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Yeah, I know. Thats why I said 'thank you'. Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.

Seems to be getting easier by the year I guess.

What do you think of it? I've heard of this before. There's an awful lot of political BS in the way of anything like this right now.

kmg365 wrote: She was only overturned 80% of the time, and what's wrong with judging outcomes based on race? It completely ignores gender, sexual preference, and political affiliation. That's what! :mad: Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Both democrats and republicans are playing for the same team and it's not us. - Chris Austin

Yeah, that's how the PC jr was supposed to work. Except we didn't kbow nuffin' bout no balls on computers in the 80's. We kept our balls in our pants. Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Both democrats and republicans are playing for the same team and it's not us. - Chris Austin

Settlers in the old wild west would not have been particularly successful without the US Cavalry watching their backs. Although you might go into space with all of the best intentions, you have to have military like resources to defend those moves, or even to pave the way forward. So to suggest that space exploration is just another commercial venture is just plain wrong and doomed to failure. Yet, with military also comes discipline and organization. Without such discipline and organization, you will have disjointed ventures and, for example, unlike rescue missions to some part of Planet Earth that can be reached within a moderate time frame, space creates new problems where timely interventions is not possible. Stan Shannon wrote: militariztion of space With the Soviet launch of Sputnik, the race for the militarization of space was underway. And how shocked the United States was when they realized they were being left behind. You commented above about feasibility not being just scientific but also political, now you understand why private enterprise by itself just doesn't cut the mustard. modified on Tuesday, May 26, 2009 6:06 AM

You imply different policing tactics for pro-Hamas and anti-Muslim demonstrations. You did not quote from your link Orderly walk backwards: Not so long ago I happened to be in Kensington when a Gaza demonstration by Hamas supporters was going on near the Israeli Embassy. The police were there in huge numbers and they had shut Kensington Road and Kensington High Street to traffic. Somebody must have failed to plan properly for the march shown in the video. Bob Emmett

Intel 4004 wrote: No, you will invest in derivatives They've served me very well so far.

Oakman wrote: I've bitched a lot about what Obama You forgot to mention you voted for him. ENDGAME[^]

Oakman wrote: hey, you've got a pretty opera house. Thanks to a Danish guy who eventually resigned from the project over the way he was treated by our government at the time! Personally I prefer the bridge. Hell of thing to look at up close

Ilíon wrote: Oh? Have you decided to give Oakman a run for the money on the issue of obfuscation and "misunderstanding" what you wish to denigrate? Oh? So what I answered earlier was a re-post? Denigrate? I merely corrected your errors. Ilíon wrote: So, it appears that we now know where those tarballs washing up on California beaches come from -- not from "evil" oil transportation by "evil" oil corporations, but rather from Holy Mother Nature, herself. On the strength of 3 recent articles reporting oil seeps at Coal Oil Point, you imply that it is only now that the origin of the tarballs is known. It isn't. You then go on to state that the seeps are the sole source of tarballs, (exxonerating oil transportation - though not off-shore drilling, which is a source). They aren't. If I have misunderstood your statement, perhaps you should express yourself more clearly. Bob Emmett

Ilíon wrote: where 'ethics' (in contrast to 'moality') and socialism will take a society. I can understand what could be meant by "where ethics (in contrast to morality) ... will take a society". I fail to see what part socialism plays in the GMC's Guideline, the BMA's Medical Ethics policy statement, and the court's ruling. Ilíon wrote: obfuscation and "misunderstanding" what you wish to denigrate? Obfuscation? Where? If I have misunderstood, please clarify. What is there about this story, or your post, to denigrate? Bob Emmett

Tim Craig wrote: anyone who as watched you operate here knows just how open minded and impartial you really are. Yeah, most probably do. You've apparently missed it though. Probably due to a severe lack of open mindedness and impartiality. But believe what you want, it means nothing to me. Visit BoneSoft.com for code generation tools (XML & XSD -> C#, VB, etc...) and some free developer tools as well.

Actually, its easier just to follow the instructions and scroll down for the answers. Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.

I dunno. You look at the Monthly Averages and it looks pretty stable. 2009 - Euros to 1 USD (invert) Average Rates January 0.755724 EUR (21 days average) February 0.782243 EUR (20 days average) March 0.766963 EUR (22 days average) April 0.757793 EUR (21 days average) May 0.739174 EUR (16 days average) Kind of hard to get excited. If the Chinese want to buy US Real Estate it would be like when the Japanese bought Rockefeller plaza. What are they going to do, ship Trump Tower to China? Put a colony inside the penthouse? They've collected US and other currency for a very long time. They keep in case they want access to international financial markets in an emergency. Ever since the Weimar republic inflated their WWI debt away the ability to get money has been very dependent on whose currency you happen to have. At the same time, every dollar they hold is a dollar they don't spend in the US, which is both good and bad. Like some kind of weird old millionaire just hanging on to all of his money in a mattress. _____________________________ Those who study history are doomed to watch others repeat it. -Scott M.

He cannot 'play me'.