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  1. Human Rights on Judge Declares Federal Healthcare Plan (Partly) Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    No one is taking your kidney without your permission

    We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness

    Should the right to have Life be dependent on the money that you have? If so perhaps the liberty and happiness is the same (well it seems to be that way)

    Liberty is defended by our US military, a voluntary military, this service is provided to all Americans.

    The pursuit of happiness is helped by our public school system and other social services, again provided to every American.

    The idea that someone will force you into surgery to remove a vital organ is a plain red herring. What you don't want is to have to pay any money. As far as I know it isn't a right for you to make as much money as you do now. Don't confuse the issue, if you feel that someone else should die from a curable illness so you can buy a new TV just say so.

  2. Re:Wouldn't that be ironic. on Are Marines Censoring Web Access for Troops in Iraq? · · Score: 1

    perhaps the lefty sites are the only ones that the soldiers are visiting. It would make sense to filter the most popular sites if you were trying to keep the bandwidth clear. 7000 hits a day to airamerica.com and 20 to Bill O'reilly. which one would you block.

  3. Re:watts per square foot? on Clear Solar Panels Double As Projection Screens · · Score: 1

    Since you asked 232.075067 horsepower [electric]

  4. just cause on Clear Solar Panels Double As Projection Screens · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why don't we just install a "Spaceballs" style solar glass enclosure around the earth at 26000 miles from the center? Just high enough to keep the geostationary satellites inside (wouldn't want to lose our tv). The surface area should be about.

    131,657,416,704,000,000 sq/ft

    and cost

    $5,924,583,751,680,000,000

    in raw materials (maybe we could get a bulk discount)
    we should also try to cash in on a "free installation"

    The output of such a sphere would be

    500,298,183,475,200,000 watts continuous

    Or (for sake of easier calculation in an already complicated process) if only half of the sphere received light at any given time

    250,149,091,737,600,000 watts continuous
    250,149,091,737.6 kW continuous
    250.15 Petawatt continuous

    Power demand in 2002 for the entire world
    13,747,393,531.8 kW continuous
    0.0137474 Petawatt continuous

    sure every living thing on earth would probably die and we would enter a perpetual ice age from the lack of light and heat but, you could throw away the sunscreen and with all that extra energy maybe we could string up some halogens or something along the inside! We could also sell advertising space on it.

    All conversions made with http://www.onlineconversion.com/
    Power consumption data from http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/international/total.ht ml#IntlConsumption
    Geostationary orbit data from how http://octopus.gma.org/surfing/imaging/howhigh.htm l
    Radius of the earth from http://www.page.sannet.ne.jp/ikenoue/e-mode/earth. html (seems accurate)
    Output and cost from RFTA

    If you think that my math is wrong then check and let me know, too tired to think anymore.

  5. Re:According to the data from this thread: on Apple 100,000,000 iTMS celebration · · Score: 1

    Get Ready to watch ITMS sales slow to a crawl until 95m, then burst right through the 100m mark as everybody Amasses-waits-buys their huge cartfull of music.