Or pilots with guns. "*Gasp!* You don't mean that?!" Yes, I do. It is notoriously difficult to threaten someone when he has a gun and you have a knife.
It's a nice place to live because the people who started it were responsible. The bottom line:
If you are not responsible enough to get in legally (which is not hard at all) then we don't want you here.
Not only because of the huge amount of taxpayer's money (or money that doesn't exist) that immigrants consume in healthcare, wellfware and educationbe a nice place to live. Gates is just making a PR huff, and he knows it.
That would be great if it was possible. But it is not. All it takes is one shady person with a lathe and a good chemistry set, and all of a sudden you can buy a gun for the right price. And if only you and the police have a gun, you have titanic power over anyone but the police.
According to the British Journal of Criminology, Australia (which has some of the strictest gun control in the world), has seen virtually no reduction - and in many places an increase of - crime, since the introduction of the $500,000,000 gun buyback plan.
Face it, there will always be a supply of guns, just like there will always be a supply of drugs. And since honest people will obey the law and give up their guns if told to, only criminals and police will have them (and the police can't be everywhere at once).
Therefore, it is impossible to totally eradicate guns from the populace, so a much better approach is to have everyone possessing and trained in the use of guns.
I'm not familiar with the case, but is there any indication that the farmer's safety was in danger? Yes, several people smashed into his house in the middle of the night, and after a couple nights of the police arriving too late to catch them, the farmer sat up with a shotgun an ended the intrusions.
I highly doubt a rural farmer could afford an infrared camera. The bottom line should be: If you break into someone's house, you forfeit your personal safety.
What would you do if you and your wife heard a crash in the middle of the night, and men rummaging around your house? There is no time for the overworked police to arrive, and you might get shot, stabbed, beaten, you stuff stolen, and your wife raped in the meantime.
It is a basic human right to strike back at someone who threatens you and/or your property. According to US police surveys, the number-one fear of a criminal is that the victim might have a gun [citation needed]. And it has been statistically proven, many times, that the more trained citizens carry guns, the lower the crime rate in the area is. With a gun, suddenly the littlest old lady can fend off the biggest thug, and you usually don't have to shoot it.
But this farmer was miles away from any police station. The cops never got there in time to see the assailants, until he shot them.
* Patrick Henry: "The great objective is that every man be armed. . . . Everyone who is able may have a gun."
* George Mason: "To disarm the people [is] the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
* Samuel Adams: "The Constitution shall never be construed . . . to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms."
* Alexander Hamilton: "The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed."
* Richard Henry Lee: "To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
*Adolf Hitler: "The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so."
In fact, many families hide RPGs and AKs in their gardens to protect themselves and their property from night-raiding Islamic terrorists. Compare that to this UN-aided genocide: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1791457/p osts
Exactly! The USA should quit funding the UN and bulldoze their New York office, because they are the main proponents of laws and regulations that make people helpless. The UN is constantly pushing "civil-rights" laws and gun bans that render people defenseless against aggressors.
In most of America, I can shoot anybody who threatens me or my property, and be pretty safe from lawsuits (the major exception is the Anti-Christian Lawsuit Union - er - the American Civil Liberties Union's lawsuits). It's really a shame that liberties have gotten so restricted in Europe that a burglar can sue the farmer who sat up in the night with a shotgun and shot him, after being robbed multiple times in a row. The criminal won, and that farmer is now in an English prison.
It's just too bad Europe doesn't have a powerful organization like the NRA to protect the right of self-defense.
Teachers are not teachers anymore, they are babysitters.This sentence was not only relavent to the issue in the article, but is characteristic of so many of the problems with our education system right now from parents expecting schools to raise their kids and teach them values to our failing grades compared with the rest of the world. I don't think that its just the bureaucracy of structured classes, but with the teachers' lack of ability to control a classroom. Of course, that's a whole other can of worms. Yes, that is a huge can of worms.
