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Remember that the internet was invented for the specific military purpose of withstanding a nuclear war.

[citation needed]

chemistry fail AC.

Try again after you learn the differences between compounds, molecular elemental quantities, mixtures, solutions, and coloids.

The perchlorate ion is a covalently bound molecule of oxygen, chlorine, and hydrogen. It is therefor a compound. It forms ionic associations with metals, and decomposes organic compounds via oxidation reactions.

*raspberry*

Not always true, you are making a huge assumption which anyone with knowledge knows is a false statement as given. Many apps will work sure, but not all of them. MS does care about backward compatibility, but it's not always possible. Maybe for games and such things will work, but higher end applications (generally with much higher price tags) will need to be re-purchased.

Compared to any other consumer operating system Microsoft wins with backwards compatibility, it is not absolute (nothing is) but Microsoft bends over backwards to support a massive library of software, especially compared to Apple. Are there edge cases? Absolutely, but that says more about the application developers than Microsoft.

Maybe for games and such things will work, but higher end applications (generally with much higher price tags) will need to be re-purchased.

You are making a huge assumption which anyone with knowledge knows is a false statement as given. You're claiming, as a fact, that you will need to rebuy it. Cinema 4D serial works for both platforms, invalidating your claim that you will need to rebuy it. Adobe will let you "cross grade" between platforms. AutoDesk does the same thing. Those are very popular software suites and these examples are in stark contrast to your claims, who is making the (arguably) sweeping statements?

The first point you mention is false. It took years for Apple to switch from PPC to X86. Portability of applications and making sure things work was the premier reason for the timing. You are trying to make it sound like Apple with just swap architectures without a care, which is a complete fabrication.

No where did I mention the speed of the transition, you inferred something which wasn't written. The fact remains that they've hopped architectures, if you've software written for the other architecture you are unable to use that, especially considering support for Rosetta has been removed. Legacy software support (and harware) is not one of Apple's strengths.

Even changing their architecture, how would that change their OS?

For one the way binaries are compiled, when a compiler generates code it does so with a particular architecture in mind. Are you able to run 6502 applications on a PPC (without an emulator!)? I'm sure other things will change, like how the scheduler works (sure the end result is similar but the nitty gritty will change) and other low level nuances. How memory is addressed is another concern (64 > 32) so there is that as well. For a more popular example look at the hoops developers jump through for supporting games written for various platforms like PS2, Xbox, Gamecube.

You are assuming 2 massive changes simultaneously, which again is a complete fabrication and FUD.

My intent wasn't to imply these happening at the same time, just that they can happen. You're looking into something I didn't write, if I had intended that perhaps I would've written "and" or used the world simultaneously. Ever think of that?

And if you want to bitch about not being able to run your IOS for PPC apps on IOS for X86, make sure you bitch about not being able to run Windows for DEC on your Windows for X86.

What the users of 10.8 are noticing is features are being removed and what is being added is more iOS like. No where did I claim I wasn't able to run iOS apps, I linked an article highlighting some valid grumblings. I'm not 'bitching', the only one here doing that is you with respect to your last line. Perhaps my posting history will illuminate my position about OS X/Windows/FreeBSD, why would I be concerned about something which doesn't affect me? Do you worry about supporting platforms your company doesn't

Ask any vet or serving US military member about innocent until proven guilty, it is the opposite especially in non-judicial punishment (Article 15).

What part of Article 15 allows someone to be held for two years without trial?

Under the Military Code of Justice you are NOT innocent until proven guilty.

UCMJ Article 51(c) reads in part:

(c) Before a vote is taken of the findings, the military judge or the president of a court-martial without a military judge shall, in the presence of the accused and counsel, instruct the members of the court as to the elements of the offense and charge them--

        (1) that the accused must be presumed to be innocent until his guilt is established by legal and competent evidence beyond reasonable doubt;

Then why can I trade on the London Stock Exchange? It is not a US regulated market. Is it that we consider UK regulated markets as US regulated markets?

First, the CFTC only regulates derivatives trading, which does not include any stock market. The SEC regulates US stock markets; I don't know any European regulatory organizations off the top of my head. Presumably your LSE trading is authorized by some agreement between the SEC and the EU regulators. Second, if you want to trade derivatives in the EU as a US citizen you are limited to CFTC-approved contracts.

It is still bloated, and it does still bluescreen. It's just that the "bluescreen" now reboots automatically instead of giving you useless error information, so it's an "improvement" of sorts.

Umm... yes, that's the default behavior. You do know you can disable the automatic reboot, right? If not, educate yourself.

Mod parent way up.

