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>I'm curious how being in that in-between state has affected you. As someone born in the early years but well into Gen X, I've never experienced that in-between feeling. Do you feel it has stripped you of opportunities or made you feel like an outsider?

As you say, everyone's experience *is* different. It's removed some opportunities, and left others. The net is somewhere a bit towards the negative for opportunities.

Major events, a large amount of these happened during high-school for those of us in "that" gap:

  - Removal of advanced high-school classes for those born in the new generation (thereby causing a double-cohort into university/college and making competition ridiculous)
  - Complete changes to high-school course requirements, making the next generation have a completely different experience (high school diplomas are no longer just given out for getting good grades, they also now depend on volunteer work)
  - Experiencing one of the first (only?) teacher's strikes up to that time
  - Sharp increases in tuition fees for post-secondary education. One of many examples.
  - Attempt of Quebec to secede from Canada, Quebec French-only (Charter violating) sign laws, Quebec using notwithstanding clause
  - Sharply increasing costs of home-ownership as this specific generation is getting ready to purchase homes, out of all my friends (from the same generation gap, generally), only one presently "owns" a home.

Oddly enough, as you see, most of the major events happened during high-school. There's probably other events (the usual stuff, of course, berlin wall falling, cold war ending, gulf war, etc, etc), but they're not coming to me that easily right now. :-)

Like how "CO2 causes man-made climate change", when, in fact, CO2, when the ocean...ya know...that 3/4 of the Earth's surface, spews CO2, it cools, not heats the surface air. It's an 'inconvenient truth', but is core to the problems with this, the world's biggest hoax.

The chemical reactions that lead to the oceans releasing CO2 may (or may not) be endothermic; that has nothing to do with the fact that CO2 is a greenhouse gas.

Did you never have a science lab where you worked with compressed gases? If you open up a tank of compressed CO2, the tank gets colder, because heat is absorbed in the expansion of the gas. (Safety hint, kids: this is why you never huff nitrous directly from the tank, it'll freeze your lungs.) That has nothing to do with CO2's role as a greenhouse gas.

The nearly world-class hoax of the ozone hole.

We put the brakes on ozone depletion before it got really bad; still, there is evidence that ozone loss has increased skin cancer in the most affected regions, and is having an impact on wildlife.

Doesn't anyone care about freedom anymore? Must we all join the fascists? Any problem that can be solved by sending money to Washington or voting Democrat isn't worth solving.

Thank you for so completely illustrating the problem. You seem to be so locked into your loathing of "voting Democrat" and your odd notion that "freedom" means that you get to pollute the planet and destroy resources that don't belong to you, that you've created a reality distortion field around yourself.

Before we can communicate science to people like you, we'd have to cure this pathogenic political condition. I'm not sure it can be done.

Sorry, but my opinion is based on exerience. For some reason, I (and my generation seemlingly) was able to adapt to work environments without incident. I don't recall similar complaints about Gen Xers. Others seem to agree. Which was nice, because I was always told we were lazy slackers.

As far as people are the same; no, not really. Only 50 years ago it was mostly unheard of for women to have a job at all, certainly nothing like the positions they fill today. In other words, societies DO change. Unless you want to argue we have the same society as Babelon?

It seems that the government does a fantastic job of eventually telling on itself. There is really no reason to not trust what they have said on this issue.

BS! The US government has a history of doing horrible things, some of which have taken many years before coming out. For instance did you know that it was government policy of the Bureau of Indian Affairs to forcibly Native American Indian women? This went on for many years. Or that the military used Blacks to do medical experiments on diseases like syphilis in Tuskegee which lasted 40 years, and only ended when it came to light what was being done? Not only that but Bush reclassified a lot of documents Clinton released, and you really believe everyone will find out what the Bush admin does?

I would gather that this is another medium of long-distance communication that uses less energy than current ones do. You do know how saturated the spectrum of communication is, so why nay-say a possibly useful advancement that is in testing and research stages. Innovation is always welcome as long as it serves some sort of purpose, but your skepticism is most likely warranted.
Although is it particle communication or wave communication? If it were a wave then it would just be another wavelength of radiation to shoot into space. And I'm not even sure if particle communication is a real term, but a quick google proves me wrong (or right).

