you do realize that this is because there was not supposed to be a standing army. We didnt have a standing army until after WWI. It is entirely unconstitutional.
when it was drafted, being a member of a colony and being a man immediately made you a member of a militia. All free men were required to have two flintlock rifles, a bag of powder and X number of pounds of shot. This was a mandatory requirement. there was no volunteer military. Where you a male? check. Are you alive and does blood flow through your veins? check. Welcome to the militia.
have you read the constitution? did you know that the constitution says we cannot have a standing army? Did you know that we can have a navy but not an army? That's why we are supposed to have a militia. you might be young. During hurricane andrew, there were a lot of devastation in miami. As a result there was a lot of crime. Neighborhoods would organize and barricade their neighborhoods and organize armed patrols to protect their neighbors. This is the very definition of a militia. Its not always the crazy rednecks wanting to overthrow the government.
dude at one point it wasnt a right, it was a REQUIREMENT that every colonist have TWO flinklock rifles, a bag of powder, and so many rounds of shot. please stop pretending like nobody had guns. It wasnt even up for debate for the first 100 years in this country, you didnt even have a choice.
breaking into a car is not life or death. Assisting in the ultimate affirmative defense of your life is, IMO, one of those inalienable rights. denying someone the ability to prevent their death should come with consequences. The only offset should be the defense of 'reasonable effort'. Not having armed security in a gun free zone is not a reasonable effort. Just like making people park in your structure but not bothering to have a security guard and cameras is negligent. I think we have similar rules for medical liabilities when it comes to reasonable effort vs negligence. My hope is that they make the law have enough teeth that people will decide that if they are going to insist on patrons being unarmed, they take very seriously the idea of providing skilled and armed security. Then the 1 billion dollar payout would be the 'you just dont want to be that guy' scenario.
its not uncommon for high schools in a lot of places to have at least 1 or 2 assigned police. Broward county is one of those extremely rich and liberal counties in florida. However, gangs and/or the trafficking of Opiates has cause a lot of high schools to assign permanent officers to these places. My small city (maybe half a million population) recently had a couple students involved in shootings and death (off campus) over drugs. By drugs we all know we dont mean weed. People dont shoot each other over weed unless its a ton of money, and then its really over money. Opiates are an entirely different kind of animal/addiction. Knowing how much of an epidemic opiates are becoming, what kind of parent would oppose more police influence in schools for more reasons than just mass shootings.
it wasnt a LAW that freed slaves.. it was a CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. Thats the OPs entire point Making a law would be unconstitutional. You would need an actual constitutional convention to change the constitution.
speaking of malania, she is eastern european. Never underestimate the intelligence of a lot of those girls. They dont spend all day on facebook, they actually get a decent education. I would never make an assumption just because she does happen to be very attractive.
why is it that idiots like you always talk about GUN violence and not just VIOLENCE. People have been slaughtering each other longer than guns have been around. How many people died on Bastille day in France last year? Was that a mass shooting? No fucktard,, it was a fucking truck. This kid was highly intelligent. He fucking used a fire alarm to lure people into the hallway to create a shooting gallery. Do you really fucking think a lack of guns would have stopped this massacre? He could have used IED's or just about anything else available. But feel free to post as the anonymous pussy that you are. Spineless coward should be your title.
keep up with the story, it got debunked he was a nazi. In fact he lives in Broward county. Thats 90% DEMOCRAT, if you remember as it was the battleground for the 2000 recount for EXACTLY this reason. its probably going to come out in the wash that both his parents were registered democrats. Dont stereotype on this shit, it will backfire every time. The guy picked valentines day for a reason, its not a coincidence. This is one of the first mass shootings where the victim stayed alive to be interrogated. I for one am hopeful that atleast better insight can bet gained by this factor.
why not? i am certain our alphabet agencies are guity of the exact same shit. I am not making excuses for russia, but lets at least own the kind of fucking bastards our intelligence agencies can be.
the kind of 'gun control' I will get behind is dealing with these 'gun free zones'. Not just in public schools but private places like theaters etc. IMO, and purely IMO, there should be a law that states that ANY establishment that restricts ones constitutional right to bear arms, they MUST, without question, provide ARMED security for the entire portion of time that said citizens are denied their rights. Failure to comply is an immediate forfeiture of the establishments defense against Wrongful Death civil prosecution. In other words, if you tell someone they cannot carry a weapon to assist in their defense, the establishment fails to provide security, and it results in death, the family members can sue for 1 BILLION in wrongful deaths and it will be a default judgement against the establishment. It might have once been named Cinemark Enterntainment, but after their negligence, it is now labled the Bob Jones movie theatre because he owned their asses.
