When the Second Amendment was added tot he Constitution, the only arms that existed that we had the right to bare were TOTALLY different than the guns we have now.
Therefore, the Second Amendment only applies to the kinds of guns that were available at the time, and everyone that thinks otherwise can STFU about the right to own semi-automatic weapons with modern bullets pre-loaded with gunpowder.
There are two aspects of The Law; The Letter of The Law, and The Spirit of The Law.
Furthermore, if you understood WHAT exactly Natural Rights are, you'd comprehend that they extend FAR beyond ANY rights specifically enumerated in the Constitution.
And all this ice has melted, or vaporized, into water...
It went somewhere, it didn't go out into space, right ?
So why haven't the oceans already risen, why haven't the coastal cities already flooded, why hasn't the water line gone up ?
OK, it takes a while... I can half accept that - how long ? A year ? What can we do to stop or reverse it in what, a year ?
Something about all this "science" is rotten, the politicization of it, the partisanship, the accusations of partisanship for simply questioning science by headlines, the name-calling by people that come off as hysterical, and unqualified to even talk about the science behind the science by headlines tactics.
Nobody needs to go to a GW skeptic site to have questions, the questions are obvious, lets hear some answers. OK, slashdot has a great number of responses and some very credible explanations - but they are by no means even remotely in agreement as to the mechanisms, or even the time frames involved. If anything, the more detailed explanations here just elicit even more questions.
So, please, everybody, spare me your Armageddon-like almost religiously fervent certainty. If you were so certain you'd be able to talk the specific science. Admit it, you don't know, your'e going on faith. I don't need science for THAT, that's what people (who go to them) have churches for.
If you're talking about the kinds of guns that were around when the whole "right to bare arms" Second Amendment thing was written, then ahem, not really a viable threat at all.
If you're talking about some dude that owns semi automatic weapons that can fire off a few dozen rounds in seconds, then yeah, the capacity to be a significant threat is profoundly greater than somebody with a knife or a hammer, and your analogy isn't just a bad one, it's an intentionally deceptive one used to further an agenda that is entirely irrational and absurd.
Comparing a weapon that is capable of taking out
dozens of people in less than a minute, to gardening tools, household chemicals and the like is BS.
I'd buy your belligerent argument if it were even half true.
The assumption that scientific research is never suppressed for political or financial reasons is unmitigated bullishittery. So, no, fuck you one.
The assumption that your correspondence done in the course of your employment is somehow super special private, because if it's not, someone could use it to do bad things to your reputation is also bullishittey. So, fuck you two.
Your assumption that the AG deserves to be in jail for advocating a degree of transparency of people that work for the public is likewise, more bullshittery. So fuck you three.
And the assumption, you make a lot of them, by the way, that conservatives always get away with criminal activities, and implying that non conservative don't, is absolute bullshittery. So fuck you four times over, you lying sack of cat excrement.
However, that doesn't mean a particular drug isn't over-prescribed.
It's an undeniable fact that oxy's are over-prescribed in the US, and that IS a very real problem.
I lived with chronic pain for years, and tried the oxy's for a while, and they worked. They worked a little TOO well. There are ways to manage chronic pain in addition to, and in replacement of just taking a particular pill that's being pushes on you for a companies bottom line.
That Americans are so ready and willing to accept fake limited options presented tot hem by corporate interests that basically own the government speaks as ill of us as it does for our government and our corporations.
Nobody's arguing against the use of oxy's for legitimate purposes. But when prescriptions have increased so rapidly for it in such a short period of time, and it's trafficked like heroin, you'd have to be a complete idiot to not see what's going on.
involves more than just a scattered approach that relies upon sitting in front of a computer screen.
Serious study and contemplation isn't about reliance on google. You can't compare google, or ANY search engine, to sitting in a decent library and actually digging for enlightenment on a particular subject.
Contemplation for days, and weeks, is not substituted for a fleeting synopsis, often written by someone with a particular undisclosed agenda.
What we've ended up with now are a great many people who sit in front of a computer all day, who truly believe they are well educated, well informed, intelligent, and even perceptive.
What they really are is the worst kind of imposers regurgitating someone else's undisclosed agendas and fallacies, narrow views, agendas, and prejudices, often masquerading as "scientific".
You see the lack of contemplative ability every day in the lack of knowledge of history, of interrelations, conversations with such people are always boring - they have nothing to actually contribute, they don't really know anything, and they are usually incapable of articulating ideas without a great deal of obfuscation and markedly politically loaded language.
