Signing is already obsolete here in Australia. As of August 1, signatures are no longer accepted at all. All card payments over $100 require a pin (under $100 just swipe card and go),

Credit cards must be different where you're from. Here retailers all have contact-less payment terminals. My credit card works through my wallet so the transaction consists purely of taking wallet out of pocket, swipe past the reader, putting wallet back in pocket. From transactions over $100 I have to type a four digit pin which takes all of 1 whole second. Interestingly, my bank has an app which already uses my NFC chip on my phone to perform the exact same transaction. But also lets me withdraw up to $200 cash from an ATM without my card. Apple and Google have a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.

Same here. In NZ it's called EFTPOS, has been around since the 80's and currently accounts for 60% of all retail transactions in the country.

Crap. People who say this don't have kids. No matter what you try and railroad your kids into they'll eventually find their own path.

Haven't read the comments, but NPR is American isn't it? An easy test for this theory is to compare every other country in the world that doesn't know what NPR is? I'm not American, never heard of NPR til I was an adult. We got a computer back in the early 80's, I loved it, my sister wasn't interested. Boys like tinkering and exploring, girls like socialising and drama. Nature is sexist. why is this news?

Of course it did, just not in the Fox News script. Turn off your TV and see the world is a pretty good place these days.

Yet you can't think of a single example to back up your claim? I mean this is your third post on the subject which could quite easily resolved with some reputable citations, yet here we are.

So less constraints then right?

Low inequality means lower socio-economic constraints. You can't have it both ways.

derp derp

Not unreasonable at all. I reached full height 187cm (a hair under 6'2) at age 15, when I was at school I was always one of the tallest. Now only a generation later, I am constantly dwarfed by local high school kids.
And as an avid rugby player, the best team in the world 25 years ago was a full 5kg lighter and 2.5cm shorter per player than today. And this trend is consistent over the last 100 years (4 generations). This is more nutrition and training rather than evolution, but extrapolate that growth over 20 generations and you easily match the same result as the lizards.

So you agree, the US has problems. How many of those constraints have you experienced in Australia?

The ability to read. Your claim that Australia is more socio-economically constrained than the US is plainly false as plenty of OECD reports will show. This says it's nearly twice as constrained. Your claim is bunk.

Yeah I know. did you read my reply? That's why I said "as little as possible" instead of "zero".

Yeah I did, you just didn't read them.

Yeah I know. I'll rephrase my comment since you seem to have completely missed it the first time. Back in the 18th century, everyone believed in boogeymen, and couldn't comprehend a reality in which they didn't actually exist. The founding fathers, being visionary for their time realised that religion was mostly bunk and didn't want that claptrap polluting their work. Just like a modern President, failing to mention God will get you in trouble so they paid lip service to it to avoid controversy.
TLDR: There is no superman in that lives in the sky, all the smart people in the last 500 years know this, but have struggled with how to confront a great unwashed who simply can't accept that fact.

Yeah I knew that, my point was did you just make that word up? Do you have a word for fear of accepting reality? I do, it's called religion...

You know that American history goes back prior to WW2 right?

Socio-economic constraints - do you even know what those words mean? Sure we don't have the same freedoms to go around shooting our school friends in the face, but if there's one thing we have right here it's fucking socio-economics.

I disagree. The founding fathers went to great lengths to ensure the constitution and Declaration of Independence contained as little religious rhetoric as possible. Sure it's in there, but for the religious climate of the time it was about as Richard Dawkins as you could get. And wtf is "Theophobia"? I knew a guy called Theo once, he was a real dick...

When you say "we" are you including these people: http://news.nationalgeographic... I've traveled a fair bit, IMO the US has the most ignorance towards anything outside it's borders than any other country I've been to.

Every Jap car I've had (dozens over the last couple of decades) has the indicator on the right. I used to have a Ford (UK), BMW and Jeep all which had the indicator on the left.