Yes but doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is insanity!

Oddly enough, most so-called "conservatives" today are actually ignorant jackasses from East Bumfuck or Hicksville.

There, fixed that for ya!

It really is too bad that real conservatives let them get away with calling themselves conservatives.

I agree completely with your belief that we should not be cutting back on space technology, and the reasons you give for that, however, how does a worldwide ban on weapons that interfere with military and commercial satellites. interfere with those goals in any way? It is in the first paragraph of the first article linked, but this is slashdot, I guess I expect too much sometimes.

What books are those? Besides, do you really think that our puny space weapons are going to be any deterrent at all for visitations by an alien race sufficiently advanced to overcome the technical hurdles involved in interstellar travel? For the love of FSM, the nearest star is 4.2 light years away from our sun, and to the best of my knowledge Proxima Centauri does not have any planets in orbit.

Fat Man

Weight 10,200 lbs (4,630 kg) Length 10.6 Feet (3.25m) Diameter 5 Feet (1.52m)

I'd like to see you put that "in the back of a van" and have the doors close and the van actually move.

Just drop some of that back bacon on Iranian nuclear facilities and they will be useless to them. Come on, chop chop, lets get it done.

And it is named so because of where it is located in DC. Which was known as Foggy Bottom before there was a Washington DC.

Somebody beat you to it. Betting on LHC Destroying the earth..

Finally, a possible solution to the selection problem I keep running into with my "kill all the stupid people" proposal.

So tell me, is this post for real, or am I just part of your hallucination?

You think Anonymous Cowards provide more signal? Or do you just not understand ratios?

I put a pie into low earth orbit on Christmas Eve. Unfortunately I miscalculated so the orbit was unstable and rapidly degraded. The pie didn't burn up on re-entry, though it did make a rather large mess on the kitchen floor.

Perhaps the McCain campaign simply declined to be interviewed for that story. I don't know, but perhaps it is easier to be favorable to someone who helps you out by agreeing to an interview.

Car talk started on WBUR in Boston, which is a great public radio station, one of the very few things I miss about living in the Boston area.

I run Vista at home for my internet/gaming rig, UAC turned off, Aero turned off, on state of the art as of a year ago hardware, and everything seems peachy. I still despise Vista though.

/rant ON
Why do I despise Vista? Sometimes I have to support other people(family, friends, the guy down the hall whose work I depend on that doesn't have so good a relationship with IT). Why in the name of all that is Holy does microsoft have to screw around with things that work, that people know? Tell me, can you find the Mail widget in control panel using a 64bit version of Vista? It isn't on the "Main" screen of Control Panel where it f*cking should be. No, there is a "32bit Control Panel Widgets" button, buried in among all the other buttons, and you have to go there to find "Mail", what the f*ck? Why do they hide that? "Mail" is one of the Control Panel widgets that SHOULD BE ON THE MAIN PAGE!!111!!!!111!!! The first time I had to use it on 64 bit VISTA I looked like a complete idiot because I didn't anticipate that "Mail" shouldn't be on the main Control Panel page. Now I'm just pissed that I have to use an extra click to find it.

Why the F*CK did they do this crap, it is just like Office 2007, changing things that work for no F*CKING REASON. That is just one example of things being moved for no reason. I could go on, but I have already wasted enough of my time.
/rant OFF