What's remarkable about this is that once you know how to look for it, it's amazingly easy to distinguish. One of the primary characterizations of it is the shutting down of elucidation, the thwarting of interest in and the elaboration of the subject at hand, and an attitude that the speaker already knows everything - always a red flag.
Their trials are just like the tobacco industry trials; durations too short, improper controls, no follow-up, no real attempt to find problems, rather, every serious attempt to conceal them.
You would disagree, anon, because a vague fear of the possibility of "thought" being criminalized is the kind of abstract bugaboo that only comes about when the right to ACT, as in buy and sell goods, is thoroughly sabotaged by do-gooders that ultimately have the intention of controlling thought by criminalizing it.
The only people holding fictitious threats of "thought crimes" higher than the basic issue of economic freedom are the little anon cowards sitting home staring at kiddie porn all night.
It's quite the scam to claim nobody funded this non-study study.
People make all sorts of excuses for "science" to be manipulated by big industry concerns, but failure to properly disclose funding is a pretty basic issue when it comes to the integrity of any study.
Big Ag has an interest in maligning organics as much as possible, because it takes away from their GMO based product line. A product line that the consumer is not interested in buying int he first place, but gets forced on them because of our ridiculous labeling laws in the US.
The cold hard reality is that if you knew WHAT was being dumped into the food we buy, we wouldn't buy these products. The option to choose what we put into our bodies has been taken from us by these large businesses that do monoculture. They don't want you to buy local grown foods, to support local economies. This kind of unsustainable monoculture and corruption and deception is part of the American Way for large corporations, and they'll do anything to secure their profits; crush local business, destroy ecological diversity, deceive intentionally misinform the public, and take away your basic right to know what their "food" products contain.
I can't help find the differences between any of their positions on anything, once you parse the buzzwords, and take into account their pasts, who owns them, and the absurd resumptions, to be any more significant than the difference between Tweedledee and Tweedledum.
This game is clearly rigged by big industry and big money. It relies exclusively on selling the public on the idea that it has only two options, and making sure that we continue to have only two practical options.
The system of education we have in the US is an utter failure as it is. We have teachers that are incompetent that can't be properly evaluated and dealt with, we have administrators that are even worse, particularly in districts where there are huge challenges. Mediocrity doesn't fix severe problems.
We teach kids to pass tests, and that's about it. They don't know HOW to think, HOW to see connections and interrelations, because they aren't educated, kids are merely programmed.
And we have parent hell bent on teaching their particular religion in school, wasting resources and aggravating an already disastrous situation.
A child that can not read and comprehend grows up to be an adult that is a pawn. A child that never learns to understand interrelationships and history is a child that is easily manipulated. It makes for a fine consumer class of easily manipulable low wage earners, but it doesn't make for an intelligent society that solves problems and develops and builds. And that's exactly what we have now.
No child should ever graduate unable to read beyond a 4rth grade level, yet this is not unheard of. No child should graduate without skills and education that are immediately applicable. Kids should graduate able to manage their own finances, read and understand a contract, and ready for the big ugly reality that is modern America.
Look at all the new vaccines big pharma has been pushing on the public.
What about the stupidity in giving so many vaccines at once, increasing the likelihood of adverse reactions ?
What about the adjutants IN the vaccines ?
What about the fact that conferred immunity lasts, whereas vaccine immunity does not ?
Rarely do people ask the pertinent questions when the rallying cry of "won't somebody think of the children" has shut down skepticism, and most people's minds.
We have a huge federal government that has failed to properly regulate, that is corrupted by industry, and that wields power and authority primarily to deceive the public. We have massive programs to finance "research" that yields nothing most of the time, and we have a media that panders consistently to the lowest common denominators in society.
Nobody should be surprised that people have failed to vaccinate their kids for the most common diseases, when they've no experience with them, and nobody should be surprised that people eschew all vaccines, when the number of vaccines that are being foisted on the public has increased so markedly.
Blind faith in medical authority is just as irrational and inane as religious faith.
Slashdot Mirror
When the Second Amendment was added tot he Constitution, the only arms that existed that we had the right to bare were TOTALLY different than the guns we have now.
Therefore, the Second Amendment only applies to the kinds of guns that were available at the time, and everyone that thinks otherwise can STFU about the right to own semi-automatic weapons with modern bullets pre-loaded with gunpowder.
There are two aspects of The Law; The Letter of The Law, and The Spirit of The Law.
Furthermore, if you understood WHAT exactly Natural Rights are, you'd comprehend that they extend FAR beyond ANY rights specifically enumerated in the Constitution.
And all this ice has melted, or vaporized, into water...
It went somewhere, it didn't go out into space, right ?
So why haven't the oceans already risen, why haven't the coastal cities already flooded, why hasn't the water line gone up ?
