Because under the socialist Obama administration, there's no point to innovating and trying to increase your company's profits: the taxman is going to take it all.

Because under a Republican administration, there's no point to innovating and trying to increase your company's profits:

With infrastructure crumbling, education failing and the middle class fading the environment that fosters capitalist success is fading away. Better to start up in a country like Germany that creates an environment where it's worthwhile trying to innovate.

But the earth is only 6,000 years old?!?

An American congressman told me so, so it must be true.

I'm a huge James Bond fan. Usually the movies are released in the UK a week or two before North America. Still doesn't mean I'd watch a version filmed off the projection screen with a hand (or face) -held camera. Life's too short to watch crap like that.

Who in the smeg watches these 'handy-cammed' movies? The quality must be crap. If you have the time to watch this stuff, go get a Golden Retriever and spend the time walking him / her instead. The Golden'll be up for the walk, I guarantee it.

You decided to start WW I and WW II

How did some white kid working in a coal mine in Wales 'decide' to start WW 2?

"Unnecessary?"

Based on what science, exactly?

I'm 47. When I was a kid there was no pox vaccine - When my brother caught it he had the pox everywhere - Inside his mouth, on his tongue, genitals. He lay in a dark room crying for a week in pain, with terrible headaches, with my parents up at night with nothing they could do. Why on EARTH would you subject a kid to that, when with one jab you're protected?

That's child abuse.

Even with milder cases I have friends today who are still scarred from scratching from the terrible itching when they were kids.

The reasons are similar. It's based on fear and misinformation

No, it's based on facts. It's the anti-vaxxers who operate based on misinformation.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A Vancouver father is calling on parents to vaccinate their children for chickenpox after his son nearly died from the disease while his immune system was compromised during chemotherapy.

Jason Lawson's 10-year-old son Beckett has been in and out of hospital for most of his life for cancer treatment, but Lawson says one of the scariest moments came when the boy caught chickenpox from a classmate at school.

I think part of the animosity comes out of frustration. As the article states, having kids generates emotional and biochemical reactions in parents - You wind up deeply loving these fun crazy little maniacs. Loving what they do and what they say. Loving watching them grow and develop personalities and understand the world.

People with kids want to convey those feelings to the childless, but it's impossible - There's no means to convey those emotions, no language to explain it, there's no means for the childless to 'get it..'

Concrete example in my case: I loved my nieces and nephew, but didn't have this emotional response until I had my own kids.

So trying to explain what it's like is like trying to describe "blue" to a blind man - So it leads to frustration that manifests as animosity.

I certainly don't express it to my childless friends, but I'm sure others do...

Sorry, no; its used by a lot of people all the time.

Excluding wireless speakers, give me a few examples of how bluetooth is used in WiFi tablets (like the tablet in question) 'by a lot of people all the time.'

Why would they include it?

Agree that almost no one uses it, so no need to include it, but Bluetooth does make for an easy way to move files from one device to another.

Not unlike the IR ports on laptops a decade ago...

If you are not a criminal, present evidence to the police that you are not a criminal

Incorrect. Present nothing. Say nothing. Do not open your mouth. Stare into space. Daydream. Meticulously mentally design a house in your mind.

Repeat after me:

Silence

Silence

Silence

My washing machine repairman is awesome, you insensitive clod.

How about this deal? Let's ban all handguns and assault weapons in the USA. If, 20 years from now, the homicide rate been reduced you can have them all back.

Fair?

The services are fully funded by taxes

Where I live (Vancouver, Canada) the bus & metro fares amount for about 35% of the operating costs of the transit system. Only 2/3s comes from taxes - So no, the services are not 'fully funded by taxes.'

You can argue about suicides until you're blue in the face, but the facts remain: In the USA, more than any other western country, more kids shoot their siblings. More kids shoot themselves. More drunks shoot either other, widowing mothers and orphaning kids. More men shoot their wives. More criminals shoot 7-11 clerks, taxicab drivers and people in movie theatres. More cops shoot teenagers because the cops think their iPod is a gun.

The USA has said this is fine and this is the society they want to live in, but to the rest of us it is batshit crazy and we want no part of it. Handguns do not belong in a civilized society. Full stop.