You were wise to post anonimously. I got instantaneous retribution for merely stating a fact!

But since they are Europeans, they happily trade with the enemy.

It is time for the government to step aside from manned space flight and let private enterprise lead, if there is a market.

If there is no market for manned space flight, then using your taxpayer dollars for it is simple misallocation and waste of resources. Ask the Soviets what the ultimate outcome of such State resource management is.

Wow.

To ignore that it was not murderous Mao who increased life expectancy in China, but the simple spread of Western-greed-invented technologies such as vaccines, antibiotics, motor engines, and fertilizers.

It is not what the genocidal regime introduced that is its crime; it is how it delayed its adoption.

The UN's QRTT is committed to delivering a letter with punch.

Hear that, North Korea, and tremble.

Alright, then: what about Manchester's very own "The Salford Advertiser":

A police spokesperson confirmed that they had questioned Codie with regard to a Section Five Racial Public Order offence and that she had been kept in a juvenile unit, not a police cell. "The unit is not particularly threatening, it has picture windows and comfy furniture and she would have been checked on regularly by trained staff. "She was definitely not locked up for over six hours."

http://www.salfordadvertiser.co.uk/news/s/518644_mums_anger_over_daughters_arrest

You know, one might call it the Four Seasons or the Shangri-Lah, but if one is there arrested, deprived of freedom, fingerprinted, DNAd and now apparently on a "children" database accessible to only 390,000 people, perhaps one can insist on calling it a "cell".

The BBC reports:

[..] A complaint was made and she was taken to a police station.

[...] her fingerprints and DNA samples were taken and she was put in a cell.

[...] Greater Manchester Police said it took hate crime reports very seriously and its treatment of the teenager was in line with normal procedure.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/6047514.stm

So, will they include in the database the 14-yr old Greater Manchester girl arrested for telling her teacher "can I change groups because I can't understand them?"

The others where speaking Urdu and the the assignment was "discuss."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-410150/Schoolgirl-arrested-refusing-study-non-English-pupils.html

I'd like to see the database entry for the arrested girl.

I don't think he is being sarcastic.

Luddites, by their very nature, are starry-eyed naifs. Just look at his comment about jobs, as if jobs were cost-free.

Well, in his nomination acceptance speech on June 3, 2008, Obama did say that his presidency would be remembered as:

"the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal."

Moses had nothing on this guy. He only parted one measly sea, let alone oceans.

So, when will a 200-strong unit UK government office flood the internet with 'positive' interpretations of Buddhism?

After all, don't we want young Buddhists to be much less likely to be directed to extremist material online?

Oh, sorry, forgot the UK government only sponsors your religion when you are violent. If you are peaceful, you are on your own. Do your own damn PR!

"it wants to 'flood the internet' with 'positive' interpretations of Islam and plans to train government-approved groups in search engine optimization techniques"

You deceive yourself. Regulated utilities in the US will eventually pass any cost increases to consumers. As the utility has to generate 100% more power than marked on your bulb, your rates will go up proportionally on your bill.