PC Gamer always picking titles for Game of the Year awards based on which company spent the most revenue advertising was not much better. However, my take on the email from the manager, was that they were already in real dire straits. To assume they would have had jobs for another year might be an misplaced assumption. Its possible this consequence may have only accelerated things a month or two. It probably was as dire as it sounds. If only ebay were this proactive about these users who bid their own auctions up and yet after 4 years somehow manage to never buy anything on these fake accounts.
that brings up an entirely new question.. Did facebook and myspace kill the damn personal web pages? I can't even remember the last time someone had a someurl.com/~username/ link to hand out..
I don't mind the limited markup of having fonts, italic, etc that markup languages provide; but I agree it should not be wide open and non-regulated. The RFCs should have placed restrictions on specific tags to avoid embedded crap. Just have a short list of approved tags and be done with it the same way forums have a basic list of tags.
No wonder they are working so hard on AI, the first job it should be tasked with is taking over the business decisions at Google. Because clearly there is no intelligent life there to be found.
> "Nobody really likes it, but it's the way nobody really likes sidewalks, or electrical outlets, or forks"
perhaps it is because I am old, but I rather like the type of discord that email provides. I abhor new platforms for 'communication' such as twitter-for-twits and facebook, for those who spend more time documenting the fake shit they do than actually doing the stuff they supposedly do. The idea that someone can say something in 250 words or less and believe that its enough to persuade someone is ludicrous and practically justifies slapping their teachers across the face. A persuasive argument requires points and counter points; all packaged and detailed through the body of the single letter. Think of it as opening, or closing, arguments in a trial. Would you want your attorney standing up during closing arguments, addressing the jury and just say "find my client innocent or you suck. #freemyclient #emojisarecool!" Yet this is were social media has led an entire generation of millennials who literally now graduate public schools not knowing how to write in cursive, write a check, or properly fill out an envelope and apply postage.
Didn't google make a claim about 10yrs ago that they were revolutionizing email with an entirely new product?? I believe they called it 'Wave'. How did that turn out for them? It appears that, at least for that project, the mayan calendar did, in fact, cause the end of its civilization (ie they pulled the plug on it at the end of 2012)
without the game titles its going to be an epic fail. I opted for the original FireTV because it was a streaming box, but also had a BT wireless game controller to play games. There really wasn't anything worth having IMO. Fast forward many years and I think I've used that $50 controller maybe 3 times ever. More than likely this google device is going to be an overpriced means of playing Candy Crush on your livingroom TV
I find it interesting they say 'works similar to opiods'.... by that do they mean it triggers a dopamine reaction? If so why the hell is sugar and HFCS still legal? They also do it. In fact this known sugar high is exactly why the fucking straws at mcdonalds are so large you could almost suck a marble through them. They want to speed up the absorbtion of sugar in the sodas so you associate this sugar high with their stores.
I mean if we are going to hold history accountable for behavior that is only recently (last 40yrs) been deemed unacceptable, we might as well go after former presidents too. Lincoln and his wife, Mary Todd, owned a lot of slaves before they were free'd. At one time we made crayons out of whale blubber, better shackled the handcuffs on the execs at Crayola. Benjamin Franklin owned a lot of slaves and had children from a lot of them, better take away his credit for inventing the Franklin Stove, or discovering electricity.
I wonder if these idiots ever consider that the precedence they are setting will eventually get themselves condemned in 50 yrs. Who knows what things, acceptable today, will be deemed extremely taboo in the future.