CSS3 prefixes are something that's added to a CSS property if support for the final standard isn't complete, so you end up with things like

border-radius: 15px;
-moz-border-radius: 15px;
-ms-border-radius: 15px;
-o-border-radius: 15px;
-webkit-border-radius: 15px;

Vendor prefixes are something that's done by every vendor for testing. That includes Microsoft. Here's a page from MSDN with a Microsoft representative explaining that:

As you may know, all browsers have a set of CSS features that are either considered a vendor extension (e.g. -ms-interpolation-mode), are partial implementations of properties that are fully defined in the CSS specifications, or are implementation of properties that exist in the CSS specifications, but aren’t completely defined. According to the CSS 2.1 Specification, any of the properties that fall under the categories listed previously must have a vendor specific prefix, such as '-ms-' for Microsoft, '-moz-' for Mozilla, '-o-' for Opera, and so on.

As part of our plan to reach full CSS 2.1 compliance with Internet Explorer 8, we have decided to place all properties that fulfill one of the following conditions behind the '-ms-' prefix:

If the property is a Microsoft extension (not defined in a CSS specification/module)
If the property is part of a CSS specification or module that hasn’t received Candidate Recommendation status from the W3C
If the property is a partial implementation of a property that is defined in a CSS specification or module
This change applies to the following properties, and therefore they should all be prefixed with '-ms-' when writing pages for Internet Explorer 8 (please note that if Internet Explorer 8 users are viewing your site in Compatibility View, they will see your page exactly as it would have been rendered in Internet Explorer 7, and in that case the prefix is neither needed nor acknowledged by the parser):

If a site designer doesn't code things correctly by also including the CSS property *without* vendor-specific prefixes that's a problem with the quality of the site designer and not with Safari.

An éclaire like that was a childhood indulgence :-D. I generally had to share one with my sister (not unreasonable, really).

I'm not sure how much they cost here. A crap one from a supermarket is $0.50 (that's still using real cream though). Probably $2-3, but a luxury bakery will sell them for double that.

The mass-produced what-sell-by-date? thing is still available, e.g. http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=254948221 (on http://www.cadburycakes.co.uk/range/cadbury-mini-rolls/ "THESE CAKES DO NOT CONTAIN DAIRY CREAM". Also I note that the serving is one roll, 27g, and the serving for a Ho-Ho is three rolls, 85g! http://caloriecount.about.com/calories-hostess-ho-hos-i113324 )

We have to depend on inferior foreign imports..

We know it can happen. Rome fell, Greece fell, Angkor Wat fell, Easter Island collapsed. Societies die just like we do.

It would be a shame to lose all of the knowledge, art, and literature that we have accumulated during our tenure so far.

Scanning books is a good way to archive much of that information for the next society that can develop digital computing. I suggest we enshrine it all in orbit or on the moon, guaranteeing it relative immortality and making it accessible only to those technologically advanced enough to benefit from it.

For all we know, the ancient Khmer civilization at Ankgor Wat invented advanced technology, and it's just lost merely to time.

We owe it to future generations to make sure our society does not lose as much when it collapses.

http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/religion/blgrk_aphrodite02.htm

And this woman would be in the lowest 20-25% of BMI in the USA today, even of her age group.

What do ethics have to do with this case? The guy was the director of the CIA. His marriage vows aren't relevant. I don't care about his marital status or how many women he sleeps with who aren't his wife.

If any of it happened while he was still employed by the Army, then he very much did break some laws, per USMJ Article 134, paragraph 62

Not to mention, considering the amount of authority these guys have (Patraeus and Allen), I'm sure there are a few 'classified access' questions the FBI will have for them as well.

Dear Red States:

We're ticked off at the way you've treated California and we've decided we're leaving.

We intend to form our own country and we're taking the other Blue States with us.

In case you aren't aware that includes Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and all the Northeast.

We believe this split will be beneficial to the nation and especially to the people of the new country of New California.

To sum up briefly:

You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states.

We get stem cell research and the best beaches.

We get Elliot Spitzer. You get Ken Lay.

We get the Statue of Liberty. You get OpryLand.

We get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom.

We get Harvard. You get Ole' Miss.

We get 85 percent of America's venture capital and entrepreneurs. You get Alabama.

We get two-thirds of the tax revenue. You get to make the red states pay their fair share.

Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22 percent lower than the Christian Coalition's we get a bunch of happy families. You get a bunch of single moms.

Please be aware that Nuevo California will be pro choice and anti war and we're going to want all our citizens back from Iraq at once. If you need people to fight ask your evangelicals. They have kids they're apparently willing to send to their deaths for no purpose and they don't care if you don't show pictures of their children's caskets coming home.

