The moon is heavily populated. Go look for your self. www.mapaplanet.org and have a look. I found a station the size of Alemeda there over the weekend on the farside (53.77Long x -32.28lat), and most of the craters either have buildings in them or have been domed over with what looks like ice. They glow in the UV band from whatever their power/light sources are. This whole "We are the only ones in the neighborhood" crap is just that, CRAP! They are here, leaving us alone for the most part and living NICELY on the Moon!

It's called tyranny. It is the presumption of guilt at work, finding guilt to be guilty. It is the first use of force applied to someone who represents their presumption of guilt. There is no due process because there are no rights present in the "guilty". Innocent until proven guilty MUST be the assumption, or justice doesn't exist. Tyranny is the only alternative to justice when the presumption of guilt is allowed. "But if we did that we couldn't make the laws work!" Too bad tyrant! "But if we did that, we can't win the war on________!" Too bad tyrant! "But if we do that, everyone is innocent!" Yeah, too bad tyrant! "If we are all innocent, then nobody will do as they are told!" Told by WHO? To do WHAT? WHY? Free people do what they can. Slaves do what the tyrants tell them, or else.....Take Down!

Ron Paul in his own words: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Gfth22IuyXU

You are right. But with an open standard the next thing is a conversion utility....

"While repressive regimes do suck, and anybody who runs one should definitely trip and hit their head on a bullet, the notion that the state is your primary concern(among people who have plenty of leisure internet and broadly unfettered access) is openly absurd. It's the private sector: schools, colleges, corporations, parents, etc. who you really need to watch out for." I'm afraid that this statement is patently false. The State has the power. Not the private sector. The state has the power of "first use of force" and will use it when it is needed by the state. The private sector has only the power of "denial of service", or "the power to abstain". It's not your fellow citizens that are your problem, it is the state that controls and influences them via that control that is your problem!

Gold, Silver, Commodity Money is a desireable thing because it eliminates your dependence upon the Fed or any other central bank to do business. It's not having a standard based on a stable tangible commodity that is causing the "crisis". The third world has seen this before. In Zimbabwe, gold was the only thing that could buy food when a wheelbarrow full of central bank notes couldn't. There is no problem with the economy that wasn't a direct result of the Central Bank and it's monopoly. How do you think the control happens? Magic? It's the monopoly on the creation of the currency that is the control. More of it means less value for you. The currency, the "Trillions of Dollars" that people seem to think is so much and so big and so valuable is actually worth NOTHING to the bank that created it! Get off your knees and stop being a sucker for central banking! Get back to a sound commodity currency and 100% reserve banking.

Counter with big trees and a big fence. You'll survive, Your house value should not be the market value any way. That is not what it is for. It's a house to your neighbors and potential buyers....To YOU it should be a HOME!

That's 1+Aleph1. Them is long odds.

And Snails! Quick! We need to re-program the scanners to scan for snails in an undigested state and save the world from snail terrorism! Billions must be spent on this campaign to protect the freedom of America and democracy! Woo Hoo!

The government regulations did not make it safe for you to fly. The airlines, their employees, and the aircraft manufacturers and their employees did that. Rules and rule makers do nothing except get in the way of good people making good decisions for the gain of their good business. The sellers and the buyers both have motivation because they both have skin in the deal. Rules and rule makers have nothing in it but fame and their own fortunes in reelection.

You're an anti free-market troll. No airline in competition with others, freely, will want to be blown up by anybody! One downed plane and your companies stock is tanked. Get a clue man. Government regulation is what brought you junk handlers at the airport! You want butt scopes too? Kinky government safety nuts.

Not if we go on strike, and don't go near anyplace that has Homeland Security in their name or Organizational chart, like the TSA. A day or two of No Fly by the citizens will hammer the industry and the lobby monkeys will start calling different tunes in DC.

You have your premises backward. Humans are perfect, and enormously diverse. Ideologies are limited and unreal. Forcing unrealistic ideologies on a diverse Human population results in inevitable failure. It is not humanity that is at fault. It is not the fault of reality when your dreams do not come true!!

But it can still be un-lawful. The big difference is that the government itself determines legality via it's legislation and courts, whereas the law is discovered in the tangible and natural reality, not the governments verbiage. It is unlawful to take another persons life, it is legal to do so if your legislation justifies it as assassination. It is still un-lawful. It is unlawful to steal another persons property, but it is legal if the government calls the stealing taxation. Legalizing crime is not making the crime lawful. It is attempting to create a legal means to an unlawful end. Failure in the long term is inevitable.