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Oh I realize, but this is not the normal way to deal with this. Usually arresting the person who committed the crime for one... Since these are all U.S. based file sharing websites that is probably possible. You are missing the point: since when did the Department of Homeland Security posses the power to shut down any website at will??? Why only now are they bothering to enforce copyright? It's fishy, especially in the hands of such a fascist "command and control" administration. I wonder why there has been no press release about this? Perhaps they don't want anyone to know? This is a grab for executive branch control of Internet censorship.

While some of the sites involved, may have been legitimately breaking the law, I'm not so sure this is the way to prosecute them. What I think this really is, is a trial balloon to open a gateway to shut down any website at will. Who will defend these guys or care? Tyrants always attack a minority first to see if they can get away with it. This is only the beginning. Link to story at The Hill

link I'm guessing Israel did this, in a similar fashion to the first time, but with a different kind of surprise attack. I would guess the CIA, but I think as a rule you can assume they are completely ineffective and incompetent.

Clears up a lot! I was completely unaware of those two updates Thanks!

Uh....Hello! Light does interact with itself! If you shoot one photon at a time through a double slit it will interfere with itself and produce an interference pattern. Here is the expected response from you: You will refuse to believe it despite this being a very famous experiment. I don't know why but a lot of Oist's are very ignorant about physics.

If these are voluntary, and would better help detect terrorists, couldn't a terrorist just choose to not go though one? Are they not completely pointless?

My "Ethics in Engineering" textbook says similarly spirited things about laws of physics: "How do you know that laws are true? In fact you do not know if the laws are true! Laws are unprovable because they relate the values of real, physical properties." - A User's Guide to Engineering pg 64 What a worthless textbook. This is a college class. The teacher uses class time to preach at us about green technology no matter how unprofitable or unpractical it is. I leave almost every class enraged and angry. Next week we will be discussing Nuclear power, which so far at this college, has been categorically misrepresented and smeared at every opportunity. Joy. What college is this? Trident Technical College in Charleston, SC.

Cool!

I just wish I knew what sort of curse word starts with 'p' and has five letters...

Is there any way the first humans to be eliminated in his plan could be him and everyone who agrees?

I really wish I could say I find this unbelievable. Perhaps I could if this country's history occurred differently.

They might as well figure out what the ten million and ten billion dollar bills will look like...love the "right from a xerox printer" white on these. Good thing this is just some stupid UK design firm.

Use of large words is not proportional to how good your writing is. Common mistake.

I know it's so stupid. GM sold how much in assets and got rid of how many expenses, and made just 1.3 billion? So next year I assume they will already be in the red again?

This looks to be very probably not real. It only uses Star Trek like technobable throughout the entire webpage. I didn't read a single coherent sentence about the technology.

One other thing: to understand how oil companies view alternative energies, view them more as energy companies not specifically oil companies. Can you imagine them caring how you buy energy from them if a way that is not oil is popular? You really don't think they would adapt when there is money to be made? What do you think (or your friend) they worship oil as a god at the oil companies' offices? They don't just spontaneously switch to hydrogen because there is no safe way to use it. (As safe as gas is anyway)

Let's think about this for a moment. Hydrogen. Hmm....its the smallest element is atomic weight and size....hmmm... Hydrogen is well known to leak though any physical container eventually. Guess what also? It explodes with O2 at nearly any concentration from 1% H2 to 98%H2. A wrecked hydrogen powered car is not safe to be around. Perhaps the entire car could be coated in brass to prevent sparks? Hey I have a great idea! Lets put the hydrogen in a compound of some sort that would make it much safer! Like a long chain of carbon! Hey! Lets call this substance Oil! YAY! What killed the electric car? The lack of energy density in batteries. They have too little energy per pound (or per liter if you wish) to have enough range to be useful. Other drawbacks are not as significant, but they don't help. They take over night to charge. They discharge quickly in hot weather. The elements required to make a higher density battery become more unstable (read: explode-able with contact with water) and extremely rare due to extreme reactivity with anything not itself. (the whole column will combine with ANYTHING to fill their empty electron orbit) If these batteries catch fire (like the laptop exploding into flame video on youtube) GET BACK. I'm sure none of these facts occurred to your "friend." You know whats just above gasoline in energy density? Uranium 238! There is no other alternative fuel better than gasoline in terms of energy density. Although nuclear powered cars could be made safe I suppose....they don't spontaneously explode.

Just saw the midnight showing (eastern time). AWESOME. This is one of the few movies I have no philosophical objections to . (thats saying alot) This movie is the opposite of Avatar in philosophy.

"Oh, the fools! Why didn't they build it with six thousand and one hulls? When will they learn?" -Fry in Futurama (about a "dark matter" spill in which a 6000 hull spaceship was breached) "Oh, the fools! Why didn't they build it with six thousand and one emergency safety valves? When will they learn?" -Michael McGuire, first post, above Just because there are terrible accidents does not mean that whatever activity that you happened to be doing should never be done again. Would one more additional government regulation have prevented this? Why is it that whenever anything bad happens the answer is "government?" Why is it that whenever something good happens and somebody is successful that the answer is "government?" Perhaps it would not be so hard to drill if oil companies were allowed to drill closer than, what, 60 miles from shore? Edit: Perhaps we could invent a environmental disaster minority report-like system of precog's that would know in advance what disasters will happen, when. That would solve the problem! There would be no point though, because they would tell us to just destroy all industry.

"Lets treat this animal (that lacks free will and thus rights) as well as we would a human before we brutally murder and eat it." LOL

Well yeah, of course. Which is why the parallels are so ominous...ha ha ha

I agree. Let me paint a picture: Infinite resources farther than the eye can see and you, the alien, are going to step on an ant pile for no reason other than sadism after spending unimaginable amounts of energy to reach another star within your own lifetime. .....right.... Its the same retarded Avatar logic: Though the whole solar system is likely to have significant deposits of whatever mineral you will make profit off of -somehow- after hauling it back umpteen light years back to the home system...You chose to ignore countless lifeless planets and needlessly cause the natives to have a real bad day, while simultaneously making the whole trip unprofitable. YAY. I have no idea why Hawking is so wrong with this. Even old Sci Fi writers like Azimov and Heinlein have a more accurate picture of an interstellar travel. If any species can even generate the astronomical (literally) amount of power to reach another star that's only half the story. If you are going 99% of light, everything you hit, not matter how small and/or motionless it might happen to be is going to hit you going 99% of light. Hit a cloud of anything, even hydrogen, and you likely won't survive the journey due to radiation poisoning. Oh, and by the way, radiation embrittlement of metal is going to be a serious problem: not much of your ship may make it to the other star intact.

I should probably explain how this is ironic: He thinks that the right embraces government power, seeks a scapegoat, and is racist to some extent. All that he says is exactly true, but not of the right, of the leftists in power now. I just thought it was funny that someone could be so close to the truth but so totally wrong still. Its like saying cars are assembled on an assembly line by industrial robots and gorillas dressed like clowns.

From here. This has to be the most ironic statement ever made in the 3rd millennium AD. I'm calling it now. There are 990 years yet till the end but I think we've got it right here. If only there was some group of people that all our problems could be blamed on...hmm.....who could be pointed at as the source of all evil....*ACHOO!* *businessmen!* *achoo!* What? I didn't say anything.

Don't prepare. You are nervous because you spend hours thinking about it. It's just like asking a smoking hot woman out: do it without thinking and spur of the moment for best results. That way you will be candid and friendly. I still think you should move to texas or some state like it. Jobs aren't coming back to MI. Period.