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  1. Re:Ban the Transistor! on Pakistan Lifts YouTube Ban For 3 Minutes, Finds More Blasphemy · · Score: 1

    Christianity doesn't proscribe the killing of infidels in its religious text, while Islam does.

  2. Re:Who cares? on Pakistan Lifts YouTube Ban For 3 Minutes, Finds More Blasphemy · · Score: 1

    Even without the electoral college, unless the difference between two candidates is only 0 or 1 vote, your "vote doesn't matter".

  3. Re:Who cares? on Pakistan Lifts YouTube Ban For 3 Minutes, Finds More Blasphemy · · Score: 1

    What you have said makes no sense, because the more populous states get more electoral votes.

  4. Re:Why sex is deemed not "pristine"? on Child Gets Nintendo 3DS Full of Porn For Christmas · · Score: 1

    The claim that monogamy in humans is not "natural" is not a proven one. After all, some other species (like swans, gibbons, and wolves) are monogamous.

  5. Re:Greatest present ever on Child Gets Nintendo 3DS Full of Porn For Christmas · · Score: 1

    I think you accidentally a word there.

  6. Re:Why sex is deemed not "pristine"? on Child Gets Nintendo 3DS Full of Porn For Christmas · · Score: 1

    And the first European settlers in Australia were criminals; therefore, all of Australian society is based on crime.

  7. Re:videogames are like #3 or lower on that list on School Shooting Prompts Legislation To Study Violent Video Games · · Score: 1

    The 1994 bill passed almost exactly on party lines. The Republicans who voted for it were the usual opportunistic political whores, like Specter. So tell me, why would you lie about something like that?

  8. Re:videogames are like #3 or lower on that list on School Shooting Prompts Legislation To Study Violent Video Games · · Score: 1

    I thought of a few, but none of them happened to be a Scotsman.

  9. Re:Safe guns on Using Technology To Make Guns Safer · · Score: 1

    I own a 26, and I didn't. Since you are obviously a firearms genius, I am sure that you can explain the Safe Action system and how it relates to previous manual safety systems. Approaching it from the other angle, there is always room to improve anything.

  10. Re:Lousy ideas on Using Technology To Make Guns Safer · · Score: 1

    People who are invested in where they live do not stand a chance against a modern army.

    You mean like, "And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor." Yeah, no Americans would ever do that.

  11. Re:Don't Hide Behind "Blasphemy" on EFF Looks At How Blasphemy Laws Have Stifled Speech in 2012 · · Score: 1

    I guess I imagined this.

  12. Re:Don't Hide Behind "Blasphemy" on EFF Looks At How Blasphemy Laws Have Stifled Speech in 2012 · · Score: 1

    Hint: not calling religious belief "superstition" will gain you more followers. Since when have you ever insulted someone about their strongly-held beliefs and they responded, "Why, you're right! I AM a moron, and therefore I will align myself with whatever you believe from this day forward!" The only people who will agree with your conceited opinions are those who are already like-minded.

  13. Re:Not all "blasphemy" is religious in nature... on EFF Looks At How Blasphemy Laws Have Stifled Speech in 2012 · · Score: 1

    You're going to have to get used to the idea that most of your opponents are not at all like the straw men you set up.

  14. Re:Not all "blasphemy" is religious in nature... on EFF Looks At How Blasphemy Laws Have Stifled Speech in 2012 · · Score: 1

    Only slavery?

  15. Re:Not all "blasphemy" is religious in nature... on EFF Looks At How Blasphemy Laws Have Stifled Speech in 2012 · · Score: 1

    The Communist Party, for all its many failings, supported the civil rights movement.

    They supported it mainly because they believed the USA's republican (note small "r") government opposed it.
    Think about it: why would an ideology that supports a "dictatorship of the proletariat" ever unconditionally support civil rights? The rights of the individual exist only at the pleasure of the state.

  16. Re:Patents = Usury on The Mark Cuban Chair To Eliminate Stupid Patents · · Score: 1

    In layman's terms usury = making profit by charging interest on a loan of property, including land

    Sounds like rent to me.

    tools,

    Yup, that's rent too.

    money

    That's usury.

  17. Re:Lousy ideas on Using Technology To Make Guns Safer · · Score: 2

    Private citizens have pretty much no chance of standing up to any well equipped military.

    Which is why we went into Afghanistan and Iraq and cleared out all the terrorists overnight.

  18. Re:Lousy ideas on Using Technology To Make Guns Safer · · Score: 2

    Three rounds of .22 are not the same as three rounds of .45 or 9mm +P load.

  19. Re:There are few things as amusing.... on Using Technology To Make Guns Safer · · Score: 0

    There are few things as amusing as a European that forgot all the philosophy of the Enlightenment movement and thinks he's safe because the government monitors his every move with cameras, bans firearms, and won't let him play violent video games.

  20. Re:Missing the point. on Using Technology To Make Guns Safer · · Score: 2

    The NRA puts out a safety manual? Why, I was just told the NRA=KKK! Are you sure it's not a manual on how to kill black or brown people?

  21. Re:Safe guns on Using Technology To Make Guns Safer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'd also like to point out something that should be obvious even to a gamer who has never touched a real gun: not all gun manufacturers are in the USA. Why haven't European firearm manufacturers innovated these improvements? A grip safety might be an improvement on the Glock Safe Action. Legislating these changes in the USA is just another government power grab, because they know (and don't care) that the technology is not ready, so the end result is that law-abiding citizens will be kept from obtaining arms.

  22. Re:So ban fatties from driving... on The World's Fastest-Growing Cause of Death Is Pollution From Car Exhaust · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure why you seem to think that a vehicle can't handle because it has a V8. Italian sports cars have had V8 and V12 engines as large or larger.

  23. Re:So ban fatties from driving... on The World's Fastest-Growing Cause of Death Is Pollution From Car Exhaust · · Score: 1

    Holy crap, did the moderators miss this gem!

  24. Re:Starcraft. on School Shooting Prompts Legislation To Study Violent Video Games · · Score: 1

    Well, there's CoD. Would it have made any difference if the list was CoD, Halo 4, Doom 3, Counterstrike, and Freecell?

  25. Re:Gingrich & Huckabee Weigh In on School Shooting Prompts Legislation To Study Violent Video Games · · Score: 1

    You're part of the "single cause" problem.