Hope springs eternal in the halls of the UK government, where impossibility can be legislated into possibility, kicked around for 48-60 months, and abandoned when it finally becomes clear to the people whose careers depend on misunderstanding the problems finally being forced to confront reality.
I just wish they'd done that with Brexit. What a bunch of clowns our politicians are!
Re: Executive Order - Not just an order to the executive branch?
If anyone is impacted. Executive orders are limited in what they can achieve, aren't they?
Article Two of the United States Constitution gives the president broad executive and enforcement authority to use their discretion to determine how to enforce the law or to otherwise manage the resources and staff of the executive branch. The ability to make such orders is also based on express or implied Acts of Congress that delegate to the president some degree of discretionary power (delegated legislation).
I love GIMP, and mostly use the .png file format to avoid haloing and other distortions. When I need a vector image or one that will scale without distorting I use Inkscape, then pull the image into GIMP so I can play with it some more. I've tried other programs (I'll give Image Magick a go) but I can get a lot done with my tried-and-tested GIMP and Inkscape combo.
The best thing about GIMP is the add-ons. Get G'Mic,it's the best one; I use it every time I'm making a leaflet or brochure. The others are a mixed bag but G'Mic has yet to let me down. I can mimic any graphic anyone using Photoshop can create.
The trick is to use it alongside GIMP. Make your shapes/do your text in Inkscape, then export Bitmap to GIMP.
It depends on what you're after; I can usually make graphics for brochures, etc. using that technique when I need the text to scale perfectly. Don't forget to take dot for dot off when scaling down.
I'm not rich and have no problem getting such people to sign off on my passport application. I suppose my privilege is from being a Christian: there are a good few professional types in my church.
"Ministers of religion" can sign off on passport applications, which leaves the atheists without a go-to if they're poor and never see a doctor, use legal services, or have kids in school.
In practice, I'd be very surprised if there were many people who fell through the cracks.
Besides, if you're indigent and reliant on welfare, you should be more concerned about that than about owning a gun. I've been in that situation so don't take it as an attack on vulnerable people. I'm just saying that owning a gun should not be near the top of anyone's necessities list.
Deputy Wilkey has been suspended, but it's the nice kind that means he'll be paid to do nothing while the Sheriff's Office decides what to do with him.
Fire him, obviously. It's his job to enforce the law, not to violate the First Amendment and that poor unfortunate's civil rights as well as her dignity.
As for the anal search, what the hell?
America needs to sort out its demented Puritan problem, NOW.
Good points, well made. Mind you, it's possible that she naively thought that pretending to end the pretend massacre with herself was just an effort at being fair and equal. After all, she pretended to kill her classmates, that would have made them wonder if she actually liked them. By pretending to kill herself as well, it's possible she meant to indicate that she felt she would deserve death too if she really did such a thing. Kid logic.
And it doesn't change that we are inconsistent with how we decide people are responsible or not. Usually we decide someone is responsible to sidestep insanity pleas, diminished capacity pleas or age matters, so we can try a kid as an adult and murder them in the execution chamber. But then police officers get a free pass if they fear for their safety.
Once again, with feeling, "Pass a gun safety test and get two references from the kind of people who would help you get a passport, i.e. doctors, teachers, that kind of thing."
I opine that if we want to save lives we need to address the causes of suicide and homicide, and not pretend that by reducing the available means is going to slow it down. Angry people in unrelenting misery can get very creative.
True, but they can kill more at a time with automatic weapons.
I agree we need to address mental illness more effectively -- and compassionately. That the Government won't spend the money on it is the problem.
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Hope springs eternal in the halls of the UK government, where impossibility can be legislated into possibility, kicked around for 48-60 months, and abandoned when it finally becomes clear to the people whose careers depend on misunderstanding the problems finally being forced to confront reality.
I just wish they'd done that with Brexit. What a bunch of clowns our politicians are!
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Re: Executive Order - Not just an order to the executive branch?
If anyone is impacted. Executive orders are limited in what they can achieve, aren't they?
Article Two of the United States Constitution gives the president broad executive and enforcement authority to use their discretion to determine how to enforce the law or to otherwise manage the resources and staff of the executive branch. The ability to make such orders is also based on express or implied Acts of Congress that delegate to the president some degree of discretionary power (delegated legislation).
