Ugh, s/through/throw/
What did I eat for lunch?

You can always through the compiled binaries in part of the source tree. Stupid and ugly, but gets the job done.

So I get why the Pope is an emperor. He's clearly the ruler of a country. And clearly merely a man. Now Jesus, on the other hand: He's referred to as being
1) merely a man, never a ruler of anything, and dead
2) Divine, and worthy of worship
3,4,5,6,7...) Any number of other things not germane to this discussion
Non-Catholic Christianity, even if it's wrong about the nature of Jesus, doesn't believe Jesus to be an emperor in the sense of the Pope or Ramses. He's considered divine, an aspect of YHWH (as you just mentioned). So you're essentially saying that any and all religions which worship a deity are emperor-worship.

I'm going to bet the law would be drafted to only apply to civilian weapons. Government weapons would remain purely mechanical.

Modern Roman Catholicism is nothing more than Emperor-worship a la Rome. Perhaps you've heard of Protestants? Eastern Orthodox? etc?

There's more: there was a woman who approached within arm's reach and engaged them in conversation. And now, just because they didn't happen to be killing randomly, there are probably people who think she "defused" the situation. If they would have been on a murder-spree, she'd be dead.

What's that? The right to conceal-carry then briefly open-carry? "One Adam Twelve, One Adam Twelve: Reports of man flashing his 'piece' near 5th and Elm" "Roger, dispatch. We encountered the gentleman, and he was exercising his right to bare arms".

Or maybe it's a right to wear no sleeves?

Gandhi would have printed salt. Of course the machine would have required salt as an input, so he would have just taken the salt.

Also, there wasn't really any foresight. TNG was started before the Internet was in the mainstream consciousness (especially Hollywood consciousness), and Encarta CDs were the "current" computer version of an encyclopedia, so scaling that up in Sci-Fi would turn into "a computer database that has everything pre-loaded".

Every episode of Voyager. There was a significant time delay even with subspace communications.
Also, in TNG: http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/11001001_(episode)
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_(NCC-1701-D)_library_computer
And in TNG, they traveled to far reaching places on occasion, with no failure in new data queries.
And there was Data, who had the complete neural imprints and electronic records of every colonist of Omicron Theta embedded in his positronic "brain".

Except in this case, the Enterprise computer cached the entire available knowledge of the Federation whenever it got the chance. It was like a souped-up archive.org with regard to data.

Yes. Smokers' Cough has been around ever since there have been smokers. It has very clearly been bad for your health long before anyone knew of any ties to cancer.

"workers with X" =/= "people who work with X"
Workers is a collective noun, and the with modifying it means that X is something the collective noun possesses.
I believe you're confusing "workers of X" and "workers with X"

To be fair, the general population only ever sees autistic people who are highly functioning, because baseline and severe cases are still "hidden away" by parents. No one wants to bring an autistic kid to dinner at a restaurant when they'll be freaking out and screaming all the time. That and Rain Man.

The Enterprise computer was not hampered by being in another galaxy, nor was Voyager's computer hampered by being in the Delta Quadrant. They had local copies of all the data at all times.