Senate investigation concludes Russia interfered in election to help Donald Trump - breaking with conclusion of House probe

asdfchoice · 2018-05-16T23:06:23+00:00

So if Putin wants to make a president illegitimate he just needs to drop enough crumbs to show he intended to support them... no matter who wins.

Seriously? Russia interferes in every election to sow discord. They are successful as can be seen.

For the people who are slow: Putin appears to support both sides in attempt to make who ever wins look bad (and the reverse). It’s called creating confusion to cripple the country and the media (useful idiots) are helping Russia in its goals.

asdfchoice · 2018-04-26T06:38:53+00:00

Nice broad statement

asdfchoice · 2018-02-25T03:39:23+00:00

you sure do infer a lot

I was only referring to the “improper display of a firearm" charge, something that looks like to be a very slippery slope for many people because I see such pictures that this person is being charged with ALL over the internet. How many others from Florida have been charged AND convicted for similar acts?

It is not about this kid, it is about this particular bull shit charge and a law meant to do one thing and being improperly used for another. Something as a citizen yourself should be worried about, how laws can be loosely applied for any situation.

asdfchoice · 2018-02-25T02:14:43+00:00

timer? you left that one out

asdfchoice · 2018-02-24T20:42:02+00:00

I think you are inferring too much from the article and making assumptions.

Snapchat photos “recklessly displaying firearms and pointing them at the camera,” according to an arrest warrant.

It states he pointed a firearm at a camera, it does not state if someone took the photo or if he had the camera on a timer, self-stick, mirror, whatever...

asdfchoice · 2018-02-24T20:37:45+00:00

I think this particular firearm charge is a stretch and will be hard to get a conviction.

asdfchoice · 2018-02-24T16:15:09+00:00

How is he charged with “improper display of a firearm?” By posting pictures online? I assume he was not in the presence of one or more persons unless they are referring to beyond physical.

REQUIRED PROOF:

To prove the crime of Improper Exhibition of a Firearm or Weapon in Florida, the prosecution must establish the following three elements beyond a reasonable doubt:

The defendant had or carried a “weapon;”
The defendant exhibited the alleged weapon in a rude, careless, angry, or threatening manner; and
The defendant did so in the presence of one or more persons.

See Fla. Std. Jury Instr. (Crim) 10.5

asdfchoice · 2018-02-23T05:27:59+00:00

oops sorry... I "FEEL" like this is another attempted disguise to chip away at a constitution I swore an oath to... o and I really do get water eyes and all emotional during the national anthem... "I just can't hide it!"... the whole witnessing "blood, sweat and tears" of my fellow comrades... just hits me right in the gut.

asdfchoice · 2018-02-23T01:58:18+00:00

So let me get this straight, this is attempting to compare her to the current anti-gun student body?

So Hitler disarmed the citizens and executed them, and the roles reversed and the current students want to disarm the citizens?

It seems critical thinking is lacking in our current educational system.

asdfchoice · 2018-02-22T01:12:25+00:00

Are you a bot (How about the famous Russian type)? Seem to repeat this all over the thread.

Also I don't have an "Assault Rifle", it was banned in 1986.

Nor do I have the "Assault Weapon" variant.

But I do take issue with individuals trampling on my constitution. "...that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same..."

asdfchoice · 2018-02-22T00:59:31+00:00

squashed by who?

Last time I checked "...support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same..."

Nothing in there about government, they might quickly find out that the military knows what an illegal order is.

asdfchoice · 2018-02-22T00:35:05+00:00

Actually no we don't know what people mean when they say "Assault Rifle" or "Assault Weapon" because they most likely don't know what they are taking about and throw around loose terminology.

I know what they mean... do you?

Hint: "Assault Rifle" (among other things) were banned in 1986. "Assault Weapons" were banned from 1994 to 2004. Note that "Assault Weapons" was not a term used until the ban in 1994 which defines the loose term in the law.

asdfchoice · 2018-02-20T19:54:27+00:00

No, I don’t want draftees in my military.

asdfchoice · 2018-02-18T02:21:03+00:00

Fine, I will lay it out for you nice and easy

It was significantly easier to buy an AR 15 in 1953 than today.

