And if you're successfully charging high prices, other businesses/entrepreneurs will see that there's a lot of money to be made and are more likely to spend money trucking in more, helping to increase the supply. You wouldn't get as many generators trucked in at the normal prices. Capping prices makes outside people less likely to rush additional supplies in, because there's no big payoff.

How is this hard to understand? It's why (even though it's still suboptimal) capitalism makes a more efficient economy than centrally-managed price controls. Additional supply shows up where it's needed, because that makes people money.

It can, you just live in the wrong state. Here in NH you can register at the poll. If you care, start working to change the rules in your state.

It's the PDF link in the summary...

"Suicide" is considered a loaded term with bad connotations, as people desiring death are considered "mentally ill", so the newspeak term does not include it.

http://www.freakonomics.com/2012/06/28/drivers-aren%E2%80%99t-the-only-people-with-blind-spots/

"Alas, you won’t see Hicks’s mirror on many cars any time soon. U.S. regulations require that driver’s side mirrors be flat, and this mirror is not flat. So if you want one, you will have to buy it and install it on the car yourself."

That seems like it would be overly difficult. You'd need to use the mortar as an improvised pestle and the pedestal as a poorly-shaped mortar.

Figuring out how much money a better-MPG car will save you.
Figuring out which size of an item at the supermarket is a better deal. (Especially if one has a Bonus 25% More For Free! so the label doesn't tell you the correct price-per-amount.)
Converting measurements for cooking/baking. (If I need 1/3 cup of sugar, and all I have is 1/2 cup measuring device, how full should I fill it?)
Knowing whether the store's ripping you off by not giving you the full discount listed. (The thing says it's 40% off, why did it ring up 30% off?)

Understanding which deals aren't good deals. You wouldn't believe how many people don't understand that "Buy One Get One 50% Off (of equal or lesser value)" is worse than a 30% discount. Or that it's worse than a 20% discount in many cases.

It's true that all those things can be done without algebra, but anyone who doesn't understand algebra will have a really hard time figuring them out. Failing to understand algebra means you'll have a problem with real-world problem solving, and will probably waste your money.

You might not know this, but we the Internet share many views. One is that the TSA scanner stuff is ineffective, a waste of money, and potentially dangerous.

Oh come on, it's not like we haven't all vacuumed or plunged a toilet or cleaned up vomit at some point. We're not better than the janitors, it's honest work, we just don't want to do it. We could legitimately consider ourselves better than the marketers; most of them are liars, and lying is bad (m'kay?)

As I said in a higher thread, it's primarily to make sure that you don't get cards issued in multiple names. That is apparently attempted on a fairly regular basis, to the point that essentially every state has put in these systems to stop fraud. And they do actually catch people.

Apparently the first link is broken now, but here's some text that was there: "A man has been charged with trying to get an identification card from the Pennsylvania DOT under a name not his own. PennDOT's facial recognition computer program discovered the discrepancy. Jose Alejandro Velazquez-Rodriguez, 29, was charged with tampering with public records or information. He attempted to get a Pennsylvania identification card with the name of Steven Huerta sometime between July 16 and 27 at the DMV office in Gettysburg."

The facial recognition software isn't really to compare with your photos in public, it's primarily so that can check within the system whether you're getting licenses issued for yourself under different names.

Evidence:
http://www.publicopiniononline.com/latestnews/ci_21247064/penndot-computer-catches-fake-id-attempt
http://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/facial-recognition-software-used-by-dot/article_dd7d0f7e-dcde-11e1-a6a0-001a4bcf887a.html

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2012/roll569.xml

In my state you can opt-out of having your picture saved. The DMV worker tries to talk you out of it, but you can do it.

Yeah, lots of the comments were opposed. The judge looked through them, and saw that all the reasons people/groups/corporations were opposed weren't illegal or anticompetitive. So, no reason to reject the settlement.