We wish you success in Iraq and hope that the WMDs turn up but we're not willing to spend our resources in Bush's Quagmire.

With the Blue States in hand we will have firm control of 80% of the country's fresh water, more than 90% of the pineapple and lettuce, 92% of the nation's fresh fruit, 95% of America's quality wines (you can serve French wines at state dinners) 90% of all cheese, 90 percent of the high tech industry, most of the US low sulfur coal, all living redwoods, sequoias and condors, all the Ivy and Seven

Sister schools plus Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Cal Tech and MIT.

With the Red States you will have to cope with 88% of all obese Americans and their projected health care costs, 92% of all US mosquitoes, nearly 100% of the tornadoes, 90% of the hurricanes, 99% of all Southern Baptists, virtually 100% of all televangelists, Rush

Limbaugh, Bob Jones University, Clemson and the University of Georgia.

We get Hollywood and Yosemite, thank you.

38% of those in the Red states believe Jonah was actually swallowed by a whale, 62% believe life is sacred unless we're discussing the death penalty or gun laws, 44% say that evolution is only a theory, 53% that Saddam was involved in 9/11 and 61% of you crazy bastards believe you are people with higher morals then we lefties.

We're taking the good pot too. You can have that dirt weed they grow in Mexico.



from: http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/jokes/bljokedearredstates.htm

A shark with a supercharger?

There ya go.

What? No laser?

A shark with a supercharger?

There ya go.

I wonder...

Billions in Hidden Riches for Family of Chinese Leader Wen Jiabao

Tibetan Protests Erupt in Western China

The Communist Government of China Massacres Thousands at Tiananmen Square

So said our old friend Joe Stalin.

"You know, comrades," says Stalin, "that I think in regard to this: I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this — who will count the votes, and how."

(source)

:-P

And what's with all the capitals in the headlines?

That's correct.

People are taught that central banks are necessary to manage money supplies (even though the US boomed through the entire 19th century, most of which didn't have a central bank.

The US went bust in 1819, 1837, 1857, 1873 and 1893.

The Great Depression of the 1930s was called "great" for a reason. It followed a long series of depressions which afflicted the American economy throughout the 19th century.

Crop failures, drops in cotton prices, reckless railroad speculation, and sudden plunges in the stock market all came together at various times to send the growing American economy into chaos. The effects were often brutal, with millions of Americans losing jobs, farmers being forced off their land, and railroads, banks, and other businesses going under for good.

In early May 1893 the New York stock market dropped sharply, and in late June panic selling caused the stock market to crash.
A severe credit crisis resulted, and more than 16,000 businesses had failed by the end of 1893. Included in the failed businesses were 156 railroads and nearly 500 banks.
Unemployment spread until one in six American men lost their jobs.

Financial Panics of the 19th Century: Severe Economic Depressions Occurred Periodically

That's not switching the job description, I'm pretty sure you sign up to be in the Air Force, I'm pretty sure they won't promise you'll be a pilot or a sniper before you sign up (maybe that it's a possibility).

Fine, disregard my Air Force example, but what about my Reservists example?

That's like signing up to work at best buy and then saying they duped you when you don't become manager.

This is true enough, may be not about Best Buy, I don't actually know that many people who dream of becoming Best Buy managers, but this does happen in other professions. For instance, in law firms, the carrot of becoming a partner usually gets bandied about for seven years, even if they know from the start that you'll never make the cut.

And this is different from the military, because the military is not some law firm you can join one day, and then quit the next as their lies get revealed to you. If you ever join the Reserves, they'll own you from that point forward. It doesn't matter if you fulfilled your contract, and retired from the military. Current events have shown that it's far more palatable to the American public to back-draft reservists into the military than to enact a mandatory draft, or to pay them actual wages super high enough that would make them want to actually go back.

Also, changing job description is not the only lie recruiters will tell you. See article below.

[...]

Last year, ABC News armed a group of high school students with hidden cameras and sent them into ten Army recruiting stations in in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, posing as potential applicants. Sadly, the Army failed this particular recruiting ethics test. More than half of the recruiters were caught on tape making what can only be kindly referred to as "misleading" statements. In other words, they lied.

One recruiter was filmed telling the applicant that his chances of being deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan after basic training and job school were"slim to none." One recruiter bluntly stated that the Army wasn't sending people to Iraq anymore -- in fact, they were bringing them home. One simply said, "War? What war? The war ended years ago."

