I am not sure if this is true, but if you do look at some sitcoms from 70s, you would discover that half-hour sitcoms used to be 26-27 minutes of content. Today's sitcoms would be lucky to hit 23 minutes (usually ~22.5)

A clever dictator asks Congress for things he does not want, so that he can deflect the blame to Congress when they fail to pass it. You don't see presidents asking for permission about, say, drone bombings in various countries.

And yes, IANAL, but this should not be a fairly easy appeal case:

That's assuming you subscribe to a privacy-violating account and carry around their little identifier (last I saw the rules, they have dire warnings against sharing or otherwise moving the device to another car) and also assuming that you have no out-of-state visitors who are not subscribed to some local toll system.

Why should it? How is that significant?

Wow, is that the rule?
So then you have to record your question being asked and answered. Otherwise, it's your word against the police officer's word that "....but s/he said I was free to leave", when you are charged with resisting arrest.

IANAL, but I am quite sure that "X party consent" only applies to private conversation (e.g., phone). Any event happening in public, you can pretty much record. Otherwise, in states with two party consent laws, you could never record videos outside within an earshot of people.

There has to be more to this. If companies can't find drivers (particularly bigger firms), perhaps they should offer higher pay? I can't imagine their margins are so thin that they cannot increase trucker salaries without going into red.

So perhaps there is another explanation, because yours sounds like trucker salary is set in stone and can never be changed.

Indeed. He could also have kept Aragorn as a hobbit named Trotter instead of a human and now we would be debating a number of different inconsistencies.

It would seem pretty obvious that Treebeard cannot be older than Tom Bombadil (who claims to remember "the first raindrop and the first acorn"). I would hardly consider this a "most noticeable inconsistency"

Short (prevalent) answer: Eagles would be extremely easy to spot over the skies of Mordor, and thus would be stopped before they got to Mount Doom. They were willing/able to pick up Frodo at the end because Sauron had already been defeated.

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Are you counting things like the Iraq war from the economic perspective?

Do you care to identify the 10% that you consider non-theater? Because I travel often, and I don't see it. There is, for example, not even a consistency with respect to how they do pat-down when you refuse the scanners. It really seems like they are making it up as they go along (or maybe it is city-based, I haven't compiled data). The only consistent thing they are taught to do is to check behind the ankle.

Pedantically offtopic, but do you mean Hara-kiri?

I agree with you, but looking at Manning is still a bad analogy. Manning was in the military and therefore went to a court-martial and was held at a military base before that.

Ah, but can the drivers license tell the police that you are predisposed to [serial murder, mental illness, being a sociopath]? Because there are certainly studies looking at whether genes can (http://www.nc-cm.org/article213.htm)