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Rutan's SpaceshipOne Hits 200,000 Feet
An anonymous reader writes "Burt Rutan's privately-built SpaceshipOne is one step closer to winning the X-Prize after zooming to what witnesses say was somewhere around 200,000 feet on only its third powered flight. (See also the partial update from Scaled Composites.)"
LOOK at my balls! Think of them in your eyes!
IT WILL BE HILARIOUS
Niggers are filthy and must be cleansed....
with fire
rutan for pres!
Did you ever wonder why Slashdot only supports 7-bit ASCII, i.e. no extended ASCII, Unicode or ISO-8859 characters?
Because Slashdot is a wholly American and Patriot website, that's why.
Think about it! Do you want Slashdot to become a forum for terrorists, where they can freely discuss plans for taking away our freedom and decapitating our brave soldiers through HORRIBLE ACTS OF TERRORISM in their own language and the heathen Arabic script? Unicode, a system that enables terrorists worldwide to plan terrorist actions and communicate through the Internet. Though most try to cover it up, it is no secret to most IT-savvy Americans that Unicode development is partly funded by Al-Qaeda and partly by the French, dictator-supporting government.
There is none of that anti-social trash here. Slashdot supports only AMERICAN, PATRIOTIC CHARACTERS. Eurotrash, look out, because you can't use your fucking umlauts and ~'s here. We saved your sorry asses in World War II -- the least you can do is show some fucking respect and use our alphabet. Slashdot does not support your anti-American characters. 7-bit ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is commonly known as US-ASCII. This speaks for itself. The one and only choice for PATRIOTIC AMERICANS is US-ASCII, the STANDARD CODE for the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. I'm proud to be an American, and I'm PROUD be a member of this patriotic, American Slashdot community. I am not going to let freedom-hating terrorists plot evil plans on an American-owned, FREE SPEECH website.
Do not believe the terrorist propaganda lies.
Boycott Unicode -- it is a tool of terrorism.
USE ANYTHING OTHER THAN US-ASCII AND THE TERRORISTS HAVE ALREADY WON.
Unicode and its links to Al-Qaeda
We're talking about *Dr* Burt Rutan, I presume?
At least, that's the man I congraluated 14 years ago with his Delft University Doctorate.
woo look at all the number patterns, interesting
The chick was hot.
Nader blows!
furlong my ass
Keep in mind that this was paid by the Microsoft tax often ridiculed by slashdotters....
So, because someone uses a small portion of their crooked winnings to do something good we shouldn't criticize their misbehavior?
Carnegie did a lot of great things with a tiny portion of his ill-gotten wealth. The libraries and universities he built were very cool (and a great thing for our society), but not a single brick made his child labor practices, or union busting through violence, any less appalling. Nor did the good they did even begin to outweigh the harm is business practices caused.
Microsoft is a blight upon the software industry and a menace to the further freedom and innovation of the technology. That doesn't make what Paul Allen is doing any less cool, or my enthusiasm for Space Ship One any less intense. Nor does the latter make criticism of Microsoft's terrible behavior past and present any less apropos.
The Future of Human Evolution: Autonomy
lol.
Platform independent bug tracking software
The Glorious Sontaran Empire shall crush these Rutan filth from the galaxy and ascend to our true destiny as the SUPREME military force in the universe! We shall crush them as we did the Bandrils, and the Tereleptils, and the ...er....
oh..wrong Rutan hate board. Apologies.
-Hmm...I got a G+ invite, better remember to remove the request from my sig...-
The preposition 'kilo' is never capitalized unless it starts a sentence...