I'm proud to say I don't even know what UID you social weenies are bragging about and I have lots of friends and almost all of them are human.

With pull quotes like this: "You know we have good health benefits, and we're government, right? So we have a huge scope of insurance to choose from," he says.

You just know they, NPR, are full of it. If I had to guess, the NSA is flooded with qualified candidates.

You're basically correct except for the facts. Werner did not start his career as a Nazi, he joined later, and he did not work on weapons that killed many (not countless, they did count) Brits until much later. I know that Nazi Germany lost and thus history is skewed to favor the winner's view point but after 70+ years maybe the truth will be acceptable. Perhaps this would be more correct and convey the same effect: Wernher von Braun's early career as a Nazi who helped develop the Retribution Weapon 2, aka V-2 rocket, (responsible for the deaths of 9 thousand Brits) did not prevent him from becoming an American hero.

The Spartans are too polarizing, so with a simple play on words they can use the more PC Spartacus. IE made you a slave to Windows but Spartacus frees you, or some such BS.

So you post a link to a pseudo legit article and then add a moronic commit about mythical "southerners" that certainly isn't mentioned in your linked article. You are a bigot!

Let's not give her another 15 minutes...

Bullshit, very few governments run up huge deficits! That's the whole point of these money grabs. They CAN"T trivially borrow money (like the Federal government) so they do all kinds of horrible things to raise revenue.

The last time I heard of a gun with an obfuscated serial number it involved a cop "throw down". Really, it's pretty rare when somebody buys a gun legally and then removes the serial number before committing a crime. It's so much easier to just buy a stolen gun.

The formula is fact, it's part to math/reality not the ancient who's best remembered for it.

I'm glad to see that Mr. Mann did not use the pejorative term "denier" even though the /. summary does.

Maybe before they do the ethics thing they might want to get some major agreement on just what is the ideal temperature. At least when there is nobody/everybody at the helm it's hard to get too mad, but just start targeting the climate with techno arrogance and you'll have billions bitching that you screwed them and killed their babies and you should die a horrible death. Unfortunately, they might be right some of the time even if your tech is proper and correct.

Have you ever shot a rifle at long range? There is this this thing called atmosphere that actually slows down a bullet such that it slows and drops far out of proportion to the gravitational effects or even the Coriolis effects. Those damn lasers are hardly effected by the atmosphere. I'd even wager that the laser, traveling at the speed of light, reaches it's target so fast that drop is irrelevant where line-of-sight is a limiting factor. Now, when there is mirage, all bets are off. The target doesn't appear where it really is so laser or regular optics are going to be frustrated. So remember to start a big ass fire between you and the snipers or plan to be in the area only when bright sun is heating the air between you and the sniper.

The electorate is largely religious, Christian mostly, but that doesn't mean they can't accept life on Mars. I've never heard any mainstream Christian religion say that life on Mars would be blasphemous. However, I have seen some odd statements from Muslims.

I not sure, but I think my relatives from 7,000 years ago wouldn't be invited to dinner (if they could somehow be alive), just what would we have in common? If you're going to brag about your ancestors you should probably at least have met them.

Having people working remotely by themselves is not (currently) a great model. Software is produced by teams not individuals and teams really need to collaborate to be effective and the easier it is to collaborate the better the results. I'm sure you all read the recent report about open space offices? Until that trend ends you can expect that remote/cubed workers are not going to be in vogue.

I do think that robotic avatars will eventually solve this problem, so if I was the Indian, Russian or whatever government I'd get cracking on this.