We are talking about a body of people who feel they are exempt from the very laws they pass. They commit insider trading and yet the SEC never prosecutes them. They pass a healthcare plan that is touted to be the greatest thing since sliced bread, yet exempted themselves from that too. Sexual harassment training is required of all government employees and military, and yet we recently learned that the house and senate did NOT have any such programs in place. Its as if they think their Congressional Immunity extends beyond the narrow definition of Legislative Acts as defined by the Supreme Court.
Its my understanding that the massive amount of hurricanes this past year was due more to El Nino failing to form, whose wind shear normally acts as a counter to the fragile center of cyclones as they attempt to spin up. There has been no tie established between El Nino failing to form and global warming. As far as expenses related to forest fires, one reader has already pointed out that it took place in practically the most expensive real estate on the continent, outstripping Gatlinburg from the previous fire. Its highly doubtful the california fire was tied to global warming, that place was in a drought when I was stationed there in the 80s. Hence why those Oakland Hills fires were so hard to deal with in 1992. Honestly, I am really surprised that forest fires have not become a means of mass destruction by ISIS. The damage caused by some well placed and timed gasoline and matches outpaces hijacking 4 planes or using an exploding bomb vest and there is very little that can be done to defend against it. Combine a solid 4-6 weeks of drought with some march or october winds and you've got a forest fire that will rage for a good long while.
nobody denies climate change.. they only deny the science 'models' that keep getting proven wrong. Either A) the fucktard alarmists keep running around like chicken little screaming 'The world is going to in in 2015!!!!' and yet 2015 comes and goes, or B) they use models to make predictions, and mother nature comes along and smacks them in the face for being so arrogant that they were sure they figured out nature. Its not scientific to draw a line in the sand and say the world will end on X date unless something is done. Its even worse when the same 'predictors' don't come out and eat a big shit sandwich and admit that their calculations were too aggressive, instead they invent more bullshit to save face, because their Ego is more important than the scientific process. Al Gore did more harm to the scientific community than anyone can imagine, despite many people calling him a hero. He sure as hell didnt invent the internet, despite his claims, but many people will accredit him to making up global warming (at least his draconian version of it). Bad science is easy to spot and once the integrity of science is in question, then everything else goes to shit.
If your climate model is not 100% correct, and people assume it is, and they take DRASTIC measures to CORRECT something that turns into an OVER-CORRECTION, we take a potential bad problem and turn it into something FAR WORSE. The problem is, these pseudo scientists, aka climatologists, go around making predictions, then get caught altering records because their hypothesis got disproved. For them its more about being right than actual research.
The earth is one big equilibrium equation. The problem is we do not yet understand all the variables. We want to run off half-cocked and tweak an equation because we think it only has 12 variables. The reality is that its more likely 212 variables and forcing any change may have anywhere from zero impact, aside from billions of dollars, to extreme over-correction. Why is El Nino and El Nina no longer factors in climate science? Why isn't solar output a factor? To blatantly disregard different elements that clearly exist presumes to claim they have mastered the equation, yet their predictions always fall flat.
first we blame cars, then we blame cows, oil, dirty fuel, pollution, etc. The truth is that every HOUR, the entire SuperBowl Stadium (effectively) is filled with newborn children. As long as we continue to increase population at this rate there will be no adequate tweak of climate equilibrium. The last time the world had this sort of population -to- food supply ratio, mother nature gave us the black plague to get the globe back into check. At this point, if every goddamn car on the planet was electric, we still could not alter the extra heat generated by the exploding population. In the 80s people gave a shit about the rain forest, the worlds counter to rising CO2. We continue to shrink the massive forest that cleans the atmosphere while at the same time allow unchecked population increases. There is going to be a massive population reduction if these changes don't even out, or people start moving to other planets.
nobody actually knows how to remake damascus steel. What is made today is something made to LOOK like damascus steel. In fact, Damascus steel is vastly inferior to current metallurgy techniques. In its day it was amazing. And the art of actually making it is definitely lost. But there are far stronger and better steel out there like T10, 1095, 8Cr13MoV comparitively. It does highlight a great example of how we can discover a material and be unaware of how to recreate it.
