Right, and it was slowly, but intentionally made that way by those same people who have a distaste for capital punishment in any form, and the same people who have made forced labor of prisoners a human rights violation.

It’s not pointless. It is just worthless for many of its supposed purposes. It is not rehabilitative. It is not punitive. It is not a deterrent. What it does is remove the criminal from society for whatever duration he is locked up. As long as he is behind bars, he is not shooting potential carjack victims in…

Semi-Related: Telephone/Utility poles across the US are also uniquely numbered.

But by making me and millions of other Americans pay for other people’s insurance, it affects our Welfare, financially. Why should I have to pay for open heart surgery on a fat slob who does nothing but sit around all day eating fast food, smoking cigarettes, and not giving two seconds of thought to his personal…

Well to be fair, there’s nothing affordable about ACA. They should have called it the Take money from one guy and use it to pay some other guy’s bills while ensuring that the insurance companies get richer act.

Why is it the government’s responsibility to provide healthcare to people, what part of the constitution is that in again?

WD-40 is NOT a lubricant. When will people figure this out. Go buy some white lithium or silicone based spray nonsense if you want to lubricate something.

You don’t work in IT, do you? Network and Server guys are some of the smartest and most well educated guys around.

OK. Serious discussion on titles and labels. IMO, an IT guy, a keyboard jock, is not an engineer. He took computer language and programming classes in school. Likely no physics, no chemistry, no electrical engineering...none of the classes other engineers are required to take. Back in the day, they were called…

Sierra Nevada Pale Ale isn’t an IPA. It’s a pale ale.

Gimme a break. No one is against paying taxes, just against paying excessive taxes that keep creeping higher up every year. And deep down inside you know the government is really just wasting it, especially the more it gets.

I live in Seattle and our mayor is soaking homeowners as much as he can to pay for social services that are providing no obvious value to the city. In fact, he wants to raise another $250 million for homelessness, but he doesn’t have a plan for what to do with that money. Seattle voters will approve it, and the…

That’s fine when your taxes are $3,000 or less per year. But in NJ, property taxes average $9,000 with very few falling below that (in the rural, far-from-everything areas) and some places soaring to $25,000. You will never convince me that I’m getting $9,000 (and DEFINITELY not $25,000) worth of municipal services.…

The thing about comments like this is they assume that paying more in tax means you will get an abundance of ‘services’ and that they will be high quality.

This would still sell on AutoTrader for $35k.

It just seems absurd to think Apple would replace that entire ecosystem after just five years

Um no, a signal light does not give the driver the right to cut in, drive through or turn into anything.

Please tell me there aren’t many people around that need to be told that you can loop things through a loop?