7am_Waking_Up_In_The_Morning

@Edamame said:

@7am_Waking_Up_In_The_Morning: What was the world population in the 30s and the 40s? 2 billion or thereabouts? Just curious.

The 1940's would be within 2 Billion.

Don't underestimate a blade to shrapnel of a grenade.

One slice from these Ninjas would be the end of one Universal Soldier.

They would slice their bodies in half or even in 5 pieces and the Universal Soldier has no way recovering from that.

This is ONE Ninja fighting a whole police force.

Each of the Ninja in "NA" are more skilled than this guy. Faster too!

So 10 of them will definitely defeat 10 Universal Soldiers. Van Damme is the only elite of the 10.

Ants also outnumber us a million to one! They also can lift weight up to 50 times their size!

If they ever wanted to turn on us, they could just pick us all up and throw us in the ocean.

Sorry Van Damn

You are no match!

(Van be Dammed)

While the average American owns about 70% stuff made in China in their home.

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/made-america-shipping-china-17285049

America makes their FLOORS for special events.

So while China is still taking our jobs away from costumer services, retail, and manufacturing of other more important things like steel, tech, clothes, and what not.

The U.S is planning to create and boost 5 million jobs by having its people make new floors for other countries.

But this is the issue:

Where officials say that they will create more jobs, the question is Where will they build them at.

For example: Staples is U.S company and officials said that they will create more jobs of Staples for Americans; however, they build Staples in other countries for workers there. Same is said about Wal-Mart. Then Microsoft, then Apple.

So the question is:

Are they going to mass produce these 5 Million Flooring companies in the U.S?

Or are they going to produce them somewhere else?

@Edamame said:

@Rogan2112 said:

1. The main problem is that we are no longer an industrial based economy, we're a service based economy, we're not actually MANUFACTURING much of anything, so the Marshall Plan would help little these day, and is the other factor you spoke of. Unless a nation's economy actually produces something the world wants to buy, it's on a very slippery slope. If another country suddenly can beat us at IT repair, programming, and the like, we're about half cooked

2. Honestly, I don't have any idea about the quality of the homes so I'm not going to BS and try to give an opinion it it, I will attempt to find out though.

3. There have been several economic theories tried bot both Conservatives and Liberals. Conservatives pretty much believe that you give huge tax breaks to the rich, which will enable them to make cheaper products and service and create more jobs, hire more people and stimulate the economy. This has been shown to SORT of work, but again greed gets into it and high to mid ranking corperate officials will do things like embezzle money or use the extra money quasi-legally to line their own pocket books further. The Liberals believe in the bottom up theory, that if you tax the righ more, that puts more money into the hands of the government (yeah lets trust the GOVERNMENT to help us and spend our money correctly for us, right? Ever heard of a $300.00 toilet seat for government buildings?)...anyway, the idea is they help the less fortunate, food stamps, job developement, educational assistance etc. Sounds great right? Problems are: Greed takes hold again. Government officials do some of the same things the Corperate officials do and line their pockets. The corperations who are getting the crap taxed out of them say "screw this" and move their business to a country who isn't gouging them and "outsource" since even when they aren't being gouged their taxes (even with all their loop holes) pay for 40-60 percent of the nations tax burden anyway. A better solution, find a COMMON ground, find an even tax rate (ooohhhh like that flat tax mentioned before) devide the spoils from it equally at the top AND bottom so that things work their way toward the MIDDLE, where most of the American work force is, which (in all likelyhood...I say this because there's no crystal ball and no PROOF it will work, just a strong likelyhood). So, you have disadvantaged people taken care of to a decent degree (though not as much as the Liberals would prefer), you have Big Buisiness coddled to a reasonable degree (though not to the degree they, or the Conservatives would prefer), everyone MIGHT have to make due with a LITTLE less for awhile, but with more jobs being created by Big Buisiness, more educated lower class, and the already educated middle class, you have people to fill the jobs. They will then have enough money to BUY things, keep the Big Buisinesses running, taxes being paid, and when the Congress votes themselves YET ANOTHER pay raise, they might actually have earned a tiny bit of it this time.

1. Indeed. Therein lies the issue. Outsourcing. Almost everything is "Made In China" these days. That is why I do my part by purchasing things that are "Made In USA". The question is how can we get our industrial/manufacturing power back? America was the number 1 industrial power in the 20th century up until the late 70s or 80s. I'd love to do more research on what most of our exports currently are. I assumed that it would involve music and film, but it could be something else.

2. Yeah. Well, all of the "affordable" homes that I have seen seem to have major maintenance issues. *shrugs*

3. Very true. I concur. The government should never be trusted, and we have to find ways to get rid of all of this greed. That might be impossible, but hey.

Yes, about a good 70% of things in the average persons household is made in China!

Even X-Box 360's are made in China

PlayStation 3's are made in China

Nintendo Wii's //Wii U's are made in China

Something people don't really think about often.

Regenorators

Play these two videos at the same time:

@Frocharocha said:

@7am_Waking_Up_In_The_Morning said:

@Laurcus said:

How well could the Enterprise stand up to a nuke?

Nukes won't have any effect on the Enterprise. The Enterprise shields can withstand surfing on top of the Sun to hide within its corona from enemy's sight. There are only 2 types of weapons that effect it's shields.

1. Any phaser type weapon capable of shifting frequency to match the shield's
2. Anti-Matter radiation

There's also the kinetic force of two crashing ships.

Even the hull from infinity is able to survive Multiple teratons plasma based shoots fired from Covenant CCS cruisers and enough to survive a super nova heat and it's gravity wheel. Btw, enterprise is way smaller than Infinity.

The hull is just made out of very thick Titanium. Even though the Enterprises hull is not nearly as thick, it doesn't have to be because the alloys are stronger and distributes and absorbs energy better than titanium.

Let's say that we use titanium knives today for the 21st century.

The Enterprise D is the 24th Century so they would use a more powerful/durable alloy superior to steel and titanium.

The Enterprise D is comprised with:

• Tritanium (an alloy that is 22 times harder than diamond and is nearly impossible to melt and mold with Federation 24th century tools.)
• Duranium mainly for the support bulkheads (is very strong metal maybe as durable as Captain America's shield)
• Enterprise can use Ablative Armor too but only for an upgrade which I doubt that the OP will allow

Each are more resistant and durable than Titanium which is why they don't need 16 feet of Hull thickness. The Enterprise D hull thickness is only 2 feet thick. That's why they have windows that are close to the outside. (not to mention that the windows are made out of some kind of transparent alloy)

Anyway, plasma or laser... Anything that generates heat, the Enterprise is immune to.

It takes a Phaser distruptor to damage the Enterprise because Phasers don't generate heat. They use frequencies that releases electrons from atoms. And Photon Torpedoes release more ions than Nukes which nukes mostly releases more thermal energy than Ions. And like I said above, the Enterprise is immune to Nuclear heat.

And yes.... The Enterprise is very small compared to the Infinity. The infinity is nearly 6,000 meters. That's 15 times the size of the Twin Tower buildings and the Enterprise D is twice the size of the Twin Towers. But sadly, the size for the Enterprise though being much smaller, still has the advantage.