Then their ass will be Soros in the morning! :-D

I had a Sonata CPU case with a pair of blinding blue LEDs, and those buggers were annoying; but the little notification LED on a Samsung Galaxy S4 isn't bad.
The thing that astounds me is that OLEDs and LEDs can be so much brighter still. I have to admit, 15 years ago, my thoughts and predictions about LEDs in general couldn't have been more wrong; I figured they were a dead end, and as good as they were going to get. Then LED TVs came out, and high output versions like those made by Cree, and it was all revolutionary. LED light bulbs are the next big thing.
Now it sounds like all that was only the beginning? Cool.

Okay, that's like 40 or so signs (some of those images are posters) - many of which may be in the same region - compared to the millions of signs across the country. By that logic, all muslims are terrorists, too. All men are wife beaters, all women were pregnant as teenagers, etc..

Riight, because the vast majority of gun owning Americans just shoot their guns into air all the time, like middle easterners do.

She's gorgeous, talented, AND intelligent; the only thing I find questionable about this, is her (re)defining the term "feminism". If it's all about equality, shouldn't it be called "Equality"? It sounds awfully gender-centric to just one of the two. Imagine if there were a movement called "Masculinism".
Other than that, carry on, Miss Watson.

Nah, every statement made here on /. is an absolute to the reading comprehension challenged.
Except this one actually is I suppose, since I said "every".

Personally the whole concept of shareholders is starting to rub me the wrong way. Large public corporations all too often begin to focus far more on shareholder profits at the expense of their customers and employees. I believe it should be as much about making good product as it is good profit. And certainly treat employees with some respect too, because without them, or customers, there is no company, no matter how many shareholders you have.

Obama considers Assad's regime as "illegitimate" , but that's just him.. but yeah, Internationally, this could potentially be interesting. Still, considering the pure evil that ISIS represents, I would think that reasonable people of the UN could bend a bit.

Well, Obama sent 5,000 troops to battle the Ebola virus in Africa, so, apparently tiny targets are the new thing.

Yes, actually. At least, it is in the core of their beliefs, twisted and perverted as it is. They don't represent Christianity accurately, but they are christian, technically. They wouldn't be the first such example. King Charlemagne slaughtered hundreds of pagans who wouldn't convert at Verden in 782ce. Sound familiar?

It must be noted however, the bulk of any atrocities in xtianity's name were committed hundreds of years ago, and at that, were not at all in character with the tenants of the religion; Jesus did not advocate violence or war; whereas the Koran has dozens of bloodthirsty suras, further which don't appear to be in a constrained historical context in the manner which old testament atrocities are presented, but an open-ended command to be followed herewith.
To their credit as ethical human beings, I think moderate muslims keep the peace by selectively ignoring those distasteful parts of the Koran, even though they abrogate the earlier, more peaceful verses.

I'm not sure it's matter of making or keeping more warheads, but probably more a matter of "better"; more quickly deployed, better tracking, etc. I'm sure they'd be upgrading the delivery systems.
Nukes aren't going away, ever. No putting the genie back in the bottle. Reality is not pretty. MAD is crazy, but not as crazy as leaving yourself defenseless with no way to retaliate; unless you sincerely believe no country would fire on a weakened US; that Putin has no designs on expanding Russia or returning to the USSR glory days..... and I think there's plenty of evidence that he is. He's even made suggestive nuclear threats lately.
On the bright side, nuclear winter would stave off global warming. :-)

Especially the 911 "truthers". For a portion of them, it IS about religion... or anti-Zionism, at least. It's like trying to talk a rabid dog out of having rabies.

You can probably add wolves to the list. If anyone has watched that classic one man documentary "Alone in the Wilderness", the story of Dick Proenneke who built a cabin in Alaska and lived by himself for most of his adult life, he ran across a pack of wolves that killed a young moose, but didn't eat much of it; they seemed to enjoy terrorizing and bullying the animal for some time too. He said he could never look at wolves the same again.

Of course, there's an apologist for everything: http://www.wolfsongnews.org/ne...
Personally I think wolves are magnificent creatures but this dude sounds a bit too much like a tree hugger.

If the original Native American tribes gathered up strength and started launching attacks on the US government, would you condemn them ? The mere fact that you bring them up suggests you justify the resentment and anger of a people overtaken.

Sorry, I can't buy the bit about the olive branch. The difference is, the Franks at that point were mostly a united set of tribes, under one religion, native to their lands (Gaul). The Moors were invaders. The Franks had converted to Christianity willfully when Clovis converted, and the Romans didn't force him at sword point, it was a political decision. The Goths were nomadic, but within context, native to Europe too, at least. Though brutal, yes.
The one famous case I know of where Christianity was brutally spread was when Charlemagene launched his massacre of pagans at Verden. That was equivalent to what ISIS is doing now with everybody: shia, sunni, christian, yazidi, etc... One thing the pagans always had over monotheist religions, they rarely tried to convert a defeated foe to their own gods; they might mock them, but freedom of religion seems far more prevalent under polytheism.

In any case, I disagree that Cordoba was some kind of utopian melting pot. Non-muslims, if not slain in battle (because they'd surrendered) were deemed "dhimmi" and had to pay the jizya, a tax. They were essentially made into second class citizens, in once was they're own land. Same as in Jerusalem.

Isolationism just isn't a realistic option. The world is too small. Global economies, trade, energy, technology, transportation.. all that.
I would love nothing more to be able to live on a separate planet from them, but we can never return to those days.. short of an armageddon type scenario.