Nope. Speeding does not cause accidents. This has been proven. Raising speed limits does not cause an increase in the number of accidents.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4179/is_19990425/ai_n11718981
http://www.hwysafety.com/hwy_montana_2001.htm
http://www.junkscience.com/nov98/peters2.html

As for alcohol, according to this 39% are alcohol are involved. "There were 16,885 alcohol-related fatalities in 2005 - 39 percent of the total traffic fatalities for the year."

So, I guess I need to revise my statement 61% of all accidents are caused by distracted drivers.

Planes already have had onboard phones in constant connection with the ground. The amount of data we're talking about (10 megabytes per hour is only 2.7KBps, and actual FDRs capture something like 7.5MB:h) is trivial to transmit over such a phone connection. It can of course be buffered for when there are indeed interruptions, all of which is backed up in the local physical recording like before, like I said. But the actual cost of a 5h, or even a 19h phonecall, even at $2:min (so up to $2280) is trivial compared to the other costs of the flight, like fuel, crew salary, even insurance. And of course saving the cost of waiting days to start getting the data after a crash would pay for all the flights recorded without incident in between.

Moreover, most of the events examined in the current recorders happen before the aircraft loses integrity or actually crashes. All that data would be available immediately. It would even be available in realtime, so early warnings could be found sometimes before they became critical, and emergency crews mobilized at the earliest possible moment.

So yes, it is elementary, and much more useful that the current systems.

Another device that comes to mind -- although I can't remember firmly enough exactly when it came out to argue that it was "first" -- was the Pontis MPlayer3. It was definitely one of the first ones that I remember seeing, and from the archived press releases I can find, I think it came out in the Summer (Jul-Aug, maybe a bit earlier) of 1998. The German company that produced it limped along for a long time afterwards, producing some Linux-based devices in fact, although they now seem to have been subsumed by 'Arcus Audio' which makes non-portable gear.

I always thought that the Pontis was a good design and deserved more success than it got, but it was an example of a bet on other technology that failed to pay off. The design didn't have any internal memory, and depended entirely on MMC cards for storage. At the time that meant 16 or, if you could find them, 32MB cards. (Data transfer through the serial port, no less.) Although the price on Flash memory eventually did come down to dirt-cheap levels, it took a lot longer than some of the rosy predictions Pontis made, and when really big cards did arrive, they came in the form of cripped SD cards rather than MMC ... and the Pontis wouldn't use SD cards.

I still have one of them kicking around somewhere. They had their strengths: the physical design was nice (no moving parts!), they ran a long time on two AA batteries, and the controls were simple enough to use without looking at the display, even if you were wearing gloves. The iPod could take a few lessons from it, frankly, particularly on that last measure. But it's all but useless now: although the cards it used were regular MMCs, they used a weird proprietary filesystem on the cards, and they can't be read or written to without the special reader and software.

It'll be interesting to see how long those cards hold their data for; years from now I wonder if I'll be able to stick some batteries in it and groan at my questionable taste in late-90s pop.

>So you agree that there is no evidence whatsoever to justify your belief that a realistic depiction of
>what is known to be a fictional event can cause harm.

>Any reports of PTSD from players of those games?

I've been doing some Googling, and it seems that there is evidence that supports the claim that exposure to fictional violence can have adverse consequences:

This is just one supporting article I found:
http://www.apa.org/science/psa/sb-anderson.html

Nonetheless, I still believe all the video games I have seen are reasonably cartoonish to not be a serious problem. I believe this is going to change, however, as they become more and more realistic.

>And if you think that video games aren't realistic enough, what about movies that are literally photorealistic?

