People seem to forget that Manning is not covered by the US Justice System, he is covered under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and that he is VOLUNTEERED to be under this code justice. The UCMJ is nowhere near as cuddly as the US civilian courts.

I liked the salvage patch. I would build out a medium mech with 2 inferno launchers, a flamer, 2 or 3 medium pulse lasers and a small laser. Group fire on something and I could over heat any mech in the game, then come in close and fire the small laser directly into the cockpit to take out the mech with minimum damage as it was in shutdown.

Exactly. Time to dig out my old MW2: Mercenaries disc.

I use nvidia twinview on the monitors with Gnome. I also have 3 virtual desktops that I access via edge flipping on the vertical axis. I find this workas alot better than arranging the flipping on the sides with 2 large monitors.

Evil spell checker and me working on other things when I typed the original comment. Mea Culpa and such... although... it would an interesting character on Discworld would it not?

Apples and oranges on that one. Actually, for the most part the "Smoking is Bad" PSA's have said that Smoking increases the RISKS that you will die of cancer, which is quite different from the AGW announcements that AGW WILL destory our civilization/world/porn industry. I guess that the absolute certainty that some have on this issue is what gives me the heebee jeebees.

Actually, I would say skeptics of anthropomorphic global warming. There are nut jobs on both sides of the issue. However, as you describe it, I would be a "climate change denialist" who is an atheist, sees that science, and more importantly the scientific METHOD as mankind's only real hope for long term survival. I guess I do not fit the deluded masses of christian fundies. I take issue with the anthropomorphic global warming crowd for the following reasons.

Unwillingness to provide source data and methods used in their papers. (This is science, if you cannot replicate it, it never happened)
Continuing to both cite and regurgitate papers and findings that have been proven incorrect. (This is the Big Lie strategy, keep saying the lie often enough and loud enough, and everyone thinks it must be true)

and, IMO for the SCAREMONGERING that goes on in the press conferences. Its not part of their science, but at in my 30 years on this planet, I have been told that we are all gonna die real soon now many times, its getting to be as bad the fundies talking about the End Of The World.