You also get tax breaks for the marriage thing

Standard deduction, single: $6300
Standard deduction, married filing jointly: $12600

The only tax break you get is if your wife is a stay-at-home mom where you can double your tax deduction. Of course, then she runs the risk of losing all her credits etc from having no income.

if you have kids, you get those breaks too

You get those breaks as a single parent too.

After being in "Offline" mode all day yesterday, who knows what's going on today.

I expect that what's happening is that Dice has given slashdot a budget of $0 and expects it to crawl into a corner and die on its own.

Come on, folks, let's cheer with the AC "We're number one better than China! We're number one better than China!"

it's not possible for an honest person to have need of the 5th amendment

Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.

Remember that next time you talk to a cop and they don't feel you were "concerned" enough about the situation and use that fact against you in a court of law: http://reason.com/blog/2014/08...

The retroactive immunity came much later.

nothing you can't have in perl today, with a relational database, and a table or two to track relationships between objects.

Sure, and there have been written entire books and essays and algorithms on how to get your relational database to store and return a hierarchy. It reminds me of those highschool programming challenges where you implement a binary tree in a single array because why the fuck not?

But instead, it's a whole new opportunity to create problems!

Every language invented in the 60's was a whole new opportunity to create problems. The problem now is continuing to use it without fixing the problems. Even PHP has made improvements to the language.

Nope, right on time and everything starts freezing again.

because the choice is between Government enslavement and anarchy.

You seem to believe the choice is between ignoring laws because it suits you and ignoring laws because it suits me. The third option, which respects the rule of law: working within the framework of government to change the laws.

As you pick and choose what laws you think you should bother to follow, keep in mind that whatever moral high ground you claim to possess that gives you this power will also be claimed by others.

Disk Defragmenter service is set to manual. I've disabled the SuperFetch service, we'll see what happens tomorrow.

What makes it intrinsically illegal?

What makes defeating Macrovision Copy Protection to copy your wedding tape from VHS to DVD intrinsically illegal?

Just because there is a law?

"Our great Republic is a government of laws, and not of men"

Strange world view.

So's anarchy.

wants, needs and desires of the human race will expand

Says the guy who wants 99,999 ferraris so he can drive a different one every day. You don't? Huh, weird, I guess there is a limit on want, need, and desire.

There's reasons why this is bullshit (for instance, scarcity of raw materials and energy) but "people want infinite things" isn't one of them.

This does not seem to be a serious problem to me...Even if their conclusions are true.

If the "global warming alarmist religion"'s conclusions are true, then we're fucked. If that doesn't seem a serious problem to you, then I'd hate to see what is.

They took some chemicals from my son's chemistry stocks that they're going to take and test in their lab that they felt were dangerous chemicals

"Your honor, our lab tested every one of the bottles and found that this evil person had 83 bottles of marijuanas!"

FF7's getting a remake, they should get in on that.