FYI. 2 seconds is the legal and advertised safe gap for dry conditions in some countries, followed by a 4 second gap in wet conditions. New Zealand (where I live) is one such country.

All valid points.

However:

> You brush your teeth every morning and night, why not check your account at the same time.

Do you want to clean toothpaste out of your keyboard morning and night?

But then you'd miss out on all the fun of mining it out of the Earth...

Many small aircraft get as good, if not better, than many SUVs and at 2-3 times the speed while carrying one to four people and a small amount of luggage.

And comparing an auto from the edge of the bell curve is useful how? (Doubly so when the aircraft compared to has a fraction of the capacity and capability.)

Just like copyright. Oh, wait....

I thought you were trying to claim that I was not honest about wanting a civilized discussion. Yet who reaches first for an insult?

And if you could be so kind as to return to the topic of discussion, could you answer my earlier question? I will restate it here in case you have forgotten it:

After revoking the currently standing states' rights to approve insurance policies for their citizens, who would you like to see have the right to approve policies for sale across arbitrary numbers of states? Would it be:

• The federal government
• Nobody at all
• The companies selling the policies

Or someone else entirely?

Just wait until China's government develops a fantastic new infrastructure (China's government is much less inept than our own, and very interested in tracking dissidents), and then gets other friendly governments (like the USA's) to join them in implementing it.

Is this not the case in Norway?

In the UK the NHS covers the cost of an eye examination and "basic" glasses if you're a child, in full time education, unemployed, disabled etc. If you want to spend more, you can still put the NHS money towards the nicer glasses.

(For employed people it's not really a problem, as an eye test plus the basic glasses is about £40.)

To an extent, yes. However, the key differentiation is that anything on the internet is more accessible - sooner, to a much more wide audience. Most newspapers have microfilm archives available at your local library, so long term archiving is not a factor.

Yes. And have done so in the past. Mainly because it was causing issues with their own Wifi as well.