Can you convince 51% of the voters of that?

No? Sorry, you're not qualified.

Does slashdot even believe in linux anymore?

But violent crime goes up though, as criminals feel they can commit crimes without a risk of meeting an armed owner for instance.

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned this study yet. Perhaps Hypothyroid rates are skyrocketing and with it autism? http://www.sciencedaily.com/re... Autism four times likelier when mother's thyroid is weakened Pregnant women who don't make nearly enough thyroid hormone are nearly 4 times likelier to produce autistic children than healthy women, report scientists from the Houston Methodist Neurological Institute and Erasmus Medical Centre in an upcoming Annals of Neurology. The association emerged from a study of more than 4,000 Dutch mothers and their children, and it supports a growing view that autism spectrum disorders can be caused by a lack of maternal thyroid hormone, which past studies have shown is crucial to the migration of fetal brain cells during embryo development.

Except that countries didn't change all that much over 60 years, before the industrial revolution. So sons took over their father's work in many fields. Close enough for government work.

Actually a lot of big business is just fine with increased regulation, which generally hurts smaller businesses more.

replying to kill accidental mod.

So... why did you stop being a vegan?

The problem is that people have large stores of b12, so the deficiency doesn't generally show up for a long time.

Scientists have just confirmed an effect, where there should be none, according to all of current science. Whether you like it or not, this is a crack in current science and there may be larger effects elsewhere. Disclaimer: For the record, I'm not even remotely a creationist.

But yet they insist on actual elections before electing the President.

Just because one private aerospace company survived doesn't mean that the environment was even remotely conducive.

The environment outside the US was even worse. For example look at OTRAG. Aerospace is a highly politicized field, not to mention risky.

The environment outside the US was even worse. For example look at OTRAG. Aerospace used to be a highly politicized field.

Government money to NASA ruled the the Aerospace world though.