As a certified "geek", this one caught my attention. From the latest issue of "EE times", science fiction becomes science reality:
http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20010606S0072
Millimeter-wave energy to be used in a weapon
Millimeter-wave energy to be used in a weapon
Panther,
That's a interesting article. Glad to see that the U.S. Gov't is trying to come up with some new ideas. Alas there is some thing good to come from it.
Coming to a riot near you. . . "Riot Popcorn"
With "Riot Popcorn" you can shield yourself from the "man" and after it's all said and done, have a nice big buttery bag of popcorn.
That's a interesting article. Glad to see that the U.S. Gov't is trying to come up with some new ideas. Alas there is some thing good to come from it.
Coming to a riot near you. . . "Riot Popcorn"
With "Riot Popcorn" you can shield yourself from the "man" and after it's all said and done, have a nice big buttery bag of popcorn.
Millimeter-wave energy to be used in a weapon
We, Americans, don't have access to a LOT of military weapons. I don't drive a tank to work. But we don't have to be slaves because we ARE the government, and we ARE the military. I don't believe in an Evil Empire that enslaves us, I think it's us enslaving ourselves. WE make the decisions, whether we think we have power or not. People without 'power' can make an impact. Dr. King for example. Your local police force for example. The city council. They're not government, They're your neighbors.
Just a July 4th rant.
Just a July 4th rant.
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Millimeter-wave energy to be used in a weapon
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Dakkon:
Panther,
That's a interesting article. Glad to see that the U.S. Gov't is trying to come up with some new ideas. Alas there is some thing good to come from it.
Coming to a riot near you. . . "Riot Popcorn"
With "Riot Popcorn" you can shield yourself from the "man" and after it's all said and done, have a nice big buttery bag of popcorn.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Like any military weapon, it's only a good idea if everyone in the society has equal access to it. Otherwise, you'll end up with the inevitable slave/master relationship between the People and their government.
However, I find the idea of military grade popcorn intriguing
Yosselle
Panther,
That's a interesting article. Glad to see that the U.S. Gov't is trying to come up with some new ideas. Alas there is some thing good to come from it.
Coming to a riot near you. . . "Riot Popcorn"
With "Riot Popcorn" you can shield yourself from the "man" and after it's all said and done, have a nice big buttery bag of popcorn.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Like any military weapon, it's only a good idea if everyone in the society has equal access to it. Otherwise, you'll end up with the inevitable slave/master relationship between the People and their government.
However, I find the idea of military grade popcorn intriguing
Yosselle
Millimeter-wave energy to be used in a weapon
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by TSDguy:
Just a July 4th rant.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Rant... RANT?!? You want a 4th of July RANT?
The following rant must give due credit to Vin Suprinowicz who wrote the original that was the impetus for this highly plagarized version.
<hr>
Here we are... The week when everyone celebrates the Fourth of July. But I have to wonder if people really understand what this is all about. Isn't it great to have a day or two off of work. Grilling burgers and dogs, hauling the kids to the swimming pool or the lake, maybe to the mountains, or maybe your going over to Green Hill Park in Worcester to see the classic cars and hotrods at the SummerNationals... and then wind up everything by watching the fireworks as the Boston Pops play the 1812 Overture. By the way, the 1812 Overture was written by a subject of the czar to celebrate the defeat of the French (Our allies).
Cindi Lauper knows the meaning of the 4th of July... When asked in an interview before her Boston Pops appearance, she replied that it was just a great day when we could all come together and celebrate diversity.
But this is a mockery of the true reason for celebration. You know, that true reason for celebration has become, well... inconvenient. Americans should be ashamed to celebrate the Fourth of July without understanding and celebrating the true reason we have for rejoicing, instead they manage to convince themselves that we somehow still cling to the same values that made July 4th, 1776, one of the greatest days in history.
On that date, 225 years ago, Great Britain taxed the colonists at far lower rates than Americans tolerate today -- and never dreamed of granting their government agents the power to search our private bank records to locate "unreported income."
And the king's ministers never attempted to stack our juries by disqualifying any juror who refused to swear in advance to "leave your conscience outside this courtroom and enforce the law as the judge explains it to you."