My father has been a teacher for almost 20 years, and describes the life cycle of a teacher like this:
1. Someone becomes a teacher, not for the pay, but in order to better the world. 2. They are very enthusiastic, and spin their wheels with enthusiasm. 3. About 5-10 years into it, they get cynical. But with that many years behind them, they are not going to switch careers. He also discussed the government programs issue:
1. A program is created and deployed with high hopes (except for the cynical teachers who have been through the last 3 programs.) 2. It generates a lot of (fake) steam, then is loopholed and "special-ed"ed out of commission, at which point everybody forgets the name. 3. The program is about to expire, and everything will go back to traditional mode. This creates a lawsuit hazard, as tens of thousands of students suddenly must pass a test or miss their diploma. 4. A new program is hastily implemented to keep the scores inflated and keep to the students rolling through (read: no lawsuits). Another problem is "special ed". Here is the story behind 85% of the students in special ed:
1. A student is ultra-lazy and isn't passing. 2. Parents roar at the teacher, and send their kid to the school shrink. At this point the student pays attention and dons his worst intellect, in order to pass the evaluation. 3. He is assigned a monitor who is specially responsible to keep an eye on his school (read: make sure he passes). 4. The student has a lot less work to do (the basic package is 1/2 the homework, and it gets worse as you go along), and the teacher is given a dossier (they have some politically correct name for it) on the kid's "condition", and he is required to tailor his lessons for that child's benefit. (There is naturally no way a teacher can tailor the class for a dozen individual kids.) 5. The student passes with good grades, and gets his diploma. He got by with minimal work, the parents are happy, and nobody got sued. 5. Since you can't discriminate against the handicapped or retarded, the diploma has no mention of the fact that the student didn't actually do the work, or that he has any condition. Now, the program does do much good for the truly handicapped people, but there are very few people who have anything wrong with them, except for their work ethic.
As for classroom discipline:
1. You cannot touch or search a kid without getting sued by the parents or the ACLU. 2. You cannot dock their grade without the parents getting zealous. 3. You may only send them to the office, where the overworked principle (who spends "half his time making sure we comply with regulations") tells the student to behave or face staying home from school (sounds silly, but it really irks the parents, who suddenly have a kid to babysit). 4. If the teacher saw the kid's drugs, the principle calls the students mom to come (no way will he tell the kid to drop his pants for a search without a parent present). The kid is then sent to the school police officer, and I don't know what he does with him. 5. There isn't much else to do. It is a general case of lazy kids, a lawyer-happy ACLU, terrible parenting, and staggering bureaucratic overhead.
Funny how much that sounds like theology! It should be obvious that humans are hardwired for God, just like they are for singing or having a 7 day week.
What!?! It's open to debate? It might not be Bush's fault after all? *gasp* We must sue someone immediately or pass a new regulation!
I've always been a skeptic of global warming, mainly because volcanoes are the biggest polluters on the planet, not man. When Krakatoa blew a couple square miles of stuff straight up, it made a pollution cloud that went around the globe several times and caused civilizations to leave writings about the "year without the sun." I don't think man's tiny factories and cars can come close to that.
The Linksys WRT54G does. It has this "Secure Easy Setup" button on the front that trashes your wireless configuration when you press it. (I think you have to connect it to other devices with the same button and then press them all.)
Gmail Gmail Gmail Free, huge storage, POP3, all kinds of rules you can make, excellent SPAM filtering (way better than MSN), and Google has another service that offers free web hosting.
A new feature being gradually implemented (I think be seniority) is the ability to check other POP3 accounts from Gmail. Gmail also has the best AJAX interface in existence, IMHO.
Loosen it? No, no. What they should (and might) do is require the key to be entered from a special boot mode such as the following:
1. Does not allow the user to execute code. 2. It would run on a very simply, almost BIOS like specialized code base that does not execute win32 code, so if anybody did manage to execute code, it would have to be extremely specialized. 3. Requires direct access to the hardware (no VM/visors).
This would force anyone using this method to resort to a custom BIOS or a hardware device (like keyboard input from another PC). Having it use its own code base would require a lot of work, but might be worth it to MS.
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Or pilots with guns. "*Gasp!* You don't mean that?!"
Yes, I do. It is notoriously difficult to threaten someone when he has a gun and you have a knife.
