The Cardassians? I didn't know they had expanded out of the Alpha Quadrant!

On soviet Mars.......oh, never mind!

Ha, I can't argue with that!
As for details and citations, c'mon, this is slashdot!

Ha, if I relied on American news I wouldn't know a bloody thing! Thankfully I'm a European (of sorts). I never said the current situation was peaceful, or desirable. The coup was peaceful, but subsequently the opposing sides have started skirmishing, which is to be expected, and it does look like the army might be a bit more active than before in intervening. This is clearly not good. I also do have serious reservations about the principle of the army removing democratic governments. While I can't condone this, in this particular case it probably averted a civil war, so was the lesser of two evils. This is not a good situation at all, but that is not what my original post was about. I posted because half the preceding posts were full of ignorance and bigotry and it pissed me off, that's all.

By all objective measures Morsi's government were useless. The country was falling apart and none of the promises they made pre-election were being acted on. I don't claim to be intelligent, but like to think that my views are based on knowledge and understanding, not some idiotic racial/religious stereotyping.

...are the moronic A/Cs on /. who seem happy to denigrate the Egyptian people for celebrating the peaceful overthrow of a useless leader. The fact that the army has removed these incompetants and are immediately handing power back to the people is un-precedented and incredible. The Egyptian people and army could teach some other nations a thing or two, I think, not to mention some of the ignorant bigots who plague /.

The quote is part of this statement by Michael Ventura

Nope, but then this is /.

maybe it just wasn't worth the effort for such a small niche market.

' K

What the hell is a Twinkie?
(Well actually I know 'cos I RTFA - read the RTFA? Doesn't know what a Twinkie is? Must be a Brit! :) Well you guys seem happy to have them back, so Enjoy!)

No, they won't 'keep him for free', but will gladly offer him sanctaury, particularly as his presence there is going to be a constant source of annoyance to the US, a country they dislike and distrust.
And no, I don't think I'm naive.
Snowden has let us all see that none of our data or online activity is remotely private and that our information is everything and everywhere. Because various governments share intelligence, it means for example that a UK citizen (whose data is sort of 'legally protected' from UK surveillance agencies) could find his data being forwarded to him by say the US government. Because shared intelligence from a foreign source is not subject to the level of legal scrutiny and constraint as information gathered by UK sources, it could immediately become more accessable to UK agencies. And this works the other way round. It means that safeguards put in place to 'protect' a country's own citizens can be more easily circumvented.

Snowden has alerted the whole World that our freedom is a sham, and that our governments treat our privacy with total contempt. I hope he survives this episode and will be seen in the future as somebody who did more for regular people than any politician.

Yes, it's inspired me to hope that M$ keep going belly-up with these ill-conceived ideas, and that within a decade they will have faded to an also-ran status.

I can't read, you insensitive clod!