one missing: it's too complicated. Most of us normal folk are not going to spend a weekend reading up on all the options, become confused, talk to experts on the following weekend, find they don't agree and get more confused.
So we give up. We don't care until the manufacturers learn to fix on a small group of standards that do not require us to change our lifestyle.
Drugs. I will be the first to admit that Big Pharma has misused drug patents. However, no drug company is going spend the billions it takes to get a drug developed and through approval (it used to take about 10-12 years and only a small fraction of promising compounds actually turn out to be useful) without patent protection. And even after the drug gets approved, sometimes the deleterious side effects do not show up until the ambulance chasing lawyers have been properly briefed leading to years of legal fights.
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"MSG is just crystallized glutamate from seaweed."
It might be natural but it gives me a headache for 3 days and I free awful otherwise. Maybe it is the concentration used, but now I do not trust Chinese food. Even if I ask them, I'll never know if they lied until it is too late and I'm out of commission for 3 days.
No theocracy, especially one with a End-O-The-World cult about it, should have a right to nuclear weapons. If they want to take themselves out, fine. But it won't stop there.
Yes, but the point of a magnetosphere is that it prevents earth-creature destroying radiation from...well...you know, destroying earth creatures. The size of the atmosphere is meaningless if the radiation will kill you. Maybe you are RadiationMan, able to eat radioactive isotopes others would choke on, able to leap over piles of plutonium far beyond the ability of mortal man...who, disguised as Atom Smasher, an obscure disc jockey who sometimes fronted an Indianapolis band called Pure Funk in the '70s, laughs hysterically at brain destroying particulate matter dispensed regularly by that big friendly star in the sky we know as The Sun.
More likely just a dumb press. If you think about it, a British MP will probably be more knowledgeable about government policies for two reasons: Britain is much, much smaller than the U.S. and so the domestic and foreign affairs issues are smaller in scope and quantity, and second, the MP is in the meat grinder of the political machine daily.
The Press in the U.S. hasn't been elected every few years either, so the external scrutiny of their abilities is quite small.
That said, it doesn't excuse the U.S. Press of being a bunch of boobs. Given their inadequacies, they should spend much more time learning new information rather than enjoying clusterf-cks in front of pols just to get their mugs on the evening news.
Clinton succeeded in cutting deficit because he had a bubble economy. Recall the.boom. The.bust happened in the spring of the election year when it looked like John Kerry was going to win. Bush inherited a recession. That doesn't forgive the sins Bush committed in office like the two wars that he refused to raise taxes to pay for or his health care plan which he didn't fund. Nor does it excuse the lack of oversight in housing when his administration could have at least brought Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae under control or at least made public the fraudulent loan practices. That wouldn't have stopped the Fed. from refusing to raise interest rates to stick a pin in the housing market before it got too extreme.
I wouldn't be surprised. They have PHBs everywhere in thrall. They'll market it as the first smartphone/tablet OS what can work with PHB-Infrastructure. Then the dirty tricks will start. Non-MS phones and tabs that used to sync to winders will suddenly experience "technical" problems. Companies that produce both Android and winders phones will suddenly discover that companies that have standardized on winders will get better deals. Hell, they've already started with Nokia.
It depends on the size of the ship you intend to protect against. Outfitting a carrier with Bofors or Gatlings (and you'll be wanting to use a lot of them since carriers are big) makes no sense and would actually cost a lot more since now you must cart the ammo around whereas the nuclear generators have power to space. Also, it is safer, ammo can explode if the ship is hit, lasers tend not to.
Just for the record, the entire U.S. budget for 2010 was: $3.55 trillion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_States_federal_budget). Discretionary: $1.368 trillion
Mandatory: $2.009 trillion
Not sure where the slop fits in, but the numbers are close enough.
Defense: $663.7 billion
So even accepting your $739 (for 2011), we see that the majority of the spending is on the Mandatory side.
The U.S. 2010 deficit: $1,294 billion
So entirely whacking Defense doesn't balance the budget. The social programs (the mandatory part) are busting the budget, regardless of the smoke screen you are attempting to raise.
Maybe it would help if you actually read evolutionary theory first. Apes and humans split approx. 7 million years ago. Which means you won't find a human body with a chimpanzee head. It is still possible to find humans with chimpanzee brains, however. I'll leave it to your imagination where they can be found.
