This is also not entirely accurate. Yes, the rate of gun ownership is lower in cities, but urban gun owners tend to be more wealthy, and have significantly bigger gun collections as a result. Basically, a rural area might had a dozen rednecks with a shotgun and a rifle each (both several decades old), whereas the city will have two RFWGs each with a dozen guns with an average price tag of $800-900.

Anyway, the point is that, apparently, catering to the gun crowd doesn't actually piss the urbanites off all that much. If it did, we'd see way more membership in and funding of gun control organizations, way bigger demonstrations against guns etc. On the other hand, the gun crowd tends to be very touchy (which shouldn't come as a surprise, as many are clinically paranoid and live in their own reality where the government is out to take their guns and freedoms, and everything that can even tentatively be connected to that is a part of the grand master plan).

So they'll probably do what organizations usually do: adopt a few symbolic and largely meaningless measures that are enough to get the gun owners talking but not quite fuming, while also allowing MDA and MAIG to publish nice press releases about "somebody finally did something! yay us!".

Some US states actually do have a gross receipts tax, which is kinda like that, and the economy seems to be doing fine regardless.

So what kind of open source do you actually end up certifying for use, then? I'm not aware of any open source projects accepting contributions that require contributors to state their nationality.

So, do you trust the code from Crimea?

I grew up in the 60's and 70's, really good music has always been "harder to find", only cream of 70's musicians lived on, the rest were promptly forgotten. Same with any era, my adult kids still listen to the Nirvana and Gun's and Roses they grew up with and enjoy it just as much as I enjoy Floyd and Marley. The difference since about the late 80's is that parents and their children often have similar tastes in music.

I can't comprehend how someone could not enjoy ANY music, music is the fundamental pre-cursor to language, not only is it deeply ingrained into humans but species as diverse as whales and grasshoppers use music to communicate with each other.

Only in Israel. And if they do indeed become a majority in Israel, it probably won't exist for much longer - so far as I know, most of them also tend to shy away from military service.

Birth rate is not the be all and end all. If it were, we would be long extinct in favor of rodents, or perhaps insects.

Sure, popping many children is one way to increase the potential of your genes to propagate. Another is to have only a few children, but strong enough that they will outcompete the others. And this strength does not have to be innate - if, say, a feminist society is also a more technologically progressive society, then one kid who grows up to be a drone pilot will be far more successful at securing his gene lines than a hundred Allah-praising kids that he will blow up with their children from the safety of his control center.

I'd do so, except that I've already sold mine a long time ago. Is there an acceptable substitute?

> If the law was off the books tomorrow, virtually every open source project would welcome their
> participation with open arms.

Them not being able to participate is a drawback. Frankly, ignoring laws that are wrong is a persons duty. There is no legitimate reason to bar their particpation. Resepect for laws that are wrong is disrespect for the laws victims.

I have yet to see any reasonable argument why anyone should see it as their duty to follow the law just because somebody made a law.

What makes you believe that gun owner demographic (especially the kind that actually go like/join NRA) is "people living in impoverished rural communities"? Guns are fairly expensive, on the order of electronic gadgetry. Ammo is also not cheap. The modern stereotype of an American gun owner is "rich fat white guy", and it's fairly accurate (I can testify to that, being such myself, and seeing who else comes to the range when I'm there). Needless to say, that is an audience rife for advertising.

> Last month she linked to an article on entrepreneurs suffering depression

You are missing the obvious fact that comes up if you do any searching on her.

She was known for having launched a product, aimed specifically at Second Life. If involvement in second life isn't a marker for potential lifelong clinical depression, then I don't know what is.

Have you considered that she only saw the extreme edge cases? The vast majority of people who take LSD never end up in an emergency room because of it. The vast majority never end up hospitalised. She, by definition of her job, only saw the worst.

> Things going horribly wrong while on hallucinogens isn't exactly rare, and as such should really only
> be used while under supervision. They are in fact so common, that they have an official slang term,
> "bad trip".

Depends what you mean by "horribly wrong" or "bad trip". "Bad Trip" is used to describe any situation where a person has an emotional experience that they are having trouble handling. Yes, this happens. I have seen it happen. It can be loud, it can be scary, but it really turning into anything significant IS indeed rare.

In fact, if it wasn't rare, it wouldn't make the news.

Yes, its true, psychedelics can provide people with very intense emptional experiences, which are not always fun; anyone using them should be aware of and prepared for that. Anything beyond that is just unwarranted fear.

> - Also, if he went to a state college and now calls himself a libertarian, I have to call that out.
> That is also a "Silicon Valley" thing.

so a person who uses any state resources which they and their parents before them paid for....this should limit what opinions they are allowed to form later?

I was raised catholic and took first communion, and later came to realize the whole God thing was a sham, am I stuck being Catholic?

Seems like a raw deal to me.

Hard to tell, you can get "identical effects" (vivid visual and auditory hallucinations) simply by forcing yourself to stay awake for more than ~60hrs.

From what I'm seeing this is a trademark dispute

Exactly, charging for an install is not permitted under the license agreement for using the FireFox trademark in their marketing material. Dell can keep charging whatever they want for it if they stop using the trademarked name.

It's also pretty clear from the summary - "Our trademark policy makes clear that this is not permitted and we are investigating this specific report.
Also from the summary, Dell responded by changing the subject "saying that this practice is okay because the company is charging for the service and not the product."