I'd suggest you have a bit too much confidence in peer review.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm...

Anything like? http://propagander2.tripod.com...

I'll agree with you when the offense doesn't include things like DUI, or other such stupidity.

Sorry you've only had to wait 15 years. Many of us have waited much longer.

I'd take that over having a three digit age any day.

IMHO that's an excellent way of looking at it. If the chimp can persuade reasonable people that he can be trusted to not do that, he has a pretty good chance of being treated as though he does have rights. And anyone (chimp or otherwise) who persuades people otherwise, might find themselves being treated as though they don't have rights. (Shame about all the communications problems and other errors that happen in that second scenario, but it .. mostly works. Mostly.)

It's a convenient political ploy to blame the IC when they are unable to defend themselves in any public forum. They can't release classified information to the public, while politicians can simply say..."not my fault due to lack of intelligence". Yeah, right.

One computer, the fileserver, goes at the "awful location." This is the one that runs all the bandwidth-intense stuff (deluged, sabnzbdplus, etc) so you get to slurp up data at high speeds.

The others, you connect to that as well as you can. They're mostly just going to be running video players or web browsers anyway. It wifi or powerline networking is the best you can do, fine.

Where was he?...really? Do you know anything about him? He's pretty well respected by both D's and R's.

The first "online murder" happened the day they put weapons on a drone

Wrong, it's way older than that.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were murdered online. You're worried about the network being used against us, but hundreds of years ago, SciFi authors already went meta and had the network be used to murder a part of itself!

While the CIA supported and armed them, it wasn't because they were coerced into it. You've heard of Charlie Wilson's war, right? It wasn't just a movie. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

I'll grant you one point, that people who I would consider to be racist tend to be far right, and vote that way. Other than that, I see most of your argument as baseless. You can't drive a car, buy a beer, or take out a library book without ID, and one should be required to vote as well. That said, I know there have been some poorly veiled attempts to inhibit voting by blacks by a few jackasses, and those people should be thrown in jail. But the typical response from the left is that this is a coordinated party position, which is simply a thinly veiled attempt to spark more racial discord, and garner more votes for the left. There are extremists on both sides, that doesn't make it a party position.

Damn I wish I had mod points.

We really need +1 Idiot of the Week, so we can all have a good laugh

Yes, there's a big difference. But to those natives, the pilgrims likely appeared somewhat magical. There was a huge gap in knowledge between them. If we were able to bring someone from that time forward to today, we would appear magical as well...cooking with out fire, driving cars, flying, talking with people who aren't right there. And in another 500 years, we would be in a similar position. Things you can't imagine now, will be possible.

I know what Germany pays...I lived there for six years, and am well aware that they generally have a better system. But, I'd argue that it's mostly not due to the funding.

Don't know where you get "You sound so upset". It's baseless.