Sounds good! I sent, maybe, two paper letters last year. I would be delighted to eliminate all junk mail from my mailbox for only $6.

No, I do not believe it. I believe that you just made it up. Do you have a citation? Because a Google search finds nothing except a law banning "aggressive begging" (blocking traffic, badgering or pursuing people, loitering next to ATMs, etc.).

To Tea Party Republicans, GWB was a Democrat.

Let's look at the facts:
Democrats: 205 in favor, 20 opposed
Republicans: 32 in favor, 150 opposed

Because people are more expensive than robots. So you want to use multiple robots in parallel to make the people more efficient. If you move the picker to the product, you maybe able to slightly speed up a serial process, but if you have a parallel flow of many products to a single picker, then the picker can focus only on the tasks that cannot yet be automated.

Who are you referring to as "them"? You seem to have a weird mental model of how taxes work, so could you please explain whose pocket the taxes would come from if not from employees, customers or shareholders?

If you ask someone advocating "critical thinking" what it actually means, you mostly get mumbling. If you ask people to give an example of what a "critical thinking" classroom lesson would entail, none of them will agree with the others. I heard one advocate insist that "critical thinking" meant teaching the scientific method, although the archetype of "critical thinking" is the Socratic method, which is pretty much the exact opposite of the scientific method.

Me too. Typing was the most useful thing I learned in high school.

My son is in 4th grade, and they are learning to type in school. They dumped cursive to free up time in the schedule. I haven't used cursive handwriting since I learned to type, so it may be time to toss it on the ash heap of history.

But of course, you are different, right? Relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/610.

You might want to actually read the first amendment. It does not say that states cannot establish and favor a particular church. It only says that congress cannot do so. At the time the states ratified the constitution, this clause meant what it said. Many states had official state sponsored churches. The last was disestablished in 1833 by Massachusetts. The Supreme Court did not apply the first amendment to the states until 1925.

XKCD ridicules the notion that dumb people reproduce more than smart people, and claims that it is "wrong". But is it? I cannot find any reference for birth-rate-by-IQ, but here is a reference for birth-rate-by-income that shows that women in households with income below $10K have nearly twice the birthrate of women in households with income above $75K. Income is not IQ, but they are highly correlated.

It isn't clear if the birthrate-by-income is corrected for age, so it could be skewed because the poor women are younger, while more of the rich women are past childbearing age.

The point of debate is usually not to persuade your opponent, but to persuade the audience.

They pay plenty of taxes, including payroll taxes, sales taxes, and taxes on dividends and capital gains paid by their shareholders. They only avoid income tax. But corporate income tax comes out of the pockets of some combination of their employees, customers, and shareholders. If you think employees should pay more, then raise payroll taxes. If you think customers should pay more, then raise sales taxes. If you think shareholders should pay more then raise taxes on dividends and capital gains. Any of those would make far more sense than continuing a poorly designed corporate income tax is easily avoided, collects little revenue, and pushes jobs and investment out of America.

So? The pools are a pretty good long term solution, if by "long term" you mean at least the next century or so, until future generations figure out a better place to store it, or more likely, an economic use for the "waste".

No it didn't. If you didn't pay in, you didn't benefit. Anyone already retired with SS was adopted didn't get squat.

Bitcoin may or may not be a good investment, but it certainly is not a Ponzi Scheme.

The article lists the biggest Ponzi Scheme in history as Social Security. Social Security may or may not be good public policy, but it is not a Ponzi Scheme either.