My CIS major was almost 50% women.

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Short answer: No. Nope, it can't. We need to get the budget balanced and the debt down to a reasonable amount. There will be many brutal discussions about what gets funded and what doesn't. Long term research just doesn't have the lobbying clout of Defense or Big Oil. They're going to get hammered. Note that I'm not endorsing cuts to long term research, just predicting that in the shady politics where an actual default is contemplated as a craven political move, we have no hope of actually doing anything useful with what little money there is left to spend.

All the stuff we buy from China proves we have more than enough money to finance one. Theirs.

With some estimates that their licensing costs will go up ten fold once the current set of contracts expire. They have to do whatever they can to amp up revenue, and segmenting the market is a tried and true strategy.

I last believed this crap when I bought OS/2 Warp. Yeah, it ran on my 1 mg 386sx. Like a snail.
About the only OS that actually runs decently on hardware when it is upgraded is Linux, for about 2 years from hardware purchase date. That is my experience, YMMV.

Get over it.

They used to be in the old terminal at Detroit Metro (since remodeled) and in a few GM plants.

You're right. What company in their right mind would want to produce something that is going to be in constant and ever increasing demand? They would have a guaranteed customer base, guaranteed scarcity, and guaranteed profits. Yup, no company in their right mind would ever want to be a part of that. Thank God that Uncle Sam is here to fill the gap. We should pour money into projects like this right up until the day we default.

Hundreds of chemicals? Now, honestly, where can you get that kind of value for your money? If you tried to round up and ingest each one of those chemicals, it would probably take you over a year and cost you a fortune. Instead, you just buy one pack of smokes. Yet another service provided to you by the tobacco companies.

Damned right there is a bias. After getting short shrift on support & software from MS on their mobile platform, going back to WinCE 2.11, I'll never use another WinMo phone again. I'm no Apple fanboy, but thank goodness that Jobs released the iPhone and changed the game, overthrowing the staid incumbents once and for all. I currently have an Evo and love it. I prefer Android, can appreciate the Apple devices, and will never again support MS due to their horrible customer service and support when they supplanted Palm. MS earned the bias against them.

Make sure that Russian hackers have all your personal information and credit card numbers.

It doesn't use any minutes in North America. I've integrated by Sprint and GV numbers, used GV to integrate with Sipgate, and can make and receive phone calls from my home on a Siemens Gigaset handset for free using my cell number. Since I work from home, this has been a huge cost savings for me.

If you call outside of North America, then yes, your Google Voice account gets charged, but inside North America the service is free.

I disagree with you, but won't bother with a back and forth. I'm guessing that your opinion is well considered over several years, as is mine, and won't be swayed by the same tired old arguments. Instead, I encourage you to demonstrate me a more efficient and effective economic system. For example, I know that many communes have been started over the years, and while they have a high failure rate, some are very successful and self sustaining. The problem is that the model can't seem to grow beyond a hundred people or so. Genuine, non-coercive communism doesn't seem to scale well. Capitalism scales very well. It also seems to adapt to different conditions. This can lead to maladaptive situations, such as monopolistic companies buying/burying competitors, or companies buying legislators and changing laws to their benefit. On the other hand, capitalism seems to flourish organically when given a chance. A great example is the American brewing industry. After Congress modified the laws that benefited the few large brewers, micro brewers started everywhere and are flourishing. Many people make a living brewing and distributing beer using a classic capitalist model (selling shares in their company to raise capital to invest in equipment and start the business). It is a great success story, shoes that capitalism works very well, and consumers have a wide variety of great products to choose from. Socialist systems scale rather well, but still rely on a basis of capitalism to generate the wealth, and therefore the revenue that the State uses to provide it's services. When socialist governments choke off or outlaw the capitalist foundation, they become impoverished over time. Cuba is an excellent example of this. The economy perks up when private ownership and enterprise are allowed, it gets depressed when the State cracks down. You state "If capitalism worked...", meaning that you think capitalism doesn't work. Show me a better economic system that doesn't rely on capitalism at its roots that scales well and isn't coercive in nature. To my knowledge, one doesn't exist, but I'm always open to new ideas.