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> Instead of shooting electron beams at a rock to see what happens these scientists should be in the wheat fields growing food for starving children in 3rd world countries

We did that. Then Greenpeace and various other eco-loonies convinced the African governments that it was better to starve than to eat our miracle engineered grains. So we went back to shooting electron beams at rocks.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6669/is_2_20/ai_n29026148/

So then, should we look at what the atheists of the Soviet Union and other Communist countries produced in the last 100 years? That would be 100,000,000 dead and unimaginable suffering.

"This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."

Oh, well then, never mind. At least there is truth in your disclaimer.

I was in Iceland back in April and noticed something similar. While walking around Reykjavik it's not uncommon to see baby carriages parked outside a cafe while the parents are inside having a bite to eat. Even when it was 3 degrees out with wind and drizzle you would see it. The baby is wrapped up and the carriage has a cover over it, but just the fact that they would leave it unattended is shocking. Apparently this is a common practice in many nordic countries.

That would be unheard of here in N. America and likely get you arrested, or at least a warning from the police.

I missed the hyperbole part.....

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_15_18/ai_84971474/

My understanding was that sintered powder forged metal rods with cracked end-caps were stronger than their standard counterparts. Ford's been using them in gasoline applications since... 1993? Whenever they introduced the 4.6 modular engine in the Mark VIII. They used them because they could make an equal-strength, lighter, less-expensive part, which sounds like a win to me. Of course, I'm not an engineer, so maybe I've been sold a bill of goods.

The only good article I could find was this, but I'm guessing that's probably biased.

The suicide rate in these places is shocking.

You lost all credibility right there. There's plenty to criticize about Apple, the suicide rate at a contractor's factories is not one of them.

The Foxconn worker suicide rate (1.5 per 100,000 at its worst, in 2010) is lower than the general Chinese population (22.23 per 100,000).

It is lower than New York (6 per 100,000), which itself is over half the national average (11 per 100,000).

It is lower than US soldiers soldiers (20 per 100,000 as of 2008), which was already an 80% jump over the rate in 2004.

It is lower than suicide rates at both MIT and Harvard (10.2 and 7.4 per 100,000, respectively, from a 2001 report). That's right, MIT and Harvard students are PAYING to be there, and their suicide rate is higher than Foxconn workers.

What are you doing about those shocking numbers? Who are you holding to account and starting online petitions to boycott?

The only thing shocking about the suicide rate of Foxconn workers is that people like you keep thinking it bolsters your argument. Hint: it does the exact opposite, if only you'd thought to analyze it for one minute.

A few seconds of googling confirms that sharks do indeed bite cables. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0DUJ/is_9_105/ai_n27568414/

"You went from more than half the households being married to something like 9% now, it gave the lowest of the low an excuse to pop out kids they promptly abandoned or let run wild, and it gave rise to the "thug life!" "culture" which glorifies being the scummiest criminal you can be. Hell look at it, it glorifies the abuse of black women and violence and dope slinging."

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1077/is_1_59/ai_110361377/ - the article says 48% (down from 70%). So you're simply lying.

And about 'welfare class' - that's another simply quantifiable lie.

If your goal is "weight loss" then eating less is far easier and more effective than trying to burn it off at the gym. Going to the gym often makes you eat more when you get home - making it a waste of time.

(Yeah, I know it's heresy in the USA to say gym isn't the answer to everything...)

Not to be nasty or anything, but that is just total bullocks, and is typically used by the willingly uninformed as an excuse to be lazy. How can anyone seriously claim exercise is not beneficial? People can and do go to the gym and watch their diet and maintain great physiques. They're not genetic mutants, they just have a little freakin' willpower.
There's also the point that -given High Intensity training, or good ol' fashioned weight lifting, as opposed to the treadmill- most of your calories aren't burnt in the gym during the workout, but are burnt for many hours afterward because the metabolism is ratcheted up. Actually, it gives me trouble sleeping some nights after a workout. And the HIIT thing can actually suppress appetite.
http://www.burnthefat.com/high_intensity_interval_training.html
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0801/is_2_69/ai_n24220136/

Primitive hunter gather tribes were probably very peaceful

You may want to read War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage . The author estimates that typical pre-historic tribal combat casualty rate of 0.5% per year, a hundred times that of the US homicide rate of 0.005% per year.

