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I would argue that the US has seen a significant decline in these areas since 2003. The US certainly leads in military spending, but I'm not so convinced regarding military power. The EU leads in this category. In terms of per capita GDP, the US doesn't lead the world. Not all nations have a constitutional form of government. The EU has a government in place that, like the US' federal government, supersedes the sovereignty of the member states in the areas in which it has been given such authority. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

They will NOT have to pay for an in-state ID. The in-state ID is free, as nerdgirl and I showed. They can use the out-of-state driver's license to drive. They may be able to use it to vote. If not, they can get a free ID from the state. Thus, zero cost. I think if you reread my post, that is exactly what I said, including crediting you and nerdgirl, except the zero cost of an ID for those with out of state DL's, which did not seem clear from the links provided (I'll have to recheck.), but may, in fact, be the case. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Obama or Clinton (especially) would love to see him campaign on his health care plan. The thing about recessions is that they cannot be diagnosed until after they are underway. If a recession begins, it could be several months before it is acknowledged by economists. It is a descriptor used primarily in hindsight. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

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I'm not seeing arguments against being able to prove identity. I'm seeing concerns about the law violating the 24th Amendment. Thus far, it has been shown that Indiana and Georgia offer free photo ID's for the purpose of voting for those who have no driver's license by lawrocket and nerdgirl, respectively. It remains unclear how those states, or others, treat those who have out of state licenses. Do they also have access to free in state ID's? Are their out of state DL's acceptable forms of identification? Or, will they have to pay for an in state ID? If the latter is the case, it would appear to be a violation of the 24th Amendment. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

I'm not. Just by your (and others) refusal to accept that the US is still the leader, driven more by wishful thinking, which is retarded when you're a citizen. Being #3 sucks, and we'll find that out again if/when it occurs. What metric(s) are you using to determine that the US is "the leader"? If you are using military spending to make that assertion, I would agree. If you are using amount of goods imported (thus having more control over international demand), I would agree. If you are using GDP, I would disagree. If you are using amount of goods exported (thus having more control over international supply), I would disagree. I don't recall claiming that the US isn't at or near the top spot. But, to consider the US to be so far ahead of all other countries as to be the world's only superpower is, in my opinion, not a realistic claim. My position has nothing to do with any mental handicap I may or may not have, nor does it have anything to do with my status as a natural citizen of the US. I simply do not see the evidence to support claims of the US as the only superpower. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

So, let's tear up your birth certificate. It must have very limited credibility. Let's tear up all the old censuses from the time before computers and high tech. Let's smash up all the bones and clay that archeologists have dug up. By your standards, they all have very limited credibility. Let's not believe anything that historians recorded before... let's pull a date out of the air... A.D. 1500. Let's burn all records that don't have other records to substantiate them. I must admit, I'm unable to understand what sort of reasoning you applied to reach that interpretation of beowulf's post. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Oh sure... or the translations, or the 'whatever else' you can think of to make you feel comfortable in not acknowledging the validity of the bible... If, by "validity of the [B]ible" you mean its usefulness as a moral guide for some people, I agree, it is "valid" (though I would be more inclined to stick with the term useful), just like many other books, such as Aesop's Fables, Chuang Tse, Koran, John Steinbeck's East Of Eden, or a host of other texts. However, if, by "validity of the [B]ible" you mean the authoritative history of man, Earth and the universe, I would claim that it holds no validity in that respect, at least not in the manner in which it is typically interpreted by Christians. It's not that I won't acknowledge the Bible's validity, it's that I've never seen any evidence (in the scientific sense) of its validity as anything other than a guidebook. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Are you suggesting that different gods all created this world? If the different religions seem to contradict one another, perhaps the problem lies with the interpretations. "Truth is like a great mirror shattered by time into a hundred thousand pieces, allowing all who possess a small fragment to declare, 'My religion is the true one.'" -unknown Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

I recall reading a while back about how Congress had passed legislation requiring corn to be used for a certain percentage (all?) ethanol production. I don't recall the source, however. If that is indeed the case, then that would also be a source of problems, since corn is not the most efficient crop to use for ethanol. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Why are you so bothered by the fact that the US is not the only major player in the world? China and the EU are already major players, as well. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

So if they aren't set up just like the US, they don't count? From an economic perspective, the EU is quite unified, well, except for the Brits, who won't give up their £. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Nor do California and Texas act as one cohesive group. Just because they have structured their union differently than we have doesn't make the EU any less important. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