Another recruit was told he could quit the Army anytime he wanted to, just by asking, under a "failure to adapt" discharge. (Hee, hee.....Go ahead. Tell your drill sergeant you want to quit. But, make sure you tell me in advance. I want to sell tickets.)

[...]

Top Ten Lies Told by Recruiters

it's gotta be a large maple walnut cookie in the works, stake out farms they are sure to hit them next

Or, walnut pancakes. Goes perfectly with that missing maple syrup.

Can't find a conspiracy there? Seriously, you're just not trying hard enough!!

Setup your wifi router:

Choose WPA2-PSK (AES-CCMP) aka "WPA2 Personal" on some routers. The PSK (AES CCMP pre-shared key) is 8 to 63 alphanumeric characters. Use at least 25 characters and include some capital letters and numbers. i.e.: thisSecuritystuffISApain2often4me.DetroiTtigers. The point is to use a very strong PSK, then WPA2 will be extremely hard to crack via bruteforce & rainbow tables attacks.

- Disable SSID broadcast

- Rename default SSID name to something random (32 alphanumeric chars max - use at least 25 chars)

DL some wifi analyzers to your phone, i.e.:

- "Fing", "Tiny Wifi Analyzer", "Wifi Analyzer". If anyone has established an unauthorized link on your wifi network, you'll know about it, and see their IP & MAC addresses with Fing.

Read:

Think Your WPA2-encrypted Wireless Network is Secure? Think Again.:

For Americans:
French Fries are long, thin, and mostly rectangular. Like these: http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/what-are-french-fries.htm
Crinkle cut french fries are like normal french fries with a zigzag edge. Like these: http://laughingsquid.com/crinkle-cut-french-fry-shaped-cakes-with-raspberry-ketchup/
Potato Wedges are shorter, fatter, and wedge shaped. Like these: http://americanfood.about.com/od/potatosidedishrecipes/r/Potato_Wedges_Recipe.htm
Potato Chips are fried completely throughout, flat and wide, more like fried potato shavings. Like these:http://www.kettlebrand.com/our_products/#/our_products/?pid=3

Hope that helps

Says somebody typing on a computer, that is direct product of competition between businesses for customer money.

Basic research is done by private sector absent government crowding out all sorts of credit, money, people and other resources, which governments always crowd out of the private sector into the public sector in search for a better bomb to kill you.

Invention of transistor was done privately and without it we still would be stuck with vacuum tubes, which were also invented privately.

The history of telegraph is a history of private inventors, same as the history of telephone. Radio.

History of television is fascinating in yet another aspect, since the inventor of Kinescope had to escape h his new Soviet government while doing it.

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You are saying: not ALL invention comes from private sector. Well, of-course the governments steals so much money, that they can throw nearly unlimited funds at a problem. That's a huge waste of resources. Just like the Langley Aerodrome compared to the Wright brothers airplane. Langley had 50,000 USD thrown at him at the beginning of 20th century. Wright brothers had their own bicycle shop and under 1000 bucks of money over they years. Results are in the studio.

Yes, we can have money stolen from us by government and piles of it can be thrown at problems, like money thrown at Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Korea, War on Drugs, War on Poverty, etc.etc. It doesn't matter to the government how the money is spent, the only solution to all problem is: steal more money and spend it.

Would the Internet be here without government? OF-COURSE! Of-course it would be, just like all other forms of communications that we invent. Would it be using a protocol similar to what we are using today? Most likely, it's not like the idea of packet switching is so far fetched from the ideas that were already implemented in telephone circuit switching exchanges, the difference being that the telephone circuit had to be on and with data the speed removes the need for completely synchronous data exchange.

Besides, as I said, the people who were crowded out by the government from the private sector into the public sector, most of those people were already working on similar or exactly the same projects. Stealing them for the purposes of running wars more efficiently by governments is not what I would call a 'moral' enterprise. AFAIC the public sector is definitely immoral, it's based on theft and coercion and murder.

The private sector absent the government is based on voluntary exchange and pursuit of profits, which is the most moral way that we have invented as a species to run an economy, specifically because it's based on voluntary exchange among willing participants.

Says somebody typing on a computer, that is direct product of competition between businesses for customer money.

Basic research is done by private sector absent government crowding out all sorts of credit, money, people and other resources, which governments always crowd out of the private sector into the public sector in search for a better bomb to kill you.

Invention of transistor was done privately and without it we still would be stuck with vacuum tubes, which were also invented privately.

The history of telegraph is a history of private inventors, same as the history of telephone. Radio.

History of television is fascinating in yet another aspect, since the inventor of Kinescope had to escape h his new Soviet government while doing it.

