Let's cut to the chase and admit that the ACA is a moral argument. If there was a benefit to me, somehow, I'd have a check in the mailbox. There isn't one. The only reason that we put up with this federal slavery is to make a few people feel good about themselves, that, we're all pitching in for their causes because the people doing the most preaching don't really want to pay for their causes themselves.

The rest of us are just slaves to their dreams. No matter how good they are, they are still tyrants, and that must never be forgotten, and no man that preaches, should ever be trusted. Always remember that to make someone else's life better, government ruined yours.

The US Health Care System would be fine for the middle class if states didn't screw it up with all these mandates for stupid stuff like birth control.

Paging the world's smallest violin, you're needed on board the waaaamublance.

Nope, polygraphs DO work....but only because people THINK they work.

They trick people into confessing things they wouldn't otherwise confess, because "the machine will find out" anyway and at least there may be some mercy if they voluntarily confess.

All bullshit, of course, but it does work....just not for the reasons we assume it does.

I bet your economy likes the $ they spend, though...

No blue carpet or gold curtain rods?

I thought SF86 only asked about the last 7 years, or since you were 18 if you're under 25?

I reported my arrest (no conviction, and it was a misdemeanor) and past drug use on my SF86 and still got a Secret clearance, never heard boo about it. Hell, I never even got pee tested.

Crashplan is exactly what the OP is looking for.

Computers don't have to be on constantly (they'll back up when they both happen to be on).

All 3 of those statements are true.

Paying your credit card bill doesn't raise your debt. The debt has already been incurred, you're just authorizing the servicing of that debt.

I'm sure they could program something along those lines.

"Weird object enters roadway = engage cautious mode for next X seconds."

And even if it does kill the occasional child in that scenario, it'll save thousands more from fiery wrecks and other instances where they're passengers.

A human would respond the same or worse in every one of those scenarios.

Autonomous cars don't have to be perfect, they just have to be better at driving than humans (which is a *really* low bar to clear).

So long as I get whatever my employer was contributing to my health insurance added to my paycheck, that works for me.

Facebook's down! Oh my gosh, I'm jumping off a bridge.

Let's just get that out on the table. There's no such thing as a social contract in the United States and nor should their be. I would rather have an aircraft carrier battle group and the F-35 than someone else, but the preferred answer is to have that money back in my pocket. I earned it. It's mine. Like, yeah, I do have some social obligation but its only to people who are likewise productive or were productive. The permanent underclass of Federal Pets, is, in fact, just Federal Pets, and they should have about as much rights as Fido the family dog has.

You don't think the fact that most 1st-world nations, except for the US, were smoking craters with devastated infrastructure after WWII had just a *little* to do with that?