Wow. Just ... wow.

I can understand the regulation of imported materials, but every plant? That's seriously fucked.

Because when one hands a rent controlled apartment to ones offspring, one is disposing of ones own property, not someone elses. Moron.

Funny, I can't think of a single way to read the above to mean handing over a rent-controlled apartment is disposing of some else' property, given that it says the exact opposite. If you intended it to be sarcastic, you failed completely to make that clear.

Actually, it seems far easier to part a poor person from their money than a rich person. Just look at the personal consumption habits of the US.

Indeed. Different types of oil produce different quantities of each distillate, but those quantities are fixed per barrel. The gasoline will still come out in the same quantity, and aside from developing a process to modify the molecular structure of each distillate in an economically feasible way that's not going to change.

A rent-controlled apartment is not the property of the renter.

And calling someone a moron tends to make people immediately write off your argument. Try being civil and you might be more successful in dialogues.

Indeed, which means a appeal to "fairness" must be defined before it is necessarily relevant.

Most people for this technology are for it being mandatory, so the point is completely salient to the discussion here.

Starting off by implying all gun fans are paranoid is not a good way to be listened to.

There's a means to change the Constitution, and when you ignore it when it's convenient it'll be ignored for other, far more nefarious reasons too.

I'll accept every firearm death per year if it means people abide by the system required to change the Constitution.

Nope. We must wrap them in bubble wrap until they're 18, and then throw them out with absolutely no idea how to fend for themselves.

With the change to a Chromium base, it no longer has any relevance.

I'm a long-time Opera user, and this change saddens me a great deal. There will now no longer be a browser that integrates so many things without relying on plugins. All the standard usability plugins for Chrome and Firefox are native features of Opera pre-Next. Their relevance used to be the enhancements that everyone else copied. Now they'll just be playing catch-up.

Unless they re-add features such as per-website preferences and the ability to customize the UI in as many ways as Opera pre-Next, I won't be switching until the old Opera no longer works with new web tech.

Next is completely crippled compared to the previous version.

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I don't know anyone, liberal or conservative, who supports PETA.

I think I've seen this episode of 24. Don't worry, the Australian Jack Bauer will keep everyone safe.

That's not the NY way.

If a universal ban worked I would be for it. It won't though.

Also, the majority of firearm owners aren't trying to solve societal problems with them, and most firearm uses don't include a trigger pull.

Your continued use of the word insane to cover a vast number of people with widely disparate views says more bout you than those at whom you aim your words. They are as bad as right-wing extremists. Those who are not willing to listen and engage civilly are all part of the problem.