Err... who decides if it is your property or my property? Is that somehow included in this "fundamental right" ?

Back around 2000--2001 I used POTP email client from, an Israeli company to satisfy a client's perceived need for encrypted communications.

It solved the exchange problem on an initial or any sync message, and after that passed new pads each time.

Pretty much unbreakable. I still have a copy, but I doubt it would run, and I need a partner to test it, sort of.

It doesn't force you onto one platform, though it does limit your options to two of the most popular ones: Windows PCs and Xbox. But in the case of Windows PCs, they also support OpenGL, which is part of why I said that it's no surprise that OpenGL is being so widely adopted now. And from what I understand, DirectX does have some technological advantages going for it, though I am by no means an expert in that area, so I won't even to list off any. Even if it didn't, however, competition, I think we can all agree, is better for everyone in the long-term, and since DirectX is the only major competitor to OpenGL, I'd rather see it stick around than see it be abandoned.

Just to mention something, they already had a legal term for patent trolls before the Internet or whoever came up with that term. Companies that engage in these sorts of tactics are called NPEs: non-practicing entities. They're companies that litigate without actually making anything based on the patents that they hold, and you will find that term all over the place if you start looking into various patent trolling statistics and cases.

I just popped open the Mac App Store and took a glance at the first page of games. Just to name a few that were listed, there's Borderlands 2, CoD: Black Ops, Batman: Arkham City, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Civ V, Bioshock, Amnesia, Witcher 2, Assassin's Creed II, and XCOM: Enemy Unknown. And if I pop open my copy of Steam, I can find pretty much all of Valve's titles, as well as a whole lot more. Granted, they're not all the latest and greatest (e.g. Bioshock, not Infinite; AC2, not AC3; Black Ops, not Black Ops II), but it's a wide selection of well-known games from a number of developers.

Jokes like yours are funniest when they use humor to take the edge off of a point that would otherwise be painful to swallow, but yours is simply off the mark entirely. Unreal, Source, Gamebryo, id Tech, IW, and Unity engines all work with OpenGL and have a number of games out using it. There are strong rumors that Crytek already has an in-house version of CryEngine 3 running with OpenGL, and based on job listings at DICE, it looks like they're porting their Frostbite engine over as well for use with Battlefield.

Given the disappointment that some of the major game developers have expressed (e.g. Gabe Newell's public statements) towards Windows 8, along with Microsoft's signals that DirectX may be at its end of life, is it really any surprise that all of the major game engines have already been ported or are in the process of being ported to OpenGL? Even more so when you consider that the two major smartphone OSes (i.e. the platforms on which most games today are now played) only make use of OpenGL? Not to mention that on gaming devices that support one or both of OpenGL or DirectX, all but one of those devices (Xbox) supports OpenGL in addition to or to the exclusion of DirectX? And the fact that Linux is quickly gaining recognition as a high-performance gaming platform and is getting some love from developers and publishers? Finally, is it really all of that surprising that the developers are actually making use of these game engines to put games on as many devices as possible?

Mind you, I'm not suggesting that DirectX should be abandoned, by any means, since it's still quite powerful and is still the library that's used on one of the major consoles out today. All I mean to do is point out the folly in your assertion that OpenGL is not being utilized in games.

The NRA got their start as a civil rights organization fighting those laws.

LIES.

Yes and no:

The NRA was founded in 1871 after the Civil War by Army and Navy Journal editor William Conant Church (pictured above) and General George Wood Wingate of the Union Army, who were both dismayed at the horrible accuracy of Union soldiers during the Civil War. The original purpose of the organization was for rifle marksmanship training. However despite this, the NRA is the oldest civil rights organization in the United States. [emphasis mine]

Concealed carry permits have not been linked with a reduction in crime.

The supposed rebuttal, to which you linked, cites a single study, which did not rebut the original assertion by John Lott. The large collection of people authoring it could not come up to any conclusion — in their esteemed opinion, there is no link between the carry laws and the murder rate. From your link:

We conclude that Lott and Mustard have made an important scholarly contribution in establishing that these laws have not led to the massive bloodbath of death and injury that some of their opponents feared. On the other hand, we find that the statistical evidence that these laws have reduced crime is limited, sporadic, and extraordinarily fragile.

So, if John Lott is right, relaxing concealed carry laws will help. If he is wrong, it will not hurt. What grounds are there, again, for the massive violations of the 2nd Amendment, that you and yours are demanding?

Thus, personal weapon is a perfectly peaceful symbol. Being able to print one — and keep it at home — is a good way to protect one's domicile, without begging the government for a permission to exercise the Constitution-guaranteed right.