Like in Vietnam where you stayed and supported the oppressive & fake government?

You do know that after the Soviets left Afghanistan the US supported the Taliban and not the other groups? Maybe the others were to 'communist'?
Same thing when you put a Bush Oil buddy in charge, who forced the tribes to force their people to vote for him. The agreement was, I will look away on your drug sales (with the token field burning, you know, have to keep the face) and for that I can give all the oil fields to my US and British oil company sponsors.
Iraq? See above.

On the back of every Dictator there must be a label: 'Install, topple, repeat'. Yet at the same time claiming to be the fighter for freedom.

Is it still denial when you get it wrong so many times and still think you can solve the worlds problems?

To your last point: Yes, if space is sparse you could just put in a stop sign.
OR, what I have considered seen often is a 'fake' roundabout that will use the topology of the streets around an intersection to reduce the load on the one intersection.

Also, you might just redirect traffic. Far to often, it is not the people driving straight or turning right that will cause a jam, it is people turning left.
What you could do is direct left turners off to a side road that will lead to a less congested part of the road where turning left can be easier. And at the same time removing the congestion at the intersection.

Maybe it would have been better to make one large multi-laned roundabout out of the southern one.
Often some of the roundabouts will have dedicated routes (or tunnels) that will bypass them if you only want to take the next exit anyway.

Here in Germany the roundabouts have also been quickly increasing and I personally like them, as they really do reduce traffic jams and allow quicker transit times.
Most of the jams I have seen usually happen at the lights when cars flood the intersection or on single lane roads where the obligatory person wants to turn left into a busy street. Any lorry that tried to do similar, as this was a strategic intersection between, would take forever and completely block the road. Also to mention it was a 5 way intersection and also prone to accidents (I personally got rear-ended once). People would often take to driving through the 'residents only' roads just to bypass it. After it was transformed to a roundabout, jams have become a thing of the past and it is no longer an intersection one should avoid.

Also if people have problem with single lane roundabouts, my hometown had a 3-ring roundabout, with the outer lane also being a 'tangent' lane where it would be interrupted because of heavily used routes. Any driving instructor and tester enjoyed sending their students through that sucker. It was often very chaotic and confusing. And the most interesting thing was, I had NEVER seen an accident there. Maybe because people did not force their rights 'do or die'-style?

One thing that should also be mentioned next do UHC is the unemployment insurance and poverty support, as well as employee protection laws which go hand in hand with each other. F.i. maternity leave before and after giving birth, state support for children. Also a total lack of the concept of 'sick days', if you are sick, you go to the doctors and they will write you off sick. For the first n-days (dunno exact time, could be around 6 months) the employee has to pay, after that the health insurance takes over, but then you only get a reduced income. During the first days you are also protected from most kind of contract terminations (i.e. getting fired).

You might become sick, but the government won't let you hit rock bottom and will protect you.

Not to mention it is a slippery slope down to rock bottom.
You get sick, you not only have to pay for the treatment, you might even lose your job.
After you lose your job, you have less money for treatment and other necessities.
Thus you become MORE sick and less likely to get a new job.
In the end you are on the street.

Not to mention that the medication is WAY to expensive, anywhere from 50% - 200% then outside of Germany.
Thanks to the Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Lobbies they basically dictate to the government what will be done.

FWIW I could do the private insurance thing but it does have major drawbacks. F.i. you have to pay for everything up front and then YOU have to get it back from your insurance. Also your family is NOT covered (it is in the public system, though let's not go into details) and (IIRC don't nail me on it) the parent with the most income MUST carry the children.

Not to mention the biggest drawback: The community paid into the public system and it covered me for most of my life, so I feel it is an obligation to do equal.
Dumb or not, that is just the way I am wired.

My body, my life, my choice!

Being a Buddhist I know what when my life is over, *I* will be forever gone. No heaven, no hell and I won't be smiling down at anyone. Sorry, no front row seats for me.
And while I do not look forward to that day, I accept it and cherish this life and hope to bring joy to others as well.
But when my time has come, they can take me apart and use every part of me as they (doctors) see fit.
I will no longer need this shell and happily donate it to (hopefully) allow others to live longer and possibly enjoy some of the highlights life can offer.

