GWB needed more troops than were available through any other acceptable means in order to keep his wars going, and he certainly wasn't about to admit defeat. Getting rid of DADT was inevitable. This was the least unpalatable option for those who wanted the war machine to keep going but couldn't be bothered with facing the actual costs of two unwinnable land wars.

If you stuck to what I actually say, instead of inserting what you want to hear me say, you might approach having an argument.

Now you're sounding like me. I stated before that GWB would have eventually signed off on the abolition of DADT in the military. After all, his empire building was quickly depleting the straight segment of our volunteer forces and draft would have been a no-go even if it was economically segmented more than the last one.

I can tell you that in my field, Chinese is used at least 4x more often than Spanish. Next after Chinese (which is after English) would be Russian, followed likely by German. Whether Spanish is spoken in my field as much as Arabic is debatable.

In other words, the value of a language comes down to who you want to use it to communicate with.

Links that speak: The global language network and its association with global fame. And it's not even paywalled, you can download it from anywhere. You're welcome.

The kinds of MTBF I've been seeing with Seagate lately have caused me to select any drive other than theirs for any data storage needs.

I could never stand the interface of the original iPod. Apparently though, I was the only person ever to live who did not like that silly interface (or so I have been told many many times). While touchscreens aren't really much of an improvement in phones, IMHO, they made a huge improvement for music players.

Nobody but nobody can snatch failure from the jaws of victory like they can. They won the election in 2000 yet rolled over and played dead and gave the white house up to the village idiot instead. They won the election in 2004 but didn't care enough to actually see it through so they left the same idiot in for another 4 years of destruction. Considering the overwhelming apathy that would go with a nomination of Hillary Clinton I wouldn't see them fight hard to ensure her placement.

I doubt you could possibly be more blatant in demonstrating how your love for your party trumps all concern you have for everything that used to make our country great.

Tell me, would you tolerate any of these from Joe Biden?

• Threatening to usurp power that was never assigned to the VP to break a supreme court tie?
• Holding secret meetings with industry leaders to use to dictate legislation?
• Telling someone on the senate floor "go fuck yourself"?

And that is hardly even scratching the surface of how Cheney was blatantly using the constitution as toilet paper and showing pride of doing it. I wouldn't tolerate it from Biden, nor would you. However when it comes to a republican you celebrate it while I continue to condemn it.

Here I always thought of him as the antithesis of YOLO. He's had around 5 heart attacks (that he'll admit to) and several surgeries. I just hope that nobody in my family is his same blood type or we might be called upon to be the source of his next donor heart (and hence have to promptly leave the country forever). Really, he should have died some time ago but with the medical staff that he keeps around he is more indestructible than Keith Richards.

The real irony though is that the same publicly funded research that he has tried to destroy funding for is what keeps him alive.

Indeed his name is spelled D-I-C-K though some will say the correct pronunciation is D-A-R-T-H.

I learned the hard way that both 14.04 and 14.10 brought in a couple of really awful wifi drivers. Cards that work beautifully (both intel and non-intel wifi chips [including some realtek chips amongst others]) in 13.10 and earlier are sporadic at best in the driver firmwares that ship by default in these releases.

The rest of the stuff that people bitch about so incessantly in newer versions of ubuntu are just pissing matches by comparison.

... is that all of this, going back to 9/11, then back to the bombing of the USS Cole, then back to Oklahoma City, then back to Vietnam, then back to WWII, and WWI before that, back to the war of 1812 and before that even, is Obama's fault. He should have prevented all of this.

There are several traditional universities that are offering evening and/or online MBAs. If you want to stay on the management side of IT this might be a more useful track than a certification.