what's with you hippie weirdos and your "mission statements?" A company exists to make money. A mission statement is just a way to get there. And they change.
Frankly, if I thought that a company was only interested in money second, I wouldn't work there because they aren't going to be around too long.
Of course, employees need to not be abused. See Southwest Airlines, as opposed to US Air, my dad's company. US Air abuses employees. Southwest does not. they therefor have friendlier employees and higher customer satisfaction. But they're in it for the doe, and that keeps the customers shelling it out b-otch.
I've owned a few Macs in my day, so I don't really mean this as an outsider or a troll but:
who the fuck sits around and reads rumors about a computer company?
Seriously. I get the feeling that I could just make up any shit that I want to, put it on a mac rumor site, and people would eat it up. Hell, that's probably how Apple gets most of their product ideas -- reading rumor sites filled with made up crap by people who like to laugh at MacHeads.
I really don't get how anybody could be that attached to a piece of plastic or the company who made it. It's not like an ancestoral sword which almost sort of has a life of its own. It's a bloody fucking computer -- a soulless tool that one doesn't even need to get along in life.
McCarthey's methods may have left a lot to be desired, but most of the people he pinned for Commies were in fact Soviet spies. The Venona Project, between FBI and MI5 proved this, and actually pointed to many, many more communists and actual soviet agents than even McCarthey knew.
Let us not forget that we really were on the brink of nuclear war with the USSR. Soviet Spies like the Rosenbergs stole the technology for Russia. Alger Hiss was only one of many soviet spies in the Truman administration. There was a VERY REAL threat which meant life and death for the whole planet. Who cares if a few shitty actors got blacklisted if it meant keeping the world safe from obliteration?
There is no such thing as "international law." It's a ficition. The UN has NO FORCE. The only reason anyone has ever listened to them is a US carrier group and a couple thousand Marines near by. They are not a government. They are not a law enforcement agency. They are just a place where lots of people sign on to treaties or "resolutions," most of which aren't even binding in the national borders of the countries.
The only "international law" is finder's keeeper's -- the law of the high seas, my friend.
well, enforces them. If you type which it often trys and makes it that. it doesn't know the differene between who (subject) and whom (object). those are just the two things i notice the most.
Honour, and glory my friend, honour and glory as they say:
Might was Right when Caesar bled upon the stones of Rome, Might was Right when Genghis led his hordes over Danube's foam, And Might was Right when German troops poured down through Paris way, It's the Gospel of the Ancient World and the Logic of Today.
Behind all Kings and Presidents - all government and law, Are army-corps and canoneers to hold the world in awe. And sword-strong races own the earth and ride the Conqueror's Car -- And liberty has never been won except by deeds of war.
History is spun of the heroic deeds of valient men. People like Beowulf and Seigfried, Fionn MacCumhail and CuChulaine, Scipio Africanus and Julius Caesar -- these are the people who exemplify what we should aspire too -- strength, honour, loyalty, power and glory.
There is no afterlife but the tails of our lives, and the great we are the longer we live on. As they say, aim for the moon but shoot for the stars -- even if you miss you've still achieved more than most.
no, i am not saying the colour of their skin does it. I am just saying that the people who do it happen to have non-white skin colour. Clearly Colin Powel isn't going around gang banging. And "Slim Shady" isn't exactly a model citizen.
However, the "hip hop" culture does encourage violence and criminal activity as a method to gain street credit. Then again, so do anarchist punks. Personally, I believe C. Julius Caesar: "break the law only to seize power. In all other cases, observe it."
I am about to say something very poltically incorrect, but i don't really care.
European-Americans (English, Irish, German, et cetera) are not the predominant group sitting in prison. It's blacks, latinos, et cetera. all those "gangs" you always here about -- well, I doubt any "honkeys" are in the Crips or Bloods. We have massive amounts of illegals streaming across the Mexican border. Many of them end up committing other crimes.
I am sure that Europe, Canada and New Zealand will reflect this as well. That is why I said it. It's not us, it's them. about 70% of America is white but about 80% of the people in prison are not. it is not because we go around willie-nilly locking up "coons," it's cause they are comitting the crimes. Maybe whites are committing more crimes and just not getting caught, but I don't think so.
