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  1. Re:Mission Accomplished? on Panetta Says Defeat of Al Qaeda 'Within Reach' · · Score: 1

    Al-Qaeda and the Taliban that hosted them fled Afghanistan years ago. Now any disgruntled Afghan who is sick of foreign invaders is labeled a Taliban. We have NOT been bombing the current training camps of the real al-Qaeda, those are not located in Afghanistan. We've been bombing and killing other kinds of people, called citizens. Instead of pursuing those who attacked us, we've largely just been lining pockets of the military-industrial complex and making sound bites for our politicians and political coin to take away our rights, all the while spawning more enemies, it's "The Waaaaaah on Terrrah". What we have is not a strategy or noble purpose, but a religion of mass murder and mayhem for power and profit. Using your logic, who would we have been assassinating in the last decade? we only found bin Laden this year, comfy in his millionaire mansion, NOT in any country we're at war. But I guess you think as long as we''re stacking up corpses of brown muslims like corkwood, guilty or not, we're doing good?

  2. Re:buh-bye! on Ask Slashdot: Living Without Internet At-Home Access? · · Score: 1

    are you kidding me, I travel and the third world has more bandwidth and better mobile gear than these United States.

  3. Re:Wrong Place? on Ask Slashdot: Living Without Internet At-Home Access? · · Score: 1

    before the internet we went bowling and to sunday school picnics. It sucked.

  4. Re:The message is clear on Millions of Jellyfish Invade Nuclear Reactors · · Score: 1

    There is no such message, and anthromorphizing a dead rock in space with a molten center, or the biosphere, is just a psychosis.

    The spent fuel isn't garbage, it's a gold mine of energy that we can use later to get seven times more power than we have thus far extracted, leaving behind isotopes that will decay on a short scale.

    If we stopped power generation as you suggest, human life span would drop to half or more its current value. Overall the industrial age has blessed us with more life, health and happiness. But if you want to rip off your clothes and go foraging in a forest or field for the remainder of your (35 - x) years, x being your age, be my guest. Of course, if you're over 35, thanks to modern technology, I expect you to play fair and kill yourself immediately.

  5. Re:You Are Machining Fiberglass - yes you are nuts on Ask Slashdot: How To Safely Saw Up Motherboards? · · Score: 1

    Being not young, I looked at the changes in consideration of fiberglass dust over time, the IARC said it was carcinogen in 1970s but softened to supected carginogen in 1980s and 1990s. Still, the MSDS sheets for fiberglass products have words such as . "Carcinogenic status: IARC and NTP consider fiberglass to be an animal carcinogen, but do not classify it as a human carcinogen." Hmmm, we need more human volunteers to make a definitive statement, eh? It is known that chronic stressing (including damaging) of tissues can be carcinogenic, I wouldn't take the risk myself and always use respirator for grinding anything rock-like or mineral-like.

  6. Re:that is illegal on PayPal Predicts the End of the Wallet By 2015 · · Score: 1

    Most money in the world is electronic, your "legal tender" is but one form of money and a small percent of it at that.

  7. Re:Cashless will never happen on PayPal Predicts the End of the Wallet By 2015 · · Score: 1

    The untraceable electronic economy already exists. But there is always the next level above that, the biggest organized crime cartel with the lawmakers and judges in their pockets is the banking cartel, heinously evil in their actions but traceable and by definition legal.

  8. Re:Proper tool on Ask Slashdot: How To Safely Saw Up Motherboards? · · Score: 1

    nope, will still make dangerous tiny shards hazardous to eyes, respiratory tract, skin.

  9. You Are Machining Fiberglass - yes you are nuts on Ask Slashdot: How To Safely Saw Up Motherboards? · · Score: 3, Informative

    You are using neither the proper tools nor proper containment nor proper suit nor respirator for machining fiberglass. It is dangerous, it can damage your lungs, eyes and other parts of your body, it can give you cancer.

  10. Re:Like every other government "shutdown" on Online Social Security Statement In Limbo · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The federal government doesn't collect my trash. How about shutting down "background services" like wars and warmongering and world policing, or lining defense contractors pockets?

  11. Sigh Yourself, it can collapse on Online Social Security Statement In Limbo · · Score: 2

    if the social security system either starts paying out an amount insufficient for purchase of anything useful, or starts paying out the equivalent of hyperinflated Zimbabwe notes, unsuitable and insufficient for purchase of anything, it can be accurately said to have collapsed. You also assume unemployment can not rise so high that government revenue is essentially zero for any practical purpose. We, the USA, are headed to both those problems on an ever accelerating train.

