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Obama's Evolving Stance On NASA
mknewman writes "The Houston Chronicle is reporting a change in Obama's stance on NASA, saying his position on space exploration continued to evolve Sunday as the Illinois Democrat endorsed a congressional plan to add $2 billion to NASA's budget and agreed to back at least one more space shuttle mission."
Let's Put our Astronauts in Shuttles that don't use fuel and go green!
CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN!
Obama news on the frontpage - has somebody done a /. theme for Digg?
Is Obama's stance really evolving? I think it's clear that his policy on NASA is a result of intelligent design.
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
Evolving stance? Is that the PC version of flip flopping.
This is slashdot, so it's the Linux version of flip-flopping.
I'm voting Libertarian when I can and then voting against the incumbent - regardless of what party he belongs to.
If you vote Libertarian, aren't you already voting against the incumbent?
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dumbass, you wouldn't know a socialist radical if one came up and kicked you in the nuts
This is obviously what a tax system is supposed to do. There are quite a few economists who would care to differ with that statement. A progressive tax (and welfare) system such as the one we have provides a degree of disincentive against earning more money, because the more money you earn, the greater percentage of it you pay to the government. In some places, such as France, it's so bad that for many people, it's more profitable to live off welfare than to work. While the main purpose of taxes is to fund government, it should also be structured so as to encourage people to become more productive and contribute more to the economy. Unbalancing the tax system beyond its current state will do precisely the opposite.
Yes, I'm sure if Bill Gates had any idea how much money he'd end up making I'm sure he'd have just said "fuck it" and taken a job at McDonalds. Poor bastard.
Nah, she lost to Obama. Surprised you didn't hear about that. It made all the papers.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Yeah, cause going to the moon 16 times is way more important that forming two new democracies in the middle east, or overthrowing brutally repressive regimes, one of which invaded two neighbors and gave the UN the finger for 12 years and the other harbored Al Queda.
Quick, mod me troll/flamebait so no one can read this!
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So I think this China to the moon thing deserves more scrutiny. The massive coordination of huge numbers of people at the Olympic opening ceremonies and the cultural embeddedness of high end acrobatics in China gives rise to the following possibility. Average distance to the moon is about 384000 KM or 384000000 meters. The average height of a Chinese person (per wikipedia) is about 1.6 M (5'2"). A rough estimation gives us a floor to shoulder height of about 1.3 M. Therefore 277,333,333 Chinese people standing on each other shoulders could reach the moon. Its just a matter of time....
"Would you, could you, with a goat?" Dr Seuss
> Why are we (US) so up in arms over Russia messing with Georgia?
We here in the US do _not tolerate_ a nation which invades and occupies another sovereign nation.
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