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There is a rational argument to be made that welfare reform was intended to end the cycle of permanent welfare entrapment, not to prevent welfare from being a useful social safety net in times of economic crisis, which we are clearly in the midst of. The main thing to watch out for is whether this r...

Well the cure to pay your current debts is evidently to mortgage your kids futures to pay off some of the present obligations. Thats the cricitism of course. Then look at who is really buying up these debts: the people we owe the money to in the first place: China, Saudi Arabia, et al. A good defaul...

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/02/17/the-trade-winds-drive-the-enso/#more-5702 Simon, You were interested in the impact of PDO and ENSO on global climate, the guys at wattsupwiththat.com seem to have verified the ENSO link and backtracked it to the strength of pacific trade winds, particularly west...

Got any money to start a company? There are plenty of regulations designed to keep new competitors off the market. Which makes me wonder what would happen when someone builds their own polywell and takes themselves off the grid. Some guy up in this area was collecting radioactive materials to build...

CSR-B looks like an MHD system. One of the papers at Askmar ("From SSTO to Saturn's Moons") cites thermal limits due to accelerator magnets. A chart in the same paper puts the Isp range for CSR drives between ~8000 to ~80,000 seconds, and thrust-to-weight between ~3 & .~03.. Thank you very much, I ...

You might be right and those wanting to test this design may well be wrong, but you are trying to prove a negative on paper. That ain't exactly easy either. I think it is better to spend the money and manhours to find out for sure. Chances are real good that you'll have the last laugh. That does no...

Boron boride http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090128215130.htm "Scientists have found the first case of an ionic crystal consisting of just one chemical element – boron. This is the densest and hardest known phase of this element. The new phase turned out to be a key to understanding th...

* http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20090211/sc_space/senatepassesstimulusbillcontaining13billionfornasa * H/T Tom Ligon "Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), who initially proposed $500 million for narrowing the gap between the shuttle and its successor, was able to convince his colleagues to retain $450 millio...

I'll go out on a limb and say, oil consumers are saying 'hooray' and oil producers are feeling some heat. The other question, which few seem to be asking, is, why oil went so high and fell so low? Not on fundamentals. A few made big profits for a while at everyone else's expense, then, suprise! rec...

Billy Catringer wrote:We are becoming goose-stepping fascists while spouting Marxist slogans. I can't wait to see what's next. That reminds me. I need to apologize to my kids.

Look up some libertarian summer camps to send them to.

I recall listening to a news story out of the US last year about credit card bills. Something about the industry got a law passed that forced people to pay outstanding credit card debt before mortgage payments, and some consumer advocate saying it would have profound impact on the housing sector/ec...

The point is that the bank's capital is tied up in that house regardless of who sells it ultimately. If I give the bank the house and they can't sell it or find anyone to assume the loan they have a liquidity problem. If they have too many houses default all at once they have a BIG liquidity proble...

If we can dispense with the cocky, shrill, right-wing infoporn and get down to some hard analysis, I would be more interested. The short form: we are screwed. The only way to pump money into an economy without increasing inflation is to see that the money goes to producers. The money (most of it) i...

I had done some reading, and I found a lot of contestations like that "Mercury's orbit explained without relativity": http://www.science-frontiers.com/sf031/sf031p02.htm dude, Science Frontiers is a quack zine that does stories on aliens, psychic powers, structures on mars, ancient astronauts. Not ...

Hello guys, I am the Crazy that you are talking about. Here is one of my gems: How fusion reactions take place? The CrossFire Fusor does not need a nebulous physics concept with a lot of enchantments to work. It's really pretty simple. It simply relies on collisions of ions needing kinetic energy a...