One might argue that competing on Horsepower is a path to mutual destruction - as cars get bigger and more aggressive, accidents are more dangerous. On the other hand, if people are more concerned with enjoying the time in their car, than driving fast and aggressively, it could be a net improvement in safety.
BTW nothing you do will make people pay more attention to driving - they will always pay only as much attention as is necessary 95% of the time.

The first is a slander against Wikileaks - in that it has in fact released only a sliver of its haul - while making an effort to redact, and asking the gov to help in doing so. (you might have thought of that before repeating the slander yourself - but take no offense.)

To the second; this is hugely inadvisable - for the government to smash journalism would only decentralize the institution (even more). So long as the media have addresses, and working contacts, they can be persuaded from time to time to hold a story here or there for patriotic reasons - once the media is reduced to a fractured series of Wikileaks, Kazzaa, Limewire, Napster, and similar shadow media outlets, there will never be any hope of cooperation; That said, the concern is overblown, politicians who poke media with a sharp stick are likely to draw back a stump.

The Jews did play a role in inciting hatred; The Jewish religion is essentially a race-baiting exercise in which the Jews get to simultaneously claim racial superiority (Choseness) and their own brand of racism (antisemitism - which ironically can't be claimed in reverse). Now: two wrongs don't make a right, and the Nazi response is intolerable; but remember the Jews "invented" their own history in which they were the victors in a series of gruesome genocides in which they killed even the children. In a disturbing way their earlier religious fiction foreshadowed their later reality. People should be discouraged from claiming genocidal victories as justification for present landholding, for example, if they want my respect for their superstitions. The Germans on the other hand were victims of Luther's success which quite oddly ended in Luther's failure to convert the Jews - resulting in a surly condemnation of Jews as dogs etc... an attitude which grew cheek by jowl with the protestant movement in Germany - bringing us the Fuhrer and "gott mit uns" on the belt buckle of every Nazi. Imagine no religion.

If you cherry-pick examples, you can snow the ignorant either way; however, as a principle - the world would be better off with near-full disclosure both of what the Nazi were doing, and what the Catholics were doing to help them, and if the price of governmental disclosure were the transparency of small group doing good work - then on balance the scale would tilt in favor of exposure. Put another way, if you balance all the good done in secret against the bad also done in secret, the bad will outweigh the good 10 to 1 in the best century. I'll take my chances with disclosure.

It isn't voluntary if it is coerced as a condition of employment.

I'm very opposed to the notion of the Government negotiating away individual liberties. The government has no business asking people to give up their rights and they do it to often. That said, I could narrowly agree that yes, it does have a need to keep secrets; however, if it asks him to conspiring in covering up a warcrime - the government has overstepped, and I say Free Speech overrides. The video is most definitely a war crime - case closed if I'm on the jury.

Cool if it works for you of course. But the list of people with typing problems is pretty long.

here's a quick link suggesting $150 per barrel.

http://www.oilgae.com/blog/2009/02/algae-biodiesel-costs-33-gallon.html

There are many estimates of course, that's in the ballpark.

May I suggest politely, that women, in the main, have /two/ paths to success, (or evolutionary strategies) whilst men may have merely one.
That is that Women can, by merely looking fabulous, simply attach themselves to the success of a /competent/ male, while few males have managed a similar trick in reverse, and that these two strategies compete with each other in a way that dilutes the pressure to be competent. Fabulous women out-compete women who are merely competent in propagating their genes. I would wonder whether, in any species, both genders can adopt the same evolutionary strategy, this is likely not the case, as sexual reproduction leads to mutual exploitation by definition (as each gender conspires to make the other partner more responsible for the child rearing)

I'm a programmer, and I think I type very well; much better in fact than people who can touch type - but not because I type faster. The way I type does not requires me to bend my wrists; i've gotten pretty fast without stressing my wrists, while people I know have been forced into an early retirement because they can no longer type.

The first rule of typing should be: DO NO HARM,.

after that, suit yourself.

Thank two private organizations: the RNC and the DNC - which conspire to begin primaries in Iowa. The solution to obesity in America is single-day primaries.

That is a real shame - plain and simple. I might have hoped a less distracted President might have made green energy more of a priority.

So here it is: We can make clean oil alternatives from Algae, less clean from coal; but the cost is ~$70 a barrel. $70 is high, but we've been there before, and we can manage, we stop selling SUV and start buying Hybrids for example; but the economy doesn't crash etc. So when Oil gets to and stays > $70. alternatives will comes in.
The fear is that it will spike; but this fear is largely unfounded, because in order for oil to be unaffordable in the US, it would also be unaffordable everywhere else - reducing demand etc... So the current path is research on oil alternatives at the $70 level. Not unreasonable - better would be high-speed trains.

This is so true; I think in Africa you can pay via your cellphone - it virtually ends robbery and the violence attached to carrying money in poor countries. It can also curtail corruption. I submit that corruption is the last inefficiency of society, and we should expect real gains in living standards if we can reduce corruption.

Why because its updated /daily/ !

Right, I saw this right away; so Insurance has to accept, but deadbeats and freeriders can opt-out?
That's a recipe for financial ruin. But no worse than the current system in which Hospitals are compelled to treat.