I was wondering, too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Sure it does. Apparently, it was used on the moon landing mission, so it's certainly a historical item. And we can tell the value: $995.

Too long, didn't read. However, I'll just go ahead and share this on facebook anyway..

Why yes, yes he did: http://blog.dilbert.com/post/1...

Already been done: http://nypost.com/2014/11/23/n... http://thedovetailproject.org/...

My hat is off to you. This is how it should be done.

Just to piggy back on the point of the AC above in that the praxis often doesn't follow the theory. A good example is "selling" labor. Yes, I "voluntarily" sell my labor, but resources, politics, and capital are set up in such a way that the "seller" of the labor, i.e. the employee, often gains less value, or wealth, than the person buying the labor, i.e. the employer. Sometimes it can get so bad that the wage isn't enough for people to actually live.
Of course, this is all voluntary.

There ain't so such thing as a free lunch doesn't refer to the actual monetary cost of something (which I believe is what the OP is referring to), but rather the opportunity cost. As an example, even if there were no tuition for a person to attend college, they give up the ability to make an income in order to educate themselves in hopes of gaining a better income later.

This would be better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I'm sorry...I just have to disagree with you there. I assume you are referring to Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech. I don't think he ever alludes to any of these messages in his speech: Assimilate to the dominant culture. Denying the significance of a person of color’s racial/ethnic experience and history. Denying the individual as a racial/cultural being. I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. He isn't being colorblind. He is saying to me that "I accept your racial/ethnic history---I just want to sit down at your table too." Perhaps you are thinking of this one: I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. He isn't being blind to color, he just doesn't want judgement because of color. Or maybe it is this one: I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. Again, he isn't being blind to color. He sees that there are white and black girls, it's just that they can join together as equals. But hey, don't take my word for it. It's all right here: http://www.archives.gov/press/...

A friend of mine heard a talk about a guy to had a similar problem in the airline industry. He needed the whole hardware and software package to be maintainable for 80 years. He used Field Programmable Gate Arrays: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Isn't the point of this whole debate whether intelligence is the engine or grit is the engine?

Oh great, and then we get to debate who really has true grit. I introduce to you the Rooster Cogburn fallacy. "Only one man has true grit, and that is Rooster Cogburn. You don't have true grit, so you must not be Rooster Cogburn".

Came to say the same thing....Passenger Pigeons, Carolina Parakeets, etc.

First, I want to thank you for explaining your logic on this. I have seen a few "it is more expensive, because it is subsidized" posts on this thread, and I wasn't connecting the dots. Your claim seems to be counterintuitive to what I observe. I go to the grocery store and the cheapest things I see are the heavily subsidized goods like corn and wheat. I grew up going to a parochial school, and our tuition was more expensive than our public school counterparts. Naturally, the school was mostly unsubsidized by taxpayers. When I took my economics class (at a community college, strangely enough), we learned that quantity demanded is inversely proportional to price. So when price goes down, quantity demanded for that good goes up. So i am not sure your logic adds up. Hell, even the Heritage Foundation says subsidies decrease prices: http://www.heritage.org/resear... I don't know how trustworthy the wikipedia site is, but it comes from a Princeton University Page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...