http://standardmischief.com/blog Life. Liberty. Pursuit of Happiness. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:43:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Time to put your money where you mouth is. Say Uncle has a post up detailing three groups fighting to have your preexisting right of self-defense recognized by the goverment at the federal, state, and local level.* I was originally going to show photo of a highly redacted money order, but ... http://standardmischief.com/blog/2008/07/02/heller-pony-up/ I was driving around last night listening to WTOP news radio station. There was a short segment about a "new computer language" called IPv6, and how it could be used to track "hackers" back, not just to their neighborhoods, not just to a specific house, but to a palmtop in ... http://standardmischief.com/blog/2008/07/01/ipv6-a-new-tool-against-hackers/ I really thought the opponents of the pre-existing Right to Keep and Bear Arms would be spilling out the seams by now, however the response has been muted. I have found a few. This first person proves to me that Moscow, Idaho is not an exclusive oasis of bright and level-headed ... http://standardmischief.com/blog/2008/06/28/heller-useless-idiots-and-anti-anti-feminists-reply/ Yea, sorry about that, but this has been the biggest news since jackbooted thugs were kicking in doors in New Orleans and confiscating firearms under color of law. If you're annoyed by the wall-to-wall coverage just ignore all the posts that come across the RSS feed with Heller in the ... http://standardmischief.com/blog/2008/06/28/all-heller-all-the-time/ Best Heller post so far is Laurel's. She found an interesting excerpt: In any event, the meaning of “bear arms” that petitioners and JUSTICE STEVENS propose is not even the (sometimes) idiomatic meaning. Rather, they manufacture a hybrid definition, whereby “bear arms” connotes the actual carrying of arms (and therefore is ... http://standardmischief.com/blog/2008/06/27/3rd-heller-post-%e2%80%9che-filled-and-kicked-the-bucket%e2%80%9d/ A few paragraphs pulled from a WaPo blog: D.C. Attorney General: All Guns Must Be Registered ... "All handguns have to be registered," Nickles said. Among the likely regulations: Gun owners would have to be 18 or older and could not have been convicted of a felony or any weapon-related charge or have been ... http://standardmischief.com/blog/2008/06/26/thats-it-im-done-reading-about-heller-today/ The anticipation was killing me, so at 9:42 I left the phone, watch, and PDA at home, saddled up, and went for a bike ride. I wasn't going to just sit there and refresh the screen until it was released. The highest court in the land said yesterday that all ... http://standardmischief.com/blog/2008/06/26/dc-ban-struck-down-bloggers-run-out-of-clever-heller-headlines/ Thanks to this post at Consumerist.com, I find out that 86% of milk sellers in New York City are price-gouging customers! By a whole 40 or 50 cents per gallon! So there's a state goverment set price on goods like milk? Does that set price take in consideration the cost of ... http://standardmischief.com/blog/2008/06/08/consumeristcom-a-bastion-of-free-market-economics/ You're doing it wrong. Google-fu - noun 1. The ability to use Google with zen like prowess. 2. A measure of one's level of skill in using the Google search engine in order to find needed but near worthless minutia. Etymology: A portmanteau of the search engine Google and kung fu. Compare Google ... http://standardmischief.com/blog/2008/06/07/lexicon-google-fu/ Yep, it's coming down to which way the superdelegates decide to vote because neither candidate currently has enough of the "voted by the people" delegates to win. Those superdelegates, the Democratic Noblemen and Women, can flip, or flop, or take thinly veiled bribes, or jocky for the best ... http://standardmischief.com/blog/2008/06/04/the-race-for-the-pledged-democratic-delegates-is-over/