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  1. Re:Selling assult weapons on Facebook Wants To Block Illegal Gun Sales · · Score: 1

    There is no such thing as "large capacity magazine". The AR-15 has been DESIGNED to work with a 30-round magazine. This is its STANDARD capacity.

  2. Re:Selling assult weapons on Facebook Wants To Block Illegal Gun Sales · · Score: 1

    NOT the conservatives, the RCMP did. They have their own agenda, as well as authoritarian power to decide whether or not to prohibit a firearm. The minister of public safety, Steven Blaney, issued an amnesty, but it still did not change the loss /enjoyment/ of property for thousand of law abiding canadians....

  3. Re:..or without a background check? on Facebook Wants To Block Illegal Gun Sales · · Score: 1

    So only FFL dealers can ask you to fill a 4473 ?

  4. Re:..or without a background check? on Facebook Wants To Block Illegal Gun Sales · · Score: 1

    When I was living in Quebec, I refused to buy "non-restricted" firearms from fellow Quebeker because all of them wanted to have the gun transferred/registered, which is, by federal law, illegal. So by your logic, by refusing to endorse the illegal behavior of Quebec's CFO, I am not to be trusted to be properly licensed (which is the only constraint we have for non-restricted firearms), and be seen as "trying to get around the law" ?

  5. Re:..or without a background check? on Facebook Wants To Block Illegal Gun Sales · · Score: 1

    Then you have no reason to wish for a gun registry as well.

  6. Re:..or without a background check? on Facebook Wants To Block Illegal Gun Sales · · Score: 2

    Yes. I do believe that there will be civil unrest due to authoritarian tendencies of the US government in the next 50 or so years. The second amendment is the very crucial amendment of the Bill Of Rights, it is protecting all the other amendment. Freedom of expression, and protection against unreasonable search and seizure are pretty weak without an armed population. Remember that what is given by the pen can also be taken by the pen.

  7. Re:..or without a background check? on Facebook Wants To Block Illegal Gun Sales · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It doesn't. The only thing a database provide is for gun confiscation by an authoritarian state. This objective is the real objective of nowadays anti-gun movements, complete disarmament of law abiding citizens. Cf. the behavior of the RCMP in Canada during the High River flood, they used the then-illegal former long gun registry to invade homes an cease guns. They are doing the same now with the recent prohibition of the Swiss Arm Classic Green, and the CZ-859.

    It was also rather fun in the intro scene of the original Red Dawn to see the invading force get all the 4473 form to cease gun from citizens.

  8. Re:Simply put... on Facebook Wants To Block Illegal Gun Sales · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm gonna be negatively commented out, but I disagree with that law. It has become too damn easy to create "felon" out of non-violent crime. Heck, you can become a felon over sheer copyright infringement, or because you were in the wrong place when you were 15 and got caught smoking marijuana... As a result, your constitutional right to Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness is made void, without any chance to redeem yourself.

  9. Re:What's the big deal? on Facebook Wants To Block Illegal Gun Sales · · Score: 1

    I never said so, and it does not. Warfare and aggression is in human nature. You are living in a dream thinking you can legislate to change human nature. Moreover, I live in black bear, coyote, and cougar area. When I go hiking, I am packing a weapon, might it even be a good old blade.

  10. Re:What's the big deal? on Facebook Wants To Block Illegal Gun Sales · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And we, gun owners, are free to criticize FB to do so.

  11. Re:Selling assult weapons on Facebook Wants To Block Illegal Gun Sales · · Score: 1

    By the same logic, any firearm manufacturer is "a link in the chain" for the sheer /legal/ manufacturing of the firearm in question...

  12. Re:This is as old as the hills on Low-Protein Diet May Extend Lifespan · · Score: 1

    I prefer to gamble, drink, smoke and screw, and die at 60 than not gamble, drink, smoke and screw, and die at 120 :-)

  13. Re:Protein isn't the problem. on Low-Protein Diet May Extend Lifespan · · Score: 2

    as a complement, sucrose is the same a HFCS, and is recognized as such by the industry. Sucrose is just one glucose and one fructose bonded, and HFCS is 45% glucose and 55% fructose.

  14. Isn't bitcoin meant to be decentralized ? on Ask Slashdot: Do You Still Trust Bitcoin? · · Score: 1

    If so, how can the fall of a centralization point lead to such a loss

    Please excuse my ignorance, but there is something I do not get here...

  15. Re:Eh? on Ask Slashdot: Do You Still Trust Bitcoin? · · Score: 0

    Why is everybody asking this "beat your wife" question with a negative thought in mind ? Or is your morals (and sexual experiences) narrow enough to be unable to compute that 'beating' can actually be consensual, and quite enjoyable to both party ? Some would be ready to a lot of degradation to get a good adrenaline dump, no matter what YOUR system of value mandates.

  16. Re:Kinda implies on Ask Slashdot: Do You Still Trust Bitcoin? · · Score: 1

    I've got her consent when I do.

  17. Re:Long-term loss on Netflix Blinks, Will Pay Comcast For Network Access · · Score: 1

    Selfishness and greed are the very reason this country exist in the first place.

  18. Re:Let the market/customer decide is BOTH way on Netflix Blinks, Will Pay Comcast For Network Access · · Score: 1

    Obviously not. I could get a $17/month per-month dial up if I chose to, or switch to the $60 cable subscription to a $35 one if I chose to, and bump the 300GB limit I got to unlimited for $5 more.... Oh, yeah, we have data cap here in Canada, certainly something you are not used to, in the country of infinite resources. So, technically, I can already choose whatever suit me the most.

  19. Re:Long-term loss on Netflix Blinks, Will Pay Comcast For Network Access · · Score: 1

    my own words, in my quest to objectivism.

  20. Re:Long-term loss on Netflix Blinks, Will Pay Comcast For Network Access · · Score: 1

    This is called regulatory capture, ie. too much regulation.

  21. Re:Long-term loss on Netflix Blinks, Will Pay Comcast For Network Access · · Score: 1

    You are paying for a maximum, best effort, bandwidth, not for a guaranteed one. Re-read your contract.

  22. Re:Stop supporting the monopolies on Netflix Blinks, Will Pay Comcast For Network Access · · Score: 1

    MS is still a monopoly with about 90% of the OS market share. As most people having been, and are still being, educated with Windows, regulations are not going to change much about that... So... I'm not sure what your point is... Now, maybe regulation is needed in the super-computer market to allow a "sane" competition, Linux is *way* too powerful in this market, cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U..., unless of course you intend to prove G. Orwell being right in saying that some monopoly are more acceptable than other, the same way some animals were more rightful than others...

  23. Re:Netflix is so so, but once the price get's abov on Netflix Blinks, Will Pay Comcast For Network Access · · Score: 1

    And the ISP will laugh at you because cash will be flowing in his pocket, and you will be back to the XXth century.

  24. Re:Stop supporting the monopolies on Netflix Blinks, Will Pay Comcast For Network Access · · Score: 1

    It would seem that people around wants even more regulation, not less :-(

  25. Re:Long-term loss on Netflix Blinks, Will Pay Comcast For Network Access · · Score: 0

    Not being selfish and greedy just mean your are insane and have strictly no sense of value for your own life.