No doubt, brother. The group that gets the most discrimination in the tech world is "women". Every other week the ACM publishes an article to the effect of "Where are all the women in tech?" Who the freak cares? Quit pressuring them. Maybe they don't want to do tech. Let's leave them alone. Maybe tech jobs aren't fun for them. Maybe their natural tendencies and talents take them on some other road. And I give the same criticism to the interracial tech concern.

Well, as an American I wish that the rest of the planet could understand this stuff should be done by private companies and organizations. If you want to do some awesome science, start the company yourself ask for donations to be received out of good will. Don't wine about the government's lack of initiative -- that's the last thing any government needs. Personally, I don't want is some government official pocketing my tax money in the name of science. I can do it better myself. It's not in the proper role of government as it has nothing to do with maintaining liberty and justice for all.

You're forgetting the other effects of that policy. First, you've brought in force. Everyone has to pay regardless of whether or not they want the service. Second, you don't get "health care", rather you get the "health care" that the public deems prudent to provide you at the time. In other words, you have no options. Third, when you take this decision out of the hands of the citizens, everyone suffers due to the general atrophy that overtakes society. We're already struggling with that in America. Read Bastiat's fantastic "Private and Public Services" for further arguments in that regard.

A few years from now we'll find that there are actually helpful viruses in our digestive tract. Welcome to the next wave of malnutrition -- not that we've mastered any of the present food intolerance issues.

Dr. Lindzen of MIT showed through his research of thirty years that carbon dioxide does not retain heat. That report was published two years ago. The idea that carbon dioxide is evil is published and promoted only by those who stand to gain from such lies. Breath the free air, people.

It also takes away the profit motive. In essence, it destroys the free market system that would drive down prices for the rest of us. It's favoring the few at the expense of the many. It's socialism at its worst: unlike schooling, the program requires no effort on the part of the beneficiary. It's robbery. It's legalized plunder. Read Bastiat to get a grip on the unseen effects of this stuff. His writings are free online.

This idea that insurance should cover standard doctor appointments and ongoing meds is where the thing is wrong. All insurance should be catastrophic coverage only (aka, I won't be out more that $25k for medical bills in a single year), but I don't want to use the force of law to mandate such. When insurance covers too much people quit using their agency to find the best deal and prices go up.

At most every company, if you opt-out of insurance the company will keep it's 75% of the premium. Insurance companies make these deals so that they can be profitable through diversifying over the company as a whole. I hate it. What kind of free market action could change this? My insurance covering my family costs $12k a year. The company pays 75% of that, $2k of which they put into an HSA. If I opt-out I lose that $9k, and I'd still have to pay $1500 a year for catastrophic insurance. At no time in my life have I ever billed more than $5k to insurance in a single year, and that includes my three children's birth years.

"day or the hour" -- I suppose that leaves the year open for volley!

Here's may take on the biblical prediction:
1. We know that each seal in the Book of Revelation counts for 1000 years: http://lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/77?lang=eng
2. We know that Christ came in the "meridian" of time, meaning the fourth of the seven seals.
3. We know that his apostles were killed in the fifth of the seven from the description of it in the Book of Revelation.
4. Justin the Martyr was likely the last of the valid apostles called at the time.
5. That gives us a worst case of the seventh seal opening in 2165 AD.
6. The statement about "silence" for "half an hour" could also fall into the 1000 years of man is one day of God domain adding an extra 20-some years before things get exciting.

Of course I also appreciate the parable of the Olive Tree from Zenos, where he emphasizes that one bad branch at a time will be "burned". It's worth a study: http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/jacob/5?lang=eng

You didn't even mention the really bad stuff President Wilson did: created the Federal Reserve and the 16th and 17th amendments to the Constitution -- all of which have had awful consequences for America. Those three items right there define the commercialization and authoritarian footprint of congress. They opened the door to the lobbyist and inflation problems of the present.

My roommate is a pilot. They wouldn't let him carry on his fingernail clippers last week. It must be common temptation for pilots to cut their fingernails mid-flight. (I agree that those of us writing transportation control software have a lot more at stake. If I wanted to manipulate the website on purpose I suppose I could forward myself some credit cards and passwords. That's still a level below accidentally accelerating when we intended to decelerate.)

Cut the effects crew in half. Give half of the left over money to the game writers to make something original. Use the other half of the leftovers to reduce the sale price. In other words, show Hollywood how it should be done.

I can think of a number of things that caused the current financial mess, including but not starting with Reagan's debt. Income tax and mortgage lender subsidies find their way on the list as well. It's no a lack of regulation that caused the mess, unless you mean the other definition of regulation slack -- a lack of being fair to all industries.

I call BS on you. Either you don't understand basic constitutional republicanism or you are from one of those democratic socialist states. In a democracy, the states business goes with the voters. In a republic, the state's business is to stick to the constitution/charter/etc.

Limiting advertising is a blatant violation of the US Constitution. Duh. You can't do it.