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Why don't we all just use scientific notation?Yunno...10^9, 10^6, 10^12 - that sort of thing.And the beauty of it is we are using scientific notation, which does not have a cultural bias.

Maybe it's a success story for Roy Brown, 54 years old then, in this instance, rbp.Homeless, hungry, in detox.....Prison might have been a major Step Up, as Jesse Jackson would have put it. 15 years of free room & board, 3 meals a day...as opposed to...what? scrounging through the dunsters eating godawful who knows what, begging on the street where you can get rolled and stabbed dead easily, looking for good pieces of cardboard and used rug remnants for blankets which arent enough and you freeze anyway, holding an empty flask of cheap booze....54 + 15 = 69, probably ready to go on social security....if not dead anyway.It would be cool if Paul R. Allen wished he got 15 years - but I know he will be welcomed home like a hero in his family.

Jar! Even though i can understand the graph, it is very bad of them who made it to reverse the Y-axis. "Better" should be on top. The Graph should slope DOWNWARDS. Most of us here can understand it, I would like to think, but we must allow for those who may gut-react & see the US on top, when they are really at the bottom.

Rahvin again: Kudoes, my man.As my song says, "It's not gonna happen". But what if the Tea Party and OWS could see the common ground they have (about 80% of vitriol espoused by each side)?? Wouldn't it fuckin' kill the Evil Kings in power of this sorry country to see the demonstrators sporting AK-47s? "Go ahead - shoot a canister at my face, sucker."Oh I so wanted to see them build a trebouchet and launch the park's weekly supply of excrement up at those vicious assholes joking and drinking champagne. Smear them all with shit.But no no no - this is foolish folly, for they would only incarcerate you for drawing as much as a half-inch scratch with your finger nail on a cop's arm as you struggle to avoid their clubbings, calling it Assault on an Officer of the Peace - you're looking at 30-40 years.Problem is - those in power of the USA have Nuclear Weapons...tanks, smart missiles, the whole bit. This ain't gonna be solved by some Riva Ridge/Waco compound/Weathermen enclave/Black Panther militia effort with NRA support.Ladies & Gentlemen - that game is over. They have won there. They control the corporations, the government and the media. We have some firearms, some grenades maybe, and maybe after those are done & spent, some bows & arrows. Then some sticks, some stones, maybe. WTF?It's time for a new game. We already are a third world nation. They are Fascist Totalitarians. They have nothing else on their agenda but turning the 99% into SLAVES. For harboring such thoughts, they should all just DIE. Horrible broken brains.Dig it: The Tea Party thinks there's way too much power in Government. OWS thinks there's way too much power in Big Corporations.They are actually on the same page, because these 2 entities are one & the same. There are details that make them very different, but in this issue, they are on the same side. We need to UNITE!This country is about to boil all over the world with stinky acid.

Of course I would be remiss if I did not throw my hat into the Group that thinks this has Already Occurred. I THROW MY HAT THERE!hint: sulfuric would be an example

You are such an optimist, Jar.

Rahvin writes: David Brin has been pushing ceaselessly for the right of citizens to spy on their own government. People should be allowed to film police beatings and other such shit from the power structure.