I can personally attest that going by that list the US does not meet the definition of a free country either. Surprise!

But the anthem still says "the land of the free and the home of the brave." More like the land of the we can't compete in this global economy against people who don't have EPA, OSHA, housing cost, healthcare costs, or even insurance, taxes, utility or car related costs, like car payments, car insurance, gasoline, and car repair. And welcome to this list is Obamacare! Now we're even better fit to compete, with even more standard costs dragging us down by raising our minimum wage sky high.

I wonder how long til we change anthems. A lot of countries regularly change anthems.

He wasn't accused of a crime, so the government didn't need to prove guilt. He was ordered in a divorce proceeding to provide the money he was shown to have, or prove he no longer has it. He refused to do either, so was held in contempt. He was "proven" to have committed the crime of not obeying the court. That was the only "crime" committed.

You know how to tell if someone is a spy, if you're a slashdotter, and she's trying to talk to you?

She's fucking hot, very smart, and loves adventure.

You are the one that's willfully obtuse. The government proved he had possession. He then deliberately hid it from the government, so the government can't "prove" anything past that point. That is sufficient to hold him in contempt for not providing the money known to exist, or proof it no longer exists.

He claimed he was defrauded. Then refused to file a fraud complaint against the person (or persons) who defrauded him. The inconsistent behavior and proof he had the money, but no indication of where it went after he deliberately hid it.

Yes. When "my life" is a 0.00000001% chance of a terrorist attack.

9/11 was "predicted". It just wasn't stopped. Also, the rules at the time allowed everything in that was allowed. There was no security breach. The rules were bad. This rule is bad.

So receipts are imaginary? He "spent" the money, and couldn't prove the positive that he spent the money.

You are asking the government to prove the negative. That he didn't spend the money.

Not here (not UK, but a commonwealth country). It's perjury to say you weren't driving when you were. The identification of the driver is a separate matter. You "swear" you weren't driving. You then must give the police a lead, or they will still hold you responsible.

The 5th Amendment exists because people were "asked" to testify, then, when the first charge didn't convict, try them for perjury on their testimony.

That, and beat a confession out of them.

Those were the main reasons for the 5th Amendment. Not to protect your computer files. You are required to hand those over (arguably in the format the prosecutor wants), so long as they get a valid warrant first. But that's a different Amendment.

Why would a woman need 4 dildos? She only has 3 holes to fill at the same time.

And I'm using cat 5 right now, as I'm typing this. Easiest way to defend against wireless hacking, just use a wire.

I wish I had my own basement.

Kids, let's all learn to respect each other and live in peace and harmony!

I my earlier posts I've said about how Moon mining is to be done, or at least started off small scale to get materials for larger scale buildings. It's sort of a response to a NASA challenge over a decade ago for lunar oxygen extraction from regolith, mainly anorthite (CaAlSiO4x), or JPL-1 simulant. The process is calcium thermite with just about any silicate dust, then calcium oxide electrolysis in one of 3 ways: 1. room temperature Castner Kellner cell to get calcium amalgam, but the amalgam stripping side lithium ion battery solvents to get metallic calcium. 2. Rhenium (or Iridium is more abundant) anode molten calcium fluoride/oxide electrolysis with calcium cathode under vacuum relative to the normal vapor pressure of calcium. 3. the usual CaCl2 electrolysis with gradually raised cathodes (else the Ca metal dissolves back), then burning the Cl2 to HCl with hydrogen, then reacting the HCL with CaO to get water and CaCl2, and electrolyze the water. The metallic alumino-silicon slag that gets left behind from the thermite reaction has to be high temperature vacuum extracted for Mg, Na, K, then the remainder Si, Al, Fe, Ti needs to get chlorinated and distilled to separate out the individual elements, including ultrapure silicon for solar, aluminum for mirror, and iron and titanium for structural components.

I think it was just the centrifugal force as the Moon goes round and round the Earth, it's like the Moon has hair, and it's flying outwards, on the outward side. (See if you can find what's wrong with this argument, in a gravitational field.)