Google reveals: (all of this subject to verification that I'm not going to do)
1. Won't happen unless you own the firearm because the records are considered tax-payer information.
2. Some politicians might be slipping past the 1986 automatic weapons ban to register addition weapons and sell them for campaign money
3. The exemption on paying the $200 tax stamp has been extended to members of law enforcement agencies purchasing them for duty use, while formally it applied only to orders made by the department proper.
4. It also might just be weapons that were registered being re-registered as the BATF admits to loosing roughly 50% of the pre-1968 records.
I personally don't care how many of those are true. If you have $10,000 to buy a full-auto M16 (and just keep those prices going up if you wanted a M60 or an import MP5 etc etc) manufactured before 1986 you probably have enough money to find a way to obtain one illegally outside of BATF regulation. Once again gun control laws only keep those who play by the rules from getting what they want.
I am kinda curious though which one OP was interested in.
Clearly. I was hoping for that great bipartisanship, boundary crossing shit I heard so much about where he read about Lincoln's cabinet of experts who all disagreed and was going to dole out power to people of all sorts.
Like cruise missile strikes against an aspirin factory?
Like bombing a country into the ground to draw attention away from a political scandal at home?
Like having Osama Bin Laden in custody?
Like the recession that started at the end of his presidency?
Like the changes in housing policy that have blown up in our face over the last few years?
I adore Bill Clinton as a leader and a politician, but don't sweeten his 8 years like it was Willy Wonka's rivers of chocolate. If he had been the perfect president who did no wrong Gore would have won by a landslide in 2000 and everyone would have been chomping at the bit to elect Hilary in 2008 instead of wondering whether Bill would be a shadowy puppet master.
Obama would have to try his hardest to be worse than Bush, but that doesn't mean he's making any "change" so far he's just a rehash, and if that was his campaign I still would have voted for it.
My expectations aren't Clinton, his cabinet and appointees are Clinton. We've been watching the news haven't we? Clinton peace envoys, Clinton head of the CIA, literal Clinton in the state department.
I never said that there was anything wrong with Clinton, although there certainly was in many ways though not nearly as many as Bush, all I said was that "Change" it isn't, unless everyone has short memories.
People love the inauguration because it's a big feel good press conference where everyone is supposed to go home happy. That's the exact same reason that I consider it a complete waste of time to watch, same with the State of the Union addresses. I know the state of the union, I live in it and I follow the events, I don't need to hear someone tell me their aggrandized version of it for three hours.
I don't mean to be a public buzzkill, but so far it looks like Obama's presidency is Clinton 2.0. Tweak out a few bugs, change the color scheme, but everything under the hood is still running the same. Barack Obama's greatest achievement thus far has been one of marketing, convincing everyone that despite his voting record and his cabinet appointments that he's somehow different from any other candidate.
Don't worry though, the popularity of Barack Obama tattoos clearly shows that all of this new found political interest is having a positive effect. I mean why give money to charity or spend your time helping your common man when you can "be a part of history" and indulge your desire to declare that you're with the in crowd?
I voted for Obama, I think he's the better man for the job, but this cult of personality has gotten people happy for all of the wrong reasons, and I honestly hope that in the next 4 years we judge the man on his actions, not on this, as you state, messiah image we have for him.
You should care what the point is, because if you don't respond with points the are "relevant" then you're just a crazy asshole ranting on the internet about the the perceived misrepresentation of statistics.
For the record "twice as much" is A LOT in my book, but thankfully you're not concerned with "the point" only your soapbox.
Extraordinary Rendition.
Just because Roman Polanski has lived a lovely life in exile in France doesn't mean he couldn't be bound in a cave in the Balkans by morning if it was worth anyone's time.
I was talking to a boss of mine who was taking a refresher in business ethics. We had a situation at work were we do the right thing or the wrong thing, both perfectly legal but speaking in terms of morality.
"It's not just the morality of lying to the customer, you have to think, if we did the right thing the company would spend more money and we would have less to pay our employees, we might even have to let some of them go. That's terrible! Then his wife and kids don't have a good life, he's a wreck, and all over this perceived 'right or wrong'"
"Pardon me, that's the biggest load of bullshit I've ever heard. I'm going to go do my job correctly."
The point he was making is that the rich contribute far more than the poor both in absolutely terms and in percentages, but since you brought it up:
Let's double how much you pay in taxes every year and see how happy you are about it. In fact how about we cap everyone's income at $1,000 a year and simply take the rest, I bet you'd have a lot of people signing on for that plan.
