Wow, a thoughtful and well tempered reply. The internet is full of surprises today :)

Prologue: This is longer than I meant for it to be. But to be clear I am going to talk about economics. If you want a smaller government with less revenue and less spending, great. But understand that is a separate concern and issue from whether the US has “debt” or not.

Do you write for the Onion? The Federal Government isn’t perfect, but it isn’t even half as bad as your example.

To be fair, the definition of “waste” varies by person. Some people call any money spent helping the poor to be a “waste”. Some people consider poor people themselves a “Waste”.

But what do you mean by “enforcing” them? Do you mean that they reported the license plate, or do you mean that someone ran them into a ditch causing an unknown amount of bodily injury that may result in death for the driver and passengers?

I can argue against this statement all day long “Passing on a double is inherently dumb”. All I have to do is find ONE double line for which it is completely safe to pass on, and suddenly it’s no longer “dumb”. It may still be against the law, but breaking the law is also not inherently “dumb” or in some way…

Jason, Jason, Jason. We expect better from you than to fall victim to Betteridges Law of Headlines.

Not exclusive to Gawker (though they follow it a lot), and is in fact called Betteridges Law of Headlines.

Others have mentioned it can be driver or car dependent. I’ll add that it can also be wear-and-tear dependent. I track an E30, and thought I was immune to the mis-shift. The last two times on track I’ve found 5th gear difficult to get into. In the moment I assumed I was pushing it over too hard and went a little…

This isn’t as big a deal as a lot of things, but given that I am entirely self taught from the internet and no one with more knowledge has ever assisted me, I think it’s a pretty big deal.

Funny, other countries that have banned guns do not have a “much, much worse” problem, even though some of the criminals still have guns. Here is my source, which links to lots of other sources:

It should be noted that this is not true in all states. Some states have laws that say the employer must still pay minimum wage if the tips don’t add up to minimum wage. In other states (like WA) the employer has to pay at least minimum wage, regardless of tips.

I don’t know if you can say you want politicians with balls, right after saying that any politician that goes against the voting public will be voted out of office. But that’s the way a democracy works. If you get voted out of office because you did something unpopular with those that will vote for/against you, that’s…

While I’m not against routine testing (and better testing in general) what sort of test would eliminate people that follow tail lights at night? The best I can think of is test how well a person can perceive movement, but it’d be extremely difficult to provide a test environment that matched the real world in a…

I’m moderately disappointed this hasn’t been posted yet.

Is that of GDP or budget? I was pretty sure the US spends more than 3.5% of its budget of “defense”.

I think the idea is that it’s a wolf in sheeps clothing, and to suggest that the wolf stick a claw out of the disguise for “short range defense” is beside the point. The claw sticking out could only give the wolf away, and at the end of the day it’s a wolf, it doesn’t need to stick a claw out.

I don’t know about wine crops, but here in the PNW they use helicopters on the cherries if it rains. It’s only a concern in the last few weeks before harvest though. Apparently the cherries soak up the water and then split the skin.

I don’t know what the stereotypes are in Germany or other parts of the world, but here in the US you break a few of the local ones if you drive a BMW with your camo jacket on.

1. Doing things in a hurry. This inevitably leads to the thought “I should double check that” followed by “Nah, it’ll be fine”. If you ever have the “I should double check that” thought, you should take the time to triple check it. Your brain knows more than your conscious mind understands.