With imgur down, don't you mean less blind and hairy people?

What if you drop the end of it into a puddle that you're standing in?

In the US at least, gas taxes aren't nearly high enough to pay for road construction and maintenance. Cheap roads are already an entitlement.

Do you include statutory rape in those blanket statements? In some states in the US, it's possible to be declared a child rapist if you have consensual sex with your girlfriend who is 1 day younger than you on the wrong day. Certainly this deserves a far different punishment than the case of abusing a minor with decades of age difference.

You're right, I probably wouldn't believe whatever you tell me about that.

Regarding recreation vs. transit, it really depends on where you live. Bicycles (and farm implements) are already banned from highways in most states, so you shouldn't see them there. In Chicago, I know far more people that commute by bike than by car. Many of them earn 6 figures, own homes and pay plenty of property taxes, so they're paying just as much for city roads as the drivers, without putting nearly as much wear and tear on them. Some of us live close enough to work that this is easy. Cars on the roads really slow down us bike commuters quite a bit. Bike commuters slow down cars quite a bit. Busses slow down cars. Car traffic slows down busses. Why should one taxpayers choice of commute get preferential treatment over another?

Do you even know any drivers who attempt to not exceed posted speed limits on roads by 5-10mph? This may be anecdotal, but almost all people I've met who bitch about cyclists have a history of rear ending other drivers and causing accidents, meaning they are terrible drivers.

You want cyclists to respect cars? Start by respecting the traffic laws. This works both ways.

Further, roads were originally built for cyclists: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Roads_Movement

In Illinois and Pennsylvania at least, this is the law. I see a lot of cars roll through stop signs too though, including most cops.

We've been doing it for at least a century already. Any time you go to a hospital, if you pay your bill, you're effectively paying for the people who can't or won't pay for insurance.

Maybe, but it's easy to tighten a loose superpower.

Reprocessing uranium involves producing bomb grade plutonium as a step, so we better regulate the hell out of these plants to make sure they have a small military for protection. The real reason why nobody without massive government subsidies does it is because it's currently cheaper just to get new fuel.

So if we fought a war against China, you'd advocate that we don't use gunpowder based bullets?

I have no idea these days, but last time I spec'd out the purchase of carbide cutting inserts they weren't much more than $5 when sintered into your desired shape in bulk. Wouldn't the diamonds burn up pretty easily?

Power for the HDMI touchscreen (9-15V) can be provided from a 4 cell LiPO RC battery. A standard cigarette lighter to USB adapter can likely be used to drop the 14.8V down to 5V for the raspberry pi.

Wait until congress decides to waste time investigating, like they did with baseball.