I always thought the only kind of camp that Pollo Campero could be would be a chicken death camp.

According to wikipedia, the rate of homicide in the US is 4.2/100k people and the rate of gun related homicide is 3.7/100k people. Therefor, 89%ish of US homicides are gun related homicides.

Contrast this with the UK, which has 1.2/100k homicides and 0.04/100k gun related homicides, or 3.3% of homicides are gun related.

Another way to look at this would be to consider the guns per gun related homicide numbers. In the US, there are approximated 89k guns per 100k people, giving a guns per gun-homicide ratio of 24k guns per gun-homicide. Serbia, the #2 country for guns per capita has approximately 58k guns per 100k people, giving them a guns per gun-homicide rate of 93k guns per gun-homicide.

Clearly, in the states we're all about shooting each other, even in comparison to other nations with (roughly, since no one can claim truly similar) similar rates of gun ownership. Put another way, in the US, we have more gun related homicides per capita (by a factor of 4 almost) than most developed countries have in TOTAL homicides.

Full disclosure: I fully suspect that if guns were outlawed here in the US, we would see an alarming rise in knife related crime. I personally think that everyone here is so willing to kill each other because we have so little vacation time. Damned Protestant work ethic!

Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_guns_per_capita_by_country

What, for signing up for the discount card? Do you then ONLY pay with cash at that store, without exception?

If not, then they know who you are, unless you also have credit cards with false information associated with them, since the POS captures your CC number and the information on it, and a company with an analytics department which doesn't cross-reference your CC with your discount card is wasting corporate resources.

You do realize that your "desktop" can be plugged into your TV, right? People have been doing this since at the very latest 2000 and if you have a large TV, you can easily read slashdot or whatever from your couch.

Not trying to be snarky; it's just awesome and you really should try it if you haven't.

Because you'll get $5 of coupons a month based on what you talk about in the machine's presence. I seriously couldn't (and still can't) believe that people were willing to let their grocery store track their purchases in exchanged for $0.15 off a can of pees (not that it REALLY matters, if you paid with credit, they already know who you are).

While your argument is pure misdirection, there's a pretty simple reason that there is no "mandatory nourishment" for children but there is mandatory vaccination.

While terrible, malnutrition only affects the malnourished child. Vaccines are not 100% effective (http://www.smallpox.mil/messageMap/messageMapAll.asp?cID=57). Thus, exposing the UN-vaccinated child to the normal population puts the 5% on whom the vaccine is not effective at risk.

As with most things the government mandates, the reason is to stop you from posing a threat to society as a whole.

According to this study, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15353533, only approximately 99.4% of those vaccinated against smallpox actually have the vaccine "take". That means if my child is vaccinated, yours isn't and mine gets an unlucky d1000 roll, he could catch smallpox from your child WHEN your child gets smallpox.

How about industrial revolution style wage slavery where you live in the company town and spend all your pay check before you get it on stuff sold to you by your employer? You're technically not a slave, so the freedom crowd like it (more than slavery) and the factory owner gets the same net effect so he's happy too.

Except that the car already has cameras and senors and the like, as noted by GP. Anyone who assumes those won't be recording has not been paying attention to the news. So the real question is, "Will you even make it to court when there are multiple videos of you playing angry birds while running the red light and hitting the self-driving car?"

It's ridiculous to assume that laws will not be passed to exempt / limit the liability of manufacturers. This could not be more correct.

Let me guess... he or she probably wasn't a Scotsman either?

You forgot to work the phrase "one weird old trick" into your example, or is that a trademarked phrase or something? Interestingly, that advertiser is (apparently) in hot water with the FTC http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-03-22/news/ct-met-online-ad-crackdown-20120322_1_ftc-cracks-news-sites-acai-berries.

This really is not true. Take for example the fallout of Enron. Most the people that had Enron stock in their retirement funds lost the majority of its value (out of the $2 billion owed them, they were able to sue for $85 million). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron_scandal#Employees_and_shareholders

I didn't believe it either, but apparently, Arizona really did do what he said. http://www.politicususa.com/arizona-perpetual-pregnancy.html

That being said, I had always assumed that "girlintraining" meant "man" when I had seen his posts in the past.

While they might claim to have to gays, they do have a TON of transexuals http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transsexuality_in_Iran, apparently.