aliens - god loves 'em.
gays - not so much.
i'm just not following that logic. #v
@gorehound: hey, if you like that then you should read about ACTA:
[en.wikipedia.org] #startrek
@Barry99705: not all stainless steel is magnetic.
@DEK46656: Chernobyl is a bad example. the entire situation was a self satire. the engineers shut of the safety systems, there wasn't a containment vessel, the construction was done on the cheap, there wasn't adequate training, there wasn't adequate maintenance, the storage of spent fuel was likely over capacity and so on.
that being said, i certainly hope that the TSA is in no way connected with keeping something like a space elevator safe.
@Patrick Rehill: your cell phone works, right?
that's a form of wireless power transmission.
what tesla was doing was very different, but it doesn't violate the laws of physics.
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@S1LV3R_F0X: I had one at work until my contract ended. Vista needs more RAM and I never really liked the hot keys, but the rest is solid. Besides that, you can you can get all the fun bits of kits that go with the business laptops.
I don't see why we should have to pay more for US made gadgets. The biggest barriers to low cost manufacturing in the US are shipping costs, pension costs and health care costs. Shipping costs are in large part related to bad treaties. Pension and health care costs need to be addressed at the Federal and State levels to protect regular Americans. But given the ridiculous nature of politics I wonder if this can happen.
@dallasmay2: the fanatics that you so glibly mentions only flew into the WTC because of the troops we have stationed in their holy land. Saudi Arabia has foreign troops, US troops, stationed there.
and you are very wrong about the world getting worse without religion. it's just the opposite. our criminal justice system is irreligious. public schools are irreligious. Social Security is irreligious. the US Constitution is irreligious. medicine is irreligious. science in general is irreligious.
on the other hand, religious organizations shun people for getting medical care, wearing the wrong clothes, eating the wrong thing and many other arbitrary things. religious organizations promote genital mutilation. religious organizations promote the subjugation of women. religious organizations can and do deny services to people with disabilities or for having the wrong sexual orientation. religion was used to promote slavery in the US.
i could go on and on, but the point is that society is a secular pursuit and we get more civilized as we limit the effects religion can have on society.
@B: I think you are a little confused about what Carter did. In his 4 short years, he signed 7 major deregulation bills passed by a Democratic Congress.
The the build up to 70s energy crisis, the crisis itself and the following stagflation were all presided over by Nixon and Ford.
While it's true that Carter presided over oil price deregulation which whipped up the revolutionary fervor in Iran and thus the second energy crisis. It's also true that a Republican, Eisenhower, declared the democratically elected leader of Iran a communist and thus installed the Shah.
Not only that, but Reagan raised taxes and signed less deregulation than Carter.
The situation isn't soundbite simple.
You know, this topic is always great fun for a movie or a book, but for all the good aspects of what this guy has to say he also is a total crackpot.
here's the proof:
he has an article about coin hording, nickles specifically. it's supposed to come off sounding like you can get rich off of keeping your nickles for their metal content.
to be sure, mining the coinage for commodities by anyone but the government is very illegal. the secret service will come after you and you will go to prison.
beyond that, what happens if we have deflation or the commodity price for the metals doesn't increase? in any case the value of metal in coins is predicate on a stable government and a stable economy, just like the value of the money itself. current metal prices are so high because we are in a war, the economy was going good until the last 1-2 years here and the economy is still exploding in china and india.
if it gets bad enough that he's right then having gardening skills might be of help but a million or 2 nickles aren't anything but heavy.
@sojrner: the atom processor should be similar to a pentium m but with hyperthreading in regard to performance. so yes, this should be a great primary computer.
the only caveat i can think of is what it would take to reinstall the OS if there was a problem. that being said, i have gone a few years without having to do that in most cases. most of the time people drop their laptops or something like that so there's something more like a screen that's broken.
after having recently downgraded to a single core processor, i have to say that i'm going to be waiting for the dual core version next fall or the following winter. well, that is if the gossip is to believed.
other than that, this is a very exciting product.
ummm... it seems to me that no one is aware that the show is based off of a series of books.
they're the Sookie Stackhouse (Southern Vampire) Series books written by Charlaine Harris.
