To be fair, they didn't say they worked in the English department...

I was blocking flash before there ever was such a thing as iPhone or iOS. Between my household and office computers I have it blocked in 7 browsers. But all 7 of my browsers are counted in that "97% of web surfers have Flash installed" statistic.

YouTube can come down on whatever side they want.

I still block Flash.

It is not the US government's responsibility to ensure that everything is rainbows and unicorns around the world;

You mean that bill failed? Damnit. I wait months watching CSPAN and I get up to go to the bathroom once, and I miss the rainbows and unicorns bill...

"there's a much higher risk of being involved in an accident if you're" in a car. In the USA 40,000 people a year are killed by the automobile directly, and thousands more are killed by the side effects of an automobile centric society. That is more than ten 9/11s. every. single. year.

How is any of that flushing your 4th amendment rights down the toilet? Show me anywhere the 4th amendment give you the right to drive. Show me anywhere the 4th amendment says that the government cannot restrict what/how/where/when we drive?

Driving is not a right.

The only reason people think so is because we have built our country, our cities, and our system in such a way that makes it very inconvenient to not drive. But if you don't like the licensing requirements, or you don't like the license plates, or you don't like insurance requirements or whatever - you are always completely free to not drive....

Because you see, your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins. And a car is a 4000lb fist, and I don't want to be hit with it.