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Its a product for normal people, not those who are unable to manage their budgets. Oh wait ... crack whore money n shit. Keep forgetting about that.

He must have not hit the I Accept the EULA.

T-Mobile says you aren't. :)

et al Sony.

Buck the fuck up, dude. Like nobody else in the world has been fired before. Seriously, it's the fiber of someone is made not by what they are, but what they do when adverse conditions occur to them. You have a wife (and kids?) to support, provide for, and be capable of taking a situation like this and getting on with it. This world is unforgiving. Google is not the only game in town and if you have talent, you will find another job. Also, finish your degree so you so you can at least show you've moved past this part of your life with conviction. Make things whole, not rip them apart.

Nice to see that the WSJ has confirmed us to subscription service just to read what I can get on Ruetz

"In case you haven't heard ... I'm kind of a big deal."

Now if Google would just reverse their blocking of applications that allow us to limit certain what apps have access to on my phone for privacy concerns, then I'd be happy. Might switch over to a Blackphone 2 just for this reason alone.

That's sort of laughable, considering the only major legislation passed since the WWW became legit has been Net Neutrality. As for Facebook's Zuckerberg said famously - privacy is dead.

It's a pretty simple principle between the happy curve and where it intersects with the financial stability curve. However, the opposite can be very true as well. Namely, poverty as it plays out on the social ills that we in the United States have - most notable, are minorities and the lack / motivation of the government to cure this problem. I believe there is some paradigm where happy can be achieved if the work/happy ratio is subsidized through social programs lowering the happy curve (or at least tolerance) because of the work requirements to achieve the financial base to maintain that curve. It's an interesting problem, but overwhelming it causes desperation and by a minor extension drug / alcohol abuse / crime syndication, and violence (domestic abuse and gun deaths in particular). The upward mobility is one thing, but an opposite paradigm is also a very interesting dynamic with respect to if money can or cannot by happiness. However, your example of "owning your own company" is also a self-confidence motivator that is a game changer. :) That's why we need a minority middle class to fix poverty, IMHO.

Blasphemy! How dare you say that! (said no moderate Republican, pro-2nd Amendment lover) - lol

Right, but a store is no longer brick and mortar and our industry in particular facilitated the change. Namely, Ebay as a market place, but most "stores" do not operate as an entity as we would image in the real world. Case in point, is the FFL Class 7 gunsmiths option. This can be done from home, and can be used as a dealer license. You simply have to operate in a secure area very distinctly different than your home residence - namely locked door, separate entrance, and a ton of other exceptions. BUT you do not operate as a brick and mortar.

I'm a hugely leaning conservative thinking individual, but I think all guns should be restricted with the NICS check. I think only exception maybe immediate family for obvious reasons. The "gun trust" idea is even more my liking. However, any sale outside of this ... NICS always.

Ya, I saw that. However, SF is the most liberal city in the country if I were to guess. It's so far leaning in that direction, it's not of any surprise. However, I have to say ... nicest place on the West Coast. I can only compare it to Toronto during the summer!

This is media infusion, and political 2nd Amendment fears in the general population. NICS checks and permit requests are in high demand, so the demand-supply model general means, stores are going to pop-up because there is money to be had. Politics aside, the "anomaly" IMHO was driven by the tech industry and its enabling of EVERYONE to have a voice. It's the "meek shall inherit the Earth" to some extent, but it also makes the established news sources of the big 3-4 outlets (NBC, CBS, ABC, and maybe Fox/CNN) to be diminished in their role to inform us. This diluted the singular and make it the multiple. Again, not judging any side, but the tidal wave and saturation of market makes valued, conservatism almost a rare thing to witness. However, when people see a right possibly being restricted or removed (unlikely in our country) ... that's the fact, Jack. Ergo, where we are now.

THANK YOU! Honestly, the more data I have the more it validates the gun legislation is a bad idea. The longer view is one of social reform related to what ills the country - crime, poverty, and a replacement of liberalism/progressive thinking with Republican conservatism bridging the isle in Congress by taking on poverty like no progressive ever has.

Even though I consider this a sensationalist article ... I think its important for the community like ours to offer conjecture on an intellectual level, because I think Hack News is a GREAT forum for more than just "geeks", but it brings together one of the most diverse crowds I've seen. yes, there are fierce beliefs on both sides of the debate, but if anyone can have something more progressive it's folks in IT.

Grecy, with all the respect I have for Australia, there is a HUGE difference culturally between your population demographics and ours. The primary reason why the Australian ban (noting that 65-80% of guns are still in the general population in your home country, and never reclaimed by the ban - because who's going to enforce that? really?) will never work here. Australia = 97% white/Caucasian, 2% Asian, 1% everything else. The US is a vastly different landscape and our population comes from ALL over the world. If I were to introduce very deeply concentrated communities of 50 other religions, 15 other race demographics, and stir the pot the debate becomes that much more problematic. Back to Australia - having a very, very homogeneous society makes it easy to pass and maintain order in comparison to what makes our country so incomparable with yours on this issue in particular, as a model to follow. Same occurs with the Japanese model - so, leaning on that won't help either. I respect you, and I believe you have a valid point on face value but when you dig into the complexity and what I consider a unique trait of the US citizen (as a positive! for our diversity!) ... we will never ban guns. It's a poverty issue here, not a gun issue.

note 44% of the demographic. Ya, crazy .... see how prohibition worked well. Just like the war on drugs. Policy does nothing. Its ineffective, and we need to drive poverty down to target the leading population of gun violence, the poor. It's ironic how the African American population is left out of the conversation in Liberal media. Nobody goes to the ghetto in Chicago and asks THEM about gun violence. The modern liberal is a FB subscribing 18-25 year old that doesn't understand the history that drove the conversation to where its at today.