Of course, if we had none of those people all the crime would be white crime. But there would probably be a whole lot less crime. Much of the crime is black-on-black, probably more so than black-on-white and from what i see on the local news from hampton roads, infintly more than white-on-black which i almost never see.
of course, anecdotes aren't really evidence, except in specific cases. and i can't find the prison stats right now. but those numbers are pretty close to accurate.
if I had the money, i am not sure there is anything which would prevent me from buying an M1A1 -- just the.50cal browning machine gun by the turret hatch.
I've been shooting since I was like, 4. Guns are no big deal to me. I know how to deal with them. I used to shoot competition rifle.
many of the things I believe may be concidered "racist" but I don't think that's the right word. I do not like Rap music, hip hop culture, et cetera. That doesn't mean I don't like black people. I don't like that culture. I like jazz and the blues. But I don't really know many black people. I have 2 black friends, one of whom is the whitest person i've ever met (just black, you know). Of course, I am not attracted to african features. I would never marry a black woman. But I don't think that makes me racist.
I'm anti immigration, particularly illegal immigration. It's not that I don't like mexicans. I just don't want people sneaking into my country and demanding social services. Mexico is sueing Arazona for refusing to give social services to illegal immigrants. The sad thing is, they will probably win. I plan on staying in my country, they should do the same. It has nothing to do with the colour of their skin.
I disagree with a lot of the things the left says and does, but it doesn't make me right wing. I disagree with a lot they say and do also. Yes, I am more inclined to agree with them on many issues, but I am more reactionary than conservative.
But these days, if you have National pride, you're labled a racist. If you are anti-immigration, you're labled a racist. if you're just plain not attracted to blacks or mexicans or indians or whatever, you're labled a racist. It's not that. I just don't like those things. I don't like brown on eyes on white girls either. Cows of brown eyes -- they are boring. But hey, i'm not terribly big on blonde hair. Everyone in my family has black hair, except for some redheaded cousins and stuff. If you don't grow up with something you don't learn to like it -- like fish eggs.
But yeah, I hear the word "nigger" or some variation thereof like, 12 times a day. My school has like, 1200 students and only like, 35 students who are not white. That includes the Japanese girl. Maybe 43 if we count Jews as "non-white." I don't see black people much. I don't know how to deal with them.
A guy I know that is the assistant manager of the dining hall at my school named Ron is black. One day he asked me if there were black people in Ireland. There may be in Dublin, but I never have seen any. The situation is only slightly better here. I never have to deal with Jews. We don't even get Columbus Day off because we have almost no Italians. And I don't even live in the backwoods, really -- i'm 10 minutes from williamsburg if we could go straight (cheatham annex for the US navy is in the way, so it takes me 35 minutes because of where they had to build the bridge). If I go to hampton there are plenty of black folk. But I never have to go to hampton for anything really, and I feel very uncomfortable if I do.
I don't hate them per se, I just don't really ever have to deal. The point of the whole thread is that people shouldn't have to. If I want to go hang out with some black people or whatever, that's fine. if I don't, that's my decision. I shouldn't be forced to in the name of "diversity" -- honestly, I cannot say I believe it would make anything better if it were "more diverse." I can just find different food when I go visit my family in Boston, Chicago, New York, or Ft Lauderdale. On the other hand those places are cramped, crowded, loud, filthy and crime-ridden. But hey, they are diverse.
but I really don't think we need to be talking about this anymore.
I cut and pasted the quote. His name William "Bill" Jefferson Clinton. Plus, I'm not really right wing. As the most August Il Duce once said, "I am a revolutionary or reactionary as the situation dictates." As I said, I didn't really believe the argument I was making on behalf of the founding fathers.
I'm a Nationalist. I am an Imperialist. I am a Fascist in the sense that Fascism harkens back to Roman ideals and goals. I believe in compulsary military service and a draft and I am enlisting after I finish college next year. I grew up in the American South and as such I am probably a racist, even if I don't believe in whole-sale murder in the name of any such cause (we dont really have anything but christians here, 96% of my county is white, and what isnt is black. People more or less just stick with their own, de facto). If you heard of that Mat Hale guy they thought ordered the killing of the Federal Judge in Chicago (it was a big story, you may have heard of it down there) -- his group, World Church of the Creator, one of my best friends growing up is the younger brother of the virginia leader, "Rev." John King (the younger brother is not a nazi, btw). My neighbour is in the klan. that John guy's father is his best friend, also Klan. They're not big on me for being Irish (and a healthy chunk of German) and nominally Catholic -- mostly for the Catholic part. I've dealt with it and dealt it. It's just the way it is. that said, the klan is a bunch of disorganized rednecks and most neo-nazis have: A) No plan for what to do AFTER they get rid of the Jews B) no real organized plan to get rid of the jews and thus are totally crappy at being nazis who had a plan and were highly efficiant.
