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For what it's worth I just put an Ubuntu 14.04 nightly on my Nvidia Optimus laptop, and contrary to previous versions the dual-GPU setup Just Works (including choosing which GPU us…

That's two crimes committed with NFA weapons in the 80 years since the NFA has existed. One committed by an active duty police officer and the other by a former police officer. And…

Let's not forget that in neither case is it 'free'. The public foots the bill in both cases.

Not to mention that LittleMachineShop sells complete proven CNC rigs for about the same price with no risk, and which are obviously much more rigid as well.

No, he clearly did not mean regulation. He said demand, as a customer may do, rather than coerce by force, as a government must do.

And yet mob justice is exactly what we have in US, though sometimes with a legislative session's worth of delay. A constitutional republic protects against mob justice through indi…

> And you keep on not voting, and then wonder why your government doesn't represent you. Yet everyone else does vote and then wonders why their government doesn't represent them. W…

> When the state has access to nukes and the populace doesn't, how can this statement not technically be true? It seems like the ability literally wipe cities off the face of the e…

> Is your assumption true? No, it's not true. The state has vastly inferior power compared to the populace at large, at least in the U.S. However, the state is able to, in most cas…

> Now I build tools to do real reputation analysis, and fight the very things I used to do. I'm like Darth Vader in the last few moments of his life... Really this just reads like …

Seems to me more like you leaving your door open and then trying to have someone arrested for looking through your doorway. If someone physically circumvents your door in order to …

> Fortunately we have a legal system that, to some degree, does. A large body of decisions in trial and appellate courts at both the state and federal level, up to and including th…

> What blew me away was that he genuinely did not think that the NSA would interpret the term "relevant" as broadly as humanly possible. What makes you think he genuinely thought t…

While you probably already know this, others may not: there is an organization called the Oath Keepers which is comprised of current and former uniformed members of military and ci…

The local police basically failed, but a few years ago the county sheriffs took over. Whereas, as a youngster I had numerous bad encounters with local authorities, now the sheriffs…

I think this was meant in reply to the comment about NFA weapons and crime. If so, yeah, I find that particularly interesting too. It also fits with the published data showing that…

His is the only second case I'm aware of since 1934 of a legally owned NFA weapon being used in the commission of a crime. I'd strongly disagree with the claim that two criminal in…

In the cases I've seen state first hand, state law regarding NFA items usually just provides a blanket exemption for legal ownership so long as the item was procured in compliance …

Note that the NFA branch has a rule change out for public comment that would include removing the CLEO signature requirements for individuals. It's expected to go into effect somet…

I think that your interpretation of the report is incorrect. What that report shows is that fatal accidents are more likely on roads that have higher speed limits, which is quite a…

And it appears to use futures that are part of Scala core (which Akka now uses as well) so I'm not sure how much this can be said to be Akka-ness anyway.

When you said "you're ridiculous" you attacked the poster rather than the opinion, which made that part of your comment ad-hominem. That statement, juxtaposed with your complaint i…

I don't think it's incorrect, which is why I brought up the commerce clause in the first place (with Filburn in mind). I agree, to congress everything is commerce. It's just such a…

> Where in the Constitution is Congress authorized to make laws regarding the practice of religion? The Commerce Clause, of course! I imagine they would argue that money donated to…

I'd say the War on Terror has a lot in common with the War on Drugs. Neither have concrete achievable goals, neither has a well defined "enemy" and both tap into deep-seated fears …