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Date Posted: 17:00:20 11/06/05 Sun
A race gun is one like this:
This is an STI 1911 in .40S&W with a milled fitted slide, reddot sight, custom trigger assembly, wide magazine well, high capacity magazine and compensator. This type of gun is for speed shooting competitions where the competitor runs through a range firing at multiple targets past (usually between 10 and 20), past obstructions, around barracades, etc. for speed and accuracy.
Perl is an open source and very popular and powerful programming language that is also fairly easy to begin using.
In regard to your going back to school I have two suggestions (entirely unsolicited, I know but I retain my inalienable right to kibbitz): First, set up your computer with Ubuntu as a second OS, and start playing with Apache 2, PHP (another scripting language), MySQL, and other cool software available free on this linux distro. That'll hone those typing skills and can be fun if approched with the right attitude). Second, point your formal education goals towards teaching. A teaching cert can potentially get your education subsidized by local, state or federal government, it would leverage the skills and experience you already have and despite the negative press, it pays pretty well for a reasonable amount of work. Starting teachers (with a Bachelors degree) in my district get 36K the first year. That is an annual contract that requires 189 days of work, of approximately 6.5 hours a day. I've given some thought myself to teaching as I've developed quite an interest in history and politics. Teaching those subjects would allow me to get paid for following my interests.
My take on curfews, public school attendance, drivers licenses and a host of other government intrusions is that they're unconstitutional. I'm also convinced trying to argue that in a court would be futile. It may be that you kicked off the rant I intended to have in my first post...
According to the Declaration of Independence humans are endowed by their creator with inalienable rights, including but not limited to, the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Whether these rights are given by God can be debated, but the fact that the exist and originate with the individual isn't in dispute (in my experience at least). Those inalienable rights originate with the individual and then are delegated to government as a means of helping to insure that they are protected. What this means is that I delegate authority to the government. It is impossible for me to delegate authority I don't have, therefore the government cannot on my behalf, legitimately infringe on somebody else's rights, take their property or limit their freedoms. Because no individual has the right to do that, neither does the government. The only legitimate function of any government at any level is to protect the rights and freedoms of the individual. Every other function, responsibility, job, project or activity should be left to the private sector, to individuals, to private organizations or charities.
...as rants go that was pretty succinct...
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