Apparently you are unfamiliar with the concept of war.

War is something that happens between two states. You can't have a war with 'terrorist' or even Al Qaida. The best you can manage is a police action with any credibility is a police action.

Kinda future eco-SimCity, IIRC.

...he's doing the usual thing of taking all of the unauthorized downloaded copies as lost sales, and then saying that they're losing 95% of all their sales to piracy?

Nah, it's kinda like patents. Tack on "...on the Internet!" and it's completely brand new and not encumbered by previous annoying legislation.

I guess California has got a lot of labeling to do, then. It's not like anything we eat today isn't genetically modified, or hasn't been for a couple thousand years...

"Mercy" means not trying to force a 17-year-old girl to be responsible for protecting the identities of her rapists for the rest of her life.

The average American doesn't understand the implications of much of the scientific study that goes on, therefore it's useless and the money could be spent "on more important things".

I'm pretty certain that aneutronic fusion is still way, way out of our reach, so you do have a nuclear waste problem. Namely your reaction vessel.

Nah, it's stupid lazy-ass parents who can't be bothered actually supervising their children, but instead just shove them at something distracting so they can try to go about their pre-parenthood-responsibility lives.

Court orders only mean something when they feel like it. :p

All government authority comes out of the barrel of a gun, sorry to break it to you...

That's silly, you can believe anything you want. What you mean to say is that expressing religious beliefs on Slashdot tends to make you a target for trolls and the vocal anti-religionists (is that a thing?).

Soldiers are trained to obey orders. I wouldn't bet your life on "US soldiers won't fire upon US civilians", since they've happily done so before.

Yeah, this. Lead doesn't spark against hard surfaces, no matter how hard it's hitting them (okay, within reason; sufficient velocity trumps all). Either way, aren't these guys like wide open for a massive civil suit?

The whole idea of using patents like this is just stupid. The government can just go "Ooop, hey our patent now" and the whole thing is moot, law goes right ahead. XD