Let's not let them get away with it a third time, for god's sake.

Go fight in Iraq if you think Heir Bush is such a great guy.

I've strayed too far from the topic at hand...my goal was simply to motivate people to get politically active, hopefully on the progressive side of things.

progressive

I'm just sick of all the "support our troops" people driving SUV's from their high-paying job to their large home in the suburbs,

Madriver, were you planning on opening up one of your homes to a family that lost theirs in Hurricane Katrina?

Madriver, were you planning on opening up one of your homes to a family that lost theirs in Hurricane Katrina?

If not, that's ok.

Conservatives that support the war in Iraq should get together and create a huge fund to pay the medical bills and lost wages of soldiers killed/maimed in battle.

Those would be called 'taxes.' What college do you go to again?

DMT

What if they used some of that huge fund to do something that benefits all of us, like build some roads or something.

Since you mentioned it, I am actually working on Inertial Confinement Fusion.

Interesting!

What method are you working with? Are you using a hohlraum (you mentioned lasers)? Any results yet?

I've been interested in "cold fusion" for a while, and as you say, it's a crying shame that it's not better funded. There are (to my mind anyway) several promising avenues which could provide a workable solution, but no-one seems interested in their commercial potential. Have you come across pinch fusion systems? What are your thoughts on muon-catalyzed fusion?

Heh Heh Heh...

But you see, I don't mind being underpaid and overworked, because I care more about what project I am working on than the amount of money I am making. Also, my tuition and (single bedroom, in a 5 bedroom house, shared between 6 people) rent is being paid by the DOE right now, so it's not all bad.

Although, if I had taken up my offer with Lockheed Martin, with whom I interned last year, I could probably be making 60 K right now and living the American Dream in San Jose, Ca, while the missiles I work on kill innocents in distant, unknown lands.

But I made the choice to persue my dreams

Since you mentioned it, I am actually working on Inertial Confinement Fusion. My summer project was to develop a system that tracks deuterium/tritium spheres as they are shot at 100 m/s into a vaccuum chamber, where they are then shot by a massive array of lasers.

And my interest was recently piqued in the area formerly known as "cold fusion" (now known as "low-energy nuclear reactions").

I could probably be making 60 K right now and living the American Dream in San Jose, Ca,

Interesting!

What method are you working with? Are you using a hohlraum (you mentioned lasers)? Any results yet?

I've been interested in "cold fusion" for a while, and as you say, it's a crying shame that it's not better funded. There are (to my mind anyway) several promising avenues which could provide a workable solution, but no-one seems interested in their commercial potential. Have you come across pinch fusion systems? What are your thoughts on muon-catalyzed fusion?

In the future, I hope to become more financially secure by persuing my non-military related interests, just as many of my well-payed professors and PhD coworkers have done. I think it's sad, the number of graduating seniors from my class that truly felt they were worthless, and sought any job that would pay the bills, even if it was making missiles. There's always another way, though you might have to make some worthwhile sacrfices that pay off down the road. The Defense industry will likely drop out again once a democrat is in office, and military is no longer our priority. The aerospace industry is fickle like that, funding is based on who's in office. On the other hand, Fusion energy funding will only go up, once people realize that OIL IS RUNNING OUT, and hopefully by the time I'm in my 40's, I'll have a nice career in the fusion industry.

In the future, I hope to become more financially secure by persuing my non-military related interests, just as many of my well-payed professors and PhD coworkers have done.

I think it's sad, the number of graduating seniors from my class that truly felt they were worthless, and sought any job that would pay the bills, even if it was making missiles. There's always another way, though you might have to make some worthwhile sacrfices that pay off down the road.

and hopefully by the time I'm in my 40's, I'll have a nice career in the fusion industry.

....the writers..they probably lurk here for material....

You mean like staying in school? Who's funding your postponement of entering the workplace?

You don't win friends with salad.

And today is a better time than any to gather the people and create a movement; The internet was never before available as a means for individuals to communicate and join forces, politically, to achieve their goals. If everyone in the U.S. realized this, and decided to get active, we could potentially reorganize the system, such that it performs the way the forefathers had planned. No longer would we have to "settle for the lesser of two evils" in elections. Of course, if Bush gets the power to limit our access to freedom of speech on the internet, which I'm sure he would, then we're completely f***d. I'm sure this post is listed somewhere in the CIA's "free-thinkers to look out for" list.

During the 60's, people were rebelling against the conservative, war mongering older generation's way of life.

Also, the majority never voted for bush...

People voted for Bush because things (the economy, mostly) were so good during Clinton, that they became lazy and forgot how bad things became with the last Republican in office.

Also, the majority never voted for bush.

Read Ayn Rand. This nation isn't based on "to each according to his ability, to each according to his need".

It certainly isn't based on the most boring book of all time either. That b---- had no vagina, just a smooth plastic lump where her genitals belonged.

Which, not ironically, is exactly how her political views translate to the REAL WORLD. A fax of life, cold and inhuman at the core. I'm pretty sure she was a reptile.

DMT

You sound bitter.

After 700 pages of Atlas Shrugged you're damned RIGHT I was bitter! Weren't you???

DMT

It certainly isn't based on the most boring book of all time either. That b---- had no vagina, just a smooth plastic lump where her genitals belonged.

Which, not ironically, is exactly how her political views translate to the REAL WORLD. A fax of life, cold and inhuman at the core. I'm pretty sure she was a reptile.

DMT

Bolded by me.

Ironic you should write that. After tens of recommendations from friends to read one of her books, I picked up "Atlas Shrugged," fell asleep after page 2, and have never picked it up since.

Based on your post, I guess I consider myself lucky!

Neither did I find the Fountainhead boring.

Wow! Dingus has a lot of free time.

I was thinking about the title to this thread, about the government trying to f--- us over again. When did they f--- us over the first time?

-I've also noticed that most people with republican viewpoints may be intellectually capable or even genius, but lack creativity and imagination to a large degree. They also can't imagine the hardships of other people, or have any empathy towards those that suffer; "as long as my hands are clean, it doesn't effect me". But then, when it comes to saving Iraqi's from the hardships of living in a country run by a dictator, they are all over it.

ck,
You crack me up. It's not your leftward bias that gets my attention, but rather your seemingly ability to ignore so many obvious, relevant facts when you make your case.

Though I may be a naive hippy, you must admit that you've gotta be at least a little naive to think that a president who doesn't respect your constitutional rights has your, or anyone's (i.e. iraqi's) best interests in mind...