  12. Re:Dire Omen? on Online Social Security Statement In Limbo · · Score: 2

    At one time, the trust fund *did* have money in it (yes, the electronic information that we call money), but was looted and replaced with securities, which are NOT money. There is a huge dangerous difference.

  13. Re:bigger *hint* on Snow Falls On the Most Arid Desert On Earth · · Score: 1

    hominids have been around for 7 million years, the average global temperature has been much higher than now even as recent as 100,000 years ago. also, the primates seem to like the hot zones, hotter than global average

  14. Re:*Hint* on Snow Falls On the Most Arid Desert On Earth · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    but they still looked silly, so now they have to change the theory too. "We'd be getting warming, but we're not because of the chinese sulfur. Nevermind we already had sulfur in our models you paid us billions of dollars and euros to make, to prop up the trillions of dollars/euros cap and trade profit markets, the only thing that's changed is we're getting the warming you can't see because of the cooling our models had formerly said was insignificant but now is significant." Please pay us to make more models to justify more policies.

  15. bigger *hint* on Snow Falls On the Most Arid Desert On Earth · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It has snowed there before, and with even more inches. But the climate alarmists like to take advantage of people's limited memory and lack of knowledge of history.

    the climate has been changing since the earth had an atmosphere. It has been hotter and colder and wetter and drier.

  16. Re:About time on Thunderbird Unseats Evolution In Ubuntu 11.10 · · Score: 1

    with LXDE I also hit the issues of partial redraw/refresh of desktop at times, and sometimes the panel runs CPU to 100% and it sticks there.....these things will get fixed (if they haven't been already), and I will be keeping my eye on LXDE from now on

  17. Re:I gave up on email on 7 Days In Email Hell · · Score: 1

    three of your friends died, and another two committed suicide after posting their contemplation of it on facebook and twitter for two months. The families are saddened and offended you didn't show for the funerals

  18. Re:If this was an email... on 7 Days In Email Hell · · Score: 1

    no, you replied to it. The Nigerians have you now.

  19. Re:About time on Thunderbird Unseats Evolution In Ubuntu 11.10 · · Score: 1

    I bought I second hard disk just so I can prepare my exodus from Ubuntu (vmware workstation isn't suitable, need to work with the native devices). I switched over to Xubuntu for now, but am configuring the Debian XFCE from the XFCE/LXDE disk in my spare time. More loose ends to deal with than Ubuntu, such as usb device plugging permissions and 32 bit libraries needed for some things to work on amd64. But thus far forums have all the solutions. Don't bother with the LXDE, that's like a beta that still needs more work especially in the system management / config tools.

  20. Re:RIAA to sue scientists for copyright infringeme on Scientists Play World's Oldest Commercial Recording · · Score: 1

    Sony encourages its customers to only use wax phonograph cylinders employing their Extended Copy Protection System technology.

    Bruce Perens commented on this development, "this is a rootkit!!, my American Graphophone(tm) was totally pw3n3d!!"

  21. Re:Why not this too? on DOT Exempts Maker of 'Flying Car' From Road Vehicle Safety Rules · · Score: 1

    The "little" reactors the U.S. played with for its atomic bomber aircraft program come to mind, 8 ton molten fluoride salt reactors with 11 tons (and that probably wasn't enough by today's standards, the ideal crew would be past normal child-fathering age, hah!) of shielding that could fit in B-36. Might shoehorn a version of that with steam and generator system into a largish back yard, but your neighbors would sue you for rad exposure and win.

  22. Re:Why not this too? on DOT Exempts Maker of 'Flying Car' From Road Vehicle Safety Rules · · Score: 1

    I could show you a picture of a roughly nine-foot oblate spherical reactor that fits nicely under the stands at a racket court. That would fit in most back yards.

  23. Re:How long on Nanomagnets Could Replace Transistors in Microprocessors · · Score: 1

    eh?, IBM is of course doing massive amounts of research on lower power computation devices, one of the global leaders in the field

  24. Re:uhm.. on Nanomagnets Could Replace Transistors in Microprocessors · · Score: 1

    heat it above its curie temperature

  25. bullshit, well known on Nanomagnets Could Replace Transistors in Microprocessors · · Score: 1

    they work by the exchange of photons created and absorbed by accelerating charges.