I wonder if we are still going to war. We do a few 'surgical' drone strike that take out one or 2 guys and leave the rest of the family alive (and angry). But it used to be that you'd burn to the ground entire cities, where the few survivors would be only too relieved to see you coming and not shoot them afterwards. I wonder if we are going towards a state of perpetual low level warfare. At least when you wipe out an entire country you have a generation or two of peace afterwards. I think we are improving but I'm not so certain. Remember, a massive amount of violence solved the nazi problem.

Mainly because biological weapons are uncontrollable and likely to hit your own people as much as the enemy. Even combat gas wasn't used much because a change of wind would wipe out your infantry.

I have no idea what a baseball cap is used for except looking like a redneck, but what are you supposed to wear besides a T-shirt ? Going bare chested ?

It's been so long since I last saw an add on the web that I didn't even think of that ! I guess the warning now comes up before AddBlock even gets to them.

I normally have a "no flash start" plugin, meaning I have to click on videos to get them started. That's fine.

But with the recent security zero-days Ubuntu implemented an ask first policy. And I now see the message on virtually every friggin' website, even text-only sites. Why do so many websites use flash for things that the user doesn't need ? I can understand for videos or games, but for a forum...

Yeah. Isn't there a link between Australians and Japanese Ainus ? It's pretty sure that Ainus weren't isolated and had similar populations in Asia, which would migrate towards America just like the other asian populations, albeit in smaller numbers.

"Men delay" ? Is that to manage premature ejaculation ?!?

In order not to turn the place into a circus, like has happened in other radio observatories...

So, how do they keep all the 'electrosensitive' crackpots from moving in ? Put random blinking LEDs in the area ?

Yeah. What music snobs don't understand is that not everyone listens to music in a soundproof room, with perfectly placed speakers. We listen to it in our cars, on our bike, in public transportation, at home with a screeching baby next to it, etc... Perfect quality is useless in all those cases. And even detrimental: I turn off the bass most times so as to keep said baby asleep. I'd rather have 100 low res mp3 I can squeeze on a car CD, than 5 completely oversampled raw files I can't actually play anywhere besides a PC.

The more I read about that crazy airplane, the crazier it gets...

It must have been close to stalling at this speed !

It's not like classical music doesn't have its own skeletons in its closets: Lick my ass, by Mozart nonetheless.

Having lived it, I can assure you there is a great big difference between -40C (not that cold with good clothing), -60C (fucking cold even with good clothing) and -80C ("my lungs are freezing and I feel like I've just fallen in a pool of liquid nitrogen argh cough cough cough")...

Yes, but not for long. Lunar orbits are inherently unstable because of the overwhelming influence of the mass of the Earth.