One existing hunter-gatherer tribe in New Guinea has a homicide rate 40 times greater than the 1980 homicide rate in the United States.

I googled "extreme exertion" heart failure
I found: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0NHF/is_2_26/ai_n27893931/
On further reading I see it doesn't say the AHA said that, but the article seems to cite an AHA study as its only source. I didn't intend to mislead.

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/oped-04y.html

http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2007/06/the_economics_o.html

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1134/is_9_115/ai_n27050480/?tag=content;col1

http://matter2energy.wordpress.com/2009/06/12/space-power/

http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/episode/2011/01/08/january-8-2011/#Voyager+Launches+the+Third+Age+of+Discovery

http://www.economist.com/node/18897425

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/06/the-high-frontier-redux.html

http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/10/why-not-space/

Space Nutters generally also have an overabundance of blind, naive enthusiasm for almost anything vaguely sci-fi sounding, the limitless growth of the human species, that there will even BE a human species 100000 years from now, etc... But mention life extension research and all of a sudden they turn into the most rabid anti-technological, skeptical "don't mess with Nature" types.

We'll never understand biological processes that occur all over the planet and require little energy, but we'll have Martian colonies (entire COLONIES) and all the other space garbage that require stupendous resource-inputs for zero return, no problem.

Oh, and the absolute Bible for Space Nutters:

http://www.amazon.com/Millennial-Project-Colonizing-Galaxy-Eight/dp/0316771635/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1323225862&sr=8-1

The amount of delusion and flat-out denial needed to believe in the claptrap that Space Nutters do makes it a religion to me.

Furthermore, we already have government run healthcare: the VA and Medicare--for vets and old people. Not only are these services popular, their more efficiently run than private insurance companies, with less administrative costs. Which lead to the absurd statement: "get your government hands off my medicare."

Excuse me when I say that I think you've been brain-washed by Fox News.

This report specifically talks about how INEFFICIENT Medicare is and makes recommendations to change that.

This USA Today article complains that Medicare funds the vast majority of residency training in the USA. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it is a substantial amount of money that is not going to treatment as you said.

This report says fraud is costing in the billions. And this article says that fraud is a growing problem in Medicare costing $60 billion per year and says that fewer than 5%... that's 5% of claims are audited.

According to this Congressional Research Service report Medicare's budget is $420 billion for 2009. If $60 billion is just fraud, that means nearly 15% of Medicare's budget is NOT going to treatment not including all the rest of Medicare's expenses (funding residency, other misc overhead).

Sorry, but to say that Medicare is efficient is just plain wrong.

Fun fact:

Nitrocellulose film could be cut up and used as "gunpowder". Note the location, whose inhabitants were plinking Brits with their jezails during the first Eurocolonial adventure in the region!

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BQY/is_8_47/ai_76558924/

"One of the intriguing qualities of nitrocellulose is that it is the basic material in many harmless, domestic products including celluloid plastic, early photographic film, rayon, fingernail polish and lacquer. Not that such items couldn't be converted to other uses. An old article in National Geographic describes tribesmen along the Indian border with Pakistan who were adept at producing gunpowder by dicing up nitrocellulose movie film."

Earth-bound Humans are currently better at many impomptu, lightweight manual tasks than Earth-bound robots -- but are they still better when encumbered in a 200-pound spacesuit, with gloves like oven mitts?

Quite simply: yes.

The exact quote escapes me, but one geologist said that if you combine all the works of all the mars landers in history, it amounts to about a good day for an average geology student.

While it is inconvenient to have to send into space all the arms, legs and guts meant for living at around 1 atmosphere of pressure and not that much far from 24 C, it is really hard to beat having a working human brain when it comes to exploring.

Our global reach is proof enough of that.

We marvel at what our robotic tools can do, but mustn't forget they are but longer, sharper hammers today. There is still a human behind them.

But then, I'm biased. Like whalers who used to leave their families for years at a time, today I wouldn't mind being one of those stuck on a rock seeing things noone has ever seen before. Learning things noone knew before. And yes, probably dying for that chance like people die every day for less. In the meantime my battle.net ping times might suck, but then there's always [rock] porn right out the window.

