...then we'll need to recruit some chicks to go all the way, because Mars Needs Women!

The US still has a constitution?

No you don't. You can poke anyone who has made their profile publicly viewable.

.. was put in the pokey for poking the pokee?

Perhaps this is the reason that sometime during lunch, my employer (A well known NNSA National Laboratory in New Mexico) blocked access to all things Google, including Gmail, Blogspot, and the Google search engine itself?

We had those way back in 1977! Two circuit boards, lots of TTL chips.

You mean, look out for more "car theft" now.

Yup.

Food is an even more basic necessity than health care.
Imagine if we only paid a minimal co-payment and the supermarket filed a claim for reimbursement with an "insurance" company every time we bought food.

Our current employer-provided health care benefits system is no less ridiculous.

> 1. Hospitals must publish a public domain price list for services. It must be posted in an obvious manner. The
> hospital is not allowed to charge different customers or insurers different rates.

The problem with this is that insurance companies demand a discount from participating physicians.
The physicians compensate by overcharging non-insurance patients, so that the insurance company receives the required "discount," which is no discount at all, really.

But radio waves are radiation! And everone knows that radiation is dangerous stuff!

God Hates Tags.

If you want to use more than 140 charcters, you need Woofer, not Twitter.
No 140 character maximum, but there is a 1400 character minimum!

"... a child learning how to text will have a head start over his friends at becoming a spoiled little twat."
There, fixed it for you.

.. to catapult the hydroponically grown wheat back to the Earth?

"Nuclear" is not the right word.
We need to come up with some term that doesn't remind us of mean old atomic bombs (one of those could ruin your whole day, you know).

Maybe we should call it something like "peace and progress energy."