Try making an AK from raw materials. Now try printing a firearm from raw materials. Tell me which is easier.

Change the penalty for moving violations from a monetary fine to a mandatory community service.

The incentive for police to write frivolous tickets will disappear, and people who are caught will be made to spend real time helping their community in some way, benefitting them, and costing them time, which is more valuable than money.

The original luddites were afraid of this very thing - advances in loom technology turned weaving jobs from highly skilled labor into a job someone could learn in a few hours.

This sort of thing will happen over and over again. And as progress marches onward, most of us still manage to find work.

As a photographer myself (Though only around 4TB of photos at current) here's my setup:

Onsite backup: Drobo to Drobo.

Offsite backup: Backblaze. I pay $4/mo (2 years prepaid). This is a secondary backup. It still has everything, but I rely on the local backup to retrieve something should my primary storage fail, and the offsite is for when things burn to the ground or someone steals my stuff or lightning takes everything out. Really it's cheap, it's just that initial backup which takes an eternity and might get you in trouble with your ISP. Fortunately I was able to use the local university 1gbit connection to reduce my initial backup time to just 18 days (straight).

In the context used by most people including the media, an Assault Rifle is semi-auto. An Assault Weapon is either a rifle or a handgun that meets certain scary cosmetic configurations.

No. An Assault rifle cannot fire in fully-automatic mode. Assault Rifle, as generally used today, refers to semi-automatic firearms ONLY (Since fully-automatic firearms have been largely banned since 1986, with old ones grandfathered in if you pass a 4-month federal background check process and pay the tax). Way to spread the FUD.

In Fact, Assault rifles differ from their brothers, "hunting" or "Sporting" rifles, in cosmetics only.

You're right. They'll steal some gun from your underwear drawer, and use it to kill someone, thereby tracing the crime back TO YOU.

Criminals are funny. They don't really care what the law is, by definition. So they'll break whatever laws they need to in order to get it done.

But doesn't Sprint have a reputation for handing data over to the cops without a warrant? http://arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2009/12/sprint-fed-customer-gps-data-to-leos-over-8-million-times.ars

It's The University of Michigan. Go Blue!

Or - they were fired, and two weeks later hacked into the systems themselves.

That's not the same. With a GET, I'm actually asking a server for something, and the server gives it to me, tells me no, or ignores me. This is akin to knocking on the door and asking for a cup of sugar. They say the internet is like a giant corkboard on your front door for a reason - and that we should be careful in what we should put online. So should corporations with other people's data.

How long till cops put these on their cars, or make some belt-attached version to stop citizen recordings?

Any flashlight that takes 18650 batteries can also use CR123a batteries at a 2-for-1 ratio (2xCR123a = 1x18650 Li-Ion). So if you're that worried buy a 10-pack of CR123s at walmart.

Check (10 days off/year), Check (15 days off/year, 6 months extended sick leave which renews every 5 years), Check (Paternity leave, counts as sick time), True (but if I'm over 40 hours I get overtime - knew I was on call taking this job), True (no mandated breaks, but my work environment allows for them whenever), No safety issues to worry about here, True (I'm not a "right to work" state, I'm in an "at will" state), and Discriminate? ooohkay. Come to the states sometime. See what it's really like.

I know of a couple of restaurants that have their own ATMs with a "cash only" policy for acceptable payments. Anyone without cash is directed to the ATM they own. Instead of it costing them a percentage to accept cards, they make money off the ATM.