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by _mlbt 2y ago
Blame Congress. Over time they have consistently ceded power to the executive branch, either directly to the president or to federal agencies.
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Honest question, what would be gained by moving from America to China? Their government is by nearly all measures less tolerant, less free, less friendly to foreigners, more racist, and at least as morally evil, but probably more so consid
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Federal IT workers are hardly working for poverty wages. In addition to their base salaries, they receive additional locality pay, generous benefits like paid time off, retirement benefits, inexpensive health insurance and life insurance,
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Most rural communities will not be willingly surrendering their firearms under any circumstances. They are heavily armed, yet they have very low rates of gun violence, at least until tyrants come for their guns that is. Contrast that to ur
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by _mlbt 2y ago
On well supported hardware 95 was a major upgrade. The Start menu, long file names, preemptive multitasking, plug and play hardware, and Direct X gaming support. In many ways it even surpassed MacOS at the time.
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Windows 11 is the only version of Windows I’ve used where the taskbar routinely crashes on login and refuses to load.
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by _mlbt 2y ago
The only bad things I remember about Windows 2000 are that some software written for Windows 3.x and 9x had compatibility issues and it took an eternity to boot up. It was go take a coffee break as soon as you turn your computer on for the
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by _mlbt 2y ago
I said usually for job security because I am familiar with the current administration’s actions, and the benefits have not been touched and would take an act of Congress to change. Trust me, there are still lots of talented individuals w
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by _mlbt 2y ago
People always say that, but it’s not really been completely true. < 3.1 Bad 3.1 Good 3.11 WfW Good NT 3.5 Okay 95 Good NT 4.0 Good 98 Good Me Bad 2000 Good XP Good Vista Bad 7 Good 8 Bad 8.1 Okay 10 Good 11 Bad There just really isn’t a
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by _mlbt 2y ago
Pay isn’t everything. Government civilian GS employees have an extremely generous benefits package and usually excellent job security. Contractors frequently take pay cuts to work directly as a government employee for these reasons.
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by _mlbt 2y ago
> With no second amendment, you could plainly ban firearms altogether. Banning them doesn’t get rid of them. As the saying goes, if you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. > Demonstrate that there would be an increase in violen
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Guns were not used in the 9/11 attacks, box cutter knives were. It is also already illegal to bring firearms past TSA checkpoints.
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In a world where the second amendment was repealed, what gun control laws would you like to see passed and what would you expect them to accomplish? Also, how would you account for the increased violent crime rate due to average citizens be
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duxup said… > Most gun control attempts that I see would at least in theory possibly prevented the tragedy that inspired them. …yet when asked about specifics, they declined to provide any. So they did in fact dodge my question.
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What would that actually accomplish? By most estimates we have more guns than people in this country and a not insignificant amount of people would refuse to willingly turn over their firearms to the government. The toothpaste is already o
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by _mlbt 2y ago
We don’t have to guess or interpret the founders intentions on this. There are several quotes from them that affirm this as being intended as an individual right from the very beginning of our founding… “No free man shall ever be debarred
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by _mlbt 2y ago
That’s a common misconception. The second amendment was always intended as an individual right. District of Columbia vs Heller simply reaffirmed this. It is the final check and balance against a tyrannical government.
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The old tried and true Pap test is still the best screening tool we have for cervical cancer.
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It should be easy to patch out or possibly add a command line switch to disable it if desired.
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What specifically do you propose for effective gun control that isn’t already on the books? Also remember that in America there is a constitutional right to bear arms that shall not be infringed. So please keep your proposal constitutional
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by _mlbt 2y ago
You’re deliberately dodging my question. Your point is also true of most gun control laws. Short of full confiscation you will not stop people from obtaining guns illegally via straw purchases or theft. Gun control will also not prevent
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The entire Patriot act should be repealed.
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What specific gun control laws do we not already have on the books that would actually prevent a determined individual from getting a gun?
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by _mlbt 2y ago
If you really pay attention to all of these laws, you’ll notice most of them use these tragedies as an excuse to infringe upon our rights. Most gun control laws are the same way.
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Why is it 16 and not 18? You’re still legally a minor until you’re 18 years old.
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I’m really hoping they can get MS-DOS 5.0 and QBasic open sourced soon. My first version of MS-DOS was 3.x, but 5.0 was the version I really got comfortable with and started my technology journey with.
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Lazarus is excellent. It is very user friendly once you get the hang of it, and you can use Delphi books to learn the language. It also produces static binaries that make it easy to distribute your software.
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I’m guessing it’s mostly this… > Fear of deportation: Undocumented immigrants register with the IRS and pay billions of dollars in taxes every year. Multiple sources said members of this community might be holding back during this tax se
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In the same vein, Lazarus/FreePascal is an excellent open source and cross platform Delphi clone.
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I’d rather get an email from them. At least with email I have a multitude of spam detection and filtering tools that just don’t exist for SMS text messages.

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