People in this country have an enumerated right to own and carry firearms. It's not so in Europe, I don't care. I don't live there. I'm just saying, I won't give up mine, no one else should give up theirs. Ideally, everyone should have a nice plot of land to make their living, raise a family, and have a nice quiet life. The 20th century sucked and the 21st is going to be worse.
Europe is movign towards unification, like it or not. Each State has different laws here, but each State is the size of most european countries. Europe (the EU) and the United States have about the same amount of people and the same sized economy. It's pleanty well enough to compare the two.
That said, Britian, France, and Germany in particular. Singer of the band "Landser" is doing time for disemintating Nazi propaganda (their songs). France sues any website that doesn't block frogs from being able to see authentic nazi stuff on auctions or sales or whatever. Britian, i hear, is trying to make it 'hate speech' to protest immigration. That's just fucking retarded.
That's what I mean. The Contintent is turning into one big california filled with a bunch of pussy-ass bitches who scream "tollerance" but then don't tollerate the other side. They don't want to hear about Nazis or how immigration is killing their country or whatever, DONT FUCKING LISTEN. But the people who want to hear that should have the right, unrestricted. If they want to buy authentic SS daggars or something, let them. It doesn't hurt anybody until someone gets curbchecked, then charge them for murder or battery if the victim didn't die. Don't charge them with being "racists" -- someone isn't any more or less dead because they were killed for being a "nigger" or a "kike" or a "cracker"
Occasionally it is needed. The Declaration of Independence provides the moral and legal authority for it. Furthermore, this is backed up by the inaugrual address of one Abraham Lincoln (ironic is it may be, it is true).
I'm about to make an argument which was true in the eyes of the founding fathers even if I don't really believe it anymore:
Standing armies are dangerous. They serve the State and not the People. If the government maintains a standing army then it is no need to care what the People say. This is why congress has the power to raise an army and raise and maintain a navy. appropriations for the army can be for a period no longer than 2 years. This is why the 2nd amendment talks of a militia. George Mason said, "after all, what is the militia? it is the whole of the people, minus a few public officials." The Federalist Papers back up that every male citizen must be part of the militia, and provide his own weapon. "well regulated" means "put to good order" in the context of the 2nd amendment -- meaning, trained and uniformly equiped with the standard issue weapon of the day. Today that is the M16A2 (semi auto and 3-shot burst select fire.223 (5.46mm) rifle). I have heard that he UCMJ also supports the notion that the militia is everybody not otherwise already in the acitve service or national guard. of course, i heard that in someone's slashdot comment years ago and we know how reliable information around here is:-)
At any rate, what I am talking about is keeping intruders, criminals, and people like bill clinton ('We cannot be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.''
-- B.J.Clinton, USA Today, 3/11/93 page 2A) out of my home, away from my family, and off of my rights. Not vigilanty gangs. Although, they are more effective than "due process"
I only need a license (class III) for fully automatic weapons. Also, States issue concealed carry permits (unless there are laws saying they are not needed, or Vermont where open carry is the law). At 18 I could buy any rifle or shotgun I wanted to. I can buy handguns this summer at 21. My father is giving me his 9mm Rugar and I am getting my concealed carry permit.
As Patrick Henry said, "the great object is that every man may own a gun. Everyone who is able may." Whether you "need" it to not isn't the point. The point is you might some day and it's better to have it than be sorry. the 2nd amendment in this country isn't about hunting or "keeping king george out." It's about personal defense, of the family and home, as well as the ultimate check and balance on the government.
A well armed citizenry means liberty and justice for all. Sure, some crimes will happen, but fewer. Legally owned firearms are almost never used in the commission of a crime. Criminals will always have them and its better that law abiding citizens do too than that only criminals have them. You cannot count on the police. In fact, they are probably more dangerous to liberty than conducive to safety.
But like I said, Europe is different. I'll bitch and complain about government health care here because it's not what this country was founded on. You can stick "HRM" in front of whatever you do and that's fine and in keeping with tradition. I really don't care.
Europe has so many hate speech laws and other crap you're no freeer. Freedom means being allowed to diseminate Nazi stuff along side the commie stuff. Freedom means being able to publicly support or protest immigration. Freedom means not having to associate with people if you don't want to for whatever reason -- race,religion, et cetera -- not being forced to, unless you want to.
