Why... yes.

The Second Amendment is intended to ensure that the citizenry can engage is armed rebellion against the Senate, the House, the President and the military if circumstances warrant. In such circumstances, the law itself (and its application and its masters) are what are being attacked. When ""due process of the law" is reduced to "police and the political elite can abuse the citizenry without any reason other than the furtherance of their own power and wealth", then "due process" becomes meaningless, and you push the reset-button on the whole thing.

I'm not advocating popping random cops for writing tickets (or letting their buddies get away with not paying theirs). I am advocating the idea and means of saying "there is a line which police and government officials cross at the cost of their own lives", and thus encourage them to not cross that line. I amadvocating that it is possible that there will be a time when popping cops for seizing property and women for their own gains under the color of law (and getting away with it) would be justified, and that if it does become justified... people do it. We're not there now, and I don't want that day to ever happen... but I'm not going to pretend for one second that it's impossible. Vigilantism arises when the government fails in its duty to deal with criminals (real, not imagined)... or when the government is itself the criminal. Cops and congressmen should be afraid of incurring mass hatred, and therefore should be afraid of doing what causes that hatred. It is the ultimate check and balance: the ability to rebel successfully. "lan astaslem".

There has to be an ultimate ability of the people to collectively say "no" to the police and to the political machine and make it stick. Just as laws are meaningless without teeth, so also are protests by the powerless. Guns in the hands of citizens are an indirect, but very real, encouragement for courts to convict bad cops and to refuse to enforce oppressive law, and the courts and their enforcers need to be periodically reminded of that fact.

And if anyone thinks that a country like the US cannot be defeated by small arms... take a look at Iraq and Afghanistan. They aren't fielding T72s and MiGs, after all. Conversely, would-be tyrants know how to accomplish their goals. "How do you boil a frog? By turning up the heat so slowly it doesn't notice."

The necessary goal is to make current tyrants cheer from their graves.

The reason for private citizens to own guns is so we can execute corrupt police, tyrannical senators and presidents, and (oh yeah, way way down on the list) muggers. This is why police, senators and muggers favor disarmament. It's time we treated disarmament advocates as active collaborators with these people, and punish them accordingly.

Definition of moron: any person who isn't perfect (meaning: me) for any and all values of "me".

Gee, I wonder where the stereotype of the know-it-all-but-knows-nothing arrogant Slashdotter comes from?

Here we have the proposal for the one-party no-democracy system, in which a single viewpoint is mandated and all others are forced to obey. Here we have the hypocracy of the Slashdotter claiming to stand for "freedom" but who actually means "I'm fine with tyranny as long as I get to be the tyrant". Here we have the reason why the rest of the world still holds self-labelled intellectual elites in such base contempt.

How about "You can't convince people to your position by demonizing them"?

Stereotype of academics and scientists being utterly socially clueless: CONFIRMED.

There seem to be elongated star-trails and out-of-focus objects in the raw image. I've highlighted a few. What's interesting is that the star-trails aren't all in the same direction, or necessarily a spacecraft rotation artifact. Are these smaller objects in orbit around Methone, or the result of the image being a composite, perhaps?

Oh look. A clueless fucktard heterosexual. HOW SURPRISING.

Did anyone force him to be gay? YES. It's a genetic predisposition. Nobody chooses to be the target of frat-boys and jock-boys. Nobody chooses to be the target of screaming maniacs who justify their hate in the name of Jesus. Nobody chooses to play the role that Jews played in the 30's (complete with people like Ravi who intend only misery and death to their targets).

People like you, who obviously believe that gays are their personal punching bags and rightful targets of ridicule, are why these laws exist. You think it's okay to abuse others over their orientation. The law says it's not (though this 30-day sentence makes me think that dealing with people like Ravi with a noose rather than a judge is much more appropriate... if the courts won't defend gays, then gays must defend themselves by any means necessary). It's people like you who are the reason I carry a gun.

There is no honor between the swarm of resent-their-mommies script kiddies and petty credit card thieves that call themselves "Anonymous".

Lightspeed: the Enron of RF Spectrum.

We eagerly await your perfect notch filter. You're gonna be richer than Zuckerberg!

The band Lightspeed bought is low-power ground/space. Lightspeed is free to use it for low-power ground/space communications all they want, in accordance with its current usage rules.

Lightspeed gambled they could con the FCC into allowing conversion to a different use, and to hell with the harm to anyone else. The FCC never promised that they would do so, allowed experiments to see if it could be made to work, and the experiments failed. Well, Las Vegas doesn't give refunds to gamblers either.

Im in ur glasses makin u watch goatse.

Given the poor record that medical device manufacturers have with regard to device security (about as bad as automotive manufacturers have with securing the wireless devices now common in newer cars, e.g. keyless entry, tire pressure sensors, cabin climate sensors)... yeah, I'll have a SPECIAL show for you, Jordie.

ObST:TNG

Tell that to an Anglophone in Quebec, or a member of the Iroquois or Cree, or the family of anyone who lost members in the wake of the Grand Civilization Act and the Indian Act of 1874, or forcible sterilizations in the early 1930's.

Canadian history is just as brutal to its native population as American, and nearly as brutal as The Country Led By The Man In The Tiny Moustache. Canadians don't get to pretend they're better behaved - they're not, not ever have been.

Not that the "First Nations" are any better - they were just as brutal to each other. Goes with being human. There's no such thing as a saint.

Correct. Liability provisions in EULAs and other contracts can be nullified if the liability is the result of gross negligence, culpable negligence or criminal action. Note, however, that "gross negligence" has a very specific legal meaning that is not necessarily "I don't like it so I'm going to call it 'gross negligence', 'terrorism', or whatever other outrage-word I can call up". A finding of "gross negligence" would have to be far more than "it's buggy".

Google Translate: English Cockney

You water the tree of liberty with the blood of patriots, that's what. And if the boom-lottery chooses you to be on that flight... that's the risk you take as the price of freedom. A very tiny percentage of us will die at the hands of terrorists. We suck it up and preserve our Constitution.

Yeah, I know, fantasyland. Americans with spines, willing to accept a risk that is smaller than that of being hit by lightning in return for preventing huge abuses by political police? Never happen.