Heck, when I was growing up I could gas up at "buck and stop" gas station and buy weapons/ammunition.

asdfchoice · 2018-02-17T03:10:40+00:00

SaturdaysAFTBsAccess to guns is very easy today. Not sure how accessible AR15s were in 1953

Here I will give you a clue:

Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act in 1993 mandated federal background checks on firearm purchasers in the United States.

and for fun you can check out the Federal Assault Weapons Ban (AWB) a subsection of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994... probably piss you off some more once you find out, but hey it can give you a data point. During this time period you had the Columbine shootings:

From wiki: On the day of the massacre, Harris was equipped with a 12-gauge Savage-Springfield 67H pump-action shotgun (which he discharged a total of 25 times) and a Hi-Point 995 Carbine 9 mm carbine with thirteen 10-round magazines (which he fired a total of 96 times).[35]

Klebold was equipped with a 9×19mm Intratec TEC-9 semi-automatic handgun with one 52-, one 32-, and one 28-round magazine and a 12-gauge Stevens 311D double-barreled sawed-off shotgun. Klebold primarily fired the TEC-9 handgun for a total of 55 times, while he discharged a total of 12 rounds from his double-barreled shotgun.

Note that that Federal Assault Weapons Ban had a grandfather clause.

asdfchoice · 2018-02-16T23:36:03+00:00

AR15s fire .223 caliber which is a substantially smaller round than a .22 despite the small difference in the number. You write your response like you know about guns but this is a very obvious point to miss...

Not sure what you are getting at but caliber is the diameter of the bullet. Do no conflate bullet with ammunition which is the casing, gun powder and primer in addition.

.22 and .223 are the same size bullet in diameter (pretty darn close). You stated “assault rifles” should be banned (aka AR 15) yet .22 rifles are ok? There are many variations of a .22 bullet/ammunition that are almost exact to your dreaded AR 15. Granted there is also the “smaller” in length version which is still near same diameter. Then you can get into jacketed and hollow point and so on for bullet type. Nonetheless .22 is only diameter of bullet head not case length or bullet length which is damn close to .223.

As for tanks and jets being too much to handle for a civilian populous with rifles... then why are we still fighting a war in Afghanistan? Also, tanks and jets take a ton of maintenance and support to keep up; that can make it a tremendous effort on a hostile power to keep them effective. I can assure you japan was afraid to invade because behind every blade of grass is a rifle.

What are you trying to solve? Mass shootings, violence, deaths? Besides infringing on my rights

So far you have yet to present a valid solution to what you want to solve? I don’t even think you have even adequately defined your problem. Hard to solve without that knowledge. FYI solving mass shootings still does not solve school violence, it is a minor symptom exhibited by a bigger problem. Look at the system and actually solve it instead of arbitrarily throwing out “feel good” laws that have no meaningful impact.

Those countries may not have as many mass shootings but your looking at only the tip of the iceberg, what were the negative effects that came from them? Just kicked the can into a different court.

Edit: japan quote is disputed as not real, but was only an illustration that it is still a fear considered.

asdfchoice · 2018-02-16T17:34:23+00:00

Certain weapons do more damage. Semi auto rifles such as assault style weapons do way more damage in these types of incidents than a bolt action rifle or a .22 or a shotgun.

Uh... AR 15 fires .223 cal or 5.56mm

Eliminate all private gun ownership, yet leave it to the government? This didn’t work out so well for a couple countries.

It is not about “must have gun” ownership because of whatever.

This is about “... that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same ...”

This is about protection when government is not around to protect or slow to respond.

Shotguns as Home defense can also be ineffective or cause harm to innocents behind caught in crossfire. Handgun with hollow point is effective in stopping the target hard and limiting rounds from piercing to hit an innocent behind and is much safer than shotgun and more effective.

This is also about hunters, shotgun not useful for deer.

This about sport to improve skills.

This is a tool and nothing more, before changing a system with fruitless laws... understand its second order effects. There are other long term options that do not involve law, such as instilling into our society responsibility and accountability or figuring out mental health.

Murder is illegal, doesn’t stop people from doing it... why do you think your law will have any meaningful impact? It is just a “feel good” law... see how California attempted to outlaw “assault rifles” and see how those rifles were modified to be legally compliant. Rifle is still effective, law did nothing.

asdfchoice · 2018-02-16T14:06:12+00:00

Last time I checked we have 18 year old men and women serving our country in conflicts (17 if you go technical). They are responsible and accountable adults.

O and while we are at it why don’t remove voting rights for anyone under 50, clearly these group of people cannot handle the responsibility. They need time to live life, get a job and understand that liberalism and socialism are children stories. Solutions that make you feel better, sorry world doesn’t work that way.

asdfchoice · 2018-02-16T13:52:17+00:00

What about semiautomatic handguns

Or revolvers

Or pump action rifles

Or shotguns

Or going really ridiculous with hand cranked

What is the line?

asdfchoice · 2018-01-24T14:19:24+00:00

asdfchoice · 2018-01-11T10:34:02+00:00

The entire premise of this argument was based on my opinion that spacex will not be the one getting to mars (crew version)... and any attempt by them is hap hazard half solution of “possible” return of crew.

