Steam also allows for one other interesting use. I have many many games in my steam library, but I have only ever purchased one game from Steam. I buy games where ever and register thier codes on Steam. Thus I get all of the Steam goodness and if they ever shut down their servers, I have all my games still. Let see suXBOX do that.

Why do you assume they aren't as happy, relative to others? You seem to be judging a culture based on your own culture, which doesn't always work so well (to say the least). I mean no snark, but because people from your culture wouldn't like it doesn't mean others wouldn't.

"f the cop was singing "Stop Resisting" to the tune of "Happy Birthday", you're still civilly liable for copyright infringement. "

Stop resisting, I'm beating you!
Stop resisting, I'm beating you!
Stop resisting, I'm beating yoooooou!
Stop recording or I'll beat you too!

Actually if you have a woodworking shop you have everything you need to make a submachine gun that would make this "printed" hand exploder look like the toy it is. I am not saying it would be easy nor look good when you were done. It would however be full auto/select fire and hold as many rounds as you want (and be able to slap in more quickly). Metalworking is easy, fine metalworking, like fine woodworking is hard.

I know metal work and not plasctic forming but from what I have read and seen about 3d printing, not really no, it is not harder to build one from real materials. Where it gets a little odd is that if done right it is almost easier to make multiple sten type submachine guns at once as opposed to one. You know, cut out ten of these, ten of those, put tab "a" into slot "b" that sort of thing. And screw the 'You need a machine shop' stuff. Truth is the only tool that is handy to have above hand tools to make a sten type gun is a drill press. You can use a hand drill, but lining up holes is a pain in the arse by hand and eye. As for barrels, well, the thing is made to spray bullets not win olympic medals, you can 'wobble' in a barrel blank with press easier with a press than with a hand drill. If you know what you are doing, even a cheapo wood lathe could turn out a barrel better than what whats-his-name has "printed".

"The only part that I'm not sure of is how one would make brass shell cases or primers."

For the brass - the same way the big boys do - 20 ton press (also cheap from Griz).

"Seriously? have you covered only liberal and democrats in this survey?"
Because there aren't any liberal democrat gun owners, everyone knows that. /s

Guess what, I was pointing out that both are groups that others want to paint with a huge brush for the actions of a few. So yeah, they are equivalent. Good on ya though for picking up that they are not a race, religion or ethnicity. Nice police work there Lou. As for an answer to your questions - um...all of them? Because otherwise they wouldn't be good cops?

See that was the point of the part you quoted, every group has its share of jerks, police jerks tend to get exposed more often. The part that keeps getting missed though is that there actually *are* good cops out there, in fact most of them are believe it or not. Thus what the GP said, most just want to go home at the end of the day and take off their shoes, no Grand Cabal of the Blue Shield needed.

would be a good start.

"science and maths promotion"

Or perhaps you are planning on colouring all of your labour with such cromulent Britishism's

People believe muslims are bad because muslims do so many bad things. They have not taken responsibility as a group and purged their ranks of bad muslims, so people will continue to assume that every muslim is a bad muslim. This is the only rational assumption to make, because many of them are bad people, and they have power over you. Thus, you must be on your guard against bad muslims, and you must assume that any muslim interaction will go wrong.

Yeah that doesn't sound prejudicial at all. Guess what, there are jerks who spit on your burger at McD's, scientists that fake results and janitors who leave soap slime on toilet seats too. As long as you are going to tar entire professions might as well keep going.

Douse them in legal Roundup?

"Let them eat cake." -Attributed to M. Antoinette and Adam Orth

"The cake is a lie." -Attributed to some poor bastard trying to get cake, and anyone dealing with always on DRM.

Screw you Mr Orth, but it does look like you are choking on a gob of twitter frosting.

He said "doing real work".

What you are doing is perfectly legal, has been for years. The plans to build all sorts of guns have been out for ages. The government really doesn't care because making a gun is perfectly legal. Calling it "hosting politically incendiary content" isn't going to make it so. It isn't going to be the Big Bad Government that is going to take you down either, it is the wife of the guy that has one of your designs blow up in his face that is going to soak up every dime you are worth. Go ask Paladin Press how it works, I am sure they will give you an ear full.

I used to think like you to an extent, then I actually went looking for answers. Trust me, that is a skeleton crew. Between, public/community//state/federal standards/mandates/reporting I am continually shocked they get as much done as they do. Look at it this way. Take any company with as many workers as your local school has students (the parents and community are the customers), anything close to the same budget, and overall responsibility to thieir customers and see if they have as many managers. Chances are they have many many more. If you want a hand crafted product, it is going to take incredible attention to detail, that costs time, people and money.

Few people that participated in HS sports would tell you it was a bad investment years later. As for tech, if you want cake you are going to have to break some eggs. As for 'your' tax dollars, I guess more people decided that their tax dollars were well spent on these things. Welcome to democracy.