I hate to admit it but I often use NewEgg as a search engine. Once I find something I want on NewEgg I'll search for it on Amazon by model number, or something like that, and find it is cheaper there. I used to go to NewEgg 100% of the time years back but after they dropped free three day shipping I find myself using Amazon more on account of having a Prime subscription.

I remember when AltaVista was my search engine of choice and I had a Lycos email account. Now I just feel old.

I have actually heard that lead based solder is environmentally better because it would lead (pun not intended) to less waste and contamination. The reasoning is that the eventual breakdown of tin based solder (whiskers, fractures, etc..) causes electronics to fail far more frequently and far sooner than they should otherwise, and so as a consequence instead of fixing it people will just throw their devices away and get another one and then meanwhile their old device will find its way into a dump site somewhere.

That is just what I've heard. If anyone knows more about this I'd like to hear it.

I have a Note 4 and I refuse to upgrade much to the dismay of the reps at one of my carrier's store. None of the new Note phones seem to do anything that justifies an expensive upgrade to me and even if they did I still prefer Note 4 for the fact I can swap out the battery while on the go. An ideal phone to me would be basically a Note 4 with newer, faster, hardware but instead Samsung keeps coming out with the same rehash of the hipster paper thin phone with a non-replaceable battery that explodes.

For everything else; there is MasterCard

I have a Galaxy Note 4 and my phone goes from 0% to 100% in about 15 seconds when I go to swap the battery out with a spare one.

I have a Y-UY95 ultra thin keyboard from Logitech that I've been using a few years, however the one I'm using is a replacement because one of the springy things on one of the keys broke so I called Logitech and asked if they'd send me a new key or something under warranty but instead they decided to send me a whole new keyboard no questions asked and this one has worked for years without issue.

Now their headsets on the other hand are a different story. I had a G930 where the battery started failing and the right channel stopped working shortly after the warranty expired. I take good care of my things so it definitely was not from abuse. I replaced it with a Corsair Vengeance 2100 but now that one is starting to fall apart. Whatever happened to things that were built to last a lifetime instead of just a couple years?

Is it possible it's just being out competed by the Vive? I hardly hear anyone mentioning Oculus anymore ever since Facebook bought Oculus and the Vive hit the market.

Burma Shave!

The NRA has a program called Eddie Eagle that teaches firearm safety starting at an early age by instructing kids that guns are dangerous and if they find a gun to leave it alone and immediately tell an adult like a; parent, teacher, police man and so forth. Having seen some of the material myself it reminds me of the fire safety education back when I was kid like Smokey the Bear and Stop Drop 'n' Roll. Going back to the 80's and earlier some high schools even had shooting sport teams and more detailed firearm handling safety courses for older kids.

The problem however is that even talking about guns has become politically incorrect and a lot of schools have pulled this program and ones resembling it under pressure from anti-gun groups and adopted a zero-tolerance mindset about even mentioning guns but I'm not really sure what their logic behind this approach is. An interesting development though is that the state I live in has a bill in the legislature to make firearm safety education mandatory so that may be a sign things are changing gradually.

See the United States v. Miller case which has been cited by several other cases including D.C. v. Heller.

This is what I felt also. I think the newer generation is looking at working as a means to live whereas employers expect their employees to live to work and practically worship the company.

The issue at hand is that the right to keep and bear arms is specifically enumerated in the constitution therefore laws targeting to limit or control it are treated with the highest scrutiny, furthermore in Heller v. D.C. the Supreme Court ruled that given the historical background of the second amendment it protects an individual right to keep and bear arms unconnected with military service and that the idea behind the second was to provide a deterrent against tyranny whether domestic or foreign. That being said it seems like the government knowing who and where all the guns are would defeat the idea behind the amendment, but even otherwise the whole round em' up scenario is no longer a hypothetical situation as we've seen gun confiscating campaigns in California and New York already. Speaking of hypothetical situations there is also a famous scene in the movie Red Dawn, whose producers were opposed to the then new FFL system, where a soviet commandant in the invading force orders a subordinate to raid all the gun stores in occupied territory to collect all the Form 4473's so they can systematically quell any opposition in the bud before the citizenry can form a militia.

I'd also like to point out that licenses for firearms originated in the Jim Crowe south with the idea of oppressing certain racial groups from being able to defend themselves against injustice. Martin Luther King, for example, was denied a gun permit even though people were terrorizing his family, defacing his property and sending him death threats.

One could argue that you have some vague right to drive a car but the fact remains driving cars are not specifically enumerated in the constitution like arms are. A more apt comparison might be if the government tried to limit freedom of speech by requiring a license to publish anything for public consumption but then make the argument that because you might be able to get a license means your rights are not being infringed on. In fact we're already seeing this type of thing spread in Europe where certain types of speech is banned and a criminal offense.

Furthermore the gun manufacturing industry has its own organization called the National Shooting Sports Foundation. The NRA is a civil rights organization much like the ALCU, or any number of other non-profit organizations advancing the interests of liberty, yet I don't see paranoid claims that the ACLU is the puppet of big news corporations. For some reason it's politically correct to defend any part of the constitution except the second amendment.

I also looked into Chlorpyrifos and it appears that it is only dangerous in high doses but never the less the EPA has banned, or limited, its use on certain plants and all crops using it are required to have a buffer zone away from populated or recreational areas, particularly until more well designed and credible research is available for or against its use. If Dow Chemical was as all powerful as your claim I doubt there would be these restrictions in place.

I'd also like to point out to the paranoid OP that the United States is not a democratic government; it's a constitutional republic and that alone is a huge difference.

Or even if you are from the U.S.

Recently I just came back from vacation for a couple weeks and upon re-entry the DHS rifled through all my stuff then they questioned me on where I went, why I went, who I knew there, how I knew them, how long I've known them and what I did while I was there. Then the TSA did the same thing all over again because I guess apparently the TSA does not trust the DHS or something. I honestly did not have anything to hide but I felt really uncomfortable through the whole ordeal.

Also my captcha just now was "Fascism"