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I was taught the "basic glider" (according to rwa2 and his website) by a Japanese man who called it a "Mitsubishi." The best and worst part of the design was that any inconsistencies in folds would result in erratic, acrobatic flights. While looping, swerves and abrupt dives are cool for random throwing, they are counterproductive to gliding.

My point is that any paper airplane enthusiast who has spent more than two hours folding paper knows the dart is the worst possible design. While I applaud that any organization put effort into a project such as this, I'm baffled that more work was not put into a better design.

Low speed aerodynamics do not scale up well, it appeared the center of gravity was not even tested and I saw no presence of a dihedral, the keystone of a paper plane's stability against rolling.

They'd probably have done better to scale up a flying hole. http://davepowell.hubpages.com/hub/The-Safest-Most-Unique-Paper-Airplane-Ever-The-Flying-Hole

It's not common knowledge, but yes. Looked it up years ago but no longer have the cites for it.

Has to do with the federal government no longer acting within the Constitution, and therefore being in a corporate capacity. Therefore, everything is contractually-based. Slightly worse, the parents are merely the holders in due course. By the time it's reached the age of majority it's been the subject of a number of contracts from Certified Federal Citizenship (the "STATE OF [WHATEVER]"s are all federal), federal income tax benefits, public education benefits, etc. By accepting benefits, privileges and considerations, the parents are considered to have signed it over to the federal government in a compelled performance contract. Perhaps a good indicator of this are the municipal codes for practically anywhere in the U.S.: they only apply to "persons" which - in law, not English - refers to the subject of a contractual obligation. That's right, municipal codes don't apply to actual people, but only pull the strings of a contractual relationship.

Mind you, the contract isn't valid law. It's unconscionable (in the original sense of the legal term), it's outside the Constitution, and we've never given our representatives the authority to make those kinds of contracts (particularly on time we paid for). But it's the fictive argument on which they base their position. To obfuscate it, ranks of attorneys are actually officers of the court, systematically convoluting the legal definitions over generations. To sort out what they've been up do, you'd actually need to study them. I have.

> they turn all pseudo-skeptic and quote James Randi chapter and verse
FTFY. James Randi is a pseudo-skeptic -- he can't apply his skepticism towards his own skepticism.
See: http://www.debunkingskeptics.com/Page30.htm#RealSkeptics

> there's no such thing as spirits, ghosts, gods, reincarnation or afterlife?
WRT the afterlife, the only people you should talk to IMHO are people who have been declared clinically dead, and yet "awoke" 30 mins, 1 hr later. etc. Because unless you have been dead, you have _zero_ experience. Who would you rather learn from? Somebody who went through an "interesting experience" or someone who has no frame of reference or knowledge about a topic yet pretends to?

WRT reincarnation, the evidence is still controversial (i.e. as in, it goes against my belief system so I can't accept it.) It would be best to read the evidence for yourself and make your own mind up, instead of letting other people dictate what they _think_ is correct.

http://www.squidoo.com/the-best-reincarnation-books
http://letusponder.hubpages.com/hub/10-books-about-Reincarnation

1. Children's Past Lives: How Past Life Memories Affect Your Child, by Carol Bowman
2. Many Lives Many Masters, Brian Weiss
3. You Have Been Here Before: A Psychologist Looks at Past Lives, Dr. Edith Fiore
4. Children Who Remember, Dr. Ian Stevenson
5. Past Lives, Future Lives, Dick Sutphen
6. Reliving Past Lives, Helen Wambach
7. Edgar Cayce's Story of Karma, Mary Ann Woodward
8. Mass Dreams of the Future, Chet Snow
9. Reincarnation, Sylvia Cranston and Carey Williams
10. Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives, by Michael Duff Newton

Best of luck in your journey!

The pay here is rather low during an industry boom. I'd hate to think what happens if there's a sag.

My dad was a traveling turbine technician for several years. His pay-per-hour was closer to $40/hour ($80k/year) at the time. They paid for training, transportation (airplane coach and vehicle-- usually a truck or SUV because of the locations), food, gas, lodging and overtime and provided a portable laptop and a smart phone. He was often assigned in teams and while it wasn't the same all the time, the same areas tended to get serviced by the same teams. There was even a company cruise/paid amusement in addition to the 4 weeks vacation, other standard full-benefits, and the hotel points and airplane miles he picked up (even though they booked everything).

