I feel like we're stuck in a time loop with a a really screwed up read head.

I so, so very look forward to pissing on several graves. I'll happily be arrested in Arlington Cemetery, so long as they let me shake first.

The founding fathers knew English pretty well. If that had been their intent, the Second would have read:

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the [members of said Militia] to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed"

Since it does NOT say that, and says that Citizens have the right to keep and bear arms, that is what they meant.

To address some of the other ideas you included - several countries require their armed forces, and equivalent to National Guard, to indeed keep their weapons at their homes.

And at the time the Amendment was written, private citizens owned cannons, and even entire small warships. There was no talk of limiting it to small arms (muskets) - because the idea of that seemed ludicrous at the time.

Please do some research - I am disappointed at the lack of perspective of someone with such a low UID. Sad!

No, it actually is illegal. Congressional approval is given through legislation. Legislation == written laws. No approval == no law allowing it == illegal.

"It enforces zero policy," Poettering said. "It leaves that up for other parts of the system."

"Calm down, stop being so jumpy. The explosives around your neck will not detonate. Unless I push this button."

LNG is not just used directly for energy.

It is an input to urea production. As in fertilizer. As in a major farming input.

So you can thank Mr. Peace President for you impending food bill, too.

Yes, the same dipshit that calls himself the peace president and minces around talking about redoing the drapes like a pantomime suburban housewife.

(Can you imagine what fun the press would have had with a President Hillary going on about the drapes?)

And then goes on to be a trashy asshole to the Japanese PM. Although that could "just" be dementia-driven disinhibition instead of intentional. And when he's gone, remember that this is what Republicans value - this incompetent, boorish, demented piece of trash. And why? Because he is hurting people they resent slightly more than he is hurting them, and they're willing to burn the constitution to do it.

Oh, that's not what they meant?

Nevermind, not interested.

Absolutely agree.

And you can rest easy knowing the US is currently crippling and isolating itself, so it will likely back off some of its nastier behavior over the long term. (Although the short term is turning out to be... interesting.)

But to be realistic you need to note US is not uniquely bad here. Nations have interests, not morals. If one ends up substantially more powerful than peers, it will throw its weight around. And the US, for all its faults and evils, has mostly promoted human rights and an expansion of political freedom. Its failures and hypocrisies there are many and awful, but I assure you a resurgent Russia or unfettered China would not be a better actor.

Well, from what I've done so far with trading stocks and options (have NOT gotten into futures) here is my best guess for what happened.

The fake crop reports fed to the brothers called for an absolutely abysmal outlook for oranges - the crop was going to be devastated.

So, they took their money and their margins (I have a brokerage account with a margin - an amount the brokerage will lend me to make trades with. If the stocks, options, or futures you bought with margin do badly enough, the brokerage sends you a margin call - you need to add money to keep the losing bets going. If you can't or won't add more money, they force-sell what they need to in order to balance out the books. I have margin, but have avoided using it) and bought up every futures contract the could - using cash, margin (and since they had chairs on the brokerage's board, they may have had an insane amount - or almost limitless amount - of margin) and whatever other resource they had. Since they "knew" those futures were going to be worth a ton once the report was made public.

Some saw what the brothers were doing and started buying too - driving the prices up further.

Eddie and Dan waited until the frenzy had driven up prices to crazy levels and then sold all the futures they had bought up *the day before* - also with whatever amount of leverage they had. Very short term options on the futures would let them control a huge amount of "shares" for surprisingly little money, so what they had to work with went a long way. They just waited until prices reached, say, 10x what they started the day with, then sold all they had at, say, 9x. Unloading it all in a heartbeat for a huge profit.

The real report comes out, and it is the opposite of the fake one - there will be a huge bumper crop of oranges - and futures are now really worth next to nothing.

Futures prices plunge, as everyone who followed the brothers tries to unload the overpriced futures at once. They cannot sell off enough, for enough, fast enough, and get the dreaded margin call - with the results shown in the movie.

I'm sure there was originally a lot of explanation of what was actually going on and why, but all of it was cut to make the movie more enjoyable - if more mysterious.

There have been several recent cases of the Ohio leg not being responsive to what the citizenry want. You can expect citizens to keep doing this until they manage to dislodge the arrogant little shitweasels who keep trying to tell normal folks how to live.

It's a byproduct of extracting natural gas, which Qatar also supplies in large quantities. Instead of just the feedstock, they decided to refine the helium themselves and sell the end product (for more profits). Seems pretty reasonable overall, but I agree - not obvious.

Nicely self-descriptive comment. I'll remember the name and not bother reading you anymore.

(1) Your conception of fairness is broken, apparently because you can't see the difference between sports and society's justice function.

(2) General hint to dealing with other humans: If you try to surreptitiously break rules and get caught, appealing to some sense of "fairness" makes you look like a fucking weasel who will say anything, so your words mean nothing. You just tried to get an unfair advantage and hide it, and now you're whining about being caught, demonstrating lack of remorse. You deserve to be stomped for it, if nothing else as an example to others.

"How many times does review actually catch bugs?"

Mostly it depends on 2 things:

1) How well the reviewers know the codebase and what it is trying to accomplish, in detail.

2) The amount of stuff that is being reviewed( document, code, system design, use cases, etc.) at one time.
      Can you review 10 lines of code and find all the bugs? Very likely.
      Can you review 1,000,000 lines of code at once and find the bugs? Not a chance.
      Can you review 1,000 lines of code and find the bugs? Maybe.

      We try to keep reviews to 100-200 lines of code. Not always practical, given other constraints (time, budget, availability, relative priorities, etc.), but in small chunks like that, it's pretty effective.

Beginning to think that, if you are a normie[1], affirmatively picking your malware might be the way to go. You're going to get pwned, so you may as well pick one that will defend your gateway from other gangs and hopefully not be too awful.

Maybe someday we'll seeing APTs advertising for vassals and competing on terms.

[1] As in, you don't run snort at home or monitor CVE feeds