My 2-year old daughter was sufficiently traumatized from watching Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" that it gave her nightmares, and the toy monster we got at McDonald's yesterday looks enough like "The Beast" that it upset her. Now bad dreams are a long way from acting out violent behavior, but the point here is that audio/visual stimuli /can/ have deep, lasting mental impacts. The extent of those impacts is debatable and is likely different for different people. I know I can't watch movies like "Hostel" or "Saw" - they disturb me. I suspect authentic simulations (or real depictions) of audio/video stimuli of violence can have adverse effects, and I bet I can go Google and find something to support this suspicion. But I suspect that /participatory/ stimuli have an even stronger effect. To use your phobia example, I suppose viewing realistic footage of heights could help someone become acclimated to such environments. But actual exposure to the real environment would go even further. Thus it is logical to assume the more realistic the simulation, the greater the acclimation effect.

>Gears of War comes pretty close, and I gather that some of the newer PC games go even further when played on a top end gaming PC.

I just Googled Gears of War - it does look pretty good. I've got a pretty high-end machine - I'll have to give it a go. I tend to prefer 1st-person games over 3rd person, though. I just played the latest Half Life game a couple of months ago and it was pretty realistic, too. Enough so that the crab-headed zombies grossed me out. :)

>Any reports of PTSD from players of those games?

I found a link of a soldier who had a PTSD episode possibly triggered by CoD:
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/02/10/ex-marine-goes-missing-after-call-of-duty-triggered-flashbacks/

>I've never heard of anybody experiencing PTSD from training scenarios in which the
>people participating know that they are not real--not even real life scenarios. Have you?

This is one I turned up with Google:

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3912/is_200602/ai_n16087458

"Depression and anxiety in particular have been associated with attrition during initial military training"

"It has been estimated that most recruits who demonstrate problems with adaptation are referred for mental health evaluation within the first 14 days of training.10 Although most of those referred are diagnosed with adjustment disorder,10,11 more serious levels of depression and suicide are likely to occur within the first 20 to 60 days of basic training.12 This report of referral for depression and suicide during the beginning of basic training coincides with reports of stress levels over the course of basic training. Fluctuating levels of stress have been noted in some groups of basic trainees, with peaks in stress levels after the first 1 week of training.2 However, most

Studies have shown that social skills are critical elements for psychological well-being and
success in everyday social interaction (Riggio, 1992). Social skills were found to be strong
predictors of personality characteristics and interpersonal outcomes, such as relationship
formation and maintenance (Spitzberg, 1999). The ability to form and maintain relationships
with coworkers maybe important proficiencies for workers to possess. One reason why social
skills could be important is because they may lead to higher job performance. In fact, Riggio and
Taylor (2000) explain that social skills can be used as a predictor of job performance.

Forfeiture laws make it remarkably easy to take people's property. (See "United States v. One Assortment of 89 Firearms," May 1990.) In a civil forfeiture case, the owner need not be convicted or even charged with a crime. Under federal law, police may seize property when they have "probable cause" to believe that it was purchased with the proceeds of a drug crime (everything from jewelry to a house) or that it was or would have been used to commit a drug crime (a car with pot in the glove compartment or cash intended for a cocaine buy). Unless the owner challenges the seizure within 30 days, posting a "cost bond" equal to 10 percent of the property's value, the government automatically keeps the asset.

Genuity, a web hosting company, was doing this via their "hopscotch" routing protocol in 1997. They were bought by GTE at that point but the technology had already been in development for several years. I met the founders at a conference and we exchanged some ideas on improvements based on some work I was doing for another company. Basically, though, they had connections into all of the major NAPs in the US and a dynamic cost-based routing protocol that chose which server to use for which customer. Dynamic updates to the site data (e.g. actually buying stuff) was more complex, obviously, because they had to wait for the transaction to synchronize, but at least they benefited by processing the request through the fastest pipe to the browser. Those updates and associated content came from a different server, matching the patent requirements.

I found this article ( http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1997_Dec_10/ai_20053332 ) rather easily, going back to 1997.

reading this converstaton reminded me of something i read quite a while back (on /.) i can find the article on ./ but i found what it linked to. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0KJI/is_3_114/ai_84237491 there, it discusses how we can easily store, transport, and use hydrogen which has been bonded to borax. (yes, soap.) the net result is safe transportation, and soapy water as the waste. quite interesting.

