Um, no. Look at the context. The 2A was born in the wake of the Revolution, when the States were delegating power to a Federal government that was needful for protecting the States against the likes of King George III, without giving it so much power that it could become as tyrannical as King George III, disarming the populace, as tyrants will.
The Bill of Rights undergirds the notion that the unit of analysis in the document beginning "We the People. . ." is in fact the person.
Why you can't understand that "the security of a free State" is about the absolute right of self defense, and instead want to call it "a product manufactured by the gun lobby" (I do not even own a gun; this is a matter of common sense) is both worrisome and a pretext for some really dodgy decision making.

I submit that you may be kind of oblivious to organizational behavior. Perhaps it's deliberate. But I'm in no way advocating that any employees anywhere work for $0. Such would be (a) theft, and (b) legitimize even WORSE behavior than already in evidence.
What I *would* do, granted ridiculous powers of fiat, is limit public employment (non-teacher & military, I mean bureaucrats) to 10 years.
Simpler systems and higher turnover rate are worth a try for minimizing corruption.

OK, I thought it was a good gag.

Since I refuse to vote Jeb, I wonder if I'm secretly accidentally in league with Sarah in support of Her Majesty? Stringier things have happened.

If only. My favorite machines, way ahead of their time. If Apple showed how to market computers, Commodore showed how not to market them. I made a lot of videos with my trusty old Amigas, from back in frame buffer animation days through multiple Video Toasters. Had an A500, and a A2000 at home, an A2000 and 3000 and 4000 at work.

Damn, those were good times.

No citation, just something that crossed my mind along with how the political ads seem targeted. Here (Canada) the political ads seem to be totally targeted at people who have no memory and no understanding of basic economics as well as a really simplified view point on various other topics.
They've also changed the rules to make it very hard for young people to even vote

McLaren didn't develop the car either. But I do like their Spider.

Regardless, Apple did a lot of innovation, that Microsoft, and even Linux ended up emulating.

And yes, Apple didn't invent the Graphical User Interface or mouse. You have your Sketchpad, your oN-Line System, your Xerox Star, heck, the early NORAD computer SAGE used a light pen, a harbinger of things to come.

But they sure did know what to do with them.

I see. Can you give your thoughts on the similar crowd regarding Windows products?

The question is who is not voting. If it is only the stupid or non-informed not voting and all the actual voters are very informed, well great. Unluckily it seems that it is mostly the uninformed Wal-mart types that are voting with the informed people having given up as obviously it doesn't matter if you vote, red team or blue team, we're fucked.
This is actually one of the ways to push authoritarianism while pretending to be free, discourage informed people from voting. See sig

Hey, how's that merger going, bitches?

I understand that's entirely wrong. Apple understand the danger of pre-announcing. The "no apps" position was to get people to buy the iPhone as it was in version 1, rather than wait. The "web apps" position was to have something to tell developers at a time when the SDK was far from ready to announce. But Apple were intending to have third party apps right from the point they selected a cut-down OSX OS.

Yeah, multiplayer Monster Truck Madness was the best driving game I ever played. One of the few great MS products.

Some of us grew up in between the end of the 'OMG Communists!' era and the start of the 'OMG terr'rists!' era. The rest of you probably shouldn't be allowed to vote.

iPhone 2007, iPad 2010, iWatch 2015. When did they stop innovating?

And anyone who thinks that's not innovation need to consult a dictionary for the difference between innovation and invention.

Presumably people did notice. The telephone connection to both of my last two houses comes in at the front, but there was a telegraph pole in the back of both with a wire going into the back (and then terminating). In both houses, the wire eventually fell off the back. I presume that the previous owners did notice when they re-did their telephone wiring...