Wrong. Dark matter is has NOT been directly measured. Basically, they are measuring visible matter and then inventing enough 'dark' matter to their original work. Perhaps the original theory is wrong. Another possibility is that the galaxies might be much younger in age then the big bang theory allows. Always differentiate between real science and simply making theories work. I will be much more impressed if they find real evidence for dark matter, not a parlor trick.
There is an assumption on your part that the U.S. gets wealthier at the expense of oher countries which is completely false. When the U.S. purchases items from other countries we are infusing that economy with cash that they otherwise would not have. We are NOT plundering their resources. Would you like us to stop imports? South Korea, Taiwan, and even Japan were dirt poor and we imported cheap products from them. Over time they have gotten wealthy even though they each support a higher population density then China. The U.S. helps the world economy by providing a market, exporting technology, and even direct assistence. For you to blame this on your problems and somehow says that this causes terrorism is appalling.
"As I understand it, from the reports that have been coming out, that the FBI has just been showing up with Carnivore boxes..." Where are these reports? If these are legitimate there would be a court case in about two minutes. Neither site which started this thread discusses carnivore, they are concerned w/important things like allowing unfettered access to pornography in public libraries.
The 'founders' believed in balance. If you ever really read the bill of rights you would notice that they require search warrants but they DON'T BAN SEARCHES. Likewise, as long as the gov't obtains search warrants for specific suspects, email addresses they are acting in the spirit of the constitution by applying it to technology in the 21st century. That is what John Ashcroft is currently proposing, there is no legislation to indescriminantly monitor all email traffic. That would be an infringement of civil rights. But enabling the gov't to monitor electronic communications for specific suspects after a hearing before a judge is a good and decent function of gov't in the interest of public safety.
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Wrong. Dark matter is has NOT been directly measured. Basically, they are measuring visible matter and then inventing enough 'dark' matter to their original work. Perhaps the original theory is wrong. Another possibility is that the galaxies might be much younger in age then the big bang theory allows. Always differentiate between real science and simply making theories work. I will be much more impressed if they find real evidence for dark matter, not a parlor trick.
There is an assumption on your part that the U.S. gets wealthier at the expense of oher countries which is completely false. When the U.S. purchases items from other countries we are infusing that economy with cash that they otherwise would not have. We are NOT plundering their resources. Would you like us to stop imports? South Korea, Taiwan, and even Japan were dirt poor and we imported cheap products from them. Over time they have gotten wealthy even though they each support a higher population density then China. The U.S. helps the world economy by providing a market, exporting technology, and even direct assistence. For you to blame this on your problems and somehow says that this causes terrorism is appalling.
"As I understand it, from the reports that have been coming out, that the FBI has just been showing up with Carnivore boxes..." Where are these reports? If these are legitimate there would be a court case in about two minutes. Neither site which started this thread discusses carnivore, they are concerned w/important things like allowing unfettered access to pornography in public libraries.
The 'founders' believed in balance. If you ever really read the bill of rights you would notice that they require search warrants but they DON'T BAN SEARCHES. Likewise, as long as the gov't obtains search warrants for specific suspects, email addresses they are acting in the spirit of the constitution by applying it to technology in the 21st century. That is what John Ashcroft is currently proposing, there is no legislation to indescriminantly monitor all email traffic. That would be an infringement of civil rights. But enabling the gov't to monitor electronic communications for specific suspects after a hearing before a judge is a good and decent function of gov't in the interest of public safety.