I propose using ancient deposits of carbon to lock up excess O2. Not only will this process remove excess O2 from the atmosphere but the process if exothermic and could also be used as a source of energy. In the mean time I suggest breathing as hard as possible at all times.

Personally I look forward to an oxygen rich atmosphere and the return of our dragonfly overlords.

http://www.denverpost.com/popular/ci_8354619

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2007_Dec_31/ai_n21176158

http://finance.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:MDT&morenews=10&rating=1&origin=71

Probably baaad news for Medtronic?

They might need to sign up for voluntary procedure at or products from Medasonic.

http://www.cja-jca.org/cgi/reprint/41/4/281.pdf

Maybe Judge Matsch's ruling see inCubation in courtrooms, and maybe the standing ruling will cause need for inTubation in shyster lawyers?

Remember Mr. Mudd, and the saying that followed his demise (your name will be MUD)? Maybe Judge Matsch will be famous for slaying corrupt patent lawyers... The headlines will read:

Cross THIS judge and you will be MATSCHED Out of Practice"

I admit I may be mistaken here but I was always convinced that the purpose of shares existing in the first place was to have a possibility of shared ownership for many indihviduals.

It's understandable but you're wrong. The original purpose of issuing shares in a corporation, and the purpose of the corporation itself, was to limit liability. Corporate Charters were first issued to limit the liability of investors to just what they invested in the corporation. The first two corporate charters were granted to the Dutch East India Company in 1602 and the Honourable East India Company in 1604. Both were trading companies involved in shipping products between India and Europe and shipping was an expensive operation. If a ship sank or was attacked by pirates not only did the owners lose the ship but they also had to pay for the loss of the cargo and the loss of the lives. If a small investor had invested money in a ship they could lose everything they owned, even their own home. The Dutch then the British granted charters to corporations to limit the liability of small investors. If a ship was lost the most an investor could lose is the amount of money they invested. However what has been overlooked in all of this was that corporate charters were originally granted if and only if the corporation served the Common good or Public good and when a corporation no longer served these it's charter could be revoked.

Brothers to the Rescue violated Cuban airspace. Havana had intelligence indicating a possible military operation. They fucked up, but understandably so. It's not like the US would never fire on a civilian plane.

The video linked to by parent is complete quackery. The autism-vaccine link has been thoroughly disproven many times now. In countries where vaccinations are not combined or where vaccines do not contain thimerosal (e.g. Denmark, Japan), autism rates rise as much as anywhere else; the obvious and correct explanation is better diagnosis and a significant loosening of diagnostic criteria. Contrary to what the "doctor" in the video claims, most autistics do not have anything like the gastroenteritis symptoms that are supposedly indicative of "vaccine poisioning". His claim that 100% of autistics have such symptoms is am intentional lie. Here is some more real information on these issues from the good folks at Quackwatch.

Ahh, the single wackjob. I can find dozens of articles by more than one expert that go against his research. Like this one.

Think about it, Harris is bunk. Your kids are very conservative Roman Catholics because its in their genes? Bull. Its pretty convient too; parents have no influence, oh unless they beat their kids or abuse them in some other way. Riiigh.

I'd be much more impressed with EU anti-trust efforts if they weren't pretty much aimed at non-EU companies. They're mostly a trade barrier rather than a legitimate regulatory body.

Because cutting off people's arms is counter to Western values. Pretty much all Muslim countries (Wahabis or not) practice that one. As are many Sharia laws for treating women.

