Hello good sir, I work for the Government.

I would just like to thank you for your liberal usage of words such as 'torture' and 'under duress.' You see, every time somebody describes solitary confinement as torture it weakens a word which at one time used to bring up images of POW camps and medieval torture devices. Now thanks to the efforts of people like yourself, when the average person hears somebody is being tortured they can't be sure if an interrogator is driving splinters under their finger nails or if they have been denied access to cable TV. With your continuing support we hope to one day bring water boarding to the civilian population as an acceptable means of interrogation.

Sincerely,
The Man

Exactly, if I meet an armed thug with a weapon of my own they are most likely to back down and run away because they no longer have the upper-hand. The average criminal isn't willing to die for the money in my wallet or my TV.

The planning time for most crimes can be measured in seconds, usually right before the crime is committed. Criminals take advantage of opportunities, an unlocked car door, a lone person walking down a dark alley or an open window. Professionals planing crimes against individuals is exceedingly rare because there is very little to gain compared to other things such as bank and armored car robberies.

Owning an automatic weapon is illegal in most if not all African countries, in some (Kenya for example) it is a capital crime. This hasn't stopped Africa from becoming one of the most dangerous places in the world.

You are implying that just owning a gun (or guillotine) automatically turns you into a crazed murderer, this is not the case in fact every year of all the people in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania with a License to Carry Firearms only 0.1% of them commit any felony or misdemeanor. You would be hard pressed to find crime rates lower than that and all of these people own guns and most carry them frequently.

Instead of blaming an inanimate objects for crimes and passing draconian laws that only serve to keep law abiding citizens defenseless from criminals and tyranny we could try and do a better job of keeping career criminals and violent mental patients separated from the rest of society or at least under tabs. Unfortunately it is much easier to pass laws banning scary looking guns knowing that law abiding citizens will surrender them and criminals who bought them from a smuggler will just ignore that law like so many others, this way you can say you took thousands of guns off 'the street' and line a bunch of scary black assault rifles on a table for the media. It looks like you've made the world a safer place for everyone when in reality its now only safer for criminals.

Dell is also notorious for ridiculous mark ups in anything beyond their cheap, low performance, bottom of the line models.

You're comparing Apples to apples.

Who would have thought a homeless man could do perform Creep better than Radiohead?
Prepare to be blown away
He has an album out now.

Because we all know if 80% of voters don't show up we just boot the politicians out in January and nobody fills that seat until the next election. I mean that is how it works right?

I'm confused, I thought Vista was just a GUI upgrade on Windows ME that filled 1GB of RAM with errors.

I'm going on a trip to Houston, Texas next year and looked into a few ways to get there. Flying would be $260 and 5 hours, Amtrak would be $440 and 39 hours and Greyhound would be $200 and 42 hours. If I went Greyhound (or Amtrak) I would have to try and sleep on the bus/train and have an entire carry on bag filled with books to keep me occupied for the trip, but I found something very disturbing in the first paragraph Greyhound's Traveling by Bus page that has made me decide to never use Greyhound.

Now it would completely ruin my trip if I park at the bus station find out my bus is full and I have to wait until tomorrow to catch the next bus. I would drive back to my house, call the hotel and hope I don't have to pay for the first nights stay (which I won't be there for) and go to sleep in my own bed.

But what if that happened at one of my connections?

Maybe I'll get the whole way to Atlanta to find that my next bus is full and I have to either spend the night in the terminal or walk the streets of Atlanta at midnight with my luggage to find a hotel to stay at and hope tomorrows bus will have a seat for me.

For now, I'm still flying...

If you choose to not insure your car against damages thats your choice. However I should have the right to force you to have liability insurance if you wish to have the PRIVILEGE of using a motor vehicle on government controlled roads. This way when you rear end me because you were too busy texting to notice the light turned red, I don't have to worry about being stuck with a heavily damaged vehicle and a huge repair bill. This now becomes your insurance companies problem which gets passed along to you in the form of higher insurance rates.

Well it worked for Coca-Cola

The article doesn't say what kids of screens would be used but I'm assuming some kind of LCD. So now every time my car gets a little tap in a parking lot I have to replace it. These also seem like a prime target for jackasses to vandalize, just a little kick and you have to get a new one. I don't think they would like power washers very much either. Whats wrong with stamped and plated metal do you really need more information than a registration number? It would be a better idea to put ads on the signs they use to warn people of accidents and traffic jams when they aren't in use.

Gun Control: The idea that a woman found raped and strangled with her own panties in a dark alleyway is somehow morally superior than a woman explaining to a police officer how her attacker got that fatal gunshot wound.

Actual T-Shirt seen at gun range.

Does anyone else think that of all of the advocacy and special interest groups feminists are the most hypocritical and can never agree on anything as a whole?