Grow a pair and learn the laws. Otherwise, you'll never make it in American business. Never.
It is perfectly possible to run a business and decline to do things which you find morally wrong even if they are legal.
If, for instance, some neo-Nazi asked me to supply him with a Swastika armband and a sword I'd tell him to fuck off and die, and hopefully have a handy two by four handy to beat some sense into the tosser. It doesn't matter that it's legal to buy Swastika armbands and swords where I live.
If time machines were possible, why wouldn't someone have stumbled across one from the future and told everyone about it?
Oh, I forgot that this is the internet. Obviously The Government control all time travel for their own evil ends, and anyone coming close to discovering its secrets independently is bought/killed off like the guys who discovered the everlasting lightbulb and the car that ran on water.
When so-called 3D printers can reproduce items other than in shitty coloured plastic I'll be interested. Oddly enough, at the moment I wouldn't care if I could print a whole fucking house, if it ended up looking and feeling like some giant Lego construction.
What's the point of murder being illegal when you have always had and will always have some murderers? Hint: the answer isn't "don't bother having any laws against murder".
The thing is, the only point of a gun is to be a bullet launcher. And a good gun will be a better bullet launcher. Syringes can inject either heroin or any number of legal drugs, and I'm no drug expert but I don't imagine it makes much difference whether you use a cheap syringe or not as long as it's clean.
Neither drugs nor guns are that easy to make, or else you wouldn't have many drug or gun dealers.
The problem with the libertarian slashdot mindset is that you can only see it as a Government versus Us argument. In fact, most people want drugs and guns to be illegal, or at least not widely available to children, gangsters, and so on.
It almost seems like you're trying to incite people against the government.
Doesn't the US have treason laws? If so, you should allow people like the OP their constitutional freedom of speech, then arrest them after they've condemned themselves.
I don't believe in the death penalty, but forty five years in prison mean that he will be almost sixty by the time he's released and so probably not too dangerous.
It is not questionable that the framers of the Bill of Rights had a notion of the People being able to fight a tyrannical government as being the last resort safeguard of a free state.
So it is equally not questionable that anything the government can do to arm itself, the people can do under the Second Amendment.
In that case, the Second Amendment is unworkable, nonsensical bollocks, as logically "the people" should have unfettered access to nuclear and chemical weapons too.
So who authorized Stratasys as a law enforcement agency anyway?
Has it finally happened is it now official corporations run the world and not people anymore?
A manufacturer repossessing leased equipment because they feel you have violated its terms is not law enforcement, it's a civil contract issue at best.
It's barely possible that just because it has the world "gun" in it that it wouldn't count as an actual gun. But you're probably right, I expect office staple guns are subject to firearms restrictions too.
As a lawyer, have you ever seen a case where law enforcement didn't like someone's activities, were unable to prosecute him for those activities, but found another violation to prosecute? Like charging Capone with tax evasion?
The reason Al Capone went to prison for tax evasion is because he fucking evaded tax. If you think an entirely voluntary tax system would work, you're obviously on drugs. If not, you have to have laws to enforce the payment of tax, and punishments for breaking those laws.
I know for you "libertarian" types the very idea of tax makes you ill, but please try to live in the real world.
Guns are for spineless redneck inbred faggots.
Bring your gay ass gun over and I will run you over with my car, which is a STEERABLE bullet. With reverse.
Real men fight with their bare hands, and possibly a rolled up newspaper, you silly little car-driving person..
``Sporting'' is a word copied into the 1968 Gun Control Act from Nazi Germany's firearms control laws.
I see what you did there.
The intent is to emasculate the 2nd ammendment of its original intent to arm the people co-eval w/ the military so as to be able to stand against them if the government became tyrannical.
In that case you would need to let civilians have access to tanks, heavy artillery, helicopter gunships, cruise missiles and so on. The government/military aren't going to fight fair if you start an armed revolution.
They have put literally tens of thousands of people in federal prison for minor paperwork errors
That is the fault of the US judicial system, not any particular law enforcement agency.
