NASA has a budget of under twenty billion dollars. Since the US budget is a deficit busting 3.8 trillion it takes less than two days to cover NASA. Some will actually say that amount is far too much. Which is odd because we are spending so much we don't have, if we consider that we spend over three billion a day we don't have we deficit spend NASA's budget in a week.
We lose an estimated hundred billion dollars a year is medicare/medicade fraud. When you combine all levels of government we spend over six trillion dollars.
We have over TWO THOUSAND SUBSIDY programs. That is methods of getting money into the hands of people based on arbitrary requirements.
Any attempt to cut one item is usually met with an irrational comparison which puts the person suggesting the cut on the level not much higher than mass murderer. Yet the if we are going to fund science like NASA, and note we need to find all the programs the US funds not just including NASA to get an idea of how much is truly spent, we have to get expenditures under control. NASA isn't the only government player in space, the Air Force does a good amount there as well.
I agree with the person I am replying too, Obama and many Democrats and Republicans have nothing against NASA but one simple fact remains, it garnishes very little votes for them. So the money is better spent on other programs which keep them in office.
The three big forces in American politics are are all self supporting, Big Business, Labor Unions, and Politicians. The rest of us are played all the time and only given two choices because they have effectively shut down third party options.
the Trading Card game featured items you could sell in game for ridiculous amounts of money and Blizzard even sanctioned that.
They are not adding gold to the game, they are simply giving another means of it moving from character to character. It is most likely that the costs in game for the pet will quickly tank which might push off a lot of buyers.
What does not bode well is that pets sold to players from Blizzard now take on the trading card game limitation of one time use instead of account wide use. This raises the cost of buying a pet for your account by 1000% or more.
a never ending trail of privacy and rights disasters yet people are played deftly by the parties so that a perpetual state of power is maintained.
To think that even Congressmen have to jump through hoops to find out how the system works speaks loudly that the system is horribly broke. When you have a system run by lawyers looking for every little hole instead of looking for the truth or the spirit of the law you end up with lawlessness incarnate.
The best solution is to vote out the current administration and if the next does it then to vote them out in hopes someone will get the message. Even better would be to get people out from under both parties but that will require work from the state side of politics. That means finding a way to make redistricting less prone to political power plays guaranteeing elected officials stay in power.
Its means voting against incumbents in your favorite party just to get the bums out when they support abuses like this. If you cannot stomach the other side just to prove a point you have no point. Politicians do what they do because they know that they can play on hatred to stay in. We must get out those who support the Patriot act regardless of party and regardless of terms in office.
Even the OWS is being actively co-opted so that unless it serves a purpose it will get buried in the press again. Just like the tea party before it, as long as it aligns with a party it will be OK but if it strives to maintain its Independence it will be vilified in the papers with various hit pieces and the like.
Please do not attempt to link his case to Bruce Ivins, Bruce actually may be innocent. Troy Davis's "innocence" is built on a well developed case of misinformation or purposeful omission. Many love to claim that seven out of nine witnesses changed their story implying that there were only nine whereas there there were thirty four witnesses brought forward. In the seven of nine group the DEFENSE refused to allow to two to go before the judge as required. One of those was a person they were trying to implicate which the Judge said, unless you call him to the stand you cannot do that. The defense didn't even refute the first shooting made with the same gun.
We don't know enough about the Bruce Ivins case, we certainly don't have thirty plus witnesses to what happened let alone the ability to subpoena all the documentation. It also is quite clear that the word Terror is the buzzword which they attempt to muzzle any true investigation.
The unions at the instructions of someone, most likely in the DNC, are trying to co-opt these protest and I wish the protesters the best of luck as they will need it.
The problem is, the DNC doesn't understand the protest but is so desperate to have a counter to the Tea Party they will take what they can get. They really really want a grassroots effort or one that appears as such and all their previous attempts fell flat (the bus loads of union members didn't really feel grassroots now did it, nor the mess they left)
However these protests appear to be somewhat still struggling for relevance. In Atlanta they shouted down/chased out Representative John Lewis here (Democrat, did his time on the race equality forefront) so they aren't showing a party affiliation.
