10% flat sales tax on everything (consumption tax, also applied at borders)

I'm fine with that, my imported megayacht never crosses the border. Here's $5 for the rubber dinghy I come ashore in.

you have us all working 80 or 160 hours a week for you?

Not all just one.

As soon as any autonomous car advocates start talking about 'what actually happens'

Why yes! Just the other day a baby stroller magically appeared 2 feet in front of me while I was doing 90mph on the local autobahn, forcing me to make a snap decision between creamed baby or ramming the President's car which was carrying a gaggle of pregnant neurosurgeons to a peace conference that just happened to be in the other 5 lanes of the freeway and the shoulders and the sidewalks and the ditches, all at the same time (except for the lane the baby stroller was in, of course).

    Fortunately being the superior human being that I am, I was not constrained by mere binary thinking and through a little ingenuity and physics, managed to lean my manly, manly physique across the vehicle just in time to ski past the baby and land safely on the other side. Not only that, but as it gracefully settled back onto four wheels, the breeze from the air displaced by my HMMWV (only the real ones are worthy of my leisure time) blew out a forest fire that was threatening to ignite a fireworks factory right next to a nuclear waste storage shed.

Let's see one of those auto-no-muss cars do that!

Here in Houston, TX we've been solving it by making the exits that back up be two lanes wide instead of just one. Now twice as many cars can sit and wait for the stoplight at the intersection immediately after the exit to turn green.

When you buy a house or flat in most countries you arn't allowed to absolutely anything you please with it.

Hey, there you go, appeal to everyone's undying love for homeowners associations to get your point across!

Except... it'd probably work better if they weren't so generally hated.

Sssh! You're not supposed to tell him he's on the GCHQ honeypot!

Sounds like my daily commute. WORKSFORME WONTFIX.

Speaking of a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, what happens when Nell tells Barbie that her mommy's boyfriend is a bad man?

The timecube domain is for sale. No word on whether the buyer gets to keep the crazy though.

That's actually precisely why I stepped up to the plate this time.

I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Fantasy writer Terry Pratchett was found dead in his home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an English icon.

Personally I recommend binoculars.

Entirely possible the other port is wired to the camera.

Why only when they remember bad things? After all, if they are a Bad Person(TM) then they don't deserve to do the things they enjoy like listening to Beethoven.

Comcast has reached the point where staying with the devil you know is worse than trying the devil you don't.