> Lastly, if you're that concerned with reliability, you wouldn't be using a semi-automatic, you'd stick with a simple revolver or a blunt instrument.

That's ridiculous. A well designed semi-auto is extremely reliable. That's why nearly every single person required to be armed to do their job has one. When I see all of the police using it I'll consider it myself.

Requiring civilians to use such technology in its current form is just another way of slowly disarming them, similar to banning magazines. It's just another way of saying "Look, you can still own a gun. Just not a gun that's very good"

Talking heads quote the real GDP which is calculated using the CPI. If CPI is lower than reality then real GDP will be overstated.

You are in the group that doesn't understand money. Money is a market phenomenon.

Exactly which governments cut spending again?

Purchasing music, movies, or paying for cable TV is immoral. Just don't do it, and try your best to stop your friends and family from doing it.

Glad to see yet another nice feature for my favorite database. This one doesn't really excite me. I hardly ever want to update views without joins anyway.

How dare you, after everything that's transpired over the last 10 years, call us "crazy civil libertarian types".

Please choose Postgres!

Peer1 fails to take adequate measures to keep the power on.

And they have weapons of mass destruction just like Iraq

That will be ignored as soon as the capability to occupy celestial bodies exists.

The writing is so bad I can barely follow the story.

> A structure is democratic if it provides the means to remove the ruling entity from power without bloodshed or revolution.

The ruling regime hasn't changed in 100 years. As there is not a dimes worth of difference between Democrats and Republicans on any issue of substance, it is indeed extremely complicated for power to be legally transferred to new leadership.

"If the pizza delivery man brings the wrong order one more time and I'll kill him!"

Is that really a threat? Am I actually planning to murder the delivery man?

This will be counted as a foiled terrorist attack.