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I just got an alert from gonh.org (Gun Owners of NH) that local Demorcrats (and yes, this was ALL Demorcrat) have now back door banned firearms in state building of NH.

The NH Legislative Facilities Committee voted today to ban firearms in the NH State House.

This is a Joint Committee, and members are:

Sylvia Larsen (D)
Terie Norelli (D)
Margaret Hassan (D)
Mary Jane Wallner (D)
Peter Bragdon (R)
Sherman Packard (R)
Lou D’Allesandro (D)
Marjorie Smith (D)
Daniel Eaton (D)
Gene Chandler (R)
Martha Fuller Clark (D)
Sheila Roberge (R)

The Joint Facilities committee just passed by an 8-3 vote (party lines)
the following regulation on the State House:

“No person, except for law enforcement personnel in active duty, shall
carry a firearm or other dangerous or deadly weapon or an explosive,
openly or concealed, while inside the State House, the Legislative
Office Building, the Upham Walker House, or any of the underground
tunnels connected to these buildings. Law enforcement personnel, when
requested by State House security staff, must produce sufficient
identification establishing their status as law enforcement personnel.”

Here is what bothers me about this. They tried in scheduled session to do this twice last there and there was an overwhelming protest against it, which promptly instructed them to vote the bill as ITL (In expedient to legislate – Basically kills the bill). Regardless of who the people protesting (yes some of the “free staters” were there, but for the most part it was simply ordinary people) were, there is a large (and yes large is a valid statement considering the number of people who showed up) part of the population that disagrees with this. Now in scheduled session, they can’t get this passed, so what do they do? Do it as an unexpected event and ram it in the back door.

This is the shit that REALLY pissess me off. Letters are going out to ALL parties involved. I am going to print and send them certified. I’ll scan / attach it here when I’m done. Now I’m off to enjoy some of the holidays.

Well, I just want to wish everyone a safe and Merry Christmas!

Well, I have run Haiku on my laptop for about 2 days now and I’m ready to type up my thoughts and observations on it. Is it ready for use? No way. Does it show promise? Hell yeah!

Pros

• Boots my Dell Inspiron in 9 seconds. After 9 seconds it’s fully functional on the desktop.
• UI is a perfect clone of BeOS and very smooth and easy to use.
• Multitasking performance is insane! I ran multiple GL Teapot demos, the pulse demo, 3D Haiku demo, browser, and a few other file system windows and at no point did I feel even a slight drop in UI performance. (note: When I added multiple 3D apps I did see some after effects if the windows touched.
• Updated compilers and libraries meant I could get some of the newer apps compiled and working… well somewhat. (note: perl CPAN didn’t work at all and I couldn’t get it working in order to DL XML::Parser, which is needed for one of the dependencies of Pidgin)
• Networking setup was a breeze. It auto detected the NIC in my laptop and everything just worked.
• Downloaded a few apps from BeBits and they worked so BeOS compatibility is “good”. (note: many apps had MAJOR problems loading.)
• Installer was something I have been waiting for and I wasn’t disappointed. (note: There are obvious points where it could be improved / optimized, but for the most part it was simple and worked.
• VERY simple BeOS layout on the file system was a great touch.

Cons

• No package manager. This is a biggie as I had no easy way to uninstall apps I was trying to get working without going through the file system and deleting files.
• I mean I know it lacks a package manager, but being spoiled as I am a lack of an organized package delivery system like yum or apt is big now a days. This would *greatly* improve the functionality of the OS.
• Not a multi-user OS. That’s right, still unfortunately not a multi-user OS, but something that is “on the road map”.
• No way to password protect the single user account. Probably the biggest killer of this right now, but being in Alpha, I wasn’t probably going to leave this on my laptop.
• App support is limited. I was able to get “vision” working as an IRC client, but I couldn’t find a working IM client for this. Big Achilles heel here if you want to penetrate the desktop market.
• Buggy boot loader. After install, it wouldn’t actually boot on the HD. Had to boot the Live CD again and then run “bootman” in order to fix it.
• Needs a clearer roadmap for development. The roadmap they have looks more like a bug tracking system than a roadmap.

Considering the project started in 2001 and now in 2009 they are where they are shows the project definitely has great momentum and some talented developers. They started from the ground up and didn’t take the quick path of using the Linux kernel and just smashing in some GNU toolkits. As of 2008 it is now self hosting, which means it can check out and compile new versions of itself. They did update it to use the newest GCC compilers, which means the newer apps should all compile eventually, but it still has a long way to go.

I have a concealed weapons permit. I believe that having a firearm doesn’t make me a stronger person, but it is a tool that *could* be called upon if the time arises. I am not going to get into an argument with anyone about what instances I might have to use that, (and no a kid with a slingshot doesn’t qualify) but I would like to point out something that I just found out about that was buried in the Amtrak funding bill.

