Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Google buys DoubleClick--holy macaroli

what more can Google do? with this 3+ billion dollar purchase it'll have a firm lock on both search and display advertising. what's next?
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JNagarya said...

I agree. And here's some legal authority as substantive backbone for our position: _Creating the Bill of Rights: The Documentary Record from the First Federal Congress_ (Johns Hopkins, 1991), Ed. Veit, et al. -- in print and readily available from such as Amazon.

The fact is that the Framers of that which became the Second were opposed to a standing army, so viewed the militia as alternative thereto. That is all the Second is about: the first draft of that which became the second, submitted by James Madison to Congress for debate, read: "The right of the people [plural] to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; a well armed, well regulated [under law] militia being the best security of a free country: but no person [individual] religiously scrupulous shall be compelled [involuntary] to render military service in person [individual]."

As the Congress -- Senate also -- debated that proposal, it went through several drafts, all but the final retaining that "individual right" -- _conscientous objection_ -- to NOT bear arms. In the end that "right" was voted down; as result, the Second has nothing whatever to do with "individual" anything. The NRA's lie on the issue notwithstanding.

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the internet is not a truck said...

well said. my understanding is that the 2nd was really about being able to quickly form an army (i.e. militia) but not about individual gun ownership. with the advent of the military industrial complex, one could even say that such an amendment is so historically dependent, that it no longer makes sense today (let alone equates to individual gun ownership).

7:15 AM

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