Really? The U.S. port industry was legal yet it was infiltrated by organized crime, La Cosa Nostra. The Teamsters were a legal trade union, but in thrall to the mob. What makes you think the organized crime syndicates running drugs are going to take legalization lying down? Cigarettes are legal yet there is a thriving underworld devoted to avoiding taxes and shipping them around the globe. Medical drugs are legal, yet there is a thriving industry devoted to producing and shipping counterfeit drugs. Hell, even the U.S. currency is legal, but counterfeiters are out there, even sovereign states like N. Korea and Iran counterfeit U.S. currency.
Entitled has a funny meaning. You mean you are entitled to the extent the rest of America still has the cash to pay for it. You might think that, as a trust fund, the U.S. gov. has been busy squirreling away your SS money in a giant mattress under the Treasury Building. What you fail to consider is that the U.S. gov. cannot hold surplus money for very long, it has to go out again. So the SS admin has been buying IOU's from the government which has been using them to pay for...uh...the rest of the government.
So while you are crying over your beer about spilt benefits, and how the world isn't fair, consider that you and your fellow Americans have no one else to blame but yourselves. You voted those idiots into office in part because they made promises they cannot keep.
Really? Repeating information that has been public for decades? I have a tin-foil hat tightener that, because I trust you, I'm willing to let you have for about $99.99. Please contact me within the next hour and I'll throw in a Ronco Turnip Twaddler gratis.
It isn't that hard, once you train them to stay on your head without squirming around and using their claws to stay on. I find the smaller breeds work best but then I do not live in a cold climate.
You must mean applied research. Basic research is still funded mainly by the government...well, it will be until the cranks in the Republican party find a way to defund it believing that basic research is just what happens when you get the government out of universities. The bean counters you think of as funneling money to research are still doing nothing more than bean counting with an eye on the bottom line. Einstein couldn't get their funding, nor Feynman, nor any of the other serious scientists. And once the head of the pipeline is squeezed closed, eventually it will cause the whole thing to collapse...unless you count rearranging the intellectual deck chairs research.
The problem with tractor beams is when they are used from too great a distance. They have a tendency to merely pull up the skirts of women revealing...gasp...ankles. No self-respecting Ayatollah would want to see them.
But Moto cannot really sue MS unless MS is making phones. I forget, are they? Isn't the deal with Nokia so they can hide behind their skirts when the sueballs start flying?
The reason the Iraqis do not feel liberated is because now they must attempt to run a country which is still fighting the same civil war started in 632 when Muhammad bit the dust. It has nothing to do with how they were liberated from Saddam, what matters is they were liberated to resume killing each other over dusty bones from a probable late stage schizophrenic who heard voices and somehow presumed it to be the arch-Angel Gabriel. Allah, being all powerful, is also all *other* and does not interact with this world. However, a little known escape hatch allows his angels to do the communication in his stead....very tidy...one might even say, predictable...and I'm not even a prophet...errr...not to my knowledge, at least not according to voices in my head....
Muhammad, being a good little petty dictator with a messiah complex (Q-Man, take note), "predicted" he was the last prophet. All very neat if you want to be known as the Big Cheese long after you've given up the ghost. And Muslims have been killing each other over his legacy ever since, which is somewhat surprising given that it is peaceful religion...as long as you are Muslim....the right kind of Muslim, that is.
The reason the West is not landing troops is because the West doesn't have the balls left to take out a ruthless dictator. It has nothing to do with somehow preserving a sense of allowing the Libyans to have their own personal revolution. One should recognize a weenie when one sees one, and Europe has been weenies for so long no one expects any more of them. So they can comfortably hide behind their years of weenieness and do nothing more than shoot a few cruise missiles and fly a few French planes around to act like they somehow have balls again. They don't have the military muscle left to do anymore than that because they've spent too long hiding behind American power. The best thing the U.S. could do is pull out of NATO and tell Europe we simply do not care anymore about their sanctimonious asses.
Letting the Q-Man succeed would have been the best thing the West could have done to ensure continued supplies of Libyan oil. They did the one thing that would jeopardize that flow.
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one missing: it's too complicated. Most of us normal folk are not going to spend a weekend reading up on all the options, become confused, talk to experts on the following weekend, find they don't agree and get more confused.
So we give up. We don't care until the manufacturers learn to fix on a small group of standards that do not require us to change our lifestyle.