It may sound absurd. But President Obama signed a bill into law Wednesday that requires passengers who carry firearms aboard Amtrak be locked in boxes for their journey.

it was an obvious typo in the bill and I am guessing that if I tried to board an Amtrak train they wouldn’t try to stuff me in a box, but still. Why? Has there been shootings on trains? What reason justifies this action? It has no purpose. Before anyone starts trying to take this to an absurd argument level about liberty and freedom, I am talking strictly about rationale behind this bill. Is it not illegal to harm another human being with a firearm without just cause? I mean, are they trying to make me safer, how?

Earlier this week, Congress sent the president a massive spending bill that funded dozens of federal departments. Tucked into the transportation section of the legislation are safety requirements for Amtrak customers who carry firearms on board the government-backed train system. The bill Congress passed mandates that passengers with firearms declare they have weapons with them in advance and stow them in locked boxes while on the train.

I just have issues when things like this are just tucked away inside of seemly unrelated bills. The provision has no justifiable purpose. The crime they are trying to stop is ALREADY illegal. Why do we need more restrictions? I will also say the Republicans have contributed to my anger. (more often than not lately)

Rep. John Fleming and Sen. Roger Wicker, both Mississippi Republicans, are the primary advocates of the Amtrak gun provision.

I am in no way just anti-Democrats, but right now completely anti-Politicians in general atm. I think it’s about time we flushed this toilet.

I have always been a huge fan of BeOS since around 1999-2000. Simple, fast, and for its day very impressive. When the company went under, they took most of the code with them. A group started redeveloping the OS from the ground up in 2001. Last year, the OS because self hosting, which means it can compile new versions of itself. That in an of itself was a huge milestone. Well, this Sept the OS hit Alpha 1. This month, they released the “installer”, something that up until now meant you could only try Haiku within a premade VM. Well, I just burned my disc and started an install on my old Dell laptop. I have a huge grin on my face and cannot wait for it to finish.

Check it out here!

I’ll be sure to post some new info soon!

So with the only ammo that I can seem to get reliably being .40 S&W, I made the decision to purchase a handgun in this caliber. I’ve actually had this gun for several months as many of my friends will know, but I’ve been lax about getting this review written, so here it is! So many to choose from, but I finally settled on a Third Generation Glock 22. I got two 15 rnd magazines with the gun, but for IDPA picked up a third magazine.

I am in shock. Complete and utter shock at how hypocritical the congressional Democrats are. On one hand they can and do condemn the Patriot Act as I do. It’s a blatant violation of our rights. It gives too much discretion to law enforcement. In what I have come to expect as congressional bull$h1t they chose to renew it only showing that once power is been given to a gov’t agency, they are VERY unlikely to ever give it up; even if it’s the right thing to do.

During more than two hours of sometimes-heated debate in the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee, some lawmakers accused one another of caving to intelligence officials who wanted to expand their powers, while other senators said the renewal was necessary to protect against looming – and classified – terror threats.

But when the hearing was over, the committee approved renewing measures that include allowing broad warrants to be issued by a secretive court for any type of record, from financial to medical, without the government having to declare that the information sought is connected to a terrorism or espionage investigation. A proposal that would put limits on such requests was defeated.

Let us be very clear about this. The patriot act is nothing more than a broad law enforcement tool that enables them to better spy on Americans all in the guise of fighting terrorism. This was something that was rushed through congress in the days following 9/11 all using the pain of those attacks to get it passed with as little debate as possible. It will be one of George Bush’s legacies.

The thought that people will be safer by stripping away their freedoms is handing victory to the Islamic Fascists. You cannot save Rome by burning it, and you cannot protect freedom by eliminating it.

You want to send a clear message of resistance to the terrorists? Rebuild the twin towers exactly as they were built before and light the building up on opening day with the windows lit in shape of a hand giving an obscene gesture.

OK we may not agree on Health Care reform, taxation, firearm control, or even on the existence of the tooth fairy, but seriously… I couldn’t make this $h1t up.

The bill, which faces steep odds, would ban the promotion of a postseason NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision game as a national championship unless it results from a playoff. The measure passed by voice vote in a House Energy and Commerce Committee subcommittee, with one audible “no,” from Rep. John Barrow, D-Ga.

Why the hell is any congressional committee even debating this? Don’t we have more important things like Terrorism? Health Care? A failing economy? A few have voiced opposition to this thankfully.

In a statement before the vote, BCS executive director Bill Hancock said, “With all the serious matters facing our country, surely Congress has more important issues than spending taxpayer money to dictate how college football is played.”

The subcommittee chairman, Rep. Bobby Rush, an Illinois Democrat who co-sponsored the bill, said, “We can walk and chew gum at the same time.”

… and we wonder why the important $h1t never gets done or worse the stuff that is done is all f’d up and bogged down with pork.