Almost all of them are after our rights, that's how they get and keep power. They just do it in different ways.

Well said and quite true. Entropy is absolutely the nature of government, Franklin said as much as he stepped out of the constitutional convention with the ink still wet...

I knew about the denatured alcohol, but not the additives to opiates.
It might be worth adding that making industrial alcohols poisonous is mostly for taxation.
For instance you can (with a supposedly easily obtained permit) make alcohol for fuel, but it must be made in-consumable, however if you use that to drive on public roads you still need to pay a tax on it.
Same old story... The "do gooders" insist on the rules and the bureaucrats, criminals and middle men capitalize on it.

The "stakes" are only as high as you make them. If someone has a foolproof method to cheat and make money, I can *guarantee* they are playing at higher limits than I play online. :) The cheating in this case was on tables where hundreds of thousands of dollars was being wagered.

Well said. If you ask me the biggest problem with deploying Linux in the work place is the "No one ever got fired for buying M$" line. Now that Linux is becoming more venerable, that thinking will and has become less popular. In fact these days, the mention of using Open Source in your IT infrastructure is sort of catch phrase. I was always certain Linux would do well in the server market, it just makes so much sense, as for the desktops... I think corporations really don't want their users doing anything more (gaming etc) than they can do with Linux for free, so once the emotional attachment to the windows GUI is recognized more, I suspect we will see a lot more linux desktops too, especially in the corporate world.