So the tl;dr version:

We are interventionists so we have to keep being interventionists, because.... derp.

What the f*** now?

Terrible.

School IS easy if you're actually taught that learning shit is FUN. Forcing kids to endure a full year of chemistry in high school is stupid.

Everyone once in a while you get a comment like this that reminds me why /. is useful.

Thank you sir.

So you're in favor of either committing him to a mental ward against his will (read Thomas Szasz), killing a 17 y/o kid for being a dick, or having him suffer life-long physical and emotional injury due to prison rape. When the victim here says he wants to give the kid a chance.

And you're the sane, socially acceptable guy here?

Yeah right. As if any program in this Federal government was seriously in danger of being defunded. They'd just go whine to a Congressional staffer who will get that nonsense squashed.

The headline should be "there's well over 2,000 Federal government agencies and we can't find any worth closing".

Not you.
Not me.
Not government, ffs.
Social pressure. If theirs is a culture that is completely retarded in that way, let them fall on their own.

When Netflix starts carrying HBO-owned content, let us all know.

When HBO Go content does not require a subscription to HBO on your cable/sat provider, let us all know.

In the meantime, having players ignore requests because they "must" show a fucking FBI warning is just plain stupid. Those who are going to make a copy do so, regardless of the warning.

Don't anthropomorphize the Earth, it really doesn't like it.

(And you sound like a dumbass)

Anyone else find it funny that some guy is touting the greatness of British cars?

My hand is up, by the way, because your higher prices hurt your own poor and poor folks in the rest of the world. But you probably don't care about the well-being of the slant-eyes.

...And it's one of the worst rulings the SC ever spewed. Aren't we lucky? Now even not participating in the market is participating in the market!

Hey man, hundreds of billions of fraud in Medicare doesn't count as waste!

Future combat vehicles, years behind schedule and answering to wars we will never fight are not wasteful!

(Yeah, that pretty much defied belief...)

Oliver thought eugenics was a great idea, too.

Time to stop invoking his one line that might have made the slightest bit of sense.

See, for the purposes of keeping profligate, idiot bureaucrats under control, tax competition is a Good Thing!

If countries lowered their tax rates and vastly simplified their reporting requirements, companies would no longer have the incentive to run around and find all the loopholes. It's proven.