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Comment Re:Yea, well... (Score 1, Insightful) 279

SOPA is just the latest "Change" that we got from Obama.

Doesn't anybody find it strange that There are no protests against Obama's wars?

Must not criticize this Nobel Peace Price winner, it would make quite a lot of people feel very stupid when they first treat him as the next messiah ("Jesus was also a community organizer", remember?) and then critizise him.

Comment Firefox needs a new management (Score 1, Offtopic) 151

Firefox is really in a crisis because the Mozilla foundation is still living in the 90s, when everybody and his dog bought a new computer every 2 years.

What we need is stability, we need less versions (preferrably one per year or even less than that).

http://in-other-news.com/2011/The_problem_with_Firefox_and_how_it_could_be_fixed

Crime

Submission + - The Crime Problem of Occupy-Wall-Street (in-other-news.com)

RStonR writes: One underreported aspect of the "Occupy Wall Street" movement is the seemingly rampant crime problem which the movement itself seems to see as rather embarrassing. One branch even told rape victims not to go to the police and offered counseling — for the rapists.

Comment Re:It's human nature. (Score 2, Interesting) 1105

As a person who believes in "capitalistic" things like reason and science, I can only see how "global warming" is becoming a religion.

Do you think that Obama is caring about what happens after the 2012 election? Does any politician except maybe Ron Paul? *Only* the capitalist part of our culture cares about the future because only the capitalist part can inherit it to their children. The socialist part (i.e. state) is taking up huge debts, causing huge ecological damage and in general does not really care much about anything beyound the next election. Why? Because why should a president solve a problem that will emerge when another president is in office? Nope.

But don't worry, we will run out of oil anyway. Chances are, you are much more likely to freeze to death when the oil becomes too expensive for heating than anything about "climate change".

Space

Submission + - Space Shuttle was expensive and dangerous vehicle (in-other-news.com)

RStonR writes: The Space Shuttle is an engineering masterpiece but at the same time an example of incredible waste, stupidity and decadence.
The combination of completely senseless requirements (for example horizontal landing — why?) with a naive-romantic basic concept (apparently the Space Shuttle should have become a "miniature Enterprise" from Star Trek: Commanders, pilots, chain-of-command, etc.) lead to a much too expensive and dangerous vehicle for space tourism.

Comment The Trouble is that NASA has become a PR-outfit (Score 1) 131

In pretty much every NASA press release I read buzzwords and phrases like "applications on earth", etc.

Some pundits even argue that the Space Shuttle was only a wasteful form of space tourism. (I.e.: What is "payload specialist" and political science major Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud doing on the Space Shuttle?)

Now, after the Space Shuttle is history and one probe after another gets cancelled, it's not even space tourism anymore, it's purely PR.

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