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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Running up against energy limits<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#222222'>women can compete on an equal footing with men and testiculated women. It is the only sport like that I know of. Any others? spike </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>>…<span style='color:#222222'>I guessed table tennis, but even there men have a power advantag</span>e..<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>There are some really good women’s ping pong competitors. The 2016 Olympic women’s champion trained right here in town. But they don’t compete with the best men players.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>>…<span style='color:#222222'>Just where does one go to sign up for militias</span>?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>You don’t sign up. To fit the legal definition, you only need to be an able-bodies male US citizen between the ages of 17 and 44 inclusive. You and I are not eligible. But we can be trainers and allies.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>>…<span style='color:#222222'> I think John asked this awhile back. Where did '60 million' come from</span>?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>I just took standard USA age demographics which suggest about 120-some million between 17 and 44, then divided by 2.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>According to the United States Legal Code, Chapter 12, Title 10, subtitle A, section 246:<o:p></o:p></span></p><h3 style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.25pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;color:#32434F'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#32434F'>§246. <o:p></o:p></span></h3><h3 style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.25pt;margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:#32434F'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>o<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#32434F'>Militia: composition and classes<o:p></o:p></span></h3><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=circle><li class=statutory-body style='color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'><a name="substructure-location_a"></a><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=statutory-body style='color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'><a name="substructure-location_b"></a><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>The classes of the militia are—<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul></ul><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=circle><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=square><li class=statutory-body-1em style='color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo1'><a name="substructure-location_b_1"></a><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=statutory-body-1em style='color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo1'><a name="substructure-location_b_2"></a><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul></ul></ul><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=circle><li class=source-credit style='color:black;margin-top:3.75pt;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>(<a href="https://uscode.house.gov/statviewer.htm?volume=70A&page=14" target="_blank"><span style='color:#0F0D61'>Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 14</span></a>, §311; <a href="https://uscode.house.gov/statviewer.htm?volume=72&page=1439" target="_blank"><span style='color:#0F0D61'>Pub. L. 85–861, §1(7), Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1439</span></a>; <a href="https://uscode.house.gov/statviewer.htm?volume=107&page=1656" target="_blank"><span style='color:#0F0D61'>Pub. L. 103–160, div. A, title V, §524(a), Nov. 30, 1993, 107 Stat. 1656</span></a>; renumbered §246, <a href="https://uscode.house.gov/statviewer.htm?volume=130&page=2497" target="_blank"><span style='color:#0F0D61'>Pub. L. 114–328, div. A, title XII, §1241(a)(2), Dec. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 2497</span></a>.)<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul></ul><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Many have argued the US legal code isn’t legal, but the Supreme Court opined to the contrary. I argue that the applicable legal law is the actual literal law, as written and ratified.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>>…<span style='color:#222222'>Is there any organization at all</span>?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Ja. Civilization and its laws.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>>…<span style='color:#222222'>Such as who calls out the militia</span>?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Don’t worry Billw. When it is time, we will know. We will know.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>>…<span style='color:#222222'>I certainly do not like the militias that make the news. bill</span>w<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>The US militia is a singular:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:15.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Amendment II<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333'>A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333'> US Constitution, Amendment 2, 1791 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>That makes it pretty clear to me. The term makes no sense as a plural unless speaking of other nations’ militias, and that I don’t actually know. What the US press likes to call militias are actually terrorist groups. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>The US militia is here to protect the US against terrorist groups if the military and National Guard cannot stop them. The US press doesn’t like to talk about the militia. I don’t recall seeing the last time it was mentioned.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></body></html>