A lot of the updates in Europe were caused by government regulations. Especially with credit cards.

Europe isn't as anti-regulation as the US is. Powerful people everywhere fight these regulations because the regulations will will cost them money, but in the US, they have a strong backing from people who are just opposed to government regulation in general (Tea-party, libertarians, lees-moderate republicans).

Slow internet, high healthcare costs, and insecure credit cards are the price the US pays for being a country founded on the idea of throwing off the yoke of government.

Meanwhile in the US, they also removed the signature requirement (for small purchases), reducing mag stripe + signature down to just mag stripe.

So now, if you happen to find a debit card laying on the ground, you can spend all day (or however long it keeps working) buying gas and groceries at the self-serves.

Saying that IE is a serious browser (based on users) is like saying McDonald's has the world's best french fries (based on sales)*

*McDonald's did actually claim this at one time.

Stop using browser-specific code and it wouldn't be a problem.

I did the same thing (switched from Opera to FF+boatload of extension) and I STILL can't get the tabs to behave the way they normally did in the older versions of Opera

I didn't have a problem with Opera switching to chromium for the rendering engine, but they didn't have to adopt the "our way or the highway" mentality that Chrome has. When they got rid of opera:config (about:config) it was the last straw.

Firefox might be bloated and slow, but at least it's not trying to be a clone of Chrome like every other browser out there (including the "new" internet explorer)

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"During the anti-Soviet jihad Bin Laden and his fighters received American and Saudi funding. Some analysts believe Bin Laden himself had security training from the CIA. "

I wish I had some mod points for you

The constitution give US citizens free speech. Corporation are not US citizens (despite what the supreme court says)

If you are immortal, and can be in multiple distant geographic locations simultaneously, you are not even human, let alone a US citizen

Considering that Al Qaeda itself was a false-flag operation (Trained and armed by the US military, supposedly to fight the Russians) which lead to a massive budget increase for military and law enforcement, I wouldn't put it past the Secret Service to copy the same trick (on a smaller scale) now that they have seen how effective the technique is.

It depends on how commonplace the event is.

A few hundred years ago, if you saw someone jump from a great height you would assume they died on impact (even if you don't see the impact).

Now you see people jumping off cliffs all the time, and you just assume the backpack they are wearing is a parachute, and they will land safely.

Once teleportation becomes somewhat common (or atleast common knowledge) people will just assume that the person they saw getting vaporized is still alive in some distant location.

That was the point I was trying to get at. The shear number and complexity of laws means that laws get broken all the time without anyone even knowing it.

The only thing that has saved us from this problem so far is that it's not (currently) possible to enforce 100% of the laws 100% of the time.

Red light cameras made it possible to achieve 100% enforcement of only a single law, and look at the mess that created.

The fact that it's possible to make a profit from catching crimes (for governments and contractors) only makes the problem worse, because it provides an incentive to make it easier for people to accidentally break the law (by shortening the yellow lights for example), in order to extract more value from their investment.

Yes, that's exactly how the police see it: If you are black, you are automatically guilty and can be shot on the spot, if you are white, you are probably innocent

I don't know about Georgia, but in some states, if the cop who pulled you over ISN'T the the same cop that actually measured you speed, (one cop on an overpass, one cop on the road, for example) and only the ticket-writing cop shows up to court, you can get the ticket thrown out as hear-say

(Because the ticket-writing cop who showed up to court up isn't the person who actually measured your speed, he can't testify how fast you were going, he can only testify how fast he was TOLD that you were going.)

Every year, the ability for law enforcement to detect crimes and enforce laws gets better, but the laws themselves don't change.
Perfect enforcement of imperfect laws is a recipe for disaster.

The Islamist terrorist groups perform attacks in order to limit free speech, and in response, these counties help the terrorists along by limiting speech even further?

Who's side are these guys on anyway?