I'm certain the US would have loved to put him on trial. If he had wanted one, all he had to do was surrender. The loonies you mention, both hypothetical and real, seem to have been willing to be taken alive. Whether he really believed in his 72 virgins or not, he obviously preferred death to arrest.

kill -9 /bin/laden

I'll second the Fallout bit. The hardcore mode in New Vegas forces you to eat, drink, and sleep every so often. Also, rest and medicine don't instantly and automagically heal you and regrow lost limbs. That said, the save/reload/undo option the author of TFA philosophizes about still exists, and the automagic recovery and regrowth still happens with ludicrous speed and ease compared to the real world, etc., but I then again, didn't get it so my kids could learn a life lesson from it.

Your facts do not in any way mitigate the tremendous WHOOOOSH.

According to that logic, wouldn't ABC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, et al also be against it?

Speaking of FOXNews, here's something from them on net neutrality. It might surprise folks here, should they care to read it.

Do you really think that other countries are not doing the same to the US and everyone else? Of course they are. Their cables just haven't been leaked yet.

As far as Europe being all peaceful, present-day Europe has been mostly peaceful, except for some regional wars in the Balkans recently. But prior to the cold war, Europe was nothing but wars going back to the Roman empire and beyond. Even during the cold war, NATO was predicated on the assumption that Europe would again be a battleground, and would need defense. Current events make Europe look peaceful. History, not so much.

Technological superiority, be it military or otherwise, is a race held on a treadmill. Standing still isn't an option. Railguns might buy us 5, 10, 20, maybe 30 years until someone else invents their own (or steals ours), much like stealth fighters, which are now in various stages of making their way into the arsenals of potential opponents around the world.

Some perspective is needed here. Note that I said "perspective", not "denial and defense". The Japanese internment camps did not feature Zyklon B and gas ovens. What happened wasn't right by a long shot, but it isn't even in the same league as the Nazi purges. "All men are created equal" didn't have the same meaning then as it does now, because at the time it was intended as a rejection of the presumption that nobility were inherently superior to commoners, not a declaration of universal suffrage. It's true that in order to have the right to vote one had to be a land-owning white man, but generally, Constitutional protections covered all non-slaves.

"Biggest cunt in a suit" comes dangerously close to invoking a mandatory Rule 34 google search.

The cake is a lie.

Julian Assange is protecting himself with secrecy. Is that evil? Or are you justifying it because someone you support is doing it, as opposed to someone you don't like?

Or is it okay because sometimes secrecy is necessary?

The difference is that most slashdotters wouldn't blame the farmer much for shooting the pig thief.

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Metahumor?

No, no, no, no. It is bottled, labeled, marketed broth , likely with a malt base.

Perhaps things have changed a lot since the first Gulf war, but I seem to remember there was a big mismatch between Saddam's forces and the forces the Saudis could put on their borders.