Correct. Roads don't scale very well because the bigger you make them, the more people use them and so you end up where you started, except now your nice leafy suburbs are an angry sprawl of concrete, noise and pollution. For any city over a couple of million in population rail is the only solution that scales.

Because we're not at the end of the scheme yet? Come back in a decade and let me know how much value it has.

Because none of that would raise any suspicions with your family, friends, workmates or neighbours (if you had any). Your problem is that even though you have no social skills (ie a loner) the people in your community do, and part of those skills involve identifying strange behaviour in others.
Where do you live? Who do you pay rent to? Where do you buy your food? If you don't drive where do you buy your train/bus tickets? (all the transport and stations here have cameras), how do you research your masterplan with no phone or internet? You think the people at the library or internet cafe not going to think it strange when some androgynous weirdo comes in each day with different coloured hair doing google searches for home made bombs? How about the girl at the hair dye selling shop? It's a lot harder than you think to get "off the grid".

Well if you have the OS already and are given the choice of MSE for no extra cost, or most of every other solution which costs money, then yes, it is free.

But only if it doesn't hose your system in the process. MSE might not be the most water tight security app out there, but is hits a pretty nice sweet spot for 'good enough" security as well as "low enough" impact on performance. It's also free which makes it pretty hard to beat for a client based malware solution.

Or more likely, people will ignore them. I know this is Slashdot and we must have a Bitcoin story in here every day, but outside of here no-one I know talks about or even knows anything about Bitcoin. I know a little bit about it, and even I'm not going anywhere near it, what is going to change that makes regular Joe give up his known and easily understandable concept of cash for some magic complicated fairy dust that you need a math education to figure out if it's a scam or not?

If these 14000 pieces are lined up and dug in on the border, doesn't that make them a pretty easy target for a couple of thousand carpet bomb sorties? The US military might not have such a shining record at guerrilla style confrontations (Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam etc), but in an old fashioned big army v big army fight they have precisely the right arsenal to make very short work of you.

I'm not sure you realise how missile defence works (or doesn't as the case may be). It's 50:50 at best, not the sort of odds I'd be depending on to decide if I live or die.

He can say what he likes, but he has now escalated this to the action of pointing weapons at our friends. It won't be much safer for him if this continues as the US will be forced to act. This will be very interesting from a technology point of view. This time around it isn't nomads living in caves or peasants in the jungle, this is precisely the type of battle of those trillions of dollars of US Defence spending have been designed for. If it goes off it will be extremely quick and devastating for the NK. I just hope we get to see this one in HD.

I assume you're trying to make some association between Bush jnr's pre-emptive strike that had zero evidence and a possible Obama pre-emptive strike for which there is plenty of verifiable evidence? It's not the pre-emption to blame, it's the justification (which in the NK case is clear and present). If you want to see what less govt looks like, go live in Afghanistan. I hear it's working out real well for them right now...

You don't have to ban guns, just enact reasonable measure to ensure only appropriate guns are available for appropriate means. And you're right, it does sounds reasonable to people who value things like health, education and safety over some redneck fascination with a weapon.

Bullet control. You can print all the guns you like but what you going shoot out of them?

I can only assume you never tried to crack a coconut with your bare hands, I'd go so far as to say it is impossible. It's even quite difficult repeatedly smashing it on concrete, you generally need something sharp to crack the case and bare hands simply aren't up to the task. I doubt TFA claims too, coconuts can provide a challenge even for a machete, I highly doubt a rolled up magazine and cheap pointy trinkets would have any effect.

And really, if we're talking an organised holy war here, you simply bring 20 friends with you, each with small bottles of liquid explosives. 20 times a little bit equals one exploding plane.

Can you explain how you would execute this attack? Do you throw the alcohol on the victim then try to light it while avoiding being punched in the face? Or have you already lit it in a vessel you are holding while every bloke around you jumps on top of you and punches you in the head before you get the chance to throw it? I've seen a lot of fights in my time and this is the stupidest idea for a weapon I've ever heard of.