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Elementary My Dear Watson BuckGalaxy November 7, 2025 9:39 pm (Space/Science)

Removing 50 objects from orbit would cut danger from space junk in half BuckGalaxy November 6, 2025 9:35 pm (Space/Science)

Posting just a title line sometimes links to an empty body. RobVG November 5, 2025 1:02 pm (GeekSpeak)

Trump nominates a NASA chief — again BuckGalaxy November 4, 2025 10:28 pm (Space/Science)

Muskfinger - and other evil space billionaires BuckGalaxy November 4, 2025 10:19 pm (Space/Science)

New Glenn set for its second launch on November 9 BuckGalaxy November 4, 2025 9:15 pm (Space/Science)

Spanberger projected to win VA BuckGalaxy November 4, 2025 5:10 pm (CurrentEvents)

The destruction of Goddard is illegal RL October 31, 2025 9:41 am (Space/Science)

Weighing the scales on Elon Musk BuckGalaxy October 30, 2025 9:28 pm (Flame)

Bunker Envy ? podrock October 30, 2025 6:18 pm (CurrentEvents)

Message in a bottle BuckGalaxy October 29, 2025 10:55 am (Off-Topic)

According to some, we're a nation of illiterate dependents looking for a handout RobVG October 27, 2025 8:56 pm (CurrentEvents)

9-9-9 = a bigger piece of your pie by Eri October 13, 2011 11:42 am

We are in the midst of a recession caused by reducing taxes on the wealthy, their investment in hedge funds, ... by bowser 2011-10-13 13:21:44
- "We are in the midst of a recession caused by reducing taxes on the wealthy, their investment in hedge funds, ... by TB 2011-10-13 15:41:50
  - What amazes me is the Conservatives' ability to blind themselves to the Real World. As they chop holes in ... by Eri 2011-10-13 17:52:22
    - Remarkable. It's like watching Neo doing "bullet time." by TB 2011-10-13 18:39:59
- Belongs under TB just below, will move after lunch. by bowser 2011-10-13 13:23:00
As for taxes, I have my own issues with Cain's specifics, although his principles are right. by TB 2011-10-13 12:32:03
- "Consumption" taxes are inherently unstable by RobVG 2011-10-14 18:11:00
  - Yeah, but incomes tend to dry up during an economic downturn, too. States with income taxes aren't getting the ... by TB 2011-10-14 18:51:53
    - If someone perceives that they might possibly lose their job at some point in the future, that's usually enough to ... by RobVG 2011-10-15 10:28:31
      - There are over six million fewer private employees paying income tax today than there were in January of 2008. ... by TB 2011-10-15 10:42:55
And yet Cain is currently very popular among Tea Party supporters, conservatives, and Republicans in the South. by TB 2011-10-13 11:54:12
- The Tea Party just loves green. "If you're a corporation, own a small business or count yourself among the ... by bowser 2011-10-13 12:17:42

Ignition! by TB October 13, 2011 11:07 am

Dealing with image issues by TB October 13, 2011 9:43 am

Thanks for posting that guide to images on the HZ-Wordpress, TB. (n/t) by podrock 2011-10-13 17:38:07
- Yep, I saved it on my desktop for the next time because by then I will have forgotten. I ... by Eri 2011-10-13 17:58:00

Frisked! by Eri October 12, 2011 9:57 am

The link on this doesn't work. Can you fix it? I can't track what the picture is supposed ... by TB 2011-10-12 18:42:20
- I don't know what I did wrong. I copied it from another site that is password protected so maybe ... by Eri 2011-10-12 22:44:57
  - Fixed! Thanks for the assist! by TB 2011-10-13 09:37:08
    - Cool! I'll copy and put on my desktop so I have it readily available. I love that damn ... by Eri 2011-10-13 11:24:02

Google map of "Occupy" protests by Robert October 12, 2011 4:24 pm

Just for completeness: The House midterms for 2010 by county. by TB 2011-10-14 12:24:20
- See my comment to ER on this thread concerning lying with maps. Take Colorado for example. I don't have the ... by podrock 2011-10-14 20:56:44
  - Well, of course the population density of the blue areas is greater. Elections come out pretty even, don't they? ... by TB 2011-10-15 06:25:02
  - I uploaded a png for red/blue counties by population in the media library. It didn't display on my first try. ... by FrankC 2011-10-14 22:53:56
Human communities may fracture under stress, but they rarely crumble to nothingness. The fall of Rome taught us that. ... by ER 2011-10-13 18:01:08
- I wouldn't posit "nothingness" either. by Robert 2011-10-14 09:13:05
  - Socially, we're up to it. Technologically, I don't know. As I have pointed out earlier, unlike the Roman ... by ER 2011-10-14 12:01:12
    - Red and Blue used to alternate from election to election with the graphics from the major news networks. It wasn't ... by podrock 2011-10-14 20:40:21
      - That's pretty obvious but boots on the ground counts for something by FrankC 2011-10-14 21:13:38
    - The mainstream media changed the colors prior to the 2000 election. Ask them. by TB 2011-10-14 12:09:50
      - Red vs Blue? Well, at least you found something in that post worth commenting about. No doubt it was ... by ER 2011-10-14 12:21:42
        
