Please define "sensible" civilian gun control in the US and explian how it will prevent criminal gun use in Mexico?
Fact - Civilians in the US cannot leagally own M-16s or any other fully automatic weapon without a FFA licence.
Sweet! I am a country boy cum suburbanite and I have a couple of pygmy goats as pets. That ought to get me an FFA license, no?
Kidding aside, you are spot on. Without passing a lengthy background check and other steps, including a federal tax, one cannot easily purchase automatic weapons in the US. Furthermore, thanks to the unconstitutional Hughes Amendment to FOPA, the prices for transferable automatic weapons are artificially hyper-inflated. Mexican drug gangs can buy automatic weapons far cheaper from every source but the heavily regulated US.
Most of them are being shipped south across the border. They need something to haul back after they sell all the drugs up here, after all.
You would make a great truck broker (booking loads for the return trip), but the weapons that the cartels are using are not readily available in the US. They are far easier to acquire from the Mexican army deserters and the southern border.
First off, the weapons don't fuel the drug war. The excessively high black market profits of drug prohibition fuel the drug war. Firearms just happen to be among the tools used to wage the war. Any automatic weapons being used by Mexican drug cartels are not coming from the legal civilian firearms market in either the US or Mexico. Even the lying sad pandas over at the Brady Bunch & VPC know that. They just have no problem lying and exploiting the situation for their political and personal financial gain, however small it may be.
You aren't Paul Helmke, Dennis Henigan, or Josh Sugarmann, are you, Mr. Anonymous Coward? Because if you aren't any of the aforementioned Joyce Foundation sock puppets, I would expect you could manage to cease with the baseless accusations, and the flying off the handle, and the demonizing of an inanimate object, for just long enough to read some of the results of a simple Google search.
Then again, maybe you don't care about the truth. Maybe you just enjoy being part of the problem. Keep on agitating and lying. Thankfully most Americans are wise to your subterfuge.
How delightful. The first post to be moderated offtopic quotes cussing uttered by the governor of California in one of his better known roles, thereby making it relevant to the subject on two levels Where are my mod points when I really need them?
Furthermore, the increased costs in labor, bandwidth, storage and filtering technology to combat the actions of greedy, thieving spammers count as ruining lives in my book.
My landlord has keys to my apartment. Does that mean I have no expectation of privacy in my own apartment, just because a third party theoretically has access to it? Even if I haven't given permission for my landlord to enter my apartment?
It wouldn't work at all. Nearly all voip, and I'm sure Skype is no exception, uses lossy compression for the audio. If you stuff encrypted data in, you'll just get garbage out.
How would that be any different than unencrypted Skype for Linux?
Ever since upgrading to the recent Linux client, all I get is garbage out.
Back in the "good old days" of palm before the pre, there WAS NO over the air app store installed on the treo. You had to google for someplace to find apps for your treo, you had to go there, you had to down load them, and you had to install them using the hot sync program.
You certainly did not have install over a hot sync. PRC files have been installable via HTTP download for years.
"you're a little too liberal for my inbred nationalist sensibilities" fees
I find it hard to fathom that the PayPal that refuses to accept payments on any transactions remotely related to firearms could find anything to be "too liberal".
Um, what the hell is 'whiteface'? I know what 'blackface' is (putting on black makeup to imitate a black person, which is considered racist), but I have never heard of 'whiteface'.
You really need to watch more Eddie Murphy and Dave Chappelle.
Why in the world do I have a weapon toggle button? I have 100-odd keys at my disposal, maybe I could just, you know, map each weapon to one? And then the couch toggle button? WTF?
My X Box controller doesn't have those 100 odd keys, and I don't like gaming on my PC.
And how do I go prone, goodness knows I spent enough time in the previous games crawling along like a worm.
Going prone has never been an option in any of the Rainbow Six games I played. It has been an option in every Ghost Recon that I have played.
I'm an Engineer, and my logbook must be kept for 6 years after my death for legal reasons. If all goes well, that'll be in 70+ years. It is unlikely at best that anything written on a computer will be readable in that time frame.
And according to this news, it will be unlikely what anyone will be able to decipher your handwriting by then : )
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There is actually UTOPIA in Utah.
Please define "sensible" civilian gun control in the US and explian how it will prevent criminal gun use in Mexico? Fact - Civilians in the US cannot leagally own M-16s or any other fully automatic weapon without a FFA licence.
Sweet! I am a country boy cum suburbanite and I have a couple of pygmy goats as pets. That ought to get me an FFA license, no?
Kidding aside, you are spot on. Without passing a lengthy background check and other steps, including a federal tax, one cannot easily purchase automatic weapons in the US. Furthermore, thanks to the unconstitutional Hughes Amendment to FOPA, the prices for transferable automatic weapons are artificially hyper-inflated. Mexican drug gangs can buy automatic weapons far cheaper from every source but the heavily regulated US.
Most of them are being shipped south across the border. They need something to haul back after they sell all the drugs up here, after all.
