Can you please stop rewriting history in all of your posts? The historical parallel you stir are so stupid and wrong it is painful to read.

Somalia was a imperial kingdom, before intervention from european powers and the ensuing destabilization. Meanwhile your personal eden of invisible hand jerking in the us was supposedly responsible for a period of prosperity and growth, in europe, heavy handed centralized planning and rampant socialism lead to... unrivaled prosperity and growth, and the emergence of a strong middle class...
 

The modding is your problem. Appropriate software management can decuple battery life (or said otherwise, doing nonsense can drain a battery in a tenth of rated life).

Her behavior cost these 2 persons their legs. It might not be legal matter, for good reasons, but the moral responsibility is quite clear to me, and I won't cry for the loss of 200 bucks for this girl that was part of the loss of two legs. Please review your priorities when distributing empathy.

You have to go past your children tantrums, they never worked with Mom, they won't work with Slashdot...

Some are both. Yes, life is unfair.

If you have the occasion, go taste European coke. Corn is not as heavily subsidized there, but beet is. As a consequence, european Coke is made with real sugar, not HFCS. It taste significantly different, less sweet, lighter on the tongue, and more citrussy.

Coke taste changes with regions, time, and price of commodities, as the formula is far from invariant, especially when it comes to juicing one more dime a gallon by replacing something expensive with something cheap (or local to the target market, hence cheap).

Because without gvmt intervention, research stalls and the country flushes down the toilet bowl of past superpowers.

Should I remember you of Guatanamo ? There are been people, maybe innocent, maybe not, who knows they have never seen a judge, that have been abducted and detained for years, and subjected to torture.

I do not feel that insecure about living in the US, but it is also clear that the possibility of being mistaken for somebody else and suddenly taken to a torture prison is possible when visiting the US. That is a little scary, even if only a remote possibility. It is a possibility that does not exist when visiting France, Germany, or Switzerland. In that respect, yes, visiting the US is more akin to visiting Iran, where there is a low but real risk of being subjected to arbitrary treatments from the state.

Or a lunatic could cough at you with the flu and kill you. Stop the paranoia.