So willful ignorance is now a defense? Good to know. One also ponders why "other people" would visit this topic on Slashdot if they did "not give a shit about stuff like this."

I guess I do more than watch movies. I've also seen it described and photographed in a book. This hasn't been a secret and they've been using it for decades.

I didn't realize this flying skyhook technology and its use were doubted by any serious person. Are these the same people who doubt the moon landings?

I'm not saying this stuff never happens. Obviously it does. But it's also fair to judge them on these mistakes because it's evidence of the management environment the candidate has created, or allows to fester. Communications professionals implement procedural safeguards to prevent these sorts of public mistakes. Mistaking a photo of the Russian Navy for the United States Navy is a blunder of the first order for a professional graphic artist. At this level, the guy assembling the presentation isn't some dopey intern with powerpoint and an internet connection.

Politicians are undependable. Why not tap their space exploration / science supporters directly?

I used to be a staffer who prepared graphics for high level government presentations. I was hired because I knew what I was doing, and I'd have been fired if I made a mistake like this. Let me correct that -- I'd have been fired, my boss would have been fired, and the company for which I worked would have lost a multi-million dollar contract which would in turn place scores of other peoples continued employment in jeopardy.

To write this off as just some staffer's oversight displays a certain ignorance about how important presentations come together, how they're vetted, and the competency of people involved in creating those presentations.

Dumb avoidable mistakes are relevant. It is a peek at how a candidate's party will govern. Not that we need the peek -- it's no surprise that neither party is competent. We're circling the drain and they still want to have their slap fight.

Damn those people in the first world. Damn them and their industriousness, their striving for a quality education, and their ability to organize and cooperate effectively at a societal level. Those bloody whiners better not wake me during my siesta. If you're so morally elevated, get off the internet and feed someone.

Not all rights are enumerated in the Constitution. The Nineth Amendment to the US Constitution is:

The judge is mistaken and perhaps incompetent.

I told you to implement the PGP chastity belt, but nooooo you had to use freeware you found on the interweb.

Hubris will lead to Apple's ultimate downfall.

Effete.

So, only people who make giant piles of money should be prevented from gratuitously damaging other people's reputations? Laws and consequences only exist to reign in the destructive behavior of the wealthy?

They hate that you have the advantages they did in school. Now that they've crossed the bridge, it must be burned.

Get in line.