Dick championed the Militia Act of 1903, which became known as the Dick Act. The 1903 act repealed the Militia Acts of 1795 and designated the militia (per Title 10 of the U.S. Code, Section 311) as two classes: the Reserve Militia, which included all able-bodied men between ages 17 and 45, and the Organized Militia, comprising state militia (National Guard) units receiving federal support.

Sounds like they did not redefine a word as you say, and invented two new ones instead.

Sounds like they were scared individual states and state militias would gain too much power and wanted a militia the Feds could control with Federal money, with thegoal to have some kind of power over the states and not piss off governors of said states and deter them from FAFO.

Thank you for the links and interesting reads… So it sounds like the Militia Act of 1903 is the source of all these issues, and likely can be argued is unconstitutional from the start since they wanted to redefine a word from the Constitution

Yes? Do I sound like a lawyer to you? Ask one of them? I’m just parroting what they say. I guess, the answer is yes in your reciprocation.

Everything that NPR article mentioned is, without sarcasm, absolutely and factually correct, and legitimately not possible to refute.

A militia in 1700’s speak is simply a group of able-bodied males who own and are trained to use their own personally procured firearms, and serve their local government (village, city, or state). That way the local government doesnt need to pay money out of local city/state funds to arm them and train them and eventually mobilise them to arms.

~200 years of precedent

I anal, so hopefully you can provide me shit to read about this precedence and help me change my mind.

Your ignorance is adorable; keep it up and don’t stop being inquisitive or apologetic of it.

“Well regulated” translated from 1700’s speak just means “in good working order”, not meaning regulated by a bureaucracy issuing permits.

The intention was for state governors not having to rely solely on National Guardsman or Federal government, and can simply pluck a militia ran by civilians who developed a military-like hierarchy in their organization to answer to said governor of the state in order to address issues withinthe states with threats of violence.

Thank you for this. Very interesting read about hacker speak.

I love this. ICBM address is a very clever joke.

Most “apps” are just http web hooks to a regular website backend with extra tracking telemetry. So a website working as a PWA should be enough for everyone.

I hate how everything has to be a fucking app, because it doesn’t need to be.

I set out in 1983 to develop an operating system, calling it GNU […]

Holy fuck this video game Morrowind itself achieved CHIM, ascended beyond its own code and invented GNU?!?!