One of their favorite tricks is to have an agent pose as a curious teenager and ask someone at a gun show how to make a gun shoot full-auto. If he tells them, they arrest him
And why exactly would you tell a "curious teenager" you didn't even know how to make a gun shoot full-auto anyway? If you disapprove of a law making full-auto guns illegal, then get the law changed, don't break the law then whine when you get caught.
here's some terrible labored "Chiks dig U" joke to be made there as well
Um, because there's no absolutely no fucking connection whatsoever to the topic at hand, i.e. drilling in the ocean deeps?!
Ding! Do I win a prize?:)
This is the internet. The problem is not the lack of connection to the topic at hand, it's the fact that it is not an accepted running joke, sorry meme, yet.
no, not even remotely close. "jokes" based on pretending you're an idiot aren't funny. fucking nerds.
No, it's pointless comments from someone who really is an idiot that aren't funny. Except that they are, sort of, like a skateboarding dog falling into a lake.
Some years ago I read an article that diamonds formed very deep and are size of watermelons, and after zillion years or so they make their way to the surface but have been broken up into small pieces. Imagine a diamond of watermelon size and probably very heavy.
As I believe industrial diamnonds are not particularly expensive, all this would do is knock the bottom out of the jewellery business, hardly important news unless you're a necklace diamond cutter or something.
It would be amusing to take your watermelon sized diamond to the Tower of London and mock the pathetically small stones in the Crown Jewels, I suppose.
Now do a millisecond of research, and find out what the real quote was, so that you don't ignorantly parrot an incorrect one again.
All I can find with a quick search is that it a quotation mistakenly attributed to him, but no-one appears to know who did say it. It's nonsense anyway. If God had wanted mankind to be happy, I'm fairly sure He could have avoided things like killer childhood diseases, teeth that rot and fall out, gout, cancer, heart attacks, and indeed death itself.
It would be particularly crappy planning to rely on a temporary palliative to ensure our happiness.
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Grow a pair and learn the laws. Otherwise, you'll never make it in American business. Never.
It is perfectly possible to run a business and decline to do things which you find morally wrong even if they are legal.
If, for instance, some neo-Nazi asked me to supply him with a Swastika armband and a sword I'd tell him to fuck off and die, and hopefully have a handy two by four handy to beat some sense into the tosser. It doesn't matter that it's legal to buy Swastika armbands and swords where I live.
If time machines were possible, why wouldn't someone have stumbled across one from the future and told everyone about it?
Oh, I forgot that this is the internet. Obviously The Government control all time travel for their own evil ends, and anyone coming close to discovering its secrets independently is bought/killed off like the guys who discovered the everlasting lightbulb and the car that ran on water.
When so-called 3D printers can reproduce items other than in shitty coloured plastic I'll be interested. Oddly enough, at the moment I wouldn't care if I could print a whole fucking house, if it ended up looking and feeling like some giant Lego construction.
What's the point of murder being illegal when you have always had and will always have some murderers? Hint: the answer isn't "don't bother having any laws against murder".
The thing is, the only point of a gun is to be a bullet launcher. And a good gun will be a better bullet launcher. Syringes can inject either heroin or any number of legal drugs, and I'm no drug expert but I don't imagine it makes much difference whether you use a cheap syringe or not as long as it's clean.
I know it's nice to have a hobby and everything, but why didn't you just buy the ammo?
Neither drugs nor guns are that easy to make, or else you wouldn't have many drug or gun dealers.
The problem with the libertarian slashdot mindset is that you can only see it as a Government versus Us argument. In fact, most people want drugs and guns to be illegal, or at least not widely available to children, gangsters, and so on.
Try manufacturing an H bomb, genius.
It almost seems like you're trying to incite people against the government.
Doesn't the US have treason laws? If so, you should allow people like the OP their constitutional freedom of speech, then arrest them after they've condemned themselves.
I don't believe in the death penalty, but forty five years in prison mean that he will be almost sixty by the time he's released and so probably not too dangerous.
It is not questionable that the framers of the Bill of Rights had a notion of the People being able to fight a tyrannical government as being the last resort safeguard of a free state.
So it is equally not questionable that anything the government can do to arm itself, the people can do under the Second Amendment.
In that case, the Second Amendment is unworkable, nonsensical bollocks, as logically "the people" should have unfettered access to nuclear and chemical weapons too.
So who authorized Stratasys as a law enforcement agency anyway?
Has it finally happened is it now official corporations run the world and not people anymore?
