" I have an aversion to people taking from our country and giving nothing back."

You have to be careful with making statements like that .e.g.

do you ever buy from places that use aliens as cheap labor to keep prices low?
do you pay every cent of tax you are supposed to?
the Rich are bigger freeloaders than the aliens because they don't pay their fair share of personal tax and do their best to avoid it.
Global companies do their level best to avoid paying any tax.

Aliens are a very small part of any problem

"Art" is a very subjective thing. - very true and highly overrated and highly elitist

maybe he's a luddite.......

the point i was making was that they didn't patent the system they developed nor did the others you referenced (well, i couldn't find any evidence of it) and this worked out for the benefit of the industry and consumers. patents are used too often to stifle genuine progress

mercedes refused, for the benefit of everyone, to patent anti-lock brakes and it didn't do them any harm. not everything is for profit, sad life if it is.

"Because the Democrats never see the need to compromise. They will plow ahead with their agenda (as always) and the media will spin it in their favor."

that sounds like ALL political parties

thanks. maybe they should put the tech into the seat instead and put the seat on a gyroscope type arragement

the engineers probably meant you to drink the gasoline, not put in a non-existent tank

errr.. can you explain that more, the coffee hasn't kicked in yet. My body moves to the right when turning left (especially at speed), i have to lean left when turning left. I drive a right hand drive car. Maybe its different for left hand drive cars.

if you can afford a mercedes, it doesn't matter if its more expensive... News at 11.01

oh fuck off little boy

you'll need to check the difference between starving and fasting. its vastly different because starving people have food, it is not packed with the nutrients etc

i would not think so, that's a death wish if you don't drink water.

definitely a good post for the gullible. i look briefly at one of those and this was in the first sentence "fasting is abstaining from food, drink, sleep or sex to focus on a period of spiritual growth" - abstain from water during your fast for 3/4 days and you'd be in serious trouble http://www.livescience.com/323...

thats all just to make you say "oh god please feed me" or "oh god help me survive the hunger" and when you do survive, you thank god. its just mind tricks for the gullible.