What if it's a vigilante trying to stop the felony that kills the teller?

Says nerd on Slashdot...

Why not just register everything? Keep a cycle of registrations and cancellations going so you can fuck everyone over by owning everything all the time?

I agree with most of what you say, but there are cases like myself, also been driving since 14, and was also a motorcycle courier, but with a history of speeding tickets as long as your arm. In 30 years of driving/riding I've never had an at fault accident. I don't speed to be cool or show off, I just have a natural tendency to operate machines faster than others, hence drive a bit quicker than most. Some people talk faster than others, some walk faster than others, when will we be mature enough to accept that some people can operate machinery faster than others without being persecuted as child murderers?

Might be worth clarifying, an SUV in Australia is a Toyota RAV4, Nissan XTrail etc. In the US it's a truck.

If you trust teenage kids then you are stupid.

Well for me, science is more important. And the science says people under 25 are a lot more likely to die or kill on our roads. It has nothing to do with experience and more to do with human brain development which doesn't mature until the early 20's.

And they'll have flying cars too! And invisibility and time machines!

Instead of guessing that 18 sounds about right, maybe we could use a little science instead?
I started at 14, as you could legally learn to drive then, and apply for a full license on your 15th birthday. Times have changed, we now know the human brain doesn't fully develop until the early to mid 20's, so it can be argued your brain is better equipped to handle the responsibility better the older you are.

It'd more accurate say no religion is about peace, they're mostly all about ignorance.
Islam is only tolerated because we tolerate other religions too. Get rid of the Christians and the Jews, and it makes it a whole lot easier problem to solve.

To be fair, Islam is a whole lot younger than the others so maybe their puberty is just kicking in now. In 300 years they'll look back and laugh about suicide bombings, just as we do now with witch trials and inquisitions.

Actually I'll qualify that racism comment. It isn't racist, it's culture-ist. People in the most developed countries have similar values which seem to be more advanced (ie equal rights , freedom of expression) than less developed countries. Race has nothing to do with since any human raised in a developed country will have similar views (most of the time). We in the developed world need to ensure those less developed are brought up to our standards. Sometimes that can be achieved with carrots, sometimes with sticks.

The power vacuum only exist because we're too soft to occupy. The vacuum occurs only if you leave.
As you say it was stable under the Ottoman empire, because they took over and kept it, America needs to do the same thing. The US, Canada, Australia, NZ were all British colonies, but the difference is the white people never left, so they remain beacons of progress. Hate to sound all racist here, but there is a strong correlation between those and African, Middle Eastern states that were given back.

The good thing about a death cult, is once they're all dead, it's really hard to recruit new members