Well, the USSR was also an authoritarian state whose leaders remained in power through a combination of fear and enforced ignorance among the population, so it shouldn't be too surprising that another state run in much the same way follows a similar trend. Especially since North Korea is like the USSR on steroids in that respect.

Due process, for one. And the fact that guilt is rarely obvious enough to justify a lightning quick death.

I'll take "never", for that one. Outside of diseased minds and idiot trolls, no one actually thinks that's a legitimate possibility let alone likely outcome.

Or trickle down economics "Reagonomics".

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010.

...because politicians don't run businesses, they run a branch of government, and governments ARE NOT and SHOULD NOT BE businesslike.

Also, a "supermajority of the people in the U.S." don't want the Affordable Care Act, eh? I think you need to take a trip back to reality, where facts are king, and simply inventing "facts" like you're doing is generally frowned upon.

The real idiots are the ones who lump together all levels and branches of government for no rational reason other than they're forms of government.

That makes about as much sense as saying "What do you really expect from the EU, given the way the Chinese government tramples on human rights. Just be glad they didn't ship you off to a concentration camp."

A synergistic reaction that causes a fantastic high and (usually) a painful death soon after.

When you say "One defense was that state-based exchanges were performing a lot better than the federal healthcare.gov website servicing 36 states." and then follow it up with "But Oregon's website problems have forced the state to rely on paper applications to sign up participants." are you actually trying to use one state-run exchange's technical failure to undermine the other states whose exchanges are working just fine?

I ask, because if that IS what you did (and it does appear you did) you need to take a remedial course on logic.

It's more "Cody Wilson" than "Bitcoin". The guy is a shameless attention whore who claims odd political beliefs but is actually doing the things he's doing for the payday.

That is how one of the original iPods had their firmware dumped after all, it was played out through the little piezo click speaker at some absurdly low data rate.

No, really, I'm not kidding, there is no possible additional feature or "exclusive" game or service that could make me EVER buy something like this.

Do not want with a fierce burning passion.

And if you were actually confident in your views you wouldn't be posting AC.

Your comment is fantastically hilarious with the "Dictionary of Numbers" plugin active. The funny part reads:

"And my 2 year old is like 38 pounds [ Medium-sized dog]"

...although maybe it's only funny to me because I'm sleep deprived.

Then you're looking at it wrong. Everyone has a right of privacy, and everyone is entitled to care (or not) about preserving that right. When a portion of a government tries to stomp on that right they've done a serious injury to you, and while you're free not to care about it, I'm also free to care a LOT about it without being faced with the accusation that I must "do wrong or plan on doing wrong" because I care about my rights.