Also, it is within rights of a municipality to ban drilling - for example recently Pittsburgh voted to ban drilling rights within city limits. Also, at least in Allegheny county PA, homeowners don't retain the mineral rights (including drilling), so other townships can vote similar. There is a distinction between homesteads and farmsteads though, but I don't own a farm so I'm not familiar.

Personally I'm not against natural gas drilling, but I'm against the contractors who are doing it, and the corners they are cutting to save a buck. And even if you installed a Dean-Kamen-style water purifier in every home, the contaminants and heavy metals in the run-off will go to all the streams, rivers, lakes, tributaries and have a definite negative impact on the environment.

The full sentence should be, "New York professor installs camera in his head, cries when people don't want to hang out with him anymore."

http://online.wsj.com/article/NA_WSJ_PUB:SB10001424052748704829704575049111428912890.html

found that...

I don't care about the WSJ's reputation for "partisan news" (though I doubt anyone else here will let that slide), but an anonymous opinion piece?


Doesn't bother me in the least. You probably think Bush "stole" the election in 2000, based on...what?

Less than this.

Oh, and feel free to google Franken, felons voting illegally

The punishment for electing a liberal is...getting a liberal. For more information, please see "Obama, Barack Hussein,"

I can't imagine why you haven't listed your source. Oh, wait, it's from this anonymous WSJ opinion piece.

I don't care about the WSJ's reputation for "partisan news" (though I doubt anyone else here will let that slide), but an anonymous opinion piece? Really?

>> ^quantumushroom:

"Mr. Franken trailed Mr. Coleman by 725 votes after the initial count on election night, and 215 after the first canvass. The Democrat's strategy from the start was to manipulate the recount in a way that would discover votes that could add to his total. The Franken legal team swarmed the recount, aggressively demanding that votes that had been disqualified be added to his count, while others be denied for Mr. Coleman.
But the team's real goldmine were absentee ballots, thousands of which the Franken team claimed had been mistakenly rejected. While Mr. Coleman's lawyers demanded a uniform standard for how counties should re-evaluate these rejected ballots, the Franken team ginned up an additional 1,350 absentees from Franken-leaning counties. By the time this treasure hunt ended, Mr. Franken was 312 votes up, and Mr. Coleman was left to file legal briefs."

i thought i had a good link on the financial reform bill, but i lost it.
heres one on the economic crash
http://on.wsj.com/dgWxnJ
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/les-leopold/fear-and-looting-in-ameri_b_209552.html

>> ^kronosposeidon:

^I'm not so sure about that, buddy. I mean I'd like to believe that, but Obama did push for the "surge" in Afghanistan. He didn't have to, but he did. Yet he voted against Bush's troop surge in Iraq in 2007. It begs the question, WTF?
I know, I know: Two different countries. But in both countries most of the people want us out. Not unlike Vietnam. Eventually we'll have to pull out of both countries. We'll see how stable they'll be after we're gone. Don't get me wrong: I hope to God they both have stability, with democracies that establish equality and respect human rights. But I'm not optimistic.


Well, when Obama was really talking up the war, the Afghanistan war was still popular. A lot of people felt (and do still feel) that to the degree that we needed to go to war against anyone for the attacks of 9/11, it was one against the Al Qaeda in the Afghanistan/Pakistan region, and the people who harbored and supported them.

Afghanistan being unpopular was something that happened when Obama de-emphasized Iraq, and made Afghanistan America's central front against terrorism (which it probably always should have been). All of a sudden people started noticing that the war was, as Zakaria says, totally out of proportion.

The question is, in a world where there were no Republicans in the media or government, would Obama have ever supported the Afghanistan war? I guess it depends on when we are pretending the Republicans disappeared. If there weren't Republicans around anymore starting tomorrow, do you think Obama would stand up to an electorate made up of liberals and moderates who spoke out in nearly unanimous opposition to the war?

I don't.

I think if you removed the political pressure of the right on Obama to stay and fight no matter what, he'd stop trying to split the difference, and just get us out, or at least make the whole thing proportional to the size of the threat (i.e. just something aimed at finding 50-100 people).

^I'm not so sure about that, buddy. I mean I'd like to believe that, but Obama did push for the "surge" in Afghanistan. He didn't have to, but he did. Yet he voted against Bush's troop surge in Iraq in 2007. It begs the question, WTF?

