Not when voting favors big winners over third parties.

Once we get range voting (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_voting) then I'd agree with you.

Taxes are theft as well, doesn't mean that's okay.

As long as the government has a monopoly, legally nobody else can compete. Under a private system, at least the airlines can go wtf r u doin. Then they start their own security process, or hire some other company.

Dark matter always seemed like a convenient hand wave, but I'm thrilled if there's some concrete evidence of it. I do love being wrong!

Not going to address the free market bashing because that would end unproductively, but you should be aware that, at least in the USA, due to Lysander Spooner kicking the USPS' ass, they technically have a monopoly on delivering mail, and UPS, fedex etc only get by by paying USPS a rather large fee, and classify their services are specialty delivery services.

Supposedly it's too hard to program for multiple threads for AI, as it already supports offloading some features to alternate cores.

Dwarfs?! was different, It sounds similar, but if Dwarf fortress is a huge ocean of content with sunken treasure to discover, then Dwarfs?! is a crystal clear swimming pool. Both can be fun, but one is for exploration and creation and experimentation, while the other is fun for a half an hour at a time and you know exactly what you're getting in to.

They're all standardized in my opinion, and once you figure out how you use any one menu, they all work about the same.

The GUI is great. It's not accessible and not easy to read. It's perfect for what it represents, and I wouldn't play if it had a different interface. Just because it's hard to learn for new players doesn't mean it should be dumbed down.

The fact that it is a commodity specifically made to be a highly convenient, flexible, sound currency.

Or, if it makes more sense, the economy behind it. Which is growing rather rapidly, for the record.

USPS actually did a poorer job than Lysander Spooner's company, the American Letter Mail Company. ALMC provided better service to more people, for cheaper prices than the USPS. Then the government shut him down, and gave the USPS a monopoly. Thus there have been rising prices for over a century for mail.

UPS and Fedex and others don't break the monopoly because they can't - they're forced to pay whatever shipping cost the USPS would have charged the customer to USPS, and then add their own overhead on top of that.

Yes, that's how it works.

Awesome press release, if they don't even get the terminology right.

Even then, it's only New Jersey.