...another level of disconnect between us and our violence.

Have you ever thought that maybe they loved Jerry Lewis because all his characters were basically an "idiot American". Laughter is a response to something we identify with.

Your absolutely correct. Technological advancement is no indication of enlightenment. Our world is the sum of our values.

Imagine how we must look from their perspective. Like gods peering down on them from the heavens with magical devices that grant us powers. Can you imagine if we as a people encountered beings who were just as advanced from us as we are from those tribes. Hell even a mere 100 years of progress would seem miraculous to us to say nothing of eons. Imagine how we would look to someone from 1914.

Maybe if you accepted homosexuals instead of persecuting them, they wouldn't feel the need to be in the closet and pretend to be straight and *have children*... If they are not going away from an evolutionary standpoint you have only yourselves to blame.

Sorry, didn't find the part where "cheese is pure profit, they get it almost free, subsidized by the government"... could you post some links with actual figures?

Um, who is "they" getting free (government subsidized) cheese that is pure profit because I'm sure the owner of the business at which I work would very likely take exception to that...

..and in a conservative world, you do what the resource "owners" tell you.. and they're telling you to work a 70 hour work week for them just to survive.

I'm sorry.. does getting spanked sting your delicate little behind?

How about the kind of camouflage of the mimic octopus where they literally take on the shapes of other animals... Not so "low level" if you ask me.

Having a light weight OS isn't a bad thing, but just as bloat is bad, so is keeping it small for the sake of keeping it small. If we're sacrificing a feature rich OS for no other reason than to support hardware from 10+ years ago, then something needs to change. Computers are dirt cheap these days, so there's very little excuse to not upgrade if it's so much of an issue for you that you're demanding MS design it's OS around your 10 year old computer.

Create an artificial lake and build the structure floating on it. Use the water for cooling and for shock protection from earthquakes.

There can be only Juan!!!!

If they employ these methods, their risk should reduce significantly, as well as repo costs, and therefore be reflected in nice big pay increases for execs.

There fixed that for you.

That's a far cry from "belonging to"... Sounds like just another form of McCarthyism.

"Are you a member of, or know anyone who is a member of (insert domestic terrorist group)?!?!?!"

"Names please..."