To quote Albert Szent-Györgi (1893-1986) U. S. biochemist: "If any student comes to me and says he wants to be useful to mankind and go into research to alleviate human suffering, I advise him to go into charity instead. Research wants real egotists who seek their own pleasure and satisfaction, but find it in solving the puzzles of nature."

That would be the Honjo tragedy (see p. 8 of this pdf for gory details) of the Great Kanto Earthquake that demolished Tokyo at two minutes before noon on 1 September 1923.

The Honjo tragedy was just the best-known of many sub-firestorms in open fields that developed as the city built largely of wood, and filled with people cooking lunch on open-fire hibachis, got hit by a magnitude 7.9 - 8.2 (depending on the source) earthquake. More than 100,000 people died in the earthquake and resulting fire and, of these, between 30,000 and 40,000 died at Honjo. People in open fields miles from the flames died of hypoxia or were baked by superheated, oxygen-poor air; people in open fields closer to the flames died from burning, falling debris. It was about as horrible as horrible gets, and we may all hope that, however we go, it won't be like that.

As an aside, it is difficult to overestimate the sociological and political effects of this earthquake. For example, strife between ethnic Koreans and Japanese led to the massacre of thousands of Koreans and other ethnic minorities following the earthquake and firestorm. After the event, watch our for your fellow survivors, too.

Sorry, original budget estimate was $500 million.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_n39_v13/ai_19964936/

"If the mirror and heat-shield concepts can be perfected, NGST promises a quantum leap in knowledge. Yet its cost, estimated at $500 million, is roughly as much as a single shuttle mission. "It's a real bargain," says Mather, especially if it fulfills its promise to deliver dazzling new views of the early universe."

Verizon grows in wireless was because they had some of the best plans back in the late 90's. Back when Cell Phones charged you for Local, Long Distance calls, roaming fees.... Verizon was one of the first to give people a plan that allows a call to be a call no matter where you were at or who you were calling... A big deal back then. It opened Cell Phones for being a toy for the rich to an every-man tool.

Actually, that was an AT&T Wireless Services plan, the Digital One Rate, introduced in 1998 (the same year that Bell Atlantic and GTE merged to form Verizon Wireless).

Flawed analogy.

Capitalists didn't make cars safer...bureaucracy (safety regulation) did. Capitalists fought safer cars at every turn and still do today. Seat belts, air bags, crumple zones, mandatory safety tests, etc, etc, etc. All of it pure government bureaucracy keeping you and yours safe on American highways.

Sorry, but your information is way out of date.

The safety man: Brian O'Neill and his team at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety wage war on unsafe vehicles and outdated government standards

Until the early 1980s, government regulations were the primary way safety features made it into vehicles. For automakers, that spawned a minimalist approach wherein they spent the least amount necessary to meet the minimum standards required by law. For the OEM'S, it was the perfect solution. Simple standards kept the playing field level, affordable and provided an easy pass/fail target. But to consumers, it drew attention to the fact that some automakers, particularly those from Europe, voluntarily designed to a higher standard.

By the mid-1980s, safety minded companies like Volvo, Saab, BMW and Mercedes-Benz began cashing in on their reputation for crashworthiness. And to the shock of the U.S.-based industry that defiantly said "you can't sell safety," consumers pushed domestic automakers to make safety a priority.

"We saw that as an opportunity to do things the government couldn't," says Brian O'Neill, president of the Arlington, Va-based IIHS. "We conceived of having our own crash test facility and test procedures that were different from the government's. We didn't want to compete, but government agencies, by design, are not flexible or fast responding. We knew we could promote safety improvements more rapidly."

One of the tests the IIHS would use to achieve that goal was a controversial offset, 40-mph frontal crash into a deformable barrier. The test was actually conceived by Mercedes-Benz and already under development in Europe. It was viewed as a more real world alternative to fiat barrier testing, which was and is the basis of today's Federal New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) standard..... read more

Flawed analogy.