OK, it takes a while... I can half accept that - how long ? A year ? What can we do to stop or reverse it in what, a year ?
Something about all this "science" is rotten, the politicization of it, the partisanship, the accusations of partisanship for simply questioning science by headlines, the name-calling by people that come off as hysterical, and unqualified to even talk about the science behind the science by headlines tactics.
Nobody needs to go to a GW skeptic site to have questions, the questions are obvious, lets hear some answers. OK, slashdot has a great number of responses and some very credible explanations - but they are by no means even remotely in agreement as to the mechanisms, or even the time frames involved. If anything, the more detailed explanations here just elicit even more questions.
So, please, everybody, spare me your Armageddon-like almost religiously fervent certainty. If you were so certain you'd be able to talk the specific science. Admit it, you don't know, your'e going on faith. I don't need science for THAT, that's what people (who go to them) have churches for.
Good point. The real issue is all the rutting humans that somehow magically expect such massive populations to somehow be even remotely sustainable.
An insult, followed by a criticism of the poster referencing something he didn't reference...
Trolls shouldn't get modded up.
I suppose it would depend on the gun.
If you're talking about the kinds of guns that were around when the whole "right to bare arms" Second Amendment thing was written, then ahem, not really a viable threat at all.
If you're talking about some dude that owns semi automatic weapons that can fire off a few dozen rounds in seconds, then yeah, the capacity to be a significant threat is profoundly greater than somebody with a knife or a hammer, and your analogy isn't just a bad one, it's an intentionally deceptive one used to further an agenda that is entirely irrational and absurd.
Comparing a weapon that is capable of taking out dozens of people in less than a minute, to gardening tools, household chemicals and the like is BS.
Great job, Will.
And all done without being an AC.
I'm not surprised you're AC; everything you've stated is false, and the people that rated your inane remarks a 5 should be ashamed.
I guess that's why you can find it in almost everybody's blood now, most water supplies, etcetera.
I'd buy your belligerent argument if it were even half true.
The assumption that scientific research is never suppressed for political or financial reasons is unmitigated bullishittery. So, no, fuck you one.
The assumption that your correspondence done in the course of your employment is somehow super special private, because if it's not, someone could use it to do bad things to your reputation is also bullishittey. So, fuck you two.
Your assumption that the AG deserves to be in jail for advocating a degree of transparency of people that work for the public is likewise, more bullshittery. So fuck you three.
And the assumption, you make a lot of them, by the way, that conservatives always get away with criminal activities, and implying that non conservative don't, is absolute bullshittery. So fuck you four times over, you lying sack of cat excrement.
No, really, fuck you.
You know something most people don't know.
However, that doesn't mean a particular drug isn't over-prescribed.
It's an undeniable fact that oxy's are over-prescribed in the US, and that IS a very real problem.
I lived with chronic pain for years, and tried the oxy's for a while, and they worked. They worked a little TOO well. There are ways to manage chronic pain in addition to, and in replacement of just taking a particular pill that's being pushes on you for a companies bottom line.
That Americans are so ready and willing to accept fake limited options presented tot hem by corporate interests that basically own the government speaks as ill of us as it does for our government and our corporations.
Nobody's arguing against the use of oxy's for legitimate purposes. But when prescriptions have increased so rapidly for it in such a short period of time, and it's trafficked like heroin, you'd have to be a complete idiot to not see what's going on.
involves more than just a scattered approach that relies upon sitting in front of a computer screen.
Serious study and contemplation isn't about reliance on google. You can't compare google, or ANY search engine, to sitting in a decent library and actually digging for enlightenment on a particular subject.
Contemplation for days, and weeks, is not substituted for a fleeting synopsis, often written by someone with a particular undisclosed agenda.
What we've ended up with now are a great many people who sit in front of a computer all day, who truly believe they are well educated, well informed, intelligent, and even perceptive.
What they really are is the worst kind of imposers regurgitating someone else's undisclosed agendas and fallacies, narrow views, agendas, and prejudices, often masquerading as "scientific".
You see the lack of contemplative ability every day in the lack of knowledge of history, of interrelations, conversations with such people are always boring - they have nothing to actually contribute, they don't really know anything, and they are usually incapable of articulating ideas without a great deal of obfuscation and markedly politically loaded language.
What's remarkable about this is that once you know how to look for it, it's amazingly easy to distinguish. One of the primary characterizations of it is the shutting down of elucidation, the thwarting of interest in and the elaboration of the subject at hand, and an attitude that the speaker already knows everything - always a red flag.
have not been properly done.
