#stem

We should have a system of licensing and registration, we should treat firearms the same way that automobiles are treated so that people have to pass a safety test. ↗

— Michael D. Barnes

#firearms #licensing #pass #people #registration

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. ↗

— Dave Barry

#catch #count #did #increasing #metric

We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin. ↗

— Dave Barry

#admit #better #coin #complain #country

In this life and death case, I felt Mrs. Schiavo should receive the fullest due process from our legal system. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

#death #due #felt #fullest #i

The budget enforcement rules of the 1990s were an important part of getting the budget back into balance. It was done on a bipartisan basis. Those pay-as-you-go rules were tested and they worked. We are now in a one-party system, and we have thrown them out. ↗

— Melissa Bean

#balance #basis #bipartisan #budget #done

The current system punishes communities which make the investment in creating landfills, only to have them filled by states which refuse to adequately address their waste issues. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

#adequately #communities #creating #current #filled

We are putting more and more power into a system which is less and less able to carry it reliably. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

#carry #into #less #more #more and more

All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#atheism #belief #less #many #modernity

JAG is an acronym for the Judge Advocate General, which is the judicial system of the military. ↗

— Catherine Bell

#general #jag #judge #judicial #judicial system

But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems. ↗

— Paul Berg

#chemical #designing #events #far #far less