I know, I know: Two different countries. But in both countries most of the people want us out. Not unlike Vietnam. Eventually we'll have to pull out of both countries. We'll see how stable they'll be after we're gone. Don't get me wrong: I hope to God they both have stability, with democracies that establish equality and respect human rights. But I'm not optimistic.

>> ^NetRunner:
@<A rel="nofollow" class=profilelink title="member since May 3rd, 2010" href="http://videosift.com/member/Lawdeedaw">Lawdeedaw, the claim was that Bush created "a lot" of jobs, when in fact he's had the worst track record on record according to The Wall Street Journal.


10-4. ALthough the president doesn't have the pursestrings... So...the Congress under Bush?

@Lawdeedaw, the claim was that Bush created "a lot" of jobs, when in fact he's had the worst track record on record according to The Wall Street Journal.

Here's a bigger picture...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118677584137994489.html

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

Blanky, let me tell you the rags to riches story of young entrepreneur Terry Gou. ---Snipped---

>> ^dgandhi:

Since this is an insurance funded project, I tend to think of it in terms of what a similarly funded project with different objectives might accomplish.
Consider the Mprize, which seeks to find ways to extend life. If some non-trivial subset of people bought life insurance with the Mprize as beneficiary we could potentially encourage the funding of the research needed to extend current human life. All the Mprizes research goals will needed to be meet for cryo to work, so why not put that horse before the cart?
To be immortal you simply have to live past the break-even point, where life is being extended as quickly as time is passing. It is entirely feasible that humans will become functionally immortal, but never reach the point where cryo bodies can be reanimated. Even if cryo does become feasible, the probability that current cryo systems will be compatible with real functioning cryo tech approaches 0.
The cryo companies are, effectively, siphoning resources of those interested in life extension into a bet with exceptionally bad odds. Why not bet on reaching the break-even point in your lifetime, instead of sinking resources into something which is extremely likely to have no benefits for anyone?


Cryo seems like a risky bet if you die tomorrow and want to be brought back to life before the year 2100, but if your time frame is more flexible, it seems like a different picture. It seems hard to imagine in a time when every individual's cheap mobile phone will possess greater information processing power than all of humankind today, that we won't be able to figure out what the structure of cryonic brains was before the cryonic damage occurred.

That being said, the average person born in e.g. 1975 seems to have an excellent chance of living to 2075 if they live a health lifestyle*, and it seems difficult to imagine that stem cells, nanomedicine, etc. won't have changed the face of medicine by that point. Innovation has continued fine even through the current global fiscal bust. Like you, I'm also a big supporter of the Mprize.

*Researchers find in the last 18 years in the US, "the number of people adhering to all 5 healthy habits has decreased from 15% to 8%." http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/006231.html
*"Recent scientific and medical evidence shows that a diet consisting of foods that are plant-based, nutrient dense and low-fat will help prevent and often reverse most degenerative diseases that kill us and are expensive to treat. We should be able to live largely disease-free lives until we are well into our 90s and even past 100 years of age."http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204251404574342170072865070.html

Pretty sure that's bullshit. In t
his article the font's creator explains that he made the font to resemble comic book lettering after seeing Microsoft Bob which was using Times New Roman in its speech bubbles at the time.

[edit: better yet, here's the story on his own website - http://www.connare.com/whycomic.htm]
>> ^spawnflagger:
^ KnivesOut
Comic Sans was designed to help people with dyslexia. It doesn't have any horizontally-mirrored elements.

Britsh people write good (better?)
http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/loser-britains-identity-crisis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_identity_card_(United_Kingdom)

Biometrics in the patriot act:
http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/05/biometric

This bill has sponsors in the senate
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703954904575110124037066854.html

__________________
If you read those links you would know that biometrics aren't needed to prevent illegals working here in the USA.
So the government is not quite telling the truth.
However it will make it harder for hoods to steal checkbooks when their id card doesn't match their fingerprints. No doubt the fingerprint machine will have handcuffs built in.

So *Art then...

>> ^PHJF:
OK, but what are they selling?
[edit]
OK apparently this is some sort of art piece for a contemporary museum.