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Guys, let me let you in on the dirty little secret of space exploitation. Yeah, most people on Earth will never go to space. Most people in Spain and England never came to the New World, either. Yet the New World is populated with the descendants of people from places like Spain and England. How is...

What does that have to do with the CONSEQUENCES of having legalized drugs? That * Britain * made the stuff legal and available has nothing to do with the salient point that when the stuff is legal and available, it causes a massive amount of addiction. It is irrelevant to the discussion HOW the dru...

Okay, you aren't familiar with the argument then. Let me catch you up a bit. Yes, the British made the Chinese legalize the stuff. That is exactly what some of the Libertarians want. Legalized drugs. This is not the same thing as forcing them to use it. The "Forcing" I was referring to was the argu...

I take this to mean that you cannot win by the strict enforcement of the laws. You must teach people to follow the laws because it is the proper thing to do. This is America. People only follow the laws they like (see Traffic, Interstate). If you can't get voluntary compliance for better than 99% o...

People often say "China doesn't fit." They often claim that Britain forced people to smoke the stuff. Opium sells itself. It doesn't need any "forcing." It is my belief that simply making it available will create an ever increasing quantity of addicts. I have yet to hear a reasonable explanation as...

"Prohibition" means different things to different people. It could be said that the nation has a "prohibition" on murder, and a "prohibition" on theft, or robbery. Well of course a prohibition on harming others is probably a good thing. But a prohibition on harming yourself? That opens the door to ...

Last I heard, Bigelow had laid off most of the workforce and wasn't going anywhere. Is this another MOU? http://www.spacenews.com/venture_space/110930-bigelow-downsizes.html From the link: ...said the layoffs “were caused by a perfect storm of events.” “We had hoped that by 2014 or 2015 that Americ...

SpaceX, Bigelow announce private space station alliance
SpaceX will carry passengers to Bigelow's inflatable habitats

http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/05/ ... -stations/

Not unexpected but still cool to see them say so

I often have problems communicating because I am often unaware of other peoples lack of knowledge. It occurred to me that this may be what is occurring now. In Legal parlance there are two terms which people ought to be familiar. "Dicta" and "Holding." "Dicta" more or less means comments or remarks...

Now you see no significance in this ruling. It is simply another incremental step in this direction. People will make the argument that if it is okay to look at this stuff, then it is okay to record it to be viewed later, and eventually all prohibitions against it will fall to these quasi-legal arg...

Viewing child pornography online not a crime: New York court ruling In a controversial decision that is already sparking debate around the country, the New York Court of Appeals ruled on Tuesday that viewing child pornography online is not a crime. "The purposeful viewing of child pornography on th...

Was Austria a part of the Eastern bloc or was it part of the west? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria#20th_century Never mind Skipjack found it; quoting from: On 15 May 1955, after talks which lasted for years and were influenced by the Cold War, Austria regained full independence by concluding t...

Other then after when Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany in the '30's. They introduced(or reintroduced) slavery big time throughout conquered Europe. Yeah and oddly enough the already widely avaiable steam, combustion and even electric engines at the time did nothing to prevent that! Of course it ...

Grow your own organs (from your own cells) http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/this-could-be-big-abc-news/grow-own-organs-173451147.html They are not talking about growing organs. The video talks about creating IPS cells from muscle fibroblast cells which may turn out to be very useful presuming the proces...

I guess that depends on interpretation of the term "slavery". Austria never really had slavery in the sense of the way the US had it. We had Leibegenschaft, which was limited to rural areas and the feudal system there. While almost slavery, it was not quite slavery in the same meaning as the slaver...