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Spirit's First Mars Images
An anonymous reader writes "First panoramic and overhead polar views of Mars, a quarter billion miles away are available. Some spectacular examples and accompanying commentaries are at NASA's Astrobiology Magazine, and JPL."
I still keep wondering how fast ppl try to get that first post. No spell check in that time of course...
-Is the meaning of life vanity, or is vanity the meaning of life?
They were never meant to be welfare. This is another example of how the average American misunderstands welfare, etc.
If someone gets free or reduced food as a result, fine, but the goal and intent is to promote spending in that sector.
You don't have to be indigent to qualify for and receive food stamps. You do have to be down and out to receive aid and subsistance.
To quote the Food Stamp Act of 1964:
"To strengthen the agricultural economy; to help to achieve a fuller and more effective use of food abundances; to provide for improved levels of nutrition among low-income households through a cooperative Federal-State program of food assistance to be operated through normal channels of trade; and for other purposes."
Not my logic. Read the act instead of being defensive.
Bad way to admit you were wrong, by arguing with the text of the original document. You're being childish now. Shame you have to resist the point and the truth.
HOW AM I WRONG?
All I said was that the US spends billions of food aid. WE DO.
Damn.
Names like http://nasa.gov/ or http://slashdot.org/ are more hacks on the DNS system than correct settings. Format is usually http://host.domain.tld/ or http://host.subdomain.domain.tld/. Mapping an IP to the domain name is pretty unorthodox outside of the WWW reasons.
You said food stamps were aid. Indirectly, yes. By design, no. Food stamps are farm subsidies. Not the same.
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Calm down
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Perhaps we should reserve those billions on aid to our own starving populations
Cultural changes are needed to end starvation, not money. In some of our famine stricken regions if we feed the entire population we will merely have a much larger famine in a decade or two. Is that more or less humane? I don't know.
Cultural changes are needed in some of these areas. No amount of charity can help. In some areas food is used as a weapon. A warlord's reward to the loyal, and hunger punishment to the opposition. In some areas traditional farming is no longer viable. In some areas overpopulation and birth control are a root cause. The problem is far more complicated than you suggest. The solution(s) even more so.