Capitalists didn't make cars safer...bureaucracy (safety regulation) did. Capitalists fought safer cars at every turn and still do today. Seat belts, air bags, crumple zones, mandatory safety tests, etc, etc, etc. All of it pure government bureaucracy keeping you and yours safe on American highways.

Sorry, but your information is way out of date.

The safety man: Brian O'Neill and his team at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety wage war on unsafe vehicles and outdated government standards

Until the early 1980s, government regulations were the primary way safety features made it into vehicles. For automakers, that spawned a minimalist approach wherein they spent the least amount necessary to meet the minimum standards required by law. For the OEM'S, it was the perfect solution. Simple standards kept the playing field level, affordable and provided an easy pass/fail target. But to consumers, it drew attention to the fact that some automakers, particularly those from Europe, voluntarily designed to a higher standard.

By the mid-1980s, safety minded companies like Volvo, Saab, BMW and Mercedes-Benz began cashing in on their reputation for crashworthiness. And to the shock of the U.S.-based industry that defiantly said "you can't sell safety," consumers pushed domestic automakers to make safety a priority.

"We saw that as an opportunity to do things the government couldn't," says Brian O'Neill, president of the Arlington, Va-based IIHS. "We conceived of having our own crash test facility and test procedures that were different from the government's. We didn't want to compete, but government agencies, by design, are not flexible or fast responding. We knew we could promote safety improvements more rapidly."

One of the tests the IIHS would use to achieve that goal was a controversial offset, 40-mph frontal crash into a deformable barrier. The test was actually conceived by Mercedes-Benz and already under development in Europe. It was viewed as a more real world alternative to fiat barrier testing, which was and is the basis of today's Federal New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) standard..... read more

http://www.sacred-texts.com/aor/einstein/einsci.htm
"For the scientific method can teach us nothing else beyond how facts are related to, and conditioned by, each other. The aspiration toward such objective knowledge belongs to the highest of which man is capabIe, and you will certainly not suspect me of wishing to belittle the achievements and the heroic efforts of man in this sphere. Yet it is equally clear that knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be. One can have the clearest and most complete knowledge of what is, and yet not be able to deduct from that what should be the goal of our human aspirations. Objective knowledge provides us with powerful instruments for the achievements of certain ends, but the ultimate goal itself and the longing to reach it must come from another source. And it is hardly necessary to argue for the view that our existence and our activity acquire meaning only by the setting up of such a goal and of corresponding values. The knowledge of truth as such is wonderful, but it is so little capable of acting as a guide that it cannot prove even the justification and the value of the aspiration toward that very knowledge of truth. Here we face, therefore, the limits of the purely rational conception of our existence.
    But it must not be assumed that intelligent thinking can play no part in the formation of the goal and of ethical judgments. When someone realizes that for the achievement of an end certain means would be useful, the means itself becomes thereby an end. Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelation of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations, and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to perform in the social life of man. And if one asks whence derives the authority of such fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and justified merely by reason, one can only answer: they exist in a healthy society as powerful traditions, which act upon the conduct and aspirations and judgments of the individuals; they are there, that is, as something living, without its being necessary to find justification for their existence. They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities. One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly. "

See also, on the revolution of religious thinking:
    http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1141/is_42_38/ai_92805318/

And:
    http://evolution-of-religion.com/
"If religious beliefs and behaviors promoted survival and reproduction in our ancestral past, then they may have been favored by natural selection over human evolutionary history. This would mean that religious beliefs and behaviors are adaptive, and that religion evolved as a natural product of Darwinian selection. The "Evolution of Religion" project is dedicated to exploring this hypothesis using scientific methods from psychology and evolutionary biology."

The disruption you mention almost happened in the early 90's. NeoCAD produced a compete competing tool chain for Xilinx FPGAs, including the place and route, for the then state-of-the-art 4000 series. Their software was better than Xilinx's, including things like a graphical layout editor. Xilinx was having none of it and bought NeoCAD. Quite a few NeoCAD features made it into the Xilinx software, eventually. Soon after that Xlininx started publishing less information on their FPGA's interconnect networks, and there has never been another attempt at writing such software.

Personally, I think writing a clone of the Xilinx software, today, is the wrong thing to do. It would be less effort to design and manufacture an "open source" FPGA, and write the necessary software from scratch, than to reverse engineer Xilinx's place and route.

