Alas, WW2 doesn't seem to have been about religion, and it's still the largest war in human history (and if it were split into two separate wars, they'd be the two largest wars in history).
You're just using too narrow a conception of religion, IMO.
Fascism, National Socialism, and Communism all have their true-believers. And some of them are so certain their faith is the correct one that they're willing to kill for it.
Interesting, though, that the vote happened after the election, when it was known who would control the Senate in 2015 and 2016. And interesting that those that are losing power oppose surveillance while those that are gaining it support continued surveillance.
This might suggest the possibility that each side fears the use of the NSA against them by the other side.
I'd hate to think the USA has gotten to that point but I don't think anything would surprise me now.
Why did we get away from that technology for space exploration? If you're going to spend the money to conduct a mission of this sort why limit yourself to the power provided by solar panels? It would be a pisser to have come this far only to have the mission fail because the probe can't get enough power to carry on operations.
Two reasons: fear that an accident might release plutonium dust into the atmosphere, and the relative shortage of plutonium.
It looks like the Republicans will have 54 Senators in 2015, in part, I think, to support given them by libertarians (except perhaps in Virginia where a Libertarian candidate took support from the Republican primarily).
Might this be a move by Democrats to reach out to libertarians who tend to be the strongest opponents of the surveillance of the public by government?
Not every interesting program property that one wishes to prove can be transformed into an example of the halting problem.
Who is still using these sites after all of the Silk Road 1.0 arrests? You have to be pretty dumb to risk your freedom on some stranger's computer security skills.
And not just some single stranger.
How many thousands of programmers/engineers are indirectly involved?
Can you trust the programmer of the website?
Can you trust the programmers that wrote the webserver code?
Can you trust the programmers that wrote your web browser?
Can you trust the programmers that wrote BASH?
Can you trust the programmers that wrote the rest of the OS?
Can you trust the programmers that wrote the BIOS?
Can you trust the engineers that wrote the CPU's microcode?
I once had this wild idea of trying to come up with some automated proof system that would help insure program correctness. I then looked at the huge amount of errata for Intel processors. How can one be sure one's program will even run as expected when the processor itself can't be proven correct?
Some states also have judicial elections, which is as stupid an idea as it sounds like.
Judicial elections might work well using an approval voting system -- the idea being that a judge that is most accepted by the people is most likely to be a neutral arbiter and fair.
Why is it when the republicans controlled both houses and the presidency they didn't fix the obvious errors that the democrats did?
January 2001 was the first time since 1957 that the Republicans controlled both congress and the presidency.
They had about 8 months of a sane world before 9/11 happened.
The fact that lobbying is talked about so openly disgust me, at least in my country the politicians try to hide their corruption.
Oh, grow up.
Lobbying isn't corruption.
Corruption is pretending lobbying doesn't exist.
The Republicans are in charge and they haven't done a thing about the NSA. No reduction in budget, no oversight changes, nothing.
The Republican majority in the House is 1/2 of 1/3rd of the government.
They're hardly "in charge".
Remote Sensing Systems (which uses satellite data) shows that there's been 0.123K of warming per decade since 1980.
I was thinking about the press.
There's no way a journalist can crank out story after story unless they're completely unaware that they don't know what they're talking about.
Any doubts in their own understanding would stop dead their fingers on their keyboards.
The tenets of Islam are not more incompatible than the tenets or radical christs.
If you believe the Islam is your enemy then I might give you a hint: know your enemy, so you can fight him! And you will realize that Islam is a very moderate religion.
You're either a fool or a liar.
Without life, Biology itself would be impossible.