Your premise is based on the general public having a better education than that possessed by an average 8-year-old European.

In the United States, a huge number of adults would fail that test. Pig-ignorant Americans too lazy or too stupid to take even the most elementary steps to educate themselves have no right to be taken seriously when they question science. These people accept without question any science or technology that makes their life even easier, but rise up in mindless outrage whenever anything threatens their self-indulgent, spoiled-child lifestyle. They deserve nothing but contemptuous dismissal.

And your exercise in pseudo-scientific bafflegab is an excellent example of what sells well amongst the cretinous hillbillies who infest so much of the United States, and who possess such a disproportionate amount of voting power thanks to the excessive representation given to states that have more pigs than people. In many of those places, by the way, the pigs are probably smarter.

What a ridiculous lie! The US is in the grip of Corporate America, and its people are paying for it. The best that could be done under the circumstances is the flawed legislation President Obama managed to force past the utterly-recalcitrant Republican Party, who are still flopping about like gutted trout in a doomed effort to repeal "Obamacare" before taxpayers realize how much better it is than what they had before. It's the legislative version of bridge technology like compact fluorescent bulbs and hybrid vehicles, and a useful first step down the road to universal health care.

Those of us who live in civilized countries can't help but laugh at the ridiculous cost paid into the US health care system by taxpayers who often got no benefit from it in return. For example, in spite of being much larger and colder than the US, and having only a tenth the population as a tax base, your neighbour to the north manages to put two dollars (either US or Canadian) into actual health care instead of paper-shuffling for every dollar you pathetic losers manage. And although it's far better than the US system, Canada's health care isn't anywhere near the best.

The only fleecing going on is perpetrated upon slack-jawed, pig-ignorant conservatives by their intellectual superiors (which is, let's face it, just about anybody with a three-figure IQ).

Because.

Very nicely said! I agree with you 100%.

What kind of idiot fails to understand that all those nasty government regulations came about because people were getting fleeced left right and centre by quacks, confidence men, grifters, Republicans and other thieves.?

I never have a mod point when I desperately need one.

Troll elsewhere.

Go peddle your bullshit somewhere else. There's people here who actually understand science.

Sorry, but people with brains are past the point of being polite to lying cocksuckers like you.

Make yourself useful. Go fuck your mother with a rake or something.

...this is just a nice little lab that will help the NSA figure out how to pick off the low-hanging fruit when THEY decide they want to put a stop to all that nasty free expression stuff.

'Way back in my last year of high school, a buddy of mine's older brother dropped by our "common room", where senior students were allowed to relax during spare periods and after school. The guy was well known for his spectacularly comprehensive use of recreational drugs.

So this guy sees that a chess game is just ending, and challenges the winner (one of our top players, as it happened). He took forever to make his moves, but it became obvious before long that he had the game in the bag. When our classmate resigned, my buddy's stoner brother turned around to us, tapped his head, and said, "It might not work as fast as it used to, but it still works".

From the user's point of view, the cost is a bit different. It's x cents per month for storage, plus whatever you pay for internet access.

And, of course, the fact that there's no question Uncle Sam will be pawing through your Rule 34 collection.

The results might be somewhat different, of course, if industrial labs didn't conduct most of their investigations "in-house". (snicker)

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