Why gun? Why not a servo releasing anthrax?

Come on, folks, let's cheer with the AC "We're number one better than China! We're number one better than China!"

it's not possible for an honest person to have need of the 5th amendment

Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.

Remember that next time you talk to a cop and they don't feel you were "concerned" enough about the situation and use that fact against you in a court of law: http://reason.com/blog/2014/08...

The retroactive immunity came much later.

nothing you can't have in perl today, with a relational database, and a table or two to track relationships between objects.

Sure, and there have been written entire books and essays and algorithms on how to get your relational database to store and return a hierarchy. It reminds me of those highschool programming challenges where you implement a binary tree in a single array because why the fuck not?

But instead, it's a whole new opportunity to create problems!

Every language invented in the 60's was a whole new opportunity to create problems. The problem now is continuing to use it without fixing the problems. Even PHP has made improvements to the language.

Nope, right on time and everything starts freezing again.

Only if you can't find a way to pronounce "nh." I'm pretty sure that's the first thing I say every morning when I wake up.

because the choice is between Government enslavement and anarchy.

You seem to believe the choice is between ignoring laws because it suits you and ignoring laws because it suits me. The third option, which respects the rule of law: working within the framework of government to change the laws.

As you pick and choose what laws you think you should bother to follow, keep in mind that whatever moral high ground you claim to possess that gives you this power will also be claimed by others.

Disk Defragmenter service is set to manual. I've disabled the SuperFetch service, we'll see what happens tomorrow.

What makes it intrinsically illegal?

What makes defeating Macrovision Copy Protection to copy your wedding tape from VHS to DVD intrinsically illegal?

Just because there is a law?

"Our great Republic is a government of laws, and not of men"

Strange world view.

So's anarchy.

Girlology 101 yo! *drops mic*

Algebra: largely unimportant for most people. Nerds are the exception. Some adults entering college have trouble with fractions. Arithmetic is useful for nearly everyone though.
Literature is very unimportant except as a means of homogenizing culture, but TV does that far better these days. Reading and writing are important.
Music is basic to humans, and while I don't share the drive to listen to music that others seem to have, I do have a drive to create music (much to the detriment of those around me). Music is a great avocation, but spending time to learn about music in school isn't really as necessary as a lot of people think. We all know people who have no idea what a clef is but lead otherwise successful lives.