Isn’t the whole point of sports to be a channel for the confrontational tribalism that used to lead to all kinds of little wars? Isn’t using sport as a proxy for war a good thing and totally inline with pacifism?

As far as asking the industry and advocates to enact legislation, that simply isn’t reasonable. That doesn’t happen on any issue

You should understand the cyclical nature of your arguments. People supporting the NRA out of fear of legislation, stock-piling weapons or equipment before ban goes into effect, trying to discredit non-enthusiasts with minutia about firearms parlance, all further radicalizes the gun control lobby; just like you argue…

I tell you what, go into a forum on some gun enthusiast website; or even just a website with a decent sized right wing readership; and make something similar to the following statement:

“Assault Weapons and Assault Rifles are the same thing.”

Just that, nothing else. If you aren’t inundated with replies where you are…

• Outsides usually only want to regulate an industry that effects them. If gun ownership didn’t effect non gun-owners, we wouldn’t be having this discussion. Becoming knowledgeable about guns is still not a pre-requisite for having a valid opinion on them.
  

• If not a single number, some kind of internally generated, externally digestible quantifier of the public risks posed by a weapon on which legislation could be based would be the most sensible way to let outsiders make more informed policy.
  

You do realize that the most concise definition of “assault weapon” is “gun that has one or more features deemed by the drafters to be too conducive to illegal purposes” right? That’s the reason that so many pro-gun advocates are so adamantly opposed to it. I doubt you could list all the features right now without…

What you are advocating is that no matter somebody’s level of ignorance, their opinions are perfectly valid.

I actually still don’t agree. There is only one metric that people uninterested in being gun enthusiasts themselves really care about; and that’s the generalized lethality of the weapon. Parameters like rate of fire, caliber, capacity, size, accuracy, accessories are all features that are important to enthusiasts, but…

So you don’t think people should actually know about the topic they have an opinion on?

I’ve never understood the whole argument that for people to have a valid opinion on gun laws they should be knowledgeable about guns. It’s like saying that for someone to have an opinion on drug policy they should be able to tell an indica from a sativa; or that for someone to have an opinion on Scientology they…

For what it’s worth, my understanding of the new restrictions on 1033 is that police forces will no longer be able to buy dirt cheap military surplus .50 caliber weapons. I don’t think anything would prevent them from buying them straight from the manufacturer. In fact, I think ANYONE in Texas can buy one. I think the…

Also, NFL finds hundreds of millions of suckers to allow them to remain the country’s most profitable not-for-profit organization.

How is instructing users to take the report “with a grain of salt” claiming they are 100% legit? Are you unfamiliar with that idiom?

Seriously, because one of the most striking features about Nintendo is how much of an effect their operating system had on the user experience. The best thing about their in-house OS was...uh....the fact that it had no effect on the user experience?

I’m not sure if the OP was about the Pheonix as much as it was about the Tomcat, which had about 3x the operational range of the Super Hornet, and by some accounts a more capable radar system. The Super Hornet was always designed as a multi-role fighter, while the Tomcat was a long range interceptor from the tires up.

I don’t know about ear-buds, but I run and cycle with some over-the-ear sport headphones and as long as I keep the volume at about 50% of max I can hear other things like people and cars trying to pass me just fine.

I don’t know about ear-buds, but I run and cycle with some over-the-ear sport headphones and as long as I keep the…

Amen to that. I know my PC doesn’t have a kill switch, because I built it myself. If there was a kill-switch I would know about it.

NDA’s are enforced by the courts, or in some cases an agreed upon arbitrator, not by the contracted parties. What you’re arguing is that, as an example, instead of Microsoft suing someone for breaching an NDA and fining them $10,000 it’s acceptable for them to just hack into their account and steal it.

What Microsoft…

The last console I bought before I became a PC only Gamer was an N64; so I guess these issues don’t really effect me personally; but the idea that Microsoft has any legal authority to brick their users hardware seems both terrifying and asinine to me. Once Microsoft takes your money; they have no claim to your Xbox…