User: HypersonicAtheist

What about highway construction?

On: A Maglev Train System for Florida?

Building roads is not a private function; taxes are extracted from you for those construction projects also. Then sometimes there are tolls. You have to buy, insure, and maintain the car, don't forget that. Oh, and with the highway thing you get five thousand or so violent deaths every month. Not sure on the exact figure there, but I think that's in the ballpark for American road kills every month. Boy, what a cool deal!

Freenet question

On: Congress to Ashcroft: Go After Song Swappers

It is my understanding that a freenet node operator may store her files in ram rather than on disk.

Say she detected that the police were battering her door down and she shut the computer off- would there be evidence for criminal trial?

birth control via the draft

On: Starving Nation Turns Down Bioengineered Corn

There is a new draft on the way:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c107:H.R.3 59 8:

A bit off topic I know, but I could not resist.

Re:return to the moon?

On: Back to the Moon?

The Clementine probe did confirm the Apollo 15 site.

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/missions/ap ol lo15_touchdown_photos_010427.html

You can watch a film of the landing at:
www.apolloarchive.com
Click Multimedia on the left side and go to the realvideo file "Lunar landing filmed from LM window".

If you play it a few times next to the Clementine image in the article you'll see that they're right on.