Now we have a happy compromise: No privacy, no rights, and we get to suffer terrorist attacks. Wonderful.

Gen. Alexander established the probability of an attack on the U.S. is 1. He did this by attacking the U.S. -- quite successfully, I might add: The terrorist is winning.

state militia can definitely defeat u.s. military, if they are willing to use nukes.

There are man-portable WMD.

definitely not.

it doesn't matter. your arguments are moot, because you can have nuclear weapons.

if you banned guns in the u.s. there would be a civil war, and millions would die.

Australia death by violence may have declined, but in the U.S. it would mean civil war, and violent death would be everywhere.

Wikipedia jumped the shark a long time ago. Now it is just evil. Still useful, but very very evil.

makes me feel sad for the dude who paid over 1000 BTC for a strad recently.

The number of persons to whom that applies is vanishingly small. Of course they control the bulk of the wealth, but their number is quite small.

National Socialist seems apt. We lost WW2.

Picasso would have, if it got him a sandwich and a bottle of burgundy.

You're referring to the use of the word "engineer" as a legal term of art. Others may refer to its use in the ordinary English language, which is in no wise obligated to conform to the perversities of the law.

When the U.S. primary export was industrial goods, there was work available in industry.

Later we innovated in electronics, and exported electronics. EEs were in the catbird seat.

Later still, we led in software. We exported software. We worked on software.

Now, we just export $100 bills. The need to actually do work is much diminished.