Torture only works for confessions of things you already knew for sure.

I think part of the problem is that there is still a section of American society today who "already know for sure" that all Muslims are terrorists. And around 2002 / 2003 there were many, many more who thought this way.

By blaming the CIA, Rumsfield et al wash their hands of the situation, and the individuals responsible within the CIA will never be identified and held responsible due to the barrier of secrecy under the guise of national security that the CIA operates under. There will be no arrests, this is just part of the operation to make sure of that.

You are being selective about what you interpret literally, and what you interpret as something that encompasses other things that are perhaps similar to what is literally written, but not literally the same. In the case of the goat, you are prepared to go to the extent of saying that it only covers juvenile goats, only if the method of cooking is boiling, and only the milk of the goat's own mother, while others interpret that verse as meaning any animal being combined in cooking with any milk product. On the other hand, in the case of man lying with man like he lies with a woman, you interpret that as banning homosexual marriage. Even if you accept that "lying" in this context is a euphemism for sex, and not for being untruthful, it is clearly impossible when a man lacks a vagina, for another man to "lie with him as he would a woman". And what of homosexual couples who don't engage in anal sex, does the Bible literally declare them as sinners?

As does Apache Bloodhound. Why do we need so many open source projects for managing open source projects?

USGS is involved in all major earthquake measurement - the waves travel around the world in an earthquake of this size, and often the precise magnitude is more accurately determined at a distance.

Initial reports of earthquakes always have differing magnitudes, based on different data sources. It is only a couple of days later when all the data is analysed together that a consistent magnitude is agreed on.

If only you could be so literal when interpreting "a man should not lie with another man as he lies with a woman".

1) The purposes of marriage and acceptance of that was for Progeny.

Where is the campaign for annulling the marriages of couples who have not procreated within a reasonable time of marriage? I don't see one. No, clearly this is not the purpose of marriage.

2) Benefits that were granted by government was to allow for Families to have societal support for raising children and wealth (asset) transfers to the children.

Some benefits target children in families. But other benefits are available also to childless couples. And you admit in your parenthesised asides that it is possible for gay couples to adopt, have surrogate or artificially inseminated children, or make arrangements for sexual relations for the sole purpose of procreation outside of the marriage, yet you want to deny such children these benefits?

The Bible says that homosexuality is a sin... period...

So is eating a cheeseburger. [Exodus 23.19]

Seems to me, OKCupid trying to boycott a perfectly good company and product over a single person's political views, is grounds for boycotting OKCupid.

I'm not sure me boycotting OKCupid is going to make much difference vs. me not having even heard of it had they not pulled this publicity stunt.

They wouldn't happen to host their servers on BurstNET would they? Apparently they are in some sort of dispute with their landlord and suddenly decided to ship a datacenter full of racked servers from Pennsylvania to North Carolina over the last week, with the corresponding problems that comes from a poorly planned rushed move.

Do you avoid iPhones and iPads because they don't use Intel microprocessors?

Personally I avoid them because they don't use TI microprocessors, since TI was two months earlier than Intel in developing a microprocessor, and theirs was a true single chip microprocessor, while Intel's was only part of a bigger solution. There's also the microcontroller/DSP combo that went into the F14 Tomcat two years earlier, but was classified until 1997, and unknown to both Intel and TI, and then the Gilbert Hyatt invention, which despite having its patent overturned by Intel's pack of lawyers undoubtably pre-dated Intel's invention even if he failed to commercialize the design.

All this really shows is that once technology is ready for an invention, multiple people will naturally come up with the idea around the same time, so the whole concept of patents could do with a rethink to allow for this parallel discovery while at the same time protecting against blatent copying.

The fact that Japan has always claimed to work within the rules of the IWC shows that they do give a shit about the ruling on some level. If they wanted to continue blatantly commercially whaling without even the slightest pretence of giving a damn, they could have joined Norway and Iceland in giving the finger to the IWC long ago.

It also depends on the timing of the redesign. Did they redesign the part before his daughter was killed and fail to issue a recall notice, or was it done as a result of investigation into her accident?

1) We don't know what actually happened between Costco and the testing facilities and suppliers. Even though samples were tested, there could be a concern that there were problems in the food that was not tested. Costco has not handled the public relations about this incident in a sensible manner: Costco officials did not return telephone calls seeking comment.

In true Slashdot spirit, I've only read the summary, but even that was enough to tell me that Costco is doing the right thing here.

The product was tested extensively and determined to be safe. Costco initially agreed to allowing the peanut butter to be sold, but rejected it as 'not merchantable' because of leaking peanut oil.

The jars are not sealed. They might test OK now, but by the time the food banks get through the stock, who knows what organisms have made the jar their home.