It's already caused Boeing to relocate their headquarters (taking with it a substantial chunk of change)
Think again. Boeing moved its headquarters to Chicago, another high-tax area. They moved because the executives were tired of facing their heavily organized employees. The bosses wanted to escape the personal consequences of their decisions, such as having their homes picketed by a mob of angry outsourced workers. The retreat to Chicago was not because of taxes.
I think the original poster was thinking of fully encrypting all the traffic that goes through the cable. So if you were a cable snooper you would have no idea whether Abdullah has sent or received any packets, because even the source and destination addresses would be scrambled while the packets are in transit through the cable.
Note to Bill, its been tried at least twice in the past 100 years and they were called communism and socialism. The only change for the poor in those systems is there is more of them.
If an economy is not capitalist, then it has to be communist or socialist? You have been brainwashed to make this false choice.
What is the opposite of the color white? If you answer "black", you are quite wrong. The opposite of white is --- all the other colors of the rainbow. The opposite of capitalism is all the other economic systems, such as slavery, feudalism, communism, socialism, and probably many, many more that we have yet to try.
There is a reason you jump immediately to the wrong conclusion, that the only choice is between capitalism and socialism/communism. The powers that be want to trap your brain in the false dilemma because they benefit the most from the capitalist status quo. The last thing they want is for you to start thinking for yourself, because then you might be repelled by the ugliness inherent in our current system and start looking for viable alternatives.
Who knows, if we all start looking for these viable alternatives, we might find an economic system better than capitalism. Is such a system possible? Nobody knows. Only one thing is certain: we'll never find it if we never look. For your own good, and for the good of your children and your children's children, the last thing you should be doing is cutting people down when they express their dissatisfaction with the status quo.
Well, in fact, [ID] does make predictions--off the top of my head, it would predict that the probability of the specific mutations required for "irreducibly complex" structures in the aggregate, given the available particular time period and population size, would be extremely low.
"Irreducibly complex" is never defined precisely. Without a precise definition of that term, your sentence is meaningless noise, not a testable prediction. It is therefore emphatically not science.
If it is part of his war powers then we actually need a declaration of war. This crap that has been pulled the last 60 years of getting us into "conflicts that aren't wars" is bullshit and an end run around the Constitution.
Absolutely true. The Constitution has been really suffering lately.
By which you mean the first time in the hundred years since it's been navigated.
More like over 400 years. Attempts to find a Northwest Passage to China had begun as early as 1579, with the expedition of Sir Francis Drake. Maybe as early as Cortes, in 1534. If the passage had been open then, it would have been discovered; those early explorers and cartographers were very good. But all attempts were unsuccessful.
Only this year has the Northwest Passage opened up, thanks to the melting of the Artic ice.
You don't understand. When Linux gets going, $100 (or even lower) will be the permanent price for a decent computer with a full suite of useful software. Can Microsoft handle a permanent zero for Windows and Office pricing?
I'm not even going to get into it here, but as usual with the global warming crowd, you're quoting half-truths and bad math.
Reality is what it is, and laughs at your beliefs. The reality is that the Northwest Passage is now open for the first time in history, thanks to the melting of the Arctic ice. The math behind the science of climate change may or may not be totally correct, but the conclusion is overwhelmingly likely to be true: there is just too much evidence.
You know what? Science does not have to be perfect in order to be extremely useful and reliable. For example, no one pretends to completely understand the implications of Quantum Mechanics, but modern computers are utterly dependent on it. The computer running your bank had better be one of the most reliable devices ever created, right? We don't really understand how it works, in any fundamental sense, but that doesn't matter -- we understand enough to entrust the world's financial system to quantum mechanical devices.
Similarly for climate change: the amount of evidence we have for it is overwhelming. We may not completely understand the climate, but we know enough, thanks to all that evidence, to come to highly reliable conclusions.
I doubt that anybody, even the instigators of this program, believes that it will work as purported. It will fail its official mission, but will succeed in its unofficial and true purpose, which is to feed and grow a vast new security industry -- and slowly accustom Americans to being maltreated. One day you will wake up and notice that uniformed thugs demanding "Papers, please" are almost everywhere -- and that will be the day you will realize that you have become the Nazis that you used to despise.
The amount of corruption in the UN makes even the most corrupt areas of the USA look legit.
Total nonsense. The UN cannot even begin to approach the level of corruption that is now rotting the USA. Enron alone has cost the world more than the UN's total budget for the last quarter of a century. And even Enron looks tiny and inoffensive compared to the obscene gluttony of certain companies favored by Bush in the current Iraq war.
