Actually, spending ("throwing") money is stimulus when the economy has a demand shortage. If nobody is buying anything, then nobody will have a job. So the government steps up and buys stuff. It almost doesn't matter WHAT they spend it on, as long as it gets spent. It's impossible for spent money to not stimulate the economy, because the economy is the sum of spending.

Now, let's quibble about how much to spend and how best to spend it.

It's not "whining" to resist change. All changes have a cost, measurable or not. Pretending they don't makes you look foolish.

I should learn to stop being amazed when people say "I don't understand it, so it (not me) must be stupid". Slashdot has really gone down hill in the last few years...

Oh, yeah, like anybody is going to follow a tinyurl link from /..

You guys just don't get it, do you? Well I'll spell it out for you: Toyota did this BECAUSE of the Streisand effect. They just got a lot of people to look at sexy pictures of their cars, and what did it cost them?

Some clever flunky at Toyota deserves a raise.

We in the US have no national ID (or "mark of the beast", as many would call it). So we can never be sure which of us are actually entitled to vote.

Our constitution, in its infinite wisdom, gives state legislatures control over elections. So uniformity is effectively prohibited.

But don't worry, eventually we'll get so FUBARed that Canada will stroll in and fix all that for us.

"Voting works only if you believe your vote gets counted accurately."

God, not this fallacy again! Why do so many otherwise intelligent people think that as long as their own personal ballot got counted then all is well? Don't they realize that 1000 fake voters in swing state X can mean that their own vote, whether counted or not, is moot?

Diebold doesn't eat "my" vote. Either it eats everybody's vote or nobody's. Either it steals the election or it doesn't.