By definition, this also means that you cannot buy unpasteurized milk... So in actuality, a ban on unpasteurized milk violates everyones freedom and not just the milk producers freedom.

It doesnt just ban the act of selling the product. It eliminates the market for the product.

Would you also consider a government ban on uncapped bandwidth no big deal? How about a government ban on birth control? A government ban on hard drives larger than 20 megabytes?

Here is an idea.. you should never ever ever have a say in shit that doesnt effect you, because otherwise people that dont need more than 20 megabytes of storage, never go over their monthly cap, and never get laid just may decide that its 'no big deal' that you arent allowed to buy certain products.

Well, if the logs to show that he didnt fully charge the battery.. then he didnt fully charge the battery.

Its far more than enough to support yourself.

$1000/mo rent (thats about the average, the median is quite a bit lower) $300/mo food (generous) $300/mo essential utilities (generous.)

$1600/month is $19200/year.

That leaves $32800/year of unspent money, about $2733/month of unspent funds.

Maybe your issue is that you consider big city expenses with several thousand dollar rents as normal, or that you think $300 isnt way more than enough to feed someone for a month.

I do call someone that has $700/week of extra money someone that is doing quite well. Of course, if they are irresponsible and take on a $100/mo phone contract, a $150/mo cable television contract, and $350/mo vehicle payment because they just had to have the latest model car, then fuck em.

Its not discretionary if its a future obligation. We arent talking about an emergency retirement here. We are talking about people we know will one day retire and they have been promised a retirement pension starting on that day. You don't get to call the funding of that pension discretionary.

The obvious conclusion of your argument is that one person working 40 hours should be able to afford a 30 room mansion because its a single mother with 25 children.

What makes you think NK wont turn into a US puppet state anyways, only now with nukes?

The primary problem is that too many people want to blame the lobbyists instead of the politicians.

Things have been framed as 'government vs corporations' by both government and corporations, because when people buy into that line of bullshit then they blame the corporations instead of the government, which results in nothing ever changing. The reality is that its 'government and corporations vs the people' and this is only possible because the politicians enable it.

I've got post-it notes on my desk older than this thing.

Still havent called mom.

2010, the OECD numbers for total government spending in the United States was $6.134 trillion dollars. The 2010 census reports 115 million households. Thats $53,043 per household.

Which 1st world country did you have in mind that spends more per household?

You don't know that to be true and are just saying it, because in your world making claims is more important than knowing what you are talking about.

You know how I know that you don't know its true? Because I, unlike you, didnt just decide to make shit the fuck up. I have looked at the numbers because they are public knowledge and shit... something you could have done yesterday, the day before, the day before that, the day before that, ... how many years of willful and deliberate ignorance backs your bullshit flapping of the mouth?

For your information, the Federal government accounts for less than half of the government spending done on your behalf. Diidn't fucking know that, did ya? Yet here you are talking about some fraction of the federal budget like its some sort of holy amount that is suppose to turn off the critical thinking of the people that listen to your dogmatic bullshit.

You are a useless American because you are a willfully ignorant shithead that acts like an authority when you know full well that you don't know what the fuck you are talking about. Thats right.. your ignorance makes me angry.. because fuck you for ruining the country.

Or you could indiscriminately fire 40+ rounds into a vehicle containing a 71 year old woman and her daughter without any warning at all, triggering otherwise rational people into considering a rampage.

Is that worse than ignoring the cost and focusing only on the measurable good of government programs?

Maybe we need to operate on his premise for a few decades instead of continuing to operate on yours.

(hint: In the United States, the governments spends more per household than the median income of households)

But if he is not part of the segment that pays more in taxes than the value they derive from them, then its a net win. Most of the people in this country fit this description, and either don't realize it or are self-motivated not to complain about the injustice they benefit from. I'm not talking about the poor here. The government (federal + state + local) spends more per household than the median household income (50% of the households couldn't even pay their fair share if they dedicated every penny of their income to it.)

Yes. they operated one of these early cash registers.

Note the distinct lack of a 3x3 grid of numbers 1 through 9, because these cash registers were mechanical not digital.

Indeed. The thing to keep in mind is that originally patents did not cover the stuff inside products but instead the methods of making products. The idea was that a company could get a time-limited exclusive right to use a specific manufacturing improvement (efficiency, etc) if they made that improvement public knowledge.

Its still optional, and in fact some companies specifically do not patent some of their manufacturing techniques in order to keep them a secret (so called "trade secrets") .. Intel is in fact one such company that purposely does not patent everything in order to keep some things secret. They patent enough of their techniques to block other companies from using the same process, but they dont actually confirm the precise methodology they use.