Wow the Europeans confirming the existence of the Higgs Boson and then ramping up the LHC power output has really stung the American Physics community into action. First they put on a dog and pony show about "Hints of Physics beyond the Standard Model" last week, and now this crap? Why is it that we feel we must hold up fanciful speculation as some sort of achievement? In Europe they get results, here we just publish fantasy and partial fact dressed up as wondrous discovery and pat ourselves on the back and hey we might even get on CNN if its "Star Trek" enough.

How about doing real some science guys, like the egg-heads in Europe do?

Most of our foreign (European) contractors are better developers (and all round co-workers) than the home grown US developers, unpopular thing to say but there it is. Add to that they are better educated in general than the US devs and US developers have the highest sense of self-entitlement and things start to look clear. I am a senior sysadmin and I prefer to deal with the foreign devs and select them for projects as they are not obsessed with position and work place politics, they just get it done.

Whats producing the methane?

Its not our job to knock it down. Its the job of the chinese citizens.

I know it sounds un-American and like I'm not a team player in the Us Vs Them battle, but fuck it, not my job.

Coz we're wayyyyy ahead of them

They'll get their "wee spacey house" If they would only be good little subjects and vote to remain part of Britain so England can still pretend to be an imperial power?

Braveheart would not approve.

So SSL is nothing more than an honor system? Fuck that. Security , such as it was, is utterly fucked now that any tin-pot government quango can start intercepting.

This is absolutely abhorrent. The surveillance is illegal, the NSA even admits they spy on American citizens.

The US government is not "of the people", nor is it "for the people". The intelligence services exist purely to maintain and protect dynastic power for the privileged few.

Yeah. Why can't MEPs have as much integrity as our congressmen, senators and president.

That would NEVER fly here in the US.

Awesome if you are prepared to rip it out and install a new one every 3 years, when Cupertino yells "Change Places!"

Surely they mean "property owners"? This will not end well.