...as far as I can remember. :p

If you want peace, then prepare for war.

Propaganda back atcha. Right-wing groups withdrew their applications because the IRS made inappropriate demands for information, because they couldn't afford lawyers to fight it. Demands that were not made of left-wing groups.
The IRS already admitted this. You don't have a leg to stand on.

The IRS was completely partisan about whose applications they held up. Democrat groups got approved right away. Tea Party did not.
No, they were not totally correct. The IRS was politicized.

It gets better. The IRS commissioner who was in charge when the IRS was denying tax-exempt status to right-wing political groups is now in charge of implementing Obamacare requirements. Naw, there won't be any partisan shenanigans. How dare you even think that? You wouldn't want your dear old granny to be denied that hip operation now would you?

Read between the lines: "the law is irrelevant" so there will be no legal repercussions. It's the Chicago Way.

Structured programming and objects are afterthoughts. Arbitrary data structures likewise.
No first-class functions. No lambdas.

Not that your typical business report program has any use for those things.

Are you kidding? There's sixty years worth of legacy applications programs out there in COBOL.
Yeah, it sucks from a Computer Science perspective, but business programming ain't Computer Science.

mmmm, steak and garlic. Oh, wait...

So they've been doing the stuff with the greatest return on investment.
What's left is the marginal improvements that probably cost more than they're worth.

Moving the whole datacenter to the Pacific Northwest just isn't in the cards for most companies.

They would need to be a lot less obviously what they are.

*The Fifth Head of Cerberus* was the first of his books that I read, and reread, and puzzled over.

Because it's such a great idea to mandate all kinds of pointless activity.

In case you didn't notice, the quote from Thruen implied the 100% effectiveness of a gun ban.

Therefore your (not you're) ignorance is showing. Twice.

Nice pile of strawmen you got there. Nobody but you is saying that laws are no good unless they're 100% effective. And nobody but you is saying that the analogy between drugs and guns is no good unless it's 100% perfect.

As for background checks and other loopholes, it's just a step towards confiscation. "Oh, your paperwork isn't 100% perfect so you're guilty of a federal felony. We're here to take away your illegal guns now." Your congresscritters gave that game away when they voted against the amendment that would have made it illegal to use background checks to establish a national gun registry.

Yes, we do have the right to own guns and to carry them, it is in the constitution, right along with the freedom of speech that you probably value. But hey, it's just a piece of paper so let's get rid of the whole inconvenient thing. See, I can do strawmen too.