That's sick. Besides, this only accepts input from the human.
It's a nice place to live because the people who started it were responsible. The bottom line:
If you are not responsible enough to get in legally (which is not hard at all) then we don't want you here.
Not only because of the huge amount of taxpayer's money (or money that doesn't exist) that immigrants consume in healthcare, wellfware and educationbe a nice place to live. Gates is just making a PR huff, and he knows it.
But mutations are constantly introducing new disorders in the human gene pool that make it more and more risky for relatives to intermarry.
That would be great if it was possible. But it is not. All it takes is one shady person with a lathe and a good chemistry set, and all of a sudden you can buy a gun for the right price. And if only you and the police have a gun, you have titanic power over anyone but the police.
According to the British Journal of Criminology, Australia (which has some of the strictest gun control in the world), has seen virtually no reduction - and in many places an increase of - crime, since the introduction of the $500,000,000 gun buyback plan.
Face it, there will always be a supply of guns, just like there will always be a supply of drugs. And since honest people will obey the law and give up their guns if told to, only criminals and police will have them (and the police can't be everywhere at once).
Therefore, it is impossible to totally eradicate guns from the populace, so a much better approach is to have everyone possessing and trained in the use of guns.
Adobe Reader 7 is junk, but 8 is actually pleasant to use (and about 4 times a fast).
A machine can never be as good as its creator, therefore, human rights will always triumph over the rights of inanimate machines.
I highly doubt a rural farmer could afford an infrared camera. The bottom line should be:
If you break into someone's house, you forfeit your personal safety.
What would you do if you and your wife heard a crash in the middle of the night, and men rummaging around your house? There is no time for the overworked police to arrive, and you might get shot, stabbed, beaten, you stuff stolen, and your wife raped in the meantime.
It is a basic human right to strike back at someone who threatens you and/or your property. According to US police surveys, the number-one fear of a criminal is that the victim might have a gun [citation needed]. And it has been statistically proven, many times, that the more trained citizens carry guns, the lower the crime rate in the area is. With a gun, suddenly the littlest old lady can fend off the biggest thug, and you usually don't have to shoot it.
* George Mason: "To disarm the people [is] the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
* Samuel Adams: "The Constitution shall never be construed . . . to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms."
* Alexander Hamilton: "The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed."
* Richard Henry Lee: "To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
*Adolf Hitler: "The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so."
In fact, many families hide RPGs and AKs in their gardens to protect themselves and their property from night-raiding Islamic terrorists. Compare that to this UN-aided genocide:p osts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1791457/
Yes yes yes! This is exactly right! A good starting point for everyone is encrypting your email.
Exactly! The USA should quit funding the UN and bulldoze their New York office, because they are the main proponents of laws and regulations that make people helpless. The UN is constantly pushing "civil-rights" laws and gun bans that render people defenseless against aggressors.
In most of America, I can shoot anybody who threatens me or my property, and be pretty safe from lawsuits (the major exception is the Anti-Christian Lawsuit Union - er - the American Civil Liberties Union's lawsuits). It's really a shame that liberties have gotten so restricted in Europe that a burglar can sue the farmer who sat up in the night with a shotgun and shot him, after being robbed multiple times in a row. The criminal won, and that farmer is now in an English prison.
It's just too bad Europe doesn't have a powerful organization like the NRA to protect the right of self-defense.
State? (mine's Idaho)
Is your school a public or private school? When my dad taught at private school, they had (in writing) the right to spank the kids.
So the plane would have angles large enough to see? Hmm, sounds like an F-117...
My father has been a teacher for almost 20 years, and describes the life cycle of a teacher like this: 1. Someone becomes a teacher, not for the pay, but in order to better the world.
2. They are very enthusiastic, and spin their wheels with enthusiasm.
3. About 5-10 years into it, they get cynical. But with that many years behind them, they are not going to switch careers. He also discussed the government programs issue: 1. A program is created and deployed with high hopes (except for the cynical teachers who have been through the last 3 programs.)
2. It generates a lot of (fake) steam, then is loopholed and "special-ed"ed out of commission, at which point everybody forgets the name.