I think you have no idea how small an organization the UN is. Their annual budget is approximately $4 billion in 2007 dollars; compare this to New York City's $60 billion a year. The world keeps the UN on a very tight leash.
It also has limited application in cleaning blood because it has to be tuned for a specific virus (i.e. AIDS) and would have run multiple times to remove others.
You could pump the blood through several lasers in series; the lasers would be tuned to different frequencies. With this setup, the blood would be zapped many different ways but would make only one pass through the purifier. The process should be reasonably quick.
Of course, America is not a democracy. It is a republic.
As I said, "no excuses". And I refuse to play your definition game. If you have the vote, the responsiblility is yours: you are personally responsible for all the horror in Iraq. No excuses.
Personally I would prefer the US occupying the country I was in rather than having Saddam run it.
Medical care under Saddam was good enough that Iraq didn't have cholera epidemics. They have them now, thanks to you. Cholera is an unbelievably infectious and deadly disease; there is no telling how many hundreds of thousands of people will die from it. And you are responsible.
Yes, I mean you personally: anybody who starts a war is responsible for all the ensuing blood and disease; this principle was established at the Nuremberg Trials. And because you live in a democracy and therefore have the sovereign power of the vote, you are personally responsible for whatever your country does. You are to blame for all the death, torture, and disease. No excuses.
Microsoft could give away XP and subsidise the price of the laptop.
Microsoft would have to give away Office too, because Linux has Office alternatives that are incredibly powerful, useful, and free. But if MS gives the way the store like that, why would anybody buy the regular Windows and Office? And how long could MS survive on such a starvation diet?
This is an excelent time to realize how powerful, brutal and savage governments are.
As opposed to the peaceful and harmless corporations, who only kill on the quiet? Any concentration of power, whether public or private, needs to be carefully watched. Thomas Jefferson warned us about this, as did James Madison, Adam Smith, and Thomas Paine.
You realize, don't you, that the global forum you are posting on wouldn't have been possible 50 years ago? The microcomputer and the Internet combine to let anyone publish and respond in real time -- and this is definitely new and powerful. We are just beginning -- yes, just beginning -- to feel the impact of these two epochal breakthroughs.
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Or just remember that reciprocal of pi is 113/355.
$41 million is pocket change to Boeing. See my post below for the real reason.
Think again. Boeing moved its headquarters to Chicago, another high-tax area. They moved because the executives were tired of facing their heavily organized employees. The bosses wanted to escape the personal consequences of their decisions, such as having their homes picketed by a mob of angry outsourced workers. The retreat to Chicago was not because of taxes.
This president definitely makes his own laws. When Congress passed some anti-torture legislation, Bush signed it -- and totally ignored it thereafter.
I think the original poster was thinking of fully encrypting all the traffic that goes through the cable. So if you were a cable snooper you would have no idea whether Abdullah has sent or received any packets, because even the source and destination addresses would be scrambled while the packets are in transit through the cable.
If you think Britney-watching counts as a sense of wonder, then you have definitely lost yours. You're basically dead from the neck up.
If an economy is not capitalist, then it has to be communist or socialist? You have been brainwashed to make this false choice.
What is the opposite of the color white? If you answer "black", you are quite wrong. The opposite of white is --- all the other colors of the rainbow. The opposite of capitalism is all the other economic systems, such as slavery, feudalism, communism, socialism, and probably many, many more that we have yet to try.
There is a reason you jump immediately to the wrong conclusion, that the only choice is between capitalism and socialism/communism. The powers that be want to trap your brain in the false dilemma because they benefit the most from the capitalist status quo. The last thing they want is for you to start thinking for yourself, because then you might be repelled by the ugliness inherent in our current system and start looking for viable alternatives.
Who knows, if we all start looking for these viable alternatives, we might find an economic system better than capitalism. Is such a system possible? Nobody knows. Only one thing is certain: we'll never find it if we never look. For your own good, and for the good of your children and your children's children, the last thing you should be doing is cutting people down when they express their dissatisfaction with the status quo.
Don't forget the Ministry of Love (Guantánamo).
"Irreducibly complex" is never defined precisely. Without a precise definition of that term, your sentence is meaningless noise, not a testable prediction. It is therefore emphatically not science.
Absolutely true. The Constitution has been really suffering lately.
