So they're a boon to homeowners who can now sell their prices for a lot more than they dreamed of. This sounds like a good thing, to me.

But, you know, keep on with the class-wars, everyone.

You are what is Rubbish.

Try having kids forced on you by a lying wife, I love my kids but I would change ever marrying their mother in a heartbeat. I never wanted kids, but being forced to because of stupid religion and even worse cultural pressure is wrong. and a LOT of men are trapped into having kids like this every single day.

You are the only person that has commented that has a clue as to what I meant. Thank you.

"Okay, we hear you and we're going to stop violating your civil liberties you guys".

[Goes back to *secretly* violating your civil liberties.]

They teach them to parrot "freedom!" rhetoric, while not bothering to teach them about the foundation of our government, Constitution, etc. In fact, they undermine it by educating them from "summarized" versions of the Bill of Rights or by having class lessons on "revising the constitution", strongly implying in their young mushy brains that the constitution is a living yadda yadda yadda (because, you know, things like preventing the government from infringing on the rights of women to vote are things that may someday need to be changed to fit into the world we live in blah blah blah).

In my entire school life, we spent far more time in DARE programs than we did learning about government, liberties, and civics.

MSIE wasn't decent, either. Didn't stop anyone.

In fact, one might assert that providing a worse bundled product was more damaging as it would cut down other vendors and give users a false sense of security. (If this report were even legitimate).

Of course, Defender isn't even bundled (you have to actively seek it out, download it, and install it), so I don't think the "anti-trust!" thing even applies.

I'm a problem creator at a Fortune 500 company.... I'm the guy that keeps you with work to do.

You can do this inside of a lunch box today. I have a friend that has a complete production system with 2 SQL servers, 2 app servers, and a failover/load balancer all in a lunch box. he brings it to work and tinkers during compiles.

The solution to that is do not have kids. Honestly unless you really want the single most expensive hobby in the world, raising kids, just do not do it.
People claim, Legacy: and being remembered... Bah, after 2 generations you will be completely forgotten and your grave never visited. Dont waste precious time and money on children.

This is from a guy that raised 4 kids. Yes I enjoyed my kids, but if I was able to go back in time and kick my teenage self in the nuts 30 times to keep me from ever having children, I would do it in a heartbeat.

It's easier to get forgiveness than permission. so I have a separate setup that is not on their network that I simply plug into to do my bidding and experiments. If I am learning new skills for them then they can pay me to do it.

The guy that picked up the snowglobe and gave it a twist... Sadly that is when the great galactic disaster happened and most of the residents of Betelgeuse IV died.

NASA blasts a 1000Watt laser at the moon on a regular basis, in fact the Goddard center has an even bigger one going in place to give them a better return pulse for range finding. Yes they actually measure how far away the moon is quite a bit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Laser_Ranging_experiment

Lasers lose power on a logarithmic scale, so to hit the moon with enough power of a laser beam to actually heat the ground, not destroy anything, but act as a space heater, the ground based laser here would have to be so big that the atmosphere would boil, and they would have to use most of the power that the United states generate to fire the beam. Attenuation from our atmosphere is huge, but the distance is just mindbogglingly large.

So if you did have a moon base, you have about 5000 years before technology is at a point where someone can shoot a laser at your base from earth and even be noticed on the moon.

Civil servants are frequently working for the chance to retire after 30 years, with a life time pension, and the ability to start a new career in the private sector, often exploiting their government connections, and working for the contractors they once managed. This is often refered to as double dipping. If you do military, civil service and then private sector its triple dipping. There salaries may not be great but their life time payout is actually really good. Life time pensions are increasingly rare in the private sectors because they are staggeringly expensive with people increasingly living to be a 100.

If you actually compare private sector versus civil service salaries, civil service salaries are starting to outpace the private sector in many fields. This is partially a product of private sector salaries being stagnant in many fields for decades.

Certainly Wall Street banker and hedge fund manager out performs civil service. In the case of SEC civil servents they are usually there to do favors for the big banks and brokers they are supposed to be regulating and then they cash in the favors for high paying job with the people they used to regulate. There is a similar revolving door in just about every Federal agency. And yes it is also known as corruption.

" It is at the bottom of a shallow gravity well,"

It is at the bottom of a Gravity well that is 1/3 as deep as the Earths gravity well but also still within the earths gravity well, which is also within the Sun's gravity well.

To orbit is easy from there, out of orbit still needs a lot of energy.

you forgot the two MOST valuable resources...

11 Moon Rocks.
12 Moon Dust.

Moon rocks go for more than 5000X their weight in gold. Moon dust is close to the same value.

So DeBeers will be there selling wonderful classy Moon rock engagement rings, because being expensive means you love her....