Most people don't lock their inside garage door and the bad guys know this.

Citation needed.. Really?? I basically always lock all of my doors when I walk in the door, and I only put the "basically" in there for the literally one or two times I've forgotten and freaked out in the morning when I realized I didn't lock it.

Because, as many other people have described, transferring $10K or more often can be indirect evidence of crimes going on (cash based businesses making tons of money, possibly illegally, and not reporting it).

Trillions of dollars have left the USA, some of it legally (Apple Computer) and some of it not.

Apple's earnings didn't "leave" the USA. They were earned outside the USA, and just haven't been brought into the USA.

Why are you bringing completely unrelated issues ("drug war") into it?

Plus, how can you have "a tax system that does not require tracking one's every financial transaction"? Rely on people's honesty? HAHAHAHA.. It sure hasn't worked so far. (Yes, even though there are audits and such, I'd say a lot of the tax system is the honor system.. if it weren't, there'd be far more automatic checking of the finances that ARE already tracked.)

IIRC, the original 1980's-era laws were only interested in transactions $10k or greater. The Patriot Act addiction/enhancements were to use semi-regular transactions of under $10k as 'structuring' (that is, to try and close the workaround of, say, withdrawing or depositing substantial amounts under $10k on a semi-regular or regular basis.)

Which seems like a perfectly logical law, since otherwise it's WAY too easy to evade (transfer $9999.99 each time).

some VC guys like Khosla...

("Like" above is used as "for example".)

I like Khosla, but some people, including a judge, didn't agree with him doing what he wanted with his property:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinod_Khosla#Martin.27s_Beach_dispute

And companies like Lockheed Martin rely almost completely on government military subsidies.

Wait, what do you mean? The government simply buying a product at an agreed upon price (e.g. weapons) is not a subsidy.

Remember Bush choking on a pretzel?

That was supposedly due to vagus nerve stimulation.

http://articles.latimes.com/20...

I'm not even a huge fan of old movies, but I do think it's very worth seeing. Even if I didn't enjoy it (I did), I would think it's worth seeing for a cultural awareness "take your medicine" reason. (I should take my own advice and see "Citizen Kane" someday.)

Yes, I know, I was simply providing information about what he ACTUALLY said.

(Since I was/am too lazy to look the rest of it up for sure, the full line was something close to "You played it for her, so play it for me. Play it, Sam.")

Bogart's character said "Play it, Sam".

Your same question applies to ANY union.

(Yes, you could call me a union buster.)

You don't need a car payment - save up for whatever car you get . Get an old car, for a thousand or two... You can go even cheaper than that, but at that level, you might be spending more on repairs (or replacement heaps) than spending a bit more in the first place.

I use plenty of web sites, and some even mimic desktop apps vaguely well..

But even a native app that *uses HTML* for much of its UI often has a better overall experience -- better drag & drop, keyboard navigation, interaction with other apps..

What specific "rights"?

They have a right to make their machine work the way they want, you have the right to not buy it.

BTW, the video at keurighack is hilarious, mostly because of the music.