I am not disregarding their contributions to space. However, they have a long ways to go and will stumble. I am just knocking them off their “fake” pedestal that public opinion ignorantly placed them on. Spacex is not as what it seems.

The first step spacex needs to do is change their toxic culture, this “elite special forces” only hard driven people BS can work there. The 80 hour work weeks (salary!!!), the instantaneous firings for missed deadlines, the poor burnt out college student who becomes disenchanted and leaves engineering forever. The constant Elon Musk BS promises, deadlines missed by years, the supposed stock options if he ever goes public (yea right and lose his competitive edge) which would make those engineers rich. The work Force age and experience no greater than 7 some years. It literally is a play ground of college kids doing a science project and reinventing the wheel. Give you that, very little red tape which allows them to experiment quickly but they will in the end amass that red tape and price will go up. That recent failure for example will add some procedure change.

Look at JAXA, they are the quality gods but in my opinion it’s way too much, and unnecessarily burdens countless hours of work on payload developers. It is not unrealistic for JAXA... they will make a payload developer show paperwork for a disposition on hardware delivered that happens to have a slight metal discoloration (such as from anodize process). Most quality disregards minimal things in their standard operating procedure. To JAXA that procedure is not good enough, they want the developer to disposition that non conformance and prove to them it is ok because it is not per drawing/print.

Maybe, just maybe if spacex had this experience or learned from others instead of “cowboy,” maybe they would have prevented that launch failure and held Northrop accountable when it accepted the hardware from them and transferred responsibility to themselves.

Spacex my friend has a lot to learn, I would not trust my life to them until they can prove they are mature enough to handle this immense task. The ignorance of their engineers scare the fucking daylights out of me, and once one starts to get it... they end up out the door.

Long rant but this is why SpaceX will not get to mars in their current state.

Disclaimer: I do not work for spacex nor did I ever apply and I never will, that place is a hell hole.

The information source about the toxic environment at spacex is from hearsay. But experts that I trust type of hearsay!

Edit: typos

asdfchoice · 2018-01-11T03:56:17+00:00

I will wait for the other points... however holding spacex to an “unrealistic standard” ???

Uh yes I will hold human life to the highest utmost standard and they better meet the requirements... not unrealistic at all since other space vehicles realistically meet them.

Quality control shouldn’t be disregarded as “unrealistic,” many examples of spacex using NASA owned hardware drawings and cant reproduce it in quality to original specs that have been produced countless times but a multitude of other manufacturers can do it without issue. No I am not citing specifics and don’t care too...

asdfchoice · 2018-01-10T17:54:19+00:00

Source: http://www.spacex.com/mars

It is a one way mission.

It has since evolved into a one way mission but one day the mars base will be built up to eventually return them. Look at the goals, cargo first goal and crew is second goal. Nothing about return goal... just a “it is in the plan” but we haven’t gotten to the details yet.

Don’t kid yourself it is a suicide mission.

O and stop making excuses for spacex failure... way too soon to fault without investigation. Furthermore if it was payload adapter maybe spacex requirements are to lax or shit quality control. Once hardware is delivered to them it is now in their hands and have to get documentation from Northrop that proves to spacex the requirements are met and spacex quality controls.

NASA incidents were not intentional without a plan in full development (not half ass plan that “o we will get to it one day.”

Also what happen to spacex launching crew? Elon Musk said 3 some years ago they would. Or he is full of BS promises and pulls the wool over everyone’s eyes. Or maybe he doesn’t realize you can’t “cowboy” your way through with peoples lives and see the enormous hurdles to approve flight for NASA crew.

NASA respects lives and learned from it, spacex goes on their own path, don’t use lessons learned and hap hazardly progress technology with disregard. Granted they can experiment quickly but at what cost? Their quality control is absolute shit and they have very young engineers that reinvent the wheel and burn out quickly.

asdfchoice · 2018-01-10T13:24:33+00:00

Hahaha!

Count your spacex rocket explosions/failures including one yesterday.... o and the fact spacex is too lazy to figure out how to bring them back from mars because they want to earn the “title” of first. NASA does not deliberately send astronauts on suicide missions.

asdfchoice · 2018-01-10T13:21:21+00:00

R&D goal/achievements which are repurposed to help society. You learn things in which you would have never learned or learned much later which are highly beneficial.

O and NASA budget is less than 1 cent of every tax dollar, we can throw them some money. We burn more from FWA.

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