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If Cruz wins guns could become ubiquitous. IMHO a career in bulletproof glass would be worthy of consideration.
Life is too shor
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Roger Wright wrote: I'll have even more work, maintaining and improving illegally banned weapons under the table.
Unfortunately, you have proven the point that says gun control is needed. Without blinking an eye your considering aiding and abetting breaking the law. Selah.
As for the anti-Democratic epithet: perhaps the republiskins should remember that the Constitution has more than one amendment - and the 2nd is not the first thing that came to the minds of the founders.
So far as I can tell, from their very public rhetoric, the right is the side that wants to limit my civil rights, not the left. My Right-to-Choose vs. their religious dogma. They're all promising a theocracy - and we all know how well those work out.
Time to stop thinking with your trigger finger.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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OK - you don't like either of the Democratic candidates. Fine.
But the circus of d!ckwads that are running against them is absurd. The mainstream offerings getting beaten down by hateful extremism? Why the hell not? The media (Fox News, and their cronies) have been preaching hate for years. Guess what: it "took"!*
There are 370 Million Americans - surely we can do better!
Whilst the Democrats debate issues and methods, the Republicans make pronouncements. Pronouncements without plans: what is easy . . . how . . . that's another thing.
Check the reality world, too: private servers, a pointless 'scandal' as the server was legal and the 'classified' documents were not classified when sent. to her. That's part of our constitution, by the way: you can't turn something into something illegal and the prosecute someone for it (it's referred to as Ex Post Facto.
But do what I did - a google search for who else in government had private email servers. Go ahead! Quite a few in that circus crowd are on the list - Jeb, for example. So - how can they condemn what they themselves have done - especially when not a single law was broken?
Oh - just as an aside - I own firearms, with multiple clips for quick reload. So, to me it's an issue of common sense - not a rejection of firearms. Just an acceptance that the firearms now available are magnificently deadly - and people's metalities haven't improved nearly as much as the weapons they can get hold of. So - I put aside my dreams of a Quad-50 on my Mazda, because my loss is, in the big scheme of things, not as big as how things would be if I were allowed to have it.
* A classic example of why someone should be careful what they ask for.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Are you originally from the UK? Just curious.
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Nope - genuine Made-In-USA stuff.
Now, of course, you've got me curious as to what would give that impression.
(Recall that I riled against such atrocities as 'colour')
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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I have never met an American born citizen who ever used the word "whilst", unless they were pretending to be British. It was never taught in all my years of school.
Interesting, is all.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Check the reality world, too: private servers, a pointless 'scandal' as the server was legal and the 'classified' documents were not classified when sent. to her. That's part of our constitution, by the way: you can't turn something into something illegal and the prosecute someone for it (it's referred to as Ex Post Facto.
No. The classified data existed on a secure network. It has to be PHYSICALLY TRANSFERRED to an unsecure network (which was done by her aides). The classification labels were INTENTIONALLY REMOVED (by her aides, and at her direction) before sending over the unsecure network. Furthermore, she specifically violated federal regulations regarding use of private email servers for work-related emails. I'll tell you something else, if anyone ELSE had done that - oh wait - someone did (cough, eric snowden, cough) - they'd be charged/prosecuted without a moment's hesitation. This amounts to un-equal treatment under the law.
Lastly, it doesn't matter WHO is elected, the American people will get screwed. The only thing that changes is who's got their federal dick in our collective asses. Anyone that says any different is a retard of the highest order.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I must start by saying your last paragraph is a point of agreement. Probably I should stop here.
John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: The classification labels were INTENTIONALLY REMOVED (by her aides, and at her direction) before sending over the unsecure network.
Where did this gem com from?
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Where did this gem com from?
Um, that is why the FBI would indict the aides, as well. 
Just so you know, the Republicans didn't make any of this up and the FBI is conducting an active investigation, and they have enough evidence to indict now if they wanted to, this is fact, not fiction. However, other forces that are protective of Hillary (POTUS perhaps  ), are currently blocking the FBI from issuing an indictment against her and her aides.
Democrats know this, Republicans know this, and now you know this.
Just saying...
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Slacker007 wrote: Democrats know this, Republicans know this, and now you know this.
Re-declaring something doesn't make it so. No matter how many times Trump/Cruze/Rubio/etc. make their claims.
Claims that, on average, are wrong 75% of the time.
They have an old plan in action, however . . . make an accusation . . . it will stick because there are those who so desperately want it to be true. If proof can't be found - just call it a cover-up! Area 51 mentality brought to you by the GOP Hope full's Hopeless'
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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I am under the impression you don't read the news, or you are not much of an "informed" person. Suit yourself. 
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Second response of yours, noting I don't 'read the news' seems like another opportunity lost.
Basically - what you're comments sound like are typical right-wing wishing-well opinions:
Here's the scoop - a reply to a NY Times article (via quora.com):
In fact it wasn't and the Times was wrong to suggest that it was.
It is true that the Federal Records Act of 1950 requires letters and written correspondence sent or received by federal officials, such as the secretary of state, to be designated government records and they are supposed o be retained so that congressional committees, historians and members of the news media can find them. There are exceptions to the law for certain classified and sensitive materials.
The Federal Records Act of 1950 did not include e-mails or electronic communications from a personal e-mail account. Not surprisingly I know given that those things did not exist at the time. The law was updated to include e-mails from a personal account. The update was signed into law by President Obama in 2014, two years after Ms. Clinton resigned her office.
