Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership weighs in on the implications of the Real ID Act for gun owners.
Create a problem.
People demand relief from the effects of the problem.
Create a solution to further your control of them.
And, oh yeah, make 'em submit or be destroyed.
How very elegant.
Works every time.
Thursday, May 12, 2005
You HAVE No Rights
TriggerFinger gives us the rundown on Bach v Pataki.
Another set of black robes rule the Second Amendment doesn't mean what it says.
Keep squeezing.
Another set of black robes rule the Second Amendment doesn't mean what it says.
Keep squeezing.
"Gun Bullies"
There's a new term for ya. Expect to hear it again, and often.
Every gun activist I know thinks people should be perfectly free to make idiotic choices for themselves. All we ask is that you don't try to impose your lack of rationality/desire for control on us.
The side that imposes the armed might of the state, with the ultimatum "Obey or die," feels threatened?
Good--it's about damned time.
Like someone said (paraphrased), "If gun owners are really violent and dangerous, why are you provoking them?"
[Thanks to KABA Newslinks. Say Uncle also adds value to the discussion.]
Every gun activist I know thinks people should be perfectly free to make idiotic choices for themselves. All we ask is that you don't try to impose your lack of rationality/desire for control on us.
The side that imposes the armed might of the state, with the ultimatum "Obey or die," feels threatened?
Good--it's about damned time.
Like someone said (paraphrased), "If gun owners are really violent and dangerous, why are you provoking them?"
[Thanks to KABA Newslinks. Say Uncle also adds value to the discussion.]
Will Self-Replicating Machines Engage in Foreplay?
This isn't gun-related, but I think it's a cool subject for speculation:
Rational Review has a link to a science/technology story at The Independent, "Stuff of sci-fi nightmares? An army of robots that reproduce."
This is not a new concept--and its originator, John von Neumann, is not mentioned in the article, let alone acknowledged with the credit he deserves.
"He created the field of cellular automata without computers, constructing the first examples of self-replicating automata with pencil and graph paper. The concept was fleshed out in his posthumous work Theory of Self Reproducing Automata. The term von Neumann machine also refers to self-replicating machines. Von Neumann proved that the most effective way large-scale mining operations such as mining an entire moon or asteroid belt can be accomplished is through the use of self-replicating machines, to take advantage of the exponential growth of such mechanisms."
Naturally, this fostered speculation on what would happen if information being passed on from one machine to its "offspring" somehow became corrupted, and the "mutation" proved advantageous in its environment. Well, you see where this is going...
Rational Review has a link to a science/technology story at The Independent, "Stuff of sci-fi nightmares? An army of robots that reproduce."
This is not a new concept--and its originator, John von Neumann, is not mentioned in the article, let alone acknowledged with the credit he deserves.
"He created the field of cellular automata without computers, constructing the first examples of self-replicating automata with pencil and graph paper. The concept was fleshed out in his posthumous work Theory of Self Reproducing Automata. The term von Neumann machine also refers to self-replicating machines. Von Neumann proved that the most effective way large-scale mining operations such as mining an entire moon or asteroid belt can be accomplished is through the use of self-replicating machines, to take advantage of the exponential growth of such mechanisms."
Naturally, this fostered speculation on what would happen if information being passed on from one machine to its "offspring" somehow became corrupted, and the "mutation" proved advantageous in its environment. Well, you see where this is going...
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