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Ok. Here's what we do. We make Rana Raslan, an Arab and former Miss Israel, the "Queen of the Two States." We find a "King," a Jewish guy, to mate with her. (Could be me, or anybody else. Not the point.) Anyway, so then they mate and in 18 years their child rules both Israel, and Palestine. Then...

The solution is for everyone to read, understand, and act out the above paragraph. Easy huh.

Someone suggested this to me a while ago, and I don't have a decent response. Perhaps someone else does. The suggestion is, wouldn't the world be better off if we embarked on a global project to change human beings, making all subsequent generations only three feet high? -- similar to those...

People, I am fairly ignorant on this issue, so I'd like your opinion on this: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3521 If it has been discussed before, please post a link. Thanks.

Someone just forwarded me this e-mail message this morning. Perhaps it's not really something we haven't heard before.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/03/magazine/03CHURCH.html?pagewanted=1 A long read, but it boils down to this: page 4 http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/03/magazine/03CHURCH.html?pagewanted=4

The claim is: if God is able but unwilling to relieve suffering of people, then God is not good. The assumption is that people are entitled to expect God to put in an effort for them. Take away that assumption. 1. Have you actually offered to do something that you can do and that God wants...

For your enjoyment and edification: I'm a bit out of date in finding this just now ... but it looks like a mathematician has developed a reasonable explanation of the source of the Voynich Manuscript. http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/cs/staff/g.rugg/voynich/index.html For those unfamiliar with...

A couple of us geeks got together and cobbled together a cluster. This is a set of computers that acts as one large computer & increases the power you can use to do things. The problem being, we're not really sure what to do with it. SETI @ Home has been mentioned, but it doesn't seem to be...

for getting sparkling, streak-free, immaculate windows? I've read that a solution of water, vinegar & a very small amount of dishwashing liquid was just the ticket. And of course commercial makers of glass cleaners tell you maybe otherwise. So would the inexpensive homemade solution be equal...

There has been loads of talk recently about the "well-regulated miltia" and the "right to bear arms will not be infringed". Many of the pro-gun people emphasize solely the latter phrase while the anti-gun people emphasize the former (presumably, in the hope that the problems of regulation will...

I think of E85 as a possible short term solution. Hydrogen might be a decent long term solution, but that's at least a decade away from beginning to be practical for mass consumption in the US. Electric cars have sort of died as a solution. Until the US treats trucks and SUVs the same as cars...

A horrible thing, the draft. Makes for a bad army. There really is no good reason for it. There is an attempt to get it started from time to time. I believe the thinking is that if politicians had their own kids drafted into the army, they would be less likely to run off to war. Experience...

The problem between Israel and Palestine is so intractable because the Palestinians want Israel to withdraw from lands they consider their own, yet Israel has so little to give they resist doing so fiercely. And yet, their neighbors to the west and east have anywhere from twice as much to more...

Well, thanks to the 'al-Qaeda's big mistake' thread, we now have a better solution to terrorism. Any 'terrorist' group that isn't thoroughly infiltrated and shot full of holes by police within a week will be composed of cells with limited contact to other cells. This is an old and successful...

Just let the Administration invade any old country it likes and spread the troops as thin as it likes, and encourage whatever behavior it likes among the troops. Carte blanche. Pretend we as citizens have no responsibility for the actions of our elected government, and shouldn't try to...

Thanks to the fine input from, crackmonkey, rikzilla, Jocko, evilgoldtoesock, Skeptic, hammegk and Grammatron, I think we can come up with a more "popular" solution to terrorism. This combines the best of their input that: 1. American lives are worth more than anybody else's. 2. That...

The problem is simple. People do crazy or brutal things to gain regional, national or international media attention for their plight or favorite causes. Often the methods used to gain this attention result in tragic consequences, like deaths (accidental and intentional). There should be a...

Okay, without getting into too much detail, the company I work for has 4 branch offices that have old Novell 4.x boxes that we want to get rid of. Everyone is on XP Pro, but they're still using the Novell box for network storage. Each user has a home drive storage area on it and there is also...

I bought one of those small usb "drives" to bring files back and forth from work, and some of the files I use with it, budgets and stock info, I'd rather keep private. Does anyone know of an encryption program that could be run from the portable drive and does not have to be installed on the...

There has been some excellent discussion here about the affect that third (and fourth etc.) parties have had on elections, especially in the US. I propose a simple solution which would cost virtuallly nothing and reflect the will of the people even more. In addition, it would encourage the...

Suppose people stopped getting email accounts and stopped checking their email. Then you wouldn't see any spam. Okay, so what's an alternative way to get and send messages without using email? You could join a few different bulletin boards, tell people what names you are using on which...

Most threads on this issue seem to be heavily into which part in the conflict is most to blame. Interesting, I suppose, but not very solution oriented. I once (long ago) had a long debate with Cleo among others regarding what the main obstacles to a solution were. If I recal corectly, it was...

<TABLE BORDER="0"> <TR> <TD> He was kicked from behind. I was initially curious as to why anyone else would be rushing this guy during the test. It seemed to me that the subject should have done it alone. Consider these stills. Since some frames are duplications I'm numbering them by...

(I debated posting this here or in humor. If it belongs better in humor, feel free to move it there.)

Many states are running out of money. My state's Governor (Alabama) will be hoping the voting population will agree to the largest tax increase in our state's history. My state has a prison population of 200% capacity. My state has practically bankrupt school system that eats millions of...