Ding ding ding! We have a winner.

Even if the funds were earmarked, they would still use them for something else. Arizona republicans think the law only applies to them other guys. They have already raided several funds that had specific uses. They don't care.

Photo unit snaps GOP party chief speeding 109 mph
http://findarticles.com/p/news-articles/arizona-capitol-times/mi_8079/is_20090508/arizona-dps-photo-unit-snaps/ai_n51711437/

Arizona: Judge Throws Out Political Arrest Based on Photo Ticket
http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/28/2801.asp

Republican hu? Yea, you're free to go. I like how that last article puts it up to being a "political arrest" over the fact that he had committed a felony.

Facebook says that it will look at the profiles of your previous boyfriends/girlfriends to determine the personality traits you’re attracted to most

Oh, that sounds like a very good idea... WHY Some WOMEN Choose THE WRONG MAN Time and Time and Time Again

Your argument is ironic because it basically makes the case that the US should have moved earlier against Saddam.

At any rate Qaddafi had the Chad to play with and to commit his atrocities. Added bonus for him this country was so poor and unimportant that absolutely nobody paid attention.

"I really doubt that ..."

You would be wrong: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1200/is_n7_v149/ai_18051356/

No, we don't. We NEED to learn to live HERE, because we can't live in a vacuum, or a sterile, hostile, lifeless barren radiation-blasted rock, and we DON'T have the technology to do so, as much as you WANT it to be otherwise.

The delusion that technology would advance at lightning speed replaced the delusion that it would barely advance at all.

You are a Western white male brought up in an oil-powered bubble of unreality. The oil is running out, and soon your delusions about space will be replaced with worry about where your next meal is coming from.

And what about this article?

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1272/is_2779_138/ai_n53905175/

For those who like links http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6541/is_3_72/ai_n29429854/ , look under the section "Campaign Contributions"

And what do you think happens when people save money (they don't put it under their mattresses)? It goes in the bank.

No it doesn't. Not "rich money" anyway (which is the kind that "gets saved" in this case).
Poor(er) people keep their savings in the bank. Rich "invest" in tax shelters.
And since "money has no nationality" it often goes outside the economy that you were trying to boost.

Poor money can't afford to get itself spent on real-estate projects in Dubai.

How anyone can look at the Reagan era and say "trickle down" didn't work is laughable. 19 straight years of Dow growth (1981-1999), after 20 flat years.

Quite easily actually...

The tax cuts of 1981 and 1986 were followed by significant, though not huge, upswings in the economy.

However, as William Gale of the Brookings Institution has pointed out, "The simple fact is that business and household saving did not rise in the 1980s...." There was increased investment due to "an inflow of foreign capital. But by the mid- 1980s, net investment had receded to its earlier levels."
Economic growth in the 1980s was real, but it came from the normal upswing of the business cycle, made more forceful by huge deficits that bolstered economy-wide purchasing power (or "aggregate demand"). Moreover, the growth of those years provided a lot of feed for the horses but didn't do much for the sparrows. After-tax corporate profits rose by close to 60% between 1980 and 1989, while average hourly earnings in 1989 were slightly below their 1980 level and 10% below their 1973 peak. (All this is after adjustment for inflation.)

Throughout the decade, income distribution worsened: In 1980, the top 5% of households were obtaining 3.7 times as much total income as the bottom 20%, but by 1989 this elite group was receiving five times as much as that (much larger) bottom group. So much for any "trickle down" from the tax changes of the 1980s.

Also, considering that people often conflate it with supply-side economics - it should be noted that SSE also mostly fails to fulfill its promises.
Cause, when you take this in account, and have an open mind to this, you come to this conclusion.

