Yeah, problem is, there is no organization dedicated to gun rights. The NRA is also as right-wing as it comes.

Close enough to what I was going to say to tag along here instead of starting a new thread. I use Kitchenaid kitchen shears, or sometimes Cuisinart ones. The former was part of a kit, the latter came with a food processor, either way they are decent but not fantastic. Scissors or shears make quick work of this packaging once you get home and need to open it.

Here in California, possessing a firearm during the commission of a felony (serious) offense counts as "special circumstances," and will likely cause you to receive a greater penalty when sentenced. You don't have to even fire it; just having it on you during the robbery would be enough.

I guess that's why, when my corner store was robbed a couple of years ago, they stabbed the clerk.

It's an important aspect of the book that people use the terrible slur nigger as easily as they use any other word. Changing it to anything else is revisionist bullshit and the people responsible should be carted off to someplace they can no longer harm our societal development.

Amen. I can't stand the NRA. I just wrote them a nastygram demanding they cancel my free subscription to one of their crap rags because the cover nauseated me... it demanded that I buy some stupid coin or Obama would succeed in turning my country into a Muslim retirement home or something, I didn't actually open the fucking thing. But I am a member because a) the ACLU doesn't believe in the full bill of rights and b) it's a prerequisite for the use of many (most?) shooting club ranges because the NRA provides range insurance to all members and the clubs can't afford the insurance themselves. I sure haven't put the sticker on anything.

I followed a bunch of the links on Sanger's site just to see what he's talking about. Having a dozen or so videos of male ejaculation seems excessive. But a lot of the rest of it is 19th century French engravings, naughty postcards, and the like. Is that stuff appropriate for Wikipedia, even out of historical interest? I don't think that's for an automated filter to decide. Given that most home Internet connections don't have comprehensive content filters installed, I also think "the children" are about four clicks away from far raunchier material than that.

I don't like the real names policy either, but it's not like the competition doesn't have the same policy. The alternative is diaspora (as far as I am aware there are not other credible, directly comparable alternatives) and it has not really been embraced so far.

Don't worry, if history is any indication the USDoJ will catch Microsoft red-handed for this only ten years from now and at a cost of only tens or hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars.

Of course, if history is any indication, Microsoft will be let off the hook without penalties by whoever is sitting where Ashcroft was sitting last time.

I adore that one of the big bad guys in Freelancer is named Ashcroft.

As long as they keep killing the competition with their competence instead of compelling us to consume their crap with coercion then I'm fine with that. I don't use google because there are no alternatives, there are alternatives to everything they offer. I use google because so far it is superior for my needs.

Why not draw a parallel to the current American housing crisis? Homeowners should have known better; banks knew they didn't know better, and took advantage of them. The government helped. Everyone is wrong except for those who didn't involve themselves.