The Berne convention requires the registration be optional, but does it require that a (c) be such ?

I don't know if I'd call it 5 if 10.

If we assume it's time of human civilization (non-extinction Apocalypse could count as end in that scenario) calling it a 5 of ten would be predicting 8000 more years, calling it 1435 of 1400 would be predicting 52 years, (1-.9935) * 8000, not what I think, but is the message they are trying to project with the issues they are mentioning.

OK, so that chart has approx 700, not 300 (and not the 2100 on the chart that I listed).

If we assume the 2000 (unspecified) are under-reported evenly we are left with approx 850 almost triple the 300 number you mentioned (and 1/3 the 2100 number in the link I sent). I absolutly agree with you in principal, and was curious where the 300 number came from because it makes the correct (IMO) argument stronger, I'm happy to go with less than 1000 vs over 6000, also, if you look at rifle/shotgun murders, it is less correlated with over-all murder rate, which has me extrapolating these are the background constant type murders, and not the crime related ones that are being committed.

The number is so different in the hand vs other gun type in the two charts I feel there's something odd going on with the 2k unidentified.

This is flat out not true. I can say with 100% certainty that the 2nd amendment does NOT protect fully automatic weapons. I say this because we live in a common law country, and the rulings on laws (however stupid they are on the face) ARE the law. This means that spirit of the amendment, or even a plain English reading is irrelevant at this point, the second amendment does not protect automatic weapons.

Where are you getting the 300 number?

I see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ushomicidesbyweapon.svg

This is my biggest complaint about this debate.

Lets use handgun stats to regulate an entirely different weapon. That doesn't make sense at all.

Now let's look at statistics:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ushomicidesbyweapon.svg

Oh look, non-handgun guns come in below knives and are relatively flat vs overall gun violence. Let's regulate them while ignoring the alleged premise for the legislation. Ugh, I fucking hate people.

The individual parts are chains or sprockets, the various combinations are gears.

A gear can be a physical thing, where as the concept of gear (as in a car or a bike) is more abstract. For example my six speed/gear car has 5 gears in it (2 drivers and 3 output). Your ten speed/gear bike had (probably) 7 sprockets (2 front 5 back, though newer ones I've seen have 11 sprockets, 1 front ten back).

Two sprockets connected by a chain have a gear ratio, but I'd be hard pressed to call them a gear (someone will probably correct me though).

I couldn't find the /. article where I read about it, but this is a starting point:
(google it) linux multiple keyboards and monitors games

The article was good, it talked about making a quake lan party setup for very very cheap.

You are making arbitrary restrictions on what end-users really want. Maybe you're right, maybe you're not. But the argument could be made that end users don't really care about (insert software freedom here).

It's perfectly reasonable for me, as both an end-user and sysadmin that uses Drupal to see a feature enhanced version of Drupal, and to want to play with the source, see the source, alter the source, learn, and improve upon what someone else has done. The AGPL promises that ability. This is at the very least arguably in the spirit of the GPL, and most certainly not against it's spirit. The GPL is about empowering users, not harming distributers. End users are arguably important. I'm perfectly happy to use a 3rd party web service and rely on their availability, as long as can get my data, and most of my meta data out of it.

Yes, open source software for websites is a disaster for security. Wait, never mind, the stuff that people will know is fine to share.

As for your other complaints of the AGPL I would say that it is debatable. What does it mean to "use" a web application. The AGPL says that it is to use it as an end-user, the GPL treats it as an installer basically. Do I use slashcode by posting this comment? or is it when I set-up a website built with it that I become a user? The GPL was meant to protect users (recipients of the distribution).

Are you kidding?

I don't know what you mean, is there a WYSIWYG editor on /.?

the code option looks new to me, but the other three are the same as from as long as I remember.

I'm counting on the same people that make the Ubuntu TVs.

Actually 'o' vs 'i' and '.' vs ' ' are much more phone problems for me than keyboard.

Except I'm willing to bet most often things that read out "kg" are actually measuring the force of 1kg at gravitational acceleration at sea level, and the buoyancy of 1atm.

I could be wrong, but I think most transactions work this way (spring loaded scales), and bathroom scales.