In 2003, the Wall Street Journal declared the debate over supply-side economics to have ended "with a whimper" after extensive modeling performed by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) failed to support the most extreme claims of supply-side policies.[2] ...
This research undermines the claim that tax cuts can completely compensate for the initial loss of revenue due to the cut, but does acknowledge that resulting growth from the tax cut does replace some of the lost revenue, and the CBO has come under fire for using low estimates.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1272/is_2699_132/ai_106473713/ Unfriendly environments aren't about the special scholarships or whatever. It's about people treating you like shit. About subtle snubs and outright sexism, about sexual harassment and always being seen as lesser. And something more detailed than a news article: http://www.grginc.com/WECE_FINAL_REPORT.pdf "Several sensed that their professors “did not like women” and recounted incidents of their tolerating sexist jokes or comments from male students in the classroom or lab. As women progressed through their college careers, and especially after they took internships in industry, they became more aware of how their gender affected the way others treated them as engineers. Some juniors and seniors described being harassed by co-workers or peers – experiences that made them more aware of gender bias. (Analyses of the focus group discussions indicated that women who participated in Women in Engineering initiatives were no more likely to report incidences of bias than those who did not participate in WIE initiatives.)"

good job misrepresenting the laws.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4181/is_20060731/ai_n16652712/

This was actually the crux of several of the EFF supported lawsuits that got consolidated into Hepting v. ATT. Several state communication commissions were trying to investigate and enforce state laws against the phone company voluntarily giving records or phone data to *any* entity. It just happened that the entity in question was the federal government. It's one of the few times that Missouri has been on the forefront of advocating civil liberties. And they got no credit. And of course, the FCC was of no help due to their boss. Again, too much power concentrated in one place. We need more checks and balances.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4181/is_20060731/ai_n16652712/

That reminds me of this article about a horrible mutual fund that lost tons of money:

Fund-industry experts puzzled for years over what motivated investors to stick with Steadman's hopeless losers. There are still about 10,000 shareholders. One clue emerged after the firm shut down Technology & Growth fund. About 30% of the redemption checks were returned, presumably because the shareholders were dead.

From how I see it (and from what I believe to know about the mechanics involved)...

When a woman orgasms, her cervix dips into (depending on the position) pool of seed the man released, sucking it in.

Wait, this is how you think sex works? The man orgasms, sex continues, then some time later, the female orgasms and becomes pregnant?!?

If pregnancy depended on the woman orgasming after the man, the accidental pregnancy rate would be close to zero

Actually a woman having an orgasm after the man has had one makes it more likely that she will be fertilized.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2372/is_n1_v35/ai_20746731/pg_2/
From the link

Through experiments conducted in his lab, Baker found that timing of female orgasm during or around the occurrence of vaginal intercourse further affects the likelihood of fertilization. During female orgasm the woman's cervix dips and the opening to the cervix gapes open, much like an elephant's trunk while taking in water. If a seminal pool is present in the vagina at that point, a significant number of sperm will be helped along by this "up-suck" phenomenon. So, to maximize conception, a woman should experience an orgasm immediately after a man ejaculates.

We knew blacks were human, for instance.

"We" did?

"We" do?

My bad, I was orignally gonna post a different article. The article I found came from the daily fail, so I didnt really want to post it. I changed articles w/o changing the title.

Here was the article I had originally planned to post.

http://findarticles.com/p/news-articles/daily-mail-london-england-the/mi_8002/is_2010_August_16/disabled-visit-amsterdam-prostitute-taxpayer/ai_n54807855/

You don't seem to realize that all this has only happened in the last 3 decades. Yes, China's government has given our government a bunch of loan money, but their government got all the money with which to give us loans from our private sector.

Citation needed.

Find the nearest object to your person. Locate "Made in China" imprint.

"Made in China" imprint says it was made in China. Thats says little to nothing, let alone that it got money from the private sector. Maybe some to a lot of its money came from selling to the public sector, but that happens everywhere with people selling there wares. Be it to their own local populace or to foreign countries. I also have things that say "Made in Koera", "Made is Japan" and "Made in Germany". Or are all these countries loaning the US money too? Business is business, regardless of place in the world. I also have things that say "Made in the USA".

Not their private sector. Their private sector has no fucking money.

Thats why the next investment wave from China is coming from it's private sector. Because they are broke...

The wealthy businessmen in the private sector aren't broke, you're right. The teenagers working for technology manufacturing aren't broke, you're right. Everybody else is broke, though. There is a major income inequality between the rich and the poor in China, and you thought it was bad in the US.

