FreeflyChile

Bill, I'm curious about your idea - how do you propose finding everyone without SS#/proof of residency in order to tax them?

As a Big Ten guy i was rooting for OSU... damn, they laid an egg again. Pryor will eventually be a monster, but he's still got a ways to go.

Go BEARS! Jeez, really, Marvin Harrison is unemployed and is not better than freaking Johnny Knox??? Really???? Man, can ANY Bears receiver finish a route to help his QB????

So if I am understanding this correctly, is this supposed to be a sort of mid-point between the digital rebel series and the 5D?

do what government does - guilt to get the tax increases voted in - then take it or other governments - just take it But that's government - my point is that how would an atheist movement (parallel to/organized similar to an established religion) force their members to 'voluntarily' give?

I think part of the problem would be funding. if you don't have guilt as a way to get money from your members ala religion, how the hell will you get your members to contribute?

Octane has nothing to do with fuel economy. Higher compression ratio most definitely does, and is enabled by higher octane. if you jacked up our gas to 98 octane tomorrow, there would not be an improvement. We ARE lower than the UK and, apparently, NZ. Probably others too. Hence Toyota can sell more efficient vehicles in those countries than here. Which is, I think, his point. We're also lower than Chile, which only got unleaded gas about 15 years ago... (My dad had to run his 1988 Isuzu Trooper he took back with him from the US on leaded gas - then when he sold it it was JUST as unleaded gas became available and he was then able to sell it for more than he paid for it new in the US!)

I never voted for Bush (who funded a 3-trillion dollar war with my money for his own forced morality). Being a character doesn't mean one has character. As for Mr. Kennedy, most people have their positive traits and their flaws, and he appeared to be no exception. I suspect there will be many people who will miss him, and many others who will be glad he's gone. I doubt I'll find ever find myself in either group. Blues, Dave I agree - I am also of the group that doesn't have any real feelings about him one way or the other. The angle that has me really curious is that this guy was a political institution in Congress from what, 30 years old? Is that even possible anymore, and will it ever be again? The real interesting stuff (most of I which I was ignorant about until the news starting repeating it ad naseum when he died, and a lot of it to which I am certain i am ignorant about still) that happened in this guy happened in a unique combination of social/political era, family and time period in our country. I love these types of historical 'quirks', if you will.

Another peeve of mine: People putting quotation marks on things that don't require them. http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/

I blame instant messaging and text messaging.

Cool, then IL and IA having the coldest July's on record count too! This summer has certainly sucked for warmth in Chicago!

oh this has been announced since then - google "Project Natal" - it was even on Jimmy Fallon's show a few weeks ago.

I agree - I wonder that as well... I'm that the understanding of all of the brain's functions is probably still a limitation, as well as the cost-prohibitiveness of this, but i don't think it'd be far-fetched in 30 or so years...

Only if you refuse to accept that abortion is the premature end of a human life-otherwise, it makes perfect sense. No, no... irrespective of my stance on abortion. But I am laughing now (yes, out loud) because the fact that the analogy in question has the power to derail a thread about terrorism into one of abortion is but one of the things that make it the Worst. Analogy. Ever. Unintentional : Premeditated :: a) Automobile Fatalities : Beltway Sniper Attacks b) Abortion : Death Penalty c) Pancreatic Cancer : Bank Robbery Shootings d) Iran Air 655 : Pan Am 103 e) Both a) and d) I touched on this in the parallel thread, but Bank Robbery Shooting is not automatically premeditated. However, the death resulting from an unintentional shooting (and subsequent death) during a premeditated bank robbery could be taken as intentional (felony-murder).

This stuff is exceedingly cool. Re: BrainGate - i believe Sony recently filed a patent to be able to control games using the mind. I'd think that making this wireless is a rather easy obstacle to overcome.... There really is a company doing robotics called Cyberdyne???? Someone call Linda Hamilton, stat! I am of the belief (as a lot of this suggests/affirms) that anything biological can theoretically be replaced with something manufactured. So how long until a baseball player is suspended for a non-biological enhancer??? I am very curious to see if Nerdgirl has any input on this stuff - oh Ma-arg.......

Ok, I specifically went in search of a pro abortion site because I'm not here to argue my views on abortion itself...but "The surgeon numbs the cervix and then expands it. The surgeon then inserts a hollow plastic tube in the hole and empties the uterus' How does one have a vacuum cleaner unintentionally shoved up her uterus? I'm assuming that by unintentional vs premeditated you're talking about death in both, because in c) the bank robbery could be the premeditated part and the death the unitentional part - or shooting someone in the leg to scare the premeditated and then them dying the unintentional part - felony-murder. Maybe they mean unintentional in the sense of the pregnancy??

Does this mean that UK justice should apply every time a Brit is murdered in the USA? Is bad behavior by one nation an excuse for bad behavior by another? Unles you live in Chicago and are an Obama friend/supporter, if you muder in the 1st degree, you go to prison for life minimum. I live in Chicago and voted for Obama, and I think that the early release is garbage.

The Dark Knight. Ooooh, good call I have a 60 inch LCD and a PS3 so naturally I got that on Blu-ray.... it's sweeeeeeeeeet....

I was hoping the Bears could shore up their secondary - this is the next best thing!

The Dark Knight.

Fantasy - starting with a 370Z - progressing to a Porsche Cayman S to a Porsche 911 to a Ferrari of some type Reality - Fiancee's Chevy Trailblazer... living in Chicago takes away the need to buy a new car.

That certainly would be a challenge! Of course, depending on one's point of view on Metallica's music, the argument could be made that the fact he was paid at all for recording it is theft in and of itself.....

Ah, I see what you're saying. I think theft in the traditional sense doesn't really go into the realm of copyright, though I think I see where you're coming from. I think an example of this is if you sold your car to someone and then stole it, you only stole it from the current owner, you're not also guilty of stealing it from yourself, and you're also not guilty of stealing Ford's patents. Or, in another sense, if Lars stole a Green Day CD, he's not stealing from Green Day, just the store that owned the CD at the time. I think it basically comes down to the value of the thing stolen and who you are hurting - you're stealing the copy of the CD, which is worth 15 bucks - not the IP which is worth milions. Also, as Metallica was also already paid for the music, you're not taking money from them by stealing, only money from the record store. I see the debate that you're getting at.

In which case he'd probably be arrested for theft. I wonder if they could nail him for theft twice, since; A-He'd be shoplifting B-He'd already been paid for the recording since the record store would have bought it from the distributor. I'm assuming you're being sarcastic, but in case you aren't, I doubt it - he'd be arrested for stealing the actual CD - regardless of whose music it is. No, I'm not being sarcastic at all. He'd be arrested for shoplifing, regardless of whose name is on the CD. That was point "A" in my previous post. Point "B" (and it's a curiosity) is that since he'd already have been paid for the wholesale distribution of a Metallica CD, I wonder if they could charge him with a second crime as well? It would definitely be interesting to at the least take to mock trial. I can't think of any crime that I feel would be applicable. Can you elaborate as to your thought process?

Right ...... game on (well in 2016). . . . is that in Mayan years? I was thinking they might want to get it in the 2012 Olympics instead. It'll be the very last one, according to the Mayan Calendar. That's too bad, I was looking forward to (hopefully) Chicago getting the games in 2016! At this point I don't care what gets in - ballroom dancing is/was a sport in there, so whatever. My attitude is I'll watch/pay attention to the sports I like and ignore the rest.