The whole idea is that the chemical weapons are destroyed FIRST...they are being destroyed AT SEA, not "destroyed" by simply dumping them into the ocean.

The fact that the other blog entries hosted at the same site as TFA include:

- Rihanna Displays Illuminati Hand Gesture at Latest Music Award Performance

- SSDI Death Index: Sandy Hook 'Shooter' Adam Lanza Died One Day Before School Massacre?

- 15 Citizens Petition to Secede from the United States

- Will U.S. Troops Fire On American Citizens?

- Illuminati Figurehead Prince William Takes the Stage with Jon Bon Jovi and Taylor Swift

- Has the Earth Shifted â" Or Is It Just Me?

- Mexican Government Releases Proof of E.T.'s and Ancient Space Travel ...should give you a hint as to the veracity of the content. (And yes, I realize it's simply a blog site with a variety of authors and content.)

As should the first comment, from "LibertyTreeBud", saying:

"Why not add it to some new vaccine? Or, perhaps add it to the drinking water and feed it to the live stock? These creatures will do anything for profits. Lowest bidder mentality rules."

What "creatures", exactly? The international organization explicitly charged with the prohibition and destruction of chemical weapons? What alternatives are people suggesting, exactly?

If you want a real article discussing this situation factually, not the tripe linked in the summary, see: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-25146980

I passed an unmarked a few hours ago, looked at the cops inside and just shook my head and thought "Somehow, the criminals don't scare me like these guys do."

So many cops have such a "Bad Boy" look these days. They carry themselves as if they're mean and tough. And frankly, I couldn't imagine asking one for help. Last year, I was in North Carolina and was lost and my phone battery was dead. I walked up to an officer and politely asked him if he could point me towards the local train station. He abruptly pointed and walked away. I eventually asked someone who looked like a criminal as I was out of options and he gave me good directions and a light for my cigarette.

I think cops who are used to a little too much freedom might need this.

First of all, you're suggesting there were experts in the field of putting people on the moon. I think that even today, that's questionable as we're infants at best regarding space travel.

Second, the U.S. spent more money putting a man on the moon than we can even imagine. It was insanely expensive and fiscally more than likely a disaster at best. Look at the movie Apollo 13 and think about the genius involved with simply deciding an intelligent way to scrub air. We put astronauts on the moon by throwing insane amounts of money at the problem and we did it, but did a half assed job of it. In fact, the first attempt at the ACA website is probably 1000 times better than our first attempts at getting a rocket to the moon. I don't know if you recognize this, but we blew up more than a few of those rockets in the learning process.

Now, instead of being an idiot and thinking this is a partisan related issue, this is a government related issue. The government themselves seem to hire companies to do projects in the dumbest ways. If you'd have asked me how to do it, I'd have awarded a $10 million start-up budget to three different companies with the promise that if they can establish a well knit team which met certain requirements, they will receive the next $20 million. The worst of the three would be tossed out on their asses and the remaining two would keep running. Then, so long as deadlines were met and budgets were kept and requirements were met, they would receive an additional $50 million.

At that point, the two websites would be put side to side and would be evaluated for functionality and an assessment would be made as to which would have the highest likelihood of fitting the needs of the program. The winner would then also score the maintenance contract which would be worth probably hundreds of millions over a period of 10 years.

So, the problem is simply that contractors are chosen through classic forms of government nepotism. Honestly, the money spent building that site was utterly criminal. I don't care which party would have been in charge, the problem is that those guys can't handle things like this.

Yet, as a father of two kids, I have seen most of the other parents buy iPads and iPhones in the past few years because they're more practical. Games cost $1 and with the attention span of most kids, they are generally happy with lite versions which are free. A larger initial investment gets you a device which is far less expensive than a Nintendo DS when you count games. In addition, if your kid is missing, you can use "Find iPhone" to find your kid. Every parent knows they'll eventually have to buy their kid a phone, so they skip the Nintendo.