Europe also has stupid anti-gun laws. Britian has pretty much banned them. But in 2003 before I left Ireland, I was watching Sky News and there were like, 3 drive by shootings in London in like a week. They interviewd some lady and she was saying how Britian needed tougher gun contgrol laws. Well,you can't GET guns there unless you buy them illegally. Criminals don't obey the law, that is why they are criminals. Breaking and enterings and rapes and stuff jumped in the UK and Australia when they banned private gun ownership -- no armed citizens and no death penalty means no penalty at all.
The rest of the world is not free. Freedom is an illusion. You think its better there because you are from there. I think its better here because I grew up here. The FEC is unconstitional and I'll do whatever the hell I want to. I'm sure you have similarly evil institutions in Europe. Your country just historically doesn't really have rights. European countries have no founding principles because they jsut where always there. We were founded and have foundindg principles and doccuments and that makes it easier to know when we are getting shafted.
it means I can say whatever I want to about politics and the government. If I want to rail against Bush, I can do it. Against Clinton, an do it. Against Communists, Nazis, the ZOG Machine or whatever the hell else, I can do it. And the Government has no power to regulate it.
Further, "campaign finance laws" and TV ad shit. 'Freedom of Assembly.' If several people who have the same ideas I do get together and call ourselves the NRA or the AFL-CIO, doesn't matter, we have the right to do that, pool our money, and support our interests.
Respect the constitution to the letter or don't pretend to honour it. Just admit we dont have one, like Britian.
Mom and grandma can't install windows and they know it. that is why these rinky-dink computr shops pop up all over the place like zits.
Windows just comes with the computer. They didn't have to install it then. They don't want to have to install it now. They don't want linux because it means installing it, not just changing from windows.
Frankly, I think installing Windows is harder. I have to have 4 bloody floppy disks, do all this weird shit, AND have a product key. THEN, I have to get the CD for my motherboard (finding it is always a chore). Then I have to install all that shit. BSD or Linux is just throw it in there and go. BSD install is half as painful tops. X configurations is the only place I ever fuck up. It used to be PPP... but then I realized I can't just copy out of the book the file... my ISP in those days used different prompts.
Anyway... Windows is a bitch to install and configure. Linux or BSD pretty much does itself. On the other hand, I don't have to make an XF86Config for Windows. Or a PPP config file (have broadband now anyway). Or any other kind of config file.
But then there are the viruses. and the spyware. and the virus and spyware checking.
Or I could make world or the kernel all the time, not have a very good word processor, have to type weird commands to use my floppy disk drive, et cetera.
The point is, computers suck. They are bothersome. Mom and grandma hate them even more. They might like being able to do some of the things they can with them but dont want to bother with the maintanence. Hell, I don';t even want to do it. It pisses me off. I've better things to do.
Thats right, you heard it here first, folks. Mom and grandma don't want to switch to Linux or BSD. They don't really care about "software freedom." They just want to look up a recipie or about baboons (or whatever). The computer is a tool, not an ends unto itself as it is for so many slashdotters. They really don't care. Why push linux on them? Seriously, why?
Linux was never ment to compete with Microsoft. GNU had more to do with competing with SUN than Microsoft. BSD wasn';t about competing with anything at all. All of a sudden "hey, jee-wiz, look what i can make my computer do, and it;s free, too!" turned into "kill microsoft!!" Who cares what Microsoft does? Honestly, I really don't think it actually affects our lives. Maybe the people here who have to support crappy buggy products. But I don;'t have a problem with Win2kPro. I don;t see it being crappy and buggy. And I don't care abot their business practices. I think Bill Gates is a dork, but that's irrelevent.
Honestly, mom and grandma dont care about any of it. But people around here often dont seem to see that. It's the same argument as "hacks build lousy end user interfaces 'cause they dont do that shit." Mom and granda would use Amiga if that's what was selling like hotcakes. They don't care. But change what they are used to and they will be pissed.
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what's with you hippie weirdos and your "mission statements?" A company exists to make money. A mission statement is just a way to get there. And they change.
Frankly, if I thought that a company was only interested in money second, I wouldn't work there because they aren't going to be around too long.
Of course, employees need to not be abused. See Southwest Airlines, as opposed to US Air, my dad's company. US Air abuses employees. Southwest does not. they therefor have friendlier employees and higher customer satisfaction. But they're in it for the doe, and that keeps the customers shelling it out b-otch.
