Yes, fabulous sites that are both older and larger. The only thing special about Stonehenge is the horizontal stones.

How many of them allowed an armed populace?

Yeah, they were only 5 years behind the curve too.

Basel Action Network

It's unfortunate that the developed world has put pure profit over ethics in disposal of their waste, but keep in mind that in most cases Africa and China are not simply the cheapest place, they are actually paying to have this waste dumped on their shores. China in particular has laws in place to stop the practice that they chose not to enforce because the value of the commodities is great and the cost of labor and health concerns is absolutely nothing.

I work for a more reputable recycler. Almost nothing leaves the country and those things that do are going to reputable vendors. Frankly it is more expensive to do it that way, but some people actually are interested in doing the right thing and thankfully there's a market for it.

Apples to Apples, cynic.

Why can't people ever be happy when enterprising amateurs do something cool?

Thanks for the -1 Overrated on an un-moderated comment by the way.

I never liked this one, the argument that any tax that isn't progressive is inherently regressive. Rich people also get a relatively free ride on property taxes (or rent) if they chose to live in the similarly size homes of the less wealthy, they get a relatively free ride on luxury taxes if they live a modest lifestyle and a free ride on estate taxes if they spent their lives living paycheck to paycheck like plenty of people do. Why focus on sales taxes, why not start with the price of normal consumer good in general which seem heavily skewed in favor of people with more money.

For all I know it's more his argument than yours, but even for someone who would be lucky to be considered middle class I think it's unfair to complain about a flat tax on consumer goods that contains a multitude of exceptions for more essential items.

Why not Buying a $1337 PC or Buying a PC?

My largest complaint is still that building a PC from commodity hardware and putting Linux on it isn't really newsworthy.

Yes, and $200 is completely arbitrary, as is require it to be a dual core, a choice that was never explained or justified for their system.

If they're going to compare it to a $300 system they should at least be fair to it. And better yet people shouldn't make a big deal about it every time someone combines readily available commodity hardware in completely un-new and unexciting ways.

Did anyone else notice that they forgot to mention in their final summary the possibility of buying the pre-fab eMachine for $100 more then installing Ubuntu on it and having a system with:

Much better performance
Much smaller form factor
Wireless keyboard and mouse
1 year warranty
I also don't like the "higher transfer speed" was attributed to Ubuntu not to the eMachine running a 5400 drive vs. a 7200, or the face that building your own cheap computer and putting Linux on it is even news to begin with.

In English it is pronounced like adobe and the spellings (both being accepted) reflect that. You can call it "wrong" but that's fairly ignorant of the natural fate of many words that cross into other languages.

List of things people regularly make jokes about that are similar if not worse:

Hitler/Holocaust
Stalin/Purges
Cancer/AIDS
Prison Rape/Violence
Drug Addiction/Violence

No offense, but people are offended by a lot of things.

You sir, have replied to the wrong post.

I think the ratio of headshots is better explained by the fact that he was executing them at close range, which has little to do with Counterstrike.

http://www.thelocal.de/national/20100506-27017.html

I guess "recent" is a loose term, but it did happen. He may be confusing it with an axe/molotov cocktail attack in march.

http://www.thelocal.de/national/20090917-21985.html

What's more plausible, that an Iranian engineer went on a pilgrimage and was kidnapped, broke free and returned to Iran; or that he defected for $5 Million but but decided to return to his family and made up a politically acceptable cover story, given:

- "Extraordinary Rendition" victims who were released never found themselves in the U.S.
- the U.S. has shown itself fully willing to imprison people reliable without charge or trial
- the U.S. has shown itself willing to pay quite well for defectors in the past

If he were kidnapped he'd be rotting in Kyrgyzstan where laws on torture don't apply, not walking casually into a New York Embassy.