Its a pretty good industry if you get the right job in it. It was a couple years since he was there though, so they may have gotten cheap as industries typically do.

$722 million spent in 2009 on anti-smoking campaigns.

$3,797,048,669 since January 1st on the war on drugs

The US govt. wastes plenty of money on other things.

Sources:
http://jeffduff.hubpages.com/hub/American-Government-Insanity
http://actionamerica.org/drugs/wodclock.shtml

Oeschger was just doing what a good scientist does, asking questions.

You misunderstand his question - it was *rhetorical* not scientific. He *presumes* the answer, he doesn't look for it.

A good scientist does not ask rhetorical questions (although a good teacher might).

The urban heat island effect has no effect on global warming.

I'm sure you can't possibly mean that. Human activity generates heat, and that heat will, all other things kept equal, warm the planet. It may be that those things that tend to increase average global temperature are minuscule, and possibly undetectable against the background of natural variation, but they *must* have some nonzero, positive effect.

That's why CO2 levels remained around 280 ppm during that period.

That's proxy data, not real data. And further, it simply cannot be taken as a proxy with a high sample rate - http://robertkernodle.hubpages.com/hub/ICE-Core-CO2-Records-Ancient-Atmospheres-Or-Geophysical-Artifacts

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/01/01/antarctic-ice-cores-the-sample-rate-problem/

Adding CO2 to the atmosphere slows down the re-radiated infrared energy on it's way back out causing the Earth to get hotter. That's simple physics.

Here's another simple physics problem - you can place the end of an object in a pot of hot water, and measure the amount of time it takes for that heat to go from one end of the object, to the end that is not in the water.

Given a human is mostly just water, how long will it take for the left hand to warm up if you put the right hand in a pot of hot water? Now what happens when you test that simple physics guess :)

Apple boycotts CES to control their own PR, and this is what Microsoft is doing.

Trade shows really are declining. Apple may not have done CES, but they used to do MacWorld to one-up CES. Now they don't even do MacWorld, because it's not necessary for them, and Microsoft apparently feels the same way about CES. In general, the Internet has made big CES product announcements unnecessary.

It is no doubt that nanocoatings are going mainstream what with the latest solar paint that can harness the sun http://www.infobarrel.com/Solar_Nanopaint_-_Paint_With_Quantum_Dot_Solar_Cells and coatings for jets and other aircraft to provide excellent aerodynamic properties. Then you have nanocoatings for engines and http://againsttheodds.hubpages.com/hub/Nanodiamond-Lubricants-And-Lubrication-Particles and countless other applications on the horizon. It is an exciting time and there is still plenty of room at the bottom.

http://helenathegreat.hubpages.com/hub/Prius

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2008/05/the-ultimate-pr/

http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/magazine/16-06/ff_heresies_09usedcars

That's because each Prius consumes the equivalent of 1,000 gallons of fuel before its odometer clicks to 1.

The referenced article expands on my point about the environmental cost in the article and referenced study the article is based on. You will note that I am not anti-hybrid. It is technology that I have followed out of interest since I first heard about it's use some 20 years ago in the large dump trucks that are used in strip mines.

My point is that you need to consider your usage scenario. For most people they are going to better benefit themselves and the environment by buying a very efficient gas or diesel car. For certain people the hybrid is the better car, but for most it is nothing more than the green dick equivalent of driving a Hummer.

My secondary point is that people are letting politics try to dictate science and that is wrong. Science should always be free of politics. I'm not trolling, I drive a low emission vehicle and have driven small cars for years before it was the politically correct thing to do.

They can be a danger to kids (just about anything can be a danger to kids) and that is good to know for people who may not realize the power in rare earth magnets. But, more importantly, the use of rare earths creates a dependence on China that is critical although new companies are now trying to fill the supply gap. That makes a good stock market emerging market if you trust in such things. Also, the conditions at such mines and the corresponding factories are lethal with likely many generations of Chinese and 3rd world laborers going to die like the early days of the coal mining industry. Better extraction and refining methods are needed as well as alternatives to rare earths which are being pursued. I have written a few articles on the rare earths and these magnets: http://againsttheodds.hubpages.com/hub/Super-Neodymium-Magnets and http://againsttheodds.hubpages.com/hub/The-Race-For-The-Stocks-Of-The-17-Rare-Earth-Elements are a few.