--

You are saying: not ALL invention comes from private sector. Well, of-course the governments steals so much money, that they can throw nearly unlimited funds at a problem. That's a huge waste of resources. Just like the Langley Aerodrome compared to the Wright brothers airplane. Langley had 50,000 USD thrown at him at the beginning of 20th century. Wright brothers had their own bicycle shop and under 1000 bucks of money over they years. Results are in the studio.

Yes, we can have money stolen from us by government and piles of it can be thrown at problems, like money thrown at Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Korea, War on Drugs, War on Poverty, etc.etc. It doesn't matter to the government how the money is spent, the only solution to all problem is: steal more money and spend it.

Would the Internet be here without government? OF-COURSE! Of-course it would be, just like all other forms of communications that we invent. Would it be using a protocol similar to what we are using today? Most likely, it's not like the idea of packet switching is so far fetched from the ideas that were already implemented in telephone circuit switching exchanges, the difference being that the telephone circuit had to be on and with data the speed removes the need for completely synchronous data exchange.

Besides, as I said, the people who were crowded out by the government from the private sector into the public sector, most of those people were already working on similar or exactly the same projects. Stealing them for the purposes of running wars more efficiently by governments is not what I would call a 'moral' enterprise. AFAIC the public sector is definitely immoral, it's based on theft and coercion and murder.

The private sector absent the government is based on voluntary exchange and pursuit of profits, which is the most moral way that we have invented as a species to run an economy, specifically because it's based on voluntary exchange among willing participants.

Says somebody typing on a computer, that is direct product of competition between businesses for customer money.

Basic research is done by private sector absent government crowding out all sorts of credit, money, people and other resources, which governments always crowd out of the private sector into the public sector in search for a better bomb to kill you.

Invention of transistor was done privately and without it we still would be stuck with vacuum tubes, which were also invented privately.

The history of telegraph is a history of private inventors, same as the history of telephone. Radio.

History of television is fascinating in yet another aspect, since the inventor of Kinescope had to escape h his new Soviet government while doing it.

--

You are saying: not ALL invention comes from private sector. Well, of-course the governments steals so much money, that they can throw nearly unlimited funds at a problem. That's a huge waste of resources. Just like the Langley Aerodrome compared to the Wright brothers airplane. Langley had 50,000 USD thrown at him at the beginning of 20th century. Wright brothers had their own bicycle shop and under 1000 bucks of money over they years. Results are in the studio.

Yes, we can have money stolen from us by government and piles of it can be thrown at problems, like money thrown at Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Korea, War on Drugs, War on Poverty, etc.etc. It doesn't matter to the government how the money is spent, the only solution to all problem is: steal more money and spend it.

Would the Internet be here without government? OF-COURSE! Of-course it would be, just like all other forms of communications that we invent. Would it be using a protocol similar to what we are using today? Most likely, it's not like the idea of packet switching is so far fetched from the ideas that were already implemented in telephone circuit switching exchanges, the difference being that the telephone circuit had to be on and with data the speed removes the need for completely synchronous data exchange.

Besides, as I said, the people who were crowded out by the government from the private sector into the public sector, most of those people were already working on similar or exactly the same projects. Stealing them for the purposes of running wars more efficiently by governments is not what I would call a 'moral' enterprise. AFAIC the public sector is definitely immoral, it's based on theft and coercion and murder.

The private sector absent the government is based on voluntary exchange and pursuit of profits, which is the most moral way that we have invented as a species to run an economy, specifically because it's based on voluntary exchange among willing participants.

Says somebody typing on a computer, that is direct product of competition between businesses for customer money.

Basic research is done by private sector absent government crowding out all sorts of credit, money, people and other resources, which governments always crowd out of the private sector into the public sector in search for a better bomb to kill you.

Invention of transistor was done privately and without it we still would be stuck with vacuum tubes, which were also invented privately.

The history of telegraph is a history of private inventors, same as the history of telephone. Radio.

History of television is fascinating in yet another aspect, since the inventor of Kinescope had to escape h his new Soviet government while doing it.

--

You are saying: not ALL invention comes from private sector. Well, of-course the governments steals so much money, that they can throw nearly unlimited funds at a problem. That's a huge waste of resources. Just like the Langley Aerodrome compared to the Wright brothers airplane. Langley had 50,000 USD thrown at him at the beginning of 20th century. Wright brothers had their own bicycle shop and under 1000 bucks of money over they years. Results are in the studio.

Yes, we can have money stolen from us by government and piles of it can be thrown at problems, like money thrown at Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Korea, War on Drugs, War on Poverty, etc.etc. It doesn't matter to the government how the money is spent, the only solution to all problem is: steal more money and spend it.

