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There are many reasons to impeach Obama, or Bush, or Clinton, or HW Bush...

I guess a presidency without impeachable crimes is too much to ask.

I'm impressed. The first time in 3 years I've been impressed, so the bar is pretty low. But good going Obama.

Really? Getting rid of Ghadafi at very minimal cost and with 0 US lives lost didn't impress you?

Well, yes it does impress me, but not in a good way

Exactly. It's probably a distraction from his criminal behaviour and corruption.

Maybe debian can take over Firefox.

exactly

Well, they stand for Obama, Bernanke and 99% of bankers, billionaires and politicians.

Who knows, gobal warming may be good for world peace.

As an European, who will be very poor pretty soon, I can only see this as a remnant of a pre-crisis pissing contest.

Just today the EU has blown up the Euro bailout-package from 400 to 2000 billion, which means that about 5000 Euros is taken via inflation from each EU-subject.

Of course our "representatives" have only agreed to the 400 billion package, so the step from 400 to 2000 is just the beginning.

Actually, space tourism has been the dominant form of American space flight for more than 20 years.

Some pundits even argue that the Space Shuttle was only a wasteful form of space tourism. (I.e.: What is "payload specialist" and political science major Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud doing on the Space Shuttle?)

Now, after the Space Shuttle is history and one probe after another gets cancelled, it's not even space tourism anymore, it's purely PR.

NASA uses a lot of tax money and, with a population whose general impression of resemasearch is that it just giving money to boring nerds in labcoats (ignoring the economy generated by products of past research), they must do regular "America #1, Yihaaaa!" performances in order to keep the population from objecting too much against NASA funding.

Well, what do you expect?

Also, it's pretty clear that Obama's core voters don't see space exploration as a priority or even a necessity.

Sure, Obama told the public that he will start a program for Mars and some gullible voters actually believed it. Of course anybody paying attention and having a memory realized back then that Obama's Mars-landing was even more unrealistic than Bush's Moon-landing.

Think of all the subsidized housing and foodstamps that can be bought with just one rocketlaunch. Americans want subsidized housing and foodstamps and that is exacly what they will get in the future.

Also, NASA lags behind in what really counts, so of course they deserve rigid cuts that hurt. Otherwise they will not learn their lesson.

IPv4 will stay alive for a very long time

If IPv6 would have been designed better, IPv4 would be dead by now... but here we are.

After reading this article I think maybe they want to destroy Firefox on purpose.

Exactly, Firefox should concentrate on stability and fix bugs and not try to be "like Chrome" - is it really so strange that many people go to the original?

Mozilla-Foundation failed again: (sorry, in German) http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Update-auf-Firefox-7-verschoben-1351616.html There are also desperate cries for a fork: http://in-other-news.com/2011/The_problem_with_Firefox_and_how_it_could_be_fixed

Firefox is pretty much a finished product (I don't care what Mozilla says) and we need at least one stable browser.

Exactly, but fortunately there is something that can be done: http://in-other-news.com/2011/The_problem_with_Firefox_and_how_it_could_be_fixed

Yes, actually the whole "out-of-Africa" theory is standing on a weak foundation.

Basically anthropologists made a lot of assumptions when formulating that theory and the whole thing falls apart with new DNA-tests.

Maybe this is what will finally get us to IPv6.

Because of the incompatibility of the addresses, it seems that the IPv6 transition will be delayed forever.

Compared to Facebook, that's pretty harmless.

The "Like" button reveals to facebook every website you visit:
http://in-other-news.com/2011/What_Facebooks_Like_buttons_reveal

And facebook even tries to ban workarounds that prevent their buttons from sending data without being clicked:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Facebook-beschwert-sich-ueber-datenschutzfreundlichen-2-Klick-Button-2-Update-1335658.html