Then there's Wii U. Consider an average of five new games a year for 5 years. Games cost $50 or more for new releases. That's $1250 plus the console cost and you'll probably have to buy two consoles. If you have two kids, two controllers are needed. That's about a $2000 investment in a toy that lacks anything other than toy value.

6 years ago, my kids school would have Nintendo day. Now they have tablet day. I haven't seen a DS in 3 years. Not even my friends kids have them.

Honestly, linux on set tops and stuff is great. But Linux on the desktop is a pipedream I stopped believing long ago. If I need Linux on the desktop, I have an SSH client.

As for games on PC, that's worthwhile. I like games and I want more games on the PC and would love it if Nintendo would give up on hardware and go the Sega way. I haven't found any Playstation games worthy of investing in a BIG BULKY PLAYSTATION for. I mean that beast is a burden to the eyes. Who honestly needs better graphics when it comes at a visual cost like that?

XBox is ok, I have one and even bought a game for it.

I have a Steam account. I have about 100 games I bought through steam. I have all my apps on Windows and have SSH into my Linux box. I don't see the point of games on Linux... but ok. I guess someone wants them.

Now making a game console which runs Linux is nifty. Hope it works out... but I don't see this as a Linux box, I see this as just another console. Who cares what the OS is? The games on it are what matters.

You want Linux on the desktop? Get a Chrome OS device. Done. Lots of games, lots of support.

Do you really need another Linux desktop? Why not get one to work first?

Some manager type is trying to solve the problem by throwing people at the job. As if it were and assembly line.

The problem is pretty damn obvious. They threw too many people at it to begin with using a government contractor with a long established history of always late, always over-budget.

This is especially why a national system is required. The fed will throw money at it until it works. What would poor states like Mississippi do if they had to build their own system?

Honestly, even most IT majors can barely handle most technology since they spend years basically learning to hack around until something works. I meet hundreds of IT people every year and many function entirely based on hacking, misconception and rumor. Want an example? Ask IT pros which OS is best. Instead of choosing based on educated reasoning, research or better yet explaining that each has a purpose and you'd have to choose based on the task at hand, many will choose based on religion and mostly hearsay.

The best IT professionals I know have studied computer science inside or out of a school. Algorithms and operating system design are core components of their knowledge. They understand how to research and study technology before choosing tools because of pretty boxes and articles on their favorite blog.

I am glad these people exist. If it weren't for them, I'd have to install antivirus software and reinstall Windows for everyone I know.

Linux is all over the place. I know plenty of people who use it daily. I lived on Linux for years. Hell, I even ported the Opera Web Browser to the platform.

What it boils down to is simple, OS wars are dead. There's more than just Microsoft now. I personally prefer Windows 8 because it's faster than anything I've ever used before and it has less obvious bugs than the other platforms. Other people like Mac, others Linux, others Chrome (which is more of a Java platform than a Linux platform).

I think it's about time to consider that 99% of game development has moved into a new era of platform independent game engines. Using Unreal Engine, Unigine Game Engine, Unity3D and others you write the game once and tweak the controls for a dozen different platforms from phones to XBox/PS to Linux. Companies who code their own game engines and want to reinvent the wheel can do so if they want, but honestly, it's not so interesting. These days, if a game system developer really wants their platform to take off, they can make agreements with the platform system company and pay for the port or do it themselves.

Take a look at Microsoft. No one wanted to port to the Metro platform and Microsoft basically made it happen by working with the game engine companies. Now all the game vendors need to do is simply generate a new executable and tweak the controls.

If Valve wants support for SteamOS, the answer is simple, port the game engines. But I have no interest in games locked into a platform. I stopped buying consoles because I don't need a special machine for games anymore. Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone, etc... are all powerful enough to play the best of them. Game consoles were only interesting when porting to a platform meant an endless amount of problems with hardware incompatibility. We don't do it anymore. These days, the game engines do the work for us. Content developers can produce awesome games without worrying about AMD vs. Pentium or nVidia vs. Intel vs. AMD. Hell, they don't even have to think much about Mac vs. Windows vs. Linux. They can develop games and simply deploy them.

