You have a good point...

If we are willing to live in primitive conditions worse than our current prison population and if other governments give us free weapons to resist the u.s. government we could probably do the same in the mountainous and densely wooded areas of the country.

There is no such thing as a magic currency that any country can use to turn worthless promises into something of value. Well, maybe the dollar, but only if you're the U.S.

The fact is that Greece can leave the Euro and print all the money it wants. But that money is going to be as worthless as the paper it's printed on and everyone will know it. No one is going to accept it for anything of value. And no one is going to loan them anything of value. So they'll be like Germany in the early 1920's, with piles of worthless paper money and a black-market/barter economy.

At the end of the day, you just can't keep spending more than you take in. It's going to collapse at some point. Greece is one of the most notorious countries at doing this, and so they're the canary in the coal mine. But the same thing is going to follow for the U.S. and many other European countries if they don't find a way to balance their budgets. Eventually the credit card bill comes due and the creditors just won't loan you any more money.

Fiat currency is based on faith. I'm pretty sure any paper money produced by Greece right now would garner no faith from anyone. It wouldn't be worth the paper it was printed on.

There is a setting in the Windows Update action center that allows you to stop updates from automatically installing without your explicit permission. It pops up the nice little dialog you are requesting. So I would be careful about who you are calling stupid or rude.

The answer by the way, is "not much".

No worries, SpaceX will get us there!

[whispering from off camera]....okay.....wait, WHAT happened?......No I didn't even turn on the news this weekend.....

Okay, a minor revision to that....

Plus, Ben Affleck is probably good with any plan that gets him as far away as possible from his wife.

Crikeys. Put like that, there is a context and rationale behind the 1% outlook. All of the seeming irrationality of the idea that most of us need to be as poor as possible, and the significant concentration of wealth in a relatively few people, and someone having the Oliver Twist like nerve to ask for "more soup please" is immediately met with howls of "class warfare!"

Kinda falls into place. It all falls into place

Same here. I found little of value, and when using Google, almost never want to go to the first results. So DDG is how I roll.

And they can fornicate themselves if they think they can dictate how I design my site.

Kinda like blocking all ads.

Basically that's all it in a nutshell. How on earth do we determine ownership of land. Land lasts a long time, and we don't. Dynasties come and go. Sometimes terrible atrocities are committed, like the "smallpox blankets" matter.

But the fact remains, at this particular moment, that is US land.

And if the Hawaiians wish to claim native status, I would have to say unless they owned the land for all time, they are not natives. Can they prove there were no humans there ever before they arrived?

What? People have been flying remote control hobby aircraft for well over half a century. And between companies like Blade and DJI alone, people are buying over 200,000 of the devices per month.

Yup, and indeed there have been a handful of minor injuries along those lines. Statistically what amounts to zero, of course, compared to the number of people who are actually killed attending motor sports events as spectators, or while skiing, or while commuting to work... or while flying as actual licensed pilots in vehicles excrutiatingly regulated in their form, maintenance, and use by the federal government.

Or, people could simply follow existing laws, and stay under 400', away from airports, and use a simple app on their phone to be made aware of FAA NOTAMs so they no when specific areas are off limits. And people who don't care about laws and rules? You're not going to be able to do anything about them (unless you can catch them after the fact of having done something stupid) than you are about people who illegally parachute off of tall buildings, or illegally drive their ATV off-road in parks, or operate their boats too fast in a no-wake zone.

Really? There are literally millions of them. Are all of them idiots? People driving cars have a wildly worse track record when it comes to deaths. For that matter, licensed media helicopter pilots have caused more deaths. and there are merely thousands of them, not millions. What's your point?

Yeah! And what's it going to take before these idiots who start the fires in the first place come to their senses! We should definitely regulate matches, hot catalytic converters, hibachis, and magnifying glasses. Oh, right, it's already against the law to start wildfires. Just like it's already against the law to interfere with firefighting operations. We don't need new regulations (since that won't stop idiots from being idiots anyway) - we need substantial penalties for being a jackass. Like we already have. Enforce the laws we've got, problem will be reduced as much as it can be.

Lawyers have demanded that Europe must be returned to it's rightful owners - the Neanderthals, Britain to the druids, and North America to the small camel like creatures who once lived there.