Example, If a straight man hits a gay man, he can be charged with a hate crime, when a gay man atackes a straight man, he must have provoked it. where is the equality?
I know my super-old handheld Garmin GPS (circa 2003) could receive WAAS; I can only assume that's standard on today's GPSR chips.
Quoth wikipedia: The Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) is an air navigation aid developed by the Federal Aviation Administration to augment the Global Positioning System (GPS), with the goal of improving its accuracy, integrity, and availability. Essentially, WAAS is intended to enable aircraft to rely on GPS for all phases of flight, including precision approaches to any airport within its coverage area.
Its like how they changed "bible in the classroom" into intelligent design, shell shock into post traumatic stress disorder (which still sounds like PMS more than battlefield trauma to me) or how they took an easy to understand word like rapist and replaced it with sex offender which frankly can mean just about any damned thing just depending on the state you are in.
Don't forget "detainee" and "enhanced interrogation"!
Meh, not really. Eventually the plane's dead reckoning system (estimation of where the plane is in 3-space based on air speed, compass heading, and altimeter) will start to diverge quite a bit from what the GPS says.
Standard procedure at that point is to believe the dead reckoning system, start using "traditional" methods to determine your location, and ignore the GPS.
In short, your instruments are to be believed over the GPS.
--WDTV set-top box (http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Streaming-Media-Player/dp/B005KOZNBW/ref=sr_1_1) ($80 or so) --computer w/storage and TV to connect to the WDTV --Usenet account ($10/m or so) --SABnzbd+ (free) --SickBeard (free) --CouchPotato (free) --Streaming Netflix (optional, $8/m or so)
How is NOT taking power and wealth away from PEOPLE giving it to corporations?
Because (a) the government IS the people, and (b) corporations are sociopathic. Corps will take and take and take so long as their short-term profit is projected to increase. Unless you make it 100% bold-faced illegal, they'll do it (and sometimes even then).
Someone is going to call the shots. If it's not US, the government/people, then it will be a private entity that, I guarantee, does NOT care about you or me in the slightest (and if you say the gov doesn't either, that's wrong, as again, the gov is US).
And seriously, fuck you on the "poor little Trevon" comment. Show some respect for the dead, especially the ones that were shot for walking home in the rain.
That seems to be a real popular and universal solution for just about every problem these days, especially among politicians and those on the Left.
Yeah, taking power away from the government (which by definition gives it to corporations, as nature abhors a vacuum) leads to AWESOME stuff like the Great Recession!
I, for one, hail our corporate overlords! Quickly, to the new Gilded Age!
No no, I'm not a gun-snatcher. Just trying to understand the true intent of the amendment.
I just don't understand why the "well-regulated" qualifier was put in there. It kind of implies a "we don't want just random yahoos with guns; we want folks who are trained in how to use them" attitude.
I'd be MORE than happy to support gun ownership for everyone IF it entailed some kind of extensive training. Or, heck, actual affirmative registration with some kind of official State militia. Kind of like "if you want to have a gun, you need to be an invasion/war "first responder"".
I've got news for you. I've lived almost my entire life in and around the military, as did my father. If such orders came down, a significant portion, if not the majority, of the military would be pointing their weapons back at the politicians and removing them from power, not killing the citizens.
Nah, the foot-soldiers will be easily brainwashed into believing that these aren't really civilians they're killing, but terrorists and foreign troublemakers who are here to ruin our country.
Think it can't happen here? Read about Libya and Syria in the last year or so. Pretty much EVERY soldier who finally defected said something along the lines of "We were told over and over and over these people we were killing were terrorists!!"
Except that the US and the Constitution aren't meant, and were never meant, to protect society, they were and are meant to protect individual freedom.
Then why the fuck does the Constitution start with "*WE*, the people"?
Otherwise, why does anyone pay any taxes? Why are there public roads? etc etc etc. Taxes of ANY kind are a limit on individual freedom. So why do we have taxes, if not for the reason of making a better society for everyone?
Just an FYI: Why do you think the founders put those two things as first and second in the list of rights? According to them, it's because without the 2nd Amendment, you can't defend the 1st Amendment, and will quickly lose it.
If the point of the 2nd amendment was really to arm every citizen, then WHY does the 2nd amendment start with the words: "A well regulated Militia,"?
What well-regulated militia are most gun owners part of? None? That's what I thought.
And before anyone trots out a State law that says something like "all able-bodied men are automatically part of the state militia in the event of an invasion", well, that's pretty much the antithesis of "well-regulated".
The truth is that an assault rifle makes a dandy hunting rifle, and the same things that make an assault rifle better for killing people make it better for killing dinner.