She did not break the law. Whether it was a good idea for her to act as she did is of course a different question. But the Times, much as it did during the so-called Whitewater scandal that wasn't, got ahead of the story in its zeal to take a shot at Ms. Clinton.
Do you know there are people who actually think the Times favors Ms. Clinton and wants her to win? Weird huh?
Another excerpt (npr.org):
Addressing the Federal Records Act, NPR's Scott Horsley reported last month on the question of whether Clinton's exclusive reliance on a private email account violated it. Here's some of what he reported:
"A State Department spokeswoman says Hillary Clinton did not break any rules by relying solely on her personal email account. Federal law allows government officials to use personal email so long as relevant documents are preserved for history."
And over and over on TV, whilst the TOP SECRET document were being announced, the spokesman for the agency who made the announcement emphasized that they were not 'secret' when she received them. There's also an interesting caveat: agencies don't coordinate on what is or isn't classified - and it's quite possible to receive an unclassified item from one agency that's classified by another.
These are just a couple - the first two on my search list, actually - do the google search and find a ton of them.
Well - where'd you get your 'informed person' (mis)information?
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Wow! You actually put some time and work into your reply, just to try an put me in my place.
Now that is funny.
Cheers. 
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Roger Wright wrote: And if I want to pursue my first love - embedded programming - I can always grab some stepper motors and an Arduino developer kit, and convert my machines to numerical control.
Embedded programming is a passion of mine also, and a lot of fun.
Don't know whether you're up for a little Linux or not but you might want to check out the Raspberry Pi Zero[^].
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I'll look into that, Mike! Interesting stuff, though I haven't done any such programming in years.
Will Rogers never met me.
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It takes a while to get back into it, there's been so many changes since I had last done it and there are a myriad of chips and systems.
I chose Atmel as my primary development chip because; it's cheap, large choice of tools, the IDE is free and based on Visual Studio as opposed to Eclipse. (hate Eclipse)
BTW Good luck on your semi-retirement. It's awesome!
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Get a 3D printer and you can print any parts required. 
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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People who cannot be named, whose motivation I do not understand, using sources that cannot be disclosed, have forced me, using means I am not at liberty to reveal, to publish this partial transcript of a recent interview between Guccifer (aka Marcel Lehel Lazar) in his prison cell in Romania.
I believe this fragment came at the end of the interview with the FBI, NSC, and Homeland Security, personnel (their names were redacted, replaced by the initials of their organizations), after Guccifer ("GC") had agreed to make no legal defense against his extradition to the U.S. where indictment on at least nine felony counts await him. [^]
GC: "No Chipotle, no MacDonald's, only Taco Belle, and Wendy's ... I want that in writing."
FBI: "Check ... and no vegan, no low-fat, no free-range chicken ..."
NSC: "Only goat milk ... that could be a little difficult."
HS: "How about visiting rights for your wife ... you know ... once a month conjugal privacy night in premium cell with ..."
GC: "I don't have a wife."
HS: "Oh, believe me ... you will ... women are going to stand in line to want to marry you, dude."
GC: "Don't call me 'dude' !"
NSC: "That's an insult in Romanian."
FBI: "What does it mean ?"
GC: "It is something bad do to mother."
HS: "Oh, sorry."
... a silence ... content redacted ?
GC: "Women with blonde hairs to marry ?"
FBI: "Certainly ..."
GC: "With big parts like Kardashians ?"
HS: "Undoubtedly ..."
NSC: "I'm still curious about why the hell you are making it easy for us to get you to America ... other than the fact we're going to put 50,000 US dollars in a secrete account in the Cayman Islands every month, and buy your mother a house ... "
FBI: "Contingent, of course, on the quality of your ... product."
GC: "Ha ! You already know my ... product ... is the best."
HS: "You can say that again ..."
GC: "No Windows 10 ... you got that in writing ... right ...?"
FBI: "Check: one Linux box with two highest-performance Xeon's, core memory 256 ..."
HS: "The Xeons will be at least the 4870 ..."
NSC: "Come on GC, why do you want to America ?"
GC: "Romanian hamburgers suck, America is reality tv-show, Romania is only reality ..."
FBI: "Listen, GC, I'm not sure you're really coming clean with us here, but, frankly, I don't give a damn ... you're going to do a minimum three years in the most comfortable prison on the planet ... as long as ... you produce ..."
NSC: "... product."
GC: "I will produce ... product."
HS: "Okay, we'll be back tomorrow with (name redacted) from the (organization redacted) to do the final signing."
GC: "Bring me two McPuisor's, and super-size the cola ... and the fries."
FBI: "What's a McPuisor ?"
HS: "Are you cleared to access that information ?"
... laughter ...
[^]
NSC: "Here ... I've got it ... '1 slice of chicken, roasted for 2 minutes in vegetable oil (a mixture of rapeseed oil and sunflower), one crunchy layer of breadcrumbs golden McPuişor sauce, pickles, bun.' "
GC: "By the way, do you know that the (redacted) you (redacted) in hotel room last night is ... (redacted) ?"
FBI: "Put me down for the goat's milk guarantee ..."
«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
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Sometimes I wonder if it's all a big conspiracy!
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I can't wait for your book, Bill. These excerpts are keeping me on the edge of my seat. and that's not too comfy at my age!
Will Rogers never met me.
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It's not obvious on the picture.. but these things are really huge! 
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Galaxies are not that big!
Take the milky way for example, our home.
Well if you stack up all humans on earth from head to toes (the whole 6 billions of us), well the milky way is only about 160 billions times that long!
Peanut I said! 
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