"Often immitated, never duplicated"
there is only one The Church, dude.
"You would not call a horse born in a cowshed a calf." -- Duke Wellington on why he was not Irish.
Why not just stomp out humanity all together and just replace us with robots? -- they use less natural resources.
I think the fact that it was in Latin, instead of just saying "Time Flies" in English.
I've owned a few Macs in my day, so I don't really mean this as an outsider or a troll but:
who the fuck sits around and reads rumors about a computer company?
Seriously. I get the feeling that I could just make up any shit that I want to, put it on a mac rumor site, and people would eat it up. Hell, that's probably how Apple gets most of their product ideas -- reading rumor sites filled with made up crap by people who like to laugh at MacHeads.
I really don't get how anybody could be that attached to a piece of plastic or the company who made it. It's not like an ancestoral sword which almost sort of has a life of its own. It's a bloody fucking computer -- a soulless tool that one doesn't even need to get along in life.
McCarthey's methods may have left a lot to be desired, but most of the people he pinned for Commies were in fact Soviet spies. The Venona Project, between FBI and MI5 proved this, and actually pointed to many, many more communists and actual soviet agents than even McCarthey knew.
Let us not forget that we really were on the brink of nuclear war with the USSR. Soviet Spies like the Rosenbergs stole the technology for Russia. Alger Hiss was only one of many soviet spies in the Truman administration. There was a VERY REAL threat which meant life and death for the whole planet. Who cares if a few shitty actors got blacklisted if it meant keeping the world safe from obliteration?
for an additional $5 and half an hour of training, in addition to BSD upkeep you can become a certified mortician as well!!
There is no such thing as "international law." It's a ficition. The UN has NO FORCE. The only reason anyone has ever listened to them is a US carrier group and a couple thousand Marines near by. They are not a government. They are not a law enforcement agency. They are just a place where lots of people sign on to treaties or "resolutions," most of which aren't even binding in the national borders of the countries.
The only "international law" is finder's keeeper's -- the law of the high seas, my friend.
well, enforces them. If you type which it often trys and makes it that. it doesn't know the differene between who (subject) and whom (object). those are just the two things i notice the most.
MS Word causes the most common errors. "that" and "which" are not the same thing. "who" and "whom" are not the same thing. Fo' Shizzle is not a word.
Honour, and glory my friend, honour and glory as they say:
Might was Right when Caesar bled upon the stones of Rome,
Might was Right when Genghis led his hordes over Danube's foam,
And Might was Right when German troops poured down through Paris way,
It's the Gospel of the Ancient World and the Logic of Today.
Behind all Kings and Presidents - all government and law,
Are army-corps and canoneers to hold the world in awe.
And sword-strong races own the earth and ride the Conqueror's Car --
And liberty has never been won except by deeds of war.
History is spun of the heroic deeds of valient men. People like Beowulf and Seigfried, Fionn MacCumhail and CuChulaine, Scipio Africanus and Julius Caesar -- these are the people who exemplify what we should aspire too -- strength, honour, loyalty, power and glory.
There is no afterlife but the tails of our lives, and the great we are the longer we live on. As they say, aim for the moon but shoot for the stars -- even if you miss you've still achieved more than most.
no, i am not saying the colour of their skin does it. I am just saying that the people who do it happen to have non-white skin colour. Clearly Colin Powel isn't going around gang banging. And "Slim Shady" isn't exactly a model citizen.
However, the "hip hop" culture does encourage violence and criminal activity as a method to gain street credit. Then again, so do anarchist punks. Personally, I believe C. Julius Caesar: "break the law only to seize power. In all other cases, observe it."
I am about to say something very poltically incorrect, but i don't really care.
European-Americans (English, Irish, German, et cetera) are not the predominant group sitting in prison. It's blacks, latinos, et cetera. all those "gangs" you always here about -- well, I doubt any "honkeys" are in the Crips or Bloods. We have massive amounts of illegals streaming across the Mexican border. Many of them end up committing other crimes.
I am sure that Europe, Canada and New Zealand will reflect this as well. That is why I said it. It's not us, it's them. about 70% of America is white but about 80% of the people in prison are not. it is not because we go around willie-nilly locking up "coons," it's cause they are comitting the crimes. Maybe whites are committing more crimes and just not getting caught, but I don't think so.
