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Agreed. And rarely on the second or fifth time, in my opinion. That's why I find this trend of "we must do something/anything, no matter whether it will fix anything" to be kind of silly.

Politicians fallacy: "We must do something. THIS is something. We must do THIS." It is *not* on us to provide a better solution. It is on the party suggesting regulation to get it right to begin with. This will be costly, dangerous to the average consumer (in the form of fines for...

> Forced reboots Sure, for updates that touch kernel elements. > Can't run programs overnight Bullshit. My NAS/Hyper-V/Random servers box gets rebooted once a month. The VMs are still running. Drawpile is still running. Minecraft is still running. Tools for keeping my crappy dynamic IP updated...

I count 9 massacres in Australia since 1996. Not counting the 2 in 1996 alone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_m ... _Australia The two in 1996 were shootings. Two of the other nine are shootings (Hunt Family Murders, Hectorville Siege), so your statement (Australia hasn't had a singel...

Killing things is certainly a possible purpose of firearms. Some of them are even purpose-built for it. Sure. Many activities with firearms do, certainly, harken back to their military and hunting roots. It would be silly to deny that. Now, that having been said, I have guns which were...

I laughed, because, I mean... that would totally be carried out in an egalitarian fashion, right? It's not like any government body overseeing this would ever be systematically racist. Or classist. Or sexist. Or... well, crap, I mean systematically biased in any way would be game-over at that...

I don't own a bayonet. I should... they'd go nicely in my knife collection. Haven't got around to it. You, however, specified bayonet mounts, which are a standard part of the front-sight base (FSB), which also serves as the gas block on a standard AR-15 model. I shoot paper. Can't say I've ever...

Okay... so you just described my target shooting rifles. All 4 of them. How do you define an assault rifle? ETA: "an", not "and". Edited for spelling.

It'll blow your mind when you realize an "assault rifle" has never been used in a school shooting... *Most* people in the United States can't actually tell the difference between an assault rifle and a target shooting rifle. The only difference is, quite literally, one pin and a slightly...

Counter-point: Imagine if the Mr. Vernon (the veteran in question) had had access to a firearm. Could have saved his arm a serious lot of trouble. Either way, kudos to the gentleman. Not many people are willing to put themselves in the way of a knife for other folk. We need more people with his...

So... the regulated service is bad. But the unregulated service that droves of people apparently prefer due to cost, convenience and efficiency is also bad..? I don't see how you can have that both ways. The anarchic, free market, anybody-can-play rules of app-drive private car service seem to...

Vance said it is "government's principal responsibility to keep its residents safe, and that a government cannot fulfill that responsibility if huge amounts of vital information directly related to public safety are inaccessible to the government." Wait... what? When did *that* happen? Keeping...

Figuring out which side is "concave" vs "convex" isn't as easy as you might think... Draw an oval; figure out whether the top or bottom is the closer side of the "circle" you just drew at an oblique angle. Could be either one, unless you're prepared to measure red-shift! This becomes...

You've seriously never gone into something thinking, "WOW this is wrong, but it's going to be SO MUCH FUN!"? We do things we believe are wrong; it's a thing. I'm still not convinced that evil is entirely relative, or purely the result of someone being psychologically "broken". Unless you're...

Seriously... no star? Not even one of those newfangeled Y-class room-temperature dwarves?

http://security.stackexchange.com/quest ... rdcard-org You mean the gimmicky things that only provide ~15,000 possible passwords by following their own advice? I'll grant you can improve things by doing funny things like skipping letters, but for most users this is a non-started. And the...

Or we may just be unlucky. I've had the same experience, though. The tiniest bump against (drywall) walls has shattered the glass... I've broken more band pins in them than I care to remember. Fossil watches have been a terrible experience for me. Folks got me a Casio Waveceptor for highschool...

And, related aside, you'll find firearms owners among the most skeptical of government interference in all areas of our lives. You will be hard pressed to find any significant number of gun owners who think this kind of spying is okay.

You mean like both sides of the aisle are currently treating Reagan? Nobody still standing really agrees with his platform. They just talk the talk because they know they're supposed to love him. At least the Libertarians are honest, and rant about the whole "War on Drugs" schtick. I cannot...

Your understanding matches mine, and it's pretty scary. Basically, "You cannot have political speech, because you have people that listen to you." Being popular and well-respected should NOT be a cause to have political speech chilled. Nor should being rich. Or poor. Or any other freaking...