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  1. Re:Bitter from competition? on OpenLeaks Founder 'Crippled' WikiLeaks · · Score: 2

    No, wikileaks isn't doing this because it's not wikileaks anymore, it's wikiassange now, have you been over to wikileaks.ch lately? It's got more Assange branding on it than wikipedia had Jimmy Wales.

    Its all about Assange and keeping wikileaks and Assange's name in the press.

  2. Re:fail on OpenLeaks Founder 'Crippled' WikiLeaks · · Score: 2

    Is anyone who forks a project a stooge or pawn serving the "purposes of State and Corporate collusion in secrecy, to manage their globalist Empire."?

  3. Re:Simple answer on Obama's Goal: 98% of US Covered By 4G · · Score: 1

    "You will note that Post Roads are mentioned but oddly nothing about Internet access."

    E-mail.

  4. Re:Simple answer on Obama's Goal: 98% of US Covered By 4G · · Score: 1

    If it's going across state lines it's a Federal issue.

  5. Re:Great for middle-class employed people. on Obama's Goal: 98% of US Covered By 4G · · Score: 1

    The copper isn't there for a lot of the US.

    Example, here in Alaska, 16% of the land area of the US, has copper running to about 5-7% of it.

    The bulk of the Navajo nation, an area the size of West Virginia, only had POTS to 40% of the homes.

  6. Re:Great for middle-class employed people. on Obama's Goal: 98% of US Covered By 4G · · Score: 1

    Rural America are generally middle to lower middle class and rural poor.

    Spending this money on wireless to what those on the coasts call "fly over country" is going to help alot more poor than it will middle class.

    Portland, Seattle, Boston, etc are already going to have this infrastructure or other high speed options, Nome, Eagle Butte and the Navaho nation not so much.

  7. Re:Not an YRO on Teacher Suspended Over Blog About Students · · Score: 2

    Naw, I think the badmouthing an employer is just fine, however teachers, doctors, nurses, lawyers and religious professionals have to live up to a higher standard professionally and never ever openly insult the people they support in a venue where it might get back to them.

    Saying to friends over a drink that Timmy is a felonious piece of crap and he deserves to be kicked out of school is one thing.
    Posting on live journal that Timmy is a felonious piece of crap and he deserves to be kicked out of school is quite another.

  8. Re:No sympathy on Teacher Suspended Over Blog About Students · · Score: 2

    Have fun in prison.

  9. Re:Or we can consider the flipside... on Teacher Suspended Over Blog About Students · · Score: 1

    Not in the suburbs in one of the best school districts in Pennsylvania.

    In the city or in a rural district theres a good chance of it, but not in a good suburban district.

    This teacher taught at one of the thirteen best schools in the state.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Bucks_School_District

  10. Inaccurate Headline on Leaked Cables Reveal US Thinks Saudi Oil Reserves May Be Overstated · · Score: 1

    The leaked cables are that someone from Saudi Aramco thinks the estimates are overstated by up to 40% and they told the US Embassy.

    It's in the damned summary of the story

    "Nevertheless, cables from 2007-09 reveal some U.S. diplomats were convinced by Sadad al-Husseini, a former executive at Saudi Aramco, who said crude reserves from Saudi Arabia were overstated by as much as 40 percent.

    "While al-Husseini fundamentally contradicts the Aramco company line, he is no doomsday theorist," the cables state."

  11. Re:Not an YRO on Teacher Suspended Over Blog About Students · · Score: 0

    She didn't bad mouth her place of business or her employer, she bad mouthed her students.

    Fire her ass.

  12. Re:Destruction of evidence on Insider-Trading Suspects Smash Hard Drive Evidence · · Score: 1

    I just break up old hard disks at desk during work hours.

    Then it's a job related activity and nothing nefarious about it.

    "Not hiding anything Special Agent, just mechanically destroying hard disks per our confidentiality protocols. These glass platters explode nicely when hit with a hammer."

  13. Re:Not a Jet Fighter on Robot Jet Fighter Takes First Flight · · Score: 1

    No problem.

    From my reading about the IDF AF between the Six Day and '73 war, I think they were supposed to get podded F-4Ds from the Johnson administration but when Nixon took office they were able to upgrade the order to F-4Es with internal M-61s.

    I wanna say they also ordered the SUU-16 and SUU-23 gun pods for strafing to strap onto F-4Es in place of the drop tank.

    The IDF AF did alot of airfield and road strafing missions in the War of Attrition and '73 war.

