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  1. Re:gun laws on 3D-Printed Gun Earns Man Two Years In Japanese Prison · · Score: 1

    co-relation != causation. Switzerland has one of the highest gun ownership rates in the world yet they have lower gun crimes per capita than Canada so your point is total unsubstantiated bullshit. Like I said it's a culture problem not an amount of guns or gun ownership problem.

  2. Re:In Japan on 3D-Printed Gun Earns Man Two Years In Japanese Prison · · Score: 1

    Oh i see so you have to have "contacts" such knowing the right people or you're shit out of luck. Gotcha

  3. Re:Maybe it's time... on 3D-Printed Gun Earns Man Two Years In Japanese Prison · · Score: 1

    But the criminals "the people that commit the crimes with the guns" will still have guns so everybody loses except them. They will be the last to give up their guns. In the town next to where I live a murder/rapist with a gun broke into a home with a mother with her kids in her home. She called the police then She took the kids up to the attic of her home. He came up to the attic and she was able to defend herself and her kids, she shot him. It goes both ways. Banning guns won't change the culture of crime. The problem with crime is the culture not the guns.

  4. Re:Maybe it's time... on 3D-Printed Gun Earns Man Two Years In Japanese Prison · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well i'm from Jamaica. And like you growing up in JA i have not seen a single firearm except those in use by the security forces. I'm sure you have heard of the gun crime problem there in Jamaica and no there is not "Fast and Furious" program involving Jamaica, and no, Jamaica does not share a border with the USA however the country is flooded with illegal guns that only the criminals have because the citizens do not have the right to protect themselves because guns are outright banned. Sorry to have to break it to you. banning guns from the citizens of the USA will not solve the problem with guns in Mexico. Mexico had a crime problem long before "Fast and Furious" was ever concieved and it will have a crime problem long after.

  5. Re:Maybe it's time... on 3D-Printed Gun Earns Man Two Years In Japanese Prison · · Score: 2

    Well then advocate for a repleal of 2nd ammendment. Creating unconstitutional laws won't solve the problem because they are unconstitutional and will only get shot down by the supreme court. Last time I checked the constitution is that law of the land be it the right to privacy or the right to bear arms. Oh by the way criminals couldn't care less about what the laws of the land are because...well...they are criminals. If the law says you can't own a gun in USA you think the criminals will say "oh well I guess i can't own a gun then because the law says so"? The only people that would own guns are the criminals. I'm not sure I like that setup. I'm from a country where they ban all guns and guess what they have a higher gun crime rate per capita than the US and the people are left defenceless.

  6. Re:In Japan on 3D-Printed Gun Earns Man Two Years In Japanese Prison · · Score: 1

    In other words on the the rich or well connected can partake in this activity. way to go.

  7. Re:gun laws on 3D-Printed Gun Earns Man Two Years In Japanese Prison · · Score: 1

    Are you advocating like the Atlantic that we go the way of Japan and basically ban gun ownership in the US? you know like repeal the 2nd Amendment? in order to curb shooting deaths? If not then that link is moot.

  8. Re:Obama Admin! on FBI Director Continues His Campaign Against Encryption · · Score: 1

    Well there are 5 rabidly conservative activist judges on the supreme court and they are the majority so much for that being a "progressive/liberal" thing. Look im not for goverment whether federal or state having ability to rummage though our persons, papers and effects. But your idea that "living document" is a progressive thing is patently false. They all have their agenda and they all are activists to that agenda. Take the second ammendment for example. It says arms and does not specify what arms it just says arms to me that means all arms. Yet you have people on the progressive side that says it means a musket because that is what they had back then so i don't see where that is advocating for "living document" I think machine guns, canons and rocket launchers should be legal as per the constitution because it does not specify muskets. However Reagan banned the people from owning machine guns manufactured after 1986. So to insinuate that one side is activist while the other is not is really not thinking clearly and getting caught up in the talk-radio brainwashing that comes from the other side. They are all activist all of them on the supreme court. Conservative and progressive every one of them.

  9. Re:Obama Admin! on FBI Director Continues His Campaign Against Encryption · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately I afraid i have to inform you that the supreme court has affirmed that it is constitutional. sigh. Maybe you can take it up with them.

