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This isn't accurate. While you see the nutjobs growing more vehement in some areas of the country, places like Texas are actually moving more to the left due to large influx of immigrants. There are stories now that point to the shifting demographics as an indicator that Texas will be a battleground state in 8-10 years, and will (barring other voting pattern changes) shift further left after that. Non-hispanic whites are already a minority in the state, and this will only continue to change, and Hispanics vote for liberal candidates by a large majority.

Although I have met more male psychologiest then females though. Child care is a good one. Do you think a 24 year old dude would get the creepy face if he applied for work at a childrens daycare? Im willing to bet he would unless it was to be a grounds kepper or something. To take it to the extreme, there was a guy that sued hooters for not hiring him as a waiter based on his sex. Here. http://www.caller.com/news/2009/jan/13/local-man-sues-hooters-claims-gender-bias-seeks/ From the article: "Just as Southwest Airlines attempted nearly three decades ago with stewardesses, the waiter's position addressed herein is being limited to females by an employer..." the suit states If this happened to a women at any type of business there would be hell to pay for the company. Just sayin.

Less than 150 incompetent drivers died when a tire blew out and Firestone [the tires not the stores] became history. But everything is OK in the name of the "War on Terror". Front page paper today had a article the fire and ambulance people are being trained to "sniff out suspected terrorist and activities" -- http://www.caller.com/ Sad.....very sad.....but at my age I probably will not see The Big End(R) after 2016. [eat, drink, and be merry....for tomorrow you will die in a dungeon somewhere]

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Another article about the incident where it mentions that the passenger paid cash.

Because that's exactly what police departments everywhere are prone to believing, that they as professionals know who the law-abiders are and who the criminals are -- and that to arrest an 'obvious' wrong-doer like this kid, they shouldn't have to wait for a technicality such as him actually committing an arrestable offense.

Bush = BAD

Here's another couple of numbers for you: 12% of Americans are black, but 40% of death row inmates are black. Or how about these numbers: a black defendant is twice as likely to be executed (100 since 1973) if his victim is white than if is victim is black (49 since 1973). And a white defendant who kills a white person is 48 times more likely to be executed for killing a white person (242 since 1973) than for killing a black person (5 since 1973). Numbers are from the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.

And here's a list of some wrongful executions that have taken place in the US in the 20th century. Admittedly, only one of the victims on the list was executed since 1973, when the Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty should be reinstated.

There are numbers for you. Will they make any difference? I doubt it... no matter how many numbers people like you see, you want to see more. You'll go on blithely accusing anti-capital punishment types of not providing enough numbers, or the right numbers, or whatever. I look forward to your reply.

DrEldarion wrote "They've already done experiements where they put electrodes on a guy and he was able to move a cursor around the screen just by thinking about it... (sorry, I forgot where I read that... no link :/ ) "

Here's some links to articles about that:

• Brain Implant Allows Paralyzed Man To Control Computer
• Implant Lets Computer, Paralyzed Man's Brain 'Talk'
• Brain Implant Helps Quadroplegics Communicate
• Medical Marvel Links A Brain And A Computer
• New Brain Implant Connects To Nervous System
• Thought-Activated Computing
• Brain Implant allows Paralysed Man To Communicate With Computer

• Also, a Slashdot article:

• Brain Implants Control Computers

" Anyways, I'm sure that eventually you'll just have a DataJack in your head (just like in ShadowRun!) where you'll just plug in a cable and you're all set. "

Sounds like fun to me! ;-)

Impossible means no one's done it yet.

The current leader in restaurant automation is probably Yo! Sushi in the UK, which has sushi-making robots and autonomous robot vehicles in the restaurants.