They are way too white as well, way too we still live off of mommy and daddy too. There is a lot of greed being passed off by some in the crowd (pay my student loans, pay me a working wage, all without reason other than *I* declare it fair).
So overall, I hope they can remain independent but I bet they won't. They are too important finally to let the moment pass. All good crisis should be exploited.
between campaigning and leading. He is very good at promising something yet incredibly good at not delivering it and then brushing off complaints.
Considering all he promised about protecting our rights and the rights of the combatants we took into custody in the War on Terror why should I believe anything that passes his lips? He is worse than Bush, he has doubled down on nearly every bad part of the Patriot Act that Bush used, hell he used Drones to kill American citizens overseas. And the press remains silent.
If only to be have an active press again, one that regularly chases the Administration, this guy has got to go. I want no more Presidencies where the Press acts as if it is part of the Administration.
We would have investigations in Congress over the drone killing if it were Bush, if not full press stories about how abusive it is of the Office. Let alone Solyndra and Fast and Furious.
His real self will surface when he has no further campaigns to run, meaning if he wins or loses we will finally see what he will do.
While not stuck on one, I have had many posts moderated quite high, I do not have an option to moderate, meta-moderate, or the like. Worse, I have had comments previously at positive scores go zero or one a few weeks later.
So I just have fun with it now. I used to worry about posting something with thought behind it, now when I want to bounce real ideas I go elsewhere.
and quit trying to sneak your obvious political slant into posted stories by putting them into the wrong categories. So do your best to remove the slant from the site. You could also drop stories about whack jobs like Phleps clan going after Steve Jobs because it had no place here, it might work at Digg but we know where their bias got them.
challenges to research are actively encouraged in some aspects of science whereas they are unfortunately denounced in others. I am glad to see this team inviting others to find the faults if any, now to see this applied to more politically sensitive subjects would be nice
so the in crowd can head nod and act all smug with their belief that all Christians or people of faith are really like this. For no other reason is such a person newsworthy, it is very much like the bit on Scary Movie, The press only wanna interview the most ignorant person they find.
a recent ruling threw out evidence collected from a person computer because the cop moved the mouse which in turn disabled a screen saver which in turn revealed incriminatory evidence. So if your phone is not displaying anything it may not be able to be searched.
In other words, a pass code with a neutral background may be sufficient to protect you should it reach court and something on the phone was incriminating.
Far too many times we read about how some schools do away with valedictorians and the like, where no one can be better than another person. Everyone gets to be on the team in some sports for young children around here, barely stopping that at High School.
We have built a system that does not celebrate the best of us but instead tries to convince us that everyone is born equal and should be treated as such. You cannot bring down the brightest to bring up the dimmest. It just doesn't work. If anything we should separate them so those who can are fast tracked while those who cannot, will not, or on the edge, can get more assistance.
Parents respond to their environment, the government sets that environment because it has the power to intimidate.
My favorite account is my friend's daughter, who spoke both English and Spanish as the result of wanting to be able to talk to her grand parents. They only used English at home unless the grand parents were there. She is a very bright kid. She got put into special classes when they found out she spoke Spanish combined with the fact her mom was second generation which meant her skin color wasn't the pasty white of her father. The system did it. If it wasn't for her mom going to the board nearly every day she would have been doomed to what are essentially remedial classes.
Too often the system assumes little susie is stupid because of where she is from. Then too often systems will make it so that a little bobby who truly is backward is not left behind by holding everyone up.
because the European Union isn't about some social ideal where personal freedoms and responsibility come first. It was about money and power, money and power do not care about individual rights or silly freedoms some countries take for granted. It was about self serving politicians looking a life time meal ticket for themselves and their banker buddies. It was working, until the fact that corrupt government officials tend to ruin the party for everyone.
