Newton was a freaking loon. Give the man credit though, he was a genus. His contributions to science and mathematics where some of the greatest accomplishments in history science. But he was still a grade A nutcase.

My vote goes to that long forgotten caveman inventor that picked up that first rock/stick/legbone to bash dinner over the head with. If it wasn't for him we would have no internet today.

Here's to you long forgotten monkey man.

Okay, I think I understand from reading the article and the comments here. You can't entangle the particles and use them to send information because the process of reading the information changes the state of the particles. Its the Heisenberg uncertainty principal at work. For some reason I didn't put these two together just now.

Can't we just couple up the Heisenberg compensator and call it good?

This is the angle I'm thinking. Information has no mass so there for it should not be affect by relativity. Please explain how I'm wrong.

No, really explain how I'm wrong. I would rather know I'm wrong about something to keep thinking it was right.

A lot of the problems I see with engaging the door nazi's is people stop for them. I find that if I just say "No" and keep walking, disengage them as quickly as possible, it throws them off.

I've even done this with a cop that wanted to search me at a street fair. He said he wanted to search me. I said "No" and kept walking. By the time he got over my out right refusal I was gone.

I think we all have stories of CompUSA that piss us off. Mine was when I bought a laptop. I spend $1900 on the damn thing with accessories. The pimply faced door nazi stood there and watched us bag it all up.

As I was leaving the store he stepped in front of me and asked to check my back. WTF, nazi boy watched us put everything in the bag. I said "No" and stepped around him and kept walking. Out right refusal to comply with nazi boy must have locked him up because he just stood there with that dumb look on his face.

He must have unlocked by the time i got my shit in the car. I saw him an pimply faced store manager standing out on the side walk as I pulled off. I think they took my tag number down. I imagine the police, if they called them, ether laughed at them or just patted them on the head. I never heard a peep out of them.

They went out of business a month or so later.

You people are fooling yourselves. Its not the weight or the aerodynamic that are the biggest waste in a gas car. Drive your car a mile or so, then pull over and open the hood. Feel that heat coming off the engine. There is your biggest waste of energy.

I've read that piston engines as they currently stand are only 25% efficient. Might be time to get rid of the piston engine all together and come up with something totally new.

I'm pretty much the same way. I post worse case situations to get people to think. Most of the time, they don't think go spout out whatever is the first nonsense thing that pops in their head.

There is also a lot of hypocritical thinking in these "save the people from themselves" movements. You see if we rush in with guns blazing and take over and supplant the native culture that is racist and colonization and is evil. They don't stop to think that a great deal of the problems comes from these native cultures and us trying to force modern thinking on them. But colonization is no the answer to fixing these problems.

The do gooders think we have to just give then technology and food with no strings attached. Anything else is just racist. An example is AIDS in South Africa. Ramped superstition has them blaming AIDS on evil spirits and the way to cure it is to rape a virgin. Doesn't matter the age just as long as she is a virgin. Results are millions of children from infants up are getting raped and infected with AIDS.

So we rush in with expensive AIDS medication and tell these people that AIDS is not caused by evil spirits. All of a sudden we are trying to influence and suppress the culture, there for we are racist. We need to give them this expensive medication for nothing and no input from us because we don't want to be racist about it.

But on the other hand if you suggest that we should leave them be and let them sort it out themselves. Well then they get up in arms because and say they are just primitive savages that don' t know any better. Its our duty to save the and feed them. All of a sudden its racist if we decide to let them sort their problems out and treat them like human beings.

You sir, maybe cynical but you are also very correct. i will use Africa as an example simply because it is the one I've been harping on for years. "Africa's problems, are African problems. Let the Africans solve them."

Of course when I say this people call it racist and start thumping on the book that says Africa wouldn't be in the situation if it wasn't for colonization. Yes that maybe true but doesn't change anything. Colonization ended last century, and we have to think of the now. Nothing the west can do to change what happened and trying to fix it only makes it worse. We have to let them sort it out themselves.

We have to let them sort it out. That means millions will die in civil wars, illness and famine. Well that is better than the alternative. And here is the alternative. We keep meddling, which means we keep sending them food. They keep eating beyond their ability to sustain themselves and so they breed. The more they breed the more we have to keep meddling, which means more food and more breeding.

There will come a time when we can no longer feed them and the whole system will collapse. But now instead of a few million dying, hundreds of millions will die. Hundreds of millions that never should have been born.

Yes, its cold and harsh, but the alternative is far worse.

Because the people that come up with these hair brained ideas of saving the developing world with advanced technology are stupid. They think they can run in and throw technology at a problem and it will go away. They don't stop to think that the traditional methods will work better in this case.

For the price of one of these tablets alone, not counting the cost of the infrastructure to support it, you could probably buy 100 or more text books. A nice book. it will last for years without batteries and can be passed to other people. Sure you can't update a book as good as a tablet or a PC but the type of information in the books we are talking about doesn't change radically over the years.