I know my views are incomprehensible to many.

Thats because they're wrong.

You've got no idea how Australia is or works.

A "bill of rights" was described by your previous president, George W Bush as "just a piece of paper" and has been ignored without consequence many times before him.

Australia works on the premise that freedoms are not protected by paper, but people. We have our 5 fundamental freedoms (Speech, Association, Religion, Assembly and Movement) codified in the constitution but its still up to the High Court of Australia to rule on them and they do an overwhelmingly good job of it. If people stop defending freedom and rely on a piece of paper to do it for them, that piece of paper becomes as useful as those defending it.

Apparently there really is a Galt's Gulch in the real world and its turning out exactly as we expected.

Seems its a giant scam for people who are silly enough to believe in libertarianism. Ironically, it's very free market of the scammers.

Now I've actually lived in places where you can almost literally get away with murder if you've got enough money. There are things that are accepted there that Libertarians will never be able to live with. I'm yet to find one that doesn't treat foreigners as second class citizens. In Thailand or the Philippines where I lived if you crossed the wrong local, you'd best get out of dodge before the day is out. Any argument between you and a local will result in the local winning. You get used to a two tier pricing system because "Farang (Thai: White/Western Foreigner) have more money". Sure I could ride a motorbike without a helmet if I wanted to, but the made up fines by the cops were a complete pain in the arse when they saw I wasn't Thai.

Libertarians wonder why I laugh uncontrollably when they talk about oppression and how it would be so much better if we didn't have these "nanny state" rules. I've lived in the opposite of a nanny state and their heads are in the clouds.

Point in short, in a land without rules, those with power make up their own. A libertarian paradise has the same probability of occurring as a real life Hogwarts.

The same way the US will handle issuing hundreds (if not thousands) of passport application listing their names as "John Galt".

And the dismantlement they'll get when they arrive here and find we have things like laws and expect people to conduct themselves within their bounds.

This is an invite system, which means if you become applicable the government already knows a lot about you.

A Ferrari F40 won't be permitted on Uber as it's a 2 door car. The same reason a Toyota 86 or Pug 208CC wont be permitted on Uber. Uber requires all cars to be 4 door minimum.

Had a look, found your claims are complete bollocks.

All arguments claiming minimum wages increase unemployment are full of "might", "maybe" and "possibly" whilst the ones disputing this claim use more definitive language. The worst they can say is that any change "was not statistically significant".

Being from a country that speaks proper English, I always picture a fanny pack as something worn on a vagina.

Fuck me.

Nebulous "energy" is at the centre of most quackery and cargo cult science.

"Energy" is not descriptive enough to be able to say whether something is a risk or not. You need to define what the energy is, what it does and how this affects us (or whatever the subject of your experiment is). So whether radiation is ionising or not is entirely relevant, especially when drawing conclusions about long term health effects.

Simply saying that "energy" goes "somewhere" is completely useless and only lets bad science like "mobile phones cause cancer" exist.

Am I doing it right?

Only if you're 5 years old.

If you're an adult you only sound like a blithering idiot. English people are much more eloquent with their insults and dont need to rely on trying to shock people with haphazard displays of vulgarity.

Thankfully, I live in a country which, in theory, protects offensive speech.

if you bothered to keep up, he wasn't arrested for offensive speech, he was arrested for disobeying a lawful police instruction (you know that the powerpoints on these trains are locked, its not like he accidentally plugged it in). As far as I know, disobeying a lawful police instruction is illegal everywhere where there are laws and police.

Also if you bothered to watch any UK TV you'd notice how much more offensive language there is compared to American TV. Just look at how often the word "cock" gets dropped on Top Gear. The US has to censor the word "bugger" for crying out loud. As always, even the offensive language on UK TV is much more sophisticated than its contemporaries across the pond.

Seems your "protected" speech isn't as protected as ours. Toodles

In the UK if you mouth off to the police you get arrested for an hour and a charge that is dismissed in court.

In the US if you mouth off to the police you get tasered and pinned to the ground whilst the officer shouts "stop resisting".

The whole thing could have been defused with a simple "OK" and unplugging of the device.

No need to even be polite, although that isn't a bad thing to do anyway.

Yep, I'll bet it unfolded something like this:

Hobby Bobby asked him to unplug his phone, instead of unplugging his phone he decided to give the PCSO some lip and it became a battle of egos after that.

This could have been easily avoided by not having an attitude. The problem wasn't using a mere 10 pence of electricity, rather the antisocial behaviour that followed being asked to unplug his phone.

In all defensive driving courses, a driver is trained that there is no such thing as a "protected" turn and always watch out for pedestrians (or suicyclists) and assume they will enter the roadway without right of way.

You can never assume someone else is going to follow the rules.

In the credit card industry, a deadbeat is someone who has a credit card and doesn't use it (therefore not racking up interest or merchant service charges).

The difference is Tsipras is Greek and in Greece.

The US is soft on its promise breaking politicians because by and large, everything keeps running as it was and there's no large scale disruption that affects everyone. Greece is not in this position with the level of austerity in Greece. Tsipras is not just fighting for his life politically, he's fighting for it literally. The Greek people wont hesitate to lynch him if they think it'll get them out of their current predicament, hell, they'll lynch him if they think he's not doing everything he can to get them out of their predicament. This is why Yanis Varoufakis (Tsipras' ex finance minister) got the hell out of dodge, he saw the writing on the wall.

Tsipras got elected because he promised to take a hard line against the EU on austerity. As unrealistic as this was it's what the Greek people wanted rather than another meek EU toady and it will turn out bad for Tsipras if he turns into one.

As a cyclist I'd like for motor vehicles to all have black boxes and to collect data. But that data should only be accessible to the police in the event of a crime an accident involving the car.

Be careful what you wish for.

As a motorist, cyclist one of the major reasons I have a dash cam. I've been cut off by a cyclist who never bothered to look behind them far too many times. The problem is that a cyclist will never admit to doing wrong and change their story when it's obvious that the motorists wont cop the blame (this is also why they're constantly campaigning to make motorists automatically at fault). In my city, cyclists are at fault in the majority of collisions.