Yes, I totally agree. But, on balance, which is better for society:
1) Hunters that are able to kill more easily + more guns on the street that are REALLY good at killing people.
2) Hunters are inconvenienced and not able to kill as easily + less guns on the street that are REALLY good at killing people.
I mean, I'm sure a grenade launcher would make for an even better hunting weapon....but where do we draw the line?
That's because she works at the Genius Bar....genius.
Data Point: When I was a Mac Genius back in 2002, my starting pay (with a newly-earned BS in InfoSystems) was $19.25.
I know that was 10 years ago, but thought it might be useful.
And management were total cocks about everything. No overtime, ever. Back-to-backs where you'd close the store on night and have to be there for opening the next day. 10-day work stretches with a 4 days off, then another 10 days in a row.
Even as a Mac Genius you were treated as a low form of retail worker life. One of my bosses, who previously managed an Old Navy (such tech skills...) used to regularly bitch at the Geniuses about how long it took us to work through our repair queue...."they're just computers, how hard can it be!" she would quip.
That doesn't mean he's not a creep. In some countries what he did would just get him branded a creep; in Sweden, they are a bit more adamant about protecting women's rights and they think he did something criminal.
Show me ANYONE in mainstream society who gives a shit about 720p vs 1080p or even Blu-ray vs DVD... Now have them do a comparison that is NOT side by side, they won't be able to tell.
Quite the logical fallacy you've got there. You're essentially defining "mainstream society" as people who DON'T care about 720 vs 1080 vs dvd vs etc. So yes, when you ask people who don't care, they won't be able to tell.
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Example, If a straight man hits a gay man, he can be charged with a hate crime, when a gay man atackes a straight man, he must have provoked it. where is the equality?
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Great, then don't get married to someone of your own sex. Leave the rest of us alone
I don't give a flying fuck what your silly holy book says.
In hexadecimal. Wife won't get it, but someone important will after your death.
I kid! Sort of...
Users dont want that. Users want cool, so they put up with the fist fucking you get as an apple customer.
When was the last time you compiled the latest version of rsync on Windows?
Think of Macs as the best UNIX experience you've ever, ever had. Fuck the hardware, I just love OS X.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Snowplowable_reflector.jpg
I live in the Chicago area. Before I drove on a California highway, I wasn't even aware raised lane reflectors existed.
I assume there are similar lane markers in Finland?
Are you sure you didn't mean WAAS?
I know my super-old handheld Garmin GPS (circa 2003) could receive WAAS; I can only assume that's standard on today's GPSR chips.
Quoth wikipedia:
The Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) is an air navigation aid developed by the Federal Aviation Administration to augment the Global Positioning System (GPS), with the goal of improving its accuracy, integrity, and availability. Essentially, WAAS is intended to enable aircraft to rely on GPS for all phases of flight, including precision approaches to any airport within its coverage area.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Area_Augmentation_System
Its like how they changed "bible in the classroom" into intelligent design, shell shock into post traumatic stress disorder (which still sounds like PMS more than battlefield trauma to me) or how they took an easy to understand word like rapist and replaced it with sex offender which frankly can mean just about any damned thing just depending on the state you are in.
Don't forget "detainee" and "enhanced interrogation"!
Meh, not really. Eventually the plane's dead reckoning system (estimation of where the plane is in 3-space based on air speed, compass heading, and altimeter) will start to diverge quite a bit from what the GPS says.
Standard procedure at that point is to believe the dead reckoning system, start using "traditional" methods to determine your location, and ignore the GPS.
In short, your instruments are to be believed over the GPS.
--WDTV set-top box (http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Streaming-Media-Player/dp/B005KOZNBW/ref=sr_1_1) ($80 or so)
--computer w/storage and TV to connect to the WDTV
--Usenet account ($10/m or so)
--SABnzbd+ (free)
--SickBeard (free)
--CouchPotato (free)
--Streaming Netflix (optional, $8/m or so)
Tada!
How is NOT taking power and wealth away from PEOPLE giving it to corporations?
Because (a) the government IS the people, and (b) corporations are sociopathic. Corps will take and take and take so long as their short-term profit is projected to increase. Unless you make it 100% bold-faced illegal, they'll do it (and sometimes even then).
Someone is going to call the shots. If it's not US, the government/people, then it will be a private entity that, I guarantee, does NOT care about you or me in the slightest (and if you say the gov doesn't either, that's wrong, as again, the gov is US).
And seriously, fuck you on the "poor little Trevon" comment. Show some respect for the dead, especially the ones that were shot for walking home in the rain.
That seems to be a real popular and universal solution for just about every problem these days, especially among politicians and those on the Left.
