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First it: Warden. Second it: Warden. Third it: WoW.

Or Germany today. Or Russia today.

It's actually less prevalent in non-English languages-- some of them use the equivalent of 'American' for 'resident of the Americas' and a more specific word for 'resident of the United States'. That said, 'America' and 'American' in English have referred to the United States since before 1800 (see English sources on impressment of American sailors during the Napoleonic Wars), and anyone complaining about 'American' while speaking English is being pedantic or trying to score cheap anti-American karma.

Glad you brought that up. Debt/GDP is about where it was at the end of WWII. What differs now is the will to respond. That generation tightened their belts and raised taxes as high as in the 90% range for top tax brackets.

That generation also could cut government spending by 60%, since, y'know, they could just turn off the war economy they'd been under for the past four years. It's a lot harder to turn off entitlements.

The standard for probable cause in the case of a search warrant is significantly lower than the standard for conviction.

In less tongue-in-cheek form: easy tasks hard, hard tasks impossible, impossible tasks inexplicably found in top-level menus.

But three things a man wishes to do but once in his lifetime come as naturally as the morning sun. This is the tao of GIMP.

The German military surrendered, and the Allies dissolved the post-Hitler civil government and claimed absolute control over Germany via the Berlin Declaration. The West German government, an entity distinct from the post-Hitler civil government, operated under that justification until the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany and reunification shortly thereafter. No German government ever signed a peace treaty for the Second World War, but there aren't any German governmental entities that have a legitimate claim to 'wartime'.

More interestingly, intrade (where there's skin in the game) is sitting at ~60% unconstitutional. The market from TFA (where I don't believe there actually is any real skin in the game) is sitting at about 60% constitutional.

It's a good thing you posted AC. I'd hate for the mods to try the mental contortions required to call the individual mandate a tax on income, realize it's not possible, and blow your karma out of the water.

And let's head off the criticism that's no doubt coming:

Religious people are more generous than secular people with nonreligious causes as well as with religious ones. While 68 percent of the total population gives (and 51 percent volunteers) to nonreligious causes each year, religious people are 10 points more likely to give to these causes than secularists (71 percent to 61 percent) and 21 points more likely to volunteer (60 percent to 39 percent). For example, religious people are 7 points more likely than secularists to volunteer for neighborhood and civic groups, 20 points more likely to volunteer to help the poor or elderly, and 26 points more likely to volunteer for school or youth programs. It seems fair to say that religion engenders charity in general — including nonreligious charity.

Religious practice by itself is associated with $1,388 more given per year than we would expect to see from a secular person (with the same political views, income, education, age, race, and other characteristics), as well as with 6.5 more occasions of volunteering.

And the source.

The Verge reports that it's a feature of iTunes 10.6, which also released today.

It is also not a given that it is even possible.

I'm something of an optimist, but the history of humanity and technology suggests that, in the long run, "it's impossible" is the worst bet you can make.

People have been saying this for more than a century, and it still hasn't become true.