Gold is and always will be a solid hedge against inflation. Of course, it doesn't hurt that you tossed in "Fox News" to get all your liberal friends panties in a wad. And when Obama's monetary policy lead to rampant inflation ... well you will not look so smart.

Never underestimate the power of greed to suspend normal thinking processes.

You have never experienced OpenOffice until you have used it in the original Klingon!

"or at least, ameliorates" = " You can only mask them"

Yup, so you agree

People will do what they want. Technology won't stop them. Won't help in stopping them. Sociological problems are not "social" problems. They are people's socialization issues. Kids will skip school, nothing you can do to stop them. They skip school if you have RFID and Cameras everywhere. All that money wasted because people don't understand the problem, and think Technology is a panacea to every known social problem we have.

I have a phrase I use when discussing these kinds of issues with our staff (I work at a school District)

"You cannot fix sociological problems with technology. You can only mask them."

Technology doesn't solve the problems people want them to solve. It only offers mitigation. As long as you understand, you're not solving things, you will do fine. If you think you will solve the deeper problems with technology, you're going to be rudely surprised by the ineffective nature of technology.

And that is where the issue lies. Too many PHBs not understanding reality.

As for the Turbines .. it isn't the number, it is they type of bird being killed. Killing a thousand sparrows isn't the same as killing one Bird of Prey that is endangered or threatened as a species.

http://saveourseashore.org/?p=1801

There are environmentalists that are opposing the mine in California. And if you know anything about California, you know the environmentalists get just about everything they want.

Dams do block rivers, that is what they are designed to do. Salmon can't spawn if there is a dam, unless they make extraordinary efforts to bypass them with a fish ladder. And environmentalists don't like Fish ladders.

Hydro dams are great, but idiot liberals won't let people build any more of them without protesting about some bug or slug that is "endangered". They do have zero carbon footprint (except in building them), but good luck building more without having the other "environmentalists" try to stop it. See California "Auburn dam" as a fine example of this.

There is very little, if any, "green" Electricity. Dams block rivers, Nuclear is bad, Coal is bad, Gas/petrol is bad, wind kills birds that would shut down any other industry, solar has lots of toxic metals that need to be stripped mined ....

As far as I'm can tell most of those promoting "green" electricity are the same people saying "no" to all forms of generating that energy. But hey, it looks good on paper!

First off, Strawman. Second, she does "work" for a living, even after being wealthy by her rich parents/grandparents etc.

THIRD, why do you care about how wealthy Paris Hilton is. What is it any of your business? Would you like it if a poor Delhi looked at you with envy because your parents were born in the US while they were born poor in the streets and point at you saying "YOU ARE THE 1%"? You know you are in the 1% ... right?

Envy is such an ugly color. I don't envy Paris Hilton's wealth. I WANT to be wealthy like her, and my kids to be wealthy like her. Fuck you if you think wealth is wrong, seeing that you are "wealthy" compared to 99% of the world . So, whatever disdain you express, only makes you self loathing or hypocrite.

Better than being extorted by thugs to give up hard earned wealth to people too lazy to work for it.

Life isn't fair. Get over it. Trying to make it "fair" is not "fair" in and of itself. If you do no have the rights to the fruit of your own labor, you live in a totalitarian serf society. Which is exactly what you're advocating, you just don't realize it.

FTFY

Actually, the "right wing" nut jobs I know, are paranoid as the OWS crowd is. Pointing to the Right Wingers is probably not a good idea except in your twisted view of the world.

And being an accused "Right wing" nut job myself, I can assure you, that I have HUGE problems with this kind of monitoring of citizens. The problem, as I see it, isn't the "Right wing nutjobs" or the "leftwing nut jobs" it is those people in the middle that want a functioning society with the least amount of hassles who see expired license plates and pulling people for stolen (but returned) cars as acceptable exchange of liberty for security.

The problem is, the Leftwing and Righwing Nut jobs won't get together on subjects like this until it is too late. So, in summary, stop targeting people that might actually be on your side with broad strokes of the paint brush. I'll join you in protesting the police state we're in.

As a side note, did you protest against the shutting down of Boston via martial law during the man hunt for single wounded man? Or how about Big Bear Lake when the cop went on a shooting spree? We live in a police state, but that is what people want.They want big government to take care of them.

"Getting extra charges tacked on for exercising your right to a trial is no more just than getting extra attention from the IRS for exercising your right to criticize the government."

Except for one little detail. One was optional, the other was not. IRS Scandal was not at the option of those being scandalized by the IRS, while this one was. He had a chance to go to trial, he chose against it.

By that token, everything the government does is "Extortion". Taxes included. In other words, you're opposed to this form or extortion, but probably happy about others. Or are you an Anarchist?