I am unsure why it saddens you. Many people from all nationalities would leap at almost any chance to go from poverty or middle class to upper class in one fell swoop. Being Indian in this instance is not unique. Russians, Americans, Arabs, whatever, you will find many in each that would do the same.

The poster you are replying to is a moron.

Bicycles, cars, and trains can push against the ground using friction assisted by gravity to propel themselves.

Ships and submarines can gather and push water to move themselves through the water.

Airplanes can gather and push air to move themselves through the air.

Rockets can gather and push... vacuum to move themselves through vacuum? No. Vacuum has no such properties to push or propel. Essentially, you have to take something up with you to throw out the back end of the rocket in order to move forwards as there is no surface to push against or material to gather and throw out the back end.

I am not telling you anything you do not know. Just saying for the benefit of the PP.

Of course, you are correct, but you do not negate what he said.

Fair share implies that the taxes they will have to pay are fair.

Just drop the word fair and the sentence becomes fine: They should pay their share.

You are wrong. Social Security and Medicare were already paid for. Read that again please: The people who are pulling from Social Security and Medicare ALREADY PAID FOR IT.

Do you understand that? Saying that Social Security and Medicare is a drain on the budget is a lie.

No, what happened is that around 1980, the federal government passed a law that allowed them to trade government bonds for the cash that was on-hand at Social Security Administration.

What you are seeing now is that the government spent all of that money on domestic spying and other police state activities and are trying to frame the budget shortfall as a Social Security problem.

The bonds are due and have to be paid. This is not a Social Security problem at all. Social Security has enough of these bonds to pay for everything. The problem is that the government DOES NOT WANT TO PAY THESE BONDS... so they frame it as a Social Security shortfall rather than what it truly is: Theft from a paid-for program to fund an unconstitutional attack on American citizens.

If people could live forever, nothing would ever change. We would be stuck with the likes of Pol Pot, Hitler, and Stalin throughout all of eternity. The world would become a living hell until the human race was itself completely wiped off the face of the planet.

And then there are taxi drivers who just want to take your money as happened to me in Amsterdam. I told him to call the police if he really felt that the extra 50 euros was a required part of the fare.

I do not believe you.

Perhaps you actually should begin somewhere because I can not find it. Perhaps there is just too much crap drowning out the good stuff? Perhaps there are not enough "DJs" sorting it out for us? I have no idea but I can not find this plethora of good music that you speak of.

I have no doubt that this true to an extent for a lot of people; however, this is not the case for everyone complaining about good music. I am not 60 or older and I think Led Zeppelin and Queen were good. I am not 30 something and I think Pearl Jam and Nirvana were good. I am not a teenager now and I think Katy Perry and Taylor Swift are terrible (except for one song by Katy Perry which is actually pretty darned good. I think it may be called Alien (E.T.)).

Honestly, I have heard only one song in the last 4 years that qualifies as interesting: Turn Down for What. That is not anywhere near the genres that I normally like.

So again, we are not talking about what someone liked as a teenager, we are talking about a dearth of great music. Where is the musical/emotional/mental trip of Stranglehold by Ted Nugent? Where is the light and fun music like The Joker by the Steve Miller band? Where is the technological adventure of Vaski's Terrordome LP? Where is the deeply moving Smells Like Teen Spirit competitors?

There is no music out now that takes the listener on any kind of adventure like the backside of Metallica's And Justice for All album.

Or even just really interesting music like Suspicious Minds by Elvis Presley?

Where is this Golden Age of Music that you speak of? I can not find it.

I am flabbergasted... Just, wow...

I want to go home now. This place is NOT home.

Hm. Microsoft has decided that breaking the law and acting in an unethical manner are valid methods of earning more money. Saying Micro$oft may reduce the reputation of the person arguing, but really, emphasizing that they would do anything to get more money through any means by using a simple symbol seems legitimate to me.

And no, nobody is surprised that a company tries to make more money. What is surprising is the lengths that they will go to get it.

I gave my girlfriend my "old" Nexus 4 with Cyanogenmod on it. It works very well. It has good battery life. I think it is technically considered Lollipop.

Looking at Windows phone is like forgoing a wife who needs time to become accustomed to being a wife for a $2 whore that you saw hanging out it in the seedier areas of town, all in the hopes of a long term relationship.

This was in place in the early nineties when I visited an ATM in one of the World Trade Center towers.

Most people can not see this corruption because the scale of it is so far beyond their real world experiences. Rather like an ant on a tree not being able to see the forest, only the mountains of bark that they are currently negotiating on the tree they are on.

They literally can not see the corruption.

Fortunately, small-scale corruption is frequently punished.

If you are exceedingly wealthy and or powerful, intelligent aliens will be utterly feared.

If you are comfortable in your life station, intelligent aliens will be utterly feared.

Everyone else will be a mish mash of varying responses. Many will see the aliens as an upset to the status quo so will be met with happiness.

Then there are the "real" humans. Regardless of any other emotion or response, they will be dominated by curiosity.

I am unsure why you posted as Anonymous Coward Taco Cowboy.

Your story is familiar to everyone who is not new here.

That is currently the state of modern commercial software. Each vendor wants the entire vertical stack to themselves. God forbid you write something interoperable with a Microsoft program. They will change the API so fast you will not even be able to say your name before they are done.

Modern software companys want it ALL. There is no room for interoperability.