  14. We don't build the trains here on Obama Calling For $53B For High Speed Rail · · Score: 1

    A large chunk of cars Americans buy and drive are built here, either by American companies or by companies with factories in the United States employing American workers, and a lot of the other ones are made in Mexico and/or Canada out of parts sourced from the US, Mexico and Canada, it all helps keep the North American economy going. Even BMW, the Japanese makers, VW, the Koreans, Benz have factories here in North America now.

    Boeings are made in the US, most of the Airbus that fly for American flagged carriers at least use American made engines, regional jets, turboprops similarly are made in Canada out of a mix of US and Canadian parts.

    We don't however build high speed trains here, nor do we develop the technology, so a huge chunk of this $53 billion is going to go to fund foreign workers and foreign companies. That's not a good political move in this economy with a deficit this big and Republicans holding a house of Congress.

  15. Re:Free access for all... on Charity Raising Money To Buy Used Satellite · · Score: 1

    The might have been for the limited number of land lines and connections into the cellular networks and microwave networks.

    My understanding of the rapid and widespread deployment of cellular in the Third World is someone puts up a microwave relay or sat link in a city with connections to fiber and the rest of the world, while out in the countryside they put up a microwave or satellite link and then spread cellular antennas out as far as they can.

  16. Re:Space wars! on Charity Raising Money To Buy Used Satellite · · Score: 1

    The Chinese ICBM ASAT should be able to hit something up to 750-900 miles because thats the highest apogee for an ICBM you find references too.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGM-30_Minuteman

    The US Ground Based Interceptors don't have a demonstrated ASAT capability, but the kill vehicle from the shot in the Pacific was derived from the GBI kill vehicle and they have a max altitude of around 850-950 miles.

  17. Re:Space wars! on Charity Raising Money To Buy Used Satellite · · Score: 1

    Not satellites in geo synchronous orbits.

    The US and Chinese can reach up to about 300 miles.

  18. Re:Free access for all... on Charity Raising Money To Buy Used Satellite · · Score: 1

    And you missed the most important part.

    Low incidence of HIV/AIDS.

  19. Re:Free access for all... on Charity Raising Money To Buy Used Satellite · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Not in sub-Saharan Africa or even India.

    India has 33.77 million land lines wired, 670 million cellular phones.

    For sub-Saharan Africa, a place like Cameroon has 323,000 wired phones for a population of 19.3 million people.

  20. Re:I sure hope not on Is an Internet Kill Switch Feasible In the US? · · Score: 1

    And the Judicial branch acting as a check on the Executive and Legislative has been a great boon to the stability of the United States.

    A powerful Judiciary in the late Roman Republic (or a constitution that was written down), would have greatly helped with stability and the power struggles.

  21. Re:I sure hope not on Is an Internet Kill Switch Feasible In the US? · · Score: 1

    We let the old guard bureaucrats keep their jobs between administrations to keep the government from becoming totally inefficient and to keep the incoming administration from loading it up with cronies, like Grant did.

    While there should be more firing of incompetent bureaucrats, throwing out everyone and replacing them every 4 to 8 years would be too much of a pain in the ass. Half the term would be filled with interviews and background checks.

  22. Re:Inconceivable! on Is an Internet Kill Switch Feasible In the US? · · Score: 1

    Really? Where in the United States Constitution does it allow for sedition and revolt?

    The US Government passed it's first anti-sedition and anti-free speech laws in 1798 with the Alien and Sedition Acts, which wasn't reviewed or overturned by the Supreme Court.

    The United States government decided in 1861 that revolution against the government was illegal and the Supreme Court upheld that a state can't legally leave the Union.

  23. Re:I sure hope not on Is an Internet Kill Switch Feasible In the US? · · Score: 1

    RE the Roman Nobles and Caesar, reading Syme's the Roman Revolution really was eye opening in regards to the divisions in Roman society and the post Sulla Roman Governments and who was the "good" guy and the "bad" guy (Octavian).

    Someone with LBJ's megalomania or Nixon's diplomacy and scheming coupled with FDR or Clinton's everyman charisma would be very dangerous. Mix Clinton and Nixon in a lab and you'd create a monster.

  24. Re:I sure hope not on Is an Internet Kill Switch Feasible In the US? · · Score: 1

    Even if we had a three party system, it'd still be 30-30-30 with 10% swinging around deciding the election.

    Difference between the US system and a parliamentary system is - when we have a Republican Revolution, Democrats taking back Congress in '2006 or the rise of the Tea Party in 2010, it doesn't throw everything up into the air for three or four or six months. For example, does Belgium even have a government formed yet?

  25. Re:Inconceivable! on Is an Internet Kill Switch Feasible In the US? · · Score: 2

    The Supreme Court has ruled that freedom of speech does not apply to sedition or revolution against the United States or "Imminent lawless action".

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_v._United_States
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_v._Ohio