A manufacturer repossessing leased equipment because they feel you have violated its terms is not law enforcement, it's a civil contract issue at best.
Even toy guns?
It's barely possible that just because it has the world "gun" in it that it wouldn't count as an actual gun. But you're probably right, I expect office staple guns are subject to firearms restrictions too.
As a lawyer, have you ever seen a case where law enforcement didn't like someone's activities, were unable to prosecute him for those activities, but found another violation to prosecute? Like charging Capone with tax evasion?
The reason Al Capone went to prison for tax evasion is because he fucking evaded tax. If you think an entirely voluntary tax system would work, you're obviously on drugs. If not, you have to have laws to enforce the payment of tax, and punishments for breaking those laws.
I know for you "libertarian" types the very idea of tax makes you ill, but please try to live in the real world.
Guns are for spineless redneck inbred faggots. Bring your gay ass gun over and I will run you over with my car, which is a STEERABLE bullet. With reverse.
Real men fight with their bare hands, and possibly a rolled up newspaper, you silly little car-driving person..
``Sporting'' is a word copied into the 1968 Gun Control Act from Nazi Germany's firearms control laws.
I see what you did there.
The intent is to emasculate the 2nd ammendment of its original intent to arm the people co-eval w/ the military so as to be able to stand against them if the government became tyrannical.
In that case you would need to let civilians have access to tanks, heavy artillery, helicopter gunships, cruise missiles and so on. The government/military aren't going to fight fair if you start an armed revolution.
They have put literally tens of thousands of people in federal prison for minor paperwork errors
That is the fault of the US judicial system, not any particular law enforcement agency.
One of their favorite tricks is to have an agent pose as a curious teenager and ask someone at a gun show how to make a gun shoot full-auto. If he tells them, they arrest him
And why exactly would you tell a "curious teenager" you didn't even know how to make a gun shoot full-auto anyway? If you disapprove of a law making full-auto guns illegal, then get the law changed, don't break the law then whine when you get caught.
Best of luck, but I'm unsubscribing.
So you pay for a subscription but don't have a UID and post as AC? Really?
here's some terrible labored "Chiks dig U" joke to be made there as well
Um, because there's no absolutely no fucking connection whatsoever to the topic at hand, i.e. drilling in the ocean deeps?!
Ding! Do I win a prize? :)
This is the internet. The problem is not the lack of connection to the topic at hand, it's the fact that it is not an accepted running joke, sorry meme, yet.
no, not even remotely close. "jokes" based on pretending you're an idiot aren't funny. fucking nerds.
No, it's pointless comments from someone who really is an idiot that aren't funny. Except that they are, sort of, like a skateboarding dog falling into a lake.
Only Americans fry bacon. For the rest of us, it is a nice juicy meat for grilling, not an excuse to eat salty, fatty charcoal.
Some years ago I read an article that diamonds formed very deep and are size of watermelons, and after zillion years or so they make their way to the surface but have been broken up into small pieces. Imagine a diamond of watermelon size and probably very heavy.
As I believe industrial diamnonds are not particularly expensive, all this would do is knock the bottom out of the jewellery business, hardly important news unless you're a necklace diamond cutter or something.
It would be amusing to take your watermelon sized diamond to the Tower of London and mock the pathetically small stones in the Crown Jewels, I suppose.
Now do a millisecond of research, and find out what the real quote was, so that you don't ignorantly parrot an incorrect one again.
All I can find with a quick search is that it a quotation mistakenly attributed to him, but no-one appears to know who did say it. It's nonsense anyway. If God had wanted mankind to be happy, I'm fairly sure He could have avoided things like killer childhood diseases, teeth that rot and fall out, gout, cancer, heart attacks, and indeed death itself.
It would be particularly crappy planning to rely on a temporary palliative to ensure our happiness.
Wait, God drinks?
It's one explanation for His mistakes, like not even being able to prove He exists to those without blind, irrational faith.
My question then would be who was outside the ship filming it IF it was the only ship traveling to the core.....
You are aware that this is a work of fiction and not a documentary or live TV report, right?
Your comment is similar to criticising the movie Titanic on the basis that the cameraman filming the iceberg should have gone and warned the captain.
Why was stopping easy and starting not? Really stupid...
Duh. Compare getting a car going by push-starting it, and stopping it by driving into the side of a skip.