How incredibly democrat of you. The word government(or ANYTHING run by them) and efficient never belong in the same sentence, except sarcastically. ie. the postal system and 500 dollar toilet seats. the Government is incredibly efficient. That must be why gas is over 3 dollars a gallon and the unemployment rate is still around 10 percent.

Leave my fucking e-mail alone.

If you don't like it, there is always the opt out village.

http://www.theonion.com/video/google-opt-out-feature-lets-users-protect-privacy,14358/

Do you actually believe that calling 911 would do anything to help you? Why are you running? Turn around and shoot the muggers, that way they won't mug anyone else.

On every screen there needs to be something that indicates that the screen isn't frozen. Like a ticking clock or something. You don't want to find out 5 minutes late that something is going on. We have a 4 position ticker in the general style of a clock for our DCS. If nothing is changing how do you know that the screen isn't frozen?

50,000 before I would join. A million would actually be able to accomplish your task.

I don't know, but I did read an article somewhere (here?) that local governments are using google earth to find people with unpermitted pools

We need all that junk. Don't burn it up! We need a large counterweight for the space elevator. I propose a Large Electro-magnet to collect all the (magnetic of course) space junk to be used as the counterweight. All we need now is a couple (read 24) thousand miles of cable.

Now take the age of the universe in planck time. Take the total amount of matter and energy in it, including dark matter, neutrinos, gravitons, photos, the works. Maybe even take the size of space itself to determine how big your coordinate variables are. Try to figure out how much data the universe would have to be storing in order to allow you to travel back in time to the beginning of the universe. Or hell--if the universe only let you travel back in time one human earth year, how much data would have to persistently exist? What sort of effect would all that energy and mass and data have on us--could it even possibly NOT affect us, especially if there are mechanisms at the quantum level that use it? And if the past and future already exist, what the hell does energy even mean? No, I say, fuck all that.

You have a very interesting viewpoint. I admit that we haven't proved whether the past/future actually exist or not, but your argument is flawed. It is a possible reason that it couldn't exist but your reasoning doesn't prove it.

Your argument against time travel is "it's too much data to store, so it can't possibly exist"?

This argument is quite a bit like the argument religious people use for the existence of God. "The chances of a sentient group of creatures evolving is so astronomically small that it couldn't possibly have really happened." Well you're argument hits the fail mark at exactly the same place theirs does.

If it exists, It DOES exist. It doesn't matter how small the chances are or how much data it is to store. If it happened, then it happened.

The problem with all of those approaches is that they assume a "meta-time" (even if not stated as such) that will alter the PRESENT based upon changes in the FUTURE.

That's how a photograph that you have right (taken in the future) now will change based upon events that have not happened yet.

Once you get past that, you understand that there is no "grandfather paradox". If it exists in the current time then it exists in the current time. The future will not reach back and "clean up" the present to make it more acceptable to the future.

Let's continue with the grandfather paradox thing. If you travel to the past and kill your grandfather, you will not cease to exist when you kill him. You will be quote "shielded from time". If you were to travel back to when you left the future, you will still exist, but you won't have existed before that. Ie. No one will remember you, you don't have a job or whatnot and no parents.

If you are simply talking of photographs from the future, I agree with you. I always thought that the pictures that changed in the movies were a little hokey.

I thought that post sounded a little off. I mean, what mistake did they admit to? oh, and: Apple has a Mantra?

>>>So basically, you performed an armed robbery.

No I didn't. In my *imaginary* scenario I never removed or even touched my gun - it's just hanging there inside a holster. And I did not steal, because the iPad was paid for ($530 cash handed-over for a $529.99 item). So what exactly can I be charged for? Nothing. No laws have been broken by me.

I suppose one could argue the store refused to sell the Pad, but that itself is a crime (discrimination), and the owner would be guilty not me.

Hold up there cowboy. I too have a concealed carry permit and I do carry. Everyday. I don't know where in particular you are, but most everyone who has commented is partially wrong.

technically, yes, you have broken a law, atleast if you're in the US. As said before it is brandishing, and you'd probably have your permit revoked. But no, someone else with a permit wouldn't have the legal "go-ahead" to blow your brains out.

I also agree that you wouldn't be committing a robbery of any sort (armed or otherwise) since the money was handed over. However, most private shops have the right to refuse service to anyone as long as it's not based on race or whatever. If you have a firearm, they can ask you to leave and come back without it. They could also refuse service to you because you are wearing blue, and no that is not illegal.

ps. I am a non-attorney spokesperson........ j/k

Police aren't there to protect you.

What? Even if your exaggerating to make a point, your view is still fairly skewed. Given an actual Opportunity to protect someone from harm, any police officer would help.

I think you made my point. "Given an actual opportunity" When do they get an opportunity to help you? When you call them. How long is it going to take for them to get there? Ten minutes? The situation is most likely going to be over by the time they arrive.

You're still taking yourself seriously? Sorry, I stopped giving you the benefit of doubt at "the unelected, abusive, thugs they really are". If you want people to start listening, you have to stop ranting like a lunatic.

Sorry, but I thought he was spot on. I have seen cops blow through lights and stop signs with their lights on, only to flip the lights off and slow down a block later because they didn't feel like waiting to cross a road.

I personally know cops and other law enforcement that see the constitution only as some kind of barrier to their fun. I didn't elect these thugs and I don't need them to protect me.

Police aren't there to protect you. They come after you've already been assaulted and robbed or otherwise violated and investigate. Usually they take your report, file it, and never think about it again. Unless it's a murder or other forcible felony, you're never going to hear another word about it.

All the bicyclists I've see are Stupid assholes, who deserve what they get. They blow through blind stop signs and red lights. They ride all the way across the road. A road BTW that is barely wide enough for two cars going in opposite directions and is full of potholes.

Bicyclists are supposed to follow the rules of the road, and if they don't bother to follow the rules that are supposed to keep them safe, why should I give a shit when a 4000 lb vehicle wins? BTW, I shoot back.