They can be a danger to kids (just about anything can be a danger to kids) and that is good to know for people who may not realize the power in rare earth magnets. But, more importantly, the use of rare earths creates a dependence on China that is critical although new companies are now trying to fill the supply gap. That makes a good stock market emerging market if you trust in such things. Also, the conditions at such mines and the corresponding factories are lethal with likely many generations of Chinese and 3rd world laborers going to die like the early days of the coal mining industry. Better extraction and refining methods are needed as well as alternatives to rare earths which are being pursued. I have written a few articles on the rare earths and these magnets: http://againsttheodds.hubpages.com/hub/Super-Neodymium-Magnets and http://againsttheodds.hubpages.com/hub/The-Race-For-The-Stocks-Of-The-17-Rare-Earth-Elements are a few.

"...Warmists actually publicly acknowledge the existence of hard ice core and geological data which shows a steady level of atmospheric CO2 over the last 15 million years which kinda trumps their six-month data spans - the data also shows midtide sea levels back then over a hundred feet higher than they are now"

Except that recent studies have shown that gas can migrate in ice cores far more than previously thought... bringing the ice core data under suspicion.

There are several things potentially at work here. Among them are the fact that it is known that liquid saline can exist in the ice down to -70F. And while given free reign gas tends to diffuse through a material, some suggest that there are physical forces that could cause CO2 to actually move to specific areas and aggregate.

So while ice core data appears to be quite detailed (which, on the surface, leads one to believe it is accurate), there may be processes by which components migrate through the ice and actually causing them to concentrate, leading to a false impression of detail (artifacts).

I'm not trying to tell you that any of this is fact, and it certainly isn't firmly established. However, what it does say is that there are serious, scientifically legitimate questions about ice core data.

And finally, if you think CO2 levels have been "steady" over millions of years, you haven't been doing your homework.

The evidence is still unclear on whether we run a substantial chance of triggering a Canfield ocean and a greenhouse extinction if we let global warming get out of hand. As with many aspects of this issue, we would only find out for sure when it was too late to do anything about it. But itâ(TM)s the only outcome of the current climate crisis that might convert a massive dieback of the human population into an actual extinction.

Apparently it's also explained in detail in Peter Ward's Under a Green Sky.

First off what they did was take this :

"At $16,000 for the Star workstation and an additional $50,000 to $100,000 for the complete system Xerox only sold about 25,000 units."

And turn it into first the $9,995 Lisa and then into the $2,495 mac. You think it's easy cramming $100.000 worth of technology into a $2,495 machine ? Those guys were friggin' geniuses. They may have gotten the general idea of which way computers were headed from Xerox (who by the way gave plenty of presentations to other companies before Apple and none of them recognized the value of what they saw there) and redeveloped and adapted this stuff for the puny home computers.

You can follow the whole development through a series of screenshots taken during coding here on flolklore.org. To appreciate the complexity of the task think about how long it took Microsoft to catch up with Apple even after they were given Macs by Apple to develop their software on.

Second, Woz is a great guy and engineer but after the Apple 2 his time had passed. I loved the Amiga at the time who were doing sort of the same thing as Woz with clever designs based around custom chips, but that was a dead end. The company started with Woz' technical prowess but it would've died then and there without Job's intuition about where computing was going next : easy to use interfaces, nicely designed boxes and business savvy.

http://pente.hubpages.com/hub/AMD-Fusion-APU-Processor-Specifications

for its possible to play starcraft 2 with that shit, even on a low end portable if it has the llano.

in a desktop, you can even crossfire it with its equivalent 6xxx card, therefore reaching major performance for ridiculous price.

if you went with a traditional route, you would need to get the cpu, and then get a separate 6xxx equivalent card, and then one more to do the crossfire.

llano pieces give you 1 good cpu and 1 good graphics card in one shot, and in future they will be upgradeable. you will be able to upgrade both the cpu and 'graphics card' of your rig by upgrading just 1 piece of hardware.

