MammothTank-#3-Make sure both controllers are plugged in properly before you start the game. You might have to jiggle them a little in the port, I sometimes have to.

#4- More specifically, it goes back (elegedly) to the French Revolution's Parliment, where the overly political delegates would sit clumped together, with the liberals usually taking the left side of the room, and the conservative ones the right. I also read it thearorized somewhere that it has to do with handednes- left-handed people tend to be more creative and sensitive (liberal traits) and right-handed people tend to be more analytical (conservative). So, pick whichever you like.

How come hot dogs come in packages of 16 but hot dog buns come in packages of 12?

So that you have to buy several of each to balance them out, probably. That's the Industry Greed answer.

'cuz some people prefer the sausages over the bread. More for greedy people.

4) Why are liberals referred to as "left-wing," and conservatives as "right-wing?"
-To be even more specific than others have been, following the French Revolution the more extreme reformers, The Jacobins, sat to the left in the Assembly. Those who were relatively moderate (Really, they were only the moderates by now because anyone more moderate than them had been removed), The Girondins, sat to the right. A better question, however, might be to ask why those to the left are now called "liberals" and those to the right "conservatives" when (1) in most Western Democracies there are no political parties which are not, in general, liberals and (2) Liberalism, as a policitical philosophy, can just as easily lead to a right wing economic theory as to a left wing one? The answer: it's easier for people to keep track of if you only think of these things in one dimension. What would a 2 dimensional depiction of political philosophies look like, you ask?
Maybe something like this:
http://www.politicalcompass.org/