[geeks] What is Microsoft planing with this?

[Kurt Huhn]

Yuri K <koroby398 at ifrance.com> wrote:

> Hello Kurt,
> 
> Sunday, December 15, 2002, 20:25:25 (UTC), you wrote:
> 
> 
> KH> Yeah, but this is a free (realatively) nation, and we all have our
> KH> choice of vehicles.  some of us like big ones, others small ones. 
> KH> I
> 
>              Very limited choice of allowed vehicles...
>              I demand a helicopter would be allowed to drive down the
>              streets like any other vehicle.
> 

Okay, a couple of pointers.  Firstly, I did qualify that as
"relatively".  Secondly, a helicopter is far more fun if you take it off
the road and up into the air - at least the last time *I* did it.  As
far as driving whatever you want - as long as it passes some basic
safety inspections, you *can* drive whatever you want.  I point to the
companies that make kit-cars and custom motorcycle builders as easy
examples.

> This is not a free nation when you can not walk out on your porch,
> get your long-barrel on that tripod and shoot anybody who does not
> like what you like.  Look what just recently happened in the Sniper
> Belt part of the country.  Terrible violation of human rights and
> civil liberties.  Where are all those liberals when we need them most?
> 

Whut?  Are you espousing the freedom to shoot whomever you want,
whenever you want?  That's not freedom, that's being a homocidal maniac.
 I may be wrong, but I think you just stepped over the line.  As an FFL
holder, former CCW holder, owner of various small armaments, and a
member of numerous 2nd amendment groups and coalitions, I find your
statement in extremely poor taste.  I am *not* offended, but I certainly
find it distasteful.

I *am* free to own whatever weapon I choose, so long as I pay the
appropriate taxes, fees, and transfer charges.  How I choose to use
those weapons are what set me apart from the criminals and asocial fuck
ups.

> Seriously,  demographics change rapidly, and according to some silly
> estimates, immigration will bloat this country to 500 M size pretty
> soon.  Still, expected average population density is expected to be
> low, but that's average.  Anybody ever asked himself why they don't
> drive this Dodges to work in other countries?  Just because they are
> inferior, I guess.
> 

I don't follow your argument.  Though I do get a sense that you were
being facetious in the previous paragraph.  Frankly I don't give a shit
what other people drive to work or what country they live in.  I drive a
bigass truck, I use a gallon of gasoline for every 15 miles I travel, I
take up a whole lot of road, I'd just as soon drive over a curb or ditch
as use an 'entrance', and I don't give a fuck if anyone likes it or not.

-- 
Kurt                "I remember that I've got a solid base of worms and
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                                                      -- Tony Bourdain