It directly hits the people most vulnerable. And proposing this at a time when gas has never been more expensive is ludicrous. Maybe instead of buying 50 new submarines this year, they should spend the money on roads instead.

Hey, I have an idea: If you are going to tax gas (state, federal) then let us deduct it from our income taxes. We should not have to pay income tax on it if we paid it in taxes right? Right!!?

4 wheels is a car. Cars have a metric shit-load of regulations associated with production, testing, warranty. Many of these are specific barriers to entry to prevent new car companies from entering the market.
2 wheels allows them to avoid all that and build something that is ultra-light and efficient and can be brought to market. Bravo for them.

Pop this program on, and "Poof" you have a crash that is guaranteed to wipe the stuff you wanted to hide and do it in a way that is undetectable.

Thats the point

I would be interested in what the voter/incumbent ratio is in those other democracies. I would be interested in their taxation model, and their services model. I would be interested if their leaders are directly elected or elector-elected. Obviously your two Senators cannot do everything that needs to get done, so are they going to appoint people to handle the local details? We would end up with massive cronyism with 6 years to wait to get rid of them...if we could.

I think the local governments are incompetent and poor because the lions share of the tax money is going to the Federal government. We could afford and feel entitled to the best people in our local governments if they were the ones controlling the dispersment of tax revenues. Last I heard, the pentagon could not account for a trillion dollars. Thats a lot of schools, hospitals, roads, and jobs that were lost.

I cannot vote for the guys that run the House Committee on this or the Senate Leader on that unless they came from my State.

So if we centralize all the power in the Federal government, we are basically ceding all of our ability to vote for our interests.

What you suggest is insane.

Like forcing IPv4 to stay in country only. If you want to go to a server in another country, you have to get there via IPv6.

Or give each country a IPv4 address range, but certain addresses are reserved for international servers. Multiple IPv4 networks that overlap on addresses that are outside the country.

Or make them like an episode of American Ninja and have them run an obstacle course. Now THAT would be worth funding by the taxpayers.

I love linux/unix, but that sounds kind of sad to me.

Why should the taxpayer foot the bill for helping a private organization decide who -won't- run in the general election. All it does is reduce the number of options for the voter. They should ALL be running in the general election. Let them debate it out and fight it out.

Primaries don't benefit anybody except the incumbents.

Maybe your credit was.....frozen....at the time.

Sorry bout that, couldn't resist.

Everybody has a website these days. Just let us pick the regions where we will allow transactions to take place. If we are going on vacation, we can light up Russia or Antartica. Then we can turn it off again as soon as we get back. Seems like it would take very little effort on their part to setup.

Your fridge sends out a little packet that says: "Hey, I am past my warranty! Time to up the ad volume to MAX". Or: "Please press OK to agree to the new privacy terms and conditions or your device wont work anymore".
There are many serious problems that are here NOW and must be addressed.

I think we need to have stations where you drive your electric vehicle into the station and it gets linked in a line to a tugboat device that pulls it into the city. Then you are separated and can go park your vehicle. The battery you need is only to go from station to destination.
The tugboats could run on dedicated roads. The tugboat could even charge you through the link.

Trailer is nice because its disposable. Now you can save up for one of those nifty shot-crete dome homes. Low maintenance and near indestructible.