife and I had some problems but we didn't even know what they were." Call me skeptical. "Years of pain and bad habits"? Sounds like it was a simple diagnosis to me: You two were treating each other like shit but didn't realize it. Is this what was happening? I'm genuinely interested, as you've been married longer than I have. Still, I've been with my lady for six years, including dating, and knew her for a year before that, and I can't really think of something comparable to the almost nonexistent fact pattern you've described, which has piqued my interest.
I've always said that a couple should appear as an indivisible unit in public. They should strive never to disagree in public, but only ever in private. But that's just old fashioned me. It's hard to do, but it sure is useful.
Not only that, but someone who thinks that there are differences between his impending marriage and "jock marriages" suggests to me that he's not even mature enough for marriage yet. I mean, I realized jocks and nerds aren't so different when I was about 18. I know that's heresy on/., but surely there must be other people who have risen beyond such divisions. I hear the Independent movement has grown in prominence.;)
What does the submitter expect, that a nerd's wife disagreeing about who gets to use the gaming rig is going to be any more or less heated than a jock's wife disagreeing about whether he should get to go clubbin'? Yeesh. I mean, what is a jock marriage anyway?
There are two types of (for love) marriages in this world: those that should happen and those that shouldn't. Jock and nerd qualifiers don't help anything. Additionally, is the submitter implying that nerds are betas? That's stereotypical and offensive. Intelligence does not make you submissive.
I believe there have been jokes about lowercase e, u, and n in German looking the same. Here is a depiction of the lowercase alphabet of one old German font.
I was about to ask the same question. How can you complain about the crudity of modern TV but then mention one of your favorite shows makes torture out to be a great act of heroism?
That is incorrect. The "r" comes before, not after the vowel you're trying to approximate. You could say it would be "better" to transliterate it into English as "Gerning." However, Germans prefer instead to keep the spelling that they traditionally used, I'd imagine. Take note that the umlauted a/o/u are all predated by ae/oe/ue.
Technically, "oe" came before "o-with-umlaut." It was "oe," then it became "o-with-e-on-top." Because of the way an "e" looked at this point in German orthography, it became "o-with-two-parallel-vertical-lines-on-top," which became "o-with-umlaut." This is the same way we got a- and u-with-umlaut. You can see this in old script for "schoen" at Wikipedia: (schoen, scho-with-e-aboven, scho-with-umlautn).
That's a very odd explanation, considering "Groening" is a German surname. Here, it is technically "gr" + o-with-umlaut + "ning," where the o-with-umlaut is pronounced like an "eh" sound in your mouth while your lips are shaped like you're making an "oh" sound. However, to make things easier for the Alemanophobes in the audience, we alter it to English phonetics (the o-with-umlaut does not exist in English).
A ton of stuff is just absolutely blocked from non-wealthy people. If you want just a simple example, in the US, you cannot give your money to a hedge fund unless you are a "sophisticated investor," which basically means "person making over $200K/yr or 300K if you're married." Something like that.
Also, there are a lot of things I'm not really allowed to talk about. But there are a lot of opportunities out there if you know the right people and have the right amount of money.
Until one person who downloads it modifies the machine code to skip the subroutine that loads the license via whatever the machine-code equivalent of a JMP code is.
Then any subsequent user of the modified version would have never seen (and therefore never agreed to) the license.
I don't have anything to add here. I just wanted to say that I think this is one of the most understated, funny, and well-executed jokes I've ever seen on Slashdot. Thank you, sir or madam.
Unless you weren't playing off the 5-year copyright as the joke. If you weren't, then you can just go suck on an egg, you git.
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Well, technically the 2d Amendment prevents the federal government from infringing upon the right to bear arms. This says nothing about the states and local governments (yet).
Oh, well if people will always find a way to kill each other, we might as well just make it legal to own nuclear weapons, then.
I'm not against your position. I'm against your argument used to defend the position.
I'd just like to point out that this will be a huge amount of judicial activism for Scalia, Thomas, Alito, and Roberts to acknowledge selective incorporation via the 14th Amendment. Tantamount to approving of a ton of liberal programs and liberal jurisprudence. It will be very interesting to see it happen.
Don't forget the twenty-six things a perfect guy would do, and other propaganda disseminated by misguided women.. ;)
Sorry, but your enumeration of commandments just made me remember this page.
Have you ever read Stranger in a Strange Land, perchance? I figure you'd like it.
His ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to his newsletter...
I'm seconding this. There is no resentment in my relationship that I'm aware of, despite me being the less financially successful and socially respected one (lawyer versus surgeon). A long time ago, in arguments I started this thing with my then-girlfriend: She'd start complaining/yelling/bitching about something and I'd stop her with "Stop this bullshit. It's not helping anything." This went on for a while, awkwardly derailing raised voices.
Then one day she did something to wrong me moderately (not a forgotten birthday, but not a cheating episode either). I don't even remember what it was. Hell, I didn't remembered what it was an hour later when she came back and apologized to me for doing whatever it was.
Me: What are you talking about?
Her: You know, __XX__.
