Is 137 your IQ also?

You were mislead. Russian is a European language and can be learned with effort. The different alphabet isn't a hindrance since it works in the same way. People like to exaggerate how difficult their own languages are to learn, but usually without much comparison.

Asian languages are measurably harder: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difficulty_of_learning_languages#Native_English_speakers

Read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regressive_tax
Learning is better than going to school.

tl;dr;hate learning;
Regressive taxation has nothing to do with the effect it has on humans. It is entirely about percentages and there is no room judging what is fair or unfair. Regressive is not a value judgement.

IP is granted a monopoly. It's not part of a free market.

Flat is flat. Regressive is regressive. The meaning of regressive taxation is that the percentage of income paid as taxes goes down as income raises.

Consumption based taxes are usually regressive. I would be curious to know if the US has a regressive or progressive tax policy after summing all taxes and involuntary contributions. I bet it is regressive, primarily due to capital gains and the use of tax shelters.

50-55F (10-13 degrees centigrade) seems to be the right number. reference: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/747431.html

The claim was that there is no state called America. There is a state called America. There are also continents called America, and my neighbor has a pet dog called America. Neither of which invalidate the existence of a state that is called America.

Here's another example that might make sense. vipw isn't written on my passport, but I am called vipw.

Wow. What amazing ignorance. The United States of America is called America. See the post you are replying to if you need an example of it in a sentence. If you need to see a dictionary to believe something is true: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/america

But on the other hand, that does sound like a shitty place to work.

Just consider yourself lucky that people forget about what you do. If a functioning democracy knew how you were sucking them dry, the party would soon be over.

In that situation, wouldn't you be happy to have the precision that a mouse gives you.

In which federation is that a federal offence?

Illiteracy isn't a measure of intelligence. It is a measure of specific knowledge, as you say. There is even a commonly used term for people who are familiar with operating a computer: computer-literate. Did you forget to read the comment you replied to?

I don't think anyone expects computer literacy to include basic programming concepts (such as loops and conditionals), but it's not absurd to suggest it should.

So now I must either admit that I'm stupid, or burn you at the stake for your blatant heliocentric viewpoints.

I'm stupid.

There is no lunar night. There's a dark side and a light side, and occasionally an eclipse.