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If you're interested in non-fantasy books (at least books with no orcs and dragons) about post-Roman Britain, look up the Camulod Chronicles books by Jack Whyte. Very well written, and well-researched. I just wish he'd finished them.
... has eveything to do with attempting to determine just how soon and how badly North America is going to be covered with ash and oochi-hot burning lava. Cool, or what?
Yeah, if the caldera lets loose like it did before, the ash will cause a major cooling, all over the place.
Of course, very few people west of the Appalachians will be around to know about it, but Eurasians and North Africans will be able to stop worrying about global warming for a few centuries.
The most important personal property right is the right to "own" one's self. If personal property rights are superceded by "collective" ownership rights, what happens to you?
And if there is no right to personal property, what about the computer you're using to post here? What about the food you bought at the grocery, if you don't have the right to personally own it? Can someone just come along and take them from you, leaving you no recourse?
People who want to abolish personal property rights don't really think it through to it's logical conclusion.
We need a powerful Senator or VP to shepherd a new space program through Congress, like Johnson did for Eisenhower and Kennedy, and who kept it going through his terms. It was pure ego on his part, of course, but whatever works.
Maybe someone should convince Hillary that there are potential Democratic voters on Mars...
The President can't "account for our nations debt in planning the countrys budget" since the President can only approve or disapprove of the budgets Congress creates. And if he disapproves, he can still be overridden by Congress, so aim for the correct target here.
I agree that a balanced budget (or one as closed to balanced as possible) is correct, but the people to complain to are your elected representatives.
Common sense has never been a mandate when it comes to airline "security."
Given a little thought, just about anything that's available to carry on can be made into a weapon, but the mere thought of that could give "security" people the absolute vapors, so they don't think of it.
So, just buy stuff at the Goodwill, and you can walk around as everyone who ever bought the stuff before. Too many conflicting RFID tags will cause so much confusion that their use will end up being limited.
Don't forget the megalitigation that we can get for suing computer makers, book publishers, newspapers, and radio and television stations. We Must Protect Our Children from the horrors of too much information.
This is exactly the worse thing to happen at least from a US prospective. The US military is the strongest in a battle because we control the sky. If China controls space guess who controls the war -- China. China Space program and dedication to that cause are more of a threat than Iraq or North Korea.
Thing is, though, that the US military has been moving away from "spam in a can" solutions, taking people out of the loop. If the Air Force can control LEO and access to it by remote control, that's what will happen, no need for the technology involved in manned survival in space.
Or, if that is too difficult, leave the rest of the world alone. Become self sufficient.
Yeah, right, that'll work until some left-wingers get their collective noses out of joint because we don't act to support one of their pet causes, like starvation in Somalia, or ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia.
You know, we could do something a little more constructive than more of the same thing that obviously contributed to these problems in the first place.
Love the specificity of your "solution." Vague generalities couched in self-righteous Amerikkka-bashing.
But of course you wouldn't like that.
You wouldn't get to see all that action on cnn. Bombs are fun just as long as they don't fall on us, huh?
I missed one by 2 miles. Had "AA" on the side.
How, pray tell, is bombing random countries solving the problem that a lot of people feel they have reason to hate the west?
They hated us before we dropped bombs on them, they hated us when we bought their oil, they hated us before we bought their oil. At least bombing them will make them realize they can't get away with acting on that hate.
The survivors are not going to like us one fucking bit more once the dust settle, i can absolutely positivly guarantee you that.
They can hate us all they damn well please, but if they act on that hate, they'll get bombed again and again, until they learn to stop acting like psychotic children.
Glad we didn't have your attitude towards the Nazis and Imperial Japan.
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So, do you write ad copy for porn sites?
If you're interested in non-fantasy books (at least books with no orcs and dragons) about post-Roman Britain, look up the Camulod Chronicles books by Jack Whyte. Very well written, and well-researched. I just wish he'd finished them.