You would make a great truck broker (booking loads for the return trip), but the weapons that the cartels are using are not readily available in the US. They are far easier to acquire from the Mexican army deserters and the southern border.
First off, the weapons don't fuel the drug war. The excessively high black market profits of drug prohibition fuel the drug war. Firearms just happen to be among the tools used to wage the war. Any automatic weapons being used by Mexican drug cartels are not coming from the legal civilian firearms market in either the US or Mexico. Even the lying sad pandas over at the Brady Bunch & VPC know that. They just have no problem lying and exploiting the situation for their political and personal financial gain, however small it may be.
You aren't Paul Helmke, Dennis Henigan, or Josh Sugarmann, are you, Mr. Anonymous Coward? Because if you aren't any of the aforementioned Joyce Foundation sock puppets, I would expect you could manage to cease with the baseless accusations, and the flying off the handle, and the demonizing of an inanimate object, for just long enough to read some of the results of a simple Google search.
Then again, maybe you don't care about the truth. Maybe you just enjoy being part of the problem. Keep on agitating and lying. Thankfully most Americans are wise to your subterfuge.
I switched to GNU/Linux in 1998 because lights on my external modem flickered each time I used RealPlayer to play files that were on my own computer.
Did the lights on your modem flicker when using RealPlayer for Linux?
How delightful. The first post to be moderated offtopic quotes cussing uttered by the governor of California in one of his better known roles, thereby making it relevant to the subject on two levels Where are my mod points when I really need them?
http://xboxgw.com/index.html
I guess they need a blue penguin.
They have one.
Spamming doesn't ruin lives.
Eddie Davidson's family would disagree with you.
Furthermore, the increased costs in labor, bandwidth, storage and filtering technology to combat the actions of greedy, thieving spammers count as ruining lives in my book.
Most incidents of gun violence are domestic &/or perpetrated by someone you know.
That claim is based on the flawed Kellermann study which has been repeatedly debunked.
There is far more anecdotal evidence that supports the validity of the defensive use of firearms by the armed citizen.
My landlord has keys to my apartment. Does that mean I have no expectation of privacy in my own apartment, just because a third party theoretically has access to it? Even if I haven't given permission for my landlord to enter my apartment?
In Tennessee a landlord can override your 2nd Amendment rights, so what you suggest may not be that far fetched.
It wouldn't work at all. Nearly all voip, and I'm sure Skype is no exception, uses lossy compression for the audio. If you stuff encrypted data in, you'll just get garbage out.
How would that be any different than unencrypted Skype for Linux?
Ever since upgrading to the recent Linux client, all I get is garbage out.
There were even SST sticker books for the kids.
SST stickers for the kids? Cool!
Back in the "good old days" of palm before the pre, there WAS NO over the air app store installed on the treo. You had to google for someplace to find apps for your treo, you had to go there, you had to down load them, and you had to install them using the hot sync program.
You certainly did not have install over a hot sync. PRC files have been installable via HTTP download for years.
SuSE 5.1 had KDE as the default DE back in 1997.
http://www.opera.com/browser/download/
"you're a little too liberal for my inbred nationalist sensibilities" fees
I find it hard to fathom that the PayPal that refuses to accept payments on any transactions remotely related to firearms could find anything to be "too liberal".
Um, what the hell is 'whiteface'? I know what 'blackface' is (putting on black makeup to imitate a black person, which is considered racist), but I have never heard of 'whiteface'.
You really need to watch more Eddie Murphy and Dave Chappelle.
Mod parent up!
Why are M&Ms getting attached to this story?
Possibly because at one time you could bribe your favorite computer geek with a 2 liter bottle of Mountain Dew Code Red and a bowl of blue M&Ms.
News for nerds and all that.
Why in the world do I have a weapon toggle button? I have 100-odd keys at my disposal, maybe I could just, you know, map each weapon to one? And then the couch toggle button? WTF?
My X Box controller doesn't have those 100 odd keys, and I don't like gaming on my PC.
And how do I go prone, goodness knows I spent enough time in the previous games crawling along like a worm.
Going prone has never been an option in any of the Rainbow Six games I played. It has been an option in every Ghost Recon that I have played.
I present to you: Burger Space.
You beat me to it. That is an excellent Burger Time clone.
MDK could use revisiting.
Heall, yeah! MDK was kick ass. I had endless hours of enjoyment playing MDK on the original iMac. (It came bundled with the iMac.)
I'd love to see it on the X Box 360, even as an XBLA title, but, I would prefer it as a full game.
I keep my weekly logbook in cursive writing.
I'm an Engineer, and my logbook must be kept for 6 years after my death for legal reasons. If all goes well, that'll be in 70+ years. It is unlikely at best that anything written on a computer will be readable in that time frame.
And according to this news, it will be unlikely what anyone will be able to decipher your handwriting by then : )
How do you know anyone can decipher it now?
It isn't required viewing in any class I've heard of, either.
Actually, it is required viewing. Ignorance of the law is not a valid defense.