peacefuljeffrey

That's the 'worst' I can do about it Mister. And don't forget it. You've been in a mood this last week. Can we send you a care package? Some candy, perhaps? To prevent him from rioting, you know, as a precaution. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I thought the movie was only so-so... especially since it seemed a bit preachy, kinda like those "Left Behind" movies. I had a crazy vivid dream last night in which I was in an old house in upstate New York and it was wayyyy haunted -- and those old-fashioned doors with keyholes in them were slamming in front of me as I tried to head to them to leave. And I was seeing these weird shimmers in the air in front of me, and things like swivel stools were spinning on their own. Then I actually met, shook hands with, and talked to a young-man ghost named Stewart. I found myself waking up from that dream wondering if I actually now believe in ghosts! But I still don't. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Speeding? Or are you talking perhaps about much more serious crimes, like drunken driving? And if you would, please link to some sort of proof of your assertion. I have not heard of having to put "signs" on a car. Some places may have toyed around with a red license plate that identifies a driver with a drunk driving conviction, but I don't even think that's stuck around. The notion of it may have been struck down in court. But you're the one making the assertion: prove it. And anyway... What the fuck does that have to do with what I was talking about, vis a vis telescreens and the surveillance-state under which you live? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

The second Monday after Crested Caracara day. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

No, registering criminals might not be an invasive abuse of human rights. But once they get everyone not minding that, someone in the halls of government will quiety suggest that they do it even for those who are convicted of minor crimes -- misdemeanors, possibly traffic infractions and then suddenly EVERYONE is subject to it. For me, the simple issue is this: the government does not own my fucking DNA -- I DO! And I refuse to let them have my DNA for the purpose of keeping a file on me. Yes, DNA falls off me every single day in every single place I go, but there is no implicit permission granted for anyone to put those random shed skin cells or hair shafts to use in creating a dossier on me. What if someone came up with the ability to clone you from a few skin cells that you left behind on the straw you drank through at McDonald's? Would you say that they have the right to clone you? - - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

The Brits, it has been said, do indeed seem to have taken 1984 as a guidebook rather than a warning. It would not surprise me one bit if they came out with a device alleged to be useful for the "social good" that they actually called a "telescreen." They seem to be blindly, dumbly just plodding along utterly insensate to the fact that they are building the very foundation of 1984 within their society at this very moment. It's a movement that is very much alive in the world, and it will establish its strongest foothold in the U.K., I am sure. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I don't think it would matter. As realistic as that Airsoft gun looked, I could easily imagine that the family could be right at the cop's elbow shrieking at him that it's a fake, and the cop could look at the gun in the kid's hand again and think, "No fuckin' way, that thing looks real, and they're just trying to buy their kid time to come to his senses and surrender -- time in which he might just decide to shoot me with that 'turns-out-it-really-is-real' Beretta!" I am not gonna second-guess this cop. That fuckin' Airsoft gun looks real! - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

What protects the public from being murdered with guns is not the lack of guns that we carry, but the statutes that make it illegal to murder people. If you feel that it's better to have a paper law between you and someone committing a crime against you, rather than causing them to lack the means to commit that crime against you, then I guess you agree with that statement and don't see any need for any gun-carry restriction in any place on earth. After all, the only thing the Secret Service would need to do to make sure that no assassin kills the president would be to make sure that the laws against murder and assassination stay on the books. Me, I'd rather they simply not even have the ability to ever track me by my phone, rather than the government's meaningless and bullshit "promise" to never use it wrongly against me and my rights. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

