Is it possible it's just being out competed by the Vive? I hardly hear anyone mentioning Oculus anymore ever since Facebook bought Oculus and the Vive hit the market.
The NRA has a program called Eddie Eagle that teaches firearm safety starting at an early age by instructing kids that guns are dangerous and if they find a gun to leave it alone and immediately tell an adult like a; parent, teacher, police man and so forth. Having seen some of the material myself it reminds me of the fire safety education back when I was kid like Smokey the Bear and Stop Drop 'n' Roll. Going back to the 80's and earlier some high schools even had shooting sport teams and more detailed firearm handling safety courses for older kids.
The problem however is that even talking about guns has become politically incorrect and a lot of schools have pulled this program and ones resembling it under pressure from anti-gun groups and adopted a zero-tolerance mindset about even mentioning guns but I'm not really sure what their logic behind this approach is. An interesting development though is that the state I live in has a bill in the legislature to make firearm safety education mandatory so that may be a sign things are changing gradually.
This is all based on interpretations of and assumptions about the constitution. For example, what does the word "arms" mean? Few people would argue that it includes "nuclear arms", and draw a line somewhere between those and a pea shooters for what is allowed.
See the United States v. Miller case which has been cited by several other cases including D.C. v. Heller.
This is what I felt also. I think the newer generation is looking at working as a means to live whereas employers expect their employees to live to work and practically worship the company.
The issue at hand is that the right to keep and bear arms is specifically enumerated in the constitution therefore laws targeting to limit or control it are treated with the highest scrutiny, furthermore in Heller v. D.C. the Supreme Court ruled that given the historical background of the second amendment it protects an individual right to keep and bear arms unconnected with military service and that the idea behind the second was to provide a deterrent against tyranny whether domestic or foreign. That being said it seems like the government knowing who and where all the guns are would defeat the idea behind the amendment, but even otherwise the whole round em' up scenario is no longer a hypothetical situation as we've seen gun confiscating campaigns in California and New York already. Speaking of hypothetical situations there is also a famous scene in the movie Red Dawn, whose producers were opposed to the then new FFL system, where a soviet commandant in the invading force orders a subordinate to raid all the gun stores in occupied territory to collect all the Form 4473's so they can systematically quell any opposition in the bud before the citizenry can form a militia.
I'd also like to point out that licenses for firearms originated in the Jim Crowe south with the idea of oppressing certain racial groups from being able to defend themselves against injustice. Martin Luther King, for example, was denied a gun permit even though people were terrorizing his family, defacing his property and sending him death threats.
One could argue that you have some vague right to drive a car but the fact remains driving cars are not specifically enumerated in the constitution like arms are. A more apt comparison might be if the government tried to limit freedom of speech by requiring a license to publish anything for public consumption but then make the argument that because you might be able to get a license means your rights are not being infringed on. In fact we're already seeing this type of thing spread in Europe where certain types of speech is banned and a criminal offense.
Furthermore the gun manufacturing industry has its own organization called the National Shooting Sports Foundation. The NRA is a civil rights organization much like the ALCU, or any number of other non-profit organizations advancing the interests of liberty, yet I don't see paranoid claims that the ACLU is the puppet of big news corporations. For some reason it's politically correct to defend any part of the constitution except the second amendment.
I also looked into Chlorpyrifos and it appears that it is only dangerous in high doses but never the less the EPA has banned, or limited, its use on certain plants and all crops using it are required to have a buffer zone away from populated or recreational areas, particularly until more well designed and credible research is available for or against its use. If Dow Chemical was as all powerful as your claim I doubt there would be these restrictions in place.
I'd also like to point out to the paranoid OP that the United States is not a democratic government; it's a constitutional republic and that alone is a huge difference.
Recently I just came back from vacation for a couple weeks and upon re-entry the DHS rifled through all my stuff then they questioned me on where I went, why I went, who I knew there, how I knew them, how long I've known them and what I did while I was there. Then the TSA did the same thing all over again because I guess apparently the TSA does not trust the DHS or something. I honestly did not have anything to hide but I felt really uncomfortable through the whole ordeal.
However, if they wanted to make an argument about voiding your warranty for using remanufactured cartridges then they would probably have a valid point.
If I'm not mistaken this is outright illegal under the Magnuson–Moss Warranty Act and that the manufacturer would have the burden of proving that the "unauthorized" cartridge was at fault.
Sometimes I think administrative law is the greatest threat to a free society; that is when you have lawmakers giving administrative agencies of unelected officials broad arbitrary control over an aspect of government with little to no accountability (Operation Fast & Furious anyone? IRS scandal? Etc...) and if an agency is called into question it takes a lot of pressure to get the DOJ, let alone Congress, to do anything meaningful. That's my two cents.
