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Comment · 12 years ago
For what it's worth I just put an Ubuntu 14.04 nightly on my Nvidia Optimus laptop, and contrary to previous versions the dual-GPU setup Just Works (including choosing which GPU using the Nvidia utilities) after selecting the latest binary driver from the "Additional Drivers" page.
Quite a relief after fighting with the dual-GPU for so long.
Comment · 12 years ago
That's two crimes committed with NFA weapons in the 80 years since the NFA has existed. One committed by an active duty police officer and the other by a former police officer.
And to the previous poster I'll add that production of AR15-pattern rifles and carbines alone for the commercial market averages about 380K units per year since 2008. Adding in non-AR pattern "military style" rifles brings that number to about 480K per year, or about 20% of all rifles produced and sold commercially in the U.S. The AR15 is undoubtedly the most popular rifle in the U.S. and that includes a hell of a lot of folks who can't reasonably be classified as "rednecks."
Comment · 12 years ago
Let's not forget that in neither case is it 'free'. The public foots the bill in both cases.
Comment · 12 years ago
Not to mention that LittleMachineShop sells complete proven CNC rigs for about the same price with no risk, and which are obviously much more rigid as well.
Comment · 12 years ago
No, he clearly did not mean regulation. He said demand, as a customer may do, rather than coerce by force, as a government must do.
Comment · 12 years ago
And yet mob justice is exactly what we have in US, though sometimes with a legislative session's worth of delay. A constitutional republic protects against mob justice through individual guarantees of property and liberty, and further through strict limitations on the state's power. Our government, of course, has long since managed to rid itself of most of these limitations.
Comment · 13 years ago
> And you keep on not voting, and then wonder why your government doesn't represent you.
Yet everyone else does vote and then wonders why their government doesn't represent them. What exactly makes that a better choice?
Comment · 13 years ago
> When the state has access to nukes and the populace doesn't, how can this statement not technically be true? It seems like the ability literally wipe cities off the face of the earth means that you have the permanent upper hand, in terms of power.
Because that's not a credible threat. Nuclear weapons are antithetical to the goals of a government in conflict with it's own people.
Comment · 13 years ago
> Is your assumption true?
No, it's not true. The state has vastly inferior power compared to the populace at large, at least in the U.S. However, the state is able to, in most cases, choose when and how it engages it's enemies so that it faces an inferior force on it's own terms.
Comment · 13 years ago
> Now I build tools to do real reputation analysis, and fight the very things I used to do. I'm like Darth Vader in the last few moments of his life...
Really this just reads like you figured out a way to get paid to play both sides against each other. Hey, I'm not judging, in fact I say more power to you for figuring out how to make a buck, but casting yourself as some sort of redeemed hero seems a bit over the top.
Comment · 13 years ago
Seems to me more like you leaving your door open and then trying to have someone arrested for looking through your doorway.
If someone physically circumvents your door in order to see what's inside there's a difference in culpability.
Comment · 13 years ago
> Fortunately we have a legal system that, to some degree, does.
A large body of decisions in trial and appellate courts at both the state and federal level, up to and including the SCOTUS provide plenty of evidence that this is not the case.
Comment · 13 years ago
> What blew me away was that he genuinely did not think that the NSA would interpret the term "relevant" as broadly as humanly possible.
What makes you think he genuinely thought that? My (admittedly limited) experience with state and national politicians is that most say in public exactly what benefits them the most at the moment.
Comment · 13 years ago
While you probably already know this, others may not: there is an organization called the Oath Keepers which is comprised of current and former uniformed members of military and civil services who affirm what you've stated - that the oath they took was first and foremost to defend the Constitution.
From their site (http://oathkeepers.org):
Oath Keepers is a non-partisan association of current and formerly serving military, reserves, National Guard, veterans, Peace Officers, and Fire Fighters who will fulfill the Oath we swore, with the support of like minded citizens who take an Oath to stand with us, to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, so help us God. Our Oath is to the Constitution.
Comment · 13 years ago
The local police basically failed, but a few years ago the county sheriffs took over. Whereas, as a youngster I had numerous bad encounters with local authorities, now the sheriffs wave to me when I drive through town and I see them with the local kids working more like local cops.
I wonder how much of this can be attributed to the fact that the position of Sheriff is usually directly elected, contrary to other chiefs of law enforcement that typically serve at the whim of other politicians and, consequently, their political parties?