In the meantime, Steve Ballmer is more than happy to play along with Murdoch because although a deal with News Corps would reduce the basic profitability of Microsoft's search business, it would inflict far more damage on Google than on Microsoft."
So how would a deal with News Corps reduce the basic profitability of Microsoft's search business?
Further emails from her office say it's part of Interstate Commerce and the general welfare clause. How long before it's challenged in court?
The "general welfare clause" is part of the preamble to the Constitution. It is not one of the enumerated powers of the U.S. Congress. To be Constitutional, Congress must only act from one of its enumerated powers. The United States of America is not a plenipotentiary Republic; that's the whole point of having enumerated powers.
Why don't you take your snide 'try reading a history book or two' remark and shove it up your ass? The Soviets and Chinese accounted for 88% (yes, eight-eight percent) of all Allied military casualties. It doesn't matter how important you think the US intervention was. The fact remains that many more Americans and Britons would have died fighting that war if it wasn't for the Soviets and Chinese bleeding the Axis powers. To discount the importance of the Soviet and Chinese contribution to the war is to suggest to me that you are the idiot who needs to 'try reading a history book or two'
What "history" didn't teach you was that a good portion of those "Soviet" casualties were actually people from the areas the Soviets conveniently kept after WWII (e.g. Hungary, Poland, etc.). The Soviet army field-conscripted any men of military age and sent them to the front with no training and few weapons. This was actually part of a controlled genocide that made these nations easy to occupy after the war.
Sorry to rain on your fairy tale of the noble Soviet contributions to WWII. But them's the facts.
Tin foil is on aisle 3.
Intellectual incuriosity, aisle 5. Watch out, this is the expensive aisle.
So now we're almost ten years behind the rest of the world in discovering treatments with what amounts to a silver bullet that can actually replace dying tissues. That means that in the future, you'll have to import the treatments from other countries or fly there for treatment. Due to religion, America loses yet another manufacturing opportunity.
So we're ten years behind the rest of the world and we've yet to see the first American citizen flying to other countries for treatment? That sounds like 10 years of sound fiscal policy to me.
Bush's PR only took a dive when the facts got so out-of-hand that he couldn't cover them up with more Fox News.
He should have just told everyone fetal stem cell research was a long shot and that 10 years of worldwide research would likely turn up nothing. Hell, even you know that.
I was told that Bush prohibited all stem-cell science when fetal tissue was involved. The article seems to imply that he only limited federal funding for such science.
You were told incorrectly. Bush was the first President to allow Federal funding of fetal stem cell research ever. So the rancor is not about whether he "allowed" it, but that he didn't walk into a brand new, unproven field of research with a blank check and no strings attached.
It's difficult to prove something when you're not allowed to do it.
Yeah, our dirt-poor medical and pharmaceutical industries have neither the money nor the intelligence to fund and do their own research. Good thing we have a government that has saved its nickels and has lots of extra money to give away! </irony>
Chicken and egg problem, we know so little about stem cells that I do not know whether it is possible to make stem cells available by another route. If we discover that it is possible to remove this method of acquiring cells for research then the method can be stopped at a later date removing the religious objection.
That still leaves the political objection. Why is government betting on the future winners and losers of industry & research when that money should be going to its previous commitments, commitments it can barely fulfill.
On another front it is clear that religious intervention in science has severely limited the progress of some societies on Earth. Religion does change its interpretation of what the fundamental rules of living should be as societies change and science provides more accurate knowledge about the world but it often takes many lifetimes for this adjustment to occur.
Politics has severely limited the progress of "some societies" on Earth, but I have a feeling nobody will be disparaging politics at the conceptual level any time soon. And no matter how much more "more accurate knowledge" science provides, it provides no clue as to how to use it. This is why the same scientific breakthrough that brought us the nuclear bomb, also brought us nuclear energy.
All societies are facing severe threats from the overpopulation of the world, resource shortages, climate change and poverty. Scientific progress is the only source of solutions to these problems unless we are prepared to allow the problems to multiply to the point where a dramatic population crash occurs.
This is painting the problem with an extemely broad brush. Before science, the "solution" to all these problems was for people to live off the land and to deal with scarcity at the tribal level, often by moving around nomadically.
We are at a crossroads, the choice is in our hands, use our creativity and intelligence to take charge of our own destiny or allow our environment to expell us. 2000 year old books prefer the second solution, by default they select the lemmings fate of allowing the environment to kill us off. Pick you side, I know which one I find more human.
This is a thread about stem cell research, research that's supposed to help people live longer and better lives in a world that by your own observation is rapidly becoming overpopulated. How does that square with anything you've said? And what does the Bible have to do with any of that?
You need to step down off the soap box and stop making murky pronouncements about the false science/religion dichotomy and start realizing what's really going on. 3rd world nations around the globe are coming out of the 12th century straight into the 20th century and they are growing like crazy because they've learned the miracle of modern markets. The older more modern states have virtually zero population growth, and in some instances even negative growth.
Huh, got me and most of the MSM on the umbilical blood...
Kind of makes you wonder what else "most of the MSM" aren't telling you or have told you incorrectly, doesn't it?
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