If someone lit your face on fire, don't worry. The damage and pain you feel is are well-understood physiological and neurological phenomena. People experience pain like this all the time, so your pain isn't all that special and you should really just buck the fuck up.

So Sexual abuse isn't actual abuse? Boy, better tell all those rape victims out there that they weren't assaulted.

From what we know, an ended life experiences no suffering past death. Child abuse potentially robs young people of mental well-being from the psychological trauma for the rest of their lives. You may consider continued existence to be above all else...but what of living the rest of your life condemned to post-traumatic misery? The numerous victims of such abuse that have committed suicide would - if they still walked this Earth - beg to differ.

Netcraft has to confirm it, though.

Caching and tracking aren't mutually exclusive. If anything, better caching will reduce Google's server/bandwidth load. Which, incidentally, frees up more resources to do important stuff like tracking you.

We free the not-stupid ones. Makes our job way easier.

Even if most condiment manufacturers find it more cost-effective to skip on the coating (for whatever reason), there are bound to be at least a few that use it to set themselves apart as a superior product.

I think you're both arguing different things.

Science lies in the realm of that which we can observe and measure. The things that are by definition unobservable and thus unprovable must be articles of faith; even if argued logically they must require an irrational link somewhere. As a man of science and faith, I find it a tragic mistake to conflate the two.

I can neither confirm nor deny that Justin Bieber was only in prototype form during the 2007 surge, and its use was a grey area in terms of the Geneva Conventions.

I did a AMA on Reddit about this last year.

It most certainly did, though I was just a guy on the ground. Bucca was a "temporary" solution that became too permanent for its own good - it was oringinally a UK POW camp set up for the invasion that was slated to be closed until the Abu Ghraib fiasco. For most of these facilities, the prisoners weren't legally prisoners but detainees that were being held until they could be sent to the Iraqi civilian courts for trial or simply released based on intelligence. By '07 most detainees' families were actually receiving stipends from the US government for lost income. A shitty situation to be in, nonetheless.

Most of the "bum city" pictures you see were from when the camp was re-opened around '05. By the time I arrived in '07 there were permanent structures in my compound - big caravans (sheds) with industrial-sized air conditioning. During Ramadan a few of our detainees were upset that we moved known insurgents to another compound...so they burned down their caravans (rubber bullets, tear gas and LRAD definitely did not stop them from pulling that off). They loved doing this when we would re-build the caravans after a big riot...but that time around, we decided that maybe they wanted tents after all.

Most of those "army types" you see smacking down protesters are paramilitary police - armed to the teeth, more trigger happy and less disciplined than actual fighting forces.

Bread and circuses.

The LRAD is hardly experimental, and I'd rather listen to it up-close-and-personal again than get pepper sprayed again. If the law enforcement types over there have any sense they won't subject peaceful protesters to this (knowing most cops, they probably will). Of course, if I were a protester I'd have a camera (or CCTV, it is London after all) on hand and be ready to capitalize on any perceived police brutality to further my cause.

It was at Camp Bucca, where the vast majority of the compounds were open-air and larger than a football field. The LRAD's effective footprint was only a small part of an entire compound, and I do believe a hundred rioting detainees qualifies as a crowd-sized target.

Depending on the hearing protection used the LRAD would have to be much closer to really have any disorienting effect. What it will probably do is cause all those without earplugs to scatter away from those that do, if directed at a spot in a crowd like that.