Dont know about you, but I'd rather the government sends me a cheque for the amount they weren't meant to take (seeing as tax contributions by pay period in Australia are controlled by your employer's accounting system, not the govt, its the market doing it). But seriously, in June would you rather get a cheque or a bill. If you opt for a bill, I suggest you seek mental help.

I think only 44 people caring about not getting ripped by health care companies constitutes mass stupidity.

Tell that to my Casio, I'll let you know when it's 88:88.

As for people like Rush Limbaugh (however you spell it) we non-Americans that have working news sources which are actually reliable, factual on the odd occasions where they are wrong, will issue corrections laugh heartily at Americans who think anything he says is remotely factual.

If Fox news had to issue corrections for every time it published an inaccuracy, they'd have to set up an entirely new channel just for issuing corrections.

Airlines tell you to never check anything valuable or fragile.

If you need any more convincing, just talk to a baggage handler :).

But seriously, I've used WiFi on two airlines, on QANTAS it was barely usable but the number of page timeouts were so frustrating I ended up watching videos. On Southwest it was utterly useless, not even a single page loaded. JetBlue will be the same or worse.

I can see the immigration applications.

Question 8:
How many bairns have ye got:
Lads(_) Lasses(_)

Question 35:
Are ye a big jessie: Aye(_) go to question 35b Noo (_)

Question 35b
Can ye no play fooootbul very well: Aye(_) go to question 35c Noo (_)

Question 36c
Ach, what the fook is wrong with ye, ye big fookin jessie: _____________________

Because you want to pay $3 to deliver a letter, just wait until they figure out they can charge you a $0.50 receiving fee at the same time.

Decent played more like a flight sim than first person shooter. If you want proper 3D FPS's in the early 90's then look at System Shock (94) which had allowed the user to aim up and down (and you'll have fun with it as the interface was so primitive it was barbaric, especially by the time Half Life rolled around but in 1994, it was ground breaking).

Great,

Now Dopey Doris will come to a screaming halt in 80 KPH traffic to play with the air con or radio.

It's better to fix the actual UI, physical buttons worked for decades and touch screens are not practical replacements.

These aren't the kinds of things people are complaining about. There is no difference (IMHO) between a speedo on the dash and a speedo projected on the windscreen. I drove a 2013 Camaro (rental car, so no fancy projectors for me) and I liked the digital speedo readout between the dials (especially since the steering wheel blocked half the dial, but that's GM's design team for ya). But in the end, its the same device with the same function, just different ways of displaying it (I do agree with you BTW, HUDs are awesome).

What people are complaining about are things that detract from common sense. Blindspot sensors coddle incompetent drivers into not checking their blind sport (and subsequently crashing into you because the warning buzzer was ignored), lane assist, brake assist all make drivers lazier and more complacent. These kinds of warning buzzers are what they are talking about, it becomes more important for an incompetent driver to find out why their car is beeping than actually watching the road and there are buzzers for a lot of things, seatbelt warnings, lane warnings, distance warnings, cup holder open warnings, perceived fatigue warnings... each one has a buzzer that drives the driver to distraction.

Its the same with reversing cameras, there was a camera on that Camaro I hired. It was nice but didn't stop me from doing a head check because people and cars come from the side as well as directly behind me. However I'm the exception here, I see more and more drivers with their eyes glued to the screen in the console as they back out completely ignoring the objects not directly behind them... The last one who did this to me as I was walking through a car park received my boot to rear quarter panel (and looked at me as if to say "what was that for") and that was last Thursday.

TL;DR version

We now have smart cars and dumb drivers.

I dream of a motorcyclist who doesn't ride in my blindspot.

I check my mirrors and blindspots religiously, but even a Harley can disappear behind my B pillar (I drive a coupe, which has a much smaller blind spot than most cars).

No, they only take you to the gold shop owned by their brother.

What if he likes more than one type of tea?

It would be counter intuitive if the program didn't allow for options.

Only religious people think Dawkins is a preacher or a saint. You'll find Atheists that disagree with him and you'll find he'll happily debate with them.

You cant do that to a Christian preacher.

Further more, there is no code nor dogma. A lot of theists who dont understand what atheism is try to ascribe these things to atheism but only demonstrate their own ignorance. You cant really blame atheists from getting upset here, they're a diverse group of people with no common beliefs and you're trying to shoehorn them into a box that doesn't fit because someone who is atheist does not fit your world views. It's like if I were to say that all theists were kitten eating Hitler worshippers because I know this one guy who believes in god and who may or may not have eaten a kitten and has a picture that looks a bit like Hitler if I squinted at it.

But I wouldn't say that because I know how ridiculous it sounds and oddly enough, it's more sensible than your argument. That is the kind of wisdom that reason gives me, not a blind belief in a greater power but the ability to figure things out for myself.

I daresay that there are times when Atheism is just as much of a religion as

No, Religion is a belief, atheism is the lack of belief. To use the old example, to say atheism is a religion is to say that not collecting stamps is a hobby.

Atheism describes a lack or absence of theism. this is a very large area that covers everyone from non-religious to Buddhists and leVeyan Satanists. The only thing in common is that they dont believe in god but have radically different philosophies.

Right, you've just demonstrated your ignorance about the Soviet Union.

Aside from the fact Christianity flourished under the Soviets (opium of the masses is quite useful when the masses are starving) whilst other religious groups were forced out (the odd pogrom), the kind of "atheism" they tried to install was only atheism in name. They replaced blind obedience to god with blind obedience to Marx which was essentially embodied by the state, it was atheism as in "there is no god" it was not atheism as in "no religion".

Lots of people like to create a false equivalency between the Soviets and Atheism, without actually understanding either of them.