Ahh, moded flamebait.

He's talking about the difficulty in disarming the population if we were invaded.
I'm just pointing out that the government has already been attempting to disarm the population.

Don't worry. Your government wants to take away your guns.

While I disagree with most of your statements what I want to know is why don't people get up in arms about Googles automatic scanning of emails to determine add content.

If you ever use gmail, or send mail to someone who uses gmail, the chances are that your email is already being scanned for key words.

Stop voting for them.

You make your wife sound like a pet or something.

Unions generally place money in your retirement fund directly, without you seeing the money. If you really believe Unions workers are accepting the 14 dollars an hour claimed by the UAW, you are insane.

It's not entirely GM's fault, but then again they did allow some crazy things to be negotiated into contract with the UAW.

Example: One of the benefits negotiated by the the United Auto Workers was the jobs bank program, under which laid-off members received 95 percent of their take-home pay and benefits.

Not to mention the $70+ an hour they get when you factor in benefits, according to the NY Times.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UAW

...I'm in a basement, in a lab, and there are no windows. Good times.

I chose "My workplace lacks such amenities"

Now Dune would be a good MMO universe, imo.
It could work a great starcraft type RTS as well.

You really believe our school system focuses on high quality athletes? That goes against the growing trend of obesity in our country (America).

Yes, and until that image of nerds/geeks is changed, we will continue to lag behind.

It's not "cool" to be smart, and so each generation grows up caring more about popularity than tackling the hard subjects and learning something worthwhile.

Far too many people cannot even function in society with the education they receive in high school, and we still give them diplomas.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/may/19/gps-close-to-breakdown

The system is too valuable to let fail, but with the current state of government spending I'm not sure this has gotten much attention.

...but the satellites that make up GPS are pretty outdated and falling apart. Unless someone forks over the money for new satellites we can say goodbye to GPS in a year or two.

I agree with you on some points. I think electronic books in general are a bad idea and I will never use them if I can help it. I spend enough time on a computer, I don't want to do my studying or reading for pleasure on one. Books are portable, can be written on for notes, can be saved and passed on to others. With e-books, your access is limited sometimes, so you cannot keep the text for reference later on. I can't see convenience and cost of e-books ever outweighing these factors.

Cheap, fast, reliable?

What about storage capacity?