Because what usually results from rules like this is the indirect results are more likely to be what people fall victim too. There will be a good chance of prosecutions versus people who did not know the audience was a protected age range and there will be ambushers using this law. Throw in adults hit with the law by protected age people claiming offense when none was directed towards the affected group, yet the affected group claims offense.
So your basically stating that certain age groups should feel its okay that government tells them when they make exercise their first amendment rights? Because that is a very wrong path to start going down. Hell, we have seen this age group recently expanded to 26 for health care considerations, do you truly expect that once one foot is in the door that you can close it?
for many of us who frequent a site like this the price point is spectacular.
I already own an iPad, what I am looking for is a smaller form factor. The only negative I saw with the Fire was no camera, but having an iPad and its crappy as not to be even worth having camera, I found I don't miss that. I have a real camera and a better one on my phone anyway.
To me this is the first real Android tablet at a price point I expected. I didn't want Android tablets trying to ape iPads in features and price. I wanted an good alternative in a package that is not cumbersome. Yeah, after a few months with my iPad it suddenly feels big. It certainly isn't being used for all the things I was planning to use it for, but the Fire will do that just as well and I can buy myself and my parents each one and still be under the price of my iPad. As for the walled garden, I am pretty much there with my iPad and I have seen articles claiming Amazon won't go out of their way to stop me from rooting it if I want.
Frankly, after all the years of Apple products I am tired of the price and getting really tired of the feeling I am locked in.
Who had the most difficult role to break from? We know that many forever brand you as Kirk but you have held some stand out roles in your time, which of the actors of the original series was truly typecast and how well did they escape that if ever?
No, I am truly in awe of this idea, if they pull off even a third of it they will roflstomp the national programs. As someone else commented, the music was an interesting choice, it really confers they are high confident of their design and eventuality of success. Frankly, stuff like this is what it will take to inspire the next generation about space because it is so fantastic looking.
are either trying to reach someone who had my number, pulled it out of thin air when getting credit, or because of my sister, this is the last thing that I want. I use a prepay cell phone (I am a stickler for costs) and unless we adopt a callers pays method of billing with cell phones all I can see is a world of hurt coming out of this.
not realizing when we don't give a crap about his opinion.
I know who he is and my first reaction was, so what.
Karma be damned, it felt good to type it.
As to the Fire, I will have one when it ships and it may be my Christmas gift to friends and family if it provides and ease of use for mail and surfing.
that is the estimated combine budgets of every form of government in the United States. Federal, state, and local.
and people seem to have a never ending list of wants, yet it is so very disappointing what little we are getting for that expenditure. So little of the money goes to non-vote buying schemes that we become desperate to find dollars to spend on something right.
There is no best use of government funds atm because atm the Congress controls nearly fou trillion of it, a good amount that doesn't even exist yet and our descendants will have to pay, and they could not even agree on finding three billion dollars in offsets for increased spending by FEMA.
We blow through NASA's budget in two days of spending at the Federal Level. These missions are nothing. The waste alone in Medicare/Medicade (estimated at over one hundred billion a year) would put men on Mars. Someone will bring up the wars but those are a distraction used by one side to hide the waste of government and used by another to buy votes from their side. Never vote for a D or a R candidate, you simply kick the ball down the street.
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as if they have enough cash to get away with stupid for an indefinite period of time.
They are also granted immunity to damages caused to items in their possession as part of a criminal case. A recent example was where agents were joyriding and wrecked a very expensive car in the process http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-ap-mi-fbi-wreckedferrar,0,7734789.story
Its not our government anymore, its theirs and we are going to have a hard time getting it back
NASA has a budget of under twenty billion dollars. Since the US budget is a deficit busting 3.8 trillion it takes less than two days to cover NASA. Some will actually say that amount is far too much. Which is odd because we are spending so much we don't have, if we consider that we spend over three billion a day we don't have we deficit spend NASA's budget in a week.