  10. Re:Obama Admin! on FBI Director Continues His Campaign Against Encryption · · Score: 1

    http://arstechnica.com/uncateg... This started during the Bush administration. Bush was illegally spying on americans. Illegally because there was no such thing as the patriot act when Bush stated the NSA spying.

  11. Re:It only takes one ... on How Nigeria Stopped Ebola · · Score: 0

    Yes we should shut down the CDC. They are incompetent big government.

  12. Re:the solution: on The $1,200 DIY Gunsmithing Machine · · Score: 2

    Jeff Flanagan, Please explains what weapons that are "designed to kill a number of people are currently legal" I await your response.

  13. Re:Just don't update it that way. on Apple Yanks iOS 8 Update · · Score: 2

    well if it bends it'll just conform to your face better.. What's the problem?

  14. Putin's ambitions... on US Revamping Its Nuclear Arsenal · · Score: 1

    were not considered also. We have Putin threating nuclear war over Ukraine and pulling out of a treaty that Medvedev signed and ramping up production of nuclear weapons. So it makes sense in this day and age unfortunately.

  15. Re:Fuck Canadian content welfare system on Canadian Regulator Threatens To Impose New Netflix Regulation · · Score: 1

    its couldn't care less. Could care less means you care. Couldn't care less means you cannot care any less than you do now. geez.

  16. Re:Great one more fail on High School Student Builds Gun That Unlocks With Your Fingerprint · · Score: 1

    HEY! Home invader give me minute to get my fingerprint unlocked so I can defend myself from you that has a gun without such requirements.
    HEY! street robber...
    HEY! Convenient store robber....
    HEY! Park rapist....

  17. Re:How about then backporting from BSD to Linux? on GSOC Project Works To Emulate Systemd For OpenBSD · · Score: 2

    THis a THOUSAND times.

  18. Re:Here come the Samsung fanboys... on NVIDIA Sues Qualcomm and Samsung Seeking To Ban Import of Samsung Phones · · Score: 0

    spoken from a true iTard apple fanboy.

  19. Re:Someone with no brain is running NASA on Wheel Damage Adding Up Quickly For Mars Rover Curiosity · · Score: 1

    well you said it. they were not exposed to much rock so that does not count.

  20. Re:Someone with no brain is running NASA on Wheel Damage Adding Up Quickly For Mars Rover Curiosity · · Score: 1

    Yes and how does that stand up to the onslaught of UV rays on mars? its not that simple.

  21. Re:Someone with no brain is running NASA on Wheel Damage Adding Up Quickly For Mars Rover Curiosity · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Would you mind posting a pic of the wheel that you have engineered that would do better? thanks. Make sure to consider launch weight, and sustained temeratures below 255deg F among other things.

  22. Big Govt Republican hypocrites on 3 Congressmen Trying To Tie Up SpaceX · · Score: 1

    Mike Coffman R-CO 6th District, Mo Brooks R-AL 5th District, and Cory Gardner R-CO 4th District. Like to talk about the evil big govt until they start to sing the praises for big govt to build their own rockets. Yet Govt has always used contractors to build rockets. What a bunch of pathetic hypocrites. And the great unwashed keep voting these clowns back in.

  23. Re:Win For Apple on Apple and Samsung Agree To Drop Cases Outside the US · · Score: 4, Insightful

    THat advantage with software patents has now diminished due to the the recent supreme court ruling. Things like slide to unlock will probably be found invalid and samsung is currently challenging that as a result of the recent supreme court ruling.

  24. Re:and linux aswell on Skype Blocks Customers Using OS-X 10.5.x and Earlier · · Score: 1

    There was a very recent update in the Ubuntu software center.

  25. Re:minutes to midnight on Putin Government Moves To Take Control of Russia's largest space company Energia · · Score: 1

    You didn't thats why i was complled to. I won't deny that there is some overlap between the parites however the democrats are generally socialist by nature and the republicans are generally nationalist facists by nature.

    Medicare part D was a giveaway of taxpayers dollars to big pharma. Yes Medicare is a socialist program and one that I could argue helps numerous people however the fascist party (republicans) used that program to funnel taxpayer dollars to big pharma at exorbitant prices in order to break Medicare while suring up profits to their corporate overlords.