On 2/25/18 9:58 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 2/25/2018 9:51 AM, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 2/25/18 7:53 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:

I have an acquaintance who lives in California.Â* She's *very* liberal
in her views which is to be expected, I guess.

She has recently announced that after living in the USA for the last
60+ years, she and her husband are moving to Australia next month to
get away from the USA's "crazy" obsession with guns.Â* Like other
liberals, she has often advocated that the USA adopt the 1997 policy
of a buy back program following theÂ* mass shooting in Port Arthur,
Australia.

She ignores some real data though. First, Australia does not have
anything like a 2nd Amendment in it's constitution.Â* Gun rights are
controlled by the "states" rather than the federal government.
Secondly, there are more privately owned firearms in Australia today
than there were before 1996. The million guns destroyed after Port
Arthur have been replaced with 1,026,000 new ones.

But, I agree with her about one thing.Â* The culture is different there.
Guns are primarily used for hunting and there's no obsession with
copies of military style semi-automatics.



"Very liberal." Love it. It is the "liberal states" where the
atmosphere is most conducive to innovation technology.

Didn't you make your fortune via innovation technology?

Just about every assessment I've seen says that the leading technology
states in terms of innovation technology and percentages of workers
employed in innovation technology are Massachusetts, California, New
York, and Connecticut.

You think there is a connection between liberal politics and
innovation technology? You think SpaceX is headquartered in California
by accident?

I wonder how successful you might have been, business technology wise,
had you started up when you did in Mississippi, South Carolina, or
Florida.



I am struggling trying to figure out how your comments relate to the
post I made.Â* It was about her very liberal views regarding guns, not
technology or what I did for a living.

Have you had your morning coffee yet?





You have nothing but disdain for what you view as "liberal politics,"
yet it is liberalism that helped create the atmosphere in the state in
which your business thrived.

You must be a big fan of today's conservatism, as embodied by the GOP,
CPAC, and Donald Trump, eh?