Fascism under Mussolini did create a law about guns. It did this many years after the PNF took power, and the law only states that you have to declare "substantial changes" in your ownership of weapons[0].
The same happened with nazi germany. There was a weapons law enacted in 1938, about five years after books had been burned, the gestapo had been installed and concentration camps for political opposition had been created.
This law deregulated the acquisition of firearms, which had been regulated since 1919[1].
Each time I read madness as 60h/w, 70h/w or the wtf 80h/w I am really happy to live and work on EU
I'm happy I don't live in EU. I don't have to work 80 hours, but if I choose to then that should be my right. Europe is too anti-ambition and its policies reflect that.
Correct me if I'm wrong, i don't know the rules in the us, in Germany you're simply not allowed to work more than an average of eight hours per day. So you can not only not be forced to work more, you can't even be asked to.
Even if it seems to be voluntary, often it isn't.
What's your reasoning for places like Switzerland and Norway, where the government is much more involved in day-to-day life, but less militarized in that involvement? Same goes for most of the European countries, and Canada/New Zealand et al. as well.
Certainly you could point out other countries with both a lot of government involvement and a militarized police force, but I think there's a strong argument that the two are orthogonal - that the degree of plutocracy is a better correlation.
> But that's what you get when you vote in folks that demand that government be the center of attention of everybody's lives.
It's useful to separate what they say ("Big government!" "Small government!") from what they actually do: more resources to any agency in their portfolio.
The bigger your agency(ies), the bigger your dick, and the more likely your re-election.
I'm sorry this partisan mush has to stop. Even "small government" champions have engorged this industry and yes, many members of Bush Sr/Jr, Clinton and Obama's admin have gone to form companies that contract with entities like the NSA/Military/Police.
This "vote in people that demand the government be the center of attention" is almost exactly what I read on highly partisan sites like Fox News so it's utterance immediately brings forward an image of hypocrisy and little room to be made via discussion.
"It's THEIR fault." Those pesky folks, how dare they vote. Perhaps if more would take action in local/state/federal elections. Specially directly as becoming a candidate as someone I know in Oregon did. Anything but commenting like a writer from Drudge Report.
It's useful for any language/framework, whether it's verbose or not.
The benefits of functional languages tend to not be as great as they could be because the tooling sucks (or kind of sucks). Look at Scala. The IDEs sucked for years. That's changed recently, but it was a big problem for adoption. F# is similar. Although support is baked into Visual Studio these days, the IDE support is spartan to say the least compared to C# with resharper.
There seems to be a class of developers that have a hard time understanding the enormous productivity boosts that good tooling provides.
Luckily I've left Chrome for Firefox nightly. I'm moving all my nontechie family members over to Firefox too. Google thinks they're being cute playing these stupid games, but it'll just hurt them in the end.
