You completely ignore the fact that these guns are undetectable using magnetometers and this creation of guns will, in the near future, be easily accomplished by pretty much everyone. I'm not sure why... it is a key factor in the debate.

> No criminal would waste his time.

Except... oh let me think... oh right. SOMEONE WANTING TO HIJACK AN AIRPLANE.

The average person is a dullard.

If it were up to the average person in the 1700's, we'd still be British subjects. The average person was fine with British rule, and it was a bunch of "extremists" who wanted to revolt.

There is a reason the founders of this country did not want a "democracy" but rather a "republic". That reason is, the electorate is, by and large, composed of fucktards.

Youtube can say whatever they want. Whether it is enforceable is another matter.

Saving a YouTube video for later playback on your own machine (i.e. not distributing) is simply "time shifting"... time shifting has been tried time and time again in the courts and it is settled law. What legally comes to your device can be saved and played back at a later date (aka "taping" and now "downloading") and Google can TOS till the cows come home but no TOS ever written and tested in court has ever abridged the right of anyone at any time to time shift.

In other words, download all you want. Rip it to DVDs/CDs. Play it back a million times. Put it on all your devices. There's not a goddamned thing Google, or anyone, can do to stop you... they can add stuff to their TOS from now until doomsday but it does not matter in the least.

Re-distribution is another matter of course.

Exactly. This is settled case law, beginning with the VCR. What comes to your device can be "time-shifted", meaning you are free to save ANYTHING which legally comes to your device, and play it back later. What used to be called "taping" is now, these days, known as "downloading" and the law is crystal clear about the legality of these actions.

You, Sir, are a retard. I suspect the only reason you post as AC is because actually registering is beyond you.

Exactly. The fix was in. The "powers that be" wanted Obama, as evidenced by Palin, and then putting up a fucking Mormon against The Annointed One the 2nd time around.

" Yet he still heads NASA"

Nope, he's a retired army man

He is the current Administrator of NASA. http://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/programs/national/summer/home/bolden-soi-quote.html

Fox News would be proud of you.

You are a fucking retard. Whenever you, and the likes of you, encounter someone who dislikes Obama, it's the old "product of Faux News" slam. It's ridiculous by now... I'm sure it makes you feel better to spout such trite idiotic lines, but any thinking individual can see that you are simply an unthinking fucking retard.

... for electing Obama.

Check out what Obama want's Bolden to do. Direct quote from Bolden:

"When I became the NASA administrator, (President Obama) charged me with three things," Bolden said in the interview which aired last week. "One, he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math; he wanted me to expand our international relationships; and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math and engineering."

Their "foremost" task is to make Muslims feel good. He literally said that. Yet he still heads NASA

Thanks, jackasses, for electing Obama.

... I think Richard Stallman.

And when I think RMS, I think unwashed and smelly.

Don't deny it. You do too.

Were the shotgun invented today, it would never be made available to the general public. The amount of damage a shotgun can do has to be seen to be appreciated. It is truly an awesome and disturbingly effective close-range weapon, and there is a reason even SWAT teams still carry them... because nothing beats them at short range.

This is century's old technology. And absolutely nothing is better at short range. I'd rather have a shotgun at short range than a fully automatic AK.

If they're not making enough to keep things going then they should do like any other business and manage their costs and set prices appropriately.

The Post Office is not "like any other business". They can't just raise their prices. Their prices are set through a convoluted legal process, and the Post Office depends on forces and governmental entities outside of it's control in setting it's prices.

Somalia? Really?

He said: Freedom. And defined that as, and I quote: "Meaning that, they do not have security of property ownership (including natural resources), freedom to enter into mutually beneficial contracts, freedom of movement, freedom of speech, etc., etc."

Good luck enforcing a contract in Somalia. Likewise moving from A to B, establishing a free press.

Freedom != anarchy in other words.

But before that happens, technology which will allow for complete encryption from your machines to the servers will be widely available and widely used. Most traffic will be by anonymous peer-to-peer based proxies and randomized. Similar technologies are already available of course but I expect them to become more widely used and easier to use by the average person. Governments, with the USA leading the pack, will come up with cases where "terrorists" have used such technology to commit crimes... the government will thrash and make the use of such technologies highly illegal. "For the children" of course.

Oh, what a swell idea. Allow the Bond villiains (I'm thinking Gates and Zuckerberg) the means to achieve if not world domination, at least the ability to wreak havoc on an international scale. Marvelous.

I have my own domain which matches my last name which I use for email. I get cute with it and use custom email addresses depending on who I am using it with. For example, I'd have a "slashdot@mydomainhere.org" address or a "monster@mydomainnameher.org". I can instantly make new email addresses which is somewhat useful. Makes it easy to see who is selling my email address.

But you have to set the email server to accept all emails to that domain, which has it's downside. It seems some spammers have decided to use my domain name in the "Sent By" field (aka "Joe Jobs") and I get failed delivery messages from mail servers... on average 3,000 a month. One month it was over 12,000.

I could not continue having my own domain email, and accepting all emails to the domain, without the spam filters that GMail uses. Google GMail hosts it for free... lot of people don't know but you can hook GMail up to receive email directed at an arbitrary domain name, with 10 gigs of "forever" storage. I know, I know, I'm letting the Dark Side's bots read all my email. But if I need security, I can obtain security, and it will not be through unencryted email. Anyway...

GMail does a phenomenal job of filtering out this kind of spam, and pretty much every other type. I can't remember the last spam I received in my "In" box.