They have to find your bag and remove it from the airplane if you're not on it. So yes, that will cause delays and add cost.

Until a Jam Proof Drone cane be made, manned fighters will be around.

In this country too many things that are not serious are midemeanors or felonies. We need new classifications for these crimes. 'Fellony' just doesn't convey enough information. Most crimes fall in a very narrow spectrum of offenses. Violence, Theft, Fraud, negligence. I think for violent crimes, you are up the creek, very few businesses would take a chance on that. Depending on the business, Theft, Fraud and negligence could be ignored. Of course, this is my utopian view of how it should be. In the US unfortunately, a conviction is like a permanent stamp.

But a smart AI will 'know' that humans are prone to go to war over such matters thus the AI will go to war first.

And should be confronted by society. Contrary to popular belief, the Police is still a civilian force. No special rules or exemptions should apply,

Please tell so that we all know to avoid it.

Everytime I travel to a civilized country I think exactly that, US is 3rd world primitive that owns a massive army and WMD. Scary really.

In NY Metro that is a minimum of $575K if you choose to not live in a questionable neighborhood. And, property taxes would vary from $8K (CT) to $20K (Westchester or NJ).

HAHAHAHAHA, you are so sheltered....$100K barely gets you by if you wife, 2 kids, a mortgage, insane property taxes, insane state income tax, insane heating expenses. Try living in the NYC tri-state area with $100 and a family. You must be joking.

High Income Earners (above middle class) pay less than 17% because most (if not all) of their earnings is Capital Gains.

It's disgusting really.

For some reason, in the US heightism is an issue. So are looks. All you need to do is watch american media (tv/movies/magazines) vs other countries' media. American personalities need to be above average in looks to be successful. Other countries' personalities, not so much,

Using your logic we just leave the uncontrolled growth of this kind of spending go on indefinitely for the good of the country. I am sorry but a gradual approach would work. The fact that our politicians are lawyers and only see black or white is the problem. They could create a graduated scale of real reductions (not reductions in the growth as they usually do ) over let's say 20 years.

But the evasion is on the income tax.

I don't understand why most techie people are blatantly against software patents. Sure, we can all be against ridiculously obvious patents that should not have been granted but why is software considered different than plastic for example? I can make a better mouse trap using bits of plastic and patent my newly designed mouse trap. Computer instructions are not different than bits of plastic that when strung together produce a working product. I think truly novel computer software should be patentable otherwise we diminish the value of a whole industry of people who use a lot of brain power to come up with this software.