Drugs. I will be the first to admit that Big Pharma has misused drug patents. However, no drug company is going spend the billions it takes to get a drug developed and through approval (it used to take about 10-12 years and only a small fraction of promising compounds actually turn out to be useful) without patent protection. And even after the drug gets approved, sometimes the deleterious side effects do not show up until the ambulance chasing lawyers have been properly briefed leading to years of legal fights.
"MSG is just crystallized glutamate from seaweed."
It might be natural but it gives me a headache for 3 days and I free awful otherwise. Maybe it is the concentration used, but now I do not trust Chinese food. Even if I ask them, I'll never know if they lied until it is too late and I'm out of commission for 3 days.
No theocracy, especially one with a End-O-The-World cult about it, should have a right to nuclear weapons. If they want to take themselves out, fine. But it won't stop there.
Yes, but the point of a magnetosphere is that it prevents earth-creature destroying radiation from...well...you know, destroying earth creatures. The size of the atmosphere is meaningless if the radiation will kill you. Maybe you are RadiationMan, able to eat radioactive isotopes others would choke on, able to leap over piles of plutonium far beyond the ability of mortal man...who, disguised as Atom Smasher, an obscure disc jockey who sometimes fronted an Indianapolis band called Pure Funk in the '70s, laughs hysterically at brain destroying particulate matter dispensed regularly by that big friendly star in the sky we know as The Sun.
You can do that with FPGAs, just go through a defunctionalization step which spits out a FSM. See Bill Harrison's work at U. of Missouri.
More likely just a dumb press. If you think about it, a British MP will probably be more knowledgeable about government policies for two reasons: Britain is much, much smaller than the U.S. and so the domestic and foreign affairs issues are smaller in scope and quantity, and second, the MP is in the meat grinder of the political machine daily.
The Press in the U.S. hasn't been elected every few years either, so the external scrutiny of their abilities is quite small.
That said, it doesn't excuse the U.S. Press of being a bunch of boobs. Given their inadequacies, they should spend much more time learning new information rather than enjoying clusterf-cks in front of pols just to get their mugs on the evening news.
Clinton succeeded in cutting deficit because he had a bubble economy. Recall the .boom. The .bust happened in the spring of the election year when it looked like John Kerry was going to win. Bush inherited a recession. That doesn't forgive the sins Bush committed in office like the two wars that he refused to raise taxes to pay for or his health care plan which he didn't fund. Nor does it excuse the lack of oversight in housing when his administration could have at least brought Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae under control or at least made public the fraudulent loan practices. That wouldn't have stopped the Fed. from refusing to raise interest rates to stick a pin in the housing market before it got too extreme.
I wouldn't be surprised. They have PHBs everywhere in thrall. They'll market it as the first smartphone/tablet OS what can work with PHB-Infrastructure. Then the dirty tricks will start. Non-MS phones and tabs that used to sync to winders will suddenly experience "technical" problems. Companies that produce both Android and winders phones will suddenly discover that companies that have standardized on winders will get better deals. Hell, they've already started with Nokia.
One word: wind.
How much chaff do you have, feel lucky, cowboy?
It depends on the size of the ship you intend to protect against. Outfitting a carrier with Bofors or Gatlings (and you'll be wanting to use a lot of them since carriers are big) makes no sense and would actually cost a lot more since now you must cart the ammo around whereas the nuclear generators have power to space. Also, it is safer, ammo can explode if the ship is hit, lasers tend not to.
Just for the record, the entire U.S. budget for 2010 was: $3.55 trillion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_States_federal_budget).
Discretionary: $1.368 trillion
Mandatory: $2.009 trillion
Not sure where the slop fits in, but the numbers are close enough.
Defense: $663.7 billion
So even accepting your $739 (for 2011), we see that the majority of the spending is on the Mandatory side.
The U.S. 2010 deficit: $1,294 billion
So entirely whacking Defense doesn't balance the budget. The social programs (the mandatory part) are busting the budget, regardless of the smoke screen you are attempting to raise.
While I agree with the sentiment, a single case does not an induction argument make. Or co-induction, for that matter.
Maybe it would help if you actually read evolutionary theory first. Apes and humans split approx. 7 million years ago. Which means you won't find a human body with a chimpanzee head. It is still possible to find humans with chimpanzee brains, however. I'll leave it to your imagination where they can be found.
