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actually its a lot more illogical to believe that life came about by random chance/mutations than believe it was created. you can put a set of atoms in a container and zap it for a trillion years and you still won't create a bird.

the point of the free public education system is not only to teach, but to guide students... learning by yourself without a guide / mentor, while still a child, is only possible for child geniuses... and even geniuses can be lead astray, work for Citibank, and rob poor nations and submit these...

no... suppose there's only 1 product in the entire economy. the new guy getting a job helps produce more for the economy, which increases supply, and lowers prices, thus the $1.01 cheeseburger drops in price to $1.00. ideally of course.

that's a stupid solution. cutting out education will make kids even dumber than they already are. if you want to remove all hope for a brighter future for this country, cut out education. public education has benefited me a lot. you don't know of its benefits until you see a system without...

The cycle doesn't repeat indefinitely though. At each cycle, the amount of total debt increases by some mind boggling amount. Of course, all debt comes with an interest rate. At some point, the interest paid on debt becomes a certain critical % of GDP, at which point all cycles come to an end...

exercise before bed probably isn't the best idea. for me personally, it makes me very active and i can't fall asleep easily having just worked out. to get a good night's sleep, exercising during the daytime is important. bright sunlight is very important. there is a correlation between being...

I will offer a possible theory/highly simplified explanation of my own on how/why this might be. Suppose the government cuts taxes, saving one worker $3,000 per year in income taxes. The worker places this extra money in his bank account. The $3,000 is then used as bank reserves, and at a...

Actually Montgomery County, MD (i live here too) has a large concentration of highly educated people. I don't think its about wealth, but rather, a correlation between level of education and being liberal. As a sidenote, most university professors tend to be liberal. I think the...

Congress would NEVER approve of that, because if such a tax was in place, it would make Americans very prosperous and free!

let all the millionaires close up their businesses and leave. i'll start up businesses in their place. that leaves more opportunity and less competition for me. :D

sounds like the financial elites are warring against each other in an effort to root out competitors. this isn't likely to benefit anyone other than the most powerful of financial elites. consolidation of power into fewer and fewer hands.

Ruby's the best language (shortest development time), but its very slow in terms of runtime speed. It's a great language to learn though if you're a total beginner. C++ is a difficult language, but offers the fastest speed / performance. It has a steep learning curve. Not the best language...

this is all well and good, but can you give us a free energy device/schematic/construction plan that actually works? no one in their right mind is opposed to free energy (except maybe the oil/banking cartels), there's no need to write long books/articles touting the benefits of free energy...

guys... did we forget the Jews? Jews, more so than any other minority, ethnic or cultural group, have been recipients of the Nobel Prize. If I ran a company, i'd hire Jews over Chinese/Japanese anyday (all other things being equal).

yeah it'd say the Japanese and the Chinese are the hardest working of any folk, with the Japanese at #1. they work very hard and due to the world economic systems in place, we americans enjoy the fruits of their labor putting in relatively little work/effort of our own.

I agree with you for the most part - however microevolution (ie. HIV, bacteria, etc) was proven to occur and is easily observed. It's far more reasonable to say that an intelligent being (ie. God) created everything than to say that the universe and its physical laws came about just by...

the last thing this country needs is more art, film, and music majors... its no wonder they're broke. the music, art, etc they produce is crap. hopefully they'll get the idea and do something more meaningful/useful before the market (or lack thereof) gives them a reality check.

Yeah its too bad the indians left out military strategy & advanced weapon design out of their philosophical books. A strong defense is paramount to any society. The indians did invent chess, but of course, chess is not quite practical when defending yourself in reality.

the fact that the US has ~800 military bases in 130 countries to secure global resources probably plays a larger role in our global competitiveness and prosperity.

as an addendum to your post... millions of untouchables in india have lately been converting to Christianity and a new violent fundamentalist hindu-nationalist movement is rising up to oppose the mass conversion.