Would the Internet be here without government? OF-COURSE! Of-course it would be, just like all other forms of communications that we invent. Would it be using a protocol similar to what we are using today? Most likely, it's not like the idea of packet switching is so far fetched from the ideas that were already implemented in telephone circuit switching exchanges, the difference being that the telephone circuit had to be on and with data the speed removes the need for completely synchronous data exchange.

Besides, as I said, the people who were crowded out by the government from the private sector into the public sector, most of those people were already working on similar or exactly the same projects. Stealing them for the purposes of running wars more efficiently by governments is not what I would call a 'moral' enterprise. AFAIC the public sector is definitely immoral, it's based on theft and coercion and murder.

The private sector absent the government is based on voluntary exchange and pursuit of profits, which is the most moral way that we have invented as a species to run an economy, specifically because it's based on voluntary exchange among willing participants.

iPad 16GB with Angry Birds and 700,000 other apps-- $499
Surface 32GB no Angry Birds and fewer than 6,000 apps-- $499
Advantage iPad

iPad 32GB with Angry Birds and 700,000 other apps -- $599
Surface 32GB with no Angry Birds and fewer than 6,000 apps -- $599
Advantage iPad

iPad 64GB with Angry Birds and 700,000 other apps -- $699
Surface 64GB with no Angry Birds and fewer than 6,000 apps -- $699

And no one's going to buy a table to use Office.
Advantage iPad

The toilet is older than these postcards. Ignoring things like King Minos' toilet in Crete or Queen Elizabeth's toilet in England, a hotel installed toilets as early as 1829: http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/Plumbing_3.htm

By the way, you are missing part of the formula for GDP, it's the deflator that they are supposed to apply to discount inflation. Of-course their deflators are ridiculously low, I have an 'informative' post with many numbers and links in it here, which shows a few things about inflation and GDP. AFAIC GDP has been shrinking for a long time now in 2 ways.

1. The 'production' part of GDP is shrinking all the time. Look at the trade deficit numbers, here is a page with history on it in PDF or text. For the year 2011 the trade deficit was 559Billion dollars and it's growing all he time. Of-course the total personal consumption in USA is mostly on services, not on goods, in fact 2/3 of all consumption is services and only 1/3 is goods. 11Trillion was spent by US consumers in 2011, so about 3 Trillion was spent on goods and the rest was energy, food and services (like healthcare and education for example), so in that sense US consumer consumes mostly 'US' service. However if you look at the goods (go to Walmart and compare how many things are made in USA vs foreign made, like China), you'll find that most of the goods bought and sold (and even food, 90% of sea food comes from Asia) is made elsewhere.

2. The deflator that is used is reverse engineered to fit the propaganda. With the nominal and pre-deflator GDP being 2.9%, the deflator is set to be 1.6. (read the linked comment, I give quotes and links there), that's GDP revised down from 1.7% to 1.3% (post deflator) for the second quarter.

70% of GDP could very well be consumption, at least in countries with unusually low government spending

- I am sorry, this sentence makes no sense. 70% of GDP is consumption, that's not because of low gov't consumption, the exact opposite is the case, that's because of very high consumption stimulated by gov't (especially non-existing interest rates and free money allocated by the Fed to the member banks, who then buy T-bills and bonds and allow gov't to keeps spending). It's low production that is the problem, that's why GDP is 70% personal consumption, it's the actual number, what can I say? You see, when the production portion of GDP shrinks, the consumption portion becomes bigger and bigger part of the number, and if the consumption is stimulated artificially with fake money and 0% interest rates, and as long as the foreigners are willing to take dollars for their exports, then consumption even grows, doesn't just stay the same.

The reason that the consumption is mostly of foreign goods is exactly because the production part of GDP is disappearing.

They both grow in dirt (organic and conventional), they are the same plant, they don't, on balance, have more or less of anything than the rest of the fruits and vegetables

Aside from the fact that your claim is completely, utter and demonstrably false, it neglects to take into consideration that most of the soil on commercial farms in the U.S. has not only been depleted of essential trace elements but has also been so thoroughly abused and mismanaged over the years that even the basics need to be supplemented by appliying synthetic fertilizers.

Bottom line if you want to pay 3X as much for your food buy organic.