Of course, if we had none of those people all the crime would be white crime. But there would probably be a whole lot less crime. Much of the crime is black-on-black, probably more so than black-on-white and from what i see on the local news from hampton roads, infintly more than white-on-black which i almost never see.
of course, anecdotes aren't really evidence, except in specific cases. and i can't find the prison stats right now. but those numbers are pretty close to accurate.
if I had the money, i am not sure there is anything which would prevent me from buying an M1A1 -- just the .50cal browning machine gun by the turret hatch.
I've been shooting since I was like, 4. Guns are no big deal to me. I know how to deal with them. I used to shoot competition rifle.
many of the things I believe may be concidered "racist" but I don't think that's the right word. I do not like Rap music, hip hop culture, et cetera. That doesn't mean I don't like black people. I don't like that culture. I like jazz and the blues. But I don't really know many black people. I have 2 black friends, one of whom is the whitest person i've ever met (just black, you know). Of course, I am not attracted to african features. I would never marry a black woman. But I don't think that makes me racist.
I'm anti immigration, particularly illegal immigration. It's not that I don't like mexicans. I just don't want people sneaking into my country and demanding social services. Mexico is sueing Arazona for refusing to give social services to illegal immigrants. The sad thing is, they will probably win. I plan on staying in my country, they should do the same. It has nothing to do with the colour of their skin.
I disagree with a lot of the things the left says and does, but it doesn't make me right wing. I disagree with a lot they say and do also. Yes, I am more inclined to agree with them on many issues, but I am more reactionary than conservative.
But these days, if you have National pride, you're labled a racist. If you are anti-immigration, you're labled a racist. if you're just plain not attracted to blacks or mexicans or indians or whatever, you're labled a racist. It's not that. I just don't like those things. I don't like brown on eyes on white girls either. Cows of brown eyes -- they are boring. But hey, i'm not terribly big on blonde hair. Everyone in my family has black hair, except for some redheaded cousins and stuff. If you don't grow up with something you don't learn to like it -- like fish eggs.
But yeah, I hear the word "nigger" or some variation thereof like, 12 times a day. My school has like, 1200 students and only like, 35 students who are not white. That includes the Japanese girl. Maybe 43 if we count Jews as "non-white." I don't see black people much. I don't know how to deal with them.
A guy I know that is the assistant manager of the dining hall at my school named Ron is black. One day he asked me if there were black people in Ireland. There may be in Dublin, but I never have seen any. The situation is only slightly better here. I never have to deal with Jews. We don't even get Columbus Day off because we have almost no Italians. And I don't even live in the backwoods, really -- i'm 10 minutes from williamsburg if we could go straight (cheatham annex for the US navy is in the way, so it takes me 35 minutes because of where they had to build the bridge). If I go to hampton there are plenty of black folk. But I never have to go to hampton for anything really, and I feel very uncomfortable if I do.
I don't hate them per se, I just don't really ever have to deal. The point of the whole thread is that people shouldn't have to. If I want to go hang out with some black people or whatever, that's fine. if I don't, that's my decision. I shouldn't be forced to in the name of "diversity" -- honestly, I cannot say I believe it would make anything better if it were "more diverse." I can just find different food when I go visit my family in Boston, Chicago, New York, or Ft Lauderdale. On the other hand those places are cramped, crowded, loud, filthy and crime-ridden. But hey, they are diverse.
but I really don't think we need to be talking about this anymore.
which one? Their on they're 5th republic, we are on our first. And did it without a "reign of terror."
I cut and pasted the quote. His name William "Bill" Jefferson Clinton. Plus, I'm not really right wing. As the most August Il Duce once said, "I am a revolutionary or reactionary as the situation dictates." As I said, I didn't really believe the argument I was making on behalf of the founding fathers.
I'm a Nationalist. I am an Imperialist. I am a Fascist in the sense that Fascism harkens back to Roman ideals and goals. I believe in compulsary military service and a draft and I am enlisting after I finish college next year. I grew up in the American South and as such I am probably a racist, even if I don't believe in whole-sale murder in the name of any such cause (we dont really have anything but christians here, 96% of my county is white, and what isnt is black. People more or less just stick with their own, de facto). If you heard of that Mat Hale guy they thought ordered the killing of the Federal Judge in Chicago (it was a big story, you may have heard of it down there) -- his group, World Church of the Creator, one of my best friends growing up is the younger brother of the virginia leader, "Rev." John King (the younger brother is not a nazi, btw). My neighbour is in the klan. that John guy's father is his best friend, also Klan. They're not big on me for being Irish (and a healthy chunk of German) and nominally Catholic -- mostly for the Catholic part. I've dealt with it and dealt it. It's just the way it is. that said, the klan is a bunch of disorganized rednecks and most neo-nazis have:
A) No plan for what to do AFTER they get rid of the Jews
B) no real organized plan to get rid of the jews
and thus are totally crappy at being nazis who had a plan and were highly efficiant.
