Slashdot has been hiring mentally handicapped people as moderators since 1997. Now that's truly groundbreaking!

The military has been working on what I'd call troop supplement vehicles. Basically, they are small cart vehicles able to carry a couple thousand pounds. They can follow a soldier around, or manually controlled to perform delivery tasks during a fire fight. Beats a 40% increase in strength by far.

All of the graphs that I saw from your three sources, except for one, only date to 2000. How can you argue about post-2000 data by showing pre-2000 data? That doesn't make sense. Are you just ignoring the last 8 years because that data contradicts your false ideas about climate change? It sure seems that way to me.

According to reputable news sources like the BBC (they are reputable, right?)... their chart shows a 0.2C difference between 1998 (hottest on record) and 2008. This shows a definite trend towards cooler temperatures.

No... I don't agree. I'm not going to bash the United States like the other replies, but I will give a more rounded answer.

Government is always BAD. Whether it's German, American or Martian. I would rather GOVERNMENT not have control of ANYTHING. That's the only way we can remain free.

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. -- George Washington

But didn't you sign the 1 year contract along with the agreement saying they could change the terms whenever they wanted? So, wouldn't that have been YOUR mistake... for being an ill-informed broadband consumer without any recourse when the provider changed the terms beyond your liking?

BUT WAIT... the government is here to protect you from your own stupid mistakes. YAY the govenrment!

Let's use a comparative example:

There have only been a "few examples" of people buying fertilizer to make bombs, so the gov't is going to pass regulation to make sure fertilizer can no longer be purchased.

Is that enough of a reason for ya?

This is simply the result of big government in our lives. It's the bureaucratic mess that occurs when government is given too much power over our lives; when we let them have that much power over our lives. They decided, for her, that the money she was collecting was sufficient to live on... not that the decision made sense, it doesn't, but bureaucratic decisions tend not to make sense.

It will be worse when the government passes universal healthcare coverage. Under the current proposals, they will tell you whether you're insurance is sufficient, and if not, will fine you for not having the proper coverage. Eventually, as government continues it's reckless spending, more and more people will be told their coverage is insufficient as they try to cover the increasing debt. Then, you will decide to get the best coverage available so you won't be fined, and that will result in being taxed for having a "luxury" plan.

LOL was just thinking about that line when I stumbled across your post. Seriously, if you don't laugh, you'll cry because that's exactly what will happen.

Chances are that Visa-Mastercard know these numbers exist in the US government system, but do not care. You really only need to be compliant if Visa-Mastercard enforces the compliance with fines... but then again, the fine is $25,000... so to the US government, they may just pay the non-compliance fine to get VM off the government's back.

Your credit card number isn't your property.. it's the property of the credit card company that issued the card. Therefore, they can distribute the number to whoever they want, including the US government. If you don't like them doing this, then protest and possibly stop using credit cards altogether.

It's kind of interesting to see a story like this. Helmets were once made out of copper or leather or other soft materials leading to extremely strong steel helmets and now composite (almost brittle) helmets that absorb impact. Why? Because in the previous designs, they were found faulty, and someone ingeniously improved upon the old design.

Can we expect helmets to protect against everything? Let's say that helmets did protect well against the shockwaves of blasts, then the article author would be complaining that helmets do not protect soldiers from a chance encounter with another planet or some other random scenario.

Obviously there are still improvements to be made, but to make a silly comment that helmets cause brain damage is misleading. As the threat changes and issues are discovered, new equipment will be designed to combat those new conditions. After all is said and done, the helmets used today are far better than they were even a single generation ago.

An open barn door... is a hole in the wall. Therefore, it's a hole.

Stop trying to sugar coat the inability of Democrats to secure anything... our nation or their own mail server.

Right, there's a difference. The difference, in this particular case, is that Fox refused to tell you the truth about the information they were providing you (i.e. that the information was wrong). That proves the distinction right there.

Just like man-made global warming is settled, I thought orbital dynamics is settled! I mean... 400 years, c'mon.. of course it's settled! Obviously these findings go against the overwhelming consensus among astrophysicists and is therefore wrong!

I think this was actually Obama's Stimulus Plan... how else did he plan to spend $878 Billion so fast?