Bullshit!

Seriously, bull (or cow) shit is not dry and dusty when it's fresh.

Given the current political climate, I'd be more inclined to believe something along the lines of:

US Governmental Secret Agencies Destroy Malaysian Flight attempting to show that NOWHERE IN THE WORLD is safe from Terrorist Homosexual Paedophile Cannabis-users who hoard Files Released by Snowden.

Whether it's specifically THIS project, or another.

Whether it's The Japanese or someone else.

The incentive to achieve this is too unavoidable.

Why? (I hear you ask)

Because the distinction between a targetable multi-terawatt laser and an eco-friendly solar-power downlink is mythical (legal, at best).
So Japan can bypass (simultaneously, no less) their own constitutional ban on militarisation AND the internal treaty against "space weapons".

And as a result you were rushed to hospital as a result of your injuries?

Beware the kinetic impact of a high-speed URL!

E Pluribus Unum!!!!!!

In the end revolution occurs because, eventually, enough people completely lose faith in their government.

Unfortunately for most values of John Q US Citizen, nobody has the balls for it any more.

That doesn't mean there WILL NOT be a revolution

But rather that it's building up a MUCH bigger head of steam, and when it does eventually blow (most likely due to some kind of global disaster which impacts The US) it will be one appallingly unholy holocaust.

The sad fact of the matter (irrespective of whether you're convinced for or against) is that the argument boils down to:

- Proponents argue that we should do a bunch of ecologically sound things because "for the good of the planet"
- Opponents argue that will cost large amounts of money

In the end, rampant greed puts us all in a world of hurt.

This is NOT a fight over science,
this is NOT a fight over modelling planetary weather/ecosystems/etc,
this IS a fight over "but I should be able to rake in literally trillions of dollars now, and FUCK THE CONSEQUENCES".

The fact of the matter, people, is that any standing army which doesn't have an external "enemy" to wage war upon will inevitably turn against (or be used against) its own citizenry.

You, sir, are AN IDIOT.

Cyclophosphamide doesn't CURE anything, period.

However it has been known to put a variety of diseases into remission.

For the record - I speak from personal experience.

Treatment with cyclophosphamide might increase your chances of living in the short-term , while increasing your risk of an early death in the future.

And here was I thinking that people on slashdot would know that (to date) the only thing that 'cures' you of cancer (and, I might add, a variety of other spectacularly nasty diseases) is death.

It should read:

Doing anything is EASY (if not actually trivial), doing it well/properly/thoroughly is HARD in the same sense as "NP Hard".

The problem is that almost everyone happy to "just do it" (as in the sense of only just barely) rather than "If a thing is worth doing, it's worth doing well".

While it's completely off topic, this is ONE of the reasons why Apple products are very popular. Because (not always, but in most cases) the things they do are done *very* well.

Which leads me to say:

All numbers are arbitrary, not just the ones used in statistics.

There's no other way to say it - "won't somebody THINK OF THE CHILDREN" is the "Godwin's Law" of todays generation.

Extra points if you recognize the irony in screaming "think of the children" (ie the problem is that someone was THINKING OF CHILDREN far too much already).

What preventing the researchers from focussing on 'cyclic change' and discovering (and publishing that) "clearly that is not what is going on here" (if that is actually, provably the case).