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by Zute
Thu Jul 21, 2011 3:09 pm
Forum: Completely Off-Topic
Topic: Should mankind survive?
Replies: 38
Views: 32493

Should mankind survive?

I ran across this Stephen Hawking bit: Stephen Hawking: I believe that the long-term future of the human race must be in space. It will be difficult enough to avoid disaster on planet Earth in the next hundred years, let alone the next thousand, or million. The human race shouldn't have all its eggs...
by Zute
Fri Jul 08, 2011 9:08 pm
Forum: Completely Off-Topic
Topic: Psychoactive drugs and psychiatry
Replies: 2
Views: 5072

Re: Psychoactive drugs and psychiatry

Yup. There's nothing quite like a drug searching for a disease.
by Zute
Sat Jul 02, 2011 11:08 pm
Forum: Completely Off-Topic
Topic: Maybe Bin Laden should have paid his Internet bill
Replies: 6
Views: 7151

Re: Maybe Bin Laden should have paid his Internet bill

I feel like I'm in a time machine. Did you not hear we found him? He's dead.
by Zute
Thu Jun 23, 2011 8:09 pm
Forum: Completely Off-Topic
Topic: Military Expenditures
Replies: 35
Views: 75802

Re: Military Expenditures

I don't think Europe isn't doing enough, I just think the US is doing way, way too much. Eisenhower was right. We have to keep feeding the machine so no one loses their job. Even some Republicans are getting on the anti-war bandwagon but it's only because the Pres. isn't a Republican, so it's cool i...
by Zute
Sat Jun 18, 2011 11:47 pm
Forum: Completely Off-Topic
Topic: Military Expenditures
Replies: 35
Views: 75802

Re: Military Expenditures

Percentage wise rich people are paying less in taxes than the people mopping the floors of their businesses. That's a paraphrased quote from Warren Buffet, who thinks rich people should be taxed more they presently are.
by Zute
Wed Jun 15, 2011 11:01 pm
Forum: Completely Off-Topic
Topic: Military Expenditures
Replies: 35
Views: 75802

Re: Military Expenditures

Is that actual expenses to the Medicare system, or based on what you'd pay if you bought those services without any sort of insurance. Medicare negotiates hard to get cheaper services. I'm sure that people actually using their insurance for costly diseases actually use more resources than they put i...
by Zute
Wed Jun 15, 2011 6:11 pm
Forum: Completely Off-Topic
Topic: Military Expenditures
Replies: 35
Views: 75802

Re: Military Expenditures

Medicare is paid for by payroll taxes isn't it? I've been paying into it all my working life, just like SS. I don't quite see how you can call it free.
by Zute
Fri Jun 10, 2011 1:38 pm
Forum: Completely Off-Topic
Topic: Military Expenditures
Replies: 35
Views: 75802

Military Expenditures

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I had to do a double-take. At first I looked at it going... wait, where's the US? Then I realized that enormous block on the left WAS the US.
by Zute
Sun May 29, 2011 9:32 pm
Forum: Completely Off-Topic
Topic: Dining by politics
Replies: 5
Views: 6387

Re: Dining by politics

It sort of makes one think that political alignment might have more to do with personality traits than any sort of really well-considered philosophy.
by Zute
Sat May 28, 2011 3:49 pm
Forum: Completely Off-Topic
Topic: Running with scissors
Replies: 0
Views: 4091

Running with scissors

I had to giggle. It's been a little amusing watching Republicans self-immolate with their proposed budget and fooking with medicare. I think this cartoon sums it up. http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Slideshows/_production/_archive/Cartoons/ss-110526-weekly/ss-110526-weekly-17.ss_full.jpg...