I have to disagree. I spent time in Upstate New York, and the drivers seemed courteous & respectful...... a dramatic contrast from Southern California where even the cops say "I give up" as people speed-by at 85.

- BTW visitors from Baja California, and residents of Socal

- The left lane is not the slow lane. If you're driving 55, that is just fine, but please more to the far right. (Yes that's why everyone is blowing their horn at you.)

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> Abolitionists existed in 1700, and women were not entirely without rights

Your date is a bit off. The first attempts to end slavery in the British-american colonies came from Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and some of their contemporaries. So basically 1770s.

- Many U.S. States when they declared independence in 1776, also allowed women to vote, same as men did. Sadly that equal suffrage was later repealed in the 1810s and 1820s. Every time there's a revolution, there's also a backlash a few years later to "undo" what the revolutionaries accomplished :-(

- Blacks in the North continued to have the right to vote, and be treated as equals under the law.

I always heard the phrase "crony capitalism" where bribes to politicians ensure financial assistance or protectionism for a company.

But "lemon socialism" is an even better term! :-)

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IRONY: The biggest pirate of all is the Music industry itself. Please take a moment to read this old article: "The plaintiffsâ(TM) (musicians) claimed compensation for use of work listed on what are known in the Canadian recording industry as âoepending lists.â These lists, accumulated over many years, contain works for which no licence was obtained and no compensation paid........ â" the action could have been worth up to $6-billion."

In other words the music industry owed 6 billion dollars to musicians for non-payment of songs they used w/o comprensation. - LINK : https://business.financialpost...

And the followup: The record industry only paid 50 million of the 6000 million owed to artists:
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My downloading from piratebay had dropped to zero, since I was obtaining my entertainment legally from Netflix.com or Slingtv.com........ WHY should I have to pay a "piracy" tax when I'm not pirating anything?

Stupid.

Yeah swimming pools and watering of lawns was technically illegal during drought season (2016-17) but the Hollywood producers JJ Abrahms and stars like Oprah thought they were above the law, and did it anyway. (They should have been prosecuted.)

> "Since its introduction in 1985....... Excel has simplified countless office tasks once done by hand or by rudimentary computer programs, streamlining the work of anyone needing to balance a budget, draw a graph or crunch company earnings."

Wow it's a miracle!

Nah I'm pretty sure computer spreadsheets existed before 1985. Like WordPerfect's Quatro and Lotus 1-2-3

> It actually was 1972, acting on a law passed in 1967.

I'm talking about the ULEV and SULEV and ZEV designations, which did not exist until the mid-1990s (with PZEV added in 2001).

>10 other states passed their own laws to follow California's standards.

Yes but not until after 2007 (approximately). Prior to that year, only California followed CARB while the other 49 states followed EPA emissions. Therefore there were "CARB" and "49 state" models. If you don't believe me, look up 2003 Civic Hybrid in fueleconomy.gov's historical records. It's there.

Even the MPG was different between the two models.

That saves me from wasting water, but does nothing to stop the thousands of others wasting water. (And in dry California, we cannot afford to waste any of it.)

> will you take on the liability if your device is used to attack a 3rd party?

I'm not liable if someone steals my car & runs over some children..... why would I be liable if someone steals my phone & uses it to make/distribute child porn? Your question was poorly thought out. Citizens are never liable for the actions of others, even if that other person used that citizen's car or phone.

> They can compromise millions of devices (which would be a bit much to buy), and use them to launch denial of service

And how does a password on our phones stop them from doing this? They could just wipe the phones & use them passwordless.

Plenty of Americans who could do those jobs (of course they'd have to be paid minimum wage, which the Ag Megacorps don't want to do). My main concern with Central American immigrants is this:

- I don't like people entering my home without permission. If they ASK first, then fine, let them in (unless they are potential criminals or terrorists). For these people to just bust down the door, and enter our homeland, is ridiculous. It's breaking-and-entering without permission.

The article says Rigby Idaho, along I-15, which is nowhere near the Tetons.

>the cultural hotzone of Salt Lake City.

I spent a year living in Salt Lake. I didn't find it cultural. I couldn't even buy the semi-annual College Issue of Playboy (it's banned from stores). I will guess you were trying to be sarcastic.

The difference is Volkswagen actually CHEATED by having the computer software recognize "Oh we're in a lab. Change the engine's running conditions to pass this test."

Ford, Honda, the rest don't have cheat code in their software. The engine runs exactly the same, whether in the Emissions lab or not in the lab. That makes them legally-compliant.

> should we eliminate corporate taxes

If we want to compete with other countries that charge corporations near-zero rates.

> and pay the wages that they receive in India?

Water always seeks the lowest level. Eventually India/China wages will rise, and US/EU wages will drop, until a balanced, approximately equal level is achieved worldwide.