Apple only cares about the sale of the product, not support, that's why so many of their products fail 2-3 years off shelf life conveniently after warranty. I bet their security team is grossly underfunded too.

ex. http://mark-knowles.hubpages.com/hub/Apple-MacBook-Air or just google apple product longevity,

About 10 people fall off the commuter trains and die every day in Bombay. They tend to ride outside the train cars standing on the window sills (toes going inward) and fingers clinging to the rain gutters while the electric poles carrying the overhead wires whizz by. Get tried, lean a little outward ... death by falling from the train. Trains don't stop, relatives have to pay a fine to get the bodies from the morgue. But usually they can bribe their way out of the fine. http://bombaystreets.com/archives/tag/trains http://hubpages.com/hub/trainsinindiasomemodernsomeancientfastandslow

Sincerely, pretty much all over the age of 14. FTFY. And I agree Ferngully II...errr...I mean Avatar would have been just as nice and MUCH less of a skull thumper without the 3D. I thought Cameron had the better idea years ago, when he was talking about 60FPS film instead of 24.

And am I the only one that just gets massive headaches from the crap? If anything this new stuff gives me worse headaches than the 70s crap did or even the 90s Nvidia crap. And I've noticed that even though the stores are pushing 3D TVs like crazy everyone I know that has bought a new big screen didn't go for the 3D and when I asked them why there was always someone that it didn't work for, be it the husband/wife or BF/GF. I have a feeling a lot of folks are just gonna avoid it like they did in the last three go arounds.

And do we REALLY need crap jumping out at us as we play our games? with a good widescreen there is already so much purty and boom booms on your average AAA FPS that I find it hard not to just gawk and get my ass blown off and they are already so much immersion they can make you jump, so do we REALLY need "Dr Tongue's 3D house of bullets" to enjoy the game?

"We are unable to play you're requested TV Channel, due to the content violating the profanity rules in apple's terms of use policy"

Yes it matters. Expand you're into "you are" in the above sentence and tell me how much sense it makes to you.

If your first language is not English, here is some help for you... http://hubpages.com/hub/grammar

If your first language is English, well, you have a serious communication problem.

They should put it in a double-wide and get 140 MPH rating. Seriously, 90 MPH is nothing. That's just a bad thunderstorm. I just can't even envision what sort of construction would not be able to withstand 90 MPH except for possibly an un-anchored camping tent.

Yeah, gambling and prostitution brought in lots of dough but the biggest moneymaker was the sale of liquor. Prohibition was the greatest thing that ever happened for us.

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from the people who have actually 'studied' this issue:

http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/04/apple-location-tracking.html
"Our best guess is that the location is determined by cell-tower triangulation, and the timing of the recording is erratic, with a widely varying frequency of updates that may be triggered by traveling between cells or activity on the phone itself."

It's not the tower locations, and is probably related to Assisted GPS used on iPhones

http://hubpages.com/hub/_86_Mac_Plus_Vs_07_AMD_DualCore_You_Wont_Believe_Who_Wins

All available from third parties. Welcome to 2010.

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Obama's legacy. That or this empty-promise of a universal healthcare system, which is also coming along swimmingly, just as expected.

And so what if you have a larger percentage of miscarriages? That is simply nature sorting life out. All you need are 2-3 healthy babies in the end.

Very callous of you to minimize the loss a woman feels when a she miscarries.

I've been reading along for a while now. I just wanted to drop you a comment to say keep up the great work.. Thanks!

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Does anybody else get pleasant tingling in the head and down the spine during the climax of a symphony? It used to happen randomly in my past, and I never understood it. My mom gets it too. Latley I've been getting it more, and my karma has been good. Last night was the first time I ever thought to google it, and I found people sharing similar experiences here, and now this article randomly shows up on slashdot. It seems to be related to the sanskrit idea of chakra.

I'd double check that (if you have checked on it at all.)

That's what they told me when I called AT&T prior to purchasing the iPhone4, because I had the unlimited data with my 3GS. I can upgrade my phone and keep the unlimited data, but I can't make any changes to the plan at all.

Go to a store, talk to some one there. And if you have not upgraded yet to your iPhone 4, read this article about Haggling for your next cellphone. If you already have the iPhone 4 and want to change something, you can still use that article to get yourself the change you want. Key is to remain cool and be polite and friendly, even if you are enraged.

It beat Google for the most visited site last year somehow so it seems to be one of the stickier websites around that aren't related to search or email.