Really? The U.S. port industry was legal yet it was infiltrated by organized crime, La Cosa Nostra. The Teamsters were a legal trade union, but in thrall to the mob. What makes you think the organized crime syndicates running drugs are going to take legalization lying down? Cigarettes are legal yet there is a thriving underworld devoted to avoiding taxes and shipping them around the globe. Medical drugs are legal, yet there is a thriving industry devoted to producing and shipping counterfeit drugs. Hell, even the U.S. currency is legal, but counterfeiters are out there, even sovereign states like N. Korea and Iran counterfeit U.S. currency.
Entitled has a funny meaning. You mean you are entitled to the extent the rest of America still has the cash to pay for it. You might think that, as a trust fund, the U.S. gov. has been busy squirreling away your SS money in a giant mattress under the Treasury Building. What you fail to consider is that the U.S. gov. cannot hold surplus money for very long, it has to go out again. So the SS admin has been buying IOU's from the government which has been using them to pay for...uh...the rest of the government.
So while you are crying over your beer about spilt benefits, and how the world isn't fair, consider that you and your fellow Americans have no one else to blame but yourselves. You voted those idiots into office in part because they made promises they cannot keep.
Really? Repeating information that has been public for decades? I have a tin-foil hat tightener that, because I trust you, I'm willing to let you have for about $99.99. Please contact me within the next hour and I'll throw in a Ronco Turnip Twaddler gratis.
"They're getting their synergies leveraged by Microsoft."
Hi, I'm from the Microsoft Department of Marketing. We feel you have what it takes to be part of our team. Please contact us for a bright future.
It isn't that hard, once you train them to stay on your head without squirming around and using their claws to stay on. I find the smaller breeds work best but then I do not live in a cold climate.
You must mean applied research. Basic research is still funded mainly by the government...well, it will be until the cranks in the Republican party find a way to defund it believing that basic research is just what happens when you get the government out of universities. The bean counters you think of as funneling money to research are still doing nothing more than bean counting with an eye on the bottom line. Einstein couldn't get their funding, nor Feynman, nor any of the other serious scientists. And once the head of the pipeline is squeezed closed, eventually it will cause the whole thing to collapse...unless you count rearranging the intellectual deck chairs research.
The problem with tractor beams is when they are used from too great a distance. They have a tendency to merely pull up the skirts of women revealing...gasp...ankles. No self-respecting Ayatollah would want to see them.
But Moto cannot really sue MS unless MS is making phones. I forget, are they? Isn't the deal with Nokia so they can hide behind their skirts when the sueballs start flying?
Yep, they were a big help during WWII. There's another notion of being neutral, that of being morally bankrupt.
The reason the Iraqis do not feel liberated is because now they must attempt to run a country which is still fighting the same civil war started in 632 when Muhammad bit the dust. It has nothing to do with how they were liberated from Saddam, what matters is they were liberated to resume killing each other over dusty bones from a probable late stage schizophrenic who heard voices and somehow presumed it to be the arch-Angel Gabriel. Allah, being all powerful, is also all *other* and does not interact with this world. However, a little known escape hatch allows his angels to do the communication in his stead....very tidy...one might even say, predictable...and I'm not even a prophet...errr...not to my knowledge, at least not according to voices in my head....
Muhammad, being a good little petty dictator with a messiah complex (Q-Man, take note), "predicted" he was the last prophet. All very neat if you want to be known as the Big Cheese long after you've given up the ghost. And Muslims have been killing each other over his legacy ever since, which is somewhat surprising given that it is peaceful religion...as long as you are Muslim....the right kind of Muslim, that is.
The reason the West is not landing troops is because the West doesn't have the balls left to take out a ruthless dictator. It has nothing to do with somehow preserving a sense of allowing the Libyans to have their own personal revolution. One should recognize a weenie when one sees one, and Europe has been weenies for so long no one expects any more of them. So they can comfortably hide behind their years of weenieness and do nothing more than shoot a few cruise missiles and fly a few French planes around to act like they somehow have balls again. They don't have the military muscle left to do anymore than that because they've spent too long hiding behind American power. The best thing the U.S. could do is pull out of NATO and tell Europe we simply do not care anymore about their sanctimonious asses.
Letting the Q-Man succeed would have been the best thing the West could have done to ensure continued supplies of Libyan oil. They did the one thing that would jeopardize that flow.