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Re:State Department Demands 3-D Gun Blueprints Be Removed by msandford on Thursday May 09, 2013 @11:48PM (#5684507)
Why should the law make sense? It's a bunch of arbitrary rules put in place via largely reactionary pressure.

If you don't refactor code occasionally you end up with weird corner cases that don't make any sense. The laws of our nation haven't been refactored in any substantial way, ever. It's patches all the way down to the Constitution.

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Re:State Department Demands 3-D Gun Blueprints Be Removed by mbillie1 on Thursday May 09, 2013 @11:59PM (#5684538)
Half-baked, untested production patches at that.
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Re:State Department Demands 3-D Gun Blueprints Be Removed by ahallock on Friday May 10, 2013 @12:39AM (#5684670)
Exactly. And that's the point and design. With a convoluted system in place, seemingly peaceful activities can land you in prison, or bankrupt you with legal fees. I only see the entropy accelerating.
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Re:State Department Demands 3-D Gun Blueprints Be Removed by msandford on Friday May 10, 2013 @09:12AM (#5685957)
Yep and it'll destroy the American empire. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Tainter#Social_complexit...
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