Yeah, okay, someone mod me down :( I tried to be funny, can't fault a man for trying.

A local contractor severed a wire today, killing 5 from heavy metal poisoning.

That was awesome, thank you for sharing.

Bit extreme, no? I've used Craigslist and eBay both as a buyer and seller and never once have I had a single problem. Sure fraud happens there, but fraud happens everywhere, it is not unique to either platform. All that is required is user intelligence, and kickstarter is not much different except for instead of buying a product that maybe someone will never send you you are buying a product that maybe will never exist. Besides that: Kickstarter, though it has its problems, has also had its deal of successes where people that don't have the ability to make things but have the money to buy them are paired up with people that have the ability to make things but not the money to sell them. The only people that could be mad at Kickstarter are people too dumb to read and understand what they are getting from investing in a campaign (read: good feelings for trying to help out what they perceive as a good idea). If you're backing a campaign because you want to buy a finished product you're doing it wrong.

This is all about perspective then; you say innovation I say stagnation. Really how many *useful* features does your new DVD player have that your old one didn't? It plays DVDs, has been innovated enough to play CDs, MP3s, JPEGs, etc but you bought it to play the same shiny circle it did 10 years ago. Something becoming cheaper and gaining incremental features isn't innovation, it is stagnation. The thing is that to me, our patent laws are perfectly reasonable. Maybe the terms could be a bit shorter, but if someone invents something they should be able to own that invention for awhile. The problem is the patent office. The inspectors are simply overworked, if you take too long (which they already do) the system is broken. If you let bad patents through (which face it, given their insurmountable task, you would fuck up a lot too) the system is broken. If you hire a million new patent inspectors the country complains you are spending too much money, so the system gets broken. Then you ask how to change it and find it isn't fixable. If you do away with patents then many people see no reason to innovate. If you make the practice harder or more expensive you alienate the little guy. We can put a limit on how many patents an entity can file but besides being unenforceable it also screws the big guy, and the big guy doesn't deserve to be screwed either. I agree we live in an amazing world, I am typing this reply on the computer that resides in my pocket. It will, momentarily beam this message through the air, then fiber, then copper to a few hard drives somewhere so that everyone in the world can read it. This phone also connects to satellites in freaking space in order to find me when I get lost. Oh yeah, and the internet gives me Wikipedia, IMDB, various dictionaries, and all the naked women I can shake a stick at; you know, pretty much the whole of human knowledge (and perversions) sitting in my pocket. I cannot argue innovation still happens, but of this $600 computer (in my pocket, seriously, how cool is that?) how much pays for ridiculous patents on obvious ideas because sometimes buying a license is cheaper than lawyers and bad press? Of my $100 a month cell phone bill how much goes to the guy that determined if we take a receiver and put it up higher using a metal, plastic, wooden, or other solid substrate for the purposes of better reception while also, in it's design, using triangular geometry in order to maximize strength? We need to give credit, somehow, to the guy that invented the touchscreen, not the guy who's idea it was that if I spread my fingers apart I am signaling to make something bigger, and pulling them closer means make something smaller.

And the outspoken owner of the Dallas Mavericks, says Shark Tank

According to the interpretations that our current laws are based off of I have the right to own a gun. This interpretation has stood for longer than either of us have been alive, and though you may interpret it differently you are not the one that gets to make the laws. Also, have you ever gone bird hunting? I don't know many people that could shoot a flying bird out of the air with a 22, and I know a lot of people that shoot a lot of rounds. Anyways, I don't much like bird so the only birds I shoot at are made of clay, and they are plenty challenging enough for me to hit with birdshot.

Semi-automatic rifle, automatic weapons are already illegal to own. The rest of your comment doesn't get credibility when you don't know the difference between automatic and semi-automatic. Automatic weapons would probably be harder to kill people with, unless you have experience with them your aim lasts for exactly one round and then you are shooting at the ceiling/sky.

I would hardly call this hacking, more social engineering with the social part being the ability to use Google. I remember hacking an ex girlfriend's account when I was in middle school to send e-mails to every guy she knew asking for sexual favors. I guess I'm just a super 1337 hax0r. I also have to question how wise it is to carry nude pictures of you everywhere, do they often run into emergency "showing my tits" situations?

Okay, so let's say we live in your perfect world and suddenly someone who is already plans on committing a crime is thwarted by guns being illegal (come to think of it, since laws stop criminals from doing things we should just make murder illegal or something) and uses a knife. Now we already know that in China more children were stabbed, and it is very clear if the guy knew what he was doing he could have killed them all, but we'll ignore that because we're living in your fantasy land now, so he only kills 10 children. Imagine you're a first responder and you are tasked with notifying the families of the victims. Imagine how happy the parents will be when you tell them how successful you were in your campaign against guns and how happy you are that he only killed 10 children. I give it, in this situation, even odds that you get stabbed with a knife by a family member.

Bird hunting would be awful hard with a .22. Maybe you're a better shot than I, but I would much prefer a 12 gauge with bird shot. The exact point here is that what is useful to you shouldn't affect what I can and cannot do, my wants and needs may differ. It seems a bit ironic to me that on a site where people are so worried that the government may see words they type in a search engine that they also are so okay with taking an actual constitutional right away.

I'm not against limiting high capacity magazines and assault rifles, there is no legitimate need for either. I am against the "ban guns" argument, as there are legitimate uses for guns. My apologies if there was a misunderstanding with the point I was trying to make and thank you for the chance to clear that up.

And *don't god damn, I promise to proofread better.

*they want, not you, stupid phone.

Believe it or not since it is their website that they pay for they have every right to do whatever the hell you want. If you dint like it I'm sure Bing will welcome you with open arms.