People in this country have an enumerated right to own and carry firearms. It's not so in Europe, I don't care. I don't live there. I'm just saying, I won't give up mine, no one else should give up theirs. Ideally, everyone should have a nice plot of land to make their living, raise a family, and have a nice quiet life. The 20th century sucked and the 21st is going to be worse.
Europe is movign towards unification, like it or not. Each State has different laws here, but each State is the size of most european countries. Europe (the EU) and the United States have about the same amount of people and the same sized economy. It's pleanty well enough to compare the two.
That said, Britian, France, and Germany in particular. Singer of the band "Landser" is doing time for disemintating Nazi propaganda (their songs). France sues any website that doesn't block frogs from being able to see authentic nazi stuff on auctions or sales or whatever. Britian, i hear, is trying to make it 'hate speech' to protest immigration. That's just fucking retarded.
That's what I mean. The Contintent is turning into one big california filled with a bunch of pussy-ass bitches who scream "tollerance" but then don't tollerate the other side. They don't want to hear about Nazis or how immigration is killing their country or whatever, DONT FUCKING LISTEN. But the people who want to hear that should have the right, unrestricted. If they want to buy authentic SS daggars or something, let them. It doesn't hurt anybody until someone gets curbchecked, then charge them for murder or battery if the victim didn't die. Don't charge them with being "racists" -- someone isn't any more or less dead because they were killed for being a "nigger" or a "kike" or a "cracker"
Occasionally it is needed. The Declaration of Independence provides the moral and legal authority for it. Furthermore, this is backed up by the inaugrual address of one Abraham Lincoln (ironic is it may be, it is true). I'm about to make an argument which was true in the eyes of the founding fathers even if I don't really believe it anymore: Standing armies are dangerous. They serve the State and not the People. If the government maintains a standing army then it is no need to care what the People say. This is why congress has the power to raise an army and raise and maintain a navy. appropriations for the army can be for a period no longer than 2 years. This is why the 2nd amendment talks of a militia. George Mason said, "after all, what is the militia? it is the whole of the people, minus a few public officials." The Federalist Papers back up that every male citizen must be part of the militia, and provide his own weapon. "well regulated" means "put to good order" in the context of the 2nd amendment -- meaning, trained and uniformly equiped with the standard issue weapon of the day. Today that is the M16A2 (semi auto and 3-shot burst select fire .223 (5.46mm) rifle). I have heard that he UCMJ also supports the notion that the militia is everybody not otherwise already in the acitve service or national guard. of course, i heard that in someone's slashdot comment years ago and we know how reliable information around here is :-)
At any rate, what I am talking about is keeping intruders, criminals, and people like bill clinton ('We cannot be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.''
-- B.J.Clinton, USA Today, 3/11/93 page 2A) out of my home, away from my family, and off of my rights. Not vigilanty gangs. Although, they are more effective than "due process"
I only need a license (class III) for fully automatic weapons. Also, States issue concealed carry permits (unless there are laws saying they are not needed, or Vermont where open carry is the law). At 18 I could buy any rifle or shotgun I wanted to. I can buy handguns this summer at 21. My father is giving me his 9mm Rugar and I am getting my concealed carry permit.
As Patrick Henry said, "the great object is that every man may own a gun. Everyone who is able may." Whether you "need" it to not isn't the point. The point is you might some day and it's better to have it than be sorry. the 2nd amendment in this country isn't about hunting or "keeping king george out." It's about personal defense, of the family and home, as well as the ultimate check and balance on the government.
A well armed citizenry means liberty and justice for all. Sure, some crimes will happen, but fewer. Legally owned firearms are almost never used in the commission of a crime. Criminals will always have them and its better that law abiding citizens do too than that only criminals have them. You cannot count on the police. In fact, they are probably more dangerous to liberty than conducive to safety.
