Not like it makes a difference to her but it's Russia she can see from her home, not Cuba.

Lamanai, not Laminai,, from the Mayan Lama'anayin meaning submerged crocodile.

Beautiful pyramids though and it is very easy to know what they are is as they are always in areas with other Mayan structures.
And yes, the Belize gov is pretty incompetent (ask McAffee)

Invading a few countries over one rogue terrorists using our own planes to destroy a building is appropriate response but defending ourselves against a lot of very fast large rocks isn't? Nice to know that self-preservation is not really a goal of humanity.

No. Exchange of goods should be promoted, not penalized. What should be penalized is hoarding of assets.

Your idea of taxing the fundamentals of capitalism is dumb. We need to promote the exchange of goods and tax it as little as possible. What needs to be taxed more is hoarding of wealth. You can't assume that someone who spends very little money yet has assets valued in the billions should be paying as much tax for protecting those assets as someone who spends and has no assets or probably just a lot of debt to the people who own the assets they spend money for to use.

Oil companies are a perfect example. We are giving away a lot of our income tax money to support their shitty business strategies, which involve making foreigners hate us, while they pay no or very little tax.

It's straight up feudalism.

Why isn't Apple writing good spreadsheet and word programs? I mean Steve Jobs claimed to have invented fonts. Sure wouldn't be that big of a deal to use some open source code for it like they did for their OS.

Sure, a possibility exists that their Spreadsheet would make you bankrupt but it's still an easier bet than Apple Maps.

Or if they go with something safe that they know everything about, go with something riskier. I mean who wouldn't want to see a Star Wars film made by Quentin Tarantino? Just imagine the intergalactic blood bath! And with himself as a fat Darth Vader!

Beautiful.

"Your phone is locked when you get it at a reduced price in exchange for exclusivly using it with the carrier that sold it to you. It is locked to its network. Unlocking a phone yourself was breaking the promise you personnaly made to the carrier. If you are not fine with having your phone locked, you can either buy it unlocked but for a bigger price, or ask the carrier to unlock it, usually free after a (long) time or for a fee."

Bullshit, they charge you a fee to cover the price of the device if you cancel your service early. That's how countries where Apple releases their products into late have users of those devices.

Greed, greed, greed. I like how Apple's stock crashed 10% because of they can't keep up with their own greed.

The Star is actually the sun's mirror image seen through curved space and the orbiting object is earth.
I read something along those lines on a Mayan wall so it must be true.

The space program is another waste that doesn't do much else than make people feel good about the achievement of their government.

There are plenty of other things which need to be done first to increase the standard of living.

Space exploration with available technology is not profitable.

Continuing waste under the premise that there won't be enough money to waste is just another catch-22 military-types have gotten us into.

The problem is that the investment in destruction machines is destructive rather than constructive.

There is plenty of money the government should be spending for constructive purposes if it freed up funds from killing machines. For example investments to lower the cost of living and increase the standard of living could always go to companies like Boeing and Cessna.

One thing that comes to mind as an example is the horrid condition of all american airlines and their aging fleets and terrible service. Just look at airlines like Emirates or Etihad which are heavily subsidized by the UAE government. Their economy class is like flying first class and people working for the airlines are proud of it. Of course, in America for some reason that expenditure is seen as wasteful while a new stealth killing machine with no real purpose at all wouldn't.

If you haven't noticed, we do this in our foreign policy too.
On one hand we blow a country to pieces and on the other hand we send them arms, food, and medical supplies.

Psychotic.

PS South Park covered it best in the episode "I'm a Little Bit Country"

... so ban drinking water to prevent extermination of millions of innocent people.

Also make sure you have tax payers foot the bill for enforcement.
Coca Cola will fund the study.

From my observation, Asperger can make people pretty impulsive and violent for no reason. Not bat-shit crazy, just very impulsive and driven. That would mean that his mental condition could have led him to the massacre even if he rationalized his actions.

One thing for sure though, he did have a lot of pent up anger at his mother.

Really sad for those children, what did they have to do with anything? There is nothing that can be done for them anymore and none of the knee-jerk reactions our politicians are about to have for political gain will help this in any way.

I always wondered why commercial airliners never use the technology to supplement in-cabin energy needs.
After-all they're always above the clouds.