You just sound like all those blacksmiths who complained that the car will destroy the horse shoe industry. And it did! :) And that wasn't that bad either.

Jobs paid his taxes as he started his company, or not?

1. Vote differently. I mean something other than R and D.
2. Revolution.

Curiously, both are rights under the Constitution. Point two is there for a reason.

Steve Jobs also paid those taxes as he grounded his company. He also paid taxes like you do, in order "to buy civilization", like it is always quite fondly quoted around here.

So he "bought" his civilization: infrastructure, laws etc. and he did something with it.

You should not be happy with the Apples ability to manipulate the situation, but that is the point: the real power is the power invested BY YOU to YOUR GOVERNMENT. So, yeah. The Gov. should fix those holes.

Unencrpyted and barely legal! LOL

You named 3 casualties. All, rare accounts of drug induced behavior modifications. Because I feel very generous today, I will give you 10 more, with no questions asked.

On the other hand the number of innocent victims in drug related drive-by shootings and other violence forms is enormous.More than 8,000 corpses left across Mexico (alone) since 2006 have not been identified, according to the National Human Rights Commission, a government-run body. At the same time, more than 5,000 people who have disappeared during the drug violence sweeping the country have never been tracked down, according to the commission. (REUTERS).

So, yes. Legalize all of it.

Because we have pedobears and pirates. And terrorists.

Now I know how politicians are elected. With sweeping statements like that one.

You are absolutely right. that is the whole problem. People like him help forming mainstream opinions that are flat out wrong, but nevertheless are decisive in policy making. End I end up paying with my hard earned euros some unfounded scientific fact.

No Model Fits This Data.

Sorry. Show me a model made between 1995 and 2010 that fits the observed data of the last decade. Not one single fits. They were enough for policy making though.

I hold nothing but skepticism for the people who say "scientific consensus!". Because for the Piltdown Man to turn from consensus to hoax it took 45 years. And many reputations of the people who said it was a hoax with it.

Of course now Lovelock is declared to be a nut, an extremist, on the alarmist edge. But before he was:

- elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1974. He served as the president of the Marine Biological Association (MBA) from 1986 to 1990, and has been an Honorary Visiting Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford (formerly Green College, Oxford) since 1994. He has been awarded a number of prestigious prizes including the Tswett Medal (1975), an ACS chromatography award (1980), the WMO Norbert Gerbier Prize (1988), the Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for the Environment (1990) and the RGS Discovery Lifetime award (2001). In 2006 he received the Wollaston Medal, the Geological Society's highest Award, whose previous recipients include Charles Darwin. He became a CBE in 1990, and a Companion of Honour in 2003.

Just like De-Stalinization, his own kind reject him now. So excuse me while I say, Lovelock, you son of a b****! Go to hell.

Physicists? if ESP is ever proven real, the ones that will be most interested are the military.

On a second note, if physicists are so interested why are they not researching it?

the D40 is also a perfect example why megapixels DON'T count. it has a 6MP 23.7 x 15.5 mm CCD. it is a rather small sensor, but only compared with the higher DSLRs. Fewer MPs on a relatively big CCD is less noise and better pictures. D40 is one great camera for little money.

I agree. This is Corporatism at work. But i am saddened to see that the worldview today is so straightforward and simple minded. Sure the Occupy crowd is right, but no one in it mentions that Corporatism can only be "installed" if the Government has no "UAC". We have a big and weak government (the worst kind actually), where legislation which creates Freddie and Fannie (inducting huge market distortions), Housing Acts etc, etc, which do more harm than good. And when the corporations mess up, they get bailed out whereas people have no jobs and no income. No wonder that the Tea Party and the Occupy Wall Street have more than 30% common variance. This is perceived unfairness. One wants the Government out, the other the corporations down. Both are right. And while I agree with you on each and single argument you have there, put one from me on that list: Screw the Government because it is the only one with legislative power and have done nothing but crap with it. Screw them because they have taken away our freedom in the name of defense. Screw them because they are in the same boat with corporations, who in my view want nothing to do a Free Market. All they want is Government protection and consumer gouging. In fact, screw them all.

i never said they don't serve a good purpose. i was just arguing that 3k$ cars are impossible.

Impossible thanks to regulations:

1. emission standards (euro V or whatever) 2. safety standards (abs, esp, airbags, etc). you can't even put a car the market without those.

Try to comply with all on this list http://www.nhtsa.gov/cars/rules/import/fmvss/index.html and it will cost you a fortune.