So I guess your eyes glossed over before you got the part where I talked about how someone is still maintaining current releases of Firefox to run on the original iMac (from the 20th century)?

"I have dissociative identity disorder, and so do I"

Meh. That just isn't as funny as the old one.

I wonder with these types of artificial filters would there be any benefit for an otherwise healthy person to have this done?

I would go with more of a convenient US annoyance Putin can keep around to poke the US government with instead of communist spy. Also if I didn't want to find out what is is like to experience extreme rendition or be sodomized by a hellfire missile Russia seem like a pretty good country to flee to.

Compare to the SGS3. http://m.gsmarena.com/samsung_...

Except for storage these phones are on par with the 2012 champ SGS III. With millions more apps, better hardware video support, better battery life and India specific features like dual Sim, FM radio they should do well.

Now that sounds like a range I would like to avoid. I like the one I go to since they take a very strict approach to those things and it sounds like you did as well while you were at that one. That seems to be how a lot of those things are one person leaves and things get lax.

As much as I would like to avoid the bears, I have had close encounters with them while out in the woods, as well as the wolves and cougars. Then again that is the only place where I carry a hand gun because my chances of needing it are fairly high. I haven't had to kill any of those critters but have used it to scare off the one wolf in front of me who was trying to drive me back into the waiting pack. I have also discharged it while heading away from a mamma bear and cub up the trail, and was very glad when I came around a bend in the trail and was about 2 feet from the ass of a black bear that was crawling into a hollowed out log. This ignores the times that I have seen such critters off a ways. A lot of it is being aware of your surroundings but being stalked by wolves is not fun and cougars really to move silently through the woods but even then it seems I have a 50/50 chance of seeing one of the large predators up there. With critters there is no quick draw, if something seems a bit off or I can see one I get it out and ready.

Then change the Constitution.

Google and their hardware partners are doing a lot to bring the benefit of technology to more people than have had it before.

Unless you are one of my uncle's co-workers why wouldn't you clean the barrel or the gun after you use it? It should be considered regular maintenance just like changing oil and belts on your car. Of course if you don't take car of your shit it won't work, just like one of my uncle's coworkers has the same shotgun I do and his doesn't fire over half the time, while mine works perfectly and has never had a problem even though I use mine a lot more.

This a thousand times. In the US we live in a society that has lots of firearms so the genie is out of the bottle on that one. What we need is compulsory education on them just like we do for vehicles. In my high school everyone had to take the drivers ed course where everyone learned the rules of the road and hopefully enough to get their learners permit. We need the same thing for firearms. Hopefully this would accomplish two thing, the first being fewer stupid people doing stupid things with firearms, and the other might be fewer people who are absolutely terrified by the mere existence of firearms.

As far as training goes the following models are all good with the first 3 being among the best:
The basic firearm safety
Hunter education course (same as above but also focuses on hunting)
The BSA shotgun or rifle merit badges.
A state carry permit course (not impressed with these compared to the other options)

Sounds about right. The NRA like to say they speak for all gun owners but they don't. I support some of the initiatives (trigger locks) but there is a lot of rhetoric coming from them that I don't support. Because of this I will never join their organization and they will probably be pulled more to the extreme since there are groups farther out that are pulling away members. I would much rather support groups like Ducks Unlimited and Pheasants Forever who do good work advocating for hunters and restoring and preserving wild spaces.

Don't worry the Boy Scouts of America still offers rifle and shotgun merit badges and they still have the same requirements that they did ~30 years ago when I got them. When I got them the range instructor was an old salty marine so we all learned how shoot like the marines do. I managed to make it into the dime club and to demonstrate proficiency to the instructor for the badge you had to be able to get 5 shots in a group that was quarter sized. There was a lot of emphasis on safe handling, when to shoot and not, cleaning, maintenance, and shooting proficiency. Both the rifle and shotgun merit badges were more comprehensive than the standard firearm safety, or even the Minnesota carry permit trainings that I have also done. They are an excellent program.

I prefer to start with an air rifle instead of blanks. No I am not talking the $40 daisy BB gun but the higher end .22 or .25 cal breach loading $200+ air rifles. They are easier to handle than a .22lr and are very accurate and I can shoot it in the back yard while a .22lr I couldn't. I did expose my children to handling and cleaning my firearms before I started teaching the oldest to shoot (6 years old) but that was to remove their curiosity. They have seen me disassemble and clean the firearms and have seen me handle them properly. I have explained what to do and why you do it so that it isn't a mystery. This summer I showed the oldest one why you handle firearms safely and besides it is always fun to explode a watermelon. Good fun targets were always the store brand pop cans. Shake them up really good, toss them out a ways (still closed) and even with an air rifle they make a big mess when hit.