Recent content by Zlex

OK, I'll volunteer to set up the crash dummy, but then I'm leaping out of the way. This rich guy has usurped a slice of the right of The People's Representatives to best serve The People by just handing that responsibility over to the ilk of Bill Gates. Bill Gates! There's a big slice...

The problem with Social Security was much larger than that. The problem was that the bonds were self-bonds. If the bonds were liabilities on some third party's books, then they would have been actual assets for the gov't Trust fund. The flaw was that they were self-bonds; promises for the...

Right. But how do they control 'The' Economy? THis is inherent in our complaint; if 'the' economy is not producing enough 'good' jobs, then the fault is with the Executive Branch of the Federal Government, which is falling down in its implied role of running our Centrally Planned Economy...

I had no idea the president had control over our Non-Command Control economies. I know they claim to have control, but that's different.

Skyhunter, Maybe, maybe I am grasping. I admit that I am biased in my beliefs about the drivers of climate. The Suns output is a direct driver; we can't obviously change that. The Earth's albedo is also a direct driver. Try as we might to change the Triple point of water, it is what it is...

http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/essay_untersteiner.html The uncertainites in the measurements exceed 1%, which is greater than the calculated effect. In otherwords, we are measuring differences in large quantities with a ruler marked off only in units of 'feet' and noting as significant a...

http://www.nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/ We know that our little top is precessing. We know that we are spinning through our galaxy. We know the Sun cycles. We know the Earth's orbital parameters jiggle. We know when we track satellites around our won earth, we are forever jacking with...

It's the same old dance around the volcano political leg lifting crap. "The Gods are angry, better do what we say." 1] We're absolutely sure that Global Warming is occurring, absolutely. All the scientists agree. 2] Late breaking news. This just in. We're absolutely sure that GLobal...

I must admit, before I clicked on this thread I thought it said flat tax. Now I see its just the opposite. :smile:

I don't get the message of the video. What does spraying tags/garbage on other people's property have to do with freedom of speech? "Duuudddeee...man, it's all about the freedom...man..."

You're exactly right we work best when we work together. However, IMV a welfare state is not about working together, not all it. It is about the guns of government pointing at everybody and telling them, 'You must care about every living human being on the planet, sans judgement or choice or...

A yes, the great Society; something that is bigger than us all. Aka, the modern version of God. 'It is for the Good Of Society/God That I get to Drive your Skin..." America is already at the point where the poorest of our poor live nothing like the average person in places like Bangladesh...

russ, 100% agreed. We could complell our children to work hard in school. But.. Let's not do THAT. Instead, ... Let's demonize business, capitalism, industry. Let's support, tolerate a culture that calls kids who give a rats ass about their effort in school, 'nerds.' Let's...

The steel industry--a great example. Literally, folks got paid tons of money to do absolutly nothing. In order to support that immense gradient of 'steel' created at a steel plant, there must exist other massive gradients of steel consumption. But face it, an America that put its last star on...

In the context of this thread, it also indicates that we can 'fix' this issue by an increased reliance on foreign technologists, to wit, the ones that at least 'half' of those degrees 'produced' at American Universities have created. Well d'uh; what do folks think we've been doing for the...