"It was a promise to sit you down like a school child and tell you what the rules are."
And for the 7 foot school child to tell her her 'rules' are irrelevant. Then grabs her by her throat and terminates her on the spot. Although the length of death should reflect the damage caused while she was alive. That should be price for abdicating responsibility and backstabbing the public to protect herself. Just because you think you are an adult doesn't mean you are or have any authority to speak as one. In the end its the one who kills the other that permanently wins the current fight.
"Only judges have the authority to interpret the spirit of the constitution."
I haven't seen anyone yet challenge this, how sad. As members of the US public we have the authority, responsibility, and right to interpret the wording and the spirit of the constitution at all times just like any party to any contract.
"At his "press conferences" in the WH he abruptly leaves the podium after delivering his prepared statements to ignore journalists trying to confront him with questions"
Seems you have a short memory. Early in Reagan's presidency he walked through the press after a conference to get out of the press room. After Sam Donaldson managed to bag him with embarrassing questions all of a sudden the press room was remodeled and Reagan would leave via the opening behind him. What you state is nothing new.
"his because privacy should be a right, not a privilege."
Actually it is a right written into the constitution and directly specified by the it's writers in other works. That said it's been completely paralyzed by bad if not illegal laws, corner casing precedence, and court(supreme included) gaming.
If you haven't been convicted of a crime then the 4th amendment should still be in full force. Destroy the problem at the source. The 4th says something about protection of your person that includes pictures of you. If it's about you, its your data regardless of who collects it. Under that definition law departments would be prohibited from distributing pictures of you unless convicted and those rights are removed. So much for rights being inalienable. That information should also go away after time served. As for the various lists, they should be dealt with as cruel and unusual punishment as they follow you for the rest your life outside of your actual punishment.
All of this legal BS just guarantees that if a cop tries to arrest you just kill him and as many others as you can since you have nothing to lose. You are not going to get your life back regardless so if you're going to go, go with gusto if just to get even with the bastard that triggered the ruining of your life. After just a few hundred instances(about a weeks worth given current arrest rates) the police forces would be worn down to where they won't have the manpower to arrest people on frivolous shit and won't even think of anything more violent if they plan on existing the next day.
And in conclusion to the idiots that say don't break laws. You do realize we have a national congress, state congresses, and localities full of lawyers and other unmentionables that do nothing but pass laws. You can't breathe/fart anywhere without breaking some law. What we need is a legislative system that passes laws on public need and not on bribes. And those that vote have to actually write and present the laws and accountable for their decisions. That way our 'representatives' might actually have to 'work' for a living.
People were dreaming/developing projects long before military applications came along. Military applications was just the easiest excuse to get large sums of money when the project needed it.
"With the addition of this tech and a gun, this new robot can run around, hunt, kill, and devour victims as a fuel source."
Didn't TOS:The Doomsday Machine make a point about how dangerously foolish/stupid an idea this is. Oops, military thinking here, all it has to do is kill efficiently. The cleaning up afterward is for the peacemakers/survivors/colonists who have to face the long term effects of the short term thinking of warriors.
No it isn't. The army language was already somewhere else in the constitution. The 2nd amendment is a veiled threat against government misbehavior or else it will get replaced, by violent force if necessary by guaranteeing the people have the firepower to force the replacement. The 2nd amendment is a blanket ban on government arms control of any kind. All gun control laws are illegal when contrasted to the supreme law of the land. The current view is the government's opinion and has no more authority than the public's opinion as the second party of the contract. We are born with all the rights we'll ever have. Many of the constitutional amendments are blanket bans on government curtailing or removing those rights. Court precedence has been a dangerous policy and reduced the constitution to little more than a worthless piece of paper by corner casing law and saying the current passed law and legal point of views trumps the constitution, it doesn't, ever! As long as the ideas in the constitution aren't being fully enforced we the people are in extreme danger as evidenced on many occasions in the last century.(Snowden leaks being the latest indicator)
Want to ban guns, repeal the second amendment. I'm sure the civil war that will follow will be interesting.
"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
"A 'functional' militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
Makes more sense doesn't it.
And a militia is a group made up of individual members of the public, you know people.