Yes, sometimes there's a 200% (or greater) premium for organic produce but in many cases, it's more like 25 to 50%. A more useful metric would be determine the value that buying organic adds, and that depends on the item. For example, the growing methods for conventional and organic tropical fruit (pineapples, mangos, bananas and avacados come to mind) likely don't differ much if at all; it's about the auditing, certifying/verification. etc. In other cases, (peaches, strawberries, leafy greens), it's common-knowledge that the quantities of pesticide resides in convenionally-grown varieties are through the roof (no doubt a non-issue for a shill such as yourself but for those of us watching our health or that of our children, it's something we might want to take into consideration). Of course, these are the very same items that often require exhorbitant premiums like you stated - but you get what you pay for (where have we heard that before?).

And don't forget, we can't feed the world's population organically. Can't be done!

This is a partial truth which ignores the bigger picture (which, of course, at the end of the day, means it's still a lie): doing things the way "Big Ag" currently does them, yes, you're right: organic farming simply can't be scaled up and achieved using the wasteful, petroleum-dependent methods and practices that are currently employed (as I said above, the dirt just won't allow it). Nope; you'd have to change how you go about it (imagine that).

For those who aren't paid shills and have a genuine interest in the subject, I suggest looking through some of the following:

http://www.thedailygreen.com/healthy-eating/latest/organic-foods-benefits-460110-5

http://eartheasy.com/blog/2011/10/7-ways-organic-farms-outperform-conventional-farms/

http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/07/10/us-farming-organic-idUSN1036065820070710

http://environment.about.com/od/healthenvironment/a/organicfarming.htm

http://www.worldwatch.org/node/4060

http://youngagropreneur.wordpress.com/

http://theurbanfarmingguys.com/our-story

http://seedstock.com/2012/02/01/wisconsins-future-farm-sustainable-cow-powered-aquaponics/

http://bioponica.org/

In 1972, Soviet physicists at a nuclear research facility near Lake Baikal in Siberia accidentally discovered a reaction for turning lead into gold when they found some of the lead shielding of an experimental reactor had changed to gold

Only Greg Aharonian has a working solution to the patent "wars" and it doesn't rely on using divination to determine what and what can't be patented.

Greg basically says a) anything invented can be patented (hardware, software, whatever) BUT (big BUT) it has to be done with proper science something he often feels that both the PTO and the US courts don't understand. Paraphrasing Mr. Aharonian, if after a solid review of patented and non patented prior art, something can be proven with logic and science to be a new invention it's worthy of a patent and if it isn't then no patent should be issued.

It's taken me years and years of reading Greg's musing on patent's to really understand his prospective (I hope I really do...); Why worry about false issues about what type of technology is used; tech is tech, what matters is if you have done something truly novel.

http://ns1.patenting-art.com/

http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa071297.htm
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.06/patents_pr.html

In 2003, Republicans controlled the house and the senate, I cannot find evidence for your claim that Democrats blocked regulatory legislation which would have prevented the US housing crash. http://uspolitics.about.com/b/2008/09/18/republican-congress-talked-about-financial-reform-but-did-nothing.htm In fact, given the disdain Republicans have for any form of governmental regulation, I find your claim doubtful

Ummm ... whoosh?

Look, whatever, the problem here is we users with a significant investment in the apple garden are fucked even if we get a google maps app because its not going to link to the native apps. If i have an address in my adressbook, apple is not going to let me open the direction in the google maps app with one tap. Of course the fuck not. They will send me to their ugly ass bitch fucking botched maps app that will take years to work anyware but the states and the UK and that really is fucking us up.

I didnt hate them. I bought into them like a lamb in the butcher house and im getting fucked and then slaughtered and then eaten.

Hey, at least i got fucked.

http://gps.about.com/od/mobilephonegps/tp/Iphone-Gps-Navigation-Apps-Top-Ten.htm - looks like several navigation apps have "address book integration". If Google can't do it, that says a lot about Google, not about Apple.

Obama could already order him killed without any official designation as enemy of state.

Even if he was a US citizen.

Although this guy is one of the more recent examples, the US government has been involved in this sort of thing before.

There are some mostly forgotten incidents in which the US government shot down large number of people who some would probably say were just out for a walk. Technically, they were in the same status as that first guy the government killed with a missile. The funny thing is, under the rules this falls under, no charges, judge, or jury is required.

This reminded me of the "Evil Bert & Osama" photo 'scandal.'

http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/blosamabert.htm

http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blosamabert2.htm

This reminded me of the "Evil Bert & Osama" photo 'scandal.'

http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/blosamabert.htm

http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blosamabert2.htm

Umm, no. A lot of modern items are the result of clever marketing of previously unused material but bacon is not one of them: http://homecooking.about.com/od/foodhistory/a/baconhistory.htm

I was wondering if perhaps you were misinterpreting or if the hearing test was not as exhaustive as it could be, but I concede my assumption was incorrect.