So the rich are rich, the youth with no dependents in the higher paying jobs have money and the poor and poor. Welcome to reality, its like this everywhere. Even in the US.

It's their government that has money. Their economy doesn't have any money, our economy is giving them money. And their government (and the government-controlled and government-controlling coporations) keep it all (and loan it back to us).

They have been deregulating a lot of that in that past few years. No, their government doesn't control everything, their economy has money.

Deregulating a lot of what? What are you talking about? Are you trying to say that the Chinese government is voluntarily dropping their stranglehold on the Chinese economy and selling the huge numbers of shares they have in nearly every powerful Chinese corporation? Are you simple?

*sigh*.... let me guess, you refused to read the link I posted before this paragraph that mention "But in recent years, the republic has been "liberalising and deregulating" to make it easier for Chinese monies to go out." Please go back and read some of the information. And you'll note, not every business in China is government owned (again, if you have read the link, you'd have known that.)

You don't seem to realize that all this has only happened in the last 3 decades. Yes, China's government has given our government a bunch of loan money, but their government got all the money with which to give us loans from our private sector.

Citation needed.

Find the nearest object to your person. Locate "Made in China" imprint.

Not their private sector. Their private sector has no fucking money.

Thats why the next investment wave from China is coming from it's private sector. Because they are broke...

The wealthy businessmen in the private sector aren't broke, you're right. The teenagers working for technology manufacturing aren't broke, you're right. Everybody else is broke, though. There is a major income inequality between the rich and the poor in China, and you thought it was bad in the US.

It's their government that has money. Their economy doesn't have any money, our economy is giving them money. And their government (and the government-controlled and government-controlling coporations) keep it all (and loan it back to us).

They have been deregulating a lot of that in that past few years. No, their government doesn't control everything, their economy has money.

Deregulating a lot of what? What are you talking about? Are you trying to say that the Chinese government is voluntarily dropping their stranglehold on the Chinese economy and selling the huge numbers of shares they have in nearly every powerful Chinese corporation? Are you simple?

without us it would return to its sorry state, because they don't know how to survive without us.

Considering their global investments, I doubt it.

I do submit that at this point, yes, China could survive on their own without us. They couldn't have ten years ago, and the only reason they can now is because we keep pumping more and more of our GDP into China's economy.

You don't seem to realize that all this has only happened in the last 3 decades. Yes, China's government has given our government a bunch of loan money, but their government got all the money with which to give us loans from our private sector.

Citation needed.

Not their private sector. Their private sector has no fucking money.

Thats why the next investment wave from China is coming from it's private sector. Because they are broke...

It's their government that has money. Their economy doesn't have any money, our economy is giving them money. And their government (and the government-controlled and government-controlling coporations) keep it all (and loan it back to us).

They have been deregulating a lot of that in that past few years. No, their government doesn't control everything, their economy has money.

without us it would return to its sorry state, because they don't know how to survive without us.

Considering their global investments, I doubt it.

Speaking of windows, look out yours. What do you see? The same houses, roads, cars, planes, clothes, food and oil-powered agriculture that was there since WWII.

There is simply no way, ever, that space is going to pay off. It's OVER. FINISHED.

Space Nutters have had DECADES to show us something, anything. End result? Sweet. Fuck. All.

But hey, don't listen to me. Listen to Dr Stephen Pyne.

CBC Quirks and Quarks

Listen to the "January 8 — Homage to Voyager." episode when it's out. I remember something like "the ISS is not exploring space, it's not even science." when I heard it on the radio today.

But hey, there's more!

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/oped-04y.html

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1134/is_9_115/ai_n27050480/?tag=content;col1

Or my favorite:

http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/episode/2009/09/19/tiny-trex-curing-colour-blind-monkeys-walking-on-our-own-two-feet-space-based-solar-power/

Where the scientist is barely holding back from laughing out loud at the outlandish "space-based solar power" projects. Hey, wasn't there one just last year? Where is it now? Oh yeah, oblivion.

We've hit limits in energy sources and propulsion technologies. Rockets take our technology to the outer limits of what's possible with materials. Unless you find new elements in the table of elements, what we have is *it*.

