Brown's an ass. What kind of guy says that Turing is most famous for breaking Enigma codes. Turing is famous for his contribution to AI and most importantly the Turing test and the Turing award (Computer Science's Nobel prize equivalent) If Gordon Brown was paying tribute to Alfred Nobel he would probably forget to mention the Nobel prize and talk about how Nobel made his money selling dynamite to the Czar. As I said what an ass. Pity the brits that they have idiots for leaders (its not new started with Thatcher)

Well yes a war would be needed. Of course such a war will never happen unless the entire world gets disgusted with the US. Thats when they will all agree together so in order to prevent the rest of the world from coming to such a consensus some lip service to the environment is needed hence Kyoto.

NO I am assuming that if we are fighting wars over oil , oil by definition is more valuable than human life so why would we waste oil on machines when we can just use human wave attacks. After all politicians in the US dont care about the little people making up the army. So the machines will be parked in their sheds to conserve oil and fighting will be on foot on both sides. And elephants are a damn lot intimidating than cavalry. Of course both can be scared off by loud noises so it comes down to hand to hand fighting and believe me anyone who has riden a public bus in India is much better at hand to hand fighting than any pussy SEAL or DELTA

NoNoNo The purpose of Kyoto and all other environmental treaties is to get a good image before the world wakes up to the fact of who has done most of the pollution and decides to impose a Morgenthau Plan on the US. For those who dont know about Morgenthau he was the US Secretary of treasury during WW2 who proposed Germany be punished for the holocaust by being changed into a agriculture only nation by dismantling and destroying all German industry. Fortunately the Truman administration realized if they did that given Germany's high population density millions would starve to death (Germany cant grow enough food to feed its people and needs to export industrial goods to import food)However America does grow enough food to feed its people and has already polluted more than all other nations combined. The nations of the world may get fed up and decide to impose a Morgenthau Plan on America. As long as America keeps paying lip service to the Environment the other nations keep quite.

Nah if it came down to a fight for oil who do you think can field a larger army a nation of 1 billion or a nation of 300 million. And in a world where wars are being fought over oil forget using machines to even the advantage- Infantry rules!!!

And hippies!! Dont forget the hippies!! Before Ford came along America was basically an Agricultural nation with most of the population living on farms. Now most of the population lives in cities and thank god for that. Rural areas are the cess pit of the human condition and the faster India can get its people into cities the better and if it takes cheap cars to do it fine (though I would prefer mass transit) At least if we get the air polluted enough the hippies will stop backpacking here to shit on our streets !

Count the zeroes. You said 29 billion and not 29 million. Even the entire worlds population including babies and children is still 6 billion :) Granted reading everyday about the govt doing billion dollar bailouts, trillion dollar stimuluses and million dollar bonuses people cant really be blamed for mixing up their millions with their billions.

But oh thats OK . We will keep sending the excess off to America. After all its pretty much empty (most of the land is owned by the Federal department of Interior) and smart people are needed in America all the time. So everyone benefits. India keeps its population almost constant till it reaches the level of development where people stop having a lot of kids an the population starts falling . Meanwhile America gets a lot of smart people to keep their economy running.

Who's the idiot who modded parent insightful. The inbred redneck does not even know that telling lies is not the same as being Insightful Rush Limbaugh notwithstanding. Indian pollution standards are stricter than America's and California's.They match European standards and the Nano meets the future Euro V standard which even Europe has not shifted to yet. Car insurance is compulsory and everyone has at least 3rd party insurance. Every car has to go through a pollution check after every year and cars older than 15 years are mandatorily junked. Seat belts are compulsory. Air Bags are not as most Indian traffic is inside cities and at lower speed collisions Air bags cause more injuries than they prevent. People who plan to do cross country drives buy larger more expensive cars with air bags. The so called American way of life is just 80 years old and based on cheap Texas and Alaska oil and industrial farming on empty farmland(grabbed through genocide). I dont see Americans as any superior/innovative/industrious than the Sheikhs who traded in their camels for BMWs when they found oil. The American century has been built on a resource boom. Whatever innovation has happened has been done by first generation immigrants. Now that the cheap resources are running out , the smart people will stop immigrating and the center of the world is bound to shift back to India-China which have for 99% of history been the biggest economies of the world. As for gas prices India already has high gas taxes to encourage fuel conservation. Gas costs around 5 dollar a gallon currently and people drive accordingly with no wasted trips.

Like a cave called the USA and everyone else is the other? Been there done that even won reelection for doing that- regards George

If you like reading fine print you may also discover that EEZ and territorial waters are not the same thing. EEZ only gives you the right to economic exploitation like fishing etc but you do not have any police powers. It would be perfectly fine for a boat to anchor 12 miles from San Francisco and serve cannabis on board. Also all territorial water and EEZ limits are applicable only when there is not another country with claim to the same water. e.g. If there are two island nations 5 miles apart there territorial water would be only 2.5 miles as the line would be drawn equidistant. While this does not become a factor as often for the 12 mile limit for the 200 mile limit it is in effect pretty much of the time. Otherwise Florida would be inside the Cuban EEZ as it is definitely less than 200 miles from Cuba.

All I hear is blah blah blh Blame the big corporation. Well I have news for you . The cruise company is also a big corporation and the correct people to sue in this situation. The customer should enter a joint suit with AT&T and the international service partner and sue the cruise company for triple damages for switching on an international cell tower where its not supposed to be. However it should not be too difficult to have a way of the switching on and switching off of the tower be automatic based on gps signals. Then if the tower switches on wrongly you sue the GPS provider .Oh wait GPS is provided by the US govt.
BTW as the port of Miami is surrounded by high rise buildings which are using micro cells maybe there is no signal on the water. And the system could have been configured to first search for a home signal and only then go to roaming and still ended up on roaming. Only in such a case would AT&T be liable.

Oh cmon Rambo 1 may have been about fighting the system but by Rambo 3 it was following the official CIA approved line on Afghanistan.Incidentally Osama was doing the same thing then as now , preventing the education of girls but as it was schools started by Russians CIA felt it perfectly legitimate to provide C4 for suicide bombing the schools. And Die Hard was just blowing up things and people dying in new and creative ways. How does that have ANYthing to do with standing up to the system.

Oh really you spent time in India? How many times did you find somebody jumping into a tank of shit to get an autograph? To put it simply Slumdog is as realistic a depiction of India as Die Hard is of America. If you are the juvenile type who believes things like Die Hard happen than sure you might believe Slumdog too. Actually if Danny boy had stuck to pure dark comedy it would have been better. Here he tries to parody the Hindi film industry but the parody is too subtle and ends up offending by appearing to be a serious movie. Of course when most of the people(B list directors and technicians mostly) who vote for these awards have not even got passports (their idea of a foreign country is Canada) it is too much to expect cultural sensitivity.