What the hell does flying a plane under VNE have to do with driving a car on public roadways? And why put an arbitrary limitation on the example, such as driving on a military base? Is that the only place you would happen to ever drive? Why are you being obfuscatory and disingenuous like this? We both know -- hell, we all know -- that you simply are lying if you tell us you always drive at or below the speed limit no matter where you drive; or that it's no problem for you to do so and you'd be able to always remain within the limit. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Bill, a cellular phone carried with the battery off, or removed, is not much of a problem for the user. It might take a while longer to get it ready for making a call (and incoming calls would be unreceivable), but the utility of the phone is still there. If the gun had a tracking device in the barrel or slide, as you suggested, one would not be able to stop the tracking ability of the device by simply carrying the barrel or slide around with him -- to say nothing of the fact that doing so would render the gun useless for self defense as most criminal attackers will not politely wait while you assemble your gun. And one cannot leave the barrel or slide behind at home and expect the gun to be of any use to him whatsoever. So how on earth do you say, "Problem solved" in any kind of meaningful, non-disingenuous way? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Holy shit, Bill -- that's even MORE insidious! And you have no problem with that?! Is there a big notice in the phone's user's manual that says, "BE ADVISED: EVEN WHEN YOU THINK YOU HAVE TURNED OFF THIS PHONE, IT CAN AND DOES FUNCTION AS A GOVERNMENT-TRACKING DEVICE TO KEEP TABS ON YOUR LOCATION AT ALL TIMES YOU ARE CARRYING IT"? That's seriously fucked up, Bill. Then your reason for not objecting at this point, and for thinking this is a good, functional idea, is...? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Many thousands of people in New York City, England, and Australia were not using their guns for anything "dodgy" when laws were passed that said, "You must turn your guns in for destruction or we will imprison you." So yeah, it's exactly true that we could be doing nothing "dodgy" with our guns, and this technology could be used to round 'em all up when the government feels that it wants to do so. Of course, they'd probably be in for a fight. (Hopefully.) - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Then you will no longer be a "law abiding gun owner". Yep, and if they outlawed your religion and you still worshiped at your church, you would no longer be a "law abiding religious person." If they made growing and eating spinach illegal for some frivolous reason, and you continued to grow it in your garden and eat spinach salads, you would no longer be a "law abiding gardener." Just because they can make an arbitrary, stupid, and useless law that criminalizes what was formerly perfectly legal does not mean we would suddenly become bad people with the stroke of a president's pen. You'd have to distinguish between refusal to obey a good law and refusal to obey a bad law. Technically, any currently-legal thing you do could be made illegal, so suddenly you would be a "criminal"? That's a bullshit way to delineate a person as a criminal. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

That's okay, I don't need you -- I have my rope. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

But anyway, you ought to watch yourself, because I know Rex Kwon Do, and I have the strength of a grizzly, the reflexes of a puma, and the wisdom of man. See below. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I would, but the last time I did that with someone, they bruised my neck meat and almost tore off my mole. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Yo yo yo, dem bitches is whacked! Anyway, post a pic of you and of him and let us reliable, level-headed people decide for you. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes, all day... - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Since I spent 3 months in England in 1992, I can't donate here in the U.S. anymore because one of the risk questions concerns living for a certain period in areas that have Mad Cow Disease (and the human variant, of course). Since they believe the disease can be contracted and then be dormant for as many as 20 years, they put people like me on the permanent deferment list. I spoke with a guy at the blood center here and he explained to me that in the U.K., they passed a regulation that domestic U.K. donations may not go to anyone under age 12 -- it's like a "protect the young generation in case we all die of mad cow disease" doomsday safeguard. I had been wondering if, like, everyone in the U.K. simply could not donate blood anymore. They can, but the donations go to the adult-aged folk. Blood for under-12 has to be imported from other places without the disease. They don't really know (or won't say) definitively that blood can and does carry the pathogen (which they also can't positively identify) that causes vCJD. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Since I borrowed the movie from the library and am watching it now, I decided to look him up on the IMDB. The actor's name is John Heder, and despite how astonishingly geeky he is in the movie Napoleon Dynamite, he actually looks okay in regular pictures. Here's a pic of him as Napoleon, and one of him as himself. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Watch Napoleon Marvel at his geekiness Hope I'm not like him - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Then the rental agreement should not include language that prohibits you from speeding, and there should not be language in there that says they'll fine you for breaking traffic laws. They should be concerned with who bears liability for accidental damage, etc. It's disingenuous in the extreme to pretend that people will rent cars and then never exceed the speed limit. And come on, Bill, you think you could rent a car for even one day and not do 32 in a 30, or 60 in a 55? That's ridiculous. I don't believe you for a second. Go see the knot thread, btw. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Bill, I've had this pic for a while but never actually looked at it and learned the knot til last night. Turns out it's an excellent loop!

You grow peas?! ROCK ON! Find me at Sebastian some time and you got a jump ticket on me! Anybody who farms peas gotta be good.

Um, does it make your pee smell funny, like it does to me? - That is funny. My boyfriend and I had asaragus for dinner last night and we were just talking about that occurence... I never correlated the funny smell with eating asaragus until Alanab pointed it out to me one day! It is weird how that happens though! I heard it's because asparagus has an acid called aspartic acid, and you need an enzyme called aspartase to break it down. Many people don't produce that enzyme, so you get the, uh, funky smell. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"