We lose an estimated hundred billion dollars a year is medicare/medicade fraud. When you combine all levels of government we spend over six trillion dollars.
We have over TWO THOUSAND SUBSIDY programs. That is methods of getting money into the hands of people based on arbitrary requirements.
Any attempt to cut one item is usually met with an irrational comparison which puts the person suggesting the cut on the level not much higher than mass murderer. Yet the if we are going to fund science like NASA, and note we need to find all the programs the US funds not just including NASA to get an idea of how much is truly spent, we have to get expenditures under control. NASA isn't the only government player in space, the Air Force does a good amount there as well.
I agree with the person I am replying too, Obama and many Democrats and Republicans have nothing against NASA but one simple fact remains, it garnishes very little votes for them. So the money is better spent on other programs which keep them in office.
The three big forces in American politics are are all self supporting, Big Business, Labor Unions, and Politicians. The rest of us are played all the time and only given two choices because they have effectively shut down third party options.
the Trading Card game featured items you could sell in game for ridiculous amounts of money and Blizzard even sanctioned that.
They are not adding gold to the game, they are simply giving another means of it moving from character to character. It is most likely that the costs in game for the pet will quickly tank which might push off a lot of buyers.
What does not bode well is that pets sold to players from Blizzard now take on the trading card game limitation of one time use instead of account wide use. This raises the cost of buying a pet for your account by 1000% or more.
a never ending trail of privacy and rights disasters yet people are played deftly by the parties so that a perpetual state of power is maintained.
To think that even Congressmen have to jump through hoops to find out how the system works speaks loudly that the system is horribly broke. When you have a system run by lawyers looking for every little hole instead of looking for the truth or the spirit of the law you end up with lawlessness incarnate.
The best solution is to vote out the current administration and if the next does it then to vote them out in hopes someone will get the message. Even better would be to get people out from under both parties but that will require work from the state side of politics. That means finding a way to make redistricting less prone to political power plays guaranteeing elected officials stay in power.
Its means voting against incumbents in your favorite party just to get the bums out when they support abuses like this. If you cannot stomach the other side just to prove a point you have no point. Politicians do what they do because they know that they can play on hatred to stay in. We must get out those who support the Patriot act regardless of party and regardless of terms in office.
Even the OWS is being actively co-opted so that unless it serves a purpose it will get buried in the press again. Just like the tea party before it, as long as it aligns with a party it will be OK but if it strives to maintain its Independence it will be vilified in the papers with various hit pieces and the like.
until you get them up to speed you could not fix some photos for them.
I see all sorts of good uses for this, including hitting up some old old photos we have around the house too what other details pop.
photography never ends, it just changes and gets better. Eventually someone had to figure out how to compensate for the photographer's mistakes.
Please do not attempt to link his case to Bruce Ivins, Bruce actually may be innocent. Troy Davis's "innocence" is built on a well developed case of misinformation or purposeful omission. Many love to claim that seven out of nine witnesses changed their story implying that there were only nine whereas there there were thirty four witnesses brought forward. In the seven of nine group the DEFENSE refused to allow to two to go before the judge as required. One of those was a person they were trying to implicate which the Judge said, unless you call him to the stand you cannot do that. The defense didn't even refute the first shooting made with the same gun.
We don't know enough about the Bruce Ivins case, we certainly don't have thirty plus witnesses to what happened let alone the ability to subpoena all the documentation. It also is quite clear that the word Terror is the buzzword which they attempt to muzzle any true investigation.
influence his veto.
His explanation either show he is an idiot or has no respect for privacy or is in bed with the police/guard unions who thrive on more prisoners.
The unions at the instructions of someone, most likely in the DNC, are trying to co-opt these protest and I wish the protesters the best of luck as they will need it.
