No, the NSSF is the gun makers' lobby. The NRA is the gun buyers' lobby.

LK

a sudden outbreak of common sense.

There will soon be bipartisan proposals to counter it.

LK

OK. So we have a world where people can sneak around with .22 caliber one shot pistols that are not visible to metal detectors. I mean, everyone will want one, no? This changes the entire security dynamic, no?

This is like arguing the Wright brothers' first airplane didn't change anything because it could only fly a few dozen feet.

You don't understand. They aren't going to ask you. They're going to ask the people who make your communication devices. If they get their way, every one who makes phones, computer, and so on will include backdoors for law enforcement because they are required to. And they will not be removable by the user.

The basis of property law is utilitarianism. A labor theory fails to explain property speculation, among other things. Property law can more or less be summed up as 'you and who's army?' and having actual armies involved.

No they don't. They have vast amounts by our standards, but not unlimited amounts. IIRC they ultimately rely on 'ordinary' fusion reactors. (While they do use a lot of antimatter, they have to manufacture it, and it's inefficient to do so)

Twenty years ago was 1993. Cell phones were real, and some models that were small not to fit in your pocket had been out for years, like the Motorola MicroTAC, and the flip phones directly inspired by communicators would come out only a few years later.

I can't help but wonder if you're old, and haven't realized that twenty years ago wasn't so long ago as it sounds (this happens to me all the time), or are young, and don't know what was going on twenty years ago, when hard disks had maybe a few hundred megabytes of capacity, floppies were commonplace, few people had so much as a modem, and the Internet still hadn't quite caught on, although people were beginning to hear about email.

I find the idea that robots wil be able to replicate imagination or creativity utterly laughable though, in any field.

The idea that people could fly was laughable. Until it wasn't. The idea that people could go to the Moon was laughable. Until it wasn't. The idea that you could carry an entire library's worth of books in your shirt pocket was laughable. Until it wasn't. Now the idea of creative or imaginative computers is laughable. For now.

You're nothing but a pack of cards!

You may want to take a look at ProCD, Inc. v. Zeidenberg, 86 F.3d 1447 (7th Cir. 1996), and coming to a different conclusion, Klocek v. Gateway, Inc., 104 F. Supp. 2d 1332 (D. Kan. 2000).

It is good for the community to support each other instead of for instance going to walmart.

But it is *not* good for government to enforce this "support" by law.

Let's get a boilerplate acknowledgement from the White House that doesn't accomplish anything at all! *That'll* show 'em!

Creating a company costs some 150$ or so. Can Tesla Motor Corporation set up a wholly owned subsidiary Tesla Motor Sales and Service Corporation of North Carolina and sell it through them?

No, because the dealership laws require independent dealers--i.e., the manufacturer can't own any piece of them.

They also save a nice bundle of tax money. Profits that are paid out to shareholders in dividends have to have income tax paid on them by the corporation, and the shareholders then have to pay income tax on those dividends themselves. Interest on debt is an expense and the corporation doesn't pay tax on it (although the debtholder still does when he collects it).

...do I print out the Marauder's Map?