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Hm. Well, if just UN violations is the way you're counting, Bush definetly ranks up there pretty high as well, not to mention all the non-UN-related stuff that he's done like saying the First Amendment only applies in certain areas, TWICE (you'll have to scroll that page, sorry, no anchors). But anyway, the rest of the world agreed that a war was NOT necessary or at all the best way to go about things (and they've been proven correct) so yes, the US did have "an itchy trigger finger".

"Even under optimistic predictions, fuel cell vehicles won't be mass-produced until 2010."

Won't this be a little late? Considering the dramatic climate change that's already taking place, I don't know if another 8 years is an option, considering George W.'s disgusting energy policy.

Let's hope better alternative energy sources appear sooner, rather than later.

I'd love to discuss the physics, the possibilities, the philosophies, the consequences, the implications, the new experimental sciences, theoretical physics finally becoming valid experimental science, that could be spawned from this. Could spend a week on this easy. Been hooked on time travel science and fiction since years before I owned a computer.

But that bit about "there would be government laws" to regulate time travel...

... you can hardly trust a government to deal with nuclear weapons. You can hardly trust a government to deal with conventional weapons. You can hardly trust a government to do anything outside their own self-interest, limited only (and hardly) by the potential of their public accountability...

It would be more than wonderful to think that this would be physically possible. Just the physics alone is mindblowingly cool. The possibility of making macroscopic experiments with quantum physics. Is "Time like a river", do observations create copies of universes or are they all already there, does Schroedinger's Cat have millions of millions of kittens? Real Life imitating Art.

But for the love of mercy... we complain about business and government taking over the Internet (spoken as someone in his 13th year online). But...

I found this little gem on George W. Bush,
<http://www.wage-slave.org/scorecard.html >. Read that; about nuclear weapons, the environment, human and animal health, sciences, civil rights, information freedom and privacy... and that's all just this year. Say what you will, but IMO, considering position, power, behaviour, record and reputation: George W. Bush is one of the most dangerous people in all history.

Now: go watch "TimeCop" (and Jean-Claude gets a sudden ratings boost from video rentals all around the world :-) ).

Then ask yourself if you'd REALLY let the Government regulate Time Travel.

Now, having scared everybody sufficiently... is there some page somewhere that discusses the science in more detail? Preferably with a catch-up primer for the less well informed, please?

I'd love to discuss the physics, the possibilities, the philosophies, the consequences, the implications, the new experimental sciences, theoretical physics finally becoming valid experimental science, that could be spawned from this. Could spend a week on this easy. Been hooked on time travel science and fiction since years before I owned a computer.

But that bit about "there would be government laws" to regulate time travel...

... you can hardly trust a government to deal with nuclear weapons. You can hardly trust a government to deal with conventional weapons. You can hardly trust a government to do anything outside their own self-interest, limited only (and hardly) by the potential of their public accountability...

It would be more than wonderful to think that this would be physically possible. Just the physics alone is mindblowingly cool. The possibility of making macroscopic experiments with quantum physics. Is "Time like a river", do observations create copies of universes or are they all already there, does Schroedinger's Cat have millions of millions of kittens? Real Life imitating Art.

But for the love of mercy... we complain about business and government taking over the Internet (spoken as someone in his 13th year online). But...

I found this little gem on George W. Bush,
<http://www.wage-slave.org/scorecard.html >. Read that; about nuclear weapons, the environment, human and animal health, sciences, civil rights, information freedom and privacy... and that's all just this year. Say what you will, but IMO, considering position, power, behaviour, record and reputation: George W. Bush is one of the most dangerous people in all history.

Now: go watch "TimeCop" (and Jean-Claude gets a sudden ratings boost from video rentals all around the world :-) ).

Then ask yourself if you'd REALLY let the Government regulate Time Travel.

Now, having scared everybody sufficiently... is there some page somewhere that discusses the science in more detail? Preferably with a catch-up primer for the less well informed, please?

yea, what a great market choice. We push out DIVX and still get stuck with a digital medium which takes a felony to copy. This is why we're pretty much fucked. If you can present a slightly lesser evil, people think they are making a good choice. But look where that leads us.
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Perhaps this quickly cobbled-together Venn diagram will explain things.

Sure, there's money to be made on the Web, and $70 is definitely cheap for your own little corner of the Web. (I wouldn't give mine up for the world. But the value of having a domain name, which can range anywhere from less than $0 (me) to more than $20 billion (Amazon.com) is not the same thing as an intrinsic value for a specific domain name. Amazon.com doesn't have one, really, while something like Porn.com does. And I doubt there are any Porn.coms left.