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Well, to get to that gateway, we need to be united.  While I hope it comes, I truly hope it does.  Country divisions hurt commerce and create sectionalism.  If continents came together, following the European model, we could have each of these unions represented in a global republic, whose delegates would be elected by the leaders of their unions.  The head of the republic would be held in check by the delegates, and would be elected by these delegates.

A maximum term limit would be imposed, to prevent lifelong leaders.  This government would be in charge of vast pools of resources, and it would not be biased to any one region, because each region is represented equally.  This pooling of minds and resources would be unprecedented.  Comittees to govern the sciences would be led by experts in the field. 

There would be a global military to keep the peace, with no regional affiliation. 

The management of funds on a micro scale could be handled almost as they are today, with countries having governments to oversee division of taxes.  However, since resources could be moved freely over borders, there would be an abundance of capital to work with.  Things like cocaine and organized crime would be easier to regulate with the international muscle.

This system of government would have the strength and resources to launch people deep into space.

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/nanotech-03i.html

more nanotubes and nanotech. This stuff is exploding everywhere!

Uh oh, I see a debate looming! 

The problem I see with relying on philosophy, is that most philosophers speak with a bias.  The reason I like Adam Smith's views is because it is an analysis of a system, not creating a system from a point of view. 

While I agree with snibbets of Voltaire, and Rousseau, and others, I wouldn't take everything they say and slap it onto society.  The world of capitalism already existed before _The Wealth of Nations_. 

And I will agree that society today is not perfect.  We need to take a step back and an analytical approach to the problem, not one fueled by political and social agendas.  This only leads to more problems, and a new group of people to complain!

Progressive is relative.  What one may deem as progressive, another may deal as retrograde.  But oh, well, let's finish this economy issue-we're obviously not convincing each other. 

Truce? 

Nature will always find a way.  We can manipulate a few processes here and there-but we cannot avoid the forces that are always at work.  An "immortal" species would become complacent and be taken over by a more volatile, dynamic one. 

To use an analogy, take the younger, more dynamic America as compared to the relatively static England (this was about 20 years before the Industrial Revolution-so England was pretty much in an unchanging state at this point).  The strength of the mightiest Empire in the world could not adapt to the fresh young Americans, who knew how to survive. 

I don't think we can ever stop evolution.  Where do we stop it?  Assuming there is intelligent life anywhere, it will surpass the human race at its point-no process will ever be "complete" in my opinion, until the end of the universe.  I believe some race will be able to delay or even stop the death of the universe by that point, so I don't believe any natural process will truly end.

Hey, coming from a German Jewish background, I know that both have stereotypes that are sometimes the case.  I've been around some Germans that you'd want to flee from, and some Jews that are as sniveling as you 1-800-lawyer.

Well, like I said, an NTR could be the ultimate HLV RLV with current tech.  to get about 100 tons to orbit, youd need a 400 ton launch mass.  you could scale it up as necessary, and plan for longer missions, because you could take your fuel into orbit with the increased cargo capacity.

I agree-NASA or a similar agency should be resposible for giving out permits to organizations seeking space launch, and R&D.

On Mars not everyone will be a nuclear physicist or rocket engineer, so if Mr. Oppenheimer left his shiny rocket outside, Dr. Watson, a biologist, while intelligent in his own right, might never be able to figure out such processes.  We may not have enough time to be figuring out what goes into building our neighbors thingamajig, but how to survive.

And I believe that information should be free, but applications of said information should be subject to patents.  If you want to build a device, you need to find a newer way, you can't build an exact copy.  Patents could be limited to say 10 years, and perhaps be non-renewable to prevent monopoly, but a person should get some reward for being the first to invent a new device.  We don't want to discourage innovation, either.

No, not all of them are Mexicans.  Some of them are white Americans, who I wouldn't hesitate to call hicks, or the derogatory term that fits the trash they are.

Like I said, you really have to get off this stupid point.  I already debunked it.

At least stopping the traffic from getting in is better than trying to react in the country.  At least he's trying to find a solution.  It's better than people nitpicking at every word

Actually, Lego has a program that lets you program robots-it's actually pretty well done.

I know how I/O is done, but more hardware usually means that you need more processing power...you also get more speed out of your PC than your laptop.

Again, it depends on the motherboard.  New motherboards have two lines.  On old motherboards, they tried to force all the power down one "street" so to speak.  Now you have two, so there's less waste and more efficiency. 

Erm, it works harder because there is more hardware (ex. I have a CD-RW drive, a DVD drive, a vid card, a floppy drive, a zip drive, a LAN, and then I have 2 hubs of external connections...I could never fit all this into a laptop or tablet PC.  I'm also getting more speed.)

A programming program would be a program that allows you to choose what you want your software to do (i.e. word processing, imaging, and so on.) The main idea would be to have this program on one computer, and burn the created program to a CD, so you can use it on other programs.  This would simplify things for the average PC user.