Those who have the ability to travel will do so if the place is better than where they are now. The world once only allowed in people who could get there by themselves, and had something to offer the host country. Now any man and his dog can immigrate and countries are struggling to find legal reasons to say no to them because of human rights legislation set up after WW2 by the United Nations. 95% of all refugees never get a job in their host country which results in a 100% drain on social services, infrastructure, utilities, etc. because even the 5% who do work use more tax money than they pay. This assertion was backed up by a recent British study that did the calculations. Supreme Justice Asher Grunis of the Israeli Supreme Court recently ruled that "Human rights do not prescribe national suicide," and with these few words may well see the western world turning against the flood of illegal immigrants, asylum seekers, and assorted refugees into First World countries from the Third World.

You will need Nazi Scientists to teach you how. Got any more you can kidnap? ;)

Then you simply have to make it profitable. The XPrize is a great idea for low cost small companies or individuals but for the larger companies it isn't worth the risk as the cost to produce the prototype is as expensive as the reward, which isn't even guaranteed. Of course it is the larger companies that are fat and bloated, so they can rarely produce a cheap solution. NASA could contract out for all the different parts needed to complete a project, with NASA bringing them all together like the U.S. Air Force does when it is building combat aircraft. This would mean limited NASA participation with the design and oversight aspect, and nearly all of the actual work going to private participation when it comes to the construction.

"You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, 'Look at that, you son of a bitch.'" - Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut

Singapore has a 3% income tax for nearly everyone and the highest income tax bracket is 7%, so it is possible. Of course you'd have to treat every new person a "permanent resident" with no hope of ever becoming a citizen, with the option of kicking them out if they lose their job and can't find one within 3 months. Switzerland does this too so Singapore isn't unique in this. That, and you'd have to execute all of your felons, which could be as high as 1% of the American population, or about 3 million people. Good luck finding a politician who would sign that bill.

I've done multiple political tests and they've ranged from 'left of Stalin' to 'right of Genghis Khan'. I identify myself as a paleoconservative, a technoprogressive, and a libertarian. Some say this is a contradiction but I don't think it is. As an example, for myself and my family I wouldn't support abortion, I have the money and the means to look after another child, but for others they can do as they like as I don't believe I should force my personal views onto them, as I would hope they wouldn't force their views onto me. Does this make me pro-choice or pro-life? Both? Neither? Perhaps generally apathetic? This is where the 2 dimensional political spectrum fails, with rational contradictions such as myself. Another example is that a part of me wants that Star Trek future where all the basics are provided at no cost and we can spend our lives working on things that are important to us as an individual, such as studying or designing and building something to make our mark on history. It sounds great, but I'm a realist, and I know in today's world this can't happen. It's not a matter of money, or willpower, it's a lack of technology to automate all of our needs so no one has to be a slave to another, as Ayn Rand would say. But how will we get there? I don't see Capitalism doing this as Public Goods lead to market failure, and Socialism tends to discourage industrious endeavours and reward-driven creativity since at the end of the day you're still getting the same slice of the pie regardless of effort. Maybe I'm a 'Third Wayist', if there ever is such a thing.

In May 10, 1893 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the tomato is actually a vegetable because they're "generally served with dinner and not dessert". (Nix v. Hedden (149 U.S. 304))

Then all you would need is to genetically engineer bacteria to grow this protein to clean up the radioactive waste. You could test it on the soil at Chernobyl by using a crop dusting plane.

The majority of the people here in New Zealand do not support internet censorship but we all agree that Child Porn needs to be dealt with. The problem is that when the government mentions a tactic to tackle Child Porn the people all say YES! but they rarely take the time to wonder what the government has in mind to do this and what it will try to sneak in while it doing is there, such as suppressing Free Speech which the Human Rights Act 1993 does if one bothers to read the Bill. For example if one tries to talk about minority crime rates, that's illegal! While no one has gone to jail for it as far as I know, some experts have been denied a visa to enter the country to speak on this very topic because it violates the Human Rights Act 1993.

I agree with you completely. The French and Indian forces will stand with their backs to you after they are forced to retreat. You can either walk up to them and shoot them in the back and they won't do anything or you can shell their position and they'll just stand there and take it till they're all dead. At one stage the enemy attacked me with cannons and I don't mean with cannon balls. They walked up to my lines with the cannons while under heavy fire and tried to walk through my lines. I suspect that for some reason the retreat area for the AI was on the side I entered battle from. Not even Medieval 2 (which had plenty of AI bugs) was that stupid. Another example of stupid AI was when the Indians which outnumbered me 10:1 attacked my fort. They climbed over the walls and killed my guys on the wall but then they raced down to the middle of the fort where my general was and they just stood there. My general ended up killing them all and I won the game with a "close victory". Seriously, they had rifles and bladed weapons and were in arms length of my cavalry and they did nothing to try and kill them. Also what is with the fishing village vs. the shipyard? That's just dumb. I had to dismantle my Level 3 fishing village just to complete an objective which required a Level 1 Shipyard. It seems like they tried something new and failed badly. In general I cannot say I'm impressed. The Steam engine failed to install the first half dozen times with a different error message each time. I ended up getting the Steam installer off the net and installing that first and THEN installing the game. And what is with requiring an internet connection? My games computer is purposely off the grid so it doesn't get a virus and force me to format my hard drive and lose some of my game files (the ones I forget). What a waste of my time. Razor1911 has already hacked the game so you don't need to connect to the internet so if their insistence on this is a form of copy protection then it failed majorly because Razor1911 had the game hacked before it hit the shelves and online stores.

As far as I know there have been no non-Middle Eastern terrorists which have tried to down a plane which means that racial profiling is in fact an effective tool in fighting terrorism. The main problem with Racial Profiling is what will happen when al-Qa'ida change their modus operandi, as they often do. I personally doubt they will attack planes again any time soon as the attention is now on planes being used as a large fuel-air bomb. Perhaps in the near future they will be able to recruit Westerners to attack their fellow Westerners and racial profiling of Middle Eastern people may result in the real terrorist getting through. [sarcasm] But then again who knows, perhaps a little old white lady might also have a grudge against the government for not giving her enough superannuation to live on comfortably and make the Oklahoma City bombing look like a picnic.[/sarcasm]