> Nothing like a heartfelt sermon from somebody who has likely never seen a gun in their life. ...or any kind of wildlife. That's quite a trick in American cities that can be populated by all kinds of interesting critters. It also doesn't take much to encounter even more menacing creatures just slightly outside of city limits.

You have to work pretty hard at going nowhere and doing nothing while being insulated from nature in order to be so ignorantly "cosmopolitan".

You are engaging in nothing more than infantile trolling crudely disguised as something more thoughtful. Your remarks are a great example of the smug psuedo-intellectual.

This is no "slight" reason. This is something that can be perverted into effectively nullifying the 2nd Amendment much in the same way that the DMCA erodes personal property rights.

The problem with any of these "gun control" measures is that you always have the cops as a ready reserve of civilians with access to firearms. The industry will need to remain in place to service them and there will be plenty of stock left to fall off the back of trucks.

"Smart Guns" are fine so long as it's the soldiers and cops first.

When such a gun is good enough for a cop or solider, then it's good enough for a citizen.

Otherwise it's a technological end run around individual rights.

Jar-Jar is basically Lucas trying to talk down to children. It's a stupid character meant to appeal to an infantile mentality in a crude way rather than giving kids some credit for not being total idiots.

Somewhere along the line Lucas got it into his head that he has to pander to small children and to pander to a really bad mental model of a child at that.

The original STAR WARS was much more of a mass market and cross generational success.

>> I have more than 600 bluray's and well over 5000 dvd's

> That sounds like a very serious hoarding problem.

One big bookshelf from IKEA could handle all of that and be very nice and neat and terribly OCD.

His hoard is nothing compared to the people they show on cable. They have an entire series on one of the edutainment channels dedicated to that sort of thing.

Sure. But this guy has no idea what he's talking about despite the fact that these kinds of details are the sort of thing that he should be aware of.

> It is easy to be cavalier until you consider yourself, or someone you care about, being innocent.

The same smugness applies to an execution or life in prison. You've just managed to kid yourself that one is cruel while the other is not. This is total bullsh*t of course.

You simply choose to ignore the decades on death row and for no good reason either.

Since they are the delivery mechanism, they need to pay attention to the metadata.

There is a difference betwen your bank, your doctor, or your ISP having information about you and the NSA having this information.

That phrase has quite a lot of bogus spin attached to it. They take something pretty mundane and turn it completely inside out. Based on the phrase as stated, you would think that Novell was expecting Microsoft to give up all of it's trade secrets when all it was really expecting was the details of a standard public interface.

This is just one of the many bad side effects of an overly expansive notion of "intellectual property" and of corporate privelege in general.

The Germans tried for a number of years to perpetuate the idea that the Roman empire still existed with all of that Holy Roman Emperor nonsense.

It doesn't matter if it's cabbage.

The animals we eat are simply much better at deriving nutrition from plant matter. Much of what they eat isn't just inefficient for humans to try an eat, it's entirely undigestible.

The idea of feeding corn to a cow is a pretty new one borne out of the rise of industrial farming.

> 1) Improved health
> 2) More energy
> 3) More focus

A pathetic attempt at fake meat or vegetarianism will not achieve any of those. Your attempt to propagate bogus propaganda is weak.

Once you've gotten to the point of trying to recreate meat then you've basically admitted your choices are all wrong.

Not meat, seafood. The first instance of humans adapting socially (rather than genetically) was to change their diet and exploit the other available options. The only reason you're alive is that humans will exploit anything they can.

Due to biological limtiations, that does not include silage.

Jobs are just as much of a requirement as food and shelter.

The job is what keeps a person from devolving into a total animal. More intelligent notions of human need actually account for stuff beyond where your next meal is coming from.

As I'm an arcade gamer, and growth in the 8 and 16 bits era, for me, games are not an alternative reality. Games for fun only. And most remarkable games are the ones with generic stories: let's fight against Mr. X, that bad group has kidnapped my girlfriend, bad aliens will destroy our Universe. I even remember when I rent the TMNT games, on Genesis, for the first time, and my brothers asked me to skip the intro, because they want just play. But yeap, time changed, and now EVERY GAMES IN THE UNIVERSE have to present an epic story. Have to be long and easy. For God sake, at least the indie market is offering better alternatives then "THE INDUSTRY".