When it's private, it's not tyranny. In theory, your arrangement with your employer is voluntary on both sides. Either party can decide at any time to cancel the arrangement and you go your separate ways. The arrangement between you and your government, however, is much less voluntary. If your government puts you in jail, you can't just decide you don't like the food and leave. This is why the founders wrote the BofR to apply to the federal government and not to private entities. (The BofR didn't even apply to state governments until much later.) Of course in practice it might be very difficult to change your employer, but it's still easier than changing your government.

Fail. Name one time when you ever saw Seven of Nine in a gravity-free environment.

The side that the steering wheel is one doesn't really matter

Actually it does. For at least two reasons:

• It's easier to judge whether your car will "miss" a car going the opposite direction when the other car passes on the driver's side.
• On a two-lane road, it's easier to pass a slower-moving vehicle if the side you pass on is the driver's side. Otherwise, it's harder to tell if you're likely to be creamed in a head-on collision when you try to pass.

That's why in most cases when cars travel on the X side of the road, the driver's side of the car is !X. Obviously it's not impossible to drive with the driver's side on X, but it's probably statistically safer on !X.

providing carefully timed jerks of the cable at its base

Too...many...jokes... [head explodes]