Phi for All

Can you please cite some sources for this? AFAIK, the US has more lawyers per capita than any other country in the world. Why? How many doctors is too many for Cuba? Who does India and China pump out more skilled work than? What do you consider skilled work?

whitewolf103, I can understand why young people look at "Life" and despair. You think in very compassionate terms about all of humanity, and that's a very moral, selfless, heroic way to view the world. Ultimately, though, you usually only have the power to affect a small portion of the world and the humanity that surrounds you. Don't think of it in terms of shedding light on the world, think of becoming a beacon yourself. If you become what you want everyone else to be, you will illuminate your immediate area, and make things brighter for those around you, and hopefully they, in their turn, will make things shine brighter for everyone near them. Often, young people look at the big picture only and it is very daunting. Writers don't write whole novels, they start with paragraphs and pages, which become chapters, which ultimately become novels. If you sit down to write a novel, you'll fail because it's just too much to do all at once. Write a paragraph and see how you feel then.

What an insult. To Frank Burns, I mean.

Oak-ay, maple you have a point. I wouldn't be very poplar with my neighbors if I didn't cedar dilemma and offer to spruce up their house after my big-ash tree fell on it. Olive my efforts to be neighborly would pine away to nothing and I willow them a big apology.

Speaking as one of those stupid "city people", my neighbors and I usually talk before doing anything that has a direct bearing on each other's property. Sure, indirectly, Matt's crabapples fall onto my lawn and burn a patch of grass if I let them rot there, but my daughter loves to puff dandelion seeds onto his lawn so I just pick up the apples and don't mention that part (I'm sure if I did, I'd hear about something else Matt has to put up with from my side of the fence, and I'd probably have more to say too). Dave, on the other side, has a small granddaughter that loves to throw toys over the fence. I toss them back over and don't say anything because my tree branches hang over into Dave's yard and he doesn't say anything about that when we talk. In the winter, because Matt works early and his wife is just a tiny thing and his kids are too small to help, I generally shovel his sidewalk up to his mailbox. I do the same thing for Dave since his son's in a wheelchair and he's off to work early each morning too. I don't mind because I hope it offsets some of the stuff they don't mention to me that pisses them off about living next door to me. But about something big that directly affects each other, we talk, and we talk at length. Common fences, tree blowdowns, even when we're scheduling renovation work that may start kind of early in the morning, we let each other know. And if I'm going for a load of cedar bark or garden rock, I always ask if they want to go in on it with me. They rarely do, but I ask. Again, I look at it as a neighbor bank, something that will buy me some karma since I'm far from the perfect person to live next door to. But I'm just a stupid city person, so what do I know?

Depends.

"Unexpected results" is not "you dont know the changes you could make". While certainty is not a certainty, from what I've read, genetic engineering is NOT a total roll of the dice. I disagree. I feel "changing cells can always end in a unexpected way" is too generalized a statement. It does not "always" end in an unpredicted outcome. It was my understanding that genetic engineering is *usually* done in smaller, less complicated, more easily predictable steps.

So, do the Dems spend a lot of time and effort denying it or do they turn around and embrace it, with their own spin to it? Since denying it, at best, merely nullifies the Rep efforts, I say embrace it and double your efforts at half the cost. They should minimalize the social equality angle and emphasize what State ownership of some businesses can mean for us, since the taxpayers *are* the State. Use the Green Bay Packers as your example of what happens when the citizens share ownership. Use Amtrak as an example of the kind of profit and positive investment we can make by taking over failing businesses. Above all, remind people that *we* are the government, the State, and that the State sells the businesses back when they can show a profit by doing so.

Old Fashioned Fruit Topping On Pistachio Ice Cream. Otherwise, feel free to order pizza instead, capische?

At least not in the area where bascule and I live:http://www.murraybmwofdenver.com/inventory.aspx?_makef=&_model=&_search=318i+SE&btn_search=Search&_new=true 0 results found on a search for BMW 318i SE at our biggest BMW dealership.

I think a lot of our isolationism comes from the media we're exposed to. It hypes violence on the streets while praising our military firepower and never slows to draw any parallels. Germany has a great many ideas I'd like to see the US adopt. Besides recycling and my favorite, their asphalt paving techniques, they have superior emissions equipment for cars. It used to be that a Porsche imported to the US tested better *before* it was retrofitted with US emissions equipment. Many homes I saw in Germany had gutters that led to a single downspout that ended in a series of catch-barrels so you could use rainwater for your lawn, your garden, or anything you wanted. In the US, we have multiple downspouts that all end on a concrete splashpad that takes it away from the foundation onto our lawns only. So I'd say one of our Achilles Heel's is our short-sightedness when it comes to spending a little extra now to save a lot more later. We're too into cheap and convenient.

Are you familiar with genetic engineering, or the scientific method? It's not exactly a blindfolded, roll-the-dice approach, you know.

Yuck.

Let's stay focused here (admittedly difficult considering the topic). If you're talking about modifying for cannabis traits, why would you want a tree where the leaves are hard to reach? Or where most of the energy goes into the woodiest part of the plant? To genetically modify cannabis, first start with either removing undesirable traits or enhancing desirable ones. Then you can figure out what genes you want to use.

Done. Good luck.

We extend life a bit every day with new discoveries and treatments. Can you define some parameters for your question? Can you perhaps explain what you know about this gene and why you mention it in terms of extending life?

Perhaps we need an Archeology sub-forum for Computer Science? Would you call your dream machine the Necromputer?

This is my fear, actually. By targeting mileage instead of emissions, the legislation mollifies the consumer but leaves a wide open door to additives and quick-fixes that may improve mileage but still emit previous-level toxins or worse. The market could quickly jump in with products that help fulfill the letter of the law while ignoring the spirit of the law.

So better mileage automatically means fewer emissions? I didn't see any emissions standards other than mileage in this article. I really wish there was a zero emissions target date with this legislation that would move the industry towards electric.

I'm deeply sorry for your loss, ydoaPs.

When imagination isn't exercised, the creative muscles shrink and there's a buildup of boredom. Go play.

Wings are spicy meatballs of fire when ready, set, go west, young man about town council.

This is the 50th anniversary of when Chubby Checker signed with Cameo-Parkway Records. He didn't actually write The Twist, but his version was accompanied by the stylistic dance that revolutionized the modern world of music. Geeks everywhere no longer had to worry about stepping on girl's toes since Checker made it possible to dance apart. Of course, we missed out on a lot of holding a girl close when Chubby came between us.

Do you think the bomb going off in such close proximity to the magnetic anomaly was what happened the first time, or did Juliette's sacrifice truly change things for the island?

I'll have to check that out. I'm going to use half a cup of Italian dressing, a half cup of Terriyaki sauce, some garlic and ginger and a little dried mustard as a marinade for this good-looking London Broil I picked up for a song yesterday. I'm still undecided on whether to add honey or brown sugar though. That sucker is gonna soak for at least a full day before I grill it.