2nd weekend of every April, baby!!

Clearly you've never used yum :)

The only way you shift GDP, long-term, is through technological advance. Technological advance is not a product of the terrible education system we have in the US. And it's getting worse .

This is the problem with the entire US economy - we care not to plan for the future; we care only to make the present look good.

Yes!
My Father ran convenience stores. When an employee needed to be let go (theft, laziness, whatever), he would provide shining recommendations.
Why? - because he knew a competitor would scoop that person up.

Vermont!
-- some guy who grew up in Burlington, and frequently drives back through the freak, constant snowstorm that is Buffalo

Agreed!
-- some guy who has been in Indiana now for #waytoofriggin'long

Depending on where you live, you may be more valuable to the economy as a prisoner. For example, the US national average wage for 2011 is about $43,000, whereas California currently spends about $50,000 per prisoner.

What with all the money we're in the hole, why hasn't anyone yet brought up the possibility of taxing religious organizations?

I'm sure they'd like to help.

Yontoo has been around already, and not just @ Macs. I recently removed it from a Windows 7 PC. The uninstaller does not uninstall (shock!) ... one needs to remove registry keys to prevent this thing from sticking itself into Chrome, IE, etc. Spybot will find it well before Norton and others.

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2073476&cid=35746630

Yeah, I guess you are right - using data to validate / not a testable hypothesis, over and over again, that's not *actual* science.

Fail. An Economist is, in fact, a scientist.

Humanity doesn't survive without greed.

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Where was god sitting when he created everything, including himself?
Where was the primeval atom sitting when it created everything, including itself?

I have asked both types of people, and they both give me the same hand-wavey answer.