Unless I am mistaken it didn't beat Google for hits, only the time spent on facebook was higher than time spent on Google. But if you include googles other sites like Youtube it may tell a different story. Like I said though I could be very mistaken though this site ranks facebook at 5th for 2010.
http://hubpages.com/hub/Most-visited-Websites-in-the-World-Most-Popular-Websites-in-the-Internet

What I find strange in the abstract sense is that a website turned over more profit last year than the entire economy Burundi which has a population of 9 million people. Admittedly one of the ten poorest countries in the world, but this puts into perspective in my mind at least just how poor these people really are.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)

Many police officers have a trying, stressful job, they get to deal with assholes and crazies and people who are generally hostile to their presence, day in and day out. Sure enough. But, I can't help to think that some of their actions, as a whole profession, might not be responsible for some of this hostility.

Sure, you have the semi-rare high profile police brutality cases where several cops pound the shit out of some helpless person for no apparent reason. Sometimes they beg for the abuse to stop, sometimes they're already unconscious, so they can't. You have the likewise rare cases where cops shoot people for no apparent justified reason. Sometimes these things are swept aside behind the closed doors of an internal affairs commission, seemingly in the face of all logic known to mankind. But, I think it goes much deeper than that.

I think most people just don't respect the police anymore, because in our mass subconscious, the police themselves have become undeserving of respect. I my self have had a negative encounter, consisting of verbal abuse and unwarranted physical contact/shoving precipitated by a policeman--a true example of the little-man's complex by the way, only this stature-deprived sociopath had a badge, and authoritah to hide behind.

He was fully aware that if he was another person in another place and time acting in this way, he would have been stomped into the pavement. To this day, I'm not sure what caused it, other than he just wanted to fuck around with someone. I can't even begin to imagine what minorities go through, especially in regard to illegal searches.

It's these little misconducts, these little abuses which are turning people against the police. Good folks just can't know whether a cop is be on their side, or whether he's going to help ruin their day. Here's another thing: we constantly hear about police having this dangerous job, and how we should kiss their asses because they put their lives on the line; and sure, a hundred and some change will die on the job every year, nationwide. But when you consider just how many police officers we have, the numbers tell a different story:

Occupation: Annual deaths per 100,000 workers

Commercial Fishing: 129
Timber Industry: 116
Active Military: 86
Structural Iron and Steel: 76
Aircraft Pilots: 72
Farmer/Rancher: 40
Sanitation/Garbage: 37
Roofers: 34
Power Line Installer: 30
Oil/Gas Crew: 24
Merchant Mariner: 23
Truck Drivers/Movers: 22
Taxi Driver/Chauffer: 21
Construction Equipment Operator: 16
Police Officer: 16
Cement Maker: 13
Miller: 12
Security Guard: 8
Fireman: 7
Slaughterhouse: 2

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Now who looks the fool?

Maybe even try some of these, who knows you might even learn something new and exciting!

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http://hubpages.com/hub/Linux-for-your-kids

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According to this...
IBM has around ~380,000 employees
Hewlett Packard ~320,000 employees
Oracle ~200,000 employees

http://hubpages.com/hub/Worlds-Largest-Companies-Worlds-Largest-Companies-by-Employees-And-Blue-Chip-Largest-Company-List

Microsoft isn't even on the list. But I found other sources suggesting they are ~100,000 employees

And that's just "IT". Many other companies on the list in fields including Banks, Financial Services, Aerospace, and Utilities also really *should* have substantial security budgets. So, maybe it is 'worthy of note' that Microsoft has spent more on training its staff and devs on security. (Assuming its true... I'm skeptical that there is a good source for that information in the first place... but perhaps there is?)

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And cycle lanes are for bikes, but cars will still park in them.

Worse is the total lack of planning that goes into cycle lanes in the first place. Often footpaths and busy roads are still more appropriate for cyclists than the available cycle paths.

Like the environmental cost of manufacturing the batteries?

from The Prius Bad for the Environment?:

the Prius costs about $3.25 per mile and is expected to last about 100,000 miles. The Hummer, on the other hand, with all the same factors counted, costs about $1.95 per mile and is expected to last about 300,000 miles.

Up here in Ontario Canada, our local school gives out the dumbest grades to children. I swear they stole the grading system from Harry Potter's O.W.L. system -- basically they get A, B, C letter grades for certain aspects of the year, and then an "excellent / good / satisfactory / needs improvement" grade for other aspects of the course work (sample report card).

