Requires the Weapon Proficiency (Exotic) feat.

(One-Handed Exotic Weapon)
1d6 piercing / bludgeoning Damage
19-20 x4 Crit

You Americans have a really funny concept of "democracy". You'd think something that can be described as the lifeblood of the electoral system will only use the best, peer-reviewed, analyzed-to-death voting machines backed with a paper trail.

But then again, seeing that you only have two major parties anyway, why not just flip a coin and save everyone lots of money? You're gonna need it for the subprime meltdown anyway.

So, what sort of punishment will the kids get if they are caught smoking cigarettes? Summary execution?

I consider myself to be a conservative with pro-privacy leanings; however, in the interest of looking at things from a different POV, I'm going to argue FOR the administration's case of having a backdoor to all the major wireless carriers.

tl;dr: not a troll.

First of all, I would argue on the principle of harm/benefit ratio. That is to say, is the harmful aspect of this greater than the benefits? I say no; the Administration has not, to date, misused the data accumulated. On the other hand, the benefit of being able to eavesdrop on possible terrorist communication is quite real. Therefore, I would say that having these backdoors passes the harm/benefit test.

Secondly, I would say that there are no visible impact on the overwhelming majority of customers. There is no drop of quality attributable to these backdoors, nor are the customers unduly charged by it.

And finally, I would say that in these days and age, giving up some degree of privacy is unavoidable. The Constitution is not a suicide pact; in 1931, the then-US Sec. of State Henry Stimson famously remarked, "gentlemen do not read each other's mail". A decade later, Pearl Harbor happened.