Laughed out loud at that. Thanks.

Agreed it's easier to fly at night, but landings without some kind of aid (VASI / PAPI) can be a real pain in the ass if you're out of practice. Without the aids, unless you do it all the time, setting up a flare over a dark patch of concrete and waiting to be surprised when the wheels touch is not a comfortable feeling.

I do. This situation was predicted when Dice took over- More mindless, controversial articles and postvertisements = more clicks = more $$.

Which causes me to wonder why it's on the front page of Slashdot.

It might not be long before we see a front-page post discussing the wonders of Oxy-Clean.

Because it's "News for Nerds", they'll include a blurb in the article where the ghost of Billy Mays discusses Oxy-Clean's molecular structure with Bigfoot.

Bennett sounds like he has the luxury of time in a quiet, relatively stress-free environment to calculate hazard ratios and probabilities, unlike most people thrown with little warning into a possibly contentious interrogation.

To be honest, he comes off sounding like a hair-splitting idealist.

As unlikely as it might be, If I ever find myself having to deal with US authorities in a situation involving a criminal case, I think that I'll follow Professor Duane's advice.

By the way, who is this guy that gets to editorialize on Slashdot? Are the Dice suits trying to liven things up?

...and I'm starting a porcine flight training program, which is sure to be a huge success.

Isn't that why they're trying to control it with crap like this?

Ding Ding Ding! We have a winner! One term: "Sociopath", and one phrase: "Emotionally ill" are all that anyone needs to describe this guy.

Move along, citizens, nothing more to see here....

A "good person" according to whom? That definition might change depending upon who is calling the shots.

The same, old, trolling bullshit that gets repeated endlessly by idiots that know that they're idiots, so they post as ACs.

It's a stupid comment posted by an idiot, but what you advocate, simply because the AC's statement offended you, is much, much worse.

If you don't like it, browse comments at > +2, leave here and go to a forum that censors, or better yet, put on your big boy/girl pants and ignore it instead of trying to control everyone else's experience on /. just because you are offended.

Honestly, what does it matter what you're charged with if the US government can hold you indefinitely in a concrete box for any reason (or no reason at all)?

In my opinion, it's little more than theater. Turn the map around for a second and look at it from the NSA's side. They have shown absolutely no hesitation to do whatever it takes to access literally everything, and from what I've read, they (or the FBI, or whoever it is that handles their direct interaction with civilians) can be damned intimidating. Do you honestly think that they would allow themselves to be cut out of a datastream as valuable as Google's? If I was them, -I- sure as hell wouldn't. It's not unreasonable to assume that they'll just go deeper and quieter, while Google tells us to pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

Tell me about it- the public elementary school we attended was below average and needed all kinds of help. So happened that during about a 3-year window a group of -very- active parents were at the school at the same time. We managed to fund after-school activities, playground equipment, and after reaching out to some donors, we actually accumulated enough money to build on an extension to the library- no capital costs at all to the district.

We spoke to officials all through the district before we started beating the bushes for money; each and every one thought it was a great idea. We also asked the donors to talk to high-level contacts in the district to be sure- No problem. We took almost two years to raise the money, but as we were starting to engage the architects to draw plans that the district could approve, we were told to stand down, because it wouldn't be fair to the other elementary schools in the district that didn't have nice libraries. When we went back and spoke to the officials that previously had said it was a good idea, the responses were along the lines of "we didn't think you'd actually do it".

Understand what you're saying, but I actually don't live in too bad of a neighborhood; it's not wealthy, just average / quiet. We're in sort of a corner of the area that's zoned to this school. Bought the house before my son was born, and at the time, the other areas in the zone that feed the school wouldn't be called nice, but they weren't bad, either. Several factors were evaluated that made it worth it to fork over tuition for private school rather than move.

Imagine my concern.