Has anyone besides me noticed the fight over gun control seems to be the cities against the country?
Context and meaning of the time please. Well regulated meant functional 200 years ago. A functional militia is necessary for free state not a potentially dysfunction but regulated militia.
"Unfortunately, a teacher also saw this harmless joke. The kid was arrested and expelled from the entire school district."
Unless the potential victim was in on it, it's not a harmless joke. The response was overkill but the initial act was still attempted assault. You're there to learn not harass other people.
"Looks like the decade from 1900-1910 had the most shootings, but it seems massacres were rarer."
If you had bothered to look at the wikipedia article, you would have noticed they counted everything no matter how distantly if it at all related to school a school shooting. Like a jealous husband killing their wife after school or shootings just because the victim or shooter was an employee. Quite a few were adults threatening/killing adults and not kids killing everybody. It reads like a generic search for anything with "shoot" and "school" in it but is more about adults and kids, especially of the time, being adults and kids.
That's not a town, that's a country. My small town of about 100 is more like it. The main streets are somewhat paved and the rest are gravel. I doubt self-driving cars would have much of a chance here with the lack of clear marking on the road to reference.
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"Bill decided to have some sensible adult conversations with Monica."
Oh, is that what it was. All that time and money wasted on investigating that? Damn busybodies.
" Maybe the Moderate party."
Better chances at getting a good leader with a violent revolution than with our current process and yes it sucks.
"It was a promise to sit you down like a school child and tell you what the rules are."
And for the 7 foot school child to tell her her 'rules' are irrelevant. Then grabs her by her throat and terminates her on the spot. Although the length of death should reflect the damage caused while she was alive. That should be price for abdicating responsibility and backstabbing the public to protect herself. Just because you think you are an adult doesn't mean you are or have any authority to speak as one. In the end its the one who kills the other that permanently wins the current fight.
"who didn't grow up white."
"who didn't grow up with a penis?"
Isn't reverse discrimination just wonderful? What's next, voting for anyone with a unicorn horn and speaks smurf farts.
"it would be easier to shave a lion in Africa during the night with a pocket knife"
Wow! Now that's a picture. A Bugs Bunny(or other character) cartoon of that could be interesting.
"Only judges have the authority to interpret the spirit of the constitution."
I haven't seen anyone yet challenge this, how sad. As members of the US public we have the authority, responsibility, and right to interpret the wording and the spirit of the constitution at all times just like any party to any contract.
"At his "press conferences" in the WH he abruptly leaves the podium after delivering his prepared statements to ignore journalists trying to confront him with questions"
Seems you have a short memory. Early in Reagan's presidency he walked through the press after a conference to get out of the press room. After Sam Donaldson managed to bag him with embarrassing questions all of a sudden the press room was remodeled and Reagan would leave via the opening behind him. What you state is nothing new.
"his because privacy should be a right, not a privilege."
Actually it is a right written into the constitution and directly specified by the it's writers in other works. That said it's been completely paralyzed by bad if not illegal laws, corner casing precedence, and court(supreme included) gaming.
If you haven't been convicted of a crime then the 4th amendment should still be in full force. Destroy the problem at the source. The 4th says something about protection of your person that includes pictures of you. If it's about you, its your data regardless of who collects it. Under that definition law departments would be prohibited from distributing pictures of you unless convicted and those rights are removed. So much for rights being inalienable. That information should also go away after time served. As for the various lists, they should be dealt with as cruel and unusual punishment as they follow you for the rest your life outside of your actual punishment.
All of this legal BS just guarantees that if a cop tries to arrest you just kill him and as many others as you can since you have nothing to lose. You are not going to get your life back regardless so if you're going to go, go with gusto if just to get even with the bastard that triggered the ruining of your life. After just a few hundred instances(about a weeks worth given current arrest rates) the police forces would be worn down to where they won't have the manpower to arrest people on frivolous shit and won't even think of anything more violent if they plan on existing the next day.
And in conclusion to the idiots that say don't break laws. You do realize we have a national congress, state congresses, and localities full of lawyers and other unmentionables that do nothing but pass laws. You can't breathe/fart anywhere without breaking some law. What we need is a legislative system that passes laws on public need and not on bribes. And those that vote have to actually write and present the laws and accountable for their decisions. That way our 'representatives' might actually have to 'work' for a living.
