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What has he been accused of, aside from being, arguably, the greatest military commander in recorded history? There is no reason that the lessons Sun Tzu left for posterity can only be used for causes which you consider to be good. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

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Sorry Bill, I don't see that power expressly outlined in Article I, Section 8: Can you point it out to me? He already did. For someone sworn to defend the Constitution, your post makes it appear that you don't have a very good understanding of that document. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Rape I disagree - If you refuse to get a massage, and then don't pay . . . what is that? Theft of service - right? So - Just ask her to bill you and let her credit organization track down the payment. If it's against her will, it's rape, plain and simple. If she willingly has sex (with an implied expectation of payment) but is not paid, then it is theft. Prostitute, nun, or anything in between, if the sex is against her will, it's rape. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

You should really read an entire post before you reply to it. That's not the point I made. Nor is that the only possible scenario outside of the military, as T.A. stated the scenario to be. Did you read the article? It certainly doesn't say what you claim it says. Project SALVO was established to try to find a way to send more rounds down range in the same amount of time. It did not compare 5.56 mm rounds to 7.62 mm rounds. It tested multi-bullet/flechette cartridges and multi-barreled guns. A new study, Project SALVO, was set up to try to find a weapon design suited to real-world combat. Running between 1953 and 1957 in two phases, SALVO eventually suggested that a weapon firing four rounds into a 20 in (508 mm) area would double the hit probability of existing semi-automatic weapons. In the second phase, SALVO II, several experimental weapons concepts were tested. Irwin Barr of AAI Corporation introduced a series of flechette weapons, starting with a shotgun shell containing 32 darts and ending with single-round flechette "rifles". Winchester and Springfield offered multi-barrel weapons, while ORO's own design used two .22, .25 or .27 caliber bullets loaded into a single .308 Winchester or .30-06 cartridge. It was known before Project SALVO that lighter rounds would be necessary if fully automatic weapons were to be issued to all infantrymen. There was no need for a four year study to figure that out. I didn't comment either way with respect to whether regulating magazine capacity is a good idea. However, Quade made a valid point with respect to lower magazine capacities decreasing a gun's overall rate of fire compared to higher magazine capacities, all else being equal. Have you ever heard the expression Two is one, and one is none? If a citizen feels the need to carry a gun, but lacks the training/intelligence/foresight to carry a spare magazine (and/or spare gun), that person is setting him/herself up for failure. Higher capacity magazines won't fix stupid. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

So you're now saying that 95% of firearms are no good for home defense. OK. You twist more than Britney For those of us who understand English, we understand that there was no need to twist JohnRich's words. Capt.Slog interpreted them correctly as written. If that's not the intended meaning, then perhaps JohnRich should have chosen his words more carefully so that they would accurately convey his intended message. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Yes, I read it. I also offered a counterexample of how more led is considered a good thing outside the military too. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Bullshit. If you really believe that (and I don't think you do), it would be damning evidence that you don't know what the phrase "_every_ possible scenario except the one considered by Project SALVO" actually implies. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

What was the world's first food safety agency, and what government sponsored it? I'm not sure I would consider Jews an agency. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Why should we only be concerned with that single scenario? I seem to remember more than a single scenario in which the police fired many shots at unarmed civilians, scoring hits with only a small proportion of them. If trained police need to rely on quantity of shots rather than quality of shots, then it would appear that the conclusions drawn from Project SALVO can indeed be applied to civilian applications. I wonder what the gunmen's average ratio of shots fired to hits was for the last ~25 mass murders in the US. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Nothing like hyperbole on a Monday afternoon. To which new, functional, empty prisons are you referring? It may not be fashionable to address the problem of domestic terrorism, but make no mistake; domestic terrorism is a very real problem. I very much doubt that Obama is at all concerned with how disgruntled citizens voted. I'm confident that he will go after domestic terrorists who voted Democrat just as vigorously as those who voted Republican. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

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Agreed. Nor is it productive to continually criticize someone for the actions and policies of his predecessor. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Why is that a problem? Because it allows private parties to use government power for private gain. It also allows public servants to do good things for the public. Better to have regulations to help prevent private parties from using government power for private gain than to eliminate government power. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Eliminate corporate income taxes and tax capital gains as personal income, at personal income tax rates. That helps to eliminate the motives of large corporations to hide income in order to avoid paying taxes, as well as the motives to lobby for special tax breaks. Of course, that doesn't do anything to mitigate the current crisis. That was caused because there was insufficient regulation to prevent executives from making decisions that provided unsustainable short term profits at the expense of companies' long term interests. Why is that a problem? That is no less of an overreaction than committing suicide to cure a hangover. Throwing the baby out with the bath water is rarely a good solution. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Sometimes it is the previous guy's fault. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

That makes nice rhetoric, but has little basis in reality. If large banks fail, taxpayers are going to pay the costs one way or another, either via taxes, or via substantially increased unemployment, inflation, decreased wages, etc. It's completely absurd to believe we have the option of not paying. Consumers are going to pay the cost of such bets, be it through taxes or other ways. The government needs to regulate markets sufficiently to keep such gambles from being taken to start with. Why not? Are we no longer talking about the current financial crisis? If we are, then "a failure of market economics" is what we are talking about. Are you suggesting that consumers deserve to be punished? Or do you think that allowing banks to fail will somehow spare consumers from bearing the costs? Thankfully, those in charge of the Treasury department have a far better understanding of economics than you have demonstrated. Insufficient regulation is the problem here. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Or, more likely, lack thereof. I tend to see the problem as the tentacles of business undermining government. Nice theory, but it implies that the number of jobs in the Treasury department is about the same as the number of finance jobs on Wall Street. I doubt the Treasury department has quite as many positions. Yes, it is. Yes, it is. They do stupid things like deregulate markets that ought to be regulated. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

My, aren't you good at replying to posts before understanding them. Or, are you misrepresenting my comments on purpose? Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

And it won't leave your battery all sticky. Affixing a (pre-1982) penny near each battery post will prevent corrosion in the future. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Most gun owners want to maximize KE/min. You're barking up the wrong tree. Fail. You just reiterated Quade's point for him. Is it his argument or your own that you don't understand? Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

He wasn't the one who brought up appeasement. That was a bullshit claim from the right, when it was claimed that being open to dialog was the equivalent of appeasement. Wow. The national debt already exceeds $30 trillion? I would have thought that would have made the news. I'm sure you can find a respectable source to substantiate your claim, right? I'm sure you are aware that the Obama administration is not yet operating with a budget that they proposed. Heck, there was a budget surplus in 2001, but no one gives GWB credit for it, since he had nothing to do with it. By the same token, it would be much easier to take Obama's critics seriously if they criticized him for things for which he was primarily responsible. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Thanks for enlightening us with respect to the only two possibilities. A more plausible explanation than either that you suggest (if one wants to assume it was actually a bow) is that President Obama bowed in order to stroke the ego of the Saudi king in order to gain political capital. If there is something to be gained for the US by the President making a social gesture that has no real cost to his country, then he would be foolish to not take advantage of the opportunity. Furthermore, only fools would criticize him for doing so. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Are you suggesting that only humans engage in same sex sexual relations? I guess it's safe to assume that you're not a zoologist. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Objective evaluation is not the same as kissing ass. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!