I used to paint some or all of my fingernails in high school, because at that time I just did not give a fuck.

In rural, very homophobic gender-stereotypical North Florida, too. That I didn’t get beaten into a pulp is a bit miraculous, really. Of course a reputation for not giving a fuck is one of the primary reasons I wasn’t beaten to a pulp.

Couldn’t do it today, though. I’d be fired in a matter of days if not hours.

In some ways it was easier and better when I could just fight with my fists, because why I’d be fired now is something nearly impossible to fight at all.

Mint 15: Today’s best Linux desktop.

Agreed. I run it on our home server. The Cinammon and MATE editions are far, far better than the interface apocalypses that are Unity, Windows 8 and Gnome 3.

But as I’ve said before about Windows 8, Gnome 3 and Unity the great thing about those interfaces is that folks who use any of them are absolutely no competition to me in the workplace as I can lap them several times a day in amount of work done.

Maybe Linux Mint with a sane interface will be the new professional OS in a few years.

I don’t give a crap about gaming consoles really, but the new Xbox console even looks terrible to me, and I plan to own not a one of them.

Slower? More restricted? About “social” garbage? Indie developers not allowed?

Why would anyone buy it?

Disclaimer first: I am very much for gun control – far too many people in this country have lethal weapons that they should not, and nothing good results therefrom.

That said, I do have to quibble with the “can’t fight the army” argument against gun control.

No, in a conventional war, a bunch of gun nuts couldn’t take on US Air Force ground attack aircraft and US Army tanks on a conventional battlefield. But why would you ever fight such a superior foe on a conventional battlefield? Did the Iraqi rebels do such a thing? Did the Viet Cong?

Of course not. Because it’s idiotic.

As we’ve seen in our history numerous times, guerrilla wars are very effective and require very few resources, relatively speaking.

Any anyway, in a real armed insurrection against the US government the purpose of the rifles and pistols wouldn’t be to battle it out against the US Army right away; no, it would be to take over and pilfer some National Guard munitions depots, which are both lightly guarded and full of the things you’d need for a real guerilla group: AT4s, Javelins, C-4, SAWs, and the like.

Anyone with 20 long rifles and a willingness for a few people to die could do this.

Hell, a few dozen people with crossbows could do it.