Perhaps instead of having your hearing tested, perhaps you should consult a neurologist. Apparently, within the Autism Spectrum of disorders, there are people who have difficulty with auditory input. This link discusses a variation called Sensory Processing Disorder, and seems to echo your description above dealing with your issues with sound.

It is not as uncommon as one would think for adults to be diagnosed late in life with conditions we often associate with children, such as ADHD or Asperger's Syndrome. Could be relevant to your situation?

" Vegetarian trolls can't even make dick jokes, ..."

I can post my recipe for spotted dick.

http://britishfood.about.com/od/regionalenglishrecipes/r/Pudding.htm

Part of the problem with fructose is that because it has a low glycemic index, your body is not signaled to stop consuming it as quickly. It is metabolised in the liver and excess amounts are converted to triglicerides in the blood which are a factor in heart disease. There are other problems too. Please see this, admittedly not the most scientific reference but I think it makes a good case.

Normal amounts of fructose are not a problem, and it is one of the main sugars in many fruits. The problem is downing movie theatre size pops with 200+ grams of the stuff. What I would be most interested to see is people would consume the same volume of glucose or sucrose flavored drinks, or would they naturally limit the amount they drank?

First of all, our actions towards Imperial Japan extended just a slight bit beyond "not selling them our stuff": US support increased in mid-1941, with the clandestine formation of the 1st American Volunteer Group, better known as the "Flying Tigers." Equipped with US aircraft and American pilots the 1st AVG, under Colonel Claire Chennault, effectively defended the skies over China and Southeast Asia from late-1941 to mid-1942, downing 300 Japanese aircraft with a loss of only 12 of their own. In addition to military support, the US, Britain, and the Netherlands East Indies initiated oil and steel embargos against Japan in August 1941.

Take a close look at the bolded bit: Someone declaring to you "I'm going to make you lose the war" is a declaration of war in all but name. Moral indignation over who was right has nothing to do with whether America's actions provoked the attack: Our government chose (along with those of Britain and the Netherlands East Indies) to directly intercede against Japan. Right or wrong, you can't pretend we were somehow Innocence Abused when they retaliated. The US was, to be honest, probably the most cynical of all involved at this point - Roosevelt knew perfectly well that Japan would retaliate, and that the moral indignation it sparked (by people making the same fallacy as you just did) would shut the isolationists up and bring America's industrial might to bear in time to make a real difference in the course of the war.

I just wanted to point out the shelf life is 3 years (enough for the 2.5 planned years of a Mars mission).

It's an acquired taste.

If you have too cultured of a palate, and you're used to multi-course meals with palate cleansers in between, you probably won't last a day with MREs, much less 21.

They should deploy minimum wage and laws on safe work conditions so that employer cannot exploit their situations.

So true, which makes the claim even funnier. From my memory, the previous admin set forth major plans which were all but stripped by this admin, and they changed the course even further with this lovely bit http://usgovinfo.about.com/b/2010/07/07/obama-tells-nasa-to-improve-muslim-relations.htm

how did we go from not being in space - to the moon - in a decade however now we cant even seem to get out of our own way? as a long time space entheusiest, I was even a part of a club that watched the jupiter collision happen live. This past 10 years have been a major disappointment on the manned flight front.

Of which Apple made the first one.

Not.

http://inventors.about.com/library/blcoindex.htm

See entry for 1974/1975. Note absence of 'Apple'.

If you mean something like "First popular pre-assembled 8-bit home PC"? Probably true. But that's not what you said.

Not at all. Airline statistics tell a big story. They are incredibly safe now. Not too many computers are flying the plane into a mountain.

Wow, I lol'd at this... How could you possibly compare these two? Airspace has an incredibly consistent, standardized and mostly centralized air-traffic control system. you have ~7,000 aircraft simultaneously in the entire US Airspace. We have over 242 Million registered vehicles in the United States. I couldn't find data on how many are in operation simultaneously, but I think it is safe to say you can find over 7000 in operation simultaneously during rush hour in any average city on the interstates there alone.

Add to that the room/flexibility to maneuver in a vehicle on a road system, parking lot, parking garage, shoulder, dirt road, etc. compared to "air space".

Both have weather hazards, granted. Except that often when weather is rough, planes don't fly there (route around it). Motor vehicles don't work that way.

I'm sure I have BARELY scratched the surface here. Maybe we should instead be debating what I meant by "quite a long time". I'd say a significant number of autonomous vehicles in operation in the U.S. is at least a decade away, maybe two.