The king's ministers insisted the colonists were represented by Members of Parliament who had never set foot on these shores. Today, of course, our interests are "represented" by one of two millionaire lawyers -- both members of the incumbent DemoRepublicrat Party -- among whom we were privileged to "choose" last election day. Men who for the most part have lived in mansions and sent their kids to private schools in the wealthy suburbs of the imperial capital for decades.
Yet the colonists did rebel. It's hard to imagine, today, the faith and courage of a few hundred frozen musketmen, setting off across the darkened Delaware, gambling their lives, their farms, and their sacred honor on the chance they could engage and defeat the greatest land army in the history of the known world at the time, armed with only two palpable assets: one irreplaceable man to lead them, and some flimsy newspaper reprints of a parchment declaring: "We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness -- That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive to these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it. ..."
Do we still believe those words?
I have recently disagreed with a number of people, they held the position that the role of government is to protect people from dangers. No matter what that danger may be. I disagreed and state emphatically that the only legitimate role of government is to protect our Rights, Freedoms and Liberties. After much discussion that ran the gamut from victimless crimes to drugs and naturally to guns, it was decided that we'd just have to "agree to disagree".
One of the things that they just couldn't stand was the fact that the War for American Independence began over unregistered, untaxed guns! It wasn't about a tax on tea at all. The War actually started when British forces attempted to seize arsenals of rifles, powder and ball from the hands of ill-organized Patriot militias in Lexington and Concord. American civilians shot and killed scores of these government agents as they marched back to Boston. Are those Minutemen still our heroes? Or do we now consider them "dangerous terrorists" and "depraved government-haters" as modern patriots are often labelled by the government influenced media propagandists?
In "The Federalist" No. 46, James Madison told us we need have no fear of any federal tyranny ever taking away our rights, arguing that under his proposed Constitution "the ultimate authority ... resides in the people alone," and predicting that any usurpation of powers not specifically delegated would lead to "plans of resistance" and "appeal to a trial of force."
Another prominent federalist, Noah Webster, wrote in 1787: "Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States."
Do you think this is still true today?
Or, as we all look at losing our medical privacy under the guise of a "Patient's bill of rights", lose of our right to free trade and anonymity under the "gun show loop-hole" bill, and ponder the lose of our right to freedom of speech under "campaign finance reform"; are those who arm themselves and make any sort of contingency "plans for resistance" against government usurpations of their rights instead branded as "conspirators" and "terrorists" and somehow ridiculously equated with Timothy McVeigh?
(An aside: You know... Tim McVeigh was kicked out of the only true militia meeting he is ever known to have attended... in Michigan. But those that gave him his training in munitions failed in their screening process... By the way, that'd be the U.S. Army.
)
And at the same time we think on these things, we must realize that we're living at a time when tearful jurors who feel they "have no choice" under the judge's instructions, have convicted people whose only crime was association... knowing someone who did something the government didn't like. We live at a time when it is not only unlikely, it has been forbidden to bring up the Second Amendment as a defense in court!
We're living in a time when putting back food stores, making contingency plans, and even discussing any "plans of resistance" (as recommended by Mr. Madison) can bring down the wrath of government agents.
Would the Constitution have ever been ratified, had Mr. Madison and his fellow federalists warned the citizens that such non-violent preparations would get their weapons, property and liberty seized, landing them in jail for most of their adult lives?
Think about that when you're cooking the burgers and dogs, watching the fireworks or listening to Cindi Lauper and the Pops... Oh yeah, and...
Happy Fourth of July.
Just a July 4th rant.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Rant... RANT?!? You want a 4th of July RANT?
The following rant must give due credit to Vin Suprinowicz who wrote the original that was the impetus for this highly plagarized version.
<hr>
Here we are... The week when everyone celebrates the Fourth of July. But I have to wonder if people really understand what this is all about. Isn't it great to have a day or two off of work. Grilling burgers and dogs, hauling the kids to the swimming pool or the lake, maybe to the mountains, or maybe your going over to Green Hill Park in Worcester to see the classic cars and hotrods at the SummerNationals... and then wind up everything by watching the fireworks as the Boston Pops play the 1812 Overture. By the way, the 1812 Overture was written by a subject of the czar to celebrate the defeat of the French (Our allies).
Cindi Lauper knows the meaning of the 4th of July... When asked in an interview before her Boston Pops appearance, she replied that it was just a great day when we could all come together and celebrate diversity.
