In my mind, the free exchange of ideas can't ever constitute anarchy. What people do with ideas and information maybe. And that's really the point. You can challenge people's thinking, and you can judge them on there actions, but you can't deny or control information and ideas. And before anyone takes my…

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So who decides what constitutes that "harmful" information. Who decides what ideas are Ok to share and which ones aren't. To add the proper geek cred, Who watches the Watchmen. Nobody should have the power to "draw that line" as you put it. Because that kind of power will be abused, and ultimately cause far more…

I agree/disagree depending on what you mean by that. You weren't compelled to join to the militia, it was voluntary, so in that way very much like selective service. But what I suspect your getting at is training/supply. As in the modern military, drafted or volunteer, your given your weapon and trained to be a…

The first act of any dictator/warlord/foreign power/ect is to make weapons illegal to the common people. Hitler did it, the Brits did it. In fact, if the Brits had gun registration back in the day the US probably wouldn't exist. Only a people capable of arming themselves is truly free, aka "neccesary to the…

What do you mean "at the time". I filled out my draft registration when I turned 18, didn't you ;)

This seems like a solution searching for a problem. Some day something bad might happen because of this, so we should think of ways of keeping that thing that may or may not happen bad thing from happening, or at least make sure there's a law that somebody gets arrested over it, if it happens.

I agree that competing actors creates progress and innovation, but it's competition between innovators (build a cheaper/better/faster whatever), not innovators and regulators (stop something vs get away with something) that does this.

Not really. Regulations are always bad. There's always a negative side effect. That said, they're sometimes the better of two evils. So it really doesn't make sense to push regulations that start with "well this might kinda sorta work". Plus, I don't think anybody puts the bar for laws/regulations at 100%. It's…

That's like requiring the serial number of the bowl your going to eat year cereal with before your allowed to buy it at the grocery store. It's totally absurd and unrealistic.

Handy for furniture assembly I guess. It's got your basic tools for that plus it's already there in the living room or what have you. But that's about it. The price point is utterly ridiculous. 30 bucks, sure, but you'd have to be insane to spend 130. Plus, Andrew, there's no such thing as an ugly toolbox.

I remember one or more games that where developed for the original MS surface that where kinda like this. Not the cool magnetic parts thing, but so much in that you would use physical pieces to interact with the virtual environment they where sitting on. A cool idea, one that I think this improves upon. I do…

Pretty counter productive too since a huge quantity of the bottled water out there actually comes from the Sacramento municipal water supply.

This is the reason why our entire food system, as well as a few other things, is based on corn and it's accomplished thanks to extensive agricultural engineering (irrigation, fertilizers, pesticides, genetic manipulation, super awesome gigantic harvesting tractors, ect.) While there's definite upsides to these facts,…

True. Sad, and kinda scary. But true.

Yes. WB-57F to be exact.

Draper's idea is interesting, and in some ways makes sense. Water management in what was California would certainly become interesting. If nothing else, it would force the destruction of the current monolithic bureaucracy. New ones would spring up in each new state of course, but at least out of the gate they'd be…

If you want consumers to actually buy into the idea this is a far better approach. It's universal (as in can be used on almost any handgun) and simple. I don't know anyone who has a gun for self defense that would even consider a gun with a built in scanning lock. The risk of failure by adding that much complexity…

They've already got tons of quick access hand gun safes that do reasonably well and come in between $100-$250. The real question here is how reliable will the fingerprint scanner be. If it proves truly reliable, and the price point is competitive, I can see these doing well.

While the results may not have been as desired, at least in the takes that make it to print, but I doubt the fact that all the girls in that video where wearing white t-shirts was accidental.