That 747 you saw when you looked out the window? Maiden flight was 1969. Hasn't changed in over four decades. Why? The technology and basic physical reality hasn't changed. It can't. But you think we'll be doing space? Ridiculous.

The fact we have fast computers today on a square inch of silicon doesn't help you move mass around. It's that basic. The fact you don't get that is both sad and terrifying.

Like this, where the materials used were the wrong ones and caused even survivors to go through difficult tragedies.
weylin

I present ClicVU, from the year 2000:

EFax.com, ClicVU, Team to Let Users Save Ads for Later (from ClickZ, March 8, 2000). Also, "ClicVU's technology lets users bookmark banner ads for later consumption." (from Brandweek, May 29, 2000).

The timing suggests that we've got another bubble to look forward to. The climax of the Dot-com bubble was pegged at March 10, 2000, just two days after ClicVU and eFax.com announced their collaboration.

I present ClicVU, from the year 2000:

EFax.com, ClicVU, Team to Let Users Save Ads for Later (from ClickZ, March 8, 2000). Also, "ClicVU's technology lets users bookmark banner ads for later consumption." (from Brandweek, May 29, 2000).

The timing suggests that we've got another bubble to look forward to. The climax of the Dot-com bubble was pegged at March 10, 2000, just two days after ClicVU and eFax.com announced their collaboration.

The ULTIMATE alternative fuel conspiracy ... I found this story myself just searching around on the web for a few days over a period of many years ... Here is the first source in 2000 an IRAQI professor at the University of Babylon in Iraq claims to create an AWSOME alternative fuel ... http://md1.csa.com/partners/viewrecord.php?requester=gs&collection=TRD&recid=0487992EN&q=related%3AcvDnjuQ1qzgJ%3Ascholar.google.com%2F&uid=787066510&setcookie=yes "Performance study of a four-stroke spark ignition engine working with both of hydrogen and ethyl alcohol as supplementary fuel Al-Baghdadi, Maher A.-R. Sadiq" Here a Davis grad student who previously was referencing the above professor in his quest to get funding to do similar research as the only expertise in the field with these fuel supplements ... http://gate.its.ucdavis.edu/enrollment/preprop06/jordan/ “GATE Center > Enrollment > Research Proposals Awarded in August 2005 > Eddie Jordan Hydrogen Enriched Ethanol Project” The library at the University of Babylon was particularly looted and destroyed over a long period of time after the war started. This is where the original work was done ... http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1374/is_4_63/ai_104971393/ A few years later the author/professor, Al-Baghdadi, Maher A.-R. Sadiq, shows up at a university in Libya researching fuel cells but that link is DEAD, but now there is this book at Borders ... http://www.borders.com.au/book/cfd-modeling-and-analysis-of-different-novel-designs-of-air-breathing-pem-fuel-cells/7689234/

Boston Globe

Kansas Matters (w/ large AP story)

Fox News (appears to be the same as first, from the AP)

Huffinton Post

NYTimes (Economix blog)

allmilitary.com (Miami Herald article)

Another good one

A great one, a 1993 article from Reason

Orrin Hatch

This is from the first couple pages of the first two Google searches I tried. Not fucking hard to find.

Do you want to do carbon credits next? That one should be even easier.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0CGN/is_1999_May_7/ai_54580586/
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?DotNetEcmaProcess

Yeh, if he's maintaining that story in court he's going straight to jail, do not pass go, do not collect $200. Normally non-consensual but nonviolent rape is not something you get convicted for because it's effectively impossible to prove and when it's just word vs word then you're forced to assume innocence(Much to many feminists dismay). But if the perpetrator admits the woman actually did say 'Stop' then Swedish law is extremely clear and it counts as rape.

Not if you're Mike Tyson. Even if the bitch had a history of false rape accusations.

Great, so now we're going to suffer with shitty berries too?

Power Mac G4 as a weapon? It must have had on-chip 128 bit encryption.

It wasn't on chip encryption, but reaching a gigaflop that was a threshold for export restrictions. Of course what the industry considered supercomputers had already progressed far beyond that level.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4182/is_19990907/ai_n10131702/

But how does it all compare to a cloud/botnet of smartphones?

More and more computing power everywhere, but the Earth still has plenty of problems left to solve.