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you do realize that this is because there was not supposed to be a standing army. We didnt have a standing army until after WWI. It is entirely unconstitutional.
when it was drafted, being a member of a colony and being a man immediately made you a member of a militia. All free men were required to have two flintlock rifles, a bag of powder and X number of pounds of shot. This was a mandatory requirement. there was no volunteer military. Where you a male? check. Are you alive and does blood flow through your veins? check. Welcome to the militia.
have you read the constitution? did you know that the constitution says we cannot have a standing army? Did you know that we can have a navy but not an army? That's why we are supposed to have a militia. you might be young. During hurricane andrew, there were a lot of devastation in miami. As a result there was a lot of crime. Neighborhoods would organize and barricade their neighborhoods and organize armed patrols to protect their neighbors. This is the very definition of a militia. Its not always the crazy rednecks wanting to overthrow the government.
dude at one point it wasnt a right, it was a REQUIREMENT that every colonist have TWO flinklock rifles, a bag of powder, and so many rounds of shot. please stop pretending like nobody had guns. It wasnt even up for debate for the first 100 years in this country, you didnt even have a choice.
breaking into a car is not life or death. Assisting in the ultimate affirmative defense of your life is, IMO, one of those inalienable rights. denying someone the ability to prevent their death should come with consequences. The only offset should be the defense of 'reasonable effort'. Not having armed security in a gun free zone is not a reasonable effort. Just like making people park in your structure but not bothering to have a security guard and cameras is negligent. I think we have similar rules for medical liabilities when it comes to reasonable effort vs negligence. My hope is that they make the law have enough teeth that people will decide that if they are going to insist on patrons being unarmed, they take very seriously the idea of providing skilled and armed security. Then the 1 billion dollar payout would be the 'you just dont want to be that guy' scenario.
its not uncommon for high schools in a lot of places to have at least 1 or 2 assigned police. Broward county is one of those extremely rich and liberal counties in florida. However, gangs and/or the trafficking of Opiates has cause a lot of high schools to assign permanent officers to these places. My small city (maybe half a million population) recently had a couple students involved in shootings and death (off campus) over drugs. By drugs we all know we dont mean weed. People dont shoot each other over weed unless its a ton of money, and then its really over money. Opiates are an entirely different kind of animal/addiction. Knowing how much of an epidemic opiates are becoming, what kind of parent would oppose more police influence in schools for more reasons than just mass shootings.
it wasnt a LAW that freed slaves.. it was a CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. Thats the OPs entire point Making a law would be unconstitutional. You would need an actual constitutional convention to change the constitution.
speaking of malania, she is eastern european. Never underestimate the intelligence of a lot of those girls. They dont spend all day on facebook, they actually get a decent education. I would never make an assumption just because she does happen to be very attractive.
why is it that idiots like you always talk about GUN violence and not just VIOLENCE. People have been slaughtering each other longer than guns have been around. How many people died on Bastille day in France last year? Was that a mass shooting? No fucktard,, it was a fucking truck. This kid was highly intelligent. He fucking used a fire alarm to lure people into the hallway to create a shooting gallery. Do you really fucking think a lack of guns would have stopped this massacre? He could have used IED's or just about anything else available. But feel free to post as the anonymous pussy that you are. Spineless coward should be your title.
keep up with the story, it got debunked he was a nazi. In fact he lives in Broward county. Thats 90% DEMOCRAT, if you remember as it was the battleground for the 2000 recount for EXACTLY this reason. its probably going to come out in the wash that both his parents were registered democrats. Dont stereotype on this shit, it will backfire every time. The guy picked valentines day for a reason, its not a coincidence. This is one of the first mass shootings where the victim stayed alive to be interrogated. I for one am hopeful that atleast better insight can bet gained by this factor.
why not? i am certain our alphabet agencies are guity of the exact same shit. I am not making excuses for russia, but lets at least own the kind of fucking bastards our intelligence agencies can be.
the kind of 'gun control' I will get behind is dealing with these 'gun free zones'. Not just in public schools but private places like theaters etc. IMO, and purely IMO, there should be a law that states that ANY establishment that restricts ones constitutional right to bear arms, they MUST, without question, provide ARMED security for the entire portion of time that said citizens are denied their rights. Failure to comply is an immediate forfeiture of the establishments defense against Wrongful Death civil prosecution. In other words, if you tell someone they cannot carry a weapon to assist in their defense, the establishment fails to provide security, and it results in death, the family members can sue for 1 BILLION in wrongful deaths and it will be a default judgement against the establishment. It might have once been named Cinemark Enterntainment, but after their negligence, it is now labled the Bob Jones movie theatre because he owned their asses.