But this is a mockery of the true reason for celebration. You know, that true reason for celebration has become, well... inconvenient. Americans should be ashamed to celebrate the Fourth of July without understanding and celebrating the true reason we have for rejoicing, instead they manage to convince themselves that we somehow still cling to the same values that made July 4th, 1776, one of the greatest days in history.
On that date, 225 years ago, Great Britain taxed the colonists at far lower rates than Americans tolerate today -- and never dreamed of granting their government agents the power to search our private bank records to locate "unreported income."
And the king's ministers never attempted to stack our juries by disqualifying any juror who refused to swear in advance to "leave your conscience outside this courtroom and enforce the law as the judge explains it to you."
The king's ministers insisted the colonists were represented by Members of Parliament who had never set foot on these shores. Today, of course, our interests are "represented" by one of two millionaire lawyers -- both members of the incumbent DemoRepublicrat Party -- among whom we were privileged to "choose" last election day. Men who for the most part have lived in mansions and sent their kids to private schools in the wealthy suburbs of the imperial capital for decades.
Yet the colonists did rebel. It's hard to imagine, today, the faith and courage of a few hundred frozen musketmen, setting off across the darkened Delaware, gambling their lives, their farms, and their sacred honor on the chance they could engage and defeat the greatest land army in the history of the known world at the time, armed with only two palpable assets: one irreplaceable man to lead them, and some flimsy newspaper reprints of a parchment declaring: "We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness -- That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive to these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it. ..."
Do we still believe those words?
I have recently disagreed with a number of people, they held the position that the role of government is to protect people from dangers. No matter what that danger may be. I disagreed and state emphatically that the only legitimate role of government is to protect our Rights, Freedoms and Liberties. After much discussion that ran the gamut from victimless crimes to drugs and naturally to guns, it was decided that we'd just have to "agree to disagree".
One of the things that they just couldn't stand was the fact that the War for American Independence began over unregistered, untaxed guns! It wasn't about a tax on tea at all. The War actually started when British forces attempted to seize arsenals of rifles, powder and ball from the hands of ill-organized Patriot militias in Lexington and Concord. American civilians shot and killed scores of these government agents as they marched back to Boston. Are those Minutemen still our heroes? Or do we now consider them "dangerous terrorists" and "depraved government-haters" as modern patriots are often labelled by the government influenced media propagandists?
In "The Federalist" No. 46, James Madison told us we need have no fear of any federal tyranny ever taking away our rights, arguing that under his proposed Constitution "the ultimate authority ... resides in the people alone," and predicting that any usurpation of powers not specifically delegated would lead to "plans of resistance" and "appeal to a trial of force."
Another prominent federalist, Noah Webster, wrote in 1787: "Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States."
Do you think this is still true today?
Or, as we all look at losing our medical privacy under the guise of a "Patient's bill of rights", lose of our right to free trade and anonymity under the "gun show loop-hole" bill, and ponder the lose of our right to freedom of speech under "campaign finance reform"; are those who arm themselves and make any sort of contingency "plans for resistance" against government usurpations of their rights instead branded as "conspirators" and "terrorists" and somehow ridiculously equated with Timothy McVeigh?
(An aside: You know... Tim McVeigh was kicked out of the only true militia meeting he is ever known to have attended... in Michigan. But those that gave him his training in munitions failed in their screening process... By the way, that'd be the U.S. Army.
)And at the same time we think on these things, we must realize that we're living at a time when tearful jurors who feel they "have no choice" under the judge's instructions, have convicted people whose only crime was association... knowing someone who did something the government didn't like. We live at a time when it is not only unlikely, it has been forbidden to bring up the Second Amendment as a defense in court!
We're living in a time when putting back food stores, making contingency plans, and even discussing any "plans of resistance" (as recommended by Mr. Madison) can bring down the wrath of government agents.
Would the Constitution have ever been ratified, had Mr. Madison and his fellow federalists warned the citizens that such non-violent preparations would get their weapons, property and liberty seized, landing them in jail for most of their adult lives?
Think about that when you're cooking the burgers and dogs, watching the fireworks or listening to Cindi Lauper and the Pops... Oh yeah, and...
Happy Fourth of July.
