I've done multiple political tests and they've ranged from 'left of Stalin' to 'right of Genghis Khan'. I identify myself as a paleoconservative, a technoprogressive, and a libertarian. Some say this is a contradiction but I don't think it is. As an example, for myself and my family I wouldn't support abortion, I have the money and the means to look after another child, but for others they can do as they like as I don't believe I should force my personal views onto them, as I would hope they wouldn't force their views onto me. Does this make me pro-choice or pro-life? Both? Neither? Perhaps generally apathetic? This is where the 2 dimensional political spectrum fails, with rational contradictions such as myself. Another example is that a part of me wants that Star Trek future where all the basics are provided at no cost and we can spend our lives working on things that are important to us as an individual, such as studying or designing and building something to make our mark on history. It sounds great, but I'm a realist, and I know in today's world this can't happen. It's not a matter of money, or willpower, it's a lack of technology to automate all of our needs so no one has to be a slave to another, as Ayn Rand would say. But how will we get there? I don't see Capitalism doing this as Public Goods lead to market failure, and Socialism tends to discourage industrious endeavours and reward-driven creativity since at the end of the day you're still getting the same slice of the pie regardless of effort. Maybe I'm a 'Third Wayist', if there ever is such a thing.

In May 10, 1893 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the tomato is actually a vegetable because they're "generally served with dinner and not dessert". (Nix v. Hedden (149 U.S. 304))

Then all you would need is to genetically engineer bacteria to grow this protein to clean up the radioactive waste. You could test it on the soil at Chernobyl by using a crop dusting plane.

The majority of the people here in New Zealand do not support internet censorship but we all agree that Child Porn needs to be dealt with. The problem is that when the government mentions a tactic to tackle Child Porn the people all say YES! but they rarely take the time to wonder what the government has in mind to do this and what it will try to sneak in while it doing is there, such as suppressing Free Speech which the Human Rights Act 1993 does if one bothers to read the Bill. For example if one tries to talk about minority crime rates, that's illegal! While no one has gone to jail for it as far as I know, some experts have been denied a visa to enter the country to speak on this very topic because it violates the Human Rights Act 1993.

I agree with you completely. The French and Indian forces will stand with their backs to you after they are forced to retreat. You can either walk up to them and shoot them in the back and they won't do anything or you can shell their position and they'll just stand there and take it till they're all dead. At one stage the enemy attacked me with cannons and I don't mean with cannon balls. They walked up to my lines with the cannons while under heavy fire and tried to walk through my lines. I suspect that for some reason the retreat area for the AI was on the side I entered battle from. Not even Medieval 2 (which had plenty of AI bugs) was that stupid. Another example of stupid AI was when the Indians which outnumbered me 10:1 attacked my fort. They climbed over the walls and killed my guys on the wall but then they raced down to the middle of the fort where my general was and they just stood there. My general ended up killing them all and I won the game with a "close victory". Seriously, they had rifles and bladed weapons and were in arms length of my cavalry and they did nothing to try and kill them. Also what is with the fishing village vs. the shipyard? That's just dumb. I had to dismantle my Level 3 fishing village just to complete an objective which required a Level 1 Shipyard. It seems like they tried something new and failed badly. In general I cannot say I'm impressed. The Steam engine failed to install the first half dozen times with a different error message each time. I ended up getting the Steam installer off the net and installing that first and THEN installing the game. And what is with requiring an internet connection? My games computer is purposely off the grid so it doesn't get a virus and force me to format my hard drive and lose some of my game files (the ones I forget). What a waste of my time. Razor1911 has already hacked the game so you don't need to connect to the internet so if their insistence on this is a form of copy protection then it failed majorly because Razor1911 had the game hacked before it hit the shelves and online stores.

As far as I know there have been no non-Middle Eastern terrorists which have tried to down a plane which means that racial profiling is in fact an effective tool in fighting terrorism. The main problem with Racial Profiling is what will happen when al-Qa'ida change their modus operandi, as they often do. I personally doubt they will attack planes again any time soon as the attention is now on planes being used as a large fuel-air bomb. Perhaps in the near future they will be able to recruit Westerners to attack their fellow Westerners and racial profiling of Middle Eastern people may result in the real terrorist getting through. [sarcasm] But then again who knows, perhaps a little old white lady might also have a grudge against the government for not giving her enough superannuation to live on comfortably and make the Oklahoma City bombing look like a picnic.[/sarcasm]

I work in forensics and so I hear this ignorant comment all the time. The reality is that African-Americans are over represented in serial killings but we very rarely hear about them. During the D.C. Sniper incident the Police Profiler was busy telling us all that he must be White. He was in fact African-American. How many people know that the worst serial murderer in the history of the US was African-American? His name was Carl Eugene Watts. I suggest the book 'Serial Murderers and Their Victims' by Eric Hickey, Wadsworth Publishing 1996.

Why do I hope this isn't going to be another Airbus disaster? Check out the movie on YouTube about the airbus computer which took over control when the plane overshot the runway and tried to continue landing regardless on instruction otherwise. It went something like this: Pilots: "Pull up! Pull up!" Computer: "Cannot comply, landing in progress..." *crash* (into the trees at the end of the runway)

Are you trying to tell us that xenophobia is not a human trait? ROFL! I cannot name a single racial group that hasn't been xenophobic at one time in its recorded history.