        Well, the rest of the post was just more of the apocalyptic nuttiness you and the others are soaking in. I ... by TB 2011-10-14 15:06:24
This isn't it, and I believe there is a revolution brewing. Briefly, there are six contributing factors. First, the increase ... by bowser 2011-10-13 00:16:07
- Nice that the two of you aren't trying to drown the conversation in the bathtub. by Robert 2011-10-13 11:06:24
  - "Human communities" post moved to front of this thread. by ER 2011-10-13 18:06:15
    - If you misplace a post, it's easy to move it in the current system (basically erase the old one and ... by TB 2011-10-13 18:46:14
      - Unless, of course, the moved post has been replied to, then it is a whole different matter. A couple of ... by podrock 2011-10-13 19:23:02
        
        I've been a little loose about marking edits. I have a time period of about three minutes after I ... by TB 2011-10-13 19:29:20
        
        Sort of like the "five second rule" about dropped food. Fine with me, as long as it is fine with ... by podrock 2011-10-13 19:55:52
        
        I have been drifting down the threads and "trimming" some of my old comments by using the paragraph command to ... by TB 2011-10-15 12:23:04
  - An interesting synthesis of our two posts, with a reasonable proposal to avoid the most dire of our outcomes. ... by bowser 2011-10-13 17:48:30
    - Ouch: Comparing me to The Conceder? by Robert 2011-10-14 08:59:20
      - This post takes me completely by surprise. First, I admire Obama enormously, for his patience, for his efforts to ... by bowser 2011-10-14 12:28:19
        
        "Jingoism?" "Majority?" Can we get a count on that? by TB 2011-10-14 12:41:10
        
        Not on this board, TB. Heck, my post above stands a high risk of being edited. But I ... by bowser 2011-10-14 12:53:53
        
        Friend, nobody here is screwing with anybody else's posts. Nobody is likely to. Buck did a couple of ... by TB 2011-10-14 13:23:59
        
        Gee, TB. You say it's not done, not likely to be done, and has been done. And I know it's ... by bowser 2011-10-14 14:01:10
        
        If someone has changed or clipped a post of yours on this board without your permission, flag it, tell us ... by TB 2011-10-14 14:11:00
  - Basically you're talking large scale gerrymandering by TB 2011-10-13 11:46:30
    - Impressive how you manage to shoehorn the end of America into conventional partisan terms. by Robert 2011-10-14 09:28:29
      - You propose dividing the nation up specifically by political ideology and are surprised by the idea that these "nations" would ... by TB 2011-10-14 09:46:54
        
        No I didn't. by Robert 2011-10-14 11:27:00
        
        Sorry, now you're just ducking and weaving. by TB 2011-10-14 11:46:23
        
        P.S. by TB 2011-10-14 10:26:23
- I've often disagreed with many of your posts, feeling they were a bit too extreme for my views, but I ... by ER 2011-10-13 05:56:36
Okay, let me see if I'm following this right: by TB 2011-10-12 17:22:47
"Map of US Militias"> by FrankC 2011-10-12 16:56:41
- Scale problem by Robert 2011-10-12 17:15:38
  - Try this map. Feel free to zoom in on the cities. by TB 2011-10-12 18:34:01
    - LOL by FrankC 2011-10-12 19:14:32
  - A scale problem...you got that right. by Lee 2011-10-12 18:02:50