How did you come to that conclusion? We can't use a simple interest model. Starting with a GDP one-fourth as large as that of the US, if China's GDP increases ay a rate of 10% versus 2.5% for the us, China's GDP would have increased by an amount over 42% greater than the amount by which the US GDP would increase. Their GDP would at that time be approximately one half that of the US. At those growth rates, China's GDP would surpass the US' GDP in less than twenty years. sure...but his claim was China was the top dog, not that it might catch a lagging US in 20 years. His second claim was that it would be true in 10 years. And as Walmart has proven, the bigger you get, the harder it is to maintain such rates of growth. I didn't respond to his claims, I responded to yours. To put it a different way, if China's annual growth rate for their GDP is a conservative 10%, the US' growth rate needs to be just over 3.41% to realize the same absolute increase as China. China is a big dog on the front porch of the world. So is the US. If we went strictly by GDP, EU is the biggest dog of all. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

It's a metaphor. The summit represents God. The different paths represent different religions or spiritual philosophies. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

I agree with Amazon. I they are likely to be released back into society, they need to be better prepared to be productive members of society upon release than they were upon entry. Education seems to be the most efficient method to achieve that goal. With proper implementation, I would probably even support education requirements as part of the sentences, for example, the longer of five years or satisfactory completion of a B.S./B.A. degree program. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

I don't support the rebate. I think it's a bad idea, and intended to offer just enough boost to the economy to possibly prevent the technical criteria of a recession from being realized. However, any boost is temporary, and will ultimately be offset by a decrease, since it was paid for with borrowed money. The hope of politicians is that the boost is sufficiently large and the corresponding decrease is sufficiently time shifted so that history will not show that a recession occurred on their watch. However, if tax rebates are to be given, then they should be given to those consumers who are most likely to spend the money. That's the whole point. Most wealthy people are wealthy for a reason. They tend to spend less than they earn. On the other hand, many middle and low income households live paycheck to paycheck. They often spend every bit of income they have. If the intention is to boost the economy, giving tax rebates to the latter group will maximize the benefits, since less of the money will end up in a bank as cash reserves, contributing nothing to economic growth. Some other forms of investment are also likely to have only a limited economic benefit compared the consumer spending. (It's the same reason that trickle down economic policies don't work very well.) So, if a tax rebate is given, in order to maximize its effectiveness, it should be given primarily to the low to middle income households. Incidentally, the benefits of increased consumer spending are eventually realized by companies and shareholders/investors. If income levels are thought of as elevation, money is like fire, not water; it flows upward. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

When people who preach about personal responsibility try to blame others for the repercussions of their own mistakes, it sometimes seems appropriate. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

I was just being realistic w/r/t the analogy. It showed a very poor understanding of economics. Let's see, there were no quote boxes, no indentions, no italics or other special font style, and no quotation marks at the beginning of each paragraph, no credit attributed to separate author, and no link to (or explanation of) the source. Given that it was not treated as a multi-paragraph quote in any typical manner, it seems quite reasonable to assume that the words were posted as your own. My apologies for not realizing they were plagiarized. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

I'm not saying tax rebates are a good idea. They give a hungry man a fish instead of a fishing rod. But if the government is going to give out fish, their efforts should be concentrated on those who are hungry. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

For your analogy to be remotely accurate, you would need to explain that the game tickets were clearly labeled, "No Refunds." A bit of understanding how an increase in income affects the economy also might help you understand better why the intelligent thing to do (assuming tax rebates are to be given) was to bias the distributions towards lower income persons. The larger a tax rebate is proportional to income, the more those tax rebates will increase spending in the economy. It's not your money; it's the government's. The government belongs to the people equally, per capita, not proportionately to the amount of taxes paid in. I do. Apparently, you do not. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

How did you come to that conclusion? We can't use a simple interest model. Starting with a GDP one-fourth as large as that of the US, if China's GDP increases ay a rate of 10% versus 2.5% for the us, China's GDP would have increased by an amount over 42% greater than the amount by which the US GDP would increase. Their GDP would at that time be approximately one half that of the US. At those growth rates, China's GDP would surpass the US' GDP in less than twenty years. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Actually, my first thought regarding that statement had nothing to do with cheese. We'll have to agree to disagree Because h is a constant, 4 is a constant and pi pi is a constant. At t=0, E is infinite and x is undefined (the universe does not exist in spacial dimensions; spacial dimensions are a part of the universe). At least one of these must be defined for (delta E · delta t) or (delta x · delta p) to be a defined number. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

There are many paths up the mountain, but they all reach the same summit. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Incorrect. We are pointing out that there is no evidence of God (assuming a typical definition of god). There is a huge difference. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!