I don't want hear [I]anyone[/I] chiming in on "fat, stupid, lazy" until [b]they[/b] can say they spent ten-plus years in Oklahoma...
Takes one to know one, huh?
I'd take a single Titan-exploring tiltrotor VTOL craft over a hundred new lunar rovers.
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You'll pay for the whole spacesuit but you'll only use the pants! BE THERE (by telepresence) OR BE SQUARE. etc.
It's Planetary Resources that wants the U.S. to break the treaty. Remember that name. No doubt it will become the Wal-Mart of outer space.
If that's the price of actually developing space industry to the point of having a Wal-Mart of outer space, so be it. Then I can buy me a space ship and fly... past the sky.
Immigrants work in the UK, pay their taxes and then return to their own countries before they burden the UK for services that those taxes pay for - benefits, pension, NHS etc.
You have a citation for that? Because I saw a study that said, with much fanfare, that they're on average net contributors. And then another that controlled for age and concluded that's because they're more concentrated around the peak age for working; compare like for like and there's not much difference.
While you may think that supports your point, it doesn't. We don't know that they go home when they're old, because they haven't been here long enough to become old.
There should be something like an associate member status and a probationary period, This basically is what happened in the US. A territory, once it had its shit sorted and kept it so, could apply and would be admitted as a state (or sometimes several).
Contrast this with Hungary's admission:
EU: Your economy is too state controlled and your political system is so corrupt it makes the Eyeties blush. Sort it, and you can come in.
Hu. We promise we will, really. Let us in!
EU: OK.
[time passes]
EU: About those reforms
Hu: Nerny nerny ner ner!
Actually Britain's sale of goods act, which has been around for ages, is much stronger than the EU's consumer protection laws.
That's a bit of an oversimplification. He's probably both.
Don't think they let them keep 6 and 7. You can keep 8, asshat.
... which is just a branch of biology.
What you're saying is that if you die, you want to take the person in the front seat down with you.
Nobody is saying to cut funding to infrastructure that keeps the country running. My point is the government spends money totally unchecked. Cut all the waste and paper pushers who do nothing. I bet you could lay off half the federal government and nobody would even notice.
Seriously. It's going to cost a fortune to replace my 1680x1050 display when it dies.
Try and find a new computer with Windows 7 installed. There aren't many. I'm not even sure if the big names still offer the "downgrade".
He who has but four and spends five has no need for a wallet.