NOT! Any and every infringement to our Natural Right to life, granted to us by GOD, is an abomination! As an Oath Keeper, I, along with 21 million Veterans like me, and 35 million public servants, police, Congress, public servants, all took an Oath to "protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign or domestic". Let no person object, or attempt to change, our Rights! The penalties under the law for such treason extend to criminal felonies, including death!

Resources? Evil Genius book series... 1001 Basic Electronics Circuits... ARRL Handbook... google search for those inexpensive Christmas tree light/roulette/coin toss circuits? Check out the electronics or robotics mags on the newsstand or on the web? Nuts & Volts magazine?

The userbase for GNU/Linux is the largest in all the Open Source OSes. Developers are shooting for the biggest audience. *BSD is certainly second in userbase numbers. Both appear in multiple variations to suit the needs of niche users. But, they are not monolithic in the many thousands of viable applications. The applications tend to be fast and light in the code, because they share support applications (ex: spellchecker is shared by 26 Office and editor, browser, programs). Open Source is code done right, from the first line through the full release it is inspected, detected, and bad parts rejected, by millions of developers, coders, users. Hey, it works for me, and for all of the Eastbrook Elementary kids, who prefer http://pclinuxos.com/ that you could run, so you would see how good FREEdom can be!