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Is There a Drone In Your Backyard?

Dr_Zinj Wrote: May 17, 2012 9:29 AM
Any drone in range over my home without my permission will be targetted for destruction.
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The Implausibility of Nuclear Terrorism

Dr_Zinj Wrote: May 17, 2012 9:19 AM
"It's not something you can gin up with spare parts and power tools in your garage. It requires millions of dollars, a safe haven and advanced equipment -- plus people with specialized skills, lots of time and a willingness to die for the cause." No, but a fully equipped machine shop could do it. A milling machine and a lathe would pretty much be the only complex machines needed. Oh, and an ordinary machinist to run them. The willingness to die part is right; as this sort of setup would probably kill or maim most of the workers from radiation poisoning. But not before they completed the construction. An implosion device like Fat Man is hardest to construct. A projectile device like Little Boy is much simpler, and smaller.
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Are Your Children Better Off?

Dr_Zinj Wrote: May 17, 2012 9:10 AM
Obama's goal is to turn the American population into feudal serfs to the government overlords.
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Quitting Time

Dr_Zinj Wrote: May 17, 2012 8:07 AM
Never flame your former co-workers or boss. The best revenge is to e-mail them a picture of you having a blast a week or two later with the caption, "Thinking of you. Love and Hugs. Johnny"
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Should We Obey All Laws?

Dr_Zinj Wrote: May 17, 2012 7:56 AM
"There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him." — Professor Bernardo de la Paz on the subject of taxes. – Robert Heinlein, “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”.
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Should We Obey All Laws?

Dr_Zinj Wrote: May 17, 2012 7:55 AM
law was an ethical and moral imperative, as long as you harmed nobody else in the process. (Something Al Capone failed to abide by.) And sometimes violent opposition to tyranny, even if against legal authorities and otherwise friends, is called for, when no other means prove fruitful. THAT'S something our founding fathers understood, and most people nowadays are too cowardly to even contemplate.
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Should We Obey All Laws?

Dr_Zinj Wrote: May 17, 2012 7:51 AM
Oh, I understand the Constitution quite well, thank you. And the founding fathers', or at least the authors of the Federalist Papers far better than most; certainly better than your reading comprehension, as I never even mentioned the Constitution in my original post. The Constitution and its amendments are supermajority agreements of conduct. The purpose is stated quite nicely in the Preamble and comes down to laws to protect us from outsiders, protect us from each other, maximize our ability to create wealth, and maximize our opportunity to determine our own individual fates. But even the vast majority can occasionally get things wrong; as well illustrated by sexism, slavery and Prohibition. In each of those cases, breaking the...
"The Innovation Center director is, in effect, a super-czar without any checks or balances on his grant-making decisions, methods or results." Okay, then he has absolutely zero legal power.
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Should We Obey All Laws?

Dr_Zinj Wrote: May 16, 2012 9:16 AM
You don't have to follow any laws if you don't want to. You might even manage to live a long and happy life that way; although I doubt it. There are consequences to breaking laws. That's one of the points of civil disobedience. When ordinarily law abiding citizens choose to deliberately break laws and accept the consequences to illustrate bad laws that need to be changed. By the way, no law was ever challenged and removed except by people deliberately breaking them. You could say we have a patriotic duty to break the law to test their validity.
There's something obscene about paying more for a dinner than most people make in a year. Obviously Obama revels in obscenity and filth.
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