More like over 400 years. Attempts to find a Northwest Passage to China had begun as early as 1579, with the expedition of Sir Francis Drake. Maybe as early as Cortes, in 1534. If the passage had been open then, it would have been discovered; those early explorers and cartographers were very good. But all attempts were unsuccessful.
Only this year has the Northwest Passage opened up, thanks to the melting of the Artic ice.
You don't understand. When Linux gets going, $100 (or even lower) will be the permanent price for a decent computer with a full suite of useful software. Can Microsoft handle a permanent zero for Windows and Office pricing?
Reality is what it is, and laughs at your beliefs. The reality is that the Northwest Passage is now open for the first time in history, thanks to the melting of the Arctic ice. The math behind the science of climate change may or may not be totally correct, but the conclusion is overwhelmingly likely to be true: there is just too much evidence.
You know what? Science does not have to be perfect in order to be extremely useful and reliable. For example, no one pretends to completely understand the implications of Quantum Mechanics, but modern computers are utterly dependent on it. The computer running your bank had better be one of the most reliable devices ever created, right? We don't really understand how it works, in any fundamental sense, but that doesn't matter -- we understand enough to entrust the world's financial system to quantum mechanical devices.
Similarly for climate change: the amount of evidence we have for it is overwhelming. We may not completely understand the climate, but we know enough, thanks to all that evidence, to come to highly reliable conclusions.
I doubt that anybody, even the instigators of this program, believes that it will work as purported. It will fail its official mission, but will succeed in its unofficial and true purpose, which is to feed and grow a vast new security industry -- and slowly accustom Americans to being maltreated. One day you will wake up and notice that uniformed thugs demanding "Papers, please" are almost everywhere -- and that will be the day you will realize that you have become the Nazis that you used to despise.
Total nonsense. The UN cannot even begin to approach the level of corruption that is now rotting the USA. Enron alone has cost the world more than the UN's total budget for the last quarter of a century. And even Enron looks tiny and inoffensive compared to the obscene gluttony of certain companies favored by Bush in the current Iraq war.
I think you have no idea how small an organization the UN is. Their annual budget is approximately $4 billion in 2007 dollars; compare this to New York City's $60 billion a year. The world keeps the UN on a very tight leash.
That is only true if you define "harm" as "impediment to dictators and militarily aggressive countries".
You could pump the blood through several lasers in series; the lasers would be tuned to different frequencies. With this setup, the blood would be zapped many different ways but would make only one pass through the purifier. The process should be reasonably quick.
Oops, I intended to reply to Windbourne, not to khallow. Sorry, khallow.
You have it completely the other way around: Apollo spent several times more each year than the entire Chinese space program has cost so far.
The frequently-quoted $2 billion figure is for China's entire civilian space program to date; it's the total for the first six Shenzhou vehicles.
In comparison, the Apollo program spent $135 billion (in 2006 dollars) over 14 years, or roughly $10 billion per year.
It's not even close. China is still a poor country.
As I said, "no excuses". And I refuse to play your definition game. If you have the vote, the responsiblility is yours: you are personally responsible for all the horror in Iraq. No excuses.
Medical care under Saddam was good enough that Iraq didn't have cholera epidemics. They have them now, thanks to you. Cholera is an unbelievably infectious and deadly disease; there is no telling how many hundreds of thousands of people will die from it. And you are responsible.
Yes, I mean you personally: anybody who starts a war is responsible for all the ensuing blood and disease; this principle was established at the Nuremberg Trials. And because you live in a democracy and therefore have the sovereign power of the vote, you are personally responsible for whatever your country does. You are to blame for all the death, torture, and disease. No excuses.
Microsoft would have to give away Office too, because Linux has Office alternatives that are incredibly powerful, useful, and free. But if MS gives the way the store like that, why would anybody buy the regular Windows and Office? And how long could MS survive on such a starvation diet?
No, the Little Ice Age didn't begin until the 16th century. The Vikings were killed off centuries earlier, by the Black Death.
As opposed to the peaceful and harmless corporations, who only kill on the quiet? Any concentration of power, whether public or private, needs to be carefully watched. Thomas Jefferson warned us about this, as did James Madison, Adam Smith, and Thomas Paine.
You realize, don't you, that the global forum you are posting on wouldn't have been possible 50 years ago? The microcomputer and the Internet combine to let anyone publish and respond in real time -- and this is definitely new and powerful. We are just beginning -- yes, just beginning -- to feel the impact of these two epochal breakthroughs.