How many of these articles are in Portuguese? The public mass consciousness has no memory, only a fickle perception of the present.

I think this was the idea behind Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion house

Do you call it Debian GNU/Linux?

Oh, I see, because that industry would be asking the FBI to solve it's problems, to protect their problems. I get it now :)

What? Don't you ever make important files called test.txt, and don't sometimes they make their way into version control?

Human trafficking is big in the US, bigger than you would expect, and it's flying under the radar.

Yeah, but it takes money to sue, something on the order of $10 to $20k, and a lot of folks don't have that lying around. It's risky. The media was just reporting that he was a suspect, just like the police thought, right?

What exactly is that? Is that not a contradiction in terms?

No, no, it's really not, and it's not a conspiracy to say that this isn't true. This is just the cover story, naked propaganda.

What's going on is that the American military is providing peace and stability for oil companies and other international conglomerates that want oil, natural gas, and other raw materials to move freely around the baltic sea and the middle east. Unocal now has their natural gas pipeline up and running through Afghanistan, which they were unable to get when the Taliban were running the country.

If we are surprised by this, its our own fault. Smedley Butler, the most highly decorated enlisted marine, told us about this nearly a century ago in War is a Racket, where he recounts how the US military was used to 'defend' the interests of American businesses in Central America:

Yeah, but now there is a unocal pipeline going through it, whereas before there was none.

You know what? I think an average American would not be surprised to hear that any of these facts were true: - That there are death squads killing Taliban leaders - That there are a lot of civilian casualties - That the Taliban is getting support from another Muslim neighbor country. I'll bet the thought they knew all of this already, and are pleased as punch that the American military is doing its job to fight Terrorism and keep up safe.

This sounds to me like a case of Nerds Gone Wrong again. They think that giving the public some factoids are going to change their minds and start a revolution. Never happened, never will. The American people are happy about the war against terror in Afghanistan, and this wikileaks leak is evidence in their favor.

You know, after WWII, with the firebombing of Germany and the atomic bombing of Japan, there was talk of making bombs and missles an illegal weapon, just like chemical and biological weapons.

What would war look like if soldiers actually had to risk their lives shooting at each other, and civilian infrastructure and massive civilian casualties didn't exist?

What? Nobody's suggesting the good ol' Macquarium?

Well, you can't really offer to build the well correctly after the fact, now can you?

Other countries require safeguards to already be in place before the well goes into production. We could have required an acoustic dead-man switch, or relief wells to be in place, before the well went into production. If they had been in place, we would have already had the solution when the wellhead blew.

Brazil and Norway require these acoustic switches. If the oil companies don't want to do it on their own, we can just require them to do it.