The way I see it, technology helps us get machines to do the mundane so we can spend our time exploring and creating.

I am remembering an episode on I Love Lucy where they were selling salad dressing. THE MILLION DOLLAR IDEA Episode #79, Aired January 11, 1954

If you don't get your tenure you don't get your job. If you don't get your grant money you don't get your tenure. If you are disagreeable you don't get your grant money which means you don't get your tenure which means you don't have a job. Is Global Warming? I'm not sure. Is is man-made? I am not sure. Is it being exploited at the tune of TRILLIONS of dollars and to eventually give more power to world bodies. OF COURSE.

People are greedy, regardless of whether they are communist or capitalist. The problem comes with the centralization of power and people cheating and abuse that power. The best system has a distribution of power. Look at how the original US Constitution separated power not only into different branches but also electing each group by a separate group. Unfortunately power has been concentrated in the federal government now, especially in the president and supreme court.

Every night at dinner each of us has to report on what we learned new that day. The most interesting gets a prize.

I wish people could see past the two parties. Bush and Obama and Clinton and Bush, and probably even Reagan are to blame. Keep going back. Our economic policy has been suicidal for quite some time. But the two party system demands that you be loyal to one party and hence ignore the faults of your own party. Why did Clinton do well? Perhaps it was the federal reserve playing with interest rates AGAIN (just like they did before the great depression). This is how it works. The fed lowers interest rates. People borrow more money because it is cheap. Due to the fact that banks only need to keep a small portion of your money as a reserve the rest gets lent out multiple times over (fractional reserve banking). Because interest rates are low this multiplier is bigger. People borrow and spend, borrow and spend. This creates bubbles like we saw in the housing market (and in the stock market in the 20s) as people want easy money. Eventually the bubble bursts. Much of this multiplied money just disappears and there is less money so you go from inflation to deflation. Then the federal reserve add trillions of new dollars, original money, which has yet to be multiplied with fractional reserve banking. We follow the Keynsian model which allows people to cheat as they concentration power is great in Washington. I much prefer the Hayek model where people make their own choices. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTQnarzmTOc is a great video showing the difference.

Many are surprised that Jason Chaffetz (R Utah) voted for it. He as sure been hearing it from his constituents last night and this morning.

If developers can prove the value of their games...... Why should I pay $60 for ONE game when I can get the same satisfaction and entertainment value from $10 of cheap games? I say let the market decide.

Corporations hate the free market. They seek to kill competitors with higher taxes, which they avoid through loopholes, and regulation, which is super expensive. Why do you think they hire so many lobbyists to bribe, I mean donate to the campaigns of elected officials?

I would say that even better would be make it so Wilson was never elected. No Income Tax, no involvement in WWI, no federal reserve (which Wilson later admitted had ruined the country). But if it wasn't Wilson the group of international bankers would have found some other puppet.

Really? I'm not forcing him to work for me. I am exchanging my money for his service. If he doesn't like the arrangement he doesn't have to participate. That being said, I try to be very generous with people when I can, but not because I am compelled.

Mersenne primes are almost completely useless. I used one to win a programming contest in college involving finding the largest prime number though. Unfortunately the moderator posted my number without the last digit and everybody complained it was divisible by 2.