All firearms which fire more than one bullet when the trigger is depressed can only be purchased by non law enforcement if they were manufactured prior to 1986 *and* the class 3 forms and background checks have been done. Doing the class 3 forms won't let you get a newer full auto, and just because its old doesn't mean you don't need the paperwork.

People complain about the amount of misinformation, but it would help if the laws weren't so complicated. Get rid of the NFA, suppressors are just hearing protection, full-autos are a novelty that would loose their appeal if they were easy to get, and short barrelled rifles and shotguns aren't significantly more deadly than any other firearm.

You only have to have a manufacturing license if you wish to transfer the created firearm to another party. You can make any firearm you want as long as it does not fall under the NFA (can not be easily modified to fire more than one bullet per trigger pull, is not intentionally quieted, etc.), and you do not give it to anyone else. There is a large market in 80% complete receivers. You buy a piece of metal then bend and drill it a bit with a vice and drill press and you have an AK receiver. Order the rest online with no checks. You can also get almost finished aluminium blanks for AR receivers and mill them as you said.

You are correct in saying that most bad things people can do with a firearm are illegal. Making a firearm isn't a bad thing. Make as many as you like, just don't kill people with them.

You shouldn't believe him, he is lying.

Does arguing with cops work in the Netherlands? I didn't see any the one time I was there. I got the impression they weren't all that necessary, speeding was enforced by cameras and I suspect pickpocketing and bike theft are just kind of accepted as they would be too hard to prevent. Here in TX the police are nervous at every stop as they might really get shot. Staying in the car and moving slowly, speaking politely though not obsequeously, and just generally not being a jerk, results in a verabal warning more often than not. Anything other than that will result in a ticket for whatever it was you were doing to get noticed. As a side note, if you tell the officer there is a loaded firearm in your car and where it is, they are said to calm down and be more generous. The same with a handgun permit, if you show it (and you must), and explain where you have the firearm or that you do not have one with you, they seem to be more likely to give a warning as well. I suspect this is because a person who is telling them where their weapons are is deemed less likely to kill them.

even using the highest estimate of F-22 cost I could find we'd need to give them 44 F-22s. Raise rates on mass mailers perhaps? The only reason I check my mail anymore is to get information the government wants me to know about, car registration, voter registration, jury duty etc. If I could give an email address to uncle sam, I would be more than happy to do away with my mail address. Let it die.

In my experience the difference between psychopaths and the rest of us is not in how we behave, but in how we feel afterwards.

Historically in England, the middle class was the power wielding wealthy merchant class, and the upper class were the peerage, people with titles and hereditry land. Everyone else was lower class, or "common". In the US there has never been a solid definition of middle class, but one that is concise and reasonable is the following. The middle class own and use tools. The upper class hire people to use tools to fix their house and property, the lower class cannot afford to own tools or fix their house or property. It is a generalization and thus not 100% accurate, but it is still useful I think.

The windows 8 arm tablets will not let you disable secure boot, so you unless you pay to get a bootloader signed you are stuck with windows 8. Which may or may not be a problem, but you are tied to their app store on the arm tablet. You can get an ultra book for about $400 more that has way more power, is only 3" bigger, and windows 8 x86 allows you to disable secure boot and install another OS if you want. Some of the acer ultrabooks even have touchscreens. Yes $400 is a lot, but as you pointed out computers aren't getting outdated as fast as they once did, so hopefully that $400 can get amortized over 5-10 years. Also, an arm chip will not be bored stiff with modern laptop processing, it will be choking. I really don't get the tablet thing except as a portable netflix viewer. If I'm doing mail or browsing I want to touch-type, and if I'm carrying a keyboard with my tablet, I'd rather have brought my laptop instead.

I use vim with ctags for file navigation, and there is an add in that does decent intellisense but I don't use it. Just run ctags in all the libraries you are using and your own project (yes its manual) and add references to those tag files in your .vimrc. Then ctl+] and ctl+t will navigate to and back from keywords, its not great about using c++ context to know which instance of that keyword it should jump to. If you try to go the definition of the variable "counter" and people have been naming lots of private variables that, then you'll have a long list to pick from regardless of namespace or class, but its good enough usually.

I haven't found a decent gdb add on for vim yet though, I heard there was a decent one for emacs. But debugging with gdb is painful. It is powerful, but just plain hard to use, it feels like looking at my code through a drinking straw.

When I'm working on windows I do appreciate the intellisense, and I don't think its giving me bad habits. The debugging is much much nicer as well. Xcode is somewhere between the two.

If you want all the horsepower you can get your hands on, you are already stuck with intel if the software you use isn't many-core or gpu friendly. Audio and video work is notably quite amenable to gpu acceleration, so in five years a brand new video card for that time with your current processor may hold you over until the die shrink race has ended 5 to 10 years later and processors begin to commoditize, which I would guess will bring in more players.

The AC said it would be ruled to only apply to commercial sales. That is why it was proposed that the 99% would not care. I would not be surprised at this either. The motive behind this is to maintain the ability to pricefix products like printer cartridges, and car parts. I doubt they would go after junkyard owners unless they started making enough money that it looked enticing. I still maintain the naive hope that the court will burn this with fire and declare all the judges that let it get this far to be mentally incompetant and commit them.

The reason they don't go after the real problem is that the *are* the real problem. The don't fill a need anymore. Poor independent bands can buy or rent the equipment to record their gigs on the money they make from them, and distribute it for micropayments online, and market themselves through social media and viral youtube videos. The last claim they have is some sort of content filtering to get rid of all that terrible music you would have to listen to to find what you want. The epublishing business has shown that user reviews are sufficent to flag the low quality stuff, so even that claim is bogus. They are spending huge amounts of money, not finding the good stuff, but promoting what they found whether it is good or not (sometimes it is). They are also spending huge amounts of money legislating their own existance. I'm looking forward to the day when a large venue like Wembley stadium realizes some internet phenomenon can sell them out without going through a label, that would be a turning point I think.

That seems hard to do by accident, but at least slightly possible.

All these phones are previous generation. Is Samsung still making these? Once they are inside the U.S. and no longer owned by Samsung, can the new owner sell them? Is the answer different if they are new or have been used? Is it different for ATT to sell them, vs. the guy who wants to sell his S2 to get Note 2? If so, why?

People should try it before they ignore it. It is not ill-suited to everyone. I think its a case of the gnome team thinking everyone works like they do. I use keyboard controls almost exclusively, with lots of windows open, mostly command lines. I start applications from a run box, or commandline, not menus. OSX came along and the spotlight/quicksilver method of starting apps was a big step forward, it would autocomplete the name of the application for me. Gnome 3 and unity are another step forward in that it will give me a nearest match if I mispell something, I can type either the visible name (like "files") or the application name "nautilus" and either works. Or natulius for that matter. Additionally its a single key press to start typing rather than two as in windows7 or osx. workspace key shortcuts haven't changed from gnome2 and the window tiling is sufficient, though usually I don't dock windows. I prefer gnome3 to unity for the shrinky window thing it does showing whats open (like osx).

If you mostly start apps from the commandline instead of menus or quickbars, gnome3 is for you so give it a try. They should have realized though that not everyone works that way and made it more flexible.