I believe the roots of this problem are an almost unavoidable side-effect of democracy. When your purpose is to make people happy, your left with two choices in such situations: do the right thing, or do the popular thing. Unfortunately too often the popular thing is done because well, it’s popular. Popularity equates to votes. Votes equates to re-election.

That leaves us with two choices in our current situation: a closely observed controlled financial market reset, or a pie in the sky hope that we can avoid the collapse and still reap the benefits of a reset. If we yield to the market and let it do what it naturally needs to do, we’ll emerge on the other side with a healthy market where people have learned a thing or two about survival. New markets are created and everything adjusts to the conditions.

Tom Cryer used the same method as evidence in a tax fraud case and was in fact acquitted on all counts. Your first link doesn’t cover the issue at all, and the second link is addressed in the video. Watch it then come back and ‘put it to rest.’

The line in Section 8 of Article 1 allows congress to lay taxes to provide for the country, but Section 2 states "Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons". This was modified by Amendment 16, but the Supreme Court ruled that it gave no new power to tax to the government. Basically a direct tax has to be apportioned among the several states.

I submit for your perusal a video that goes in depth on the tax code and how the only thing defined as taxable income are transactions between US companies and foreign citizens or US citizens and foreign companies.

Simple experience. My experience has shown me that the majority of people that say the Bible is fictional have no real basis for doing so.

Your post is a self-fulfilling wish!

A comparison between to religions intentionally and knowingly based off of a work of fiction are fine. They’re both ridiculous if you ask me. I start getting a bit ticked when the uneducated start throwing out comments that call the Bible a work of fiction.

Admittedly there is no proof forthcoming from either side, but that is why its called faith.

The Bible has more primary sources then most of "accepted history."

Using the definition of system from dictionary.com, a problem with the individuals involved that knowingly and to no apparent goal mock other religions would be a part of the system. You are correct Sir!

AI in its normal definition is impossible. Regardless of how many lines of code it takes to make a specific machine perform its function, that code still comes from a person. Where we hit the horizon of possibility is when someone can write a program that understands the program language it was written in. This allows code adaptability and is as close as we’ll get to AI. This almost achieves the much wanted self-reference. It may not be true self-reference, but if you know all the parts that make up the whole, don’t you know the whole?

I think there are other factors playing into the uproar over immigration. If you’ve noticed, most of the protests are for amnestry programs and such and providing rights to people who are here illegally. Contributing factors in this care are the republican white house and the upcoming election. Democrats have a rather large history of buying their votes through social programs providing free money to their prime voter body, which this is an excellent example of. Wouldn’t it be perfect if just before an election we (democrats) provided a bunch of free stuff for under priviliged illegal immigrants, then hired some spanish speaking representative to tell them about all the free stuff they can have if they vote for us in 2008?

Google, in its latest move to organize all information on the globe and make it more palatable to the average Joe, has recently released Google Finance. The homepage in its current form displays a stock ticker as well as financial news. The site is set to release more features in the near future, including areas for financial discussions.

This adds to the amount of information that Google is keeping indexed on its servers, which already concerns many people.

Although not an official release, Firefox 2.0 Alpha 1 is available for download from Mozilla’s FTP Site. This alpha version contains a few new features such as searching your browsing history as well as being able to close tabs in a different way. The Beta version is scheduled for release in the 2nd Quarter of this year, with a final release sometime this summer.

The Department of Homeland Defense contracted Standford University, Coverity, and Symantec to do a bug analysis against an open source development environment referred to as LAMP (Linux, Apache Web Server, MySQL, and either PHP, Perl, or Python). The project found that this combination of open-source GPL software had the least amount of bugs and security risks per 1000 lines of code than 32 other open-source projects that were also analysed. Results of the study are hosted on Coverity’s website, and registration is required to view it. No Windows32 or Microsoft products were tested to compare against, only other open-source projects.

A 14 year old known only as ‘Anthony’ has found a rather large hole in Google’s popular Gmail internet mail client. The vulnerability involves Gmail improperly compiling Java Script code that is designed to appear in the preview pane. This comes on the heels of a vulnerability discovered in Internet Explorer that allowed access to Google Desktop, Google’s popular searching utility.

’"’Brokeback Mountain":http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388795/,’ a film about the lives of two homosexual cowboys, has spawned much controversy since its initial release on the 3rd of September 2005. Much of the talk has ranged from the motives of the creators of the film to its inappropriateness. The expected slew of jokes and jibes has now hit the internet including parodies of past films such as ‘Brokeback to the Future’ and ‘Top Gun: Brokeback Squadron.’

Yesterday, German BMW website bmw.de was effectively banned from the Google search engine for using a blackhat search engine optimization technique called ‘doorway pages.’ This method involves hiding additional content behind an actively scripted page that mentions key words by which the site would like to be found. In this instance the word ‘Gebrauchtwagen,’ which means ‘used car’ in German, was found 42 times in the hidden page, while only two of those were visible with javascript active. As a result, bmw.de’s pagerank was reduced to 0, which causes a search even for the domain name to return no results from Google.