Possibly because FTL travel wouldn't be safe for humans? or it puts limitations on what we can send. not to mention sending humans makes it a LOT more expensive and complex.
I too would like to roam the galaxy in a space ship :) but probes are more efficient for now.

about #4:
how about the treasurer at a church?
http://onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com/2011/05/mary-shepard-victim-of-thug-and-chicago.html

"Some firing pins are terribly brittle, and dry-firing even 10 or 20 times will destroy your firing pin."

You sir are wrong, I have dry fired my centerfire pistol hundreds of times without issue, I also own a rimfire pistol, they are supposedly more sensitive to breakage when dry firing, so I use a snap cap (a fake bullet to absorb the strike from the firing pin). however the manual for my rimfire gun says it's ok to dry fire.

"What do you propose to reduce the number of rapes?"

Teach women self defence classes, and provide them with guns, knives, pepper spray and whatever else they want.

on topic:
I'm not convinced the hunters even shot at the drone, if they did it would have lost them a lot of moral-high-ground-points.
I'm not a fan of hunting but I do understand the need for it (control deer population for one) and I will defend their rights to do it, you just won't see me hunting anything other then clay, paper or steel targets.

So now is the time to get Smith and Leahy out of office in the next election cycle, I plan to donate to their competitors campaign funds and to let them know why I'm doing so.

I'm not sure that's such a great argument, if you switch the language to "pirate" it will say burn, or throw overboard, nobody expects them to actually set fire to my picture or message, but I do expect them to delete it because thats what's implied. I did not mean "hide it from me".

How about pre-program the GPS coordinates of a US base and fly back there when signal is lost?

You are wrong, the "mileage" DOES matter, I own a sports car and I do track days, I get around 8mpg when I'm going around the track, if I show up with a full tank, I can just about make it all day without having to refuel.. but it has happened that I needed more gas during the lunch break.
If I owned a Tesla, I would have ran out of 'juice' around luch, and not been able to get on the track due to the recharge time. So while that doesn't matter to probably 95% of people who own sports cars, it *does* to me.. I love the lotus chassis and I would LOVE to own a Tesla, but that's a dealbreaker for me, I would have to own a separate trackday car..

Am I the only one who thinks the old guy shouldn't have been wandering around in the street ?

I think the sequence went something like :
1. update facebook from driveway
2. drive 2 miles
3. facebook posting actually makes it to the server
4. get blinded by the sun
5. run over crazy old person.

I just went digging through my exim install. I have exim-4.72-r1 on Gentoo and it has the fix in it.
it's actually an old bug, the patch is for 4.69 and is from ~2008

and just for completeness, until recently, guns were banned in the city of Chicago as well, see how well that worked? :)

It's 15 years ago, if they hold something minor (no charges were pressed) that happened 15 years ago as the reason for not giving you the job... then you probably weren't going to get it anyway.