A big plague would be better. War tends to kill young men disproportionately. Also all that wasted money on war tools (fuel, ammo, weapons).

A global plague could thin out the herd by 1/3, taking the old (less Soc Sec $!) the young (less tax $ for schools!) and the sick. However this only really buys us time. Also, World Trade / Economy would at least take on a death like stagger, if not go into a coma.

Not to mention triggering a few revolutions around the world.

Certainly would shake things up a bit.

Or follow the herd and move off-shore.

We have replaced Tom's Decaf with DOUBLE ESPRESSO this morning, let's see if he's noticed the difference..

When we more fully understand and modify humans through genetics, etc., it will make these mechanics look like stone spears do today.

Just imagine if we could grow a new limb with some daily therapy in only a few months; or if humans were Radiation Hardened at the cellular level from birth.

Your position is to short sighted. It's not done yet, give it another generation or two. Like the USAs strategy to isolate (and not attack) the USSR, post WWII. This policy took approximately 45 years (1945-90) to work through. I'm not saying the USA-China policy will work, but 20 years is too short to say "it failed".

no, just you.

Maybe AT&T is better; I just came off a two year contract at Verizon, supporting provisioning tools for your very product. For years the big push at Verizon has been to off-shore. I'm not sure they really understand Data they way they run "worldcom/MCI".

If it was my money, I would try AT&T, they are way bigger (I hear) than Verizon in the Data arena.

National Sex Foundation

omg, I never saw those before. They make the new video look like Academy Award material.

After painting evil elephant faces on them, and adding mini-gun trunks.

Oh, to be an (telecommuting) operator. Sitting at a bar in Georgetown, gunning down bad guys with your own killer-flying-elephant, half a world away.

Scientists have found that some teens in a vegetative and minimally conscious state, despite lacking the means of reporting awareness themselves, can learn and thereby demonstrate at least a partial consciousness. By using classical Pavlovian conditioning, the researchers played a tone immediately prior to shotgunning cannabis into a patient's open mouth. After some time training, the patients would start to inhale when the tone played but before the shotgun.

This is the prequel to The Matrix. Hunker down fellow humans.

Just duct tape the monitoring equipment in place. No need for fancy straps.

With regular TV it looks like she has a cute mole..

With HDTV I can see a hair growing from the mole..

With 3DTV...AHH....AHH....THE HAIR...IT'S TOUCHING ME

The author is an idiot. This has been going on forever. Using his camera example, anyone over 50 or so will remember the Kodak Instamatic cameras of the 1960's, when expensive cameras were on the rise, the cheap and easy Instamatic turned the market around.

Cheap and easy has been #1 forever.

My thoughts exactly.

Isn't this really just a folder labeled "Cathy's Time Capsule 25-8-2025"; you can zip it up when it's complete and give everyone a copy. If you have deep pockets, you can add video iPods for everyone.

Video is especially good, lots of "I was so skinny then..and had hair!"