If you're self-employed or have your own company in the industry, tax-deductable travel expenses.
Of course, very few people west of the Appalachians will be around to know about it, but Eurasians and North Africans will be able to stop worrying about global warming for a few centuries.
I've said it before, unless you get the porn, er, "adult entertainment" industries interested, you won't get anywhere.
Sex sells, like it or not.
Next is gambling, then sports.
The ideal moneymaker would be betting on lunar sex athletic events, of course...
Government officials can be bribed? I am shocked, shocked that you would say such a thing M'sieur Rick!
Even the BMW plant in South Carolina that's employing American workers?
The most important personal property right is the right to "own" one's self. If personal property rights are superceded by "collective" ownership rights, what happens to you?
And if there is no right to personal property, what about the computer you're using to post here? What about the food you bought at the grocery, if you don't have the right to personally own it? Can someone just come along and take them from you, leaving you no recourse?
People who want to abolish personal property rights don't really think it through to it's logical conclusion.
The first World Trade Center attack occurred when?
We need a powerful Senator or VP to shepherd a new space program through Congress, like Johnson did for Eisenhower and Kennedy, and who kept it going through his terms. It was pure ego on his part, of course, but whatever works.
Maybe someone should convince Hillary that there are potential Democratic voters on Mars...
The President can't "account for our nations debt in planning the countrys budget" since the President can only approve or disapprove of the budgets Congress creates. And if he disapproves, he can still be overridden by Congress, so aim for the correct target here.
I agree that a balanced budget (or one as closed to balanced as possible) is correct, but the people to complain to are your elected representatives.
Common sense has never been a mandate when it comes to airline "security."
Given a little thought, just about anything that's available to carry on can be made into a weapon, but the mere thought of that could give "security" people the absolute vapors, so they don't think of it.
And Disney is probably working on Martytronics, as well.
(most of you won't be old enough to get that...)
So, just buy stuff at the Goodwill, and you can walk around as everyone who ever bought the stuff before. Too many conflicting RFID tags will cause so much confusion that their use will end up being limited.
Unintended consequences and all that.
X was developed at MIT at first, then some companies got involved, many of which no longer exist, like DEC and Apollo.
Cap.
Anyone else old enough to remember Al Franken and the "One Man Mobile Satellite Uplink?" Hopefully the Monitor Man is a bit easier on the neck!
http://www.journalism.ubc.ca/thunderbird/frontpage /franken.html
War on tobacco, war on fat, war on sugar...
Brought to you by the Honorable Howard Dean and other trial lawyers.
Don't forget the megalitigation that we can get for suing computer makers, book publishers, newspapers, and radio and television stations. We Must Protect Our Children from the horrors of too much information.
Why are anti-death penalty people so often pro-abortion? I am against abortion, against the death penalty, and often a Republican.
I thought it was an endian problem.
Or maybe byte-order.
Cap.
Thing is, though, that the US military has been moving away from "spam in a can" solutions, taking people out of the loop. If the Air Force can control LEO and access to it by remote control, that's what will happen, no need for the technology involved in manned survival in space.
Cap.
Humans will get to Mars.
Humans will explore space.
One or two might even be Americans, if the space-faring powers allow it.
Cap.
Risible stuff, for certain!
Cap.
Yeah, right, that'll work until some left-wingers get their collective noses out of joint because we don't act to support one of their pet causes, like starvation in Somalia, or ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia.
Love the specificity of your "solution." Vague generalities couched in self-righteous Amerikkka-bashing.
I missed one by 2 miles. Had "AA" on the side.
They hated us before we dropped bombs on them, they hated us when we bought their oil, they hated us before we bought their oil. At least bombing them will make them realize they can't get away with acting on that hate.
They can hate us all they damn well please, but if they act on that hate, they'll get bombed again and again, until they learn to stop acting like psychotic children.
Glad we didn't have your attitude towards the Nazis and Imperial Japan.