Then again the United States basically ignored Palestine when it pulled israel from its magical sky god book and transported displaced Jews into it after WWII.

Not only is this incorrect, but you topped it off with a bigoted assault on religion. "Palestine" was administered by the UK, not the USA, and American Jews voluntarily moved to it mostly after the 1948 independence. At the time of independence, it had nearly indefensible borders after suffering additional partitions beyond what the UK had promised. See "Transjordan" had already been partitioned for settlement by Palestinian Arabs. The West Bank, Gaza strip, and some other small areas were snipped off after WWII. Israel mostly lived with what they were given until they were attacked, repeatedly, by the Arabs who hated them. Regardless, even if you don't think Israel should have occupied any territory gained in 1948 or 1967, you can't blame it on the USA.

Beards... seriously? If that were such an issue, The Duck Dynasty guys would have warrants out on them.

No tires? No suspension? No wheel bearings? No steering box?

or Bob
or OS/2 1.0
or Kin
or Zune (especially the brown one)

Then you would be pretty thick.

We don't live in a dystopian straw-man that only exists in the mind of the socialist; therefore, we must abandon all resistance to government control of the economy.

slashdot's overwhelming conservative majority

Needed a sarcasm tag there.

The problem with your oversimplification is that the holy book of Christianity encourages pacifism, while the holy book of Islam encourages the subjugation of unbelievers.

Seems like they would never be able to use ballistic weapons, because even though they have long used computers to calculate trajectory, you still need to supply information that requires more than total ignorance of mathematics. It helps to be able to use sanity checks so you don't kill your own troops, as well. Hey, maybe we should "accidentally" let them have some hacked weapons...

OMF 2097 was great. It ran really fast, and had interesting upgrades for the robots. The network play over modem, like most games of the era, was sketchy, but we tried it just for yucks.

So instead of a crusty old veteran "maverick" and a cheerleader of debatable intelligence, we got a miserly career politician with impossibly white teeth (polished by repeatedly putting his foot in his mouth, no doubt) and a community organizer who demanded 10 years of tax returns from his opponent but deemed producing his own birth certificate a challenge.

Sounds like a WIN

They call E. coli a virus later in the article...

This. You have to return the equipment anyway. And the service center can do all the paperwork-- so why bother with the phone? It doesn't even take that long, unless you decide to show up at lunchtime or something.

In 1994, we already had 64-bit CPUs in the server and professional workstation spaces, and the benefits were clear.

Going past 64-bit CPUs, the advantages are not so obvious, and much of the effort is being expended on changing the game to quantum computing.

Thanks for derailing the discussion, Captain Straw Man.