There was an interesting problem within Christianity throughout the Dark and Middle ages where Christians would not allowed to act as moneylenders.
This resulted in the Jewish population being pressed into 'marginalized' occupations of tax collection and money lending.
These professions were profitable, but led to isolation from the Christian populations that they lived among.
Beyond that the Lutheran Reformation made use of negative stereotypes and suggested that they be permanently oppressed or removed from Christian countries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...

You might just say that Christians, in particular, the Lutherans were awful pikers and sought to use antisemitism over paying their debts

Certainly he had a place of power in the Nazi elite, and he used that place to drive home a pet project:

During 1942,[1] Goebbels continued to press for the "final solution to the Jewish question" to be carried forward as quickly as possible now that Germany had occupied a huge swathe of Soviet territory into which all the Jews of German-controlled Europe could be deported. There they could be worked into extinction in accordance with the plan agreed on at the Wannsee Conference convened by Heydrich in January. It was a constant annoyance to Goebbels that, at a time when Germany was fighting for its life on the eastern front, there were still 40,000 Jews in Berlin.[2] They should be "carted off to Russia," he wrote in his diary. "It would be best to kill them altogether."[3] Although the Propaganda Ministry was not invited to the Wannsee Conference, Goebbels knew by March what had been decided there.[4] He wrote:

        The Jews are now being deported to the east. A fairly barbaric procedure, not to be described in any greater detail, is being used here, and not much more remains of the Jews themselves. In general, it can probably be established that 60 percent of them must be liquidated, while only 40 percent can be put to work ... A judgment is being carried out on the Jews which is barbaric, but fully deserved.[5]

1. Jewish Virtual Library
2. Kershaw, Hitler, II, p 519
3. Kershaw, Hitler, II, p 473
4. Browning, The Origins of the Final Solution, p 415
5. Kershaw, Hitler, II, p 494
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J...

This goes well past any notion of free speech and well into advocating and driving on the process of genocide

In the US there are plenty of legal codes that do not allow a criminal to make money from their crimes, such as a mass murderer making money from publishing a autobiography

I think that it is debatable whether the widespread use of antibiotics have exposed an existing population of antibiotic resistant bacteria, or if there have been recent mutations that have allowed bacteria to survive antibiotics

This paper discusses bot the existence of antibiotic resistance strains of bacteria, and the non-mutative processes that are involved in transferring resistant r-genes between different types of bacteria
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm...

There was plenty of motivation of the conquering Spaniards to demonize the culture that they were destroying

I would expect that to be the case

I would even go further out on the limb and suggest that antibiotic resistant bacteria have always been present

It is imply the presence of antibiotic substances that weed out the rest of the bacteria, leaving the resistant ones as the 'last man standing' so that we notice them

It is not so much the case that our use of antibiotics have caused antibiotic resistant strains to 'develop', we have simply eliminated the rest and exposed the resistant ones

The tech is trivial, but not free

What politician has the guts to raise taxes to fix infrastructure when rain is falling from the sky for free?

Oh, wait... A drought? I suppose they will just shove their heads into the sand until they cannot ignore it

forcing the farms to be accountable for how they use water would go a long way to solving the problem

Of course it is not free, so who's gonna pay 10% more for their produce?

oh teh lulz, nimbys in cali forced to build nukes

Arizona called California, it wants it's share of Colorado river water back

I'm thinking more like leveling the fields with tractors that have fricking lasers on them, using irrigation to distribute water and covering the canals with mylar

It works in many deserts that have agriculture, just spend some time looking at what is being used effectively instead of making up pipe dreams that are so expensive that nobody will ever use them

solar power robots, what a fucking joke

My first experience working with people from India was in 1996.
Absolutely some of the most intelligent people that I had ever worked with
A decade later another Indian fellow that I worked with explained the selection process that lead to the slightest fraction of the top percentage of their people making it to the US in that time period
I would expect that the standards have been loosened somewhat since then

While watching the last landing attempt I had to wonder if the rocket experiences different amounts of lift when it is over water, as opposed to being over the barge...

Will this be a factor that is alleviated by landing on terra firma?
If they do make their next attempt on land, what are the potential take off and landing points?
Many people noted advantages to landing down range of the launch point, and not being able to launch over the continental US
Does that leave the options of
1. Launching from Brownsville Texas and landing at Cape Canaveral Florida
2. Launching from Florida and landing on some Island downrange
3. Launch from Kwaj (or at sea) and land at Vandenberg
4. Launching and landing at the same site, presumably solving whatever fuel issues there were
5. ???

Armstrong was an exceptional pilot, I read on old NASA report about him regaining control of a space capsule that started spinning before it could kill them. Something to do with a malfunctioning thruster rocket.

Here it is:
"And, make a decision he did. In a rule-breaking move, Armstrong manually disabled the OAMS thrusters and activated the re-entry control system (RCS) thrusters to stabilize the spacecraft. With hand controllers aboard the spacecraft now functioning properly, correct motion of the capsule was restored."
http://www.spaceline.org/fligh...

Yeah, they were 'hands on'

Carmack joined Space-X?!