Why don't we also sell their family into slavery? That'd be a good incentive to not fuck around as well.

Yes I am being sarcastic... or am I?

The media is on a pro-Police state trend after their Oakland PD story. It's too soon to start showing Police being bad if just two weeks ago they got turned into swiss-cheese by some crazed rapist with an assault rifle.

Oh, I thought Linux and GNU was just a bunch of really pissed off programmers who got mad at <OS goes here> and wanted to try and do it better. As a result the product is esoteric and only really usable by other programmers and half-programmers known as IT specialists.

The Linux desktop phenomenon was just a bunch of half-IT specialists (call them "power users") egging the programmers into writing stuff that they (the programmers) think is better than <OS goes here>, repeat ad nauseam.

That's what I think Linux is. And for all the instability and potential collapse that could happen with Linux, it runs my website.

Crazy...

Isn't writing law what we pay these damn legislators to do? "Awe, it's so much work!" well they're on government payroll, so they don't exactly have to worry - so long as they look busy they'll get re-elected anyways!

You become annoying. Jews have been performing marriages since 600 BCE by the most insulting of estimates, and since around 4,000 BCE by their own records. If you wanted to be nice you could estimate that it started around 1200 BCE to 800 BCE.

Any government that was operating around that time was so brutal and corrupt by our standards that I really don't think it deserves the honor of being able to pass "marriage" down to our government.

There was a religion that came still earlier, but I forget its name.

Marriage was even still an institution belonging to private individuals still longer before government decided to stick its nose into it, whether you care about religion or not!

Because the first is going to (whether your think it or not, it's coming) mandate that the third operate 100% contrary to its beliefs and perform marriages to homosexuals.

If marriage is REMOVED from government it is by default in the hands of INDIVIDUALS. Therefore, ANYONE can decide what marriage is FOR THEM. Churches can continue to have their little routine going in their little world, the homosexuals can do whatever they want, and people who just don't give a damn can still do what they want.

You want a world where 1/3 of the parties are shafted. I want a world where 3/3 win. Marriage has no place in government - at all!

You apparently never learned to read metaphors.

Allow me to edit so that your tiny mind can understand (edits are bolded for readability):

> Essentially, you're wanting to legislate a change in terminology, which is simply a waste of
> tax dollars and something that the general public will fight kicking and screaming.

Not at all.

This whole "gay marriage mess" is a side effect of the fact that the US Government has decided to meddle in something that EVERYONE ELSE ON THE PLANET views as a primarily PERSONAL/PRIVATE matter. So public policy gets conflated with PRIVATE VALUES. ...

The PEOPLE in FAR FAR AWAY shouldn't get to bully around people in entirely different states.

First it was inter-denominational marriages.
Then it was inter-faith marriages.
Then it was inter-racial marriages.

Every time, it's the same mess because the secular government failed to do what it was supposed to to begin with.

Let the INDIVIDUAL decide what a MARRIAGE should be and keep any hint of MARRIAGE out of what the government does.

You ever stop and think "gee, maybe we shouldn't even be talking about marriage in government contexts?"

Last I checked, marriage is between a man, a woman, and God. I don't remember the government being in there anywhere.

Just another instance where government took something that would have quietly and naturally evolved into something else for the small percentage of people who care and made a gigantic steaming pile of shit out of it by forcing it upon the vast majority who care that it doesn't change.

If you remove government from the equation, the shit goes away. Individual churches and individuals can decide what marriage means to them. MORE freedom is given to the people. Why the hell is the state even in this stuff? PRIVATIZE marriage people, don't make it another state-sponsored fail-fest!

Fuck off man. Stop telling them how to run their state. If they're the majority why the hell should they vote otherwise? Are you saying you'd rather see tyranny of the minority? 'Cause we've seen how well that works throughout history... think of France, specifically ("let them eat cake!")

If you're from Russia, chuck out the first two, then just use the last two ad nauseam.

A little revolution every now and then is a good thing, don't you think?

Netscape -> Mozilla -> Firefox -> Webkit (Chrome and Safari)
                  -> IE 6 ->

If I see an axe murderer on the far end of my lawn (and given there is actual reason to think he will attempt to do me or my family harm), I will attempt to disable him first. If I see him at the far end of my kitchen, I will shoot to kill (though I wouldn't really keep a gun in the kitchen, but you get the idea).

Given the tactical luxury, I will always opt for less-than-lethal.

That wouldn't be "an [singular] axe murder," now would it?

Obviously a higher number of targets means different munitions strategies need to be deployed. Even if you only see one violent intruder, there may be one or more accomplices that you don't know about. I don't think that even with a gun you can 100% guarantee your ability to come out alive, but I can 100% guarantee that your odds of coming out alive are massively increased.

Yeah, thankfully the advent of the computer lightened the backpack! Those Navajo Code Talkers really were a drag! (Imagine some poor guy with a Navajo in his backpack like something out of The Emperor's New Groove)

You, sir, have never considered the quantity of rockets I propose using. If rockets are not your last resort, then you failed to use enough of them.