No one is asking why they want to do it, the discussion is about it being wrong.
If a company, lets say Microsoft, does all of it's work in Washington state, but then technically sells the licenses out of Arizona because the corporate income tax rate is lower there, they are effectively dodging paying a large number of taxes they should be, and are paying those taxes to the wrong jurisdiction.
No one is confused why anyone would do this, the point is if I company is receiving federal bailout money paid for by taxes, they should probably pay the taxes they rightfully owe instead of shoveling that income to a far flung subsidiary that's nothing more than a PO box and pocketing the money.
That's the point, I had a nice secure password that never would have caused them any problems, if they think the best way to get security is to force me to think up and remember a new password every 30 days then my solution is to become as insecure as possible to offset how incredibly annoyed I am.
If they catch on to that one I'll just put it on a post-it on my machine.
Pardon, I broke the security intentionally when they instituted all sorts of requirements for the passwords. My original password was fine, but then they added that it must change every 30 days, well I hope they like easy to crack passwords.
1qaz!QAZ
2wsx@WSX
3edc#EDC
4rfv$RFV
They look great, but I guarantee that after one time watching me log everything is forever compromised. Good thing you didn't let me keep my easy (for me) to remember strong password.
He does actually have some power, unlike us mere mortals he's allowed to order "off the menu" at the White House, a privilege reserved for past, present, and future presidents.
I tell some people that I only voted for the white half just to grate them when the smug emissions for "electing the first black president" start getting a little too thick.
I voted for him as the lesser of two evils, and frankly if he was our nations first tentacled, robot president with the same platform I would have done the same.
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Google reveals: (all of this subject to verification that I'm not going to do)
1. Won't happen unless you own the firearm because the records are considered tax-payer information.
2. Some politicians might be slipping past the 1986 automatic weapons ban to register addition weapons and sell them for campaign money
3. The exemption on paying the $200 tax stamp has been extended to members of law enforcement agencies purchasing them for duty use, while formally it applied only to orders made by the department proper.
4. It also might just be weapons that were registered being re-registered as the BATF admits to loosing roughly 50% of the pre-1968 records.
I personally don't care how many of those are true. If you have $10,000 to buy a full-auto M16 (and just keep those prices going up if you wanted a M60 or an import MP5 etc etc) manufactured before 1986 you probably have enough money to find a way to obtain one illegally outside of BATF regulation. Once again gun control laws only keep those who play by the rules from getting what they want.
I am kinda curious though which one OP was interested in.
The man just wanted to know if there wasn't a "clicky" to turn off autorun, I didn't say it fixed the problem.
Hey, my XP installs have autorun stripped out, I was just answering his question about "clickies". There is a key for it.
To default turn it off you might have to. You can just hold shift and disable it temporary when you plug something in until the detection is finished.
Clearly. I was hoping for that great bipartisanship, boundary crossing shit I heard so much about where he read about Lincoln's cabinet of experts who all disagreed and was going to dole out power to people of all sorts.
*sigh*
One day.
Boring foreign policy?
Like cruise missile strikes against an aspirin factory?
Like bombing a country into the ground to draw attention away from a political scandal at home?
Like having Osama Bin Laden in custody?
Like the recession that started at the end of his presidency?
Like the changes in housing policy that have blown up in our face over the last few years?
I adore Bill Clinton as a leader and a politician, but don't sweeten his 8 years like it was Willy Wonka's rivers of chocolate. If he had been the perfect president who did no wrong Gore would have won by a landslide in 2000 and everyone would have been chomping at the bit to elect Hilary in 2008 instead of wondering whether Bill would be a shadowy puppet master.
Obama would have to try his hardest to be worse than Bush, but that doesn't mean he's making any "change" so far he's just a rehash, and if that was his campaign I still would have voted for it.
My expectations aren't Clinton, his cabinet and appointees are Clinton. We've been watching the news haven't we? Clinton peace envoys, Clinton head of the CIA, literal Clinton in the state department.
I never said that there was anything wrong with Clinton, although there certainly was in many ways though not nearly as many as Bush, all I said was that "Change" it isn't, unless everyone has short memories.
He's already named a large number of cabinet positions and department appointees, many of them you may remember from the 90s.
Which has also been done previously in "Shooter" and before that in "The Jackal" both of which were much better movies.
