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Wrong. This is slashdot, A car analogy is required.

I'm certainly all for the right to keep and bear arms, but the US is by far the most armed country in the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_guns_per_capita_by_country

It does not follow that if you are speaking honestly, that makes your community look good.

Example: If Linus feels that all women should be raped, that would not make anybody look good.

All that said. I personally don't give a fuck.

i'm not so sure. I remember a case of a woman outright grabbing a male co-worker's genitals and the case got thrown out.

funny how many people decry bigotry, then turn around and spout off crap like the OP.

I wonder how many presidents qualify as worst president in history? I've heard it mentioned about every president in my lifetime, multiple times.

First off, that's not crony capitalism, that's capitalism. Crony Capitalism is where businesses depend on the government, rather than competing in the free market. There is plenty of this in the US right now.

So when the OP said:

Patent trolls are indeed a function of crony capitalism.

While you can perhaps argue that there has never been a pure capitalist state, you can eliminate things like the bailouts and the possibility for patent trolls, to go a long ways towards that pure capitalism.

first thing i saw when i got into phoenix.. 2 billboards for jail bonds.. really not the best way to start of a visit to a new place lol.

And as redmond's neighbor, I can tell you, redmond is quit quiet :)

(I'm joking, I have 3 linux comps).

LOL!!!

brilliant logic haha

horrible analogy. Most people who want to buy a gun, buy one for control over their own lives (self defense). Most people who want political power, want it for control over others.

how many times has this been said and tried throughout history? No clue, but I'll be willing to be no matter what laws would get passed there will be plenty of loopholes.

yeah, tell me how voting for the lesser of two evils thing has been working out?

Yeah that's right. Tell me, what has had value for thousands of years. I guess that preferring a metal that has had value for thousands of years and will have value as far as we can tell for thousands more, over a piece of paper that politicians can print pretty much at will, makes hima loon.

TY, I learned a new word. He thinks that we have laws for immigration that should be followed and that the current immigration process should be streamlined. I guess that's xenophobia? lol

So you walk around neighbourhood with a fully loaded M16, and occasionally march into random people's houses and order them around with a gun to their faces? No? well then you must be an extreme isolationist!

Anyone who says that ron paul has a cult of personality is just beyond eliousonal about him. He is uncharismatic, he runs on sentences, he jumps around in his statements. If there's a ron paul cult, it's because he's spent 30 years or so in public office, standing by his principles while everyone mocks him.

I tried reading the GCC code a few years ago. It has to be the most painful code i've ever read. It was incredibly difficult to follow.