Like a police department? There are a lot of guns there.

Just like a certain US Vice President I won't name* who suggested emptying both barrels of a shotgun into the door when threatened by an intruder, thus violating firearm safety rules and possibly committing murder by not identifying the target and leaving oneself unarmed by expending the ammunition in one shot.

* but his name rhymes with hidin'.

India seemed to do pretty well with passive resistance against the UK.

The government can overwhelm some of us for a time but it can't handle all of us forever.

So a well-armed populace won't be any help overwhelming the government? The situation in India was with a nation rejecting an overseas power. The UK was a weary empire, and passive resistance was the appropriate response to them. Passive resistance is not going to work in the USA, against the Federal government.

Your little personal firearms don't stand a chance against the military or even the police really.

Any police department can be subdued, even with their urban tanks and full-auto weapons. They are not properly trained to handle insurgency. And perhaps we should be raising the question as to why our government doesn't allow us to have anti-tank weapons and full-auto firearms but to prevent insurgency. If we had these weapons stockpiled by well-regulated militias, we wouldn't have to keep hearing this ironic "you can't stop a tank with your hunting rifle" screed from the left.

In a civilised country the populace shouldn't feel that they need to carry a weapon when walking the streets to be safe.

OK, whatever. Not everyone lives in a tidy little city where there are ample, well-trained, non-corrupt police and a moral populace. And the government doesn't get to choose what I "need to" do.

Sempron, Celeron?

And if you have only 512 MB of RAM, you don't have an older machine-- you have an OLD machine!

I don't know why everyone doesn't just invent false statistics in an attempt to bolster their totally baseless statements.

You're not in the same boat, because you support yourself and rely on no one. You chose to live a minimalist lifestyle, and I greatly respect that. I have a friend who works fairly menial jobs, but works efficiently and thus has time for his music, socializing and charitable work. The person you responded to is leaning on society, expecting the same people he despises to support him.

So I refuse to participate in a situation that is not only apathetic toward my well-being, but actively, maliciously, greedily abusive of me.

So you allow your family-- and society, through our high taxation and socialist governments-- to work hard while you greedily consume the fruit of their efforts? I read your entire post, searching in vain for some sign this was a troll post rather than an actual narcissist screed. Indeed, I know people who don't have great jobs, but this doesn't bother them because they work to live, not live to work. They are content spending the rest of their time being creative and helping other people. I am sorry that you are crippled by your mental issues, but placing the blame on society will never help you recover.

Both also result in a huge release of methane and boiling hot, liquefied matter. The similarities are amazing!

Not a Verizon fan, but as long as there is still copper to the premises the POTS regulations still apply.

Giving him the prize would also 'save the Nobel Peace Prize from the disrepute that incurred by the hasty and ill-conceived decision

So we're going to follow it up with another hasty and ill-conceived decision.

That's funny-- the anti-capitalists keep telling us that doesn't work for private companies, and criticize companies for their high-paid CEOs.

I think few execs in universities were brought there for their frugality.

Popmoney does this. No link so I won't be accused of spamming.

There's nothing in your post that is inferior or unavailable in the USA, except perhaps 100% signal strength "in any town of any significance."

My roommate and I did this in our apartment complex during college, running 10base2 coax to friends in another building in the same complex. It worked great for six months, until management found it and threatened eviction.