If you really believed any of the bullshit you just spewed, you'd campaign actively against anti-spam filters. After all, nothing should ever be censored, right?

This a thousand times. Thunderbolt-connected expansion would be a fine solution in a rack, or a stack, or even side-by-side like books on a shelf. But a cylinder? No.

Form over function.

Well, professing your ignorance and parroting a disproved talking point on slashdot is one option if you don't know something. Or you could just fucking google it.

There's no evidence that any of this is illegal. THAT'S what's fucking scary about it.

Not a single teacher though, "Hey, there isn't a single logical situation where this could possibly add to the children's safety"?

And he can't help it if you don't bother backing up your statements. I see something about Minority Report, and nothing about any "gain" to be had.

The flaw in your logic is that you believe "freedom" and "voluntary association" is the same thing, and that they are absolute. Neither is true.

If I choose voluntarily to be locked up in prison, I lose any number of freedoms I had before. For example, I may no longer have the freedom to eat when I please, or go outside whenever I want to.

I have traded those freedoms in exchange for something else I want more -- to be in a prison.

Gasoline is much, much cheaper in the U.S. (yes, even in California) than the vast majority of the rest of the world -- I think that was the point.

I missed the part where Google Glass was handed out to every child in any given school and would then be impossible to turn off forever.

Google Glass ONLY records what you want it to record, and the information recorded that gets sent back to Google -- contrary to your assertion below -- can be entirely customized.

Michelle Bachmann's own staff is testifying against her about spending irregularities. Sharon Angle (from right here in the great state of Nevada) has already paid $25,000 in fines for spending her campaign funds illegally.

Those are the only 2 Tea Partiers I can name.

I'm a conservative who was once very hopeful that the Tea Party might help turn around the Republican Party (which is more about expanding the government and the debt than anything else). Then I went to a Tea Party rally, where I got to hear all about how it's the duty of all Americans to NOT pay taxes, and how the niggers are taking over.

So yeah, audit them. All of them.

The government permits cable monopolies, and therefore have a responsibility to ensure that those monopolies aren't abusive (yeah, they're doing a piss poor job of it).

The solution is trivial: End cable monopolies. In the '80s there were 3 cable companies in my area, competition was fierce, and prices and service were great. Today there is a single cable company, and they are a disaster.

If the John McCain of 2000 had rerun in 2008, he would have won easily.

Instead the New & Improved John McCain embraced all the things that even Republicans hated about Bush, refusing to address the massive spending spree or the vast expansion of government size and authority overseen by Bush and the Republican Congress from 2000 to 2006.

And then he chose a moron as a running mate.

Facts are off the table.

I've never had any problem with any of them. I can also use both a Phillips and a flat-head screwdriver.