So says "Anonymous Coward". McChrystal never said that:

So we have two Anonymous Cowards calling officials at the White House wimps. Coincidence? I think not.

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Ingenuity motivates creativity. Greed motivates profit.

They said the same thing about putting a man on the moon. And we've been exploiting the innovation developed from that endeavor for the a half-century. The technology won't exist until you decide to do it and be willing to pay for it. And the largest technological hurdle associated with the space elevator is efficient power transmission to the lift. Otherwise, its not so bad.

Don't encourage them! :D

I must have more mobile porn at my disposal! You never know when you need it...

Because we're too lazy to read!

GlimmerBlocker (uses ABP's blacklist) does the trick (or your favorite ad-block daemon). More effective than browser plugins since it works across multiple apps (browser, email, feed reader, etc). Even more effective if you have your own web server w/ said daemon. I do this with all the wired/wireless clients at home. Setup up the iPhone to use your own server via proxy and you'll have all the ad blocking you want.

Please read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decade. Both conventions are correct since both represent a period of ten years, but the article is using the convention 2000-2009.

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Buildings cause the same problem; anyone familiar with coherence and/or constructive and destructive interference of electromagnetic waves (or any other type of other wave) would say "No sh*t, Sherlock!"

Except 1 memristor = (40nm)^3, which is considerably smaller than 1 modern solid state transistor, not even considering 6 of them to achieve the same functionality. Thus, higher density + higher functionality + lower power usage = uber pwnage

I seem to recall that volcano monitoring was labeled as 'Pork'?