and I'm saying that's nothing new, seen it again and again in my half century on earth

funny, I make two clicks in my distro and I get a stable binary nvidia driver that's never crashed. you using gentoo or some other time-waster?

you're a bit ambiguous yourself, are your "regular clams" the underwater or bearded variety, i.e. are you buttering and tasting marine bivalves or vulvas?

oh no! and here I thought redmond was just being slow making my source printout request as per GPL 2. You really know how to pop someones bubble. Now what am I going to do about my nifty custom .bat file with included Windows 2008 Server R2 that's been so popular on megaupload?

The U.S. has been imprisoning and killing outside the law long before 2001. For example, we had concentration camps for tens of thousands innocent U.S. citizens in the 40s, we mass murdered thousands of innocent SE asians (and those were our ALLIES, not enemies!) in the 60s by deliberately killing their crops to force the survivors to move to cities under our control (and maimed hundreds more because of impurities in the defoliant used)

I tried that, but instead of a solution the google goggles sent a Terminator that killed my boss. Now my company is outsourcing our whole department, to google. thanks a lot, google goggles.

nonsense, article states the rate of production is something like 500 events a year over the whole planet. You're not going to build a planet-wide harvesting system, and if you could 500 anti-protons do not a death ray make.

That's not "climate instability", and these floods and weather have happened before where you live, again and again. Don't fall into the trap of believing climatologist nonsense, who after the facts pull out one of thousands of models and say "oh, see climate change will cause floods!" when four years ago it was "climate change will cause droughts!" And in a violent hurricane season (which has happened cyclically for millennia) they'll say "oh, climate change will cause harsher hurricanes!" utter rubbish, not climate, unscientific garbage.

So the witches, astrologers, and fortune tellers will have to pay income tax like everyone else for their health and pension programs. Free loaders.....

what's at stake with the LHC is Knowing how the universe is put together.

the Higgs boson is the capstone of the Standard Model and was proposed in 1964. If we don't find that with LHC, Standard Model fails.

The cost of all HEP ever done is negligible compared to the cost of wars to line the pockets of the elite and bailouts to prop up their failed business model.

there are other experiments on structure of universe going on beside the LHC, dark matter detection and CMB mapping too.

no, IBM just has some divisions that do the (very profitable) mediocre stuff. They're a business. They are still leaders in R&D in physics (solid state, quantum computing and cryptography, optics, etc.), computer hardware (disk, memory, networking, storage, systems architecture, fabrication), ... what a silly narrow point of view you must have, maybe you have an IBM managerial consultant in your cube farm?

well, that black monolith plot device is as silly as the holodeck.

It would not be worthless for someone who really wasn't going to be a mega-corporate bitch and was willing to be leader and work with congress to get the country going in a proper direction of real wealth production, breaking the positive feedback loop of healthcare costs, stopping wars of choice. Danger is the banking cartel or the other mega-corporations might assassinate such a person as that's probably happened a couple times already.

eh? who makes the machines that hold and move money? who makes the machines that do the CADD / CAE / CAM for the military industrial complex? Those ain't wintel boxes, m'boy....

My first lines of code were in ForTran (yup, another shit sandwich) in the 70s, but of course that not on any machine I owned. Yes, played with BASIC a little but didn't care for it, though I did type in some BASIC electronics hobbyist programs from magazines (open source before Bruce and Eric, heh)