That is actually quite a sensible suggestion !

To control corporations you DO NOT need to purchase every single share. None of key owners hold 100% stock. Most people with 10-20% are effectively in full control.

Somehow I get the idea that general US population now has a very low IQ. Maybe its due to sustained pollution or something and not their fault, but there should be a minimum threshold IQ before employing people for security / TSA duties. They should just do the checking and ignore what anyone SAYS. I seriously can not imagine anyone thinking that people who DECLARE they have bombs/guns WILL ACTUALLY HAVE THEM.

The comparison on their site shows that it doesn't support Office 2007-2010 formats (only 2003 and earlier formats). Is that correct ?

Vibrating Pen .... Hmm.....

That didn't work because we were developing a thin client type of consumer device on VIA micro boards which had to do network boot with the kernel delivered by the ISP over the network and it was not possible to have a mounted rootfs - so almost everything required was in the kernel. On top of that VIA had notoriously difficult code for its drivers which would get modified by us with almost no knowledge & just trial and error. Good times.

Reminds of the old days when a linux kernel compile would take 6 hours and we were trying some modifications for VIA hardware which required hundreds of tries with minor changes in the driver codes - so we would start the compile with a script to play two different types of music on Error or Success, and then go to sleep.

If in the middle of the night it was dire straits then we would get up and debug/fix the errors and start a compile again; if it was some soothing instrumental we would continue sleeping knowing that its compiled.

Replace 'Bullying' with 'Blackmail' and you can get a better perspective.

Offering 6 months if you accept guilt and waive your right to a Trial V/s We will get you for 50 years. That's as bad as the mafia asking for protection money - Pay $100 a day OR we'll demolish everything in your shop or break your knees.

Breakdown of order definitely requires one to keep such protection and I am all for automatic weapons to be allowed. Banning things only stops the good guys anyway

My point was that "having an assault weapon" and "having the guts to protest with a fair chance of dying" - are two different things. And the protests need a HUGE number of citizens before you can overthrow a tyrannical government.

And with such numbers its NOT the guns which are the critical factor in the overthrowing at all. It is only the sheer number of citizens which creates a fear of "revolt of the guards" situation for the Government because almost every soldier or policeman will have a loved one who has faced the brunt of the oppressive forces.

If it was only a smaller portion of the population protesting, even with automatic assault weapons, you would only have an Afghanistan like situation within the country. Armed forces derive more of their power from their organized operations, logistics & motivation than from the level of weaponry. And facing automatic weapons from random groups of citizens is going to keep their motivation pretty high as one thinks one is upholding the law. But facing huge number of unarmed pretesting citizens will always result in the rank & file starting to question their actions. Though it will have its cost in terms of number of citizens hurt or killed, but that will still be smaller than if you would be protesting with automatic assault weapons. Anyway, that's the theory. I have no personal experience of protesting against the Government at such scale.

That's true.

Though, automatic assault rifles would not really change either of these situations much - not unless half the country had them. But I agree they would at least help to some degree.

^...... Off course, I am NOT at all saying that guns should be controlled any more than they already are.

Just that when it comes to overthrowing a whole government, there are different dynamics at play.

As for the various crazy guys shooting people occasionally, US probably needs more 'crazy control' than 'gun control' i think.

Governments being overthrown by the citizens is never ever about the level of firepower.

It is always about so many of the citizens being pissed enough to be willing to die in protests or go to jail in such large numbers that the Government is no longer sure of the support of large sections of its police, army, administration etc.

Doing that with assault rifles or unarmed like Gandhi is no different. An individual in both cases has to be willing to die, even if the overall fatalities as a group may be less or more.

How many US Citizens with assault rifles have ever protested against the TSA ? Can you even imagine them doing so ? Its probably better to protest unarmed against Governments. As a rule, the Government can't back down from an armed conflict till it has expended all its resources. Its quicker and cleaner, relatively, for hordes of people to protest, go to jail, get hurt, few even killed to make a sufficient impact.

In the end it is only about Numbers. Off course,

So true.. No high end phone even comes close to N7 with JB. Just some desktop apps & 3G and it would be perfect.

That's your argument ? Going by that logic, resistive screens should be even better for you - you have to press each key Twice. So double the attention !

Not REQUIRING more attention simply means its EASIER & SIMPLER to use. When you want you can pay attention to whatever you feel like.