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Comment Re:Rand Paul is the only honest politician left. (Score 1) 380

the tea party started out being all about limited government... and i think for the most part still is. there are no doubt agents (probably from within government) in the process of dividing tea party elements, but the ubiquity of the internet has made it difficult.

there are a lot of republicans who don't stand for limited government, but these politicians are becoming increasingly concerned about their election prospects as the libertarian movement pushes aspiring limited government representatives into the limelight.

i'm not a tea party guy... i also consider myself to be libertarian, agreeing with most of ron paul's ideas about non-interference of government with personal habits, economics and foreign policy. peter schiff is my favorite economist. i'm also not religious.

i didn't mean to lump you in with anyone, but i disagree with the source you linked to. i think there are many more sources that highlight that obama is a much bigger spender than bush. having said that, bush was as much a big government socialist as obama.

Comment Re:Rand Paul is the only honest politician left. (Score 1) 380

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/pe...

maybe you're looking at figures the same way that the government does...
- calculating unemployment by excluding those unemployed that have become discouraged and stopped looking for work
- calculating the cpi by excluding food and energy items

like most democrats and even some in the gop, president obama is a big government socialist... only the tea party, libertarian movements and independents are drumming up an ever increasing level of support for reducing government spending and powers back to that envisaged by the founding fathers.

Comment Re:Temporal Control Circuits (Score 1) 127

gold was widely valued for jewellery and money long before the age of electronics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...

so if you trip over a huge gold nugget after SHTF you'll just leave it?

also, in SHTF scenario, all fiat currencies would be wiped out and unless you had something of real value to barter you would starve... pound for pound, gold has been one of the most highly valued commodies in the world since before the ancient egyptians... no action by any NWO will change that

Comment Re:Bad Analogy (Score 1) 716

If my car crashes, no engineer is going to be sued.

engineers are responsible for design, not generally construction... if the cause of the car crash is found to be a design flaw, the engineer could (and probably would) be sued... even if not by the passengers, by the insurance firm.

but what would i know... i'm just an engineer

Comment Re:Hooray for common sense (Score 1) 366

except it won't apply to politicians... of course :-p

mobile phones may have been a problem for aircraft in the past, but the regulations for certifying avionics since 2007 are much stricter. older aircraft designs of course aren't subject to current rules which is a pity (since the rules are designed to increase safety) but majority of airline aircraft would be fitted with upgraded avionics anyway, and any upgrades would be subject to current rules (including their integration into existing aircraft electrical and flight control systems).

refer FAR25.1317 - High-intensity Radiated Fields (HIRF) Protection
http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/te...

even if you fly in smaller aircraft, if it has avionics installed post-2007 you're likely covered by a similar rule;
FAR23.1308 - High-intensity Radiated Fields (HIRF) Protection
http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/te...

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