>Is she never going to carry ID? I guess she win't be driving, joining a club, getting a job or leaving the country.
>All of these require carrying a numbered card which she refuses to do.

Generally you're right, but we're talking about Texas in this case.
Texas may be a little more liberty-loving than most places.

Consider Michael Badnarik, Libertarian Party candidate for president in 2004 and also a Texas citizen.
In his book(1), he claims that by consistently refusing to _have_ any government ID, much less carry one,
he can and does legally drive without licensing his car or himself. He also claims that this interpretation
has been tested in Texas court in the 1940s.

Perhaps the other things you mention would still require an ID in Texas, though I've heard that crossing
the Texas-Mexico border without ID happens a lot. :-)

(1) "Good to Be King: The Foundation of our Constitutional Freedom" ISBN 1-59411-096-4

Isaac Asimov quote from a column in Newsweek - Jan 21st, 1980

'There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."'

Source:
http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/c93xs/antiintellectualism_has_been_a_constant_thread/

> any idea where in "upstate NY" they're being kept?

From the first link in the post you're replying to:

"For now, the two telescopes and some spare parts are still in their clean room at ITT Exelis, in Rochester."

> there have been signs that they are trying to build a nuclear weapons but no concrete evidence

Sounds like you didn't RTFA.

Hello Johann Lau,

I think you are responding seriously to a post that was not meant to be taken seriously. In case you are not familiar with the phrase, see

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us

for the reference behind the GP's humor.

You wrote:
>...we can't keep people from being able to build nukes
>... the design is obvious enough

If you mean that many of today's governments could assemble
a team of scientists and engineers that could build a working
bomb, then yes, I agree.

But "obvious"? I've never tried to build a nuke myself,
but I'm skeptical that a working design is obvious.

I'm also wondering if you're familiar with this anecdote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Aristotle_Phillips

From Wikipedia:
"According to Phillips' supervisor Freeman Dyson, a renowned physicist,
and professor Harold Feiveson, who held the seminar,
Phillips' design was not functional."

The bushing is possibly a lie. Vehicles have reportedly demonstrated spurious acceleration both at a stop and at cruising speed, with nobody even touching the accelerator pedal. I don't think Toyota knows what the fuck they are doing, and that includes in their PCM; they apparently aren't flash upgradeable. What year is it, anyway?

I had a feeling I would get at least one response along these lines. Let me clarify the situation, IMO.

"continually regressing in the moral and ethical obligations"
I am not proclaiming that there was a bygone golden age where everything was awesome. The word "regress" was chosen carefully for the sole fact that, yes, in this year 2010, there has been significant progress made in the United States and across the world in regards to the treatment of humanity on an ethical and moral scale. Each year that transpires produces an ever increasing sum of philosophical ideologies that could increase the standard of living for most of mankind. Amidst these discoveries and continual improvements by societies intellectuals, world governments continually ignore or simply forget these quality addendum's to the standard moral code of human life in the sake of profit. There never was a golden age of humanity. There probably never will be. But the fact remains that countless individuals and organizations refine and better our understanding of sociological problems on a yearly basis, yet world governments pay little to no regard to these developments.

So, this "mantra" rings true in my opinion. In a world that is always increasing its intellectual capabilities through technology, increasing its ability to disseminate academic information, increasing its ability to research, study, examine, and postulate different solutions to different problems, there is a moral and ethical decline in part of the governments, and it is in fact a regression, a back tracking, a one-step-forward-to-steps-back, because it seems regardless of any ideological developments being made, their implementation is residually ignored over time in leu of the motivation of profit.

The heavy-duty equipment I am talking of does not have any mechanical linkage or cable. There is a TPS attached to the "hammer" and a wire runs down to the engine. The pedal is literally this thing hinged to the floor with a little spring loaded roller that rolls across the floor behind it (on Volvo trucks the pedal looks more like a car pedal but it's still drive-by-wire). A Detroit series 60 engine has electronic injectors and the throttle, injection timing, and mixture is all electronically controlled.

At least an Airbus is a $100 million dollar aircraft, so it's much more likely they did some decent design and testing, plus there's a lot of redundancy in those fly-by-wire aircraft. Your car, OTOH, is designed to be as CHEAP to manufacture as possible. There's no redundancy there.

Unfortunately, without paying Apple $99 a year, you won't be able to install your own applications on your iPad. This is the issue. That Apple rigidly enforce code signing, such that without going through the App store (or using up a limited number of Ad Hoc distribution slots), you cannot make available your application.

It doesn't matter where you got your education, or what it says on your diploma, if you have these test scores.
What about the parents that don't follow curriculums (like the ones in TFA )their kids don't get diplomas or test scores. Maybe you should RTFA before you comment like an idiot.

Your numbers are for "Computer Scientists" - generally with a Ph.D. The numbers from the BLS for "Computer Software Engineers and Computer Programmers" are lower:

"In May 2008, median annual wages of wage-and-salary computer applications software engineers were $85,430. The middle 50 percent earned between $67,790 and $104,870. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $53,720, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $128,870"

"Median annual wages of wage-and-salary computer programmers were $69,620 in May 2008. The middle 50 percent earned between $52,640 and $89,720 a year. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $40,080, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $111,450."

See http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos303.htm

And 99.44% of deaths in 2006 were not caused by drunk drivers.[1] [2]

[1] - Total number of reported deaths in 2006: 2,426,264
[2] - Total deaths in alcohol-related crashes in 2006: 13,491

Enter Disney Keychest
http://topnews.net.nz/content/2686-disney-project-aims-play-film-any-device
http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/disney-keychest-to-make-buy-once-view-anywhere-movies-a-reality/

Maybe not applicable to games/mp3/etc. just yet. But consider this:
A vendor-neutral system to manage bought and paid for digital licenses. It doesn't matter if iTunes goes belly up, because your license lives on in the keychest.
I know, I know. It's disney and all. Evil corporations shouldn't mess with this. BUT! It is a good idea, and a step in the right direction. Now if only we could get Keychest out of the hands of captain jack sparrow, erhm, I mean Disney, it would be perfect.