I for one think the framework should be based on IBM MQ Series. If we could get the aliens to install on their end then we could easily send messages back and forth.

No. We all own cars and can afford to fly planes. Not much demand for a high speed rail. We kind of got over rail with the invention of flying and personal automobiles. Rails? Ha. That is so 1800's......

Well if you rely on technology that is invented and mastered by your enemies "The West" then you are vulnerable to these kinds of attacks.

If I tell you I saw a UFO, then blame my physchology. If a radar and other eye witnesses see the same UFO then that would be outside verification...wouldnt it. If I see a guy who I know died come back to life, and other witnesses see it then that would be outside verification. Not all of the accounts in religion and in UFO's fit neatly into your phychology theory.

"He had doubts about God ..." That would put him in with some very good company. Popes, Bishops, Nuns and Christ.....

I would support the social causes if I thought government could fix them. Instead it often makes the problems worse and at best wastes a ton of money for little result. The American people are very generous and dont mind spending money to help people who are in need. At the state and community level they can do it more effectively. It just doesnt work having the federal government involved. In some cases it has the opposite affect and makes the problem worse.

The real problem is online MMO's do not model society. In society we know that allowing people to kill other people at will causes a break down in civilization. An MMO can allow people to kill each other, but there has to be away where the citizens can police their outlaws. One way is to allow a victim to tag the other player for a bounty, get enough bounty's and you can become an outlaw whom anyone can attack and whom anyone can collect a bounty on which would be some kind of sliding scale.(ie more money/incintive based on how much a murderer you are..) Outlaws would be their own faction and have their own towns. But they wouldnt have access to the best gear/tech that civilization has to offer because they are on the outside of society. They would have to scrape by until they redeem themselves. You could even have a new class who is able to track outlaws (like a hunter can track humanoids) and make money by killing them....

So SCO is having to resort to using the Jedi mind trick? "Why dont you just give me the Unix copyright...." Whoo hoot. Ima Jedee !

What if there is no profit involved and only costs. Who would pay for the costs to provide the treatment. The pharma company? Perhaps. They are getting a benefit by being able to test on actual humans....

It all boils down to this.... Democratic governments that already are taxing their citizens at near 50 percent have to find sneaky ways of taxing them without it being obvious to the denizens that they are paying more than half their labor in taxes.... This is just another way of doing this.