The problem is, the DNC doesn't understand the protest but is so desperate to have a counter to the Tea Party they will take what they can get. They really really want a grassroots effort or one that appears as such and all their previous attempts fell flat (the bus loads of union members didn't really feel grassroots now did it, nor the mess they left)
However these protests appear to be somewhat still struggling for relevance. In Atlanta they shouted down/chased out Representative John Lewis here (Democrat, did his time on the race equality forefront) so they aren't showing a party affiliation.
They are way too white as well, way too we still live off of mommy and daddy too. There is a lot of greed being passed off by some in the crowd (pay my student loans, pay me a working wage, all without reason other than *I* declare it fair).
So overall, I hope they can remain independent but I bet they won't. They are too important finally to let the moment pass. All good crisis should be exploited.
Hence, their toast
between campaigning and leading. He is very good at promising something yet incredibly good at not delivering it and then brushing off complaints.
Considering all he promised about protecting our rights and the rights of the combatants we took into custody in the War on Terror why should I believe anything that passes his lips? He is worse than Bush, he has doubled down on nearly every bad part of the Patriot Act that Bush used, hell he used Drones to kill American citizens overseas. And the press remains silent.
If only to be have an active press again, one that regularly chases the Administration, this guy has got to go. I want no more Presidencies where the Press acts as if it is part of the Administration.
We would have investigations in Congress over the drone killing if it were Bush, if not full press stories about how abusive it is of the Office. Let alone Solyndra and Fast and Furious.
His real self will surface when he has no further campaigns to run, meaning if he wins or loses we will finally see what he will do.
While not stuck on one, I have had many posts moderated quite high, I do not have an option to moderate, meta-moderate, or the like. Worse, I have had comments previously at positive scores go zero or one a few weeks later.
So I just have fun with it now. I used to worry about posting something with thought behind it, now when I want to bounce real ideas I go elsewhere.
and quit trying to sneak your obvious political slant into posted stories by putting them into the wrong categories. So do your best to remove the slant from the site. You could also drop stories about whack jobs like Phleps clan going after Steve Jobs because it had no place here, it might work at Digg but we know where their bias got them.
challenges to research are actively encouraged in some aspects of science whereas they are unfortunately denounced in others. I am glad to see this team inviting others to find the faults if any, now to see this applied to more politically sensitive subjects would be nice
so the in crowd can head nod and act all smug with their belief that all Christians or people of faith are really like this. For no other reason is such a person newsworthy, it is very much like the bit on Scary Movie, The press only wanna interview the most ignorant person they find.
a recent ruling threw out evidence collected from a person computer because the cop moved the mouse which in turn disabled a screen saver which in turn revealed incriminatory evidence. So if your phone is not displaying anything it may not be able to be searched.
In other words, a pass code with a neutral background may be sufficient to protect you should it reach court and something on the phone was incriminating.
http://volokh.com/2011/09/27/taking-a-computer-out-of-screensaver-mode-to-see-suspects-facebook-wall-as-a-fourth-amendment-search/
Also this site, http://www.fourthamendment.com/blog/ is not a bad resource when you want to see what happens with search and seizure cases.
Far too many times we read about how some schools do away with valedictorians and the like, where no one can be better than another person. Everyone gets to be on the team in some sports for young children around here, barely stopping that at High School.
We have built a system that does not celebrate the best of us but instead tries to convince us that everyone is born equal and should be treated as such. You cannot bring down the brightest to bring up the dimmest. It just doesn't work. If anything we should separate them so those who can are fast tracked while those who cannot, will not, or on the edge, can get more assistance.
Parents respond to their environment, the government sets that environment because it has the power to intimidate.
My favorite account is my friend's daughter, who spoke both English and Spanish as the result of wanting to be able to talk to her grand parents. They only used English at home unless the grand parents were there. She is a very bright kid. She got put into special classes when they found out she spoke Spanish combined with the fact her mom was second generation which meant her skin color wasn't the pasty white of her father. The system did it. If it wasn't for her mom going to the board nearly every day she would have been doomed to what are essentially remedial classes.