Their trials are just like the tobacco industry trials; durations too short, improper controls, no follow-up, no real attempt to find problems, rather, every serious attempt to conceal them.
http://geneticroulettemovie.com/
You would disagree, anon, because a vague fear of the possibility of "thought" being criminalized is the kind of abstract bugaboo that only comes about when the right to ACT, as in buy and sell goods, is thoroughly sabotaged by do-gooders that ultimately have the intention of controlling thought by criminalizing it.
The only people holding fictitious threats of "thought crimes" higher than the basic issue of economic freedom are the little anon cowards sitting home staring at kiddie porn all night.
everyone should be using bitcoins.
Economic freedom IS THE most fundamental freedom there is; without it, ALL other freedoms become comparatively trivial.
It IS relevant to the topic, you're just too stupud to figure it out.
Which is why you're anon, no doubt.
Or does it just go to sleep after you whack it ?
Is paid for by Cargill.
It's quite the scam to claim nobody funded this non-study study.
People make all sorts of excuses for "science" to be manipulated by big industry concerns, but failure to properly disclose funding is a pretty basic issue when it comes to the integrity of any study.
Big Ag has an interest in maligning organics as much as possible, because it takes away from their GMO based product line. A product line that the consumer is not interested in buying int he first place, but gets forced on them because of our ridiculous labeling laws in the US.
The cold hard reality is that if you knew WHAT was being dumped into the food we buy, we wouldn't buy these products. The option to choose what we put into our bodies has been taken from us by these large businesses that do monoculture. They don't want you to buy local grown foods, to support local economies. This kind of unsustainable monoculture and corruption and deception is part of the American Way for large corporations, and they'll do anything to secure their profits; crush local business, destroy ecological diversity, deceive intentionally misinform the public, and take away your basic right to know what their "food" products contain.
lumping conspiracy theorists in with skeptics.
And with very little distinction between the two.
How scientific.
A link to a nonexistent petition is not "a signature".
,and disabled is hardly something to brag about.
Advocating for the starvation of children, the sick
"The petition you are trying to access has expired, because it failed to meet the signature threshold."
"that no one knows about
.....
He says it used to be a farm
before the Motor Law"
Why would the FBI give a crap about the privacy of the American public ?
Worrying, but not unexpected.
I can't help find the differences between any of their positions on anything, once you parse the buzzwords, and take into account their pasts, who owns them, and the absurd resumptions, to be any more significant than the difference between Tweedledee and Tweedledum.
This game is clearly rigged by big industry and big money. It relies exclusively on selling the public on the idea that it has only two options, and making sure that we continue to have only two practical options.
A scam is a scam. And two scams are still a scam.
It'll never happen.
The teachers unions will never let it happen.
The system of education we have in the US is an utter failure as it is. We have teachers that are incompetent that can't be properly evaluated and dealt with, we have administrators that are even worse, particularly in districts where there are huge challenges. Mediocrity doesn't fix severe problems.
We teach kids to pass tests, and that's about it. They don't know HOW to think, HOW to see connections and interrelations, because they aren't educated, kids are merely programmed.
And we have parent hell bent on teaching their particular religion in school, wasting resources and aggravating an already disastrous situation.
A child that can not read and comprehend grows up to be an adult that is a pawn. A child that never learns to understand interrelationships and history is a child that is easily manipulated. It makes for a fine consumer class of easily manipulable low wage earners, but it doesn't make for an intelligent society that solves problems and develops and builds. And that's exactly what we have now.
No child should ever graduate unable to read beyond a 4rth grade level, yet this is not unheard of. No child should graduate without skills and education that are immediately applicable. Kids should graduate able to manage their own finances, read and understand a contract, and ready for the big ugly reality that is modern America.
Look at all the new vaccines big pharma has been pushing on the public.
What about the stupidity in giving so many vaccines at once, increasing the likelihood of adverse reactions ?
What about the adjutants IN the vaccines ?
What about the fact that conferred immunity lasts, whereas vaccine immunity does not ?
Rarely do people ask the pertinent questions when the rallying cry of "won't somebody think of the children" has shut down skepticism, and most people's minds.
We have a huge federal government that has failed to properly regulate, that is corrupted by industry, and that wields power and authority primarily to deceive the public. We have massive programs to finance "research" that yields nothing most of the time, and we have a media that panders consistently to the lowest common denominators in society.
Nobody should be surprised that people have failed to vaccinate their kids for the most common diseases, when they've no experience with them, and nobody should be surprised that people eschew all vaccines, when the number of vaccines that are being foisted on the public has increased so markedly.
Blind faith in medical authority is just as irrational and inane as religious faith.