I don't know how you can make a Galactic Empire invading a hive of scum and villainy without getting a +5 Awesome. For shame Slashdot, for shame.

Thank god, because if that pig sitting next to me keeps managing his auto insurance it's going to send this rocket straight into the sun.

I blame the Internet for raising me from a young age to not be surprsed that a such thing as a 'Cousin-dating-law-colored-map-of-Oregon' even exists, let alone that you were able to Google it in 30 seconds.

Internet, what have you done?

Here in the US I usually tap it after 3 good dinner dates.

1) Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons. - Popular Mechanics, 1949
2) I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won’t last out the year. - Editor of Prentice Hall business books, 1957
3) There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. - Ken Olsen, 1977
4) We will never make a 32-bit operating system. - Bill Gates, 1989*
5) I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time. - Bill Gates, 1987


So... where do you think you rank? Source.

*Of course, you could argue that they didn't "make" it.

This is the first time that I've really had a good laugh at one of these posts. Thank you, sir.

Don't be obtuse, do you know what the I in IED even stands for? Improvised. Where there's a will, there's a way.

Estes model rockets could be modified to carry a payload.
Explosives are still made often enough that you know it's possible.

For the record, I'm not advocating any of this, I think people talking about that kind of conflict not as a hypothetical scenario are harmless crackpots at best and dangerous at worst. But there's no need to be illogical about any of it.

So to make sure we better understand you:

You don't like the way they use guerrilla tactics. And they haven't won a single "strategic or tactical battle." Lastly, the reason that the US is withdrawing is because we want to. Let's dissect this, point by point for giggles and because I have nothing better to do at the moment.

(1) Why would they? Head on, they'd get railroaded. Pot shots, IEDs and perhaps most importantly, propaganda are far and away more effective for their purposes. To assume that because they won't willingly throw themselves into a barely metaphorical meat-grinder they're somehow completely beaten is a logical leap of faith that is easily provable to be false. They're willing to fight, as much as they can without risking losing. Frankly, I respect the way they defend their ideals and home as much as I hate what that means - this from a former US soldier by the way. It's a grudging respect.

(2) For your reading pleasure, Afghani Taliban Victories: Uzbin Valley., Battle of Wanat, and while in Pakistan South Waziristan.

(3) Simply put... did we ever? Sure, it was more legitimate than Iraq, but that's not saying much. They've definitely made the cost of staying too high to be worth it. So we killed one guy - now we're leaving, and they're not gone. Their influence has waned, but it hasn't completely evaporated.

(4) I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. Is it that regular citizens will have a better chance against the US Government than the Taliban did? Then I want to disagree... Afghani Taliban have been in a constant struggle with $SOMEONE since the 70s. They've had a lot of experience and until the mid-90s, a lot of success. But I digress - if it will be more like Libya or Syria... isn't that what we want? A better fighting chance from having comparable weapons?

Oh I don't know, roughly a dozen years or so, give or take. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001–present)

I think that this is obviously just Apple getting too big and attempting to throw its weight around to reduce competition. Of course, I could just be comparing Apple$ to Oranges... or Micro$oft.

In the article. I'm not suprised you didn't see it. This is /. after all.

You enable debug mode. That's all. There's a thousand ways to Google that. :)

No, I am Spartacus.

Less CO2.

Taco Bell was a little less common, you see.

I prefer Bright-o. Bright-o makes ol' bodies new...

Wow. You know how you can tell that the comments are being modded by people with a vested interest in the ad? Your comment was on-point and provided an alternative and is still getting modded down. Way to go, /. You bastards.