SteamOS seems interesting, but I want one device for everything. I use a Surface Pro at the moment. Surface Pro 2 later this month. It's a laptop, a tablet, a video player, an ebook reader and a game system. Would I like better graphics? Yep... but Pro 2 has better graphics. And the graphics on the Surface Pro 2 are good enough that it's now more about game content than graphics quality. I carry an XBox controller in my backpack so I can play Sonic Racing or Lara Croft on airplanes.

It'll be pretty cool though if Valve makes it so I can buy a game and play it on SteamBox or my Surface without buying a second copy.

Ok... I know there aren't many alternatives, but seriously... moving to Google Docs doesn't sound good in the current climate. It means that all business mails and documents will be easily accessible by the U.S. government.

I don't know whether Whirlpool stores and information that is considered customer confidential, but I'd imagine that they have documents regularly stored on their systems that are marked "Corporate Confidential". Does voluntarily choosing to store files on a server owned by a U.S. corporation that regularly breeches confidentiality by providing their records to the U.S. government (NSA, FBI, etc...) no violate those terms of the agreements?

Of course, pretending like it's not happening might count as "not voluntarily doing so". The only reason I like Offie 365 is because of Office 365 Enterprise which can be hosted by non-Microsoft corporations in countries with privacy laws.

As in Stockholm Finland right? :)

Really... when was the last time Lockheed delivered a project on time and/or on budget?

This is a company with a distinguished history of pillaging the federal government. After all, why charge $10 for a pencil sharpener if you can charge $10,000. Just quote $5 and then show up late complaining that the guy who quoted the deal was fired for underbidding and you'll need another $10,000 to deliver it because of the extra costs involved in cleaning up the first guy's cock up.

Hope the government stays closed long enough for Lockheed to go tits up.

What happens when news papers choose to use azure, aws, etc... Because the sales people convince news paper CEOs that they should use U.S. based cloud services because the U.S. government dubs the service secure?

I hate stupid litigation, but I would sue any news paper for failure to take measures to properly protect their sources the moment they use a U.S. based cloud.

How about medical records?

How about psychological records?

How about juvenile records?

How about adoption records?

How about engineering designs?

Companies all over the world are using Amazon, Google, DropBox, Microsoft and more to store their data. This is because CxOs are signing agreements without properly understanding that they are illegally making their data more or less freely available to the American government.

People need to make noise and inform the decision makers that just because the DoD says a service is secure, it doesn't mean that their data is safe.

Want to see the worst one? How about SAP cloud services? This system is actually able to topple countries if the U.S. decides to make use of "legal taps" to launch "cyber warfare" against some countries.

Note, I know I'm blowing it a bit out of proportion, but I'm intentionally making these points to make others think about it and hopefully dig deeper.

Offer $50 or a chance to win $200 on a lottery.

$5 or $20 means nothing in 2013. If you already have your budget planned, $5 or $20 won't make a big difference. The $5 doesn't even cover the additional cost of eating at a salad buffet instead of a cheap pizza buffet for two people. $20 however can mean eating steak tonight.

$50 however means a much better month. $200 is better, but $50 as a sure thing is the best.

I bought two surface pros and a surface. The surface was nice because I use it for a Skype terminal. For the Pros, I gave one to the wife. She loves it. I have one and I love it. Dying to get the new one. Won't hesitate to pay for it. It's a lot lighter than the MacBook Air and iPad I used to carry around with me. :)

Ok, if I were to look at how to make this win, I'd say

Step 1 is to make a cheap device a lot of people will buy
Step 2 get a lot of apps into the store where you can make a profit on each one
Step 3 get more people to buy the device... possibly at a loss on the hardware
Step 4 sell music, apps, videos, etc... and collect the profits.

Is this really a bad idea?