Horror in Caracas by TB October 12, 2011 4:26 pm

HZ and Iphone by FrankC October 12, 2011 3:59 pm

Are elephants afraid of mice? by Jody October 12, 2011 2:57 pm

Learning your twinkles by TB October 12, 2011 9:09 am

These ne'er-do-wells are what all the fuss is about? by Lee 2011-10-13 03:29:46
My understanding of this is by podrock 2011-10-12 18:52:33
- We're also pretty ingenious at finding ways to prevent them from communicating. That's a lot of what this thread ... by ER 2011-10-13 04:41:29
Damn, I spewed coffee all over my computer by FrankC 2011-10-12 11:26:54
Okay....I would be up the creek then...I would never remember that. I was singing Star Spangled Banner last night to Ava ... by Jody 2011-10-12 09:52:33
- As the guy was finishing with all the hand signs, I was wondering what was wrong with the old-fashioned raised ... by Eri 2011-10-13 11:54:42
That's three. And I'm not keeping track any more. Y'know, you guys are obsessed with this, or you wouldn't keep ... by ER 2011-10-12 09:30:35
- Seriously ER by FrankC 2011-10-12 12:25:16
  - I don't know. I've never been in a demonstration. I smelled tear gas once and that was enough ... by ER 2011-10-12 12:31:02
    - I've been at a couple of demonstrations back in the "Cambodia bombing" days at the university. I was there ... by TB 2011-10-12 13:58:06
    - Maybe I am wrong but I saw nothing to imply any sort of crowd control. Each signal seemed to be ... by FrankC 2011-10-12 13:02:18
      - I disagree with the protestor's methods, but I sympathize with their cause. Many of them are young, who see ... by ER 2011-10-12 13:44:26
    - Yep...first thing I thought of actually was signals used by umpires in baseball. by Jody 2011-10-12 12:33:43
- By the way, I'd be interested in hearing your reasons for putting that picture up. by TB 2011-10-12 12:04:25
  - I was actually looking for villagers with torches and pitchforks chasing the Frankenstein monster, but when I spotted that guillotine, ... by ER 2011-10-12 12:34:54
- If it wasn't for the fact that this board has erased its history a few times, it might be educational ... by TB 2011-10-12 12:02:39
  - Do you actually admit that if you had the means of determining that, you might actually go to the trouble ... by ER 2011-10-12 12:53:27
    - Would he? by FrankC 2011-10-12 13:10:37
- It is becoming silly now ER...they are losing validity. But that is only my opinion. It feels like the Pied ... by Jody 2011-10-12 09:55:43
  - It seems to me like they are geting a briefing on crowd control, or in communicating to speakers from the ... by ER 2011-10-12 11:21:14
    - That is true ER (about picking out just the right moments to catch on tape)...and I hesitated before I wrote ... by Jody 2011-10-12 12:30:59
    - What is really "silly" is that some people need to try and inflate these people into some vanguard of the ... by TB 2011-10-12 11:57:04
      - That's a pretty long and passionate post, isn't it Tom? If they are that silly, how can they inspire ... by ER 2011-10-12 12:14:08
        
        Irony. Conservatives say they believe that capitalism is a superior economic system, generates innovation and promotes the economic well-being ... by bowser 2011-10-12 14:03:39
        
        If the Jews were such inferior sub-humans, why were the superior, Nordic, Aryan master race Nazis so terrified of them? Fascism ... by ER 2011-10-12 14:21:52
        
        Oh come on ER by FrankC 2011-10-12 15:01:59
        
        Rubbish, Frank. For the Nazis, the Jews were seen as the Banking and financial class, the big property holders, ... by ER 2011-10-12 18:11:08
        
        Whatever ER, I won't whine like a little girl when you say I'm a fascist and you don't whine like ... by FrankC 2011-10-12 19:11:30
        
        Are you even listening to yourself? by TB 2011-10-12 18:37:41
        
        It just hit me, somewhere, right about here... by FrankC 2011-10-12 20:27:07
        
        Frank, if you really think I'm "too far left", then you'd better hope you never run into someone who actually ... by ER 2011-10-13 05:07:49
        
        I have never thought of you as too far left. I just realized you were a bit much into the grape ... by FrankC 2011-10-13 12:47:47
        
        The grape? Well, I'm no teetotaler, or recovering abuser, but I haven't been intoxicated since the last time I ... by ER 2011-10-13 17:19:52
        
        Tommy, I'm just getting started. by ER 2011-10-12 19:13:54
        
        I didn't think so. by TB 2011-10-12 20:28:50
        
        Think of it as political poetry. Free verse for a free people. And what's with the black armpit ... by ER 2011-10-13 05:02:22
        
        So who's marching in the streets today declaring that the Enemies of the People are those damn rich bankers? ... by TB 2011-10-12 14:38:27
        
        Conservative is Sanskrit for Fascism. by ER 2011-10-12 14:52:24
        
        When you see a friend making a mistake it often evokes a long and passionate post. For me it is ... by FrankC 2011-10-12 12:45:29
        
        Curses! Foiled again! by ER 2011-10-12 13:00:01

I cannot believe it has come to this... by Eri October 11, 2011 10:58 pm

Well, I can tell you I've found two ways to make it. First, I'm going to sue the Roman ... by bowser 2011-10-12 16:11:20
- In my book, "casino" tribes have earned, the hard way, a significant right to strip a load of wealth off ... by TB 2011-10-12 17:30:01
- This guy wants to join a class action with you by FrankC 2011-10-12 16:40:02
  - Well, ol' buddy, a unilateral ceasefire is still a ceasefire, isn't it? :-) Arf by bowser 2011-10-12 23:32:49
In a society where money is everything, people will do anything to get it. It's not that the rules ... by ER 2011-10-12 04:57:59

ER, there's a nice article about Pink floyd in the new Rolling stone I think you'd like, by podrock October 11, 2011 7:40 pm

I posted this on the Zone years ago, I believe you commented on it, in fact. But I think ... by ER 2011-10-12 19:59:00
- Damn, I wish I was there. Never did see the Floyd, to my eternal regret. Not that I had much ... by podrock 2011-10-12 20:47:10

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