There may well be perfectly good reasons to hate inefficient services. However, the same thing can be done in many different ways. For example, see WHO/Europe Highlights on health, Finland 2004. In 2001, the total expenditure on health care in Finland was $1841 (purchasing power parity) per capita; in the US it was $4887. This includes both the private and public sectors. (Health expenditure trends in OECD countries, 1990-2001, p. 11; see also p. 4)

There may well be perfectly good reasons to hate inefficient services. However, the same thing can be done in many different ways. For example, see WHO/Europe Highlights on health, Finland 2004. In 2001, the total expenditure on health care in Finland was $1841 (purchasing power parity) per capita; in the US it was $4887. This includes both the private and public sectors. (Health expenditure trends in OECD countries, 1990-2001, p. 11; see also p. 4)

And yet, that hasn't stopped them.

When you're talking about the DHS, common sense is no barrier.

Here and here. Cuba is going to be connected to Venezuela in 2009. So apparently Cuba does want to be connected, despite the political risks involved in a 1000 fold increase in Internet traffic. The major problem for Cuba, I can imagine, is the US telecomms blockade, and the Helms-Burton act, which penalizes foreign companies doing business in the US for doing business with Cuba. European and Asian engineering companies are not going to defy the US over one minor cable to Cuba from a nearby island, and the Cuban government obviously doesn't have the equipment and cannot financially justify acquiring it.

Paradoxically, in British (English?) Medical Schools, a MD is a Bachelor's degree, and a postgraduate in Medicine earns the title of 'Mr.'

An example of a large medical product that the US government does efficiently is Medicare.

They have overhead that is about 1/3 that of private insurance...

Medicare is an iceberg that the USA is heading for, along with its smaller yet also dangerous sibling, Social Security. On our current course, in a few decades, all tax revenues taken by the US will be spent on entitlements for a very small percentage of the population. Meanwhile, the vast majority of the population does not rely on Medicare and Social Security for health care and retirement, and the sectors that are paying for the latter's private health care and retirement are doing great. Medicare and SS are horribly insolvent, versus a booming private sector. Which one is more efficient?

As Ravenshrike said, Medicare does not have to follow GAAP accounting rules, either in its own internal accounting, or in reimbursement. although the CBO has started keeping track of things that way just for the hell of it, and I can assure you that GAAP accounting does not show any such 1/3 advantage.

See: Real budget deficit: $4 trillion, an article about a problem scarier than the RIAA, the MPAA, Al Qaeda, and the ACLU combined.

But another huge reason Medicare is able to operate at the costs it does (remember, those costs are still going to bankrupt the USA and make US Treasury Bonds into junk bonds if something isn't done) is that the sheer size (and government-vested authority) of the program allows it to negotiate drug prices, and dictate reimbursement costs to doctors, something that can't be done in the private sector due to antitrust laws.

So you can't brag about something Medicare can do that would be illegal in the private sector, which includes accounting principles that would have any private corporation's accountants in supermax prison for a minimum of 20 years under Sarbanes-Oxley. It is ironic, indeed, that you are making the argument that Medicare, which essentially dictates the prices of drugs made by Big Pharma, is more efficient than the private system, in a thread about how capping the profits of Big Pharma is a bad thing - since such price controls would dry up the very investment that gave rise to said drugs - especially when such activities would be illegal if private health insurers tried it!

while the people that are on it rank it far higher than people rank their private insurance companies.

That which robs Peter to pay Paul will always have the support of Paul. But Peter's grandkids are going to be really pissed when the real-world bills come due.

Medicare is a hopelessly doomed ponzi scheme that is going to ruin the US economy. Anyone who would use this program, of all programs, as some paragon of fiscal wisdom simply should stick to open source software debates, or wherever his real expertise may lie.

"...sometimes an ape will break off a branch about a foot long, snap off the twigs, fray one end [emphasis mine], and put the other end in its mouth. Holding on to a tree trunk with its arms and legs, the orangutan rams the stick into a hole containing a termite nest. It then flicks out the broken-up chunks--full of delectable larvae and pupae--and eats them. The Suaq orangutans also use sticks to scare out ants from tree colonies." From: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1511/is_n11_v16/ai_17643237

I don't know about the US, but there was a famous case in the UK where newsreader Julia Somerville was arrested (although not prosecuted AFAIK) for images of her child in the bath: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19951105/ai_n14016171 . Thank heavens for digital cameras.

