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Comment Re:The AR stands for Awfully Ridiculous (Score 2) 326

13 eh, why'd you start so late?

These designs are not undetectable, they all require detectable amounts of metal to function properly let alone for more than one shot. If you are going to speak from authority you should probably have half an idea what you are talking about.
But then you rarely do.

Comment Re:If this isn't a 2nd Amendment issue... (Score 1, Informative) 326

False, when Australia imposed their strict ban and confiscation suicide by firearm fell but the overall suicide rate didn't drop, it actually spiked the following year before returning to the long term gradually declining average. Their suicide rate didn't drop until they redefined the criteria for classifying a death as a suicide in 2003.

Suicide by firearm may diminish, but those who seek to kill themselves just find another way. Look at Japan and Korea, both are very strict when it comes to firearms but their suicide rates dwarf that of the US.

Comment Re:I wonder why this hasn't come up... (Score 1) 232

Network infrastructure is a commercial venture, increasing it is up to the commercial entities that profit off of it.
Securing the border is a government function.

Nice try to conflate two totally unrelated items in a subtle jab at the current administration. But the reason nobody else brought it up is because they are totally unrelated issues.

Comment This is a mistake (Score 1) 59

These are very stressful times. People need humor to get them through the stress and the fear. Humor is not inappropriate, it's a natural coping mechanism. This is why those in the military tend to have very dark humor, because it gets us through stuff our minds just don't want to process.

Google needs to rethink this. /. should bring back the classic OMG Ponies or some thing similar.

We need the humor, we need it badly.

Comment Re:All they do is lie (Score 1) 287

Yes because demonizing the other side is the way to live and work together. The Democrats have been caught in plenty of lies, they too are very good. And some times they are very bad at it, (just about any time AOC opens her mouth).

Your claim is false and does not contribute to the discussion, or the progress of this nation at all.

Conservatives don't always lie, neither do liberals. Both sides of the political spectrum have smart honest members and smart dishonest members as well as dumb members who are smart or dumb.

Comment Re:Mass piracy is a symptom (Score 1) 158

Baloney, we were happy paying for Netflix or Hulu and getting Amazon Prime with Amazon Prime.
But then the studios got greedy, started pulling or keeping the good stuff of the existing streaming services and all want to start their own streaming service fracturing the market from a couple subscriptions to needing a half dozen or more. With more and more on the way.

Piracy was on the decline until this started then it was back to torrents to get the entertainment we want without breaking the bank.

Comment Re:Authors get a cut (Score 1) 125

Baen Books proved this false twenty years ago when ebooks were first becoming a thing. baen.com has a selection of free ebooks by all of their authors. Their ebooks are cheaper than most of the industry. If you buy a hardbound copy of a book it comes with a copy of all the prior books in that series. All their ebooks are DRM free. Greater availability of free and easy to share ebooks increased their sales substantially.

Making this setup to be very profitable for the publisher and for the authors.

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