I think the empirical evidence shows that gun control does work in western nations...just look at Australia, Canada and the UK....

What makes you confident you saw enough of western europe to judge the quality of life?

I'd do this. What's the issue? It's unlikely someone is going to be at the ready to record that information or memorize it on the first time hearing it without being prepared, and in the worst case scenario I'm completely covered by my bank.

What exactly is the issue?

what would you have had to debug on the router itself?

Experience is overrated. There are a lot of people who have experience fixing peoples computers, and don't know jack shit.

Do you have to buy special wireless cards to facilitate it as an AP? I imagine the built in wireless card isn't great for routing.

Conventional thinking is not that intelligence is primarily genetic. It's that multiple factors play a role and we don't entirely know to what extents, or which is the most significant.

Everything you continue to say is so goddamn wrong.

Your post loses credibility when you start it by deliberately playing semantics and misconstruing the OPs statement.

If you have to do that to make your argument, why is the rest of what you wrote worth reading?

Yet, I did read it. You seem to miss the point of the OPs post. He could have articulated it better, but nonetheless it is clear.

What we say to be impossible is based on our current understanding, which is woefully inadequate for making such bold assertions.

Your saying that certain things are 100% impossible, indicates you don't have the est understanding of science. So maybe don't go around correcting people, mmmmkay.

Way to misread and twist what I said AC.

Exactly. It's ridiculous the pedestal we place Einstein on.

I'd be willing to bet that many smarter than average people have larger than average corpus callosums. It doesn't seem like something that would be unique to Einstein.

Since Einstein, I think we have people who are without a doubt more intelligent, I mean just check this list.

Einstein made a breakthrough that would have inevitable happened anyway, because he was curious, smart, confident and able to think critically.

Putting him on a pedestal to the point where we study his brain like this just shows how ignorant and how low average intelligence is.

LavaBit wasn't a publicly traded company. THEY can shutdown whenever the investors/owner decides.

Apple can not shut down if the majority of the shareholders disagree with their actions.

The company shouldn't have sold shares if it can't accept direct democracy, they should get investments in other ways. Shares are a special kind of tool for investing in companies. Its a special kind of investment as you do gain some power in the company by purchasing shares.

No. Its like blaming the wrong guy when someone is shot with his stolen gun. Anyone who argues it is just stupid or trying to justify the fact that they do it themselves.

Except that its been shown, multiple different ways by different people that it is trivial to track.

If you think you're being sneaky and hard to trace by using bitcoin, you're an idiot.