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  1. Re:Will be really surprised if they storm the plac on UK Authorities Threaten To Storm Ecuadorian Embassy To Arrest Julian Assange · · Score: 2

    And yet, they happily allow Russian assassins and Libyan terrorists to leave??????

  2. Re:He REALLY pissed off governments.... on UK Authorities Threaten To Storm Ecuadorian Embassy To Arrest Julian Assange · · Score: 3, Interesting
    And this is why VP Joey bin Biden of the USA claims Julian Assange is an international terrorist, while also proclaiming that Egypt's Mubarak wasn't a dictator.

    Just a heartbeat from the presidency, huh??

    Now, if Julian Assange is an international terrorist, what does that make the bloodiest of Americans, John Negroponte of Yale's Jackson Institute?

    http://www.redrat.net/BUSH_WAR/negroponte2.htm
    http://warcriminalswatch.org/index.php/the-culpable/36-the-culprits/78-john-negroponte
    http://www.ww4report.com/negropontedeathsquad
    http://www.apfn.org/apfn/negroponte.htm

  3. Re:9/11 truthers and moon landing deniers on Ask Slashdot: Most Underappreciated Sci-Fi Writer? · · Score: 1
    But take a look at their first-class proof and evidence ....

    http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/5/7/7/138577.jpg?v=1

  4. Re:Andre Norton on Ask Slashdot: Most Underappreciated Sci-Fi Writer? · · Score: 1

    Hey there! Didn't they do a great series based upon her Beast Master --- some years back in America? Awesome stuff, that -- with great actresses I seem to recall....

  5. Re:Harlan Ellison -- maximus! on Ask Slashdot: Most Underappreciated Sci-Fi Writer? · · Score: 1

    LOL --- good one, as he is one of the most complaining creative genius mofos out there --- Demon With a Glass Hand (one of the earliest Outer Limits shows starring Robert Culp and some really great actress whose name I always forget) truly ruined SF for me for many, many years --- once you've seen such an awesomely futuristic sf classic, way back when, nothing came forward for many years even remotely comparable.!

  6. Re:Fritz Lieber on Ask Slashdot: Most Underappreciated Sci-Fi Writer? · · Score: 1

    Just ancient, I'm afraid --- not too many have read his classic short story, the conpiracy stories of conspiracy stories. Plus, there was that entire "swords and sorcery" genre he helped to promulgate, but the greatest Tarzan book ever written, was Fritz's rewrite of Tarzan and the Valley of Gold (made into a horrid movie -- skip the movie at all costs -- but the book was golden).

  7. Red his DRAKON on Ask Slashdot: Most Underappreciated Sci-Fi Writer? · · Score: 1

    ... a massive must-read, Drakon --- first-rate sf entertainment!

  8. Brin loves that Cheney-Bush 9/11 conspiracy theory on Ask Slashdot: Most Underappreciated Sci-Fi Writer? · · Score: 0

    .... which pretty much sums up the level of advanced physics education in the USA!

  9. Re:Neil Stephenson on Ask Slashdot: Most Underappreciated Sci-Fi Writer? · · Score: 0

    Stephenson sucks, puhlease, with all the stupendous sf out there, must we mention the submediocrities?

  10. Re:Margaret Atwood on Ask Slashdot: Most Underappreciated Sci-Fi Writer? · · Score: 1

    The great book of hers, turned into a film with the late outstanding acress, Natasha Richardson, was awesome! Looks like a sure future for Amerika, also!

  11. Re:Roger Zelazny on Ask Slashdot: Most Underappreciated Sci-Fi Writer? · · Score: 1

    Damnation Alley, Doorways in the Sand, and the great short, A Rose For Ecclesiastes --- Zelazny rocked --- great creativity, and martial arts and magic.

  12. Re:Joanna Russ on Ask Slashdot: Most Underappreciated Sci-Fi Writer? · · Score: 1

    Prof. Russ wrote great stuff, but just not that much of it. Unfortunately, she is no longer with us so those great short stories she wrote don't get republished enough.

  13. Re:Poul Anderson on Ask Slashdot: Most Underappreciated Sci-Fi Writer? · · Score: 1

    Anderson's stuff was really creative, but too often, during his later years, his neocon tendencies thwarted really good creativity. The short stories I found really awesome were the ones covering super-intelligent races, the one eugenics project, taking the genetic intellectual cream and seeding an uninhabited planet with it, and the other one where explorers found a naturally gifted semi-paleolithic society.

