The first Terminator movie, viewed by itself, is a wonderfully self-consistent time travel movie. The following movies mess it up slightly.

Fact: Science only provides a limited model of what we understand about the universe.

Tell me something you understand about the universe that has no scientific basis? Then, explain the evidence for why you understand this.

Global warming, possibly. Or the lack of pirates.

He's just overly enthusiastic. The anti-GMO environmentalists don't want those people to starve; they just care more about banning GMO than saving those people.

Sadly, your comments will be ignored, and the distorted half-truths will spread, and still be repeated a decade from now. The fear of GMO will spread also, much like the fear of vaccines, and just as harmfully.

They aren't personal infantry weapons. If at some point we arm our soldiers with wrist-mounted laser guided mini-nukes, yes, citizens should be allowed to own them.

If you want to have gun control - there is 1 legally valid solution - amend the constitution & redact the second amendment. Anything else is illegal.

This is the most important... the only important argument in this thread. There is no honest reading of the constitution that allows banning firearms. The only way to restrict gun ownership without a constitutional amendment is to simply ignore the constitution.

And that is honestly worth many, many deaths to prevent. A Civil War magnitude of deaths to prevent. Losing our constitution, is condemning ourselves and our descendents to tyranny.

If you want to amend the constitution to ban guns... let's talk. There's reasonable arguments on both sides.

So... you're a criminal. Got it.

Did you know that your comment reveals how weak you really are? Everybody reading this knows it.

Smart that you posted anonymously, although that also shows cowardice, and shows that you know that you're a coward. Examine yourself.

I would speculate that those who pretend spending is the only problem probably ignore much of the past 15 years of government action.

You mean the last fifteen years where spending has gone from 1.6 trillion to 3.7 trillion? Where total tax revenue is still at the highest it's ever been? Where we would have an instant surplus if we could simply bring the federal budget down to where it was in 2004?

The impossibility of unicorns is next to irrelevant. What matters is the unlikelihood of unicorns, just like the unlikelihood of murderous hackers is the issue at hand.

And lack of evidence can very easily establish unlikelihood.

Scientific American is a shadow of its former self. It was a great and respectable magazine 20 years ago; now it is barely more than a 'Discovery' or 'Popular Science'... more parts marketing and fluff than science. I loved it when I was a kid, and now I just feel sad whenever I see a 'Scientific American very special theme issue' on the shelves.

But don't deny the tea party has a strong racist component to it. I know they've insisted they're not racists quite a bit.

I deny that. Now offer proof.

I have many views that you would probably label as right-wing and extreme, and yet I'm not the slightest bit sexist, racist, or homophobic. Will that truth affect your gross caricaturizations in the future? Probably not.

He's correct. They have a huge bankroll. I was surprised; there is a better chance of Sony getting out the field than Nintendo.