Redefining the conversation away from the liberal thinking, the real debate is not about guns at all. It's about what causes violence, where does it occur, and how can we stop it. The most dramatic form of this crime, occurs most often from guns - so, we need to reframe it from gun violence to violence where guns are involved. This is a 65 year old problem - the root of it, is based on the highway system in conjunction with relining that left poverty in the inner city. I note here, I am leaving out race, but it disproportionately affects (use right?) the African American population because of the redlining (why I mentioned it), thanks to racism and white privilege - debate all you want, but mobility of the white middle class demographic was huge at this time. Think baby-boomers in particular. The SOLUTION to solving a WHOLE slew of problems, which liberals ALWAYS talk about is giving social programs a go on a major scale to help disadvantaged population. Bipartisan politics always shift away from this, because of the polarizing problem of being perceived as to liberal or to conservative, etc. etc. Poverty to expand on violence is exponential and often (like 80% of the problem) involves desperation which leads to crime, disassociation with society and drives youth / people to gang membership. It's been a long deep understood problem, that gangs of any time typically lean towards drugs, alcohol, and illegal activities to maintain the syndication of crime. This includes prostitution, which affects women and can more often lead to domestic violence. So, with all _that_ said, think of guns in the mix - illegal and not, and ALLLL the gun programs in the past, where do most of the illegal guns come from - that's right, poverty stricken areas. So, I lean back to what is gun control's main problem? It's ineffective. Solve poverty ... put a CONSERVATIVE BUSINESS BASED DEMOGRAPHIC (namely young moderate Republicans) on every other street with strict oversight who are NOT prejudice to start engines of economic growth to stamp out poverty in areas where it exists. Let Liberals cry all they want, but spearhead poverty in the urban centers and you will reduce violence where guns are involved. THAT is the solution.

10% demographic, when you break down the numbers last I checked. But ya.

I know its like being CPT Obvious, but that is so true. Fix the problem, not the symptom.

After reading it further, this is about as point as it can be. Ty for diversification of my own opinion.

You are the owner of the infrastructure, not the content. Whole different animal on the copyright law.

Second that motion. The main deal here, is violation of air space, because Turkey is a moderate (by and large, which is debatable) Islamic Muslim state and provocation in the area has RUN terse for decades because of the pro-Russian+Syrian agenda/backing. I don't blame either part, considering how tense Russia is with the Muslim world in the first place - with exception noting Iran, which is Persian (like the emo kid in the class). Just look north to Chechnya and you can easily link/stroke in bits of issue across the region by the suppression and integration attempts with Russian people in that area alone. Regardless, a blip and nobody died. Russia just lost a 500 million dollar investment. Should end fairly quickly.

Praise be to Allah.

The major problem I have with this opinion piece is not the perspective, but the writer - Kamel Daoud. One of his major influences is a cross-section of experience between living in Algeria and being bifurcated with the west. His bleed out on the screen, seems more jaded than informative. At the very least he's sloppy in respecting certain parts of the Saudi national, with terms like Wahhabi which by all accounts is derogatory. Which through admission, I'm a white middle class IT professional living in the Rust Best, and the subtle nature of his cantor is a bit tasteless in my opinion. However, Saudi Arabia is by all measures secular and demands it be, because of its place in the world - it's the holder of the great sites of Islam, playing host to the yearly travel of millions of pilgrims of the Islamic faith. Regardless, it's just a bit slap-stick on journalism to be provocative from my perspective.

Just take a look at the sheer mass of Tokyo, and that just becomes more truth than fiction. The US actually, is going to have a massive GDP issue once a generation passes from where we are today. Why? Baby boomer generation is retiring. If immigration is not allowed, we will have a bigger problem on our hands than President Trump's legacy (that's a joke, btw).

Try any mining town in the south west - Trona comes to mind. That was a town ruled by meth, with mining as its main bread winner. http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-city-addicted-to-crystal-...

Second thought is the add revenue in YouTube and how Google is slowly making it impossible to view something without an intro ad to a video spot I want to watch. Sanity on product reviews, or modifications might actually drive me away from YouTube and stick to reading. I use the MVPS.org hosts file to ad-block most of the website content I review, as I pipe it into /etc/hosts and c:\%windows%\system32\drives\etc\hosts files to keep myself from the flash -> ad-virus injection methods for security reasons. However, YT is driving me crazy with 30s ad spots for like a 3 minute video and you can't walk around them no matter how you try unless you browser jack or regional change some things (right?). Anyway .... venting on Google's ad pushes myself.