Lots of people like to point out that overall violence appears to happen more in places with more gun control.... but in the same vein as the video game argument, there's no proof that either one of those numbers is a cause of the other.

Cracked had a good post about the link between games and violence. Takes a point of view I haven't seen discussed much, and I think it's worth reading:

I've been arguing pretty hard with a lot of people lately, from the "left" side of the argument, saying that a lot of guns should be removed, etc.

I would assume the hard drive space is larger for the 'recommended' for performance reasons and not different texture options. More free space probably means less fragmentation, which means faster load times. Also, what about paging? I don't know much about it, but I assume having space available for paging would…

Isn't that a hypocritical statement, when you're referring to this specific event, in that the only reason the attacker had a gun in the first place was because it was around "for protection"?

I thought teachers were supposed to have at least decent handwriting skills?

You're talking about a document from the 1700s. Times change. Some would say it's more than worth opening said can of worms.

I have three opinions:

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't iTunes/App Store/Etc. require it's users to be 13+ anyway? Could you not then argue that something on the app store couldn't possibly be targeted towards a user under 13?

Watching the HFR version made me think of piracy:

I wanted to see this movie specifically out of curiosity about HFR, and almost went to the IMAX version until I realized that one wasn't HFR at all. Only one of the three versions playing nearby was the proper 3D HFR version. There's like 6 versions of the movie released and only one of those 6 is HFR.

Just came back to this article after reading the articles on Gawker about the shooting. (I saw this article first and had no idea what prompted it).

"why all of sudden a rant?"

Maybe this is just my Canadian side speaking, but no. Just no.

Tons of arguments can be made against your point, and lots have been made already.

That only holds any value if web developers never stray from these standards themselves. A good browser will also gracefully handle deviations from the standard with reasonably predictable results.

You mean to say that's 'North America'. There's more than one country up here.

One or two people with a simple instrument, a small amount of talent and some time would make a listenable song. This "song" took 56 people and it still sounds like crap.

AT&T, assuming their rules haven't changed, doesn't require any sort of identification to flag a phone as stolen, but it doesn't "cancel" the line. Turning it back on is another story.

Did you really just blame the failure of an education system on teaching people how to write?