Seriously... what's the point of putting someone in prison for four years for that? If anything a sentence like that is just as likely to turn them to harder, more violent crime than rehabilitate them.

It makes much more sense to give first time offenders for stupid crimes like this a year of probation, a significant amount of community service, and forced enrollment in some sort of vocational school / work program.

You don't reform people by making them sit on their asses for four years talking to other criminals. You reform them by putting them to useful work.

Not to mention that I doubt the university you turned down would give you grief if you called them and explained the situation.

Actually digging down from anywhere is moving orthogonal to the N/S/E/W plane, so it's zero motion, neither north nor south.

Except that two singers performing the same song will often produce two very different results. So clearly there is at least some artistic license in singing.

Your "typing in a program from a magazine" analogy is completely flawed since two people typing in a program from a magazine will produce identical code. Two singers singing the same song will obviously not produce identical performances.

Isn't genetic engineering on humans generally not allowed?

Even adjusting for population and number of employees (Standard Oil - 60,000, Apple 100,000), it's still seems rather absurd.

This is not really true. The Bill of Rights is a list of things that the government specifically cannot do. It would not be necessary if the Constitution didn't grant the federal government some pretty broad powers (such as the power to make and enforce laws).

Washington has no state payroll tax, sorry.

Of course the government creates wealth when it spends money on projects. Any spending creates wealth, it doesn't matter if it's a private company spending the money or the government. Either way, someone gets money and someone else gets a product. So where before you only had money, now you have money and some product (say, a rocket). Thus "creating wealth". Where did you get this idea that the government doesn't create wealth just like any other investor?

Ahh yes, such as roads, water, power, gas, fire departments, police, primary education, &c...

It wouldn't be very smart to put your name and copyright on a file which is being disseminated with pirated material. Just sayin.

Where in the US can you cast ballots from your home computer?

Freedom of speech doesn't extend to fraud, you idiot. What, you think that perjury isn't a crime either, because of "freedom of speech"?

Careful son, that's voter fraud, and could earn you a nice vacation in your local Federal penitentiary.

Oh, and let's not forget to mention the lunacy of white streets in places where it snows.