The US began arming Syrian rebels with small arms and other supplies almost a year ago.

Back then your MSM still had you cheering for the "Arab Spring" and Assad was the bad guy. Remember that? The narrative then was the noble and oppressed peoples of the Middle East rising up to topple puppet dictators and NPR et. al. were thrilled. So we gave these noble fighters weapons.

Yay!

Predictably, however, the Islamists started filling trenches with the bodies of infidels. The "Arab Spring" meme had to be quietly abandoned and now you're taught to fear the terrors of ISIS.

ISIS, IS, or whatever, are the exact same violent atavists we were arming twelve months ago; they move freely across the Iraq – Syria border, pursuing their Caliphate using both weapons we've supplied directly to them and weapons they've managed to capture.

It's also going pear shaped in Libya, the place we "liberated" from the Qaddafi regime with airstrikes. Soon those Islamists will start filling trenches with infidels and photos of Hillary posing with them will vanish when we start dropping bombs.

Watch for it.

Many of us understood all of this back when the "Arab Spring" started. The elites took a little longer to figure it out.

These are cultures that can not govern themselves peacefully. They indulge Islamic extremism and they're not slaughtering infidels only when a dictatorial strongman wields enough power to keep the imams and muftis under control.

The rulers that prevailed during the Cold War understood this and worked to keep a lid on this mess. Those policies are now believed to be "imperialist" and so we've become schizophrenic; we indulge Islamists as the nobel oppressed right up until their nature is exposed by their atrocities and then we start dropping bombs.

Personally, I hope for change. Real change. Like ISIS, IS whatever overrunning Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Libya, etc. etc. until they reach the sea in all directions. Then, at least, there will be no more nasty little low-intensity squabbles as we try to referee this crap and all doubt about the threat Islam poses to the species will be gone.

One can dream.

Apple didn't contribute any work to LLVM/clang because LLVM/clang are licensed with U of I's BSD-ish and, as we all know, corporate capitalist pig-dogs will not contribute if they're not forced to by license requirements.

Can't believe anything you read on Slashdot these days.

We don't know either. It's media speak for some arbitrary subset of data about someone that some administration mouthpiece has fed the stenographe^Hreporters after consulting with some government lawyer somewhere.

Sorry. Can't help you.

Most naive headline evar.

The news isn't that someone broke in. They've been in since before it went live. The news is that someone noticed.

Fukushima Daiichi's problems began forty years ago when they removed the natural 35 meter bluff that use to be there.

Not considered in the above would be the simple yet modestly more costly possibility of obviating the need for a sea wall by preserving the bluff and setting the reactors back, using modestly sized canals to cycle the sea water to and fro. That, naturally, wasn't the cheapest conceivable option, so it didn't survive the bean counters. Instead, they removed 25 meters of foothill, a feature that was originally 2.5 times the height of the tsunami before they fucked it up. The whole `bedrock' smokescreen is easily dismissed for the lie that it is; they could have reached bedrock from a setback design with no more difficulty.

This was done for one reason; grading the beach provided cheaper access to the ultimate heat sink, sea water. Less construction cost, less pumping, less maintenance, etc. This isn't lost on the perpetrators either. They know they're at fault and they knew it at the time, whatever lies they tell today notwithstanding.

This isn't speculation, either. Fukushima Daini did not get submerged, did not melt down and did not contaminate the land and the sea. Why? Primarily because it was built at higher elevation, which is about the only significant difference between these sites.

TEPCO bean counters. End of story.

From 11 months ago:

Beyond that, leaving out the HUGE tax credits buyers get for purchasing Telsa cars (10-17% of the price of a Model S) is intellectually dishonest on your part; Tesla would sell far fewer cars and at lower prices with out those extreme tax credits.

Nevada; No corporate income tax. Far fewer and less effective environmental and labor pressure groups. How selfish. Who does this Elon think he is refusing to be suckered in with environmental rule waivers?

I suspect it's going to take a lot more of this kind of corporate profiteering before the bloom comes off the Telsa rose around here though, and my poor karma will suffer a lot more hits — because fanbois will be fanbois.

So did a lot of people. A lot of people called WWI the "last" war.

A lot of people have kept their "the US spends x times more than blah blah blah combined on the military" meme at the ready to argue how misgoverned we are. Now they're all saucer-eyed, looking around for someone to keep the wolves at bay.

We have subs that Putin can't find filled with low CEP warheads Putin can't stop lurking all over the planet. Putin and the Russian people supporting him can eat a dick. Their collective belligerence ends at the border of the first nation to their immediate West that had the wisdom and foresight to join NATO. The part of Ukraine that possibly escapes yet another violent Russian subjugation is a bonus, and the part that gets pulled back into that nightmare deserves it.

We have the means to defend ourselves only DESPITE decades of idiots arguing that it's all a big waste — the Military Industrial Complex vampires bleeding out the means and intentions of The Great and The Good with their silly Cold War weapons. Herp derp.

Frankly I prefer this to the la-la land bullshit world we sun ourselves in every goddamned day. Watery eyes uncloud and behold when reality steps forth and says

Hello kid. Leave is canceled. Time to Grow. The. Fuck. Up.

Republicans lose to Greens in Seattle. Whatever accounts for poor bandwidth in Seattle relative to other US cites has got nothing at all to do with Republicans.

The degree of deviation from reality exhibited by some of you libtards is genuinely disturbing. Seek help, "greenwow."

Another setback for nations of theocrats and their hate-filled, atavist subjects.

"They?" Half the regulars around here would adopt b and c as gospel.

Yeah, I know, smallpox blankets, MK-ULTRA, Tuskegee Institute, blah blah. Get some new material.

This goes back a hundred years when we built "universal access" into our phone system monopoly. Comcast is using it to beat it's competitor over the head — two government created monopolies squabbling with each other over their regulatory obligations.

Now... pan around the responses to this story and count how many times this all gets blamed on "capitalists" and "free market," and how by damned we need the government to Do Something!!!!1

The taxi business has always been cut-throat. Taxi, "car for hire," ridesharing — call it what you will — at the end of the day it's gypsy cab operators squabbling over fares.

Folks here have been saying that the "hiatus" is a denier hoax. But now it's real, AND we understand it!