3. The program is about to expire, and everything will go back to traditional mode. This creates a lawsuit hazard, as tens of thousands of students suddenly must pass a test or miss their diploma.
4. A new program is hastily implemented to keep the scores inflated and keep to the students rolling through (read: no lawsuits). Another problem is "special ed". Here is the story behind 85% of the students in special ed: 1. A student is ultra-lazy and isn't passing.
2. Parents roar at the teacher, and send their kid to the school shrink. At this point the student pays attention and dons his worst intellect, in order to pass the evaluation.
3. He is assigned a monitor who is specially responsible to keep an eye on his school (read: make sure he passes).
4. The student has a lot less work to do (the basic package is 1/2 the homework, and it gets worse as you go along), and the teacher is given a dossier (they have some politically correct name for it) on the kid's "condition", and he is required to tailor his lessons for that child's benefit. (There is naturally no way a teacher can tailor the class for a dozen individual kids.)
5. The student passes with good grades, and gets his diploma. He got by with minimal work, the parents are happy, and nobody got sued.
5. Since you can't discriminate against the handicapped or retarded, the diploma has no mention of the fact that the student didn't actually do the work, or that he has any condition. Now, the program does do much good for the truly handicapped people, but there are very few people who have anything wrong with them, except for their work ethic.
As for classroom discipline: 1. You cannot touch or search a kid without getting sued by the parents or the ACLU.
2. You cannot dock their grade without the parents getting zealous.
3. You may only send them to the office, where the overworked principle (who spends "half his time making sure we comply with regulations") tells the student to behave or face staying home from school (sounds silly, but it really irks the parents, who suddenly have a kid to babysit).
4. If the teacher saw the kid's drugs, the principle calls the students mom to come (no way will he tell the kid to drop his pants for a search without a parent present). The kid is then sent to the school police officer, and I don't know what he does with him.
5. There isn't much else to do. It is a general case of lazy kids, a lawyer-happy ACLU, terrible parenting, and staggering bureaucratic overhead.
Funny how much that sounds like theology! It should be obvious that humans are hardwired for God, just like they are for singing or having a 7 day week.
What's wrong with C02? When there's more of it, plants grow more. What you should stay up worrying about is that horrible cow exhaust (methane)!
What!?! It's open to debate? It might not be Bush's fault after all? *gasp* We must sue someone immediately or pass a new regulation!
I've always been a skeptic of global warming, mainly because volcanoes are the biggest polluters on the planet, not man. When Krakatoa blew a couple square miles of stuff straight up, it made a pollution cloud that went around the globe several times and caused civilizations to leave writings about the "year without the sun." I don't think man's tiny factories and cars can come close to that.
The Linksys WRT54G does. It has this "Secure Easy Setup" button on the front that trashes your wireless configuration when you press it. (I think you have to connect it to other devices with the same button and then press them all.)
But hey, it's out-of-the-box encryption.
Gmail Gmail Gmail
Free, huge storage, POP3, all kinds of rules you can make, excellent SPAM filtering (way better than MSN), and Google has another service that offers free web hosting.
A new feature being gradually implemented (I think be seniority) is the ability to check other POP3 accounts from Gmail. Gmail also has the best AJAX interface in existence, IMHO.
Avast's detection is poor compared to AVG Free's according to almost any current review you can find. Nothing compares to Kaspersky though.
http://www.transceiver.co.uk/txt.php?article=52
Try Cube 2. It's still in development, but it's quite playable. (It's a pretty obvious open-source remake of Quake III.)
Loosen it? No, no. What they should (and might) do is require the key to be entered from a special boot mode such as the following:
1. Does not allow the user to execute code.
2. It would run on a very simply, almost BIOS like specialized code base that does not execute win32 code, so if anybody did manage to execute code, it would have to be extremely specialized.
3. Requires direct access to the hardware (no VM/visors).
This would force anyone using this method to resort to a custom BIOS or a hardware device (like keyboard input from another PC). Having it use its own code base would require a lot of work, but might be worth it to MS.
A car is a simple shape compared to an arm, and a car does not flex like an arm.