The federal gas tax has historically been about right, or a bit more, than enough to pay for the highway system. So the current gas tax is the proper gas tax.

Hahaha. Post of the day here!

To give a semi-serious response to your not-at-all-serious post:

You don't get a presumption of innocence in war. Or a trial of your peers. You find a desperate way to surrender, or you get a bullet in a vital organ. The military's job is to kill people and break things. If a so-ridiculously-below-contempt-scumbag like bin laden gets a bullet, I don't think you'll see too many people here crying tears. That is one objective tax dollar's fulfilled successfully.

If you disagree, US citizen or not...well, fuck you.

That's all well and good, but how do you explain the past nine years? It's not like the people hiding him didn't know what was going on.

Face the truth. There were dozens, hundreds, THOUSANDS of people, who knew where Bin Laden was. I could dance around the common factor, but quite simply it is that they, and he, are (*ahem*...were) muslim.

Nope. I understand Internet sarcasm, etc. This is too far down to be modded up. My entire respect for this community has had some serious testing recently...maybe it's time to move on.

Cheers mate. I've been reviewing threads like fark's (link) that brings it home. I can't believe how long ago it was, and how recent it seems. God Bless America.

Yes, of course, the US kills civilians as a matter of policy.

If this is the bullshit that gets modded up, why do any of us sane people even bother?

I found it to be perfectly clear. At the time of the reading, he was her husband, and she was having an affair with her second husband, making him (at least) the third husband.

lol

I'm glad to see someone admit something--all of the radical liberal movements in the US (environmental extremism, pro-gay, anti-military, pro-union, and most of the rest of the Democrat interest groups) are all just displaced Communists.

Cool! He is my great-grandadvisor :)

I don't believe such a method is known to exist (and it's not for lack of looking). Please correct me if I'm wrong!

Just to clarify, by all-optical switching, I meant anything where the single photon is not measured & resent (i.e., the way a classical repeater works). This sort of switching is possible, but not typically done.

No, it can be done on a switched network, as long as the switching is all-optical (or you have a quantum repeater). Fortunately, this sort of technology is MUCH simpler than a full-blown quantum computer, so wide-scale quantum cryptography will be viable (though not necessarily in place) long before quantum computing is viable.

What enables me to earn wealth is the natural ability of a human being, in the presence of a society that allows individuals to fulfill that potential. Government is not the creator of this society (it is, in fact, created by the people), only the appointed protector of it. Government of course has legitimate functions, but taking wealth from the people who created it and handing it out to others is not one of them.