Yeah, taking power away from the government (which by definition gives it to corporations, as nature abhors a vacuum) leads to AWESOME stuff like the Great Recession!
I, for one, hail our corporate overlords! Quickly, to the new Gilded Age!
No no, I'm not a gun-snatcher. Just trying to understand the true intent of the amendment.
I just don't understand why the "well-regulated" qualifier was put in there. It kind of implies a "we don't want just random yahoos with guns; we want folks who are trained in how to use them" attitude.
I'd be MORE than happy to support gun ownership for everyone IF it entailed some kind of extensive training. Or, heck, actual affirmative registration with some kind of official State militia. Kind of like "if you want to have a gun, you need to be an invasion/war "first responder"".
Is that unreasonable?
I've got news for you. I've lived almost my entire life in and around the military, as did my father. If such orders came down, a significant portion, if not the majority, of the military would be pointing their weapons back at the politicians and removing them from power, not killing the citizens.
Nah, the foot-soldiers will be easily brainwashed into believing that these aren't really civilians they're killing, but terrorists and foreign troublemakers who are here to ruin our country.
Think it can't happen here? Read about Libya and Syria in the last year or so. Pretty much EVERY soldier who finally defected said something along the lines of "We were told over and over and over these people we were killing were terrorists!!"
There is nothing "well-regulated" about a militia made up of every man from 16 to 60 who gets called to service maybe once in a lifetime.
Where's the training? Where's the, you know, REGULATION?
Except that the US and the Constitution aren't meant, and were never meant, to protect society, they were and are meant to protect individual freedom.
Then why the fuck does the Constitution start with "*WE*, the people"?
Otherwise, why does anyone pay any taxes? Why are there public roads? etc etc etc. Taxes of ANY kind are a limit on individual freedom. So why do we have taxes, if not for the reason of making a better society for everyone?
The Supreme Court has correctly interpreted "the People" in the clause of the 2nd Amendment to be individuals.
Indeed! And what well-regulated militia are they part of? Oh wait, they're not part of one? Oh dear....
Just an FYI: Why do you think the founders put those two things as first and second in the list of rights? According to them, it's because without the 2nd Amendment, you can't defend the 1st Amendment, and will quickly lose it.
If the point of the 2nd amendment was really to arm every citizen, then WHY does the 2nd amendment start with the words: "A well regulated Militia,"?
What well-regulated militia are most gun owners part of? None? That's what I thought.
And before anyone trots out a State law that says something like "all able-bodied men are automatically part of the state militia in the event of an invasion", well, that's pretty much the antithesis of "well-regulated".
The truth is that an assault rifle makes a dandy hunting rifle, and the same things that make an assault rifle better for killing people make it better for killing dinner.
Yes, I totally agree. But, on balance, which is better for society:
1) Hunters that are able to kill more easily + more guns on the street that are REALLY good at killing people.
2) Hunters are inconvenienced and not able to kill as easily + less guns on the street that are REALLY good at killing people.
I mean, I'm sure a grenade launcher would make for an even better hunting weapon....but where do we draw the line?
Fucking Nazi!
Fucking Nazi.
I assume that you'll come up with an example or two, but they'll be outliers that I just didn't think of.
No true scotsman
That's because she works at the Genius Bar....genius.
Data Point: When I was a Mac Genius back in 2002, my starting pay (with a newly-earned BS in InfoSystems) was $19.25.
I know that was 10 years ago, but thought it might be useful.
And management were total cocks about everything. No overtime, ever. Back-to-backs where you'd close the store on night and have to be there for opening the next day. 10-day work stretches with a 4 days off, then another 10 days in a row.
Even as a Mac Genius you were treated as a low form of retail worker life. One of my bosses, who previously managed an Old Navy (such tech skills...) used to regularly bitch at the Geniuses about how long it took us to work through our repair queue...."they're just computers, how hard can it be!" she would quip.
No drug test, though!
we reward those who are in debt, by paying off those debts with inflationary policies.
Debt is a necessary part of our society.
How many people do you know who bought their house for cash?
That doesn't mean he's not a creep. In some countries what he did would just get him branded a creep; in Sweden, they are a bit more adamant about protecting women's rights and they think he did something criminal.
Then they should charge him with a crime or STFU.
Show me ANYONE in mainstream society who gives a shit about 720p vs 1080p or even Blu-ray vs DVD... Now have them do a comparison that is NOT side by side, they won't be able to tell.
Quite the logical fallacy you've got there. You're essentially defining "mainstream society" as people who DON'T care about 720 vs 1080 vs dvd vs etc. So yes, when you ask people who don't care, they won't be able to tell.
Self-fulfilling prophecy fulfilled!