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Re: Re: They are, in fact, offering refunds
Given that OS tools use the same file formats, as long as the files have been saved as common ones, e.g. .png, that shouldn't be a problem.
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Re: Re: Re: Ahoy
I love GIMP, and mostly use the .png file format to avoid haloing and other distortions. When I need a vector image or one that will scale without distorting I use Inkscape, then pull the image into GIMP so I can play with it some more. I've tried other programs (I'll give Image Magick a go) but I can get a lot done with my tried-and-tested GIMP and Inkscape combo.
The best thing about GIMP is the add-ons. Get G'Mic,it's the best one; I use it every time I'm making a leaflet or brochure. The others are a mixed bag but G'Mic has yet to let me down. I can mimic any graphic anyone using Photoshop can create.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: adobe
The trick is to use it alongside GIMP. Make your shapes/do your text in Inkscape, then export Bitmap to GIMP.
It depends on what you're after; I can usually make graphics for brochures, etc. using that technique when I need the text to scale perfectly. Don't forget to take dot for dot off when scaling down.
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Re:
Methought all laws had to be passed by Congress; you can't just issue laws from the White House. Don't EOs only indicate policy, not law?
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Re: Re: Conspiracy theories
Agreed. Gather evidence, construct hypothesis.
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Re: Ministers of religion
My ministers are not ordained in that way and can sign off on passport applications. Anyone who either went to school or has a kid knows a teacher.
https://traveltips.usatoday.com/forms-required-first-time-passport-application-1708.html
No reference details there; I can't find anything online.
In the UK, you need a character reference of some kind.
What about two character references from individuals with no criminal records? I'd be satisfied with that.
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Re: Re: Re: The NRA is incidental (and rotten)
I'm not rich and have no problem getting such people to sign off on my passport application. I suppose my privilege is from being a Christian: there are a good few professional types in my church.
"Ministers of religion" can sign off on passport applications, which leaves the atheists without a go-to if they're poor and never see a doctor, use legal services, or have kids in school.
In practice, I'd be very surprised if there were many people who fell through the cracks.
Besides, if you're indigent and reliant on welfare, you should be more concerned about that than about owning a gun. I've been in that situation so don't take it as an attack on vulnerable people. I'm just saying that owning a gun should not be near the top of anyone's necessities list.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
True. We can only speculate.
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Re: Re: The only way to make this worse...
Agreed. 1 John 2:6
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Re: Saved from what?
Actual salvation involves genuine faith; it can't be bullied into people.
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Re: Re: That is rape
Alas, confirmed correct. Even if you film it and share it with your friends.
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Re:
How in the holy whackadoodle dandy are they going to justify Wilkie's actions?
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Violations
Deputy Wilkey has been suspended, but it's the nice kind that means he'll be paid to do nothing while the Sheriff's Office decides what to do with him.
Fire him, obviously. It's his job to enforce the law, not to violate the First Amendment and that poor unfortunate's civil rights as well as her dignity.
As for the anal search, what the hell?
America needs to sort out its demented Puritan problem, NOW.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Xenophobic trash peddlers like Eric Goldman
LOL!
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Insanity
That is true, but this kid only pretended.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
Good points, well made. Mind you, it's possible that she naively thought that pretending to end the pretend massacre with herself was just an effort at being fair and equal. After all, she pretended to kill her classmates, that would have made them wonder if she actually liked them. By pretending to kill herself as well, it's possible she meant to indicate that she felt she would deserve death too if she really did such a thing. Kid logic.
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Re: The NRA is incidental (and rotten)
And it doesn't change that we are inconsistent with how we decide people are responsible or not. Usually we decide someone is responsible to sidestep insanity pleas, diminished capacity pleas or age matters, so we can try a kid as an adult and murder them in the execution chamber. But then police officers get a free pass if they fear for their safety.
Once again, with feeling, "Pass a gun safety test and get two references from the kind of people who would help you get a passport, i.e. doctors, teachers, that kind of thing."
I opine that if we want to save lives we need to address the causes of suicide and homicide, and not pretend that by reducing the available means is going to slow it down. Angry people in unrelenting misery can get very creative.
True, but they can kill more at a time with automatic weapons.
I agree we need to address mental illness more effectively -- and compassionately. That the Government won't spend the money on it is the problem.
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Re: Re:
As I said, pass a gun safety test and get two references. There we go, job done.
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