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that statement actually closer to 21% so irritated me with its fallaciousness I had to reply. the question should have been "Do you keep up with the latest budget shell game of how we can hide spending for the military-industrial complex?" You have only to glance at who ran this poll to realize their obvious conflicts of interest. In fact, 21% is absurdly low, as is 33%. It is actually 64% of net discretionary funding now. Wake the _uck up, sheeple

"... a replacement all seeing eye will be needed ..

Consider it done, it's called Operation TIPS and got its own all seeing eye as a logo.

.. to keep the same class of people in line ..."

You should consider that these 'class` of people are librarians and anti-war protestors and when they come after you, there will be no one left to speak out.

UN taxation of goods. Board games > television. One kid per nuclear family.

Why not throw in a link to a bunny with a pancake on its head while you're at it?

They could mean ad hoc wireless networking. If they are looking for something that could help them communicate in the field, ad hoc wireless networking has great applications for them--basically, an ad hoc network does not have predefined hosts, access points, or what have you. Every node in the network communicates with the nodes around it (they could be a mixture of some wireless nodes and some wired nodes). There is no predefined leader, but the nodes themselves pick which nodes will act as temporary leaders to keep routing information, among other things. There are many different algorithms for determining these leaders, and the leaders can be changed if necessary due to nodes moving, entering an area, or leaving an area.

More information can be found here (Google's html version here.)

[B]y cleverly arranging early caucuses there, [Iowa is] suddenly important.

It's apparent that the only thing that's "sudden" about Iowa's caucuses is your discovery of them. As Drake University's Caucus info page outlines, caucuses have been around in Iowa for over 150 years. The first-in-the-nation status of the caucuses has been around since about 1972. That may be sudden in geological terms, but it's hardly sudden in political terms.

This may be off-topic, but the difference between a caucus and a primary is important. The latter is indistinguishable from a regular poll-style voting procedure. The former is more like a mini-convention at which members of a party discuss various candidates, gradually separate into groups representing their favorite candidates, and then select national convention delegates based on the relative numbers of people aligned with each candidate. See the Drake pages above for more information.

(And yes, I'm a former Iowan myself; I've made my own unique contribution to the Incredible Shrinking Population of the state in which I was raised.)

I used to love astronomy as a kid. In fact, I got a scholarship and went off to Drake thinking I would major in it. However, I loved it more than it loved me, I think.

Anyway, while I was a kid, too poor to buy a telescope, I used to read astronomy books voraciously, and take notes on any stellar data I came across. Originally on ruled paper, I eventually transferred all of it to an AppleWorks db (on the Apple ][) in high school, and then into Excel (3? 4?) when I got to college. I used this to plot some very nice color H-R diagrams. This is the kind of project I really could have gotten excited about.