People don't rape and then murder other people because of a lack of food, they do it because they enjoy it (and they do the murder part so they don't leave any witnesses).

With heck of a lot of weapons supplied by the government of the Soviet Union - much more than just small arms.

The NVA had anti-aircraft artillery and the like, yes, but the VC were mostly running around in the jungle with small arms, setting traps, etc.

Yes, those forces worked because they had weapons, largely small arms, supplied by other governments. When a populace already has its own small arms, it doesn't need a foreign government to supply them.

So you think the Mujahadin would have been victorious just using rocks or bare hands? Are you really that stupid?

There are no companies here "happily" supplying guns to drug cartels. We do have a Presidential administration, however, which happily supplies guns to the drug cartels. Look up "Fast and Furious". Of course, there's individuals or cartel-affiliated people who smuggle guns south of the border, but that's not the USA's fault, that's Mexico's fault for not policing their border. From what I've seen, border crossings going south usually have absolutely no guards at all, and you can just drive right through. You can't complain about people smuggling stuff into your country if you're not going to lift a finger to stop it.

The number of guns doesn't determine "gun ownership", it's the number of guns divided by the number of people. The US has 10 times as many people as Canada, and is the 4th most populous country in the world IIRC, so obviously there's going to be more guns there than most other places.

Again, last I heard, Canada has a higher gun ownership rate PER CAPITA.

Source on this? To my knowledge we interned some Japanese in camps that most came out of alive, engaged in some rather shady medical studies on blacks, etc...

But they're still a couple OOM under the death tolls of Soviet Russia, much less Red China.

Then again, technically speaking everybody dies eventually. But I consider the government that lets the most people live a reasonably long, reasonably happy lives.

The ipad data plan is data only. and you can take that sim and put it in a iPhone and use it data only.

Did the AT&T guy even know what his company offers?

I couldn't care less about what you get to see, but I would like a filter flag that allows me to ensure my kids are not exposed to gratuitous violence and/or pornography until they are mature enough to deal with it.

So what constitutes "gratuitous violence"? History? Descriptions of how snake venom operates? Book plot summaries? How is anyone supposed to know what you happen to consider appropriate or inappropriate for your kid? And that's not getting into the impossibility of actually implementing this: every existing article and every future edit would need to be reviewed to see what side of the divide they fall to. And of course any failures would open Wikipedia to liability lawsuits.

The code changes might be insignificant, but the effort to actually filter the data would be enormous and endless, and frankly your convenience doesn't justify it.

Right. That's what happened to newspapers. Newspaper production used to require a huge labor force. Look at all those people. 67 linotypes! A room full of proofreaders to catch typesetting errors. Hundreds of people moving paper around, making printing plates, loading them onto presses, running the presses, handling the printed newspapers. Compared to the army needed to print the papers, the reporting staff was tiny, a small expense. The reporting and editing staff, the composing room, and the printing plant were all in the same building. Any separation would slow things down, and the competition would "scoop" them.

Now compare a modern large newspaper plant. There are people around, but not many. There's essentially no direct labor. All paper and plate handling is mechanized. The files to be printed are created elsewhere and come in over a data connection. The printed newspapers leave in big trucks. Many different papers are printed in the same plant. The plant is far from the reporting and editorial staff, and is run by a separate corporation from the "newspaper".

So, to newspaper management, reporters are now the big labor cost, the first thing to cut.