The unnecessary complexity becomes apparent when guides are made to help parents understand the grade system.

On top of this, the letter grading has been made substantially tougher (something I have no problem with). To quote:

The Ontario Ministry of Education changed its grading system several years ago in response to two different factors: to reduce disparity in reporting standards; and to reflect the academic achievement of the vast majority of Ontario students in the public education system. That's right, the vast majority of bright, capable students in the Ontario public elementary system are not straight-A achievers, but rather straight-B's.

http://coreplayer.com/content/view/28/69/ for symbian, palm and wm6 devices.

http://www.androidguys.com/2010/06/25/beta-test-rockplayerbase/ for Android (in Beta, but works great!)

Nothing for iphone, sorry. try this instead: http://www.gadgetsdna.com/how-to-install-android-2-2-froyo-on-iphone-3g/3501/

http://hubpages.com/hub/How-To-Play-MKV-Files-On-Playstation-3 Best bet for PS3 (which seems ridiculous, but tevs)

IANAHRO, but the topic is interesting. I was snooping around and I found this link which discusses equipment and antennas and has some relevant videos. This site has some info on the various ham bands that might be relevant. It mentions that the sun spot cycle is a problem right now for long distance communications that bounce of the ionosphere. From that site it looks to me like the 20 meter (14mhz) and 40 meter (7 mhz) bands are your best bet. I wouldn't want to have to rely on repeaters on mountain tops. I'd get myself a Yaesu FT-817 and plan to rely on the busy 20 meter band to bounce the call for help off the ionosphere. I'd also look into using an amateur radio satellite. Even though you only get one 15 minute window every 24 hours it's better than nothing. It seems most of those satelites work in the 2 meter band. So an FT-817 would also cover it. But it seems that a small dish antenna might be your best bet to transmit to the satellite. A yagi would probably be easier to pack though. You might also look into a helium balloon or kite aerial antenna. A very cool/geeky way to maybe get above the mountains. I wouldn't want to rely on having to summit a mountain when you have an emergency. I would assume we are talking about something like a broken leg or worse. Despite all these budget communication options if you really value your life and have some money I would go with renting a satphone.

How do you "hit arable land"? Fold it up and poke it into a black hole? Don't think that you couldn't grow and eat crops around Chernobyl. We are talking about survival, not healthy eating.

How? Instead of concentrating your nuclear arsenal on military targets and big cities where much of the spherical blast is wasted, you disperse them widely across the farmlands and forests of the world, in patterns and with yields designed to maximise rather than minimise the collateral damage and fallout our modern military normally tries so hard to avoid, so that you raze and contaminate as much of the biosphere as possible. If your projections indicate you can also light up a major volcanic ring by triggering fault lines, or even better a super-volcano (google "yellowstone caldera"), go for it. The goal is that by the time the radiation decays to survivable levels, the ecology will be so shot to hell there won't be a food chain worth speaking of, at least not for us.

I remember reading a comment in memoirs of a British WWI soldier. He said the rats in the trenches survived everything the Germans could throw at them, even poison gas. Come to think of it, most of the soldiers survived too.

"Most" is... technically true. Rough figures: of the sixty million soldiers mobilised in WW1, eight million were killed and twenty million were wounded (seven million of those maimed for life). So a military casualty rate of almost half. Also eight million civilians died. (source: http://www.worldwar1.com/sfnum.htm). This also isn't counting the twenty to forty million people who died from the 1918 flu pandemic, arguably made far worse by the ravages of the war to economies and infrastructures.

As for the rats - they flourished because they had a lot of food... "Rats were a constant companion in the trenches in their millions they were everywhere, gorging themselves on human remains" -- http://hubpages.com/hub/World_War_1_Trench_Warfare

But if the WWI trench battles had been fought with today's biological, chemical, thermobaric, and nuclear weapons, with nothing held back, I think you'd have a hard time finding anything alive in those trenches bigger than lichen.

Killing people is hard.

Killing people is horribly easy, and getting easier still. Killing everyone is hard only because we're not really trying to do that. Chernobyl was a meltdown, not a premeditated attempt at genocide.

Uh... sorry for the depressing commentary. The good news: we're still alive, and it looks like nuclear power might finally see some decent progress for the benefit of us all.

Fruit flies seem to do the opposite. Delaying their breeding appears to select for longer life spans.

