"Manufacturing hasn't gone down in the USA, but manufacturing employment has."

I'm more than willing to go with the factories are more efficient with employess and need less, but then please explain why it is to hard to find products made in USA anymore?

Tools, clothing, electronics, even freshwater fish at the local supermarket all come from china. It's like the only manufacturing we do anymore is food!

And really, we have a whole lot more people now, so the amount of manufacturing should go up, as there are a lot more people who need the goods. So if that graph shows it flat, then in actuality it is down.

<quote>What "ample evidence" is there that any individual part was rewritten?</p></quote>

Is the fact that there are different versions of the bible not ample evidence enough?

Based off pollution:http://gas2.org/2009/06/03/one-container-ship-pollutes-as-much-as-50-million-cars/

Having the equivalent of 18,000 less ships * how much each ship pollutes relative to cars 50,000,000,000 = 900,000,000,000.

I think its overstated how many of those ships there are, however they all pollute a lot more than cars, and woudl be the easiest, cheapest bang for buck that can actually return as an investment relatively quick.

Torchlight 1 came in a shiny box DRM free. Site shows preorder steam only. Does this mean for preorder or at all?

<quote>Therefore, the child doesn't deserve to be punished with death for a crime he or she didn't commit.</quote>

So forcing the kid to grow up as a reminder that mom was raped? Think that kid will feel loved, or even if that kid is loved well, knowing or finding out that you are here only because some jackass raped the #1 person in your life?

And have you ever been pregnant before, or an S.O? It's not exactly something wonderful unless you are looking forward to what they are creating. Puking, bloating, weight gain, morning sickness, damage tot he body, even risk of death, loss of work, new clothing. Waking up every morning "fatter" than the day before because you got raped. So, 9 months of punishment for the mom plus the delivery. And what about caring for this kid? Who pays? oh punish the one who was raped again.

And to expound on another pearlier point, giving birth is not without risks. Sure, modern medicine has made it feel almost trivial, but the risk is always there, some more than others. Who gets to make that call of what risk is acceptable?

And what about daddy? Does he have access to the kid? and to the mom? Lawsuits? Who pays for all this? and who is being punished?

I am always disgusted when other people feel the need to take away rights of others so that they can feel empowered.

<quote>I agree with you that the current TSA system is not the best, but it beats the alternative (i.e., letting everyone on an airplane without any checks).</quote>

The alternative was the screening in place pre 911, which was not "letting everyone on an airplane without any checks". They checked for explosives on random people, they had everyone go through metal detectors and might esculate to the wand. They allowed secure private checked in bags, and they looked through carry ons. But I strongly disagree with you, in that I would rather have no screening than what we have now.

However, I am ok with non invasive screening that do not get personal, can cause health issues, or collect data. This sounds like one, just like the metal detectors (unlike the naked body scanners, or the xrays)

Sure, I foresee false positives, and if they have a proper path of escalation to cause the least discomfort to the travelers all will be fine. But this is the Government, it will involve what can only be called punishment.

Even better, they where the last to get a walmart . . .

Boycott! Vote with your wallet, no lan, no fully local and complete install, stop giving them your money!

<quote>Remember, our tides come from our satellite (luna), and it doesn't exert enough force on us to mess up the Earth's core (just move our oceans around a bit)</quote>

Actually I believe our moon is highly responsible for earth still having a molten core, and a good strong protective magnetic field with it.

You are both wrong! And yet both right. The answer is to hang all politicians.

They both(R's and D's) want big gov, they both play the scratch my back and I'll scratch yours, they both have vested interests they serve rather than the people. Sure they have some differences but the money always goes to them and their friends.

Politicians are like lawyers, while they are scum you want the scummiest ones working for you. So the highest paid ones are the scummiest. They also create more need for themselves. Their hands have been where they don't belong so long, they think it belongs there. You want change, stop voting R/D, this will show R/D we no longer will tolerate their games.

So why hack panda?

If it really was anonymous, who's a loose group of hackers trying to change/make things better, what was their goal?

There is worlds of differences between doing corporate exchange uses and email as an ISP. Exchange for ISP is stupid. Mail is the simplest of functions, and is only a portion of what exchange is. Exchange shouldn't be called a mail server, but rather a corporate communication and collaboration server. Back in 97-2000 exchanged suck, now it can scale, and has a feature set that any of the other solutions do not provide.

I want there to be one, I check every few years, and nothing has passed enough to take it as far as testing performance, or even looking at the cost. Granted I haven't looked this year or the year before. There always something that's almost there, but is missing enough large pieces we can not use it. I'm glad small companies and ISP's can use those packages, and wish I could too.

I would think RedHat, SUSE, or Ubuntu would make an Exchange replacement that only the person who installed it would know its not exchange. And that includes fooling the people who manage it.

14 tabs, is that all? Let me give you a hint, I don't use bookmarks, I use tabs (and session manager).

I could never complain about FF memory issues as I have 100-300 tabs (usually ~120) open, my only beef is that FF is becoming a mini-me of chrome, and I wasn't using chrome for a reason. Although chrome had nice multithreaded features like its own task manager to see what web page is eating all the resources, and an easy way to kill that page.

Also strange, it was just looking at stats yesterday and I was quite happy to see nothing above 50%. http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

Its like having your parents co-sign on your first car purchase. You pay it, but if you don't, then they go after your parents.

Its only an issue when the companies fail to pay it, and that's when the government should take over to fix the situation and look at the leaders of the company to find fault in them.

That is a very good idea, and leads to many others. But then they do have sealants that you put on windows that do the same things, although I would like to see if it is better and how much better, and of course, how long does it last?