" is because of military applications. Right?"
People were dreaming/developing projects long before military applications came along. Military applications was just the easiest excuse to get large sums of money when the project needed it.
"With the addition of this tech and a gun, this new robot can run around, hunt, kill, and devour victims as a fuel source."
Didn't TOS:The Doomsday Machine make a point about how dangerously foolish/stupid an idea this is. Oops, military thinking here, all it has to do is kill efficiently. The cleaning up afterward is for the peacemakers/survivors/colonists who have to face the long term effects of the short term thinking of warriors.
"I'd like to take some of this company's robots and engineers out to our training area, Disaster City."
Which Disaster City? There's quite a few just in the USA alone.
"Maybe we should invest in researching mind-control helmets for donkeys,"
Because congress would kill funding thinking it would be used on them.
" that they were given these rights."
The PEOPLE weren't given these rights. They were born with these rights. The 2nd amendment prevents government from taking these rights away.
" The Second Amendment was meant for an army"
No it isn't. The army language was already somewhere else in the constitution. The 2nd amendment is a veiled threat against government misbehavior or else it will get replaced, by violent force if necessary by guaranteeing the people have the firepower to force the replacement. The 2nd amendment is a blanket ban on government arms control of any kind. All gun control laws are illegal when contrasted to the supreme law of the land. The current view is the government's opinion and has no more authority than the public's opinion as the second party of the contract. We are born with all the rights we'll ever have. Many of the constitutional amendments are blanket bans on government curtailing or removing those rights. Court precedence has been a dangerous policy and reduced the constitution to little more than a worthless piece of paper by corner casing law and saying the current passed law and legal point of views trumps the constitution, it doesn't, ever! As long as the ideas in the constitution aren't being fully enforced we the people are in extreme danger as evidenced on many occasions in the last century.(Snowden leaks being the latest indicator)
Want to ban guns, repeal the second amendment. I'm sure the civil war that will follow will be interesting.
"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
"A 'functional' militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
Makes more sense doesn't it.
And a militia is a group made up of individual members of the public, you know people.
Has anyone besides me noticed the fight over gun control seems to be the cities against the country?
"A well regulated militia blah blah blah."
Context and meaning of the time please. Well regulated meant functional 200 years ago. A functional militia is necessary for free state not a potentially dysfunction but regulated militia.
"...Oh, geek screams and waves arms."
Oops, sorry, didn't mean to be sexist.
Woman screams and waves arms.
FreeBSD!!
Oh, geek screams and waves arms.
"I remember as a kid "squishing" the heads of people with my thumb and index finger. Who knew I was committing terroristic threats..."
Actually it was assault and battery and probably worse if they passed out.
"Unfortunately, a teacher also saw this harmless joke. The kid was arrested and expelled from the entire school district."
Unless the potential victim was in on it, it's not a harmless joke. The response was overkill but the initial act was still attempted assault. You're there to learn not harass other people.
"Looks like the decade from 1900-1910 had the most shootings, but it seems massacres were rarer."
If you had bothered to look at the wikipedia article, you would have noticed they counted everything no matter how distantly if it at all related to school a school shooting. Like a jealous husband killing their wife after school or shootings just because the victim or shooter was an employee. Quite a few were adults threatening/killing adults and not kids killing everybody. It reads like a generic search for anything with "shoot" and "school" in it but is more about adults and kids, especially of the time, being adults and kids.
" There are lots of children in this world crying out for education."
The children aren't crying out, the parents are. The children just want to play, share, and enjoy life. It's the adults who can't get it together.
"Death and Taxes."
Not if the tax collectors/instigators are killed before they can implement/collect the taxes then it's just death. Down to one to rely on.
"The applicable phrase is "lies of omission."
The real phrase is "tunnel vision". All they saw was the imaginary $161 million collection which I'm sure they've already spent.
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"my little town of 5 million"
That's not a town, that's a country. My small town of about 100 is more like it. The main streets are somewhat paved and the rest are gravel. I doubt self-driving cars would have much of a chance here with the lack of clear marking on the road to reference.