The only people complaining of any fame are fans of Woz. Follow Wozniak's track record once the Macintosh [which he had nothing to do with] arrived. He completed a double B.S., got married, and did nothing but small, mindless little startups while getting paid today $120k a year [honorarily by Apple] for simply being alive. The real talent at Apple are the guys who Steve cultivated and who demanded he create NeXT when the board ousted him. I worked around them at NeXT. They dwarf Wozniak in knowledge, skills and capabilities to create great products. That same zeal was brought back to Apple. Wozniak had decades to extend his respect technologically by actually pioneering research in design of CPUs, GPUs, etc. He doesn't know it. He never did. Technology blew past Steve Wozniak and he decided to play Steve Jobs as a CEO and failed miserably every single time. The guy holds 4 patents in his entire engineering career, while being given Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory of resources to create. He isn't that genius. He's a celebrity who will always be the fat kid who Steve Jobs pulled out of his shell [Wozniak is quite clear on this point] and made him wealthy.

It isn't a coincidence that India agrees with the US on building out by using local talent. Europe will follow suit in each nation state, and South America will do the same. China's stranglehold on cheap materials/labor is no longer the driving factor in manufacturing. The top manufacturers in China are working on investing in foreign lands to avoid losing their present contracts. Over time, they'll lose them. It's an economic/intelligence/political trifecta approach to breaking China's dominance on flooding world markets and thus driving down competiting economies. In short, US, Euro and other nation states corporations realize that game is up. They know the import/export tariff imbalance days are over.

I'd vote you up if I had points left. The OP is missing on so many areas. I started laughing with the fMRI not discovering free will bit.

To demonstrate a line of sight transmission, from any possible point of orbit? Think about it. They are developing towards a true subspace solution.

Get off your butt and pitch in on the R600 target for LLVM/Clang and later the Mesa 10.x roadmap so that OpenGL 4.x and OpenCL 1.2 quality is available. After all, it's already happening. Worry about general computing first. Those improvements will role into the Catalyst driver.

In a country where people can't write the equation for H2O you think they are going to become chemists and more to create mass mayhem. Shit, they can't even spell Chemistry, Physics, Calculus, Dynamics, Statics, etc. Try again.

In short, less death, more criminals stand trial. Your point?

Mental health problem, my ass. Go visit several sanitarium, then talk about mental health. Being mentally enraged about your lot in life isn't Mental Health. Talking to invisible people in the corner, thinking you're a famous spy while dressed in ladies lingerie in a facility, now that's Mental Health.

Do me a favor, Stand 20 feet from me while I pump a couple 12 gauge choke enable rounds into you. I bet you don't get pissed off. I bet you're dead.

Yes, and at one time weapons of war were relegated to spears and arrows, both of which suck at long range, you can dodge and are single action. When guns went from bolt action, to hundreds of rounds per second something got lost in your grasp of military grade to consumer grade.

Horse shit on the safe meme. A cheap gun safe is easy to get into. A professional quality custom made safe or commercial level apparatus is in all practical purposes impossible to breach without access codes, custom keys, etc. Do I have to cite Banks and their safes? Or those who actually own stuff of value worth millions or more? Security systems that need expertise to breach are affordable and available. Adam won't be getting into them.

Bottom line, what sort of moron owns guns when their own adult child is mentally unstable? I'd say hundreds of thousands of Americans fit that bill.

Newtown was coined as one of the safest places to raise a family, yet later we find the town is a gunhaven for god fearing folk. They built their own giant powder keg and never seemed to get that one of their own would light the fuse?

Sorry, but calling this an isolated incident is an insult. We have millions of unemployed adults who own firearms and who see their life styles going into the crapper, yet you think they are all rational, respectable gun owners?

Of course, whenever they go postal I guess its comforting to label them as mentally unstable and thus in need of treatment, instead of addressing the real problem: Unstable economies produce a lot of starving people who will commit crimes [or end the lives of those they feel have wronged them before they take their own lives in acts of desparation].

So instead of fixing the economy we have douchebag GOP members on ideological rants holding a nation hostage [and holding a history of that ideology proven them wrong]; and recognizing that stalemate, several states and soon members of Congress seeing patterns of increased fear have decided to take action you consider foolhardy.

I consider arming everyone in a nation of nearly 320 million people is insane. Most people don't have the coordination to hit a ball with a bat, yet we should arm them? Fuck that.

Three hundred plus million guns in a country where easily over 60-70% of the country doesn't own a gun means we have a concentrated collective group of fear and propaganda overshadowing conscientious traditional hunting advocacy who they themselves should be up in arms for such lax laws on gun ownership and possession.

Since 2002 nearly 100 million have been purchased. For what? Hunting? My ass. Fear drives people to make irrational choices in life. The NRA pipes out fear.

I grew up Hunting and Fishing. I never got excited about a weekly target shooting time. Hunting season came, we hunted several weekends, and then it was over. Today, people blow a nut visiting the gun range on a weekly basis. The mindset is fucked up. It's all fear marketing.

The NRA would love to arm every person in America. That's a good $20-$30 billion in additional powder keg sales!

Anyone hunting big game with an AR-15 or fowl and neither uses say a .300 weatherby or a 12 gauge is full of crap. You were correct to point out a shotgun is a far better deterrent than an AR-15 to defend against a home invasion. Then again, how many home invasions have you ever had or your friends as you describe defend themselves against home invasions [plural] with their AR-15? Who do you hang around with that expect several never mind a single home invasion? The AR-15 never should have been declassified for military only purposes, period. No one should be owning the precursor to the M16, not to mention AK-47 style weaponry. Hunting is not what they are used for, unless by hunting you mean to kill enemies of the same species.

People say a lot of stupid, fear-based crap to keep everyone on edge. Growing up with several former detectives who owned arsenals, taught me to shoot and go hunting not one of them would be opposed and fearful of their guns being registered.

Lightning strikes don't spray in bunches and kill with malice. When the atmosphere is so unstable that anywhere nearby doesn't offer you protection against the coulombs of energy then talk. This isn't the film, ``The Jerk'' where Navin Johnson is getting shot at for being the wrong random pick out of a phone book.

Sorry, but nothing you discussed as points of argument have any factual, historical or realistic foundation. No little old lady is out there killing thugs with a handgun. If life had infinite value it would be priceless and most certainly people would be fighting to free themselves more than ever from oppression.

The likelyhood of getting mugged is a complex equation that deals mainly with the proximity and population density, to the physical size and awareness of the potential victim when they enter an area and find themselves either in a position of strength or weakness. You write as if you expect people to see some prescient insight from your statements. Get used to disappointment.

Switzerland requires mandatory military service. You want to do that?