Black September.
This is super "meta"!
Twitter might go down, so he's using slashdot AS TWITTER! I hope it was a big joke he was just waiting for someone to point out.
Otherwise I'm kinda annoyed.
People love the inauguration because it's a big feel good press conference where everyone is supposed to go home happy. That's the exact same reason that I consider it a complete waste of time to watch, same with the State of the Union addresses. I know the state of the union, I live in it and I follow the events, I don't need to hear someone tell me their aggrandized version of it for three hours.
I don't mean to be a public buzzkill, but so far it looks like Obama's presidency is Clinton 2.0. Tweak out a few bugs, change the color scheme, but everything under the hood is still running the same. Barack Obama's greatest achievement thus far has been one of marketing, convincing everyone that despite his voting record and his cabinet appointments that he's somehow different from any other candidate.
Don't worry though, the popularity of Barack Obama tattoos clearly shows that all of this new found political interest is having a positive effect. I mean why give money to charity or spend your time helping your common man when you can "be a part of history" and indulge your desire to declare that you're with the in crowd?
I voted for Obama, I think he's the better man for the job, but this cult of personality has gotten people happy for all of the wrong reasons, and I honestly hope that in the next 4 years we judge the man on his actions, not on this, as you state, messiah image we have for him.
I don't care what 'the point' is,
You should care what the point is, because if you don't respond with points the are "relevant" then you're just a crazy asshole ranting on the internet about the the perceived misrepresentation of statistics.
For the record "twice as much" is A LOT in my book, but thankfully you're not concerned with "the point" only your soapbox.
Extraordinary Rendition. Just because Roman Polanski has lived a lovely life in exile in France doesn't mean he couldn't be bound in a cave in the Balkans by morning if it was worth anyone's time.
I was talking to a boss of mine who was taking a refresher in business ethics. We had a situation at work were we do the right thing or the wrong thing, both perfectly legal but speaking in terms of morality.
"It's not just the morality of lying to the customer, you have to think, if we did the right thing the company would spend more money and we would have less to pay our employees, we might even have to let some of them go. That's terrible! Then his wife and kids don't have a good life, he's a wreck, and all over this perceived 'right or wrong'"
"Pardon me, that's the biggest load of bullshit I've ever heard. I'm going to go do my job correctly."
The point he was making is that the rich contribute far more than the poor both in absolutely terms and in percentages, but since you brought it up:
Let's double how much you pay in taxes every year and see how happy you are about it. In fact how about we cap everyone's income at $1,000 a year and simply take the rest, I bet you'd have a lot of people signing on for that plan.
No one is asking why they want to do it, the discussion is about it being wrong. If a company, lets say Microsoft, does all of it's work in Washington state, but then technically sells the licenses out of Arizona because the corporate income tax rate is lower there, they are effectively dodging paying a large number of taxes they should be, and are paying those taxes to the wrong jurisdiction.
No one is confused why anyone would do this, the point is if I company is receiving federal bailout money paid for by taxes, they should probably pay the taxes they rightfully owe instead of shoveling that income to a far flung subsidiary that's nothing more than a PO box and pocketing the money.
The jokes on you, I've already moved on to 5tgb%TGB!
That's the point, I had a nice secure password that never would have caused them any problems, if they think the best way to get security is to force me to think up and remember a new password every 30 days then my solution is to become as insecure as possible to offset how incredibly annoyed I am.
If they catch on to that one I'll just put it on a post-it on my machine.
Pardon, I broke the security intentionally when they instituted all sorts of requirements for the passwords. My original password was fine, but then they added that it must change every 30 days, well I hope they like easy to crack passwords.
1qaz!QAZ
2wsx@WSX
3edc#EDC
4rfv$RFV
They look great, but I guarantee that after one time watching me log everything is forever compromised. Good thing you didn't let me keep my easy (for me) to remember strong password.
And what happens when you have unsupported third party hardware, like the article?
He does actually have some power, unlike us mere mortals he's allowed to order "off the menu" at the White House, a privilege reserved for past, present, and future presidents.
The house already has their own Youtube channel, and Pelosi rick-rolled me.
I tell some people that I only voted for the white half just to grate them when the smug emissions for "electing the first black president" start getting a little too thick.
I voted for him as the lesser of two evils, and frankly if he was our nations first tentacled, robot president with the same platform I would have done the same.