PC Gamer always picking titles for Game of the Year awards based on which company spent the most revenue advertising was not much better. However, my take on the email from the manager, was that they were already in real dire straits. To assume they would have had jobs for another year might be an misplaced assumption. Its possible this consequence may have only accelerated things a month or two. It probably was as dire as it sounds. If only ebay were this proactive about these users who bid their own auctions up and yet after 4 years somehow manage to never buy anything on these fake accounts.
that brings up an entirely new question.. Did facebook and myspace kill the damn personal web pages? I can't even remember the last time someone had a someurl.com/~username/ link to hand out..
I don't mind the limited markup of having fonts, italic, etc that markup languages provide; but I agree it should not be wide open and non-regulated. The RFCs should have placed restrictions on specific tags to avoid embedded crap. Just have a short list of approved tags and be done with it the same way forums have a basic list of tags.
No wonder they are working so hard on AI, the first job it should be tasked with is taking over the business decisions at Google. Because clearly there is no intelligent life there to be found.
> "Nobody really likes it, but it's the way nobody really likes sidewalks, or electrical outlets, or forks"
perhaps it is because I am old, but I rather like the type of discord that email provides. I abhor new platforms for 'communication' such as twitter-for-twits and facebook, for those who spend more time documenting the fake shit they do than actually doing the stuff they supposedly do. The idea that someone can say something in 250 words or less and believe that its enough to persuade someone is ludicrous and practically justifies slapping their teachers across the face. A persuasive argument requires points and counter points; all packaged and detailed through the body of the single letter. Think of it as opening, or closing, arguments in a trial. Would you want your attorney standing up during closing arguments, addressing the jury and just say "find my client innocent or you suck. #freemyclient #emojisarecool!" Yet this is were social media has led an entire generation of millennials who literally now graduate public schools not knowing how to write in cursive, write a check, or properly fill out an envelope and apply postage.
Didn't google make a claim about 10yrs ago that they were revolutionizing email with an entirely new product?? I believe they called it 'Wave'. How did that turn out for them? It appears that, at least for that project, the mayan calendar did, in fact, cause the end of its civilization (ie they pulled the plug on it at the end of 2012)
without the game titles its going to be an epic fail. I opted for the original FireTV because it was a streaming box, but also had a BT wireless game controller to play games. There really wasn't anything worth having IMO. Fast forward many years and I think I've used that $50 controller maybe 3 times ever. More than likely this google device is going to be an overpriced means of playing Candy Crush on your livingroom TV
I find it interesting they say 'works similar to opiods'.... by that do they mean it triggers a dopamine reaction? If so why the hell is sugar and HFCS still legal? They also do it. In fact this known sugar high is exactly why the fucking straws at mcdonalds are so large you could almost suck a marble through them. They want to speed up the absorbtion of sugar in the sodas so you associate this sugar high with their stores.
I mean if we are going to hold history accountable for behavior that is only recently (last 40yrs) been deemed unacceptable, we might as well go after former presidents too. Lincoln and his wife, Mary Todd, owned a lot of slaves before they were free'd. At one time we made crayons out of whale blubber, better shackled the handcuffs on the execs at Crayola. Benjamin Franklin owned a lot of slaves and had children from a lot of them, better take away his credit for inventing the Franklin Stove, or discovering electricity.
