By posting this, you've pretty much guaranteed you'll have a no-knock raid at 1am pretty soon.

Yes, but DRM didn't appear in Blizzard games until after the merger. That is why I went from buying every Blizzard game at launch to not buying anything from them anymore. I refuse to be punished by a company for buying their product.

Take a look at Operation Northwoods - a plan from the 60's for launching "false flag" attacks in the US and blaming Cuba for them as a way to push the American public to support war with Cuba. The only reason the plan was never enacted was because JFK wouldn't sign off on it - but the military and the rest of the government was perfectly OK with murdering innocent Americans to push their own agenda.

Even a Mosin that can no longer fire a bullet is still one hell of a club or spear (if you have the 16 inch bayonet attached).

Except that NYS law is in blatant contradiction to the Firearm Owners Protection Act signed by Reagan in '86 (if you're merely passing through New York, that is).

OK then, have someone start bashing your skull into cement and then rethink that statement. Zimmerman was part of the neighborhood watch - it was his (volunteer) job to look for suspicious people and keep and eye on things.

Wow, you honestly have no clue what went on in this case. No one except the anti-gun people in the media ever brought up "stand your ground". Zimmerman's case was entirely based off of normal self-defense laws that exist even in the most anti-gun state. He was pinned to the ground and was having his head bashed into the pavement - that's attempted murder. Even in your most anti-gun area, that's still full grounds for using deadly force to protect yourself. As for "stand your ground" laws, they do not change the circumstance for using force to defend yourself, they merely state that in a self defense situation the defender is assumed to be innocent of a crime unless the prosecutor can prove that they acted unjustly. In states without "stand your ground" laws, you are by default assumed to be guilty and must prove that you acted justly in defending yourself. "Stand your ground" laws do NOT change the fact that you MUST have a valid reason to believe you are in danger of serious injury or death in order to use deadly force to defend yourself and that you must NOT be the aggressor.

Zimmerman was NOT the aggressor. Walking on a sidewalk and following someone is NOT an act of aggression. Trayvon physically assaulting Zimmernman was an act of aggression and since Trayvon initiated the fight and Zimmerman was unable to flee, under EVERY SINGLE STATE'S self defense laws, Zimmerman was 100% within the law to use deadly force to defend himself.

The only thing that needs to be "amended" here is your ignorance of both the law and the facts of the case.

No, the problem was that she fired warning shots. Unfortunately, politicians who are anti-gun have pushed self defense laws to be SO strict when it comes to using a firearm that if you do anything other than flash the gun or shoot to kill, you WILL be guilty of a crime. The laws are specifically written to say that you MUST believe that your life is in danger in order to fire a gun in self defense - thus if you are firing a warning shot or shooting to wound instead of kill, you must not have felt you were in mortal danger or you would have used deadly force. It's ridiculous, but that's the argument of prosecutors, politicians, and judges and there is plenty of precedent supporting that decision.

TIL that Slashdotters equate self defense with murder. In a pro-gun state, he'll have no problem getting a job because the citizens of those states respect people who defend themselves against violent people.

How is that any easier than MPG? You're actually doing the same amount of math because you have to derive the 9.4 L/100 KM first. If you know how many MPG your car gets and how far you drive in a week, you know how many gallons you need.

Actors, writers, directors, and producers generally subscribe to one political ideology and most movies involve at least one or two scenes of insulting / vilifying those who disagree with their political agenda. Now we have a writer who's on the opposite side and suddenly the political agenda of those who made the movie matters?

I think you completely missed the entire topic of discussion here....No one was complaining about upgrading from Win 8 to Win 8.1...

No, the people who will be affected by this are the gamers who, when companies eventually start coding for DirectX 11.2, have no choice but to buy a crappy OS (Windows 8.1) just to play a new game.

Exactly. As slow as companies are to move on to newer versions of Direct X, by the time companies require DirectX 11.2, we'll have Windows 9. Which, given the past 15 years, Microsoft seems to be on a "every other release" for if their OS is great or shit. ME was horrible, XP was great, Vista was horrible, 7 was great, 8 is horrible.... I hold out hope. Or, they could simply realize that putting a mobile UI on a desktop / laptop is a horrible idea and allow you to go into Control Panel and turn off the Metro UI permanently and restore the Start Menu. If they did that in 8.2, people would no longer bitch about how horrible Windows 8 is.

Yeah, the "proper method of whistle blowing" according to them (and you) is "don't fucking do expose our criminal behavior".