I guess reality was just too difficult to ignore...

[khagler]

Well, I know that I wouldn't be happy about having my money stolen to pay for some guy's psoriasis treatment. But then, where I live the reality is that the money is still being stolen, only it's being used to slaughter hundreds of thousands of people on the other side of the world. In that context, the psoriasis treatment doesn't look so bad.

I was just looking at my W2 form (for people in other countries: an IRS form which shows how much money was stolen from your paycheck for the year), and compared it to ammo prices at ammoman.com (my favorite ammo source). In 2010 the money the U.S. Government stole from me would pay for just under 32,000 rounds of 5.56mm rifle ammo. The good news, though, is that Imperial Stormtroopers are such lousy shots that, on average, that probably wasn't enough to kill any rebels. The bad news, though, is that I've never seen any study on the average number of bullets fired to kill an innocent bystander when Stormtroopers get twitchy and blindly spray bullets in all directions.