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Comment Re:This device is not new or interesting (Score 1) 651

It would be interesting if the whole thing is a big sting operation. Anybody who places an order for one gets a FBI file.

It wouldn't have to be a sting operation. Since the US is monitoring the entire frigging Internet, including who reads this piece of drivel I'm writing, they can simply just flag any requests made to a site they label as "suspect". Which might still include Steve Jackson's Cyberpunk RPG game for all we know.

Comment Re:the solution: (Score 1) 651

you can't even carry a freaking sword

Do you somehow find yourself aggrieved by not being able to carry a sword with you? Is it ruining your cyberpunk look or something?

Or are you just looking for things to kvetch about?

I should think there's very little call for walking around with a sword.

Yeah, what a whiner! Complaining cuz police are gunning down citizens for no reason...

So you want to bring a sword to a gun fight?

Comment Re:the solution: (Score 1) 651

it simply reserved such matters to the States, per the 10th Amendment.

I'm not sure how 'not forbidding' is different than 'allowing'. Regardless, slavery wasn't handled just through the 10th amendment. Article 1, Section 2, Paragraph 3 specifies that slaves (i.e. people who are neither free nor indianans) count as 0.6 people for determining the number of congressional representatives from a state. Because of that, I'd say that the constitution condoned slavery.

That was known as the Virginia clause as implementing it gave the state the lions share of representation and is the key reason that the first few Presidents were all Virginians. The part that gave everyone two Senators per state regardless of size was the New Jersey clause.

Comment Re: This white-knight shit needs to stop (Score 1) 724

Alimony delinquency is not a trivial problem in this country when men excercise the option to leave their responsibilities at the state line.

On a sidenote, this is yet another problem that Bitcoin will solve for us.

Of course, I mean the problem that bank accounts and income streams can be garnished.

So many men are going benefit from the ability to hold their savings and earn income in a currency which no judge can remotely confiscate.

Who's Us? The Legion of Deadbeat Dads?

Comment Re:GamerGate is about sex, not corruption (Score 1) 724

Except all you did was get Glenn Beck on his own damn TV show where he can spout more shill pseudo-conservative horseshit and have more ignorant people believe the absolutely fake things he says that he doesn't actually believe.

Truth of the matter is instead of being one of the Fox News poster boys for the national Tea Party movement, Glen Beck is essentially exiled to the equivalent of Medialand Flatbush in a show that's suited to the small inbred cicle of core devotees that hang on his every word and crocodile tear. If you don't think that this is a major fall from being a leading comentator on a national network, you really don't have any sense of perspective.

Comment Re: This white-knight shit needs to stop (Score 1) 724

If you were looking for a textbook demonstration of misogyny, look no further than the post above. Domestic abuse? You call being assualted, beaten up, raped, and occasionally murdered by your boyfriend or husband, winning? Especially when many of these crimes are never reported? Yeah that's some victory there mate. It may be news to you but women DO take leadership positions. And men like you call them "bossy" for daring to step onto the male preserve. Child support? that's a convenient way to ignore the vast number of deadbeat dads who leave both mother and child on their own. Alimony delinquency is not a trivial problem in this country when men excercise the option to leave their responsibilities at the state line. And you feel upset because of the dinner tab you picked up? And yes we DO here rants like yours all the time.

Comment Re:This white-knight shit needs to stop (Score 1) 724

I know all about the special treatment these women want. Like not being catcalled by every undersexed boy. Like not being assumed that they can't game as well as anyone else in a sport that doesn't involve upper body strength. Like perhaps being represented by gamer figures who would look anorexic next to Barbie.

This isn't new. ANYTIME there has been some form of progressive movement of any form in Human civilization, there has been the knee jerk, circle the wagons response to it. This isn't any different.

Comment Re:Is the immune system working? (Score 1) 724

The entire concept of the Internet as a "fifth estate" or a forum for open debate has been severely discredited by recent events. If video gamers are unable to discuss or dispute that "Gamers are dead", or that games are not misogynist on the internet, then what can be discussed or disputed?

I'm not sure where you have been the past few decades. The concept of the Internet as a "Fifth Estate" was a fantasy that was immediately given it's first doses of reality when the Internet became something other than a researcher's toy being paid for by Defense Department money. The colonisation period is long over and now it's an economic resource. and in the Internet world it's about ads and clicks. It's why Intel dropped it's support of Gamesutra, and it's why idiots are bending their Iphone 6's hoping Youtube will pay then enough from the clicks they get to generate a net profit. 4chan is like any other private venue. It has it's own house rules on what can or can't be discussed and it will change them arbitrarily depending on what will give it more clicks. If you want to make sense of any decision these days, follow the money.

Comment Re:Inflammatory description of article. (Score 1) 724

The so-called "Social Justice Warrior" is a term invented in the same kind of circle the wagons mentality that Fox News uses to claim that Jon Stewart and the Left are engaged in a war on Christmas while that holiday gobbles up a bigger chunk of the calendar every year. Gaming isn't just a boys club any more. Unfortunately a certain, vocal, and reactionary segment of the population are doing their best to prove that AS and DQ are right.

Comment Re:the solution: (Score 1) 651

Except that the people who had guns then could just as easily kill with guns then as now -- there is no change in that. Their reasoning is that at any point a Democracy can devolve into a dictatorship as soon as the new popularly elected leader decides to use secret police to defend his power -- as has been proven in many countries over the last few hundred years. At that point neither passive reason nor a foolable ballot box will succeed in defeating the armed secret police -- only an armed responsible citizenry can do that. Read Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago" and get wise.

I'll make sure to hop into my time machine and tell Gandhi that his whole unarmed rebellion and civil disobedience has no chance in getting rid of the British. The people who seem to fear the government and it's armies overlook one very important fact. Where in hell do those armies come from? They come from the citizenry of this country. If the government were to order it's soldiers to conduct wholesale infringement of it's populace, against those soldier's own families and relatives, and friends, how far do you think it would get when the soldiers themselves rebel? It's not like it hasn't happened before.

Comment Re:the solution: (Score 0) 651

But in the mind of libertarian nutball Cody Wilson

Instead of calling people names, why don't you and yours simply campaign to abolish the Second Amendment altogether? If we read the First the same way we are told to read the Second, our freedom of speech too would be limited to "petitioning the government" — and only for "redress of grievances". Oh, and only after a "cool-down" period.

"Assault firearms" my foot — you can't even carry a freaking sword or brass-knuckles in many parts of the country nowadays. If only the British kept those blades away from Patrick Henry and his "nutball" cohorts!

Get it through your thick paranoid skulls... Regulation IS NOT CONFISCATION.

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