Too often the system assumes little susie is stupid because of where she is from. Then too often systems will make it so that a little bobby who truly is backward is not left behind by holding everyone up.
and earthquakes. Either concentration in atmosphere or ground water. Just googling RADON and earthquakes results in a good number of hits.
because the European Union isn't about some social ideal where personal freedoms and responsibility come first. It was about money and power, money and power do not care about individual rights or silly freedoms some countries take for granted. It was about self serving politicians looking a life time meal ticket for themselves and their banker buddies. It was working, until the fact that corrupt government officials tend to ruin the party for everyone.
Because what usually results from rules like this is the indirect results are more likely to be what people fall victim too. There will be a good chance of prosecutions versus people who did not know the audience was a protected age range and there will be ambushers using this law. Throw in adults hit with the law by protected age people claiming offense when none was directed towards the affected group, yet the affected group claims offense.
So your basically stating that certain age groups should feel its okay that government tells them when they make exercise their first amendment rights? Because that is a very wrong path to start going down. Hell, we have seen this age group recently expanded to 26 for health care considerations, do you truly expect that once one foot is in the door that you can close it?
for many of us who frequent a site like this the price point is spectacular.
I already own an iPad, what I am looking for is a smaller form factor. The only negative I saw with the Fire was no camera, but having an iPad and its crappy as not to be even worth having camera, I found I don't miss that. I have a real camera and a better one on my phone anyway.
To me this is the first real Android tablet at a price point I expected. I didn't want Android tablets trying to ape iPads in features and price. I wanted an good alternative in a package that is not cumbersome. Yeah, after a few months with my iPad it suddenly feels big. It certainly isn't being used for all the things I was planning to use it for, but the Fire will do that just as well and I can buy myself and my parents each one and still be under the price of my iPad. As for the walled garden, I am pretty much there with my iPad and I have seen articles claiming Amazon won't go out of their way to stop me from rooting it if I want.
Frankly, after all the years of Apple products I am tired of the price and getting really tired of the feeling I am locked in.
Who had the most difficult role to break from? We know that many forever brand you as Kirk but you have held some stand out roles in your time, which of the actors of the original series was truly typecast and how well did they escape that if ever?
No, I am truly in awe of this idea, if they pull off even a third of it they will roflstomp the national programs. As someone else commented, the music was an interesting choice, it really confers they are high confident of their design and eventuality of success. Frankly, stuff like this is what it will take to inspire the next generation about space because it is so fantastic looking.
are either trying to reach someone who had my number, pulled it out of thin air when getting credit, or because of my sister, this is the last thing that I want. I use a prepay cell phone (I am a stickler for costs) and unless we adopt a callers pays method of billing with cell phones all I can see is a world of hurt coming out of this.
not realizing when we don't give a crap about his opinion.
I know who he is and my first reaction was, so what.
Karma be damned, it felt good to type it.
As to the Fire, I will have one when it ships and it may be my Christmas gift to friends and family if it provides and ease of use for mail and surfing.
that is the estimated combine budgets of every form of government in the United States. Federal, state, and local.
and people seem to have a never ending list of wants, yet it is so very disappointing what little we are getting for that expenditure. So little of the money goes to non-vote buying schemes that we become desperate to find dollars to spend on something right.
There is no best use of government funds atm because atm the Congress controls nearly fou trillion of it, a good amount that doesn't even exist yet and our descendants will have to pay, and they could not even agree on finding three billion dollars in offsets for increased spending by FEMA.
We blow through NASA's budget in two days of spending at the Federal Level. These missions are nothing. The waste alone in Medicare/Medicade (estimated at over one hundred billion a year) would put men on Mars. Someone will bring up the wars but those are a distraction used by one side to hide the waste of government and used by another to buy votes from their side. Never vote for a D or a R candidate, you simply kick the ball down the street.