I wonder if these idiots ever consider that the precedence they are setting will eventually get themselves condemned in 50 yrs. Who knows what things, acceptable today, will be deemed extremely taboo in the future.
don't forget Anthony Weiner and Elliot Spitzer
seriously... with the names like Spitzer and Weiner, its like they were doomed to fail
We are talking about a body of people who feel they are exempt from the very laws they pass. They commit insider trading and yet the SEC never prosecutes them. They pass a healthcare plan that is touted to be the greatest thing since sliced bread, yet exempted themselves from that too. Sexual harassment training is required of all government employees and military, and yet we recently learned that the house and senate did NOT have any such programs in place. Its as if they think their Congressional Immunity extends beyond the narrow definition of Legislative Acts as defined by the Supreme Court.
Its my understanding that the massive amount of hurricanes this past year was due more to El Nino failing to form, whose wind shear normally acts as a counter to the fragile center of cyclones as they attempt to spin up. There has been no tie established between El Nino failing to form and global warming. As far as expenses related to forest fires, one reader has already pointed out that it took place in practically the most expensive real estate on the continent, outstripping Gatlinburg from the previous fire. Its highly doubtful the california fire was tied to global warming, that place was in a drought when I was stationed there in the 80s. Hence why those Oakland Hills fires were so hard to deal with in 1992. Honestly, I am really surprised that forest fires have not become a means of mass destruction by ISIS. The damage caused by some well placed and timed gasoline and matches outpaces hijacking 4 planes or using an exploding bomb vest and there is very little that can be done to defend against it. Combine a solid 4-6 weeks of drought with some march or october winds and you've got a forest fire that will rage for a good long while.
nobody denies climate change.. they only deny the science 'models' that keep getting proven wrong. Either A) the fucktard alarmists keep running around like chicken little screaming 'The world is going to in in 2015!!!!' and yet 2015 comes and goes, or B) they use models to make predictions, and mother nature comes along and smacks them in the face for being so arrogant that they were sure they figured out nature. Its not scientific to draw a line in the sand and say the world will end on X date unless something is done. Its even worse when the same 'predictors' don't come out and eat a big shit sandwich and admit that their calculations were too aggressive, instead they invent more bullshit to save face, because their Ego is more important than the scientific process. Al Gore did more harm to the scientific community than anyone can imagine, despite many people calling him a hero. He sure as hell didnt invent the internet, despite his claims, but many people will accredit him to making up global warming (at least his draconian version of it). Bad science is easy to spot and once the integrity of science is in question, then everything else goes to shit.
If your climate model is not 100% correct, and people assume it is, and they take DRASTIC measures to CORRECT something that turns into an OVER-CORRECTION, we take a potential bad problem and turn it into something FAR WORSE. The problem is, these pseudo scientists, aka climatologists, go around making predictions, then get caught altering records because their hypothesis got disproved. For them its more about being right than actual research.
The earth is one big equilibrium equation. The problem is we do not yet understand all the variables. We want to run off half-cocked and tweak an equation because we think it only has 12 variables. The reality is that its more likely 212 variables and forcing any change may have anywhere from zero impact, aside from billions of dollars, to extreme over-correction. Why is El Nino and El Nina no longer factors in climate science? Why isn't solar output a factor? To blatantly disregard different elements that clearly exist presumes to claim they have mastered the equation, yet their predictions always fall flat.
first we blame cars, then we blame cows, oil, dirty fuel, pollution, etc. The truth is that every HOUR, the entire SuperBowl Stadium (effectively) is filled with newborn children. As long as we continue to increase population at this rate there will be no adequate tweak of climate equilibrium. The last time the world had this sort of population -to- food supply ratio, mother nature gave us the black plague to get the globe back into check. At this point, if every goddamn car on the planet was electric, we still could not alter the extra heat generated by the exploding population. In the 80s people gave a shit about the rain forest, the worlds counter to rising CO2. We continue to shrink the massive forest that cleans the atmosphere while at the same time allow unchecked population increases. There is going to be a massive population reduction if these changes don't even out, or people start moving to other planets.
nobody actually knows how to remake damascus steel. What is made today is something made to LOOK like damascus steel. In fact, Damascus steel is vastly inferior to current metallurgy techniques. In its day it was amazing. And the art of actually making it is definitely lost. But there are far stronger and better steel out there like T10, 1095, 8Cr13MoV comparitively. It does highlight a great example of how we can discover a material and be unaware of how to recreate it.