How does bitcoin prevent forgery? What's to stop someone from modifying their local database to give themselves lots of money, and how do you verify that money coming to you is real?

If you are white and/or well connected, probably not. If you are Muslim on the other hand, and travel to certain countries, then yes, there is a fair chance that you will either be thrown in Gitmo, or maybe just assassinated. Ever heard of Anwar al-Awlaki?

Nonsense right back at you. Stories about the tweets and love lives of politicians are the bread and butter of media because it sells, and it creates distractions from the real issues. Actual political corruption, such as Obama secretly negotiating with Health care companies, running a covert war in Yemen, and then lying about it, and of course I shouldn't even have to mention all stuff that went on under Bush. Actual corruption gets very little, if any, coverage.

I don't think he's ever claimed to be an "economics expert". He writes/speaks his opinions about various topics just as anyone should have the right to do, even if they are not a so called "expert". I noticed that you didn't actually attack any of his positions, you just say he doesn't have the correct training so we shouldn't listen to him. And you criticize his writing style by linking to Chomskybot? You do realize that chomskybot is a computer program and not the actual writing of Noam Chomsky. I could just as easily say Charles Dickens is a terrible writer because when I randomly assemble phrases from his writing, the sentences don't have any meaning.

I like the idea of reversing the way that most classrooms work today by watching video lectures at home, and then doing homework assignments in the classroom with the teacher available for help (http://www.ted.com/talks/salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_reinvent_education.html). During school I always had a hard time paying attention to all day lectures which may go too fast or slow for me depending on the topic. Watching the lecture at home would give the chance to pause, rewind, take a break and get a snack, look something up in the book, etc. Then doing the assignment in class you have the teacher there to help if you get stuck or have a question, and you can easily help, or get help from, the other students.

So liberty is basically legislated freedom?

Congress has the authority to coin money, but not the "sole" authority. States are forbidden from making money themselves, but I don't see anything in the Constitution that prevents individuals/businesses from creating their own money. In fact article 1, section 10 specifically allows states to accept (but not create) as legal tender "gold and silver Coin", presumably created by someone other than the US federal government.

Minority opinions will sometimes be stamped out no matter what type of system you have. I would argue that a moderation system is more supportive of minority opinions than an unmoderated system. An unmoderated system produces much more repetition and flame wars which are more harmful to minority opinions than a moderated system that sometimes mods down an unpopular, but valid, opinion.

Citation needed. When has Assange ever said that? Wikileaks keeps some information private within the organization, they release some information to the major media outlets, and some information to the public. That shows there are at least three levels of security. What additional levels of security do you think they should have?

Do you think that Assange doesn't have stuff he keeps to himself or things that he only tells to his closest friends?

The death and taxes site has a much better breakdown of how the money is spent, IMO. You can find the Drug Enforcement Agent (under the department of Justice) spends about 2 billion per year.

I think these statement are false. You don't learn "science" by reading an memorizing facts, you learn science by practising the scientific method. Didn't the author have any "lab" classes growing up? Unfortunately, the problem is that many teachers don't seem to understand the scientific method very well, and therefore focus on the learning facts part instead of the important part which is the method.
This is quite different from learning history, and I'd add that maybe this author has never heard of archaeology? Which is basically using scientific methods to make theories about history?

It's different for wifi because there is no opportunity for physical damage. A car or a gun can actually kill someone or cause damage to a person or physical property. A wifi connection cannot be used to cause any physical harm.

If I sublet my apartment, I am taking into account a risk of damage. And believe it or not, some people would be willing to accept the risk of property damage in order to help a fellow human being. If I want to help out my neighbours by sharing my wi-fi, why shouldn't I be able to do that without taking the full blame for anything they do.

As another example, let's say someone walks into my front yard and beats up another person. Should I be blamed for that because I didn't put a fence around my yard to keep them out? I don't have a problem with people walking through my front yard (to a certain extent), but I also don't think I should be blamed for their actions.

LOL, you can download worse things than bits? Please give an example of something you can download other than 'bits'.

I think the RedLetterMedia/Plinkett Reviews are the best thing the come out of the Star Wars prequel trilogy. I found the review to be much more entertaining and higher quality than the films themselves.

Stop it, please! Why are you are giving the deletionists more suggestions about what to delete? I happen to like several of the pages you mentioned.

No, they need to just stop deleting, except for spam and possibly obvious vanity pages. Even those I would be hesitant to delete. It would be better to just hide them unless they are specifically requested.

I understand your hypocrisy argument, but honestly, I would rather they be hypocritical and delete only a few pages vs. being not hypocritical and deleting all the "non-notable" pages.