When I drive I leave Waze up and have a Bluetooth earpiece in. I don't place calls, only receive and I'm not that popular. I don't text, or anything else, the only time I touch the phone is to report where a cop is - Waze is great for that......

Good news is I filled up my tank June 28th and didn't fill it up again until August 29th, almost cleared two months. I don't drive unless I have to. Unfortunately it's not fair to keep track right now, my clutch is out and we cracked the radiator tank towing it home so I'm not playing the time between fillup game at the moment. Yes I'm biking, but keeping track right now is cheating.

I don't P on my handbrake either

(yeah lame, but I really couldn't help myself)

Uhmmm, I don't have P on my gear shift.

Does having P on your gearshift give you an extra break with the law?

I'm not going to get into the rest of it, I'm a cyclist and it amazes me how many people I notice have a phone to their ear while driving, especially in the daytime. Those are bad drivers. Texters are worse, so yeah, do it, but it's more sporting to get them in motion instead of at a stoplight, less they can argue against as well. Getting them at stoplights almost seems lazy.

Leave the map app guys alone. If it's displaying a map I don't care if it's dedicated or not, it's displaying a map, infact the phone could be the safer device, it's maps are updated constantly and they're more likely to have correct directions based on that tidbit, at least in cities like I live in where the map is constatly changing.

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
  Samuel Adams

Until then you're a freeloader complaining about exactly the system that delivers your high standard of living.

I always get a kick out of it when people who fight to maintain a system that forcibly takes from others to benefit themselves call me the freeloader.

I give you credit, you didn't scream Somalia.

The places you named are not libertarian minded places, one in particular has strongly enforced sharia law which most certainly is not libertarian. The other is not libertarian either, it's waring military states funded and propped up by other states that fund them for their own gain. Your examples suck.

Sadly the best example of a libertarian economy is in Estonia, a country that is far from libertarianism otherwise.

The fact is no place currently exist that us libertarians dream of. Precisely for the freeloader reason you mentioned, any time someone has something someone else wants there will be people who band together to take it by force, either in the Sudan method you mentioned, or more peacefully they'll form a government and claim imminent domain or taxes. There are just so many people who need the warm embrace of compulsory safety nets provided by others. People like you want big government because they are cowards. People like me are happy with city-states, think Indian tribe, Scottish Clan, Viking Village etc... There's no reason why someone in Montana should have to finance the seawall in Galveston that helps to protect my butt, nor should I have to help pay to fix the Golden Gate Bridge no matter how significant of a structure it is.

People try to convince me on a regular basis we need federal funding to do things.

I live in Texas - we give more money to the feds than we get back. Of the money we get back how much was siphoned off on the way? Say the feds pay to fix a water main in my town. I sent $100 to the feds in income tax, the IRS takes $5 for the privilege of having taken my money, who then gives the $95 to the department of the interior that takes out their operating cost of $10. The department of the interior then gives the $85 to some large interior contractor, I'm going to make up a name to keep from singling out the obvious transgressors - Pipeanon. Pipeanon of course is required by federal regulations to have sub-contractors from a "disadvantaged" business do the actual work. Pipeanon calls up Hector & Son's Pipe Layers and sends them $35 of my dollars to fix the water main. Hector & Son's Pipe Layers then hires Juan for $12 to go dig a hole and patch the pipe.

I would have rather given my city $50 so they could pay Hector & Son's Pipe Layers $45 so they could pay Juan $20. Juan is a good guy, my kid and his go to school together and I usually sit next to him at our kid's soccer games and his boss Hector always brings a BBQ grill and makes burgers and hotdogs for everyone now that his business is making more, not to mention now that our money is being used more efficiently we have more bike lanes in town for our kids to safely ride their bikes to the park with and I have a better car since my money goes further locally and I have to pay less in taxes.

Feel the power of the big government, let it flow through you, swear off freedom and personal responsibility, only then can you fully embrace the power of the dark side.

If you go by the correct and classical definition of liberal they nominated a very liberal candidate in 1988. Most libertarians who are active and vocal in the movement are even more liberal than he was.

If you go by the current definition where liberal == fascist state level socialism then you are correct, the 1988 candidate was nowhere near liberal.

Tell you what - lets do an experiment.

All Libertarians need to test their ideology is to be left alone - we don't need anything else from anyone else. Just space and to be left alone, we're not isolationist, we'll be happy to trade with people that aren't us, but your regulations tend to have incredible strings attached that try to nail us to your service, there is great punishment involved with trading with statist.

When we fail at being sufficient without the rest of you, you may laugh.

If we try it and you still try to make us comply with your regulations, fail or not it wasn't a fair experiment.

Nice high speed ramble.I couldn't even follow all of it - I think you called libertarinism a false idealogical religion not based on reality, but I'm not 100% sure. It really read as though my beliefs offended your own and you had to respond with an attack to defend your own.

That's okay. We're used to it, and you can go back to embracing your own reality because that's where you feel most comfortable. That's the thing about us Libertarians, we're okay with other people doing their own thing, we respect people having their own beliefs even if they don't respect our beliefs.

In other words

it doesn't support my political position in which global warming is an important factor, therefore this data is irrelevant"

Reason #1 - Even though it's the opposite side of the globe from me it spreads the ideology and that makes me happy.

Reason #2 - This most likely happened due to Australia mandatory voting policy - which as a Libertarian mandatory anything annoys me - so it sort of proves our point.

job.

I was told how much my documentation sucks because the information they needed to operate the device wasn't in the manual. I challenged the person complaining to tell me something that was left out. I turned to the page in the manual and pointed to every answer that was left out.

Eventually the person complaining finally said "It's a bad manual because you have to read it to use it."

That's exactly the answer I was looking for.

My current place of employment does not want educational manuals. They want step by step instructions. I haven't written another manual for these people since. At my previous places of employment they raved about how good my educational documentation was. As a matter of fact the support manuals I wrote of an ISP in early 2000 that included modem and email troubleshooting leaked to other ISP's and outsourced call centers who began to implement the pirated copies into their own resources. I finally put a documentation GPL on it and released it all to the public (I've had people criticize me for not using Creative Commons, but this was a couple of years before that hit).

The lesson I learned - technicians want to learn. Monkeys only want "monkey push button".

It's like a blend of 1984 and Brave New World. Just like 1984 they will be monitoring you through your real life telescreen but like Brave New World it won't actually be forbidden not to have one, but the people will no longer have the motivation to think or act outside what they were indoctrinated to do.

Not caring doesn't invalidate my statement.

Are you pretending Android phones, Chromebooks, Tivo, Tom Tom and Kindle don't run Linux?