what does that tell you about the Second Amendment absolutists
As opposed to voting rights absolutists? Fifth Amendment absolutists? Rights aren't rights when you're only allowed to exercise them in a place and manner dictated by the government.
According to the CDC, defensive gun uses number about 1 - 2 million per year.
So several times more crimes prevented with guns than committed with them.
Your argument is identical to that about poor young crack dealers, or mafia soldiers, or . . .
I am a lawyer, but this is not legal advice. If you need legal advice, and try to get it on the internet, you need a shrink far more than a lawyer . . .
anyway, the clean hands doctrine is a rule from "equity," not "law". It only applies to equitable relief, such as injunctions, not to suits for money
hawk, esq.
toggling the speaker by poking a memory address was good enough for the Apple ][, and it should be good enough for, uhh, . . .
hawk
They probably missed the parts about "only" and "tasks" because they're not there.
Marbury v. Madison found that the power is there, but it's not in the text. (And as a practical matter, a judge that takes an oath to defend a constitution must necessarily have the ability to determine if a law he's asked to apply complies with that constitution; issuing an order applying an unconstitutional law would both violate the oath and be beyond his authority derived from the constitution . .
Furthermore, in US practice, all courts, state and federal, make such reviews. The USC is simply the final, not sole, arbiter for the federal constitution.
And this is all irrelevant anyway: federal income taxation is authorized by the US Constitution itself, not a statute (it's implemented by statute under that authority), while the federal constitution has nothing to do with state income taxation . . .
hawk, esq.
"code red worm
Those words gave me a twinge of nostalgia.
Yes, I just got a bit sentimental about an old buffer overflow.
Sysadmin Things (tm)...
What galls me the most is the panty-wetting over a government-granted monopoly trying to maintain its government granted monopoly when that very same government tries to compete using taxpayer dollars as a subsidy.
The outrage should be against government involvement period. If governments didn't grant local monopolies, there would be real competition among the real companies, and no perceived need for the government competition which is only competitive because it has the taxpayer subsidy.
The problem with being obvious about it is that there's a very large overlap between the populations of people who would spike someone's drink and people who turn psycho when they see drinks being tested. Without the ability to be discreet, merely performing the test puts a person in danger.
It's more discreet than using a special straw, which seems to have been the predecessor (at least in spirit) of this new method.
What you see at that link is only the last panel. The story was revealed frame-by-frame over a much longer period of time.
I do think it would be nice if xkcd made the whole thing available, but others have managed. The Wikipedia link above can point you at some of them.
Does this mean it's time to give up what you kids call "First Edition"?
Nah. I'm still not convinced there's a reason to use those new-fangled books instead of the three books, supplements, and a touch (but not too much!) of Arduin & Spellcaster's Bible.
damn newbies
hawk, off to nuke his dandelions
This is Vine we're talking about. Wouldn't you need like six of the videos just to capture the announcer shouting "GOOOOOOOAL!!1!!!"?
As to faxes, handwritten business communications are not at all unusual among older companies, due to the fact that typing kanji was not as straightforward process 20 years ago as it is today.
I've sent telegrams in Japan, but only to couples who were getting married and whose wedding I couldn't attend. I've never seen them used for other things, but a wedding is likely to have a few telegrams read at the reception.
Always draw your curves, then plot your reading.
