Because nothing you said focused on the problems the article discussed.

One of them was the ability for people to see your trade and then cancel their own order, all before your trade was executed. All made possible because the HFTers were located fiber-optic-distance closer to the exchange servers

Limit orders work fine for small investors, but don't work on high trade situations - you end up ensuring that you get the worst possible price. That is, you only get executed after the price has moved in the wrong direction.

That is not an insignificant difference.

If I give you a pineapple and you return me a pineapple, that is called lending, not a sale. Among other things it means that ZERO profit is made and government treats non-profit things very differently.

The difference is that

His major mistake is not comparing the electronic security to current security.

He complains about static, short complexity passwords, but does not recognize that most of the time longer, more complex passwords decrease security.

Many current car locks can be picked by by a guy with a bump key. The electronic security he lists is in fact far more secure than the standard key lock/ignition. More importantly, cars have side windows that can all be easily broken.

Locating and breaking into cars is not and has never been that difficult, and Tesla's methods are not significantly less secure than methods used by other people.

Particularly because the real owner can always tell where the car is.

In fact, I would suggest you remove the lock entirely, and simply put a camera viewing the driver seat.

Someone takes your car, track down the GPS location, check the video on who stole it, and arrest them.

Won't stop joyriding fools, or vandalism, but unless you lock the car up in manned garage everywhere you go, you can't do that anyway.

Oh wait, no they are not, because Fed Ex is not run by greedy idiots trying to charge twice for one service.

I don't pay you to provide me only the cheap internet, I pay you to provide me the entire internet. I don't pay Netflix to do that, I pay YOU to do that.

So YOU are the one that has to build the internet to provide me the service that YOU pro missed to supply me. No, you can't blackmail other people I do business with to help out. I have already paid you, you can't charge them for services I already paid for.

Most current space ships have to lift the fuel out of the earth's gravity well, which means they have practically none left to go anywhere at speed. instead they drift along without any engine providing thrust.

So yes there ARE practical reasons to go to the moon.

P.S. Your argument itself is flawed. People said the same thing about the Louisiana purchase, California, Alaska, etc. It is only after we actually go places and spend time there that we discover the many many resources that make going there worthwhile.

1) A trip to the moon costs about $150 million dollars. (http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/45399-how-much-would-it-cost-to-go-to-the-moon-and-live-there-as-a-civilian/)

2) There are over 300 million people in the US today.

Conclusions: Either

a) You are woefully uniformed economically which probably explains why you can't afford to save for your kids college.

b) You realize a mission to the moon would cost you about 50cents but are so cheap you won't spend it.

or most likely c) You are the kind of idiot that thinks buying overpriced coffee is fine, but won't spend that same amount of cash on the moon.

So of course we must import more geniuses because clearly there is a shortage.

There is no shortage of STEM workers, just the basic fact that all businesses want to hire geniuses - for standard pay of course.

Because your reputation for truth and veracity is so well established. Why you would never think of lying to the public. You treat us almost as well as you treat Congress :D

We had the huge recession, and the media was more interested in Obama's victory.

More importantly, the coal industry spent a lot of money and legal effort to prevent the media from getting photos.

I heard about it from the main stream media and remember being offended by how the industry was restricting coverage.

If you didn't, then perhaps you should accept responsibility for watching crappy media instead of blaming the media for being crappy.

That is, not all media is as incompetent as the ones you watch.

By that I don't mean you are wrong (nor do I mean you are right).

It is just that I was not talking about morals or why the US entered World War II. I talked about the isolationism - which you admitted the US did when you said the that the Axis declared war on us. I also talked about how bad an idea it was. Which the tone of your argument seems to agree with me.

But again, your strange rant was not a contradiction of anything I said, nor did I say anything that denied what you wrote.

Also, we want a military base in that reason and are losing one.

In the real world, the difference between evil and good is not a bright line, but instead small details.

A prime example is that the difference between murder and self defense is just the state of mind of the shooter.

Setting up a new military base in the Ukraine is a measured, careful response to potential problems. It sends a clear message, does not cost any immediate lives, and makes it harder for Russia to continue on it's imperialistic course.