To me it makes more sense to require employers keep pay up with inflation and/or to begin the process of deprecating income tax in favor of something like FairTax because income tax only punishes people for working hard. Of course too many special interests are embedded in the current obfuscated tax code so politicians are pushing for this dumb idea instead to appease the masses.
Are they certain it's a casual relationship? If one were to look at a many Facebook and Twitter comments one could just as well conclude that the platforms attract people who already have mental health problems.
I've bought a few used cars and I find that KBB is worthless and dealers totally ignore it opting to use NADA instead. Needless to say I don't like working with dealers as I find a great many of them to be weasels and you need to walk in with that expectation being ready to walk out since dealers will prey on your attachment to a particular car you like. The old saying goes; if you buy a car and the dealer is smiling at the end of the deal then you're the one who got screwed.
This really leans more towards "the rich get richer" because they continue to hoard their money as rather than their tax dollars working towards the welfare of all people for basic needs
People say this yet they ignore, or even outright oppose, radical tax reform such as House Bill 25 where consumption is taxed rather than income, and since the rich obviously consume far more they'll be putting more much into the system than the working class.
Regardless I don't ever expect any real tax reform in the US; the current system has been in place for over a hundred years now and it's a gold mine for special interests because of its absurd complexity.
For me it actually causes PTSD and I often randomly go into a trance because of a flashback of seeing blocks falling everywhere. I can't even sleep without seeing falling blocks. You had to be there to understand, man!
In fact it was Lexmark's business practices that prompted the General Assembly to enact this law, so you know it's gotta be bad when even politicians enact a law aimed directly against the interest of a big company with big pockets.
Unfortunately I fear a SCOTUS ruling might invalidate, or otherwise be used against, state law on this matter.
To be honest I would have expected the same of any previous administration. Not sure about the current one this early in but honestly I wouldn't expect anything different.
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Is it possible it's just being out competed by the Vive? I hardly hear anyone mentioning Oculus anymore ever since Facebook bought Oculus and the Vive hit the market.
Burma Shave!
The NRA has a program called Eddie Eagle that teaches firearm safety starting at an early age by instructing kids that guns are dangerous and if they find a gun to leave it alone and immediately tell an adult like a; parent, teacher, police man and so forth. Having seen some of the material myself it reminds me of the fire safety education back when I was kid like Smokey the Bear and Stop Drop 'n' Roll. Going back to the 80's and earlier some high schools even had shooting sport teams and more detailed firearm handling safety courses for older kids.
The problem however is that even talking about guns has become politically incorrect and a lot of schools have pulled this program and ones resembling it under pressure from anti-gun groups and adopted a zero-tolerance mindset about even mentioning guns but I'm not really sure what their logic behind this approach is. An interesting development though is that the state I live in has a bill in the legislature to make firearm safety education mandatory so that may be a sign things are changing gradually.
This is all based on interpretations of and assumptions about the constitution. For example, what does the word "arms" mean? Few people would argue that it includes "nuclear arms", and draw a line somewhere between those and a pea shooters for what is allowed.
See the United States v. Miller case which has been cited by several other cases including D.C. v. Heller.
This is what I felt also. I think the newer generation is looking at working as a means to live whereas employers expect their employees to live to work and practically worship the company.
The issue at hand is that the right to keep and bear arms is specifically enumerated in the constitution therefore laws targeting to limit or control it are treated with the highest scrutiny, furthermore in Heller v. D.C. the Supreme Court ruled that given the historical background of the second amendment it protects an individual right to keep and bear arms unconnected with military service and that the idea behind the second was to provide a deterrent against tyranny whether domestic or foreign. That being said it seems like the government knowing who and where all the guns are would defeat the idea behind the amendment, but even otherwise the whole round em' up scenario is no longer a hypothetical situation as we've seen gun confiscating campaigns in California and New York already. Speaking of hypothetical situations there is also a famous scene in the movie Red Dawn, whose producers were opposed to the then new FFL system, where a soviet commandant in the invading force orders a subordinate to raid all the gun stores in occupied territory to collect all the Form 4473's so they can systematically quell any opposition in the bud before the citizenry can form a militia.
I'd also like to point out that licenses for firearms originated in the Jim Crowe south with the idea of oppressing certain racial groups from being able to defend themselves against injustice. Martin Luther King, for example, was denied a gun permit even though people were terrorizing his family, defacing his property and sending him death threats.
