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They do exist, but it's hard to imagine them ever being credible in a world where the NRA draws away all the attention.
If they ever manage to offer me range insurance and my nearby ranges accept it, I'll drop the NRA and donate to them in a second. That's the only reason I'm an NRA member anyway, because I don't really believe they're there to do anything other than sell me shit and tell me lies.
Yes, the whole idea is that they're stealing the money from the taxpayer. From THEIR standpoint they're making money; they're getting more of the nation's wealth, giving them control over more aspects of your life.
So why don't they use their power to stop black people using the word 'nigger' if it's so bad?
They don't have that much power. Nobody does. But they can make life hard for people who use it in public situations.
Fuck the racist cunts, either everybody can use the word or nobody can.
Everyone can use it. Some of us have to use it a bit differently. You can use it for illustrative purposes only. I'm fucking over saying "The N Word". On the other hand, I'm sure not fucking calling anyone nigger, not even obliquely.
I have a couple old Garmin GPS 12 devices for when I need a GPS for hiking etc. But any typical Garmin GPS device that the typical person will own today is a PDA running an app and getting 2-3 hours of battery life. (I have one of those too, since it serves a different need.)
I think the difference here is national. Google is all up in your streetz mapping your wifiz and knows what is where to a high level of detail... in the USA. In various European countries which value public privacy more than we do, the data is going to be inferior.
Not along a route, but you can cache any number of 10 mile-side squares (up to storage limits -- and most phones have a lot of storage).
and for a maximum of 30 days, at which point anything you've cached silently expires and deletes itself (well, maps deletes it.)
Navigon is really not very cheap (considering the price of the alternatives, $0) and they don't offer lifetime maps. For the price of Navigon and a couple of years of maps you could buy a refurb'd Garmin GPS device. Indeed, I did.
It works the same as magazine subscriptions. The network exists to show you advertisements. If not enough people are watching then not enough advertisements are viewed and advertisers go elsewhere. So there's lots of free magazine subscriptions given away to people who may or may not even realize they're getting them just to inflate the numbers. If nobody complains about it being undeliverable they just count it as a subscription.
Your cable company is having trouble getting enough customers to get advertisers to believe that they're getting something for their money.
'Nigger' was a slur, but it wasn't, as you call it, 'a terrible slur'.
Unless someone happened to be calling you nigger.
It's only fairly recent that it became an obscene word that people won't say, ever.
That's not because the meaning of the word has changed. It's because now black people have some power. Also, I note you don't think that black people are people; they will say nigger at the drop of a hat. And don't give me any of that jazz about it being "nigga" because we all know that's just nigger in disguise.
This is because at some point the taboo against 'nigger' became so strong that it managed to cross the boundary into the obscene,
It's called black rights. It didn't just happen. When blacks became legally recognized as people they could react against being called nigger without immediately being at fault.
I don't see why it's so bad if the ACLU mostly just let's the NRA handle that one.
The problem is that the NRA is really not just a gun lobby. They also heavily promote the republican party when they're really part of the same problem — taking away our freedoms.
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