I see that article refers to the possibility of her being fined. It's interesting how the law has changed - first possession was only illegal if you intended to distribute it (1978), then possession alone was illegal with a fine (1989), then illegal with a 6 month sentence (1994), then extended to five years in 2000. Then in 2003 the age of a "child" was raised from 16 to 18, so people who can legally have consenting sex can be pedophiles too.

However, I don't think that the answer is bloodshed; try contributing to groups like Public Citizen and the Electronic Frontier Foundation who are trying to protect our rights.

So you are suggesting that the solution for the problem of lawyers is more lawyers? Sorry, but no that is not the solution. Mainly because it only strengthens the in hold that legal speak has over common sense. Letting a murder go because someone forgot to say "simon says" is a crime in and of itself and should be treated accordingly. With malatov cocktails and hunting rifles. Seriously, if more people are going to be allowed to die because of a slimebag lawyer and judge who bows to word games then it should be that judge and that lawyer and those murders who die. I'm not encouraging day to day vigilantes, but just like when your car breaks down you have to get out and push, when they legal/government system breaks down the public has to step out side the normal social agreement and replace the broken parts. I know that sounds harsh, but there are always lives at stake it's just usually the lives of the average citizens in the courtroom. When most people go into a court room it's because there is something life changingly serious going on. Lawyers who play word games with people's lives are just as damaging to a harmonious society as thieves and murderers.

I think this is interesting, it surprised me when I did a little research and found you can get similar yields of butanol to those of ethanol (I'm not sure which is actually easier to purify and so on though. Two and a half gallons of ethanol can be produced from a bushel of corn, and a new process claims to give the same yield .

This kind of thing is already happening with existing anti-terrorist radiation detectors, e.g.:

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/03/nuclear_terrori.html

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_20041221/ai_n14588366

http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn3150

Probably incorrect on my part to imply the Republican party came entirely from the Whigs but the Whigs did find a home there and they were a prominent faction in the early Republican part.

It's usually not like me to help with the punchline, but read this and you'll understand.

Uh, no.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3827/is_200003/ai_n8887933

This doesn't excuse the Bush Administration. But don't pretend they invented it, it just makes you look like a lame partisan hack.

What right to Mexicans have to cross into our territory and undermine our values and freedoms

I'm going to reply as if you meant "what right do Mexicans". Fact is is many, maybe not all, Mexicans are of Native American Indian Tribe descent and their ancestors have been here a lot longer than any conquering Europeans. Some Indian tribes even have the right to cross the US Mexican border whenever they want. Such as the Tohono O'odham Nation and other Indian tribes. Actually the Tohono O'odham Nation straddles the US Mexican order with part in the US and part in Mexico. Though the tribes have the right to cross the border many are still being harassed.

I found this article about insurance rates for doctors in the us, a few choice quotes:

Jury Verdict Research, of Horsham, Pa., reports that nearly half of all awards in medical malpractice cases topped $1 million in 1999, the most recent period for which data are complete. Simply settling a claim cost an insurer $650,000, up 30 percent in a single year.

West Virginia obstetricians paid an average of $75,155 in 2001, while their colleagues next door in Kentucky were charged only $41,661.

Obstetricians, neurosurgeons, emergency physicians and other high-risk specialists have absorbed the brunt of the blow. It can cost an ob-gyn in South Florida $209,000 a year to insure for delivery of babies.

Re: "It's not like they have an actual warehouse full of books and such."

Nonsense - Amazon has millions of square feet of warehouse space throughout North America, UK, France, Germany, Japan and China. Example: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2007_July_3/ai_n19331851 - "...The new facility will be approximately 600,000 square feet, making it one of the larger Amazon fulfillment centers in North America. The new facility will create up to 300 full-time positions this year, with an additional 1,000 - 1,300 temporary jobs during the 2007 holiday season."
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Amazon works like any other retailer. They buy inventory based on forecast demand, and then sell/ship it to meet demand.

