User: mrbax

Re:Embrace the irony?

On: Lessig's Mayday PAC Scrambling To Cross Crowd Funding Finish Line

Citation needed.

Re: They're infringing my Second-Amendment drone r

On: That Toy Is Now a Drone

Note that the amendment does not presume to be granting the right to keep and bear arms. It acknowledges the right as pre-existing, and explicitly prohibits the government from infringing it.

NO, it doesn't, and had NEVER been interpreted that way until the 1970s/80s.

Learn some damn history before talking about it.

Some history for you:
In United States v. Cruikshank (1876), the Supreme Court ruled that "The right to bear arms is not granted by the Constitution; neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence".

Re:A minority view?

On: Teaching Creationism As Science Now Banned In Britain's Schools

1. Don't change the goalposts.
2. You may begin to address the issue with a class in remedial philosophy.

Re:A minority view?

On: Teaching Creationism As Science Now Banned In Britain's Schools

In reality, there is no evidence, and never has been any evidence, that God exists... none, not a single shred, ever in the history of the human species.

The faith is strong in this one. Your education is lacking.

Re:A minority view?

On: Teaching Creationism As Science Now Banned In Britain's Schools

supposed evidence that cannot be validated using the scientific method (pseudoscience)

That is a false dichotomy; your ignorance is showing. You may begin to address the issue with a class in remedial philosophy.

Re:Yep.

On: Teaching Creationism As Science Now Banned In Britain's Schools

some even carry guns

Do you claim that Jesus never endorsed carrying a personal weapon?

It would seem that they have a better grasp of the New Testament than you.

Re:Ummm

On: Google: Indie Musicians Must Join Streaming Service Or Be Removed

The following list of recipients of substantial amounts of Google's money reads like a who's who of evil in the USA.... Conservative Groups

Bigoted much?

Re:You're asking the wrong question.

On: Games That Make Players Act Like Psychopaths

Maybe you should actually read some studies of miltary history, and not just LOL.

I'm not sure about the sword-swinging era, but it seems pretty well established that most Western soldiers wouldn't fire guns at the other guys until their militaries went all out to create killers after WWII.

No. One author does not "pretty well established" make — see http://goo.gl/sxNtDA. Maybe you should actually read more than one study of military history. :-)

Re:On the road to replacing DirectX

On: Valve Open Sources Their DirectX To OpenGL Layer

That leaves DirectWrite and Direct2D as the only relevant (and minor) DIrectX components left

As well as DirectCompute, DirectSetup, and DirectXMath; half a dozen in all.

Re:On the road to replacing DirectX

On: Valve Open Sources Their DirectX To OpenGL Layer

Pretty much all aspects of DirectX except for Direct3D have been deprecated by Microsoft.

Except for Direct3D. And Direct2D, DirectCompute, DirectSetup, DirectSound, DirectWrite, DirectXMath, and DirectX Media....

Re:you have it exactly backwards

On: Bush, Kerry, and Nader Respond to Youth Voter Questions

can you think of another place in the world where the government has successfully (while not actively suppressing people) reduced it?

Uganda, which has had the most spectacular success in Africa, if not the world!

Re:If not the government?

On: Internet Routes Around South African Gov't

The internet was available in South Africa in the eighties. The subnet was called Uninet.