But like I said, Europe is different. I'll bitch and complain about government health care here because it's not what this country was founded on. You can stick "HRM" in front of whatever you do and that's fine and in keeping with tradition. I really don't care.
I guy I used to work with encryped the command shells on this dudes workstation one time and moved the originals. yup.
Europe has so many hate speech laws and other crap you're no freeer. Freedom means being allowed to diseminate Nazi stuff along side the commie stuff. Freedom means being able to publicly support or protest immigration. Freedom means not having to associate with people if you don't want to for whatever reason -- race,religion, et cetera -- not being forced to, unless you want to.
Europe also has stupid anti-gun laws. Britian has pretty much banned them. But in 2003 before I left Ireland, I was watching Sky News and there were like, 3 drive by shootings in London in like a week. They interviewd some lady and she was saying how Britian needed tougher gun contgrol laws. Well,you can't GET guns there unless you buy them illegally. Criminals don't obey the law, that is why they are criminals. Breaking and enterings and rapes and stuff jumped in the UK and Australia when they banned private gun ownership -- no armed citizens and no death penalty means no penalty at all.
The rest of the world is not free. Freedom is an illusion. You think its better there because you are from there. I think its better here because I grew up here. The FEC is unconstitional and I'll do whatever the hell I want to. I'm sure you have similarly evil institutions in Europe. Your country just historically doesn't really have rights. European countries have no founding principles because they jsut where always there. We were founded and have foundindg principles and doccuments and that makes it easier to know when we are getting shafted.
it means I can say whatever I want to about politics and the government. If I want to rail against Bush, I can do it. Against Clinton, an do it. Against Communists, Nazis, the ZOG Machine or whatever the hell else, I can do it. And the Government has no power to regulate it.
Further, "campaign finance laws" and TV ad shit. 'Freedom of Assembly.' If several people who have the same ideas I do get together and call ourselves the NRA or the AFL-CIO, doesn't matter, we have the right to do that, pool our money, and support our interests.
Respect the constitution to the letter or don't pretend to honour it. Just admit we dont have one, like Britian.
Mom and grandma can't install windows and they know it. that is why these rinky-dink computr shops pop up all over the place like zits.
Windows just comes with the computer. They didn't have to install it then. They don't want to have to install it now. They don't want linux because it means installing it, not just changing from windows.
Frankly, I think installing Windows is harder. I have to have 4 bloody floppy disks, do all this weird shit, AND have a product key. THEN, I have to get the CD for my motherboard (finding it is always a chore). Then I have to install all that shit. BSD or Linux is just throw it in there and go. BSD install is half as painful tops. X configurations is the only place I ever fuck up. It used to be PPP... but then I realized I can't just copy out of the book the file... my ISP in those days used different prompts.
Anyway... Windows is a bitch to install and configure. Linux or BSD pretty much does itself. On the other hand, I don't have to make an XF86Config for Windows. Or a PPP config file (have broadband now anyway). Or any other kind of config file.
But then there are the viruses. and the spyware. and the virus and spyware checking.
Or I could make world or the kernel all the time, not have a very good word processor, have to type weird commands to use my floppy disk drive, et cetera.
The point is, computers suck. They are bothersome. Mom and grandma hate them even more. They might like being able to do some of the things they can with them but dont want to bother with the maintanence. Hell, I don';t even want to do it. It pisses me off. I've better things to do.
Thats right, you heard it here first, folks. Mom and grandma don't want to switch to Linux or BSD. They don't really care about "software freedom." They just want to look up a recipie or about baboons (or whatever). The computer is a tool, not an ends unto itself as it is for so many slashdotters. They really don't care. Why push linux on them? Seriously, why?
Linux was never ment to compete with Microsoft. GNU had more to do with competing with SUN than Microsoft. BSD wasn';t about competing with anything at all. All of a sudden "hey, jee-wiz, look what i can make my computer do, and it;s free, too!" turned into "kill microsoft!!" Who cares what Microsoft does? Honestly, I really don't think it actually affects our lives. Maybe the people here who have to support crappy buggy products. But I don;'t have a problem with Win2kPro. I don;t see it being crappy and buggy. And I don't care abot their business practices. I think Bill Gates is a dork, but that's irrelevent.
Honestly, mom and grandma dont care about any of it. But people around here often dont seem to see that. It's the same argument as "hacks build lousy end user interfaces 'cause they dont do that shit." Mom and granda would use Amiga if that's what was selling like hotcakes. They don't care. But change what they are used to and they will be pissed.