Give the money to laid off workers instead? Why don't we give the money to the people that actually work because their jobs are truly necessary for society to function?

yeah, but once the Californian government goes bankrupt, you will have prosperity for years to come...unless the federal government steps in, at which point you will have free money from the rest of the country...until the U.S. goes bankrupt...at which point i will be dancing in the streets with you! :D

I'll say it: Vista is an underrated OS; I'd take Vista over XP any day of the week. A $500 laptop can run Vista without too many problems now--that wasn't the case when it first came out, which is what killed the OS. If you value gaming and security, however, Vista over XP is a no-brainer; what is more, there are some really nice Vista features that most people are completely unaware of, such as speech recognition. With that being said--since I do understand technology--I would much prefer building, or even buying an AMD/ATI desktop with Linux for half the price of a Dell. It's ironic that Microsoft built its empire on senseless marketing now that it is being destroyed by it.

It's sad that we poured all of our nuclear research into creating hundreds of weapons that were complete overkill. Then a couple of tragedies in the U.S.S.R./United States nearly destroyed civilian research entirely. Look at how dangerous and destructive coal mining was (and is) when it first began! People also say terrorists could target vehicles and facilities that are used to dispose nuclear waste, but we would have way less terrorism to begin with if we weren't financing supporting states with our oil purchases.