The locals are being used a human shields ferchrissakes. Are they nuts enough to actually guard the missile launcher that is going to make them a target of Israeli attack?

If that thing is what you claim, would anyone in their right mind continue to live anywhere near it?
I don't care about jobs, businesses, family, etc., if something like that is anywhere near me I get myself and family the f**k away from it as fast as I can. Anyone who doesn't is just plain nuts.

"Anyone who thinks they have dozens of people sitting next to launchers firing rockets each time there is a barrage is mistaken,"

So let me see if I understand what you're saying: A bunch of guys who are at war set up a rocket launcher with a timer, then go away leaving it unguarded so that anyone can walk up to it and, oh, I don't know, shut it off, blow it up, steal it, etc.?

Gimme a break.

my psychological disorder compels me to point out the misspelling of "premise"

Tom? Is that you?
Do you know where I can get a copy of Dianetics? I've heard its da bomb!

Sounds good to me!

running in 2017. If it really is "giga" it damn well better be under construction already.

they haven't started building it yet, and it is supposed to be up and running in 2017? They're still talking about financing. Nope, NOT giga, or not ready in 2017.

I think it had its roots in the civil rights movement, where the key concept- that racial discrimination is bad morphed into ALL discrimination is bad including intellectual and physical ability, hence the handing out of awards to everyone for participating in an activity and the dumbing-down of school grades in a misguided effort to spare the self-esteem of the less "abled".

In a classic example, right wing Xtian nuts have seized on the recent inability to discriminate against stupid ideas and started pushing ID to be taught along side (and presumably to replace) evolution as if the two concepts were intellectually equivalent.

In this case, a crap result was called out as such. No names were mentioned, so only those who participated in producing the crap (they know who they are) had their self-esteem taken down a notch.

What's a gunt?

it smell like ASS up in here!

Interesting ideas, but I don't know what any of them have to do with the subject at hand.

I disagree. Political correctness of the 90s has led to today's "rule" that all opinions are valid and of equal value when anyone with a functional brain knows they are not. Linus is merely saying what ought to be said. Maybe a little public ridicule will be the motivating force to ensure that this sort of thing doesn't happen again.

Would you prefer we hand the developers an award for "participation"?

experienced and best- Microsoft!

Every time they come out with a new OS, the old one suddenly needs security "updates" at a faster and faster rate, and for some reason, more and more of them require reboots. Likewise MS Office- they change the file formats with each release to prevent compatibility with older versions and especially compatibility with freeware office suites.

The army tests experimental vaccines on soldiers, has made them stand and watch nuclear blasts to see what would happen, and God only knows what else. Do you really think they're going to tell you that you suffered brain trauma?

Human brains slosh around in a bag of fluid inside the skull. That is why people still suffer traumatic brain injuries even when they wear helmets.