Are you a bad enough dude to innovate the President?

It's more pervasive than you would think. The foundation of discrimination and anti-intellectualism is social exclusion, and our culture encourages social exclusion as a punishment for nonconformity. Kids don't necessarily want to lock themselves away, otherwise lonely people wouldn't suffer from depression. Their peers deem them unfit to belong in the group, and they find a temporary fix with video games, porn, etc. It's a societal problem, and all of us have to do a bit of introspection to figure out how to change it.

Social exclusion is widely employed by American culture and is meant to be a punishment, but video games and porn, among other things, route around that. Authoritarians are now angry that the punishment no longer works.

So true. I never fully understood the vitriol aimed at illegal immigrants for precisely this reason. Europeans illegally emigrated to the Americas. legality =/= morality
Yes, European colonists treat the Americas like shit, but that should be debated within its own moral framework.

Well, if you want to be pedantic...
Atmospheric refraction can make the disc of the Sun visible even when the Sun is below the horizon. Thus, if a solar eclipse were visible just above the horizon at sunset (as it will be in some parts of North America), it would technically be visible at night.

Well, guess what? It's funded by taxpayers, so unless there's a damn good reason not to (and no, the circular reason of it being "top-secret" is not a good reason), it should be public domain. NASA is not a military entity, so that reasoning doesn't even apply.

Yes, life is unfair, as your sig indicates. Read further than that to see my reasoning behind good and bad laws.

Actually, yes. Contracting IT to the lowest bidder is a big problem with government data security. It really doesn't help that those who discover security vulnerabilities are severely punished for it, though.

Even if it just so happened that a god "jump-started" creation and left the universe alone after that, it is a proposition that lies outside the realm of science. Asserting it was created and left alone leaves science with no more knowledge than asserting otherwise.

It's impossible to prove the non-existence of god(s), pink unicorns, etc. The burden of proof lies with those asserting that God is real to, well, prove it.
Evolution has evidence. Creationism does not. Therefore, creationism should not be entertained in a science classroom except as an illustrative example of pseudoscience.

Stolen? NASA is a public entity, and its advances should rightly be part of the public domain.

Lots of things in life are unfair. The question is, will enforcement of a solution be more harmful to society than leaving things be? I can think of enough egregious abuses of the notion of "intellectual property" to err on the side of not giving up more of my freedoms.

Not many people think that. In the case of financial "identity theft", however, the banks try to cover their asses. It is often the shoddy security practices of banks (yay deregulation!) that allow massive overseas transfers to happen in the first place.

As flaming error mentioned above, the excesses of law enforcement suggest otherwise, and those abuses pale in comparison to military abuse overseas. If I had to guess, an Arab settlement full of people doesn't look much different from a U.S. city full of people when you're staring at them from a helicopter gunship.

The military won't have a problem steamrolling us. A few "bad apples" may ignore orders, sure, but the military has protocol in place to deal with them.