Why again are we still supposed to use the ballot box instead of the bullet box?

That acronym is so massive we'll need Roland Emmerich to make a movie about it hitting the Senate floor.

What I'm trying to get across here is that it's pretty much exactly the same thing that made people not buy high def screens when they first came out. Old ones were "good enough." You're not still running 1024x768, are you?

It really isn't. Onboard sound is indeed "good enough," but that's not mutually exclusive with sound cards being worth it if you can afford them. Onboard sound no longer sucks so bad that you can notice the flaws without any basis of comparison, but when you DO have one, the benefits of the more expensive stuff are immediately apparent. Much richer bass, and cranking the volume doesn't flatten the sound or cause crackling. I'm using onboard sound now, because I can't afford an upgrade, but I definitely notice what I'm missing from when I did have a real soundcard. It's not nearly as important with gaming, but if you're listening to music, you can only miss the difference if you're completely tin-eared.

It is sometimes said by people who support gun rights that we need them in the event it ever becomes necessary to overthrow the government. That's what the right was established for, after all.

"That's ridiculous," opponents say. "You can't fight the federal government! They can just fly right over you and destroy your whole army with half a thought."

Leaving aside that guerrilla warfare works just fine against them everywhere else in the world, we can now say "no, they can't." They are too busy having our money stolen from them by the companies that are supposed to make the jets.

Isn't this more like if almost all the employees at McDonald's were also dealing drugs out the back door? Pretty sure all the franchise owners would at least be investigated/harassed out of business in that case. Not saying it's right, but it makes way more sense than the car thing.

If the armed invaders breaking down your door aren't from the government, you aren't a cop killer for shooting them.

September 17th, 2014: Paramedics free Florida man's penis from 3D printed robot.

a) actually sounds pretty reasonable. The number of people who want to drop $300 on a drone just to fuck around with it is much smaller than the number of people who would be willing to invest $300 into a piece of business infrastructure that will wind up smashing through somebody's window.

Every single one of those, except for the "lack of popular support" which is just a bald-faced lie, can be boiled down to "the influence of money on politics." You haven't contradicted the person you're replying to, just made a list of largely unnecessary specifics about how they're right.

This might be the most dangerous parallelogram in history!

Oh, god dammit I hate the mobile site. That is not what my post looked like when I pushed the button.

The first part should read as follows. "The solution here isn't less lecturing, it's teaching people what notes are actually for and how to properly take them. I would generally be considered a 'visual learner...'"

Why the hell can't somebody make a droid app with posting functionality that isn't even more broken than m.slashdot.org?

TheI understand words much better when they go in my eyes rather than my ears.

Despite this, I've had much better results in classes that are tough for me by taking good notes in lectures. Your mind wanders much less because you're already multitasking; your retention is better because both tasks are over the same information. Paraphrasing somebody else's words requires understanding; when you can't keep up, it's a sign you should ask for a clarification.
I often didn't even really study the notes; there was no need, since the act of taking them was how I learned. When I did need more in-depth info, I could just look in the textbook, as whenever I jotted something down from the lecture, I'd correlate it with the page in the book we were on.
For tough subjects, this method really isn't optional. There's no good reason we aren't teaching everyone to do it.

That's exactly when you DO need a cell. Frankly, only a twit focuses on the day-to-day convenience of these devices before the massive gains in travel safety. If your phone doesn't work in the middle of nowhere, it's broken.

http://xkcd.com/793/

The really interesting thing will be when Randall does a comic about how you can get easy upvotes for "oblig xkcd" posts.