Many of my friends and users have dropped the iPhone to the "what?!?" "why, whats the matter with you?!?" of their fellow iPhone users

Ok, so some iPhone users switch to other phones. Check.

The 4G is indeed the 4th generation, 4th iteration of the phone. You are correct Apple has not tagged it with the 4G monicker. However, the 4th G(eneration) as I put it is quite convenient

Did you miss the point? What you said doesn't make any sense at all... That's like saying Firefox 3g is false advertising because it's really not a 3g device. Well, yeah, of COURSE, but since nobody ever called Firefox "firefox 3g" it's also completely irrelevant. Nobody except you is claiming anything about the iphone 4 and 4g? I just don't get it?

Call it what you will, iPhone users typically shun any other model/device because it "isn't an iPhone".

Aggghh, my head -- you just claimed that "many" of your friends and others users had dropped the iPhone. But now you say "iPhone users" shun all other devices. Ow, the illogic hurts me!

I'm going to go ahead and assume you have one since you are so "vehemently" defending it.

I do have an iPhone (3gs), yes. If one link, one statement of fact, and 2 questions are "vehemently" defending, then I think you might want to reevaluate your understanding of the word vehement!

Apple posted a number of Antenna Engineer positions just before the phone came out. Coincidence?

I thought they were opened after the iPhone4 came out? Not sure.

And as usual you can blame the media for the 4G monicker, don't blame me for the sheeple's misconception.

So who, exactly, is calling it 4g? The "media" ??

Also in reference to not having one and coveting their wonderous device. I simply refuse to pay the difference. I'll happily save my 360 dollars a year. If I want to get on the internet, I have one of 3 laptops or 2 desktops to do so

Hey, no problem! I'm one of the vast majority of iPhone users who couldn't care less what devices you choose to use. More power to you :)

A few links of the media skewing the iPhone as a 4G device. http://hubpages.com/hub/The-NEW-iPhone-4G-Coming-2010 [hubpages.com] http://www.gadgetsdna.com/10-reasons-not-to-buy-next-iphone-4g-hd/2757/

So the best articles to support your nomenclature are two articles from months before the iPhone was announced/released? And which claim Verizon has confirmed they're upgrading their network to support the iPhone. That's silly..

Many of my friends and users have dropped the iPhone to the "what?!?" "why, whats the matter with you?!?" of their fellow iPhone users. The 4G is indeed the 4th generation, 4th iteration of the phone. You are correct Apple has not tagged it with the 4G monicker. However, the 4th G(eneration) as I put it is quite convenient. Call it what you will, iPhone users typically shun any other model/device because it "isn't an iPhone". Also I apologize for the mis capitalization. I did my best with grammar, the Apple trademark can eat my shorts. =] Though it does seem to be taking over the world. See iPad. =] I'm going to go ahead and assume you have one since you are so "vehemently" defending it. Apple posted a number of Antenna Engineer positions just before the phone came out. Coincidence? I think not. And as usual you can blame the media for the 4G monicker, don't blame me for the sheeple's misconception. I'm simply giving Jobs kudos for pulling the wool over their eyes. Just like his statement that all phones have the exact same problem. Also in reference to not having one and coveting their wonderous device. I simply refuse to pay the difference. I'll happily save my 360 dollars a year. If I want to get on the internet, I have one of 3 laptops or 2 desktops to do so. A few links of the media skewing the iPhone as a 4G device. http://hubpages.com/hub/The-NEW-iPhone-4G-Coming-2010 http://www.gadgetsdna.com/10-reasons-not-to-buy-next-iphone-4g-hd/2757/

Part of that reality is coming true...

http://hubpages.com/hub/This-affordable-3D-printer-can-print-itself

You have to be careful with 'green' or 'renewable', because there's a certain amount of FUD out there. Recycling programs that don't actually recycle. Recycling programs that create more pollution than they prevent. Lost a bit of my innocence when I found that out.

You have to be careful with green debunkers too, because many of them have an axe to grind and make mountains out of molehills. Heck, you have people out there trying to argue that the Prius is worse than the H2 (and don't take my word for it, "many scientists" said so!) Just because somebody takes a Freakonomics-style approach and calls themself a debunker doesn't mean they're the final authority on anything.

http://hubpages.com/hub/Grammar_Mishaps__I_feel_good_vs_I_feel_well