I love how the idea of reducing the size of the federal government is always compared to Somalia. Guess what? In addition to a federal government, most people are also under a state, county, and city/township government. Removing power from the federal government isn't going to result in bands of roving warlords and pirates. It would simply shift the balance of services provided from a bloated federal government back to the state & local level, where they belong and people have more opportunity to provide input.

Let's not forget about "Space Madness!" either. As soon as someone goes looney on the voyage, it's game over, man! Game over!

What are you, some sort of kook? That never happens!

Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) seems to have more tie-ins...

I think maker is probably a better term anyway, since people tend to associate hacker with computers/networks/software, and a lot of things makers create are more real-world physical objects. I know most of those objects involve computers & programming, but that is only a part of it. Tinker also works, but sounds more trivial than maker.

<sarcasm>Let's be reasonable. How else are we going to perpetuate the military-industrial complex if we don't give weapons to our eventual enemies?</sarcasm>

You may be one already and not even know it!

That does not address the original issue. Would you find it acceptable for someone to say "Maybe you should have taken a little responsibility and not spread your legs" to a woman? If not, why is it o.k. to say that to the guy?

I like how this issue is always 1-sided. It's a woman's choice if she wants to have an abortion, but the guy doesn't have a choice to not support the child if the woman wants to have it but he doesn't.

I wonder how many TV companies would shovel over billions for the rights to broadcast "The Real World"/"Survivor"/"Big Brother" Mars for long term funding.

Unlike current bad global governance, which isn't a threat at all...

The government isn't getting their cut, which means the pilot will soon be surrounded by men with guns. That's what makes them suddenly less safe.

That's good advice. In my interview at my current job, I told my boss during my interview "I don't know how to do everything, but I can figure out anything." Thus far I haven't had anything thrown at me that I can't handle, but there were a few instances where I had to do some research to be able to complete a task.