Because there's a special fee on top of all that just for a taxi license that's usually in the tens of thousands of $$ and all it does it keep out competition. If insurance, maintenance, background check and some small fee anyone with a car in the first place could pay to become a taxi under one of these apps then that would be great; instead the purpose of the taxi license is to prevent competition.

In every state an expensive lawyer can find a reason why there's liability anyway.

Wow, I get the strong impression the author has only lived and traveled in developed nations his entire life. Its fun to wish for the things he writes about but they're unrealistic given human history.
It's especially awkward how he keeps saying he's not espousing a libertarian view and then does just that.

For people who lived on the prehistoric tundra, anything they could get was pretty delicious.

The heck they don't; any idea how much a mammoth eats?!

Depends on whether your definition of "evil" requires malicious intent or is just anything that turns out really badly for you. A natural supernova would be extremely unfortunate. Aliens causing the supernova to wipe out competition would be evil.

What good is it to be director of the agency if he couldn't streamline their processes? Don't like frivilous reports? Give bad performance reviews to people who write them. Don't like meetings? Remove all the chairs from meeting rooms. Etc.

Overpriced, I'll agree with, but quality? Almost all the fresh produce has "conventially grown in Mexico" in very small print under the high price. The majority of the organic food there is in the packaged and preserved sections.

Science fiction fans say they enjoyed Starship Troopers because they haven't read Haldeman's The Forever War.

This is a common misconception; reporters are free to report anything, but must face consequences if they choose to report state secrets and that includes who gave the reporter state secrets. Lately the whole question of what makes up a legit state secret comes into play and that's become a rather serious issue. But the reporters and their sources are not like Catholic confessional.

Wait a minute, they're complaining that press freedom has dropped because of Manning and Snowden? Who exactly doesn't know about that because as far as I can tell the press ran wild with it. Seems press freedom worked rather well to uncover quite a lot.

Because modern society isn't Balkanized enough along racial lines, we desperately need these gender classifications to further assign people into labelled groups.

Are you kidding? It seems every episode that needs an admiral has a different one. Star Fleet always seemed remarkably top heavy.

Creating the energy in the first place is the limitation. Where do they get all that anti-matter? And while exploding anit-matter against matter releases a lot of energy,even if the energy to matter conversion process were lossless it would take whopping piles of it to make any noticable amount of matter.Create 5 pounds anti-matter by unknown process, convert it to heck a lot of energy, converted to 5 pounds normal matter seems like a lot of hoops to jump through.

Got me a coupon for heart shaped take-n-bake pepperoni pizza, woo-hoo! She'll sure be surprised!!