The NRA got their start as a civil rights organization fighting those laws.

LIES.

Yes and no:

The NRA was founded in 1871 after the Civil War by Army and Navy Journal editor William Conant Church (pictured above) and General George Wood Wingate of the Union Army, who were both dismayed at the horrible accuracy of Union soldiers during the Civil War. The original purpose of the organization was for rifle marksmanship training. However despite this, the NRA is the oldest civil rights organization in the United States. [emphasis mine]

Concealed carry permits have not been linked with a reduction in crime.

The supposed rebuttal, to which you linked, cites a single study, which did not rebut the original assertion by John Lott. The large collection of people authoring it could not come up to any conclusion — in their esteemed opinion, there is no link between the carry laws and the murder rate. From your link:

We conclude that Lott and Mustard have made an important scholarly contribution in establishing that these laws have not led to the massive bloodbath of death and injury that some of their opponents feared. On the other hand, we find that the statistical evidence that these laws have reduced crime is limited, sporadic, and extraordinarily fragile.

So, if John Lott is right, relaxing concealed carry laws will help. If he is wrong, it will not hurt. What grounds are there, again, for the massive violations of the 2nd Amendment, that you and yours are demanding?

I remember seeing a video where they did the math and for a 3 month stay on the ground and round trip from here to there you'd have needed a ship bigger than the empire state building

Your "math" is incredibly bad. Read any book on Mars from Zubrin and become educated.

What you are overlooking is that one human in one day could day about 100x the total research done so far by all of the rovers combined. What doesn't make sense is to continue to send very expensive robots to learn less and less... we've reached the point where we simply need to send humans to really study the place.

If you feel so strongly about people being responsible for the circumstances of their own birth, why do you grant people a right to survival?

I really have no idea really what you're trying to say here...?

Responsible for own birth? Not sure how that's possible...you parents fuck and you appear, seems THEY are responsible for your birth....?

I'd say you have a right to try to survive, I dunno if survival itself is a natural right of nature, but the struggle to try to survive is I suppose.

LOL...yeah, I know some people get in a real hurry to get back home, but personally, I'll just sit and wait till I make sure Entergy has my power back on.

I see no real need to sweat it out or get used to the heat. I'm a wimp when it comes to the heat and humidity. I was lucky that my power really only went out at my place for a few hours it appears...nothing in my freezer was melted, not even the ice maker ice. I still stayed out a bit longer than I needed, but for other reasons at the time.

I figure if anything happens to my stuff (theft or damage) well, that's what insurance is for, I don't have to rough it to be there to protect my stuff or anything....I'll sit in nice AC till things are normal back home.

Engineers at Michigan Tech believe there is far more potential for 3D printers to make our lives better rather than killing one another.

Guns aren't for killing one another.

They are either for sport, or for keeping people from killing/harming you.

Guns have historically protected groups that might otherwise just have been removed altogether. Travel back in time, ask Martin Luther King and his followers how "bad" guns are.

It's nice that 3D printers can make our lives better in other ways too, but we should not exclude one of them through irrational fear.

When you post stuff like that, and fanboys mod it to +5, it looks really silly. The reason isn't because it is not true, but because it is not impressive. Yes, Linux has a few games for it including some older Source games. Yay. Trying to imply that because it has Steam it has games is silly. Roughly 6 of my 163 Steam games will run on Linux and most of those are the older Source engine games.

Having Steam doesn't mean you get games. It means there's a platform to sell games on that many Linux users will hate on (costs money, has DRM, no source code). The games themselves have to be ported and so far, not much of that has been going on.

It does not strengthen your point when you go and make a rather silly argument. The "but it has Steam!" argument that keeps getting trotted out when someone comments on Linux and gaming reminds me of Mac users back in the 90s pointing to the 10 or so old titles you could find in the store as proof that there were plenty of games on the Mac.

Linux gaming is not in a good state currently, and trying to mask that is silly.

no matter what settings I try all the video playback through emacs is CHOPPY AS HELL!

During video playback, you should try to reduce the number of Eliza windows to less than five, and also refrain from running more than two other operating systems using the elisp engine as a VM.

Also it's well known that any system installations of VI or VIM will spike the processor during emacs use out of jealously; I suggest you delete them.

Backwards. The party with a vested interest in keeping people dependent on professionals who dole things out to them is the Democrats. That's the backbone of their entire constituency and the framework within which they describe everybody: needing a handout, or needing to be used to pay for handouts. Without playing middlemen to that one-way street, there would be almost not power in that camp. And so they seek to preserve it at every turn.

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

Warning: Other examples of "unstructured data" include 4chan and Conservapedia.

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Facts/science informs policy. You can still be against policy even if you're for the science.

Is the Earth heating up? That's a question of science.
Is the heating caused by human activity? That's a question of science.
In what ways and to what degree should human activities be modified to prevent this? This is both science and politics.
Who should implement this? Who should pay for this? Those are questions purely of politics, not science.
The Kyoto Accords address all of the above. I don't think most conservatives actually object to the science-based provisions, though they are suspicious of them. They object to the politics-based ones, especially the ones which place no binding targets on developing countries and allow emissions to grow with development needs. So.. more coal-burning, more clear-cutting, etc. The developed world can pay to reduce the developing world's emissions in lieu of reducing their own by the same amount. The more.... "conspiracy-minded" conservatives like to point to this as evidence that the UN is trying to transfer power and wealth out of the United States (and, I suppose, Canada) and redistribute it to the rest of the world.

Whether a rational-minded person believes in that stuff or not, there are more than pure-science questions at work there.

Nasty regimes in need to hide their mismanagement of their own country with a war, as well as criminals — they all prefer unarmed victims.

Thus, personal weapon is a perfectly peaceful symbol. Being able to print one — and keep it at home — is a good way to protect one's domicile, without begging the government for a permission to exercise the Constitution-guaranteed right.

I'm not so sure of that, the general public will never hear of this lawsuit. Slashdotters and other tech-site readers will, but they will have been bombarded with movie/copyright stories already.

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".