It's outlawed because in practice most polygamous communities also end up abusing children and treating women like slaves.

Yeah, I'm not even American, thanks.

I just can't imagine a bigger disconnect than public school teachers and computer programming.

The government can't even produce a school system that can reliably teach kids how to read and write, after 100 years of trying. You really think they're going to have any kind of success teaching kids to program?

The really rich don't make money as income, they make it as dividends and other "special" income that gets taxed at a much lower rate.

It's not a lot of people at that level, though.

It is a reality that the top 20% of wage earners pay over 80% of income taxes.

Come on, CIA. It's only OK to snoop on the other 300 million Americans. Not those special protected royals .. err .. politicians.

The difference is that almost everyone recognizes that speed limits are stupid, and enforcement is random and arbitrary and never done on days when it might actually do some good, like when the weather is bad.

If cops are going to do stupid, annoying things, I have no trouble making their life harder.

Grenada, Panama, Gulf War 1, Afghanistan, Iraq.

You may not agree with them, or much like the results, but they were clear military victories. The inability to govern afterwards or install a stable friendly regime nothwithstandnig.

I installed Serviio on an existing Gentoo box, added a couple of packages (ffmpeg, etc), and it has worked fine with my Sony BlueRay player for a couple of years now with no problems. I don't really do playlists or anything, just navigating folders and watching a couple movies or shows at a time.

Over half the population doesn't work now. Which is at the core of our economic problems.

Most humans throughout history never experienced freedom. Ours has been on a steady decline since at least the early 20th century, and hugely so since the 70s.

Frankly, most people won't notice or care that the remnants are gone. They're happy being "safe" sheep. Their lives won't noticeably suck, because they won't know any different.

There is no way you can drive any distance or with any frequency without breaking the law.

As long as the execs live in the US, the company will do whatever .gov wants them to do.

http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol30_No2_KatesMauseronline.pdf

Or the land masses were in different places. Or ocean currents were different. Say, because the Isthmus of Panama was open, you know, like up until about 3 million years ago when the current series of glaciation periods started.

Comparing anything in geological history to the current period is far more complex than "it was warmer".

The anti-Harperites are generally not anti-government. They just want the NDP in charge.