They don't trust their own people because large organizations, all large organizations, are run by control freaks.
Would you include the govt. as one of those large organizations? Kinda worrisome when you realize govt. tends to have a monopoly on force.

I heartily agree, I have a Galaxy Nexus that became almost useless with my car's handsfree when Google swapped the Bluez bluetooth stack for Broadcom's in 4.2, 4.3 didn't fix the problems and there's still a thread in code.google for the other Nexus phones using KitKat. CM10.1 and 10.2 work perfectly with my car making my phone useful again. I would also pay 30-50 bucks for that(not to mention there's an effort to port 4.4 to the GNex something Google refuses to do[Thanks, Texas Instruments]).

No. You wheels would've stopped turning sooner, but your car wouldn't have stopped. If you'd stood on the brake pedal with no ABS, you would've skidded further than it took you to stop with ABS. That's why ABS is there. The simple fact is, you were driving too fast for the conditions, and, on that slick snowy road, no braking system on earth could've gotten you to stop in less than 100 yards. You can't cheat physics.
So much is wrong in this. First, if the wheels had locked up the car would have become a snow plow and that creates a pile of snow in front of the wheels. Second, had he deployed a drag shoot he could have slowed the car down quicker as well. Additionally, depending on the vintage of the car and the quality of the traction control/ABS, a slick snowy road can make those systems lose their minds. Since it is an edge case, modern systems will have the driver of the vehicle adjust the ABS controls b/c the standard ABS response is the worst way to maintain control.

Yet our actual life expectancy is just 33rd.
To put that meme into perspective that's 79(multi way tie) vs 83(#1) if we got 1 more year we'd jump to 27th and 2 more years gets us to 17th. So b/c I'll miss one Olympiad, I'm not going to give up my freedom to the coercive paternalists who just can't wait to tell me how to live.

the 7,000 millionaires who paid no federal income taxes in 2011.
Could that be b/c they are idle rich sitting on trust funds that instead pay capital gains tax in lieu of the income tax? Perhaps they are people like Steve Jobs who pay themselves one dollar salaries such that they don't earn enough income to pay federal income taxes?

After all, between the US and China, the US is the one with a long history of invading sovereign states for no pressing reason except profit.
The people of Tibet and Vietnam would be to differ.

I don't want to change the size of government. I want the people to take back control of government.
Translation, I don't want to end tyranny, I want to change tyrants.

You mean the whole bit where the United States decided to embargo Japan instead of leaving them the fuck alone which prompted Japan to contemplate an attack on Pearl Harbor?
Wow, somebody really wasn't paying attention in History class when covering 1933-1941. Newsflash, the US didn't embargo Japan just to be dicks, they did it b/c the Empire of Japan had spent the previous years fucking up Manchuria.

France has free abortion on demand.
Up to 12 weeks, yes afterwards not so much, but hey just get your abortion facts from NARAL and you'll believe that only the US has any restrictions on abortions in the Western World.

On the other hand, a first step towards a global currency is surely a small step forwards in human social evolution.
Preach on Tovarish, the next small step forwards in human social evolution is to round up all the kulaks!

2: The American Government is not representative of the people, we've been Jerrymander'd and interest group'd to death.
It's spelled Gerrymander, fun fact why, b/c it's named after Elbridge Gerry and the salamander like district he drew in Mass. And to give you an idea of how long ago people were playing this game, he signed the Declaration of Independence. So remember kids, the next time somebody talks about Gerrymandering, recognize that shit's been going since the birth of the republic.

The Guardian is a hard-left medium that has proven itself to be anti-American over the decades. Your point being? Oh right, you think america should be given respect for free instead of earning it through deed like everyone else has to.
Seeing as the Graun is responsible for Operation Clark County, nobody should ever accuse them of good journalism, even a blind squirrel can find a nut.

The ACA actually lowers the deficit according to independent auditors. Let's not forget that when the GOP passed the initial rounds of tax cuts that led to this deficit, they promised that they would grow the economy and wouldn't increase the deficit. There was a gentleman's agreement that if the deficit got out of control, the tax cuts would expire. The reason we are here now is because the GOP reneged on that deal. This is totally their fault.
Yes, "lowers the deficit" assuming 2 important caveats, one you only do the math for the first ten years wherein you new collect taxes without spending any new money for the 1st four years. Second caveat, you totally ignore the "doc fix" that gets passed every fucking year and no one actually scores when they do their projections, garbage in, garbage out.

Really? My thoughts were of Lee Falk's "Time is Money."

(and if you try to do something you could even be sentenced as terrorist [topinfopost.com])
Yes, if you criminally trespass and think you are going to disarm nuclear weapons and believe the following "The truth will heal us and heal our planet, heal our diseases, which result from the disharmony of our planet caused by the worst weapons in the history of mankind, which should not exist." . You should be locked away for a very long time. Now if you wish to petition the govt for redress like a normal human being rather than sneak onto military bases you won't be treated like a terrorist.