Yes. There's something seriously wrong with that graphic. It doesn't add up. Consider for example the Obama White House claim of debt under Bush: 12.7 T. But they arrive at that number by comparing an estimate, in this case a projected savings, against an actual deficit. There's nothing objective about that comparison because you're not comparing two values computed in the same manner.

I looked the Treasury Dept's own figures.
Jan, 2001 (Month/Year Bush took office): $5.7T
Jan, 2008 (Month/Year of transition): $9.2T
Today: $15.1T

According to the Treasury Dept then, the debt increased during Bush's 8 years by $3.5T. In the almost 4 years since Obama took office, the debt has increased an additional $5.9T. The White House only takes responsibility for $1.4T in their graphic. Either the Treasury of the White House need to explain the significant discrepancy in those numbers.

In the words of Mark Twain: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."

What did Montclair expect? Let's see: Legally binding contract. Contract not met. Customer sues for breach of contract.

Seems to me that Montclair has the upper hand here. It all falls on the conditions of the contract.

I would not recommend working in that environment as a newbie civilian. It would be one thing if you had a military background and knew what you were getting into. I will assume that is not the case given the questions you are asking.

Rather, I suggest that if you really yearn to see another part of the globe (an educational and eye-opening experience for most Americans) go somewhere other than the countries you mentioned. While you are deciding where that might be, consider perusing the State Department Travel Alert system (or whoever maintains that data today). That will provide you some idea of which locales might be safer than others.

I can't say that I agree with all of his positions, but I too will acknowledge that the level of consistency in his various positions points to the amount of thought he has applied to them. I can respect that.

Even so, he still strikes me as an a**. His comments on Steve Jobs are both churlish and ironic. The irony is that I consider them to share a certain single mindedness of purpose and a string of odd personal traits. Somehow, I expect RMS would be insulted at the prospect of having that in common.

Sorry, I don't have my scorecard in front of me. One of these two is a traitor... to whom, WikiLeaks? And the other is a paragon of virtue? The phrase "honor among thieves" comes to mind.

Given that this approach is able to account for light sources, geometry (perspective) and physical objects in an original image, it should also be able to remove objects and allow for realistic rendering of that loss. Combine that with the capability described in the proposal and the use of photographs as evidence at trial may soon be inadmissible. Or at the very least, a legal team could reasonably claim that a photo had been doctored (whether true or not) and therefore render such evidence unusable by the prosecution.

Your core temperature is 37 C (98.6 F). But you don't think someone would notice 50 C (122 F)? If that was bathwater, you'd be scalded.

Offworld mining? Have you really thought out the cost to do THAT?

I think the administration should just admit that it wants to kill any mission that involves Man leaving the upper atmosphere and be done with it.

This line of thinking got us a President with zero experience of any useful kind. He had no experience running any kind of large organization be it public, private or military. Part of a year going through the motions of being a Congressman does not count. We are seeing the result of that.

Both major parties (not one, both) need to set aside their posturing and pontificating for the benefit of their fringe constituencies. This country has serious problems. We need a frank discussion of the solutions followed by non-partisan action. Let's put an end to any activity that only benefits a small portion of the citizenship. Halt useless Congressional activity that only serves political parties and their patronage. The time for such nonsense is long over. Let's get to work.

Our country was founded on the ideal of "No taxation without representation". It appears that somewhere along the line something flipped to where we have "Representation without taxation" for a hell of a chunk of our population.

And yet, if you live in DC you ARE taxed without representation. Better yet, despite the fact that there is a mayor and a city council, members of congress seem to have no qualms about interfering in DC's financial and other affairs. The residents of DC deserve the same rights as the citizens of any other state. Puerto Rico is in the same position.

How would you determine "relative impact to standard of living"?

Until that's defined, I have to side with "same percentage". Someone show me what's fair about progressive tax rates anyway. You're always left at the whim of some politician to determine what your "fair share" is. Establish what constitutes "taxable" (from among income, investments returns, assorted gains, etc) and apply a flat tax rate. In addition, the combined tax rates of Federal, State and Local should not exceed the share left for the individual.

FTA: The group was angered after reading an interview Barr gave with the Financial Times regarding his plans to give a presentation at the Security B-Sides conference in San Francisco earlier this year that promised to divulge the identities of Anonymous's leadership.

I wasn't aware that Anonymous attacked HBGary after Barr threatened to out their leadership. I guess it's okay for them to put others at risk, but they're not willing to have themselves at risk.

What if there were a class action lawsuit against lawyers for charging outrageous rates to do something which can be accomplished by a individual following a script or template? Better yet, how about a class action against "Slip and Fall" lawyers for filing unnecessary cases and seeking exorbitant settlements leading to artificially high malpractice insurance, overly cautious doctors, and an inflated cost for healthcare?

Never mind them. The concert promoters are going to use this so that you're forced to pay their rates for media content.

"In fact, Revere’s own account of the ride in a 1798 letter seems to back up Palin’s claim. Revere describes how after his capture by British officers, he warned them “there would be five hundred Americans there in a short time for I had alarmed the Country all the way up."

Boston Herald