"Committee on Oversight and Government Reform: Effective Committee or Political Theatre?"

FTFY

foxnews.com that is. O_o

So, basically Iran just stumbled upon Wideband Delphi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wideband_Delphi and thought they'd give it a go.

You should try skimming the comments on Fox.com sometime.

720? What happened to the other 720 between midnight and noon?

You've obviously never been out drinking with *me*.

The most frustrating and depressing part is that we're just now getting started at this Soviet-style communist repression stuff. Judging by the other countries that have endured it, we get to look forward to another 30-50 years of things getting worse until enough people get enough pissed off for the system to get un-fucked. By then "told ya so" just doesn't have the same ring to it.

Yeah. That. And "properly sized ceramic bullet...without a scrap of metal in it" What are you replacing the brass case with, again?

Ah, of course. There aren't any Mexicans in the U.S. just like there aren't any Scots in Great Britain. Thanks for clearing that up and missing the joke entirely.

I'll wait for the 2nd or 3rd gen iScan so they can get the bugs worked out before I get one. I can get this from the Genius Bar, right?

This is from Sheffield; the researchers are using Scottish Gaelic - looks like 'linoleum', sounds like 'floor'. In this case it's pronounced 'scatteredelectronwavereconstructor'.

Objective-Brainfuck or Brainfuck with Classes

Gonna have to disagree with you on that point. The .Net languages, runtime, and framework libraries are all included in the .Net / Windows SDK and it's freely available: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/dlx/en-us/listdetailsview.aspx?FamilyID=6b6c21d2-2006-4afa-9702-529fa782d63b You can download and install the SDK and start coding right away.

Don't confuse Visual Studio with the languages / framework.

Even if you're referring to the availability of free-as-in-beer/speech libraries there are quite a few of those on CodePlex, GitHub, and CodeProject, depending on what you need.

I realize this is cynical but...

According to the WHO ~7.6 million people die of cancer each year: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs297/en/ and according to the National Cancer Institute ~1.6 million of them are Americans: http://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/all.html

That's a huge revenue stream for the drug companies to just ignore because "hey, it's cured!" I just don't think the drug companies won't start looking for ways to kill this or put it out of reach of most people. They haven't exactly proven to be altruistic and wholly forthcoming thus far; they're just for-profit companies in the same old "corrupt American capitalist" system.

Strictly speaking, I guess it belongs to Al Gore.