Well, Peter might be a good liberal leftie, everything is relative in that mindset.

Seriously. GM cars and trucks here in the states routinely approach 200k as do other manufacturers as well. Something is seriously wrong with the UK autos.

I would rather not have those that are so visually impaired that reading the phone or GPS unit is difficult to be driving.

Like Anonymous Coward is a better name!

Maybe that has to do with the government of Iran having, for decades, repeatedly called for the total annihilation of another country. Have US administrations been doing that?

Maybe we can actually say that the stated intentions of a countries leaders can be used against that country and don't need to be ignored.

Maybe we can actually and honestly say that some countries simply can't be trusted to the same extent that others can be and that the US really is not as evil as certain misguided assholes believe.

Who said anything about constructing a weapon? UW-Madison is one of the more liberal campuses in the US.

Well, its a good thing we don't prosecute people for what a few think should be a crime then isn't it. If we did about 99.99% of the world would be in jail.

Yes, we do have a clue. That is why we don't live in those places, dumbass.

"the local service industry has to pay more to get people to work, so prices go up even more" surely you jest, sir. The glorious left have given us their assurances that forcing an increase in pay will do absolutely nothing to prices as the two share no relationship whatsoever.

Generalizations that are based on sound averages are exactly that, generalizations. Is it sexist to point out that the average male, college basketball players plays a better game than the average female. No, it is the truth. And the same holds for golf and other sports as well. Some of the best women have played against the best men and don't hold up. I'm sure there are other sports where this doesn't hold up.

Pointing out "sound statistics" is not racist or sexist.

because jack-boots

Do you actually think that once the hash marks a file that the file is not actually viewed? i know people on /. can be considered, in general, as idiots but, really, this idiotic that it never once crossed your mind that the police, prosecutor, judge and jury might want a bit more evidence than "the corporation said it matched, maybe, but we never bothered to actually check what it was."

Sure there is. I am unfortunate enough to be acquainted with someone who was caught in possession of such images and he got a pretty lenient deal compared to the maximum penalty.

Except society has decided that it is not morally wrong to do that.

Well, I guess you have a fundamental disagreement with society in general. As in, society has decided that your right to speak your mind does not trump my right to not be lied about (as an example). Society has also agreed that it deems certain images to be so detrimental to society that free speech takes a backseat to them.

However, if you truly believe that free speech trumps all, you would have to be willing to accept that anyone could follow you around (in public spaces at least) telling everyone how many child porn images you have plastered on your walls and how many 8 year olds you have raped, slaughtered and eaten. You not not complain if someone repeatedly sent emails of all this to your employers. Remember, you said that free speech should reign above all so your only recourse would be to convince others that lies are being told about you. You cannot ask the courts or police to intervene to stop anything as that would be stifling free speech.

Is that a society you are willing to live in?