The Democrats made lots of compromises, the biggest one being the public option. Can you name any that the Republicans made?

They're a little more interested in restricting legislative actions that might make Democrats look good.

The problem is people like you that are entirely inflexible. There are definitely flaws in ObamaCare - it's a huge bill - but most bills that size would have been updated and fixed a few times by congress. Unfortunately, there are some in congress that would rather not fix it, but just go back and start again.

It's been a few years now since ObamaCare's been passed, where are the better ideas? The only thing we've seen are minor things (e.g. malpractice reform) from Republicans that would do little to bring down costs and not insure more people.

Going back would likely cause insurance companies to raise rates again as they could use the excuse plus they wouldn't be restricted by how much money has to go towards health care any more.

Well given that the crime ratings were measured in incidents per 100,000 or 1,000 (which accounts for population growth), it's reasonable to compare to the gun ownership as a percentage as well.

But you're smart enough to go to the about:config page whereas Joe User isn't smart enough to find it in the normal preferences.

It may not be your problem, but it is Mozilla's problem if their users are having problems with the Internet being broken on their computers.

Realistically how often do you turn off JS that way anyways? I'm willing to bet Mozilla has stats showing it's about never. The people that would turn off JS use NoScript instead. It's not a bad move to remove features that no one uses from the main interface.

Probably the other searches weren't even taken into account. It seems more like the police asked about pressure cookers so the dad said "oh yeah I was searching for those the other day" and then mom remembers "oh I was searching for backpacks" then they put those together with the recent news about the NSA and hit the media with it.

It's actually worse than that. The problem is there isn't a puppeteer, it's just how the system of bureaucracy and government have evolved over the decades. If there was a puppeteer, it'd be easy.

You seem to be confusing things that sometimes happen in the US with things that always happen in the US.

1. I've seen a dui roadblock once in the US (another one in Canada). The officer asked a couple questions ("had I been drinking?" "no") then let me on my way. It's not like the Iraqi style checkpoints where the whole vehicle gets searched over.
2. That's a generalization. Some airports just have metal detectors. If you're flying on a private plane you won't see any of that. Pretty much the same in other countries.
3. That may be true for some police officers (the ones you see on youtube), but you're not going to read about the millions of friendly interactions that happen. I bet you could find similar bad apple officers in other countries.
4. There are very few cases of this. The Swartz case was terrible, there are others like it that shouldn't have happened either, but lots of countries prosecute computer crimes.

We do have problems with our drug laws and sentencing, but that doesn't make us a Police state like Syria.

As for an American freedom most countries don't have - out first amendment rights are a great example. Now I know you're going to say "OMG but Bush's freedom of speech zones and that time a police officer silenced someone!" but the reality is we have much more protection to say what we want than other countries in the world. Just look at the KKK and Nazi parades that are allowed.

You seem to think that there are all these perfect countries outside of the US, but failed to list a single one of them (aside from the ones with friendly police - Cuba, Laos, Columbia, and Malaysia). Is that because they're all imaginary or because you wouldn't want people to find similar counter examples for those countries?

I've bought a shower head in the past. It cost $25. Looking on amazon, there are even some in the $5 range! There are a few in the expensive range that cost hundreds of dollars, but those also include quite a bit of plumbing, polished chrome/brass, knobs, and are made of metal. Even those are over priced. It seems the "researchers" just want to amazon and clicked "sort price high to low" then picked the first results.

Did you tell them before it was delivered or when they walked in on you injecting it?

You're making the assumption that government spending is a bad thing. Massachusetts is doing much better economically than most other states while having top schools and infrastructure.

True, from the research side of things, but in terms of commercial software, Nuance (in Burlington) has bought up so many other companies that they're definitely the heavy hitter in the industry.

Just imagine how many lines of useless java code could be removed if it had implemented properties! No more of these pointless getValue(){return value;} that everyone in the java world seems to admire. if there's a part of your code that can be auto generated, there's a problem with the language.

Yet in cities with municipal utilities they citizens have much better service for much less money. It's the companies that have been pushing these agreements with municipalities to have monopolies, not the cities. It's too much cost to run separate lines for each company (not to mention the difficulty a smaller company would have.

Just look at the phone market where there are options available and very little preventing people from switching. You'd thing the free market would have brought the prices down, but instead I can often get my TV/phone/Internet at home for the same price as a phone plan.

Because their competitor got an upperhand and they feel the need to level it again. No one thought Apple and Samsung would unleash their patent arsenals on each other for the same reason

There hasn't been a Presidential alert, but it's part of the EBS system for cases like World War III or Alien invasions.