http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHmuux15S-4

Maybe? 

I listen to a lot of Stef's work.  And he's made it very clear that he advocates de-fooing as a last resort.  I've heard him tell several people that he recommends trying to work the situation out and even using professional help. 

I don't think you guys have fully studied his argument because it really isn't as problematic as I think you're making it out to be. 

And FOO is a euphemism for Family of Origin. 

I watched the new Spiderman movie today.  Apparently, he's an anarchist!  (according to the cops)

Winning!

I prefer the novels over the comics.  Batman and Magneto are my favorites. 

The cops (I used to be the biggest cop fan).
Most tv shows (I never realized how many of them are about agents of the State).
Newspapers.
Most news sources.
Most war movies.
The entire month of October/early November.
Stop lights at intersections.
My college degrees. 
Federal holidays. 
Big agriculture.
Did I mention the cops? 



Things that Anarchy has made BETTER for me. 

Relationships.
The Matrix.
Food (organic is so delicious).
Independence of thought. 


Conclusion:  Worth it. 
 

It had some good moments; but, overall it wasn't for me.

Then again, several of my friends loved it (and they're big supporters of the drug war so I don't know what to make of that). 

This is what one of them said about it:

Friend: "Drugs are illegal and they're bad, but then this guy was...but drugs are still bad...but..."

1911 with Jackie Chan was pretty good.  It's Chinese, so the story-line appears to be choppy to me (but I'm sure it makes sense to them).  The ending was a bit disappointing but the movie has some really good elements. 

I think Obama.  Romney is so inconsistent that he's going to get completely destroyed during the presidential debates. 

Does anyone else have the feeling that one of the major issues will be who is more willing to go to war with Iran? 

I just watched it 2 days ago! 

I also just watched the matrix....for the 4th time this year...

It's being directed by two vets.  I'm not sure if I find this funny or disturbing. 

certainly,

I'm found under Phillip Rahvin.

You'll recognize my profile picture. 

The Matrix

Equilibrium

Serenity and the Firefly series

Prison Break (seasons 1-3) were good.  Not anarchist, but definitely anti-state. 

I hear that Far Scape is good, but I haven't watched it. 

To kill citizens.  What else would the DHS do with ammo? 

The only guns I can think of with no safeties are six shooters. The thing is most cops are carrying very nice Sigs or Glocks and those usually have elaborate safeties.

They're starting to build them with safeties      They're just internal safeties, but it makes the gun drop-safe. 

Why was there a round in the chamber when there's no safety?

Common.  It is how they are carried. 

I have limited experience with guns, but this seems really, really stupid.

I read about this article yesterday.  In that version the woman was hugging him from behind on her knees... Also, there's speculation that the gun had after-market modifications to the trigger (but this isn't confirmed). 

Carrying with a round in the chamber (called condition one) is common practice and there actually are safeties present, they just aren't external. 

All cops carry condition one and many citizens do also who carry an a regular basis. 

The reason for this is that it's really hard to rack the slide of your gun when there's a full magazine in it.  It's not like the movies where they do the two-finger rack.  Also, your average self-defense (for citizens not cops) shooting takes place at 3 feet, so you don't have time to be operating the slide even if it was easy.

Guns are being built with internal safeties like the firing pin block.  The S&Ws have it (most have it these days).  The firing pin block is a piece of metal that stands in-between the firing pin and the chambered round.  When the trigger is pulled it gets pushed out of the way of the firing pin's channel. 

So, if the firing pin (starting in the cocked position) somehow fails (maybe the gun is dropped or the gun is faulty) the firing pin will hit the firing pin block and not go off.  These guns don't fire unless the trigger is pulled.