Best thing for Amazon to do is stop shipping Jerry Lewis movies to France in retaliation - ha! that'll show 'em!

You are still thinking like it is 2008 not 2003. (Half a decade ago) Email was still considered a Toy Comunication which was just starting to gain accecptance as vital information.

Government email was found to be vital information back in the eighties when the PROFS communications of Oliver North and Adm. Poindexter were found to be valuable evidence in the Iran-Contra affair. To think that in 2003 email was considered a "toy" in the executive branch is just wrong. Here is a good article on the topic.

Your information is correct. But you forgot to mention the difference between car bombs in urban areas, which were reported in advance (although sometimes questionable police response made matters worse: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4156/is_20011209/ai_n13963053 http://www.rinf.com/columnists/news/mi5-and-omagh-the-bomb-to-end-all-bombs ) and the actual attacks on British colonial forces, which were meant to hurt them. I see the war in N Ireland as a classic war for independence with all modern "appendages". Unfortunately it's not over yet and Irish people are still under foreign rule. Before you go yapping about and accusing me of supporting "terrorists" think about your own country. Wherever you are. Almost every country had its war for independence. The only question is when and how successful was it against its colonial masters. Overlords, if you will.

Animals (well higher order ones that we generally associate with food) do not. They reproduce sexually. There is strong evidence that cloned animals show earlier signs of aging http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0YUG/is_11_9/ai_n18608674 . THis might mean that the meat gets tougher quicker or whatever, and it raises ethical concerns too.

BTW a double-yolked egg is not a clone. It is two ova that got deivered down the egg packaging canal together (like fraternal twins).

In related news, an initiative of car manufacturers spearheaded by Ford has introduced an enabling 'cylinder per need' model.

"I'm still laughing at how the Bush administration is out smarting the democrats in Congress at every turn."

Laugh while you can.

Your sorry assed demagogues have succeeded in squandering international goodwill towards the U.S., sold military technology to China in order to insure low prices at Wal-Mart and guaranteed that not only *you*, but your children (if you stop doing the hand dance long enough to have any), and their children's chidren will be paying the price for their stupidity.

The long and short of it laughing boy, is that *your* party attempted to impeach a sitting president over a stain on a blue dress and failed, but have sufficiently befuddled the nation with misdirection and divisiveness that we are failing to impeach a president and his cronies who have lied to us, lead us into a quagmire, are shredding the constitution at every turn, and who felt the need to put safeguards in place to prevent them from being charged as war criminals like his father was.

So, yeah, good ahead and laugh, I for one will shed a tear.

"I'm still laughing at how the Bush administration is out smarting the democrats in Congress at every turn."

Laugh while you can.

Your sorry assed demagogues have succeeded in squandering international goodwill towards the U.S., sold military technology to China in order to insure low prices at Wal-Mart and guaranteed that not only *you*, but your children (if you stop doing the hand dance long enough to have any), and their children's chidren will be paying the price for their stupidity.

The long and short of it laughing boy, is that *your* party attempted to impeach a sitting president over a stain on a blue dress and failed, but have sufficiently befuddled the nation with misdirection and divisiveness that we are failing to impeach a president and his cronies who have lied to us, lead us into a quagmire, are shredding the constitution at every turn, and who felt the need to put safeguards in place to prevent them from being charged as war criminals like his father was.

So, yeah, good ahead and laugh, I for one will shed a tear.

My last ambulance ride took 1 hour and cost 350$. Heath care tends to be overpriced due to billing issues. AKA lot's of people don't pay which drives the costs up for the uninsured.

"The practice was publicized in a New York Times article about a young woman without health insurance, who found herself owing over $14,000 to a hospital for a 2-day stay resulting from an appendectomy. This amount did not include doctors' fees. This same hospital receives around $2,500 from HMOs, $5,000 from Medicaid (the government program for the poor), and $7,500 from Medicare (the government program for the elderly) for the same operation and 2-day stay."

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0ISW/is_2003_July/ai_104259129

The point of 10k of basic coverage is to prevent this type of treatment.

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