I honestly find it contradictory when those that claim to be 'pro life' only do so when it suits their needs. If you have the misfortune of being born in poverty and/or with some horrible health problems, well then that is somehow your own fault.
Guess when some God helps people, it is only for sporting events or lotteries ...

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
        George Orwell

Is the system possibly broken? We constantly hear of such actions, so It makes me wonder if this is 'unofficially supported' by the system?
If you know you can get by with stuff, you would tend to be more likely to do things, even if they were illegal.

Your chances of getting a slap on the wrist (aka 'lack of training' BS) or worse getting fired is slim because it is often the word of a cop (authority) vs that of a 'trouble maker' (public eye).

I agree. If you look at all the species you will see that if there was a creator, he either was not good or had a real bad sense of humor.
F.i. why give bats eyes, or why the fundamental flaw in the human throat where you can either breath or swallow?
There are cases like this in each and every animal out there.

Also the typical 'half an eye' example will come up, but if you look at the multitude of different types and development of eyes, it clearly shows

Now I am no biologist or anything, but I can see that there are imperfections in everything, and this leads me to believe in evolution (no one says it was perfect) rather in one superduper perfect god that seems to have gotten his 'education' the same way as George W Bush.
In fact it goes for any 'god'.

And if others will not or cannot critically evaluate everything and think on their own there is nothing you can do and trying is a waste of time.

I personally have no doubt that games can influence people, but just as many other things. To simply single out 'violent games' is a little to simple.
I have known all kinds of people from all kinds of backgrounds and with vastly different outcomes.
I'd say the environment you grow up with will affect you more then anything.

Also the black-white view of 'violent games' is crap as well. While we today are virtually gunning each other down, in my day we payed cops-and-robbers and used or fingers to 'shoot' each other
What is worse? Clicking a mouse or holding an imaginary gun and shooting at living people?
I'd say the latter.
But in the end, instead of a violent person, I came out quite the opposite.

Not just that, but can you imagine the amount of data you have to go through?
And if they are all in csv format? You would have to have a programm that can do it and if the public would find out about that, it would be stopped dead.

You do not need an app to do this. Even for regular telephone services your mobile needs to sync up with the masts in your area and thus they can track you.
Even without his emai app the phones will connect to the masts and create a connection. For us Euros, it is mostly visible when you come near the border and a foreign carrier sends you an SMS about their services.
Hell I even got one once in the Alps along the German / Austrian border of which I was about 30m away from.

I think what caught most players in the WoW trap was that they did not want their investments to be for nothing.
Think about it, they spent a lot of time any money on virtually nothing and if they quit, they will lose it.
The hype lured them in, by the time they had noticed it was 'rinse&repeat' gameplay, they had already invested so much time and money.
Then they went for the raids, hoping it will bring back the enthusiasm, but that wears off quickly and their last resorts are trying to get the super-duper-epic-drops.

I really loved GW1 and it was a great game and I will definitely stay true.
Not only the game itself really was fun and always a challenge, but the love for detail and the creativity really won my heart.
After lvl 20, it no longer became a question of grinding and what armor you had, it became about your skill with your specialized char and your team play.
The class, skill and specializations were phenomenal. You not only had to create a character, you had to 'learn' the character style, as each had their own flow.
And just when you think you had mastered them, you get whipped in the arena by a better team.
Plus the fact that you only had to buy the game and NO monthly subscription crap really helped it also.

From what I hear GW2 will also have no subscriptions.

I never said that. But that does seem to be YOUR position when it comes to most other countries.
Fact is, you would not dare piss off the wrong countries, so you only go after 'common enemies'.
You do shit elsewhere, but in this oil rich country with your on and off-again relationship to their dictator you know you go ahead.
And when all is over, the next puppet will be inserted and it is business as usual.

You did not give a shit in Egypt because if the rebellion failed, you wanted to keep your good connections.
Same with Yemen, Bahrain or Belarus.
Nah, let's not piss off the Oppressors that give us oil or allow us bases to attack other countries.

So maybe next time, why not support the rebellion in a country because they want democracy, and not just the next 'bad guy with oil you want to secure for your own companies'.