  14. Brunner's great, and the two recent champs on Ask Slashdot: Most Underappreciated Sci-Fi Writer? · · Score: 1
    Jaysus, did Brunner ever call it right with some of his books,

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

    Truly, though, the greatest two works in the last several decades are Iain Banks' classic work of incredibly elegant future fiction, Player of Games (although all of Banks' stuff is ultra-superior, although a bit dark for recreational reading at times), and Stirling's Drakon, a classic sf action/super-tech opera par excellence!

    True hacker fiction today is written by Daniel Suarez, with Brian Falkner's Brain Jack, although ostensibly in the "young adult" cateogory, is highly recommended. (Special Flesh by Michael Olson reads like a book, written by investment bankers, for investment bankers --- a resounding thumbs down on that pseudo-hacker book)

  15. Re:Covering up for a crony? on Air Force Claims To Have Solved Fatal F-22 Oxygen Riddle · · Score: 1

    Thank you. One is reminded that it was Eisenhower (who whined about that there "military-industrial-complex" wussing out and removing the "congressional" part from the phrase) who was responsible for multiple appointments of Nelson Rockefeller to his administration --- the very same Rockefeller who made radical changes to various governmental organizations and institutions, e.g., Ex-Im Bank (altering its ruling 4-person management to only one person), making it easier to compromise them in the interests of the multinationals. And how many democratically elected governments were overthrown during Einsenhower's administration (believe it was at least 3 to 4, with much aid and munitions help from the US gov't).

  16. Re:Predicting violence is easy. on Mathematician Predicts Wave of Violence In 2020 · · Score: 1

    We predict that the United States of America will become balkanized beginning around 2017, rendering his prediction null and void. This will be aggravated by those economically crippling interest rate swaps/derivatives perpetrated on cities and munipalities by the bankster class.

  17. Re:completely idiotic on Mathematician Predicts Wave of Violence In 2020 · · Score: 1

    Yup, probably 'cause his degrees are in bioscience, not math. . .

  18. Hmmmm.... on Mathematician Predicts Wave of Violence In 2020 · · Score: 1
    Interesting background which Turchin has: Turchin was born in Obninsk, Russia, in 1957 and in 1963 moved to Moscow. In 1975 he entered the Faculty of Biology of the Moscow State University and studied there until 1977, when his father, the Soviet dissident Valentin Turchin, was exiled from the USSR. He got his B.A. in biology from the New York University (cum laude) in 1980 and Ph.D. in zoology in 1985 from Duke University.

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

  19. I get it . . . on Mathematician Predicts Wave of Violence In 2020 · · Score: 0
    . . . so it's been peaceful up until now????? (What a complete douchetard!)

    That reminds me of all those moronic polls falsely claiming crime is dropping --- as long as they refuse to prosecute the millions upon millions of crimes perpetrated by the banksters, of course the dramatically rising criminal rate will appear to be falling. . .

  20. I remember that woman, formerly with World Bank . on The $1 Trillion Cybercrime Myth · · Score: 1

    . . .a UK citizen, last I heard she was with the state gov't of Colorado, who pulled a hundreds of billions of dollars figure out of her butt while she was at some talk in Saudi Arabia --- pure BS as she was and probably still isn't -- at her age -- any type of computer science industry expert, etc. Frequently repeated, with no validation nor verification whatsoever --- typical of the Amerikan non-media.

  21. Hell, yeah . . . on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Professional Geek Dress Code? · · Score: 1
  22. Hell, yeah . . . . on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Professional Geek Dress Code? · · Score: 1
  23. Twitter? For Mitt the Twitt??? on Mitt Romney To Announce VP Decision Via Smartphone App · · Score: 1

    There is nothing partisan going on --- Wall Street has presented the binary-brained Ameritards with one of their two choices --- since the only democratic candidate running for the presidency is Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party, I'll be voting democratic, of course!

  24. Well, duh...... on Mitt Romney To Announce VP Decision Via Smartphone App · · Score: 1

    ....after all, it's a halfwit simpleton like Romney, using the smartphone, and we all know which of the two is the more intelligent (hint: smartphone).

  25. Have a need to track them down on Managing Human Workers With an Algorithm · · Score: 1

    by any chance do you also have the names and addresses of those founders from Berkeley?