Me: Oh, honey. You know that "stop that bullshit" thing I've been doing? I didn't care two seconds after you did it that you did it.
Her (paraphrased): Holy shit. That's fucking amazing.
Ever since then, if either of us catches the other about to start an argument, we remind each other that we only have 50-60 years together on this earth, and when we're dying, we don't want to think "If only we hadn't fought so much."
Neither of us wants to hurt the other, so if we've wronged the other, we talk it out and try our best not to do it again. That's all anyone can hope for. Yelling doesn't make you any more likely to fix the problem unless you're so mentally weak that physical threats are the only way to reform your behavior. I would hope we alleged "intelligent" people could do better than yelling. Ain't nothin to it but to do it.
I was about to post the same thing. It's amazing to me (and possibly explains the image of the geek as unsuccessful with women) that some people think "socially intelligent" is equivalent to "nice."
Hitler was socially intelligent.
I'll be honest: Your post isn't really that helpful. You should realize that geeks want facts to back up assertions. You've asserted a list of useful books with the fact that "my wife and I had some problems but we didn't even know what they were." Call me skeptical. "Years of pain and bad habits"? Sounds like it was a simple diagnosis to me: You two were treating each other like shit but didn't realize it. Is this what was happening? I'm genuinely interested, as you've been married longer than I have. Still, I've been with my lady for six years, including dating, and knew her for a year before that, and I can't really think of something comparable to the almost nonexistent fact pattern you've described, which has piqued my interest.
Why the hell anyone would ever need a class to teach them this is beyond me.
I've always said that a couple should appear as an indivisible unit in public. They should strive never to disagree in public, but only ever in private. But that's just old fashioned me. It's hard to do, but it sure is useful.
Wait, did you drop bombs on Herraq?
Not only that, but someone who thinks that there are differences between his impending marriage and "jock marriages" suggests to me that he's not even mature enough for marriage yet. I mean, I realized jocks and nerds aren't so different when I was about 18. I know that's heresy on /., but surely there must be other people who have risen beyond such divisions. I hear the Independent movement has grown in prominence. ;)
What does the submitter expect, that a nerd's wife disagreeing about who gets to use the gaming rig is going to be any more or less heated than a jock's wife disagreeing about whether he should get to go clubbin'? Yeesh. I mean, what is a jock marriage anyway?
There are two types of (for love) marriages in this world: those that should happen and those that shouldn't. Jock and nerd qualifiers don't help anything. Additionally, is the submitter implying that nerds are betas? That's stereotypical and offensive. Intelligence does not make you submissive.
Second largest (just a guess), student loans, are nondischargeable in bkcy proceedings.
I believe there have been jokes about lowercase e, u, and n in German looking the same. Here is a depiction of the lowercase alphabet of one old German font.
Freedom freedom freedom oy!
I was about to ask the same question. How can you complain about the crudity of modern TV but then mention one of your favorite shows makes torture out to be a great act of heroism?
That is incorrect. The "r" comes before, not after the vowel you're trying to approximate. You could say it would be "better" to transliterate it into English as "Gerning." However, Germans prefer instead to keep the spelling that they traditionally used, I'd imagine. Take note that the umlauted a/o/u are all predated by ae/oe/ue.
Technically, "oe" came before "o-with-umlaut." It was "oe," then it became "o-with-e-on-top." Because of the way an "e" looked at this point in German orthography, it became "o-with-two-parallel-vertical-lines-on-top," which became "o-with-umlaut." This is the same way we got a- and u-with-umlaut. You can see this in old script for "schoen" at Wikipedia: (schoen, scho-with-e-aboven, scho-with-umlautn).
That's a very odd explanation, considering "Groening" is a German surname. Here, it is technically "gr" + o-with-umlaut + "ning," where the o-with-umlaut is pronounced like an "eh" sound in your mouth while your lips are shaped like you're making an "oh" sound. However, to make things easier for the Alemanophobes in the audience, we alter it to English phonetics (the o-with-umlaut does not exist in English).
My surname has the exact same sound in it.
Unfortunately for your argument, that scheme was not limited to wealthy people. Many average Joes' pensions were destroyed by Madoff.
A ton of stuff is just absolutely blocked from non-wealthy people. If you want just a simple example, in the US, you cannot give your money to a hedge fund unless you are a "sophisticated investor," which basically means "person making over $200K/yr or 300K if you're married." Something like that.
Also, there are a lot of things I'm not really allowed to talk about. But there are a lot of opportunities out there if you know the right people and have the right amount of money.
Until one person who downloads it modifies the machine code to skip the subroutine that loads the license via whatever the machine-code equivalent of a JMP code is.
Then any subsequent user of the modified version would have never seen (and therefore never agreed to) the license.
I don't have anything to add here. I just wanted to say that I think this is one of the most understated, funny, and well-executed jokes I've ever seen on Slashdot. Thank you, sir or madam.
Unless you weren't playing off the 5-year copyright as the joke. If you weren't, then you can just go suck on an egg, you git.
I read it in Locke's First Treatise on eGovernment.