Anti Gun is POPULAR, maybe just not as Popular as Pro Gun.

Your argument is that the Cowboys are more popular than the Patriots, therefore the Patriots aren't popular at all.

We're not talking guns here, we're talking about CNC mills, which haven't killed anyone. Next objection?

You've just made my case for me. Thanks. More regulation begets more regulations.

If it were only about setting data free, you'd be right. BUT this is the government we're talking about. You believe the government isn't in this to gain more power and control over us?

Memories are meant to fade. That is what makes them valuable.

Not the worst advice, the collective wisdom of /. is both enlightening and sad ... depending on who you're listening to at the moment.

My advice ...

1) Teach her that nothing of great value is easy. If it is easy people don't value it. Don't take the easy path, just because it is easy. Don't avoid the hard path, simply because an easy path is available. You'll miss out on what everyone else is missing, and will not be better off because of it.

Things that are hard to acquire are the things people tend to value more.

2) Learn all you can about everything that interests you. Once you learn something, there is nobody that can take it from you.

3) Make things. Build something, anything. Make something that is hard (see #1), take the time to do it right. You'll learn something (#2) and you'll have something of value in the end. And when you're done, do it again.

4) Value people over things. Don't get attached to things, get attached to quality people. Things can always be taken away, but nobody can take away a friend. Not time, not distance, not anything.

In the end, there is nothing from this world we can take into the next. The only thing we leave is a bit of ourselves behind, in the lives we have impacted, and the things we have built.

I said the same thing. Shortsightedness because it gains you temporarily what you want, never works in the long run.

You're close. This is nothing more than the camel's nose. Government now has a "right" to do whatever it wants/needs to the internet, and we won't have a say in it.

Political Speech is already on the chopping block, but since it is the "evil Republicans", and not the "sweet innocent Democrats" that are pushing it, left wingers are completely silent.

Short sightedness is liberal kryptonite.

Change "guns" to flowers and Customer type from "gun loving" to Gay and see if you have a change it attitude.

You see, there is NOTHING "immoral" or "illegal" about either flowers, gunsmithing equipment, being a gun lover or lover of men. In fact, there is nothing different here except POPULAR OPINION.

I live in a city, and can go from full bars to no coverage in about 1/2 mile. (1KM). There are notorious dead zones in the middle of the city, because the city regulates cell towers, making cell service unusable in large swaths of town.

Yeah, it is that bad.

Hell, certain "High Speed Internet" providers aren't even willing to apply a 10GB Fiber from one rack, to another, to help their users get content faster.

http://qz.com/256586/the-insid...

I remember seeing an interview with someone at Netflix, which basically said "Comcast has the bandwidth to carry all Netflix traffic, without issue. Netflix has the bandwidth to carry all the traffic requested by Comcast customers to Comcast, without issue. We have the capacity, they have the capacity, and if they need networking equipment so we can add a 10GB connection from our rack to their rack (at the COLO) we're willing to buy everything needed. They just won't do it"

No,

How about "to hell" with using government money for self enrichment. IF you take a grant or whatever funding to get you MRI, your discovery belongs to the people of the USA, and no yourself. That way, anyone can use the technology that everyone paid for, without having to worry about royalties to people who used public funds to enrich themselves.

"Subsidized" doesn't mean "Pay less". It does mean "given money to, by the government".

And I love how keeping money you earn is considered "subsidy" by the left, as if government has the right to all of your money, but allows you to keep some of it. Good job guys.

Yes, those things are MENTIONED, but science and technology were never a function OF government, at least directly.

And as a libertarian, I would be HAPPY to support government grants via taxes on patents discovered / created / inventions that were the result of (directly or indirectly) of those government grants. The problem is, government gives a grant to University to do _________, which leads to discovery ______, which is used in patent _________ which is used to generate all sorts of revenue, none of which ever makes it back to the government program that created the grant used in step 1.

I simply oppose using government largess to enrich private parties at the expense of tax payers, regardless of the benefit to those tax payers. It is simply unfair that the tax payers continue to get screwed by government / corporate complex.

This assumes that Taxes are a right of government, and not the consent of the governed.

Considering that we (the USA) were formed on the basis of a tax revolution (at least in part), because we weren't being represented by those in government (a lot like now), this (protesting, avoiding taxes) is our national heritage.

If Europeans want to continue paying their masters, that is fine. I don't want to be a serf to those in government.