This however does not set one free from tort. The liability claims, regardless whether it's an employee on the job or a customer getting hurt on your premises or using your products, will most likely be paid out by the insurance or your company but if it can be proven that it was through your action or inaction, you can still be held accountable for it.

So can you find Area 51 or a number of 'secret' bases on US maps?

Well, THEN the Founding Fathers should be spinning in their graves. Heck, I think we can install a turbine on Jefferson's grave alone and get power for the entire northeast.

I find it kind of funny (and I find it kind of sad) that US-ians will go all 'free speech' on China while they themselves can barely get on public transportation without the US gov breaching several other aspects of their constitutional rights in some sort

Why? The constitution only regulates the US government. It doesn't regulate neither the Chinese government nor private entities inside or outside the US.

Scientific studies have shown the opposite though. People slowing down unnecessarily below average speeds is what causes traffic jams. Generally those that stand on the brakes the second someone in front taps off their cruise control with the brakes are the causes of the ripple effect.

Look at any section where lanes are reduced or split - people slow down (ok) but then there are those that slow down so much as to either fit in last minute that they slow down the entire side of the split that has less traffic or they always leave 2 18 wheelers of space between each other or practically come to a stop because of someone fitting themselves into that space (especially if they're on the phone).

a) You should definitely get a better ISP then. (I know the US sucks etc but it should be unacceptable that you have to pay more for simply pumping a few more bits on an unmetered medium)
b) If you've ever popped in a Blu-Ray film, you know that ain't true unless you're breaking the law. There are a number of previews, a number of unskippable notices that you're a criminal, sometimes you'll even need an update before all of that and THEN it starts. If you're breaking the DMCA (even with a legally owned disc), you circumvent all of those but that's illegal.
c) If *I* want to watch a movie on a plane, I bring my laptop... disks are too clunky and heavy. Media is available on non-disc formats these days (even legally).
d) If *I* want to loan a movie to a friend, I simply point his media center software to my shared disk.

There is currently no legal way to watch a movie in a convenient way (in the US), you, the consumer lost.

Several decades ago you would also not imagine any circumstances where Congress would hamper the government's ability to pay it's own workers (Government shutdowns), hamper it's ability to get and give credit (raising the debt ceiling), hamper laws that protect the equal rights of all it's citizens (recognizing non-traditional unions), create laws that take away a women's right to choose (anti-abortion legislation), create laws that hamper science education (considering creationism) in school or hamper laws against large companies effectively buying out both law enforcement (DMCA) and democratic elections (Citizens United).

Our government has been co-opted by religious zealots with the end goal of creating the Christian version of Sharia/feudal law where the rich and religious leaders have and maintain all the power (you keep them dumb, we'll keep them poor).

The problem with any of those countries (Afghanistan, Iraq, ...) and most countries in the Middle East, Asia and Africa is that they aren't a singular country. They may be in theory but in practice, Afghanistan is a collection of mountain-roaming war tribes, Iraq is a collection of separate ethnic groups and that is the case in most of those countries.

They kill each other off because they've done so for millennia, the Bible and Koran being some of the more well known histories/mythologies surrounding some of those wars. Going in to fight one of these tiny groups (and most groups are only a few 1000 in size) just pisses off the other groups because you're not "on their side".

Although the US military may be superior in fire power, I think the US military in such situation would be inferior due to bureaucracy and partisan politics. In Russia, there is no split Congress that would block such expenditure or anyone that would bother with politics and image, Putin is the boss and if you're a non-compliant member of the Kremlin, you'll be shipped off to Siberia.

That does not change the fact that politics is the #1 factor for all of the nobels. Someone could discover the cure for cancer, but if they are a known opponent of man made global whateveritscalledthisweek, there is NO chance they could win. And yes, IN THE PAST there are a few winners with some warts, BUT THAT WAS IN THE PAST. Sorry for the all caps, but I'm am good at anticipating the argument style of autistic spectrum people.

You act like every scientist is capable of winning the nobel. Even in science, there are those who fill the fry cook and janitor jobs. Besides, the nobel seems to have turned into a political award. Before you retort, please explain the substantive contributions to the world that won President-elect Obama his nobel peace prize.

Maybe linking to a page with an incredibly hard political viewpoint is a bad idea?

You can always tell who bases their opinion on science: they use science to back up their opinions.

Faux science folks like to use name calling and character assassination.

Nowadays scientific method consists of making sure that your "research" ends up hitting a prearranged target. Only this will keep the funding coming.

That's what you get when you make a science issue a political issue. Liberals, I'm looking at you.

Propaganda only works if you control access to opposing ideas. Thus since the left has *everything* invested in forcing global cooling/warming/change down everyone's throats, the only place you can get access to contrary ideas is on conservative sites.

If you compare the way *men of science* handle climate science with literally any other scientific idea, you'll see a massive difference in the conversation.

There is no conversation - because this is not about science. It's about damaging democracy and capitalism.

That's what you get when you politicize science. You get this.

You're not allowed to mention that here. Everyone knows that the scientific method is critical to the proper development of our world. So for you to bring up an idea that may confuse the masses is heretical. You might shake the faith of those weak-minded individuals who don't have kool-aid spewing from every orifice.

Remember that in science, extraordinary claims (like man made global cool .. I mean man made global warm . . I mean man made global climate change) require ordinary proof that cannot be challenged.

Also, you are safe espousing *any* idea as long as you say it is an consensus amongst scientists who only receive funding if their theories match the consensus. That is how science works.

Nowadays a scientist who shouts "eureka" has just discovered that their results closely match the demanded result. Thus the money train continues.