One could argue that you have some vague right to drive a car but the fact remains driving cars are not specifically enumerated in the constitution like arms are. A more apt comparison might be if the government tried to limit freedom of speech by requiring a license to publish anything for public consumption but then make the argument that because you might be able to get a license means your rights are not being infringed on. In fact we're already seeing this type of thing spread in Europe where certain types of speech is banned and a criminal offense.
Furthermore the gun manufacturing industry has its own organization called the National Shooting Sports Foundation. The NRA is a civil rights organization much like the ALCU, or any number of other non-profit organizations advancing the interests of liberty, yet I don't see paranoid claims that the ACLU is the puppet of big news corporations. For some reason it's politically correct to defend any part of the constitution except the second amendment.
I also looked into Chlorpyrifos and it appears that it is only dangerous in high doses but never the less the EPA has banned, or limited, its use on certain plants and all crops using it are required to have a buffer zone away from populated or recreational areas, particularly until more well designed and credible research is available for or against its use. If Dow Chemical was as all powerful as your claim I doubt there would be these restrictions in place.
I'd also like to point out to the paranoid OP that the United States is not a democratic government; it's a constitutional republic and that alone is a huge difference.
Or even if you are from the U.S.
Recently I just came back from vacation for a couple weeks and upon re-entry the DHS rifled through all my stuff then they questioned me on where I went, why I went, who I knew there, how I knew them, how long I've known them and what I did while I was there. Then the TSA did the same thing all over again because I guess apparently the TSA does not trust the DHS or something. I honestly did not have anything to hide but I felt really uncomfortable through the whole ordeal.
Also my captcha just now was "Fascism"
But I thought the cat was in charge of the human resources department?
However, if they wanted to make an argument about voiding your warranty for using remanufactured cartridges then they would probably have a valid point.
If I'm not mistaken this is outright illegal under the Magnuson–Moss Warranty Act and that the manufacturer would have the burden of proving that the "unauthorized" cartridge was at fault.
You're not kidding; GOTO L12345;
L12345: this thing has more goto's than your; GOTO L54321;
L54321: typical Basic program!
The dog is on the editorial board to sniff out bullshit
Sometimes I think administrative law is the greatest threat to a free society; that is when you have lawmakers giving administrative agencies of unelected officials broad arbitrary control over an aspect of government with little to no accountability (Operation Fast & Furious anyone? IRS scandal? Etc...) and if an agency is called into question it takes a lot of pressure to get the DOJ, let alone Congress, to do anything meaningful. That's my two cents.
To me it makes more sense to require employers keep pay up with inflation and/or to begin the process of deprecating income tax in favor of something like FairTax because income tax only punishes people for working hard. Of course too many special interests are embedded in the current obfuscated tax code so politicians are pushing for this dumb idea instead to appease the masses.
Are they certain it's a casual relationship? If one were to look at a many Facebook and Twitter comments one could just as well conclude that the platforms attract people who already have mental health problems.
This guy gets it: Correlation != Causation
I've bought a few used cars and I find that KBB is worthless and dealers totally ignore it opting to use NADA instead. Needless to say I don't like working with dealers as I find a great many of them to be weasels and you need to walk in with that expectation being ready to walk out since dealers will prey on your attachment to a particular car you like. The old saying goes; if you buy a car and the dealer is smiling at the end of the deal then you're the one who got screwed.
I took a look at it and to me it appears to be a similar idea to the functionality of XSLT. Also a mandatory XKCD reference.
Unless it is Blender since I have to relearn the interface anyway every time I use it
Yes I know.. whoosh!
This really leans more towards "the rich get richer" because they continue to hoard their money as rather than their tax dollars working towards the welfare of all people for basic needs
People say this yet they ignore, or even outright oppose, radical tax reform such as House Bill 25 where consumption is taxed rather than income, and since the rich obviously consume far more they'll be putting more much into the system than the working class.
Regardless I don't ever expect any real tax reform in the US; the current system has been in place for over a hundred years now and it's a gold mine for special interests because of its absurd complexity.
Whoosh!
For me it actually causes PTSD and I often randomly go into a trance because of a flashback of seeing blocks falling everywhere. I can't even sleep without seeing falling blocks. You had to be there to understand, man!
Burma Shave!
North Carolina shares your view (NCGS 75-36) and has done so since 2003.
In fact it was Lexmark's business practices that prompted the General Assembly to enact this law, so you know it's gotta be bad when even politicians enact a law aimed directly against the interest of a big company with big pockets.
Unfortunately I fear a SCOTUS ruling